Protect your PC when Windows XP shuts down


Shea Conner | St. Joseph News-Press

Microsoft will stop providing security for Windows XP on April 8.

Although the current Windows 8 advertising campaign uses the Sara
Bareilles song “Brave” in its commercials, it’s the users who are
clinging to one of its older operating systems who should take the
song’s advice to heart.

On April 8, many computer owners around the world will face unknown
dangers when Microsoft stops providing automatic updates, bug fixes and
security patches for Windows XP.

CNET.com reports that 29.5 percent of Internet-connected PCs continue to
use a version of the XP operating system.

* * * * *

"Face unknown dangers..." Like what, Klingons?

XP is close to 15 years old and Microsoft several years ago announced
its plans regarding the end of automatic bug fixes and patches. It's
time to move on.

On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:56:46 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Protect your PC when Windows XP shuts down


Shea Conner | St. Joseph News-Press

Microsoft will stop providing security for Windows XP on April 8.

Although the current Windows 8 advertising campaign uses the Sara
Bareilles song “Brave� in its commercials, it’s the users who are
clinging to one of its older operating systems who should take the
song’s advice to heart.

On April 8, many computer owners around the world will face unknown
dangers when Microsoft stops providing automatic updates, bug fixes and
security patches for Windows XP.

CNET.com reports that 29.5 percent of Internet-connected PCs continue to
use a version of the XP operating system.

* * * * *

"Face unknown dangers..." Like what, Klingons?

XP is close to 15 years old and Microsoft several years ago announced
its plans regarding the end of automatic bug fixes and patches. It's
time to move on.

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and
hardware?



True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore.
My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it.
She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't
connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash
drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25"
floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a
time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much
newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever.

On 3/10/14, 11:44 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:56:46 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Protect your PC when Windows XP shuts down


Shea Conner | St. Joseph News-Press

Microsoft will stop providing security for Windows XP on April 8.

Although the current Windows 8 advertising campaign uses the Sara
Bareilles song “Brave� in its commercials, it’s the users who are
clinging to one of its older operating systems who should take the
song’s advice to heart.

On April 8, many computer owners around the world will face unknown
dangers when Microsoft stops providing automatic updates, bug fixes and
security patches for Windows XP.

CNET.com reports that 29.5 percent of Internet-connected PCs continue to
use a version of the XP operating system.

* * * * *

"Face unknown dangers..." Like what, Klingons?

XP is close to 15 years old and Microsoft several years ago announced
its plans regarding the end of automatic bug fixes and patches. It's
time to move on.

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and
hardware?



It's those "unknown dangers..."

On 3/10/14, 12:04 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:56:46 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Protect your PC when Windows XP shuts down


Shea Conner | St. Joseph News-Press

Microsoft will stop providing security for Windows XP on April 8.

Although the current Windows 8 advertising campaign uses the Sara
Bareilles song “Brave� in its commercials, it’s the users who are
clinging to one of its older operating systems who should take the
song’s advice to heart.

On April 8, many computer owners around the world will face unknown
dangers when Microsoft stops providing automatic updates, bug fixes and
security patches for Windows XP.

CNET.com reports that 29.5 percent of Internet-connected PCs continue to
use a version of the XP operating system.

* * * * *

"Face unknown dangers..." Like what, Klingons?

XP is close to 15 years old and Microsoft several years ago announced
its plans regarding the end of automatic bug fixes and patches. It's
time to move on.

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and
hardware?



True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore.
My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it.
She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't
connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash
drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25"
floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a
time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much
newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever.



Ahhh, Windozes. Does Microsoft still sell various flavors of its current
versions, such as "Home" or "Home with Options" or "Professional," with
features you might someday need missing from the cheaper editions?

I wonder how many floppy drives Gregg has?

On 3/10/14, 12:22 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:07:49 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/10/14, 11:44 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:56:46 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Protect your PC when Windows XP shuts down


Shea Conner | St. Joseph News-Press

Microsoft will stop providing security for Windows XP on April 8.

Although the current Windows 8 advertising campaign uses the Sara
Bareilles song “Brave� in its commercials, it’s the users who are
clinging to one of its older operating systems who should take the
song’s advice to heart.

On April 8, many computer owners around the world will face unknown
dangers when Microsoft stops providing automatic updates, bug fixes and
security patches for Windows XP.

CNET.com reports that 29.5 percent of Internet-connected PCs continue to
use a version of the XP operating system.

* * * * *

"Face unknown dangers..." Like what, Klingons?

XP is close to 15 years old and Microsoft several years ago announced
its plans regarding the end of automatic bug fixes and patches. It's
time to move on.

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and
hardware?



