What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.
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Oh, I noticed.
MFW I use Windows ME
It was a Compaq...and I threw it down a flight of stairs. True story. I was also a frustrated teenager at the same time so this makes sense
All I wanted was to play DosBOX and the fucker froze and that was it..
...bastard still ran after that shockingly enough
I used windows XP today because the phase noise analyzer at work runs on it.
We're not allowed to connect it to the network, though.
Of course I noticed.
It was right before I installed a new OS.
Yeah, wouldn't installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would "turn off [OS] for the last time"?
Leave OP be, they just yeet their machine outta window and buy a new one.
Why do you think MS advises to do that for Win 10?
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For me it's playing around with an old machine years later.
Not for me. I have no idea when I last shut off an xp machine. My first free computer came with 98se, and my first purchased PC had windows 7 installed. At some point, I shut off an xp machine, either for school or at the library or whatever, and I have no idea when that was.
I absolutely noticed, I was holding a Win 7 install disk with my other hand, how would this come as a surprise?
Dad??
Yes my child?
Who the hell are you?
You aren't my dad that's for certain
Is that any way to speak to your father?
One day you released the latch on your 5-1/4 floppy drive and removed the Prince of Persia diskette for the last time and didn't realise.
What have you done, a cruel person. Also, take my upvote
I just did a win xp build the other day. I had to make a floppy disk for sata drivers because xp hates installing to sata. Fortunately MSI still has the drivers on their website. I'm still looking for a decent and cheap agp GPU to go along with it.
ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.
That day, for me, is in the far future.
Healthcare, banking, or military?
Auto manufacturing.
Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
Aero my beloved
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It is now safe to turn off your computer.
“It’s all safe now… sweet dreams, old friend”
I work in a manufacturing automation world. I still use xp.
Yup, I use a million dollar system that runs on XP. We updated the computer last year. They sent us a PC that dual boots XP and Win10. Win10 so it can connect to the internet and pull updates. XP so it can run the control program, which is written in Flash.
One of our Scanning Electron Microscopes runs Win7. Not great, it's not allowed on the network because of this.
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speak for yourself. I still use XP.
Unfortunately I do too. I work in a lotto office. The lotto machines are over 20 years old and run XP Embedded. Thankfully the computers where we do most of the actual work have modern CPUs and NVMEs running a modern OS.
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I noticed. This was around 2008-2010. I had a dinosaur of a machine sitting around and wanted to see what would happen if I connected XP to "the modern web."
I did a complete wipe and reinstall, installed either SP2 or SP3, whatever the last version was. Ensured that I had the latest drivers for all the hardware, and connected the Ethernet cable.
Result: Complete system lockdown in less than 5 seconds due to being taken over by bots. The system was unable to reboot on that particular install of XP. I reinstalled XP, got it functioning again, wrapped the computer in an anti static bag, and put it in my storage unit, knowing I would likely never touch the machine again.
I know this might be cliche but you could try putting Linux on it. We have old laptot that can't really run windows anymore but Linux runs fine on it.
Just switched my win10 laptop to opensuse tumbleweed (trying it out) and didn't realized how accustomed i was to the slowness of boot, opening programs, lagging, etc
The last time I turned off XP was a few months ago when I replaced it with Linux Mint on a PC I use to play old games in my room (because I wanted to play old MMOs and that required internet access, which XP would not have been safe for.)
I noticed. When Windows XP came out I saw the enshitification right away. Never mind the play-skool colors and complete lack of security. I couldn't believe that people were going to be willing to use that crap.
I moved away from it for me and my business fairly quickly, and that was that.
I did notice over the years as winxp went away in public spaces and hotels. It was always kind of nice to know there were free to use computers out in the wild if one wanted to use them. XP was never able to be locked down, so you could bypass any login and just use it if you wanted to. Never for anything important, but I could always load up some games on the hotel one and let the kids play on it for fun for example.
I hear your security concerns but what timeline were you living on?
- 95 was revolutionary but buggy AF
- NT I didn't have much to do with
- 98 was a patch to fix the bugs in 95
- 98 SE was mostly stable and a decent is, plus USB
- ME was a piece of shit excuse to something
- 2000 was decent. XP v1
- XP finally made a stable os, because it got rid of the shit we dragged in from 95
- Vista was hot garbage
- 7 fixed vista an imo was the best is MS ever made
- 8 was more hot garbage because they lost the mobile war
- 10 was an apology for 8
- 11 is shareware / adware
Where did you find safe harbour in this shitshow?
I'd argue that 8.1 was an apology for 8 that never got accepted, 10 was an enshitified version of what 8 could have been if Microsoft shareholders didn't decide they wanted a slice of that sweet sweet mobile market.
Anyway, anything past 7 has/had unacceptable privacy violations. And that alone makes them shitte, even regardless of everything else.
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It happened when Battlefield Bad Company 2 released. XP couldn't support it so I had to bite the bullet and switch over to Windows 7. At least I held out long enough to avoid Vista. Incidentally that was also the first and last game I bought for EA's shitty Origin launcher.
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True, but it booted Win 7 next, so it’s not like I was leaving windows.
Yeah, I remember that I left Empire: Total War open for a few hours and it smelted my video card.
Next PC came with Vista and I loved it
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me, applying sketchy system tweaks and wrenching control of my PC away from itself so that I can control my own settings again:
"The hell I did"
cries in old laser printer
That one specialty printer at work that's not important enough to upgrade, but still gets used...
At least it's not allowed on the network.
It's probably been a few months for me. If I could remember where I put that laptop.
I nearly installed WinXP on an old piece of shit all-in-one computer (old celeron, 2gb ram, very slow hdd), but the CPU was too new to be supported. Installed Mint instead.
One day you turned off a Linux Distro for the last time and didn't even notice
I don’t ever turn off my Linux machines. They turn off when the power goes out, and that’s about it.
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