Windows XP End of Life Approaching

[Pentium4]

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By the way, does anyone else hate that retarded Taskbar grouping feature in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 besides me?
Yesterday I was helping a friend of mine with a lab, so I told him we needed to open a bunch of data sheets on the computer to make things easier. We were using his laptop (he has Windows 7 and Aero enabled). The thing is, after opening so many data sheets, the stupid crap starts to group them together, and then finding what you need starts to take a lot of time and takes a lot more clicks than needed. It's especially annoying when you're doing this 5 in the morning without having gotten any sleep and knowing a project is due (in this case, his project was due... I did mine last semester and passed easily).

Completely agree. First thing I do after installing Windows 7 is change that taskbar settings to "Never Combine"

[ratdude747]

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I like taskbar grouping... otherwise you end up with 5 zillion textless tasks... Now that would be a pain to deal with. Just click the group and find what you need.

[momaka]

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This morning at midnight, my parents' computer locked up with 100% CPU usage by one of the svchost.exe processes. After a few hours, it started responding again. Their other two computers running XP did the same thing when they turned them on later in the day. I heard that this is caused by a recent change in the way Windows checks for Internet Exploder updates.

No, this is nothing new. Windows Update runs as a service under SVCHOST.EXE and it's always been like that. Depending on the update and the speed of the computer, some PCs get 100% CPU usage, and some don't.

I still don't understand why you have that crap turned ON. It makes computers extra extra extra slow.

By the way, does anyone else hate that retarded Taskbar grouping feature in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 besides me?
Yesterday I was helping a friend of mine with a lab, so I told him we needed to open a bunch of data sheets on the computer to make things easier. We were using his laptop (he has Windows 7 and Aero enabled). The thing is, after opening so many data sheets, the stupid crap starts to group them together, and then finding what you need starts to take a lot of time and takes a lot more clicks than needed. It's especially annoying when you're doing this 5 in the morning without having gotten any sleep and knowing a project is due (in this case, his project was due... I did mine last semester and passed easily).

[lti]

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Microsoft has been trying to get people to replace their stuff for years. They released a Windows 7 update that made older Microsoft mice unusable.

This morning at midnight, my parents' computer locked up with 100% CPU usage by one of the svchost.exe processes. After a few hours, it started responding again. Their other two computers running XP did the same thing when they turned them on later in the day. I heard that this is caused by a recent change in the way Windows checks for Internet Exploder updates.

It really looks like Microsoft intentionally breaks their stuff to force people to upgrade, but why would they do that to the mouse driver? I liked my old Wheel Mouse Optical.

[kaboom]

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Take all this with a mountain of salt, for as one commenter says: "I don't know, this sounds too intelligent to be true...."

IOW, the same kind of "intelligence insulting" backpedalling M$ pulled when they finally "got" they went to far with the XB0NE device.

They push, push, push, only to get starry-eyed when there's backlash.

I mean, even the "wow-ers" got "halos" over their heads when M$ "called their doggies"- a Pavlovian response. They couldn't believe their "ever loving" micro$haft would dare "give it to them" with the XB0NE.

All so unique- whoring out to their XBOXES, playing the same so-called "games," making shitty "videos" with "potato cameras" on screwjob-tube... So unique- like millions of others. They wanted the "extra features" of the XB0NE- they got it.

That was a year ago. It's deja-vu with this latest twist of winblows 8...

Back to reason... Win8 is about as relevant today as, gee, win3.1. Trying to figure out how winH8 has any place whatsoever is fruitless. It's not even fit for a "slave distracting" entertainment device...

WinME was better than this garbage.

[TELVM]

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Tiles Wars IV - A New Hope:

Big Changes Are Coming to Windows - Desktop users will no longer be treated like second-class citizens

Start menu may return with Windows ‘Threshold' update


Take all this with a mountain of salt, for as one commenter says: "I don't know, this sounds too intelligent to be true...."

[u271D]

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Out with old, in with the crap Win8 :-( crippled POS; I don't want a live account, and if I want the cloud I'll get in a plane. Time to learn Linux!!!!!

[domas]

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well apart from w8 bullshit for end user there are also professionals - try offering somebody that is using car diagnostic software or some industrial machinery diagnostic software on w8 I know you can think of many more examples.
NOPE.

My GF has a laptop running W8, is not terribly bad, it is more useless metro interface one has to avoid using.
But when i found out that "manage wireless networks" feature was deleted
I gave up on that OS and decided to stay as far away from it as possible.