It's those "unknown dangers..."

Those dangers are still present on 8 or Apple.

They don't issue a fix until a number of people are already infected,
they identify the problem and come up with a solution..




With Windows, I used to get many notifications of "security breaches"
and "security updates" I had to install, sometimes several a week. I
don't think I've seen more than a handful of those "unknown dangers"
being brought to my attention by Apple or on the Apple message boards I
frequent.

Windows is a magnet for "unknown dangers."

On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote:

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and
hardware?



True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore.
My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it.
She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't
connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash
drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25"
floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a
time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much
newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever.


You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard
drive on a USB adapter or a card reader).
I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine.
That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that
runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things).
I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network.

There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network
properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get
file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms
web site


I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would
it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the
air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or
even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and
thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98
machine and the router came back to life.

As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was
trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have
using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine
and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me.

On 3/10/14, 12:48 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote:

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and
hardware?



True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore.
My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it.
She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't
connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash
drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25"
floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a
time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much
newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever.


You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard
drive on a USB adapter or a card reader).
I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine.
That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that
runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things).
I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network.

There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network
properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get
file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms
web site


I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would
it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the
air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or
even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and
thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98
machine and the router came back to life.

As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was
trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have
using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine
and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me.




If you don't have a NAS with RAID, you might consider getting one, and
offloading all your media and other important files onto it. I keep all
my digital music on our NAS, along with all photos, data files, word
processing files, et cetera. I also keep current stuff on the computers
themselves, for faster access, but I don't worry about a computer or
drive crashing or a drive failing on the NAS. Synology makes excellent
small servers, and there is actual *human* tech support available a
number of ways, including via phone calls with techs who speak your
variety of English.

On 3/10/14, 12:59 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:33:53 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:



It's those "unknown dangers..."

Those dangers are still present on 8 or Apple.

They don't issue a fix until a number of people are already infected,
they identify the problem and come up with a solution..




With Windows, I used to get many notifications of "security breaches"
and "security updates" I had to install, sometimes several a week. I
don't think I've seen more than a handful of those "unknown dangers"
being brought to my attention by Apple or on the Apple message boards I
frequent.

Windows is a magnet for "unknown dangers."


Windoze is not really a magnet, it is more like gravity.

There is far more mass there so it attracts more.

If there were a significant number of businesses running Apple OS,
there would be more incentive to hack them

BTW have you ever actually looked into these "security updates"?
They are usually for something most people never use. It is easier to
just delete that service. (things like Outlook for me). I have a lot
of the things you normally get without them asking, deleted or
disabled.



I haven't looked at Windoze "security updates" for years. I have enough
to read. Remember, I don't run Windoze anymore, not even in emulation
mode. My wife runs Win 7 on her home machine and if she has a simple
problem, I can address it. If it is more than that, the tech staff at
her place of work is available by phone, and if a really truly awful
problem of some type develops, I am sure she can get the machine
downtown where the work tech guys/gals will sort it out.

On 3/10/2014 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:48:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote:

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and
hardware?



True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore.
My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it.
She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't
connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash
drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25"
floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a
time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much
newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever.


You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard
drive on a USB adapter or a card reader).
I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine.
That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that
runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things).
I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network.

There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network
properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get
file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms
web site


I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would
it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the
air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or
even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and
thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98
machine and the router came back to life.

As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was
trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have
using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine
and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me.


You may just have a hardware problem with the ethernet adapter.
Normally a W/98 machine is just plug and play on the network.

If you are interested in using the machine you could try a slip
install of W/98 but you will lose all of your updates unless you have
them stored somewhere else.


Not worth the effort. Once I have transferred anything she wants from
it it's going in the dumpster.

On 3/10/14, 1:36 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/10/2014 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:48:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote:

How is that kool ade?

Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your
applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS
and
hardware?



True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things
anymore.
My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it.
She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't
connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a
flash
drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25"
floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two
at a
time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much
newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever.


You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard
drive on a USB adapter or a card reader).
I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine.
That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that
runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things).
I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network.

There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network
properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get
file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms
web site


I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would
it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the
air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or
even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and
thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98
machine and the router came back to life.

As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was
trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have
using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine
and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me.


You may just have a hardware problem with the ethernet adapter.
Normally a W/98 machine is just plug and play on the network.

If you are interested in using the machine you could try a slip
install of W/98 but you will lose all of your updates unless you have
them stored somewhere else.


Not worth the effort. Once I have transferred anything she wants from
it it's going in the dumpster.




Hey...you could sell it to Gregg or Tim for $100.