Windows XP End of Life Approaching

[ratdude747]

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It's A/S....old retired server.... If I power it up now, it *might* be booted and at the login screen by morning.....slow bootin' son of a bitch....but a freight train none the less!! it's a quad p3 xeon @500 2GB RAM....the old cartridge xeons....they're the size of a VHS cassette!

Sweet classic rig. IIRC those would be Tanner Xeons (or was that gen 2 PII xeon , the first was Drake), based off the PIII katmai running on slot 2. I wish I had one of those to play with (or at least another EATX case to toss some Old opteron boards in). Must make a good headless server...

I don't know why but I think old server/workstation hardware is pretty cool (hence why I built two main rigs out of it!)

[Topcat]

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It's A/S....old retired server.... If I power it up now, it *might* be booted and at the login screen by morning.....slow bootin' son of a bitch....but a freight train none the less!! it's a quad p3 xeon @500 2GB RAM....the old cartridge xeons....they're the size of a VHS cassette!

[goontron]

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Don't make me fire up my Windows 2000 box!!

oh yeah!

[Topcat]

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Don't make me fire up my Windows 2000 box!!

[goontron]

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This message typed from an XP64 machine...

you mean you typed it from an XP64 machine? or this site records your user agent string and you dug up that info out of your mySQL database that he/she uses XP64?

[Topcat]

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Actually, I agree with you on that. Despite being a bit more buggy, I find my way in Vista a little faster than I do in 7. Still not using either of these, though.

This message typed from an XP64 machine...

[momaka]

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Actually, I liked the way Vista functioned. *ducks the flying chairs* It was just a horrible bloated memory hogging mess. Then came 7, and the game of 'wheres waldo' with functions and features....

Actually, I agree with you on that. Despite being a bit more buggy, I find my way in Vista a little faster than I do in 7. Still not using either of these, though.

The problem is work. They upgraded all our PCs to Win7. Now crap in the classrooms doesn't work right. You can't copy to the Public Desktop....and our "IT" people don't help the situation AT ALL.

You should see our university's PCs - they are completely useless. Can't even change the resolution, even though each user has his/her own profile. I really don't see why they blocked this option out. Also, except for the stnadard cut/copy/paste, Ctrl+Alt+Del, and Ctrl+Shift+Escape shortcuts, other shortcuts do NOT work at all. Not even the Windows key itself! - Which annoys me to no end since I regularly use shortcuts for just about anything.

[Per Hansson]

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If some one discovers the exact KBxxxxx of this fix, just post a link.

If it has to be one that came out last week, then this is it:
support.microsoft.com/kb/2914368

I checked the detailed information about it, but it didn't mention anything about SVCHOST specifically...

There is none, this was a server side fix.
The clients don't need to do anything for it to work.

[Kiriakos GR]

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but it didn't mention anything about SVCHOST specifically...

Spend over 20 min in MS website, no info either.
Only old threads mentioning the problem.

Basically my web design software which handling ITTSB, when saving my work before exit, it takes over a minute.
The news gave me the hope that possibly this issue it could be helped, other than that my system runs great.

A software called as Advanced SystemCare 7 it did speed up my box with out destroying it.
I am using it over a year.

[Kiriakos GR]

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running Win2k and XP simply because the software won't run on anything later!

Many pages back we have discus this subject.

When software writers as Adobe require 1000$ for a license of Photoshop or 3000$ to 10000$ for a CNC cutter software, or one kitchen planing designing software.
All those companies they should become as Mad first, because Microsoft is actually killing their clients base, and forces them to waste more resources about making their software compatible.

This argument with MS has nothing to do about personal taste.
There is a huge quantity of hypocrisy behind that group which called as software makers.
They are tremendously greedy for money, they get the second place after the bankers.

.

[Elysarian]

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Yes and your product needs also the blessings of the European Union and other large markets to to walk in.

If those guys in Brussels start getting wild, MS will loose their smile and their pockets will become so lightweight which will never forget it.

If Russia and China follow that path too, the former MS employes would start sleeping in the house of Bill and they will use also his toilet.

Completely agree with you

I've been through both interface changes myself (3.x's Progman to 9x-7's explorer and the latest one), I remember resisting switching to 9x until 98SE came along and setting that up to use progman as its shell at first - I only started using explorer with win2k and didn't use XP til sometime after SP3...

This time around I got win8 as soon as it went gold, I'm now running 8.1 on my main desktop machines (my laptop is 7 and the work one is XP).

I've got used to it now and find every excuse to avoid the start screen wherever possible though I do find the search function in there is fairly good for locating files sometimes!

There are applications where XP is best and I'm guessing that a lot of the people on these boards who (like me to some extent) like to reuse and repair older hardware would agree that it's the best option for such machines?

Hell, I have machines out there running fairly critical software (access control and the like) that are still on 98se, I have CCTV recorders running Win2k and XP simply because the software won't run on anything later!

[mockingbird]

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If some one discovers the exact KBxxxxx of this fix, just post a link.

If it has to be one that came out last week, then this is it:
support.microsoft.com/kb/2914368

I checked the detailed information about it, but it didn't mention anything about SVCHOST specifically...

[ratdude747]

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Installing XP to 3 laptops today (3 latitudes I got for pocket change off a buddy)

[Topcat]

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Actually, I'm surprised that 8 is more popular than Vista. After I had a play with 8, I said to myself "What was I complaining about Vista for?" I mean, It is a bit of a memory hog, but it is otherwise functional, and not much harder to navigate than XP.

Actually, I liked the way Vista functioned. *ducks the flying chairs* It was just a horrible bloated memory hogging mess. Then came 7, and the game of 'wheres waldo' with functions and features.... win8, makes Vista seem like the second coming in comparison. I still like my XP...

[c_hegge]

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Windows 8, 6.66%. Windows 8 really is the devil.

Actually, I'm surprised that 8 is more popular than Vista. After I had a play with 8, I said to myself "What was I complaining about Vista for?" I mean, It is a bit of a memory hog, but it is otherwise functional, and not much harder to navigate than XP.

[Kiriakos GR]

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If some one discovers the exact KBxxxxx of this fix, just post a link.

[cheapie]

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Microsoft finally fixes Windows XP SVCHOST bug

Hallelujah!

Finally... (my sister uses XP, and she was being quite annoyed by this bug)

[TELVM]

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Microsoft finally fixes Windows XP SVCHOST bug

Hallelujah!

[stretch0069]

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I run Win7 Home on my laptop....two boxes run Win7 Pro.....meh...I'm getting used to it. Things I used to do in XP can be done, but are more convoluted. The problem is work. They upgraded all our PCs to Win7. Now crap in the classrooms doesn't work right. You can't copy to the Public Desktop....and our "IT" people don't help the situation AT ALL.

No experience with Win8.

On a side note...our new main ATC system got rid of all WinXP and replaced it with CentOS. M$ loosing out on the big gubermint $$$$$

[Kiriakos GR]

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you buy a licence to use it

Yes and your product needs also the blessings of the European Union and other large markets to to walk in.

If those guys in Brussels start getting wild, MS will loose their smile and their pockets will become so lightweight which will never forget it.

If Russia and China follow that path too, the former MS employes would start sleeping in the house of Bill and they will use also his toilet.