[momaka]

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FWIW, I absolutely hate just how often M$ release new OSes now.

Everything has become like this, nowadays, not just MS. Just look at all of the stupid "smarthphone" crowd that changes their phone as soon as a new one comes out. Software has been like that too. How many FF versions do we have now?
Movies and computer games are like this too. New sequel comes out before the old one has even had a chance to be viewed/played.

But I don't put ALL of the blame on the companies - at the end of the day they are just trying to make the most money they can. I'd say a big portion of the problem also comes from sheeple that will blindly buy into anything just because it's cool or new.

Well, okay, in the case of MS killing off XP and 7, and pushing 8 up everyone mouth - that's just shooting yourself in the foot right there. I could care less, though. I got a closet full of old computers and an XP VLK disc. I'm set at least for a little longer.

[Kiriakos GR]

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"Mommy! My com-pew-tuh's gonna stop werking! Big micro$oft, come in an' save meeee!"

You better translate this in Chinese too. LOL

Its not a secret that the most active XP licenses today are still loaded in boxes which serve corporate offices and industry.

What China have to do with that? Answer: The recent industrialization of China, made them a significant Win XP customers base.

[TELVM]

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... Win8 is such a horrendous pile of infernal shit, no wonder MS is now the laughing stock ...

What amazes me is that mule stubborness in keeping ramming the iceberg trying to force-feed something nobody wants to swallow .

They are even torpedoing their flagships (XP & 7) in a vain attempt to overturn the capsized Tiles Wonder carrack .

... All the "followers" of the irrelevant "tech sites" have been in this irrational panic for the last few months.

"Mommy! My com-pew-tuh's gonna stop werking! Big micro$oft, come in an' save meeee!" ...

There is a huge FUD campaign underway, with swarms of paid shills trolling all around the web prophetizing the Armaggedon for next April. Non comp savvy people (the vast majority) are easy prey to such scare tactics.

[c_hegge]

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FWIW, I absolutely hate just how often M$ release new OSes now. 7 barely had the chance to season before releasing that disaster known as Windows 8.

[kaboom]

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....
FWIW, I'll stay on XP well beyond end of life.

Yep.

All the "followers" of the irrelevant "tech sites" have been in this irrational panic for the last few months.

"Mommy! My com-pew-tuh's gonna stop werking! Big micro$oft, come in an' save meeee!"

Exactly the response I'd expect... never trying to fix, or learn, anything for themselves. Endlessly falling for lie after lie. Only "big government"- er "big micro$oft" can save 'em.

Let 'em go buy a new tile-puter after date: xyz!
They'll only fall and be ignored, just as they are now.

[Topcat]

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Microsoft No Longer Selling Windows 7 to Retailers

Good.....this will open the doors for others to creep in and take over. I'm sure Apple is thrilled about this, as is google (with Android), and of course the many varieties of linux. MS shooting themselves in the foot once again, what a shocker. You'll still be able to buy win7, it's just the OEM's that won't preload it on PC's anymore. Win8 is such a horrendous pile of infernal shit, no wonder MS is now the laughing stock.

FWIW, I'll stay on XP well beyond end of life.

[TELVM]

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Expect M$ to torpedo Windows XP in full salvoes ... Also expect them to progressively sabotage Windows Se7en ...

Microsoft No Longer Selling Windows 7 to Retailers

[Kiriakos GR]

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Yes the masses that is the customers base that Microsoft needed 10 years to build it does refuse to get manipulated by those smart ass product developers in Microsoft.

[TELVM]

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Heh, seems the masses refuse to jump on the Tiles Wonder bandwagon:

Windows XP remains nearly flat; Windows 8/8.1 up slightly in November's OS data

[Kiriakos GR]

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then clone the disk now before it breaks on you.

Ghost 14 & Raid-0 is my friends for the past 10 years.

But for what I am worry about is for the big picture, if some ones does IT work, he would have to face the end customer and to explain and apologize to him for this significant inconvenience.
While Microsoft workers feels safe by hiding behind the anonymity under their faceless logo ( umbrella ), Microsoft partners and IT folks they will be in the first line of fire.

[kc8adu]

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then clone the disk now before it breaks on you.

[Kiriakos GR]

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who cares?

All the planet cares because not legit copies in a legit-able business are an issue that in case of inspection by the revenue office, your ass will be toasted.

Even the volume license is illegal in a solo PC when is not used in a small company as intended.