WinXP Support Expiration

Hi, A friend told me that Microsoft will stop WinXP support in early 2014. What that means (in part), if you have to re-install WinXP because of a hard disk drive failure (common problem) or a "fouled up" system after that date, you may ...

Message posted on the June 10th, 2012 - 12:29 PM ET

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Installing WinXP on an extFAT SSD ?

Microsoft exFAT is an ideal format for SSD. I've been using it on a 16 GB SDHC with no problems. I/O benchmarks using Crystaldiskmark are better with exFAT than with NTFS, FAT or FAT32. CHKDSK always works and there is never any file corruption. ...

Message posted on the February 1st, 2012 - 1:11 AM ET

eSata drivers for internal eSata drives under WinXP SP3

Does Microsoft have available for download drivers which will improve the performance of eSata internal harddrives. As shipped originally WinXP was probably not equipped to handle eSata, but years later there are many things available for use under ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2013 - 3:55 PM ET

Proposal to Keep WinXP Support "Alive"

Hi, I am a fan of WinXP (and Win98se). Most of you probably know by now that Microsoft is suppose to end WinXP support next year (I think April). We all know that Microsoft's major income source is a new OS. I would like to propose that we ...

Message posted on the December 16th, 2012 - 1:53 PM ET

WinXP Problem - DVD Drive doesn't see Video files.

This is a strange stange problem, not just because the DVD drive can't read the files. I have a Desktop with WinXP and a Laptop with Win 7. Both computers have a program called Converxtodvd 4 on them that I use to convert avi. to DVD. If I write ...

Message posted on the January 15th, 2012 - 6:26 PM ET

Last DirectX for WinXP SP3 x86? 9.0c or 9.0d?

When I went to find the latest DirectX it appeared that 9.0c was the last "vintage" for WinXP. I got a "runtime redistributable" and installed it but some instructions I found for confirming the version installed on a machine ...

Message posted on the November 29th, 2012 - 8:34 AM ET

[Samba] Samba3 - WinXP - Domain not available

Hi, I am sure it has been discussed extensively somewhere, but I cannot find a satisfactory solution so far. We have a samba3 PDC running with Win7 machines (with the right hacks) without problems. We have been asked to add an old WinXP machine to ...

Message posted on the November 19th, 2012 - 10:20 AM ET

Biggest Problem if WinXP Support Ends

Hi, The biggest problem if WinXP support comes to a "complete end": Anyone who has to re-install WinXP due to a failed hard disk drive or un-resolvable issue, will no longer be able to "activate" it. A solution is to make an ...

Message posted on the December 19th, 2012 - 7:55 AM ET

Re: Proposal to Keep WinXP Support "Alive"

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:31:04 -0500, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you wrote: <SNIP> If it works fine now, why do you want support?. Hi dadiOH, If I install WinXP (home edition) on another one of my computers (I have a few with ...

Message posted on the December 17th, 2012 - 1:06 PM ET

Prep for Dual Boot - Ubuntu/WinXP

Hello! I am partitioning a 1TB HDD for WinXP, with a 30GB partition for WinXP. I would like to be able to dual-boot into Ubuntu also, and plan on eventually using Ubuntu as my main OS. For now, before I tackle the learning curve of Ubuntu, I ...

Message posted on the March 16th, 2012 - 3:15 AM ET

copying from WinXP to Win7 slow while copying from Win7 to WinXP very fast

I tied to copy a large file from WinXP PC to Win7 PC (read from WinXP share on Win7 PC), it's very slow, running at 10% of 100Mbps network (as shown in task manager), while copying from Win7 PC to WinXP (the same two PC) is very fast (write to WinXP ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2011 - 9:52 PM ET

WinXP wont activate after trojan / repair install

I recently had a trojan manage to infect my Master Boot Record. Symptoms were slow internet access and constant browser hijacking. None of the conventional methods detected this. I actually installed a second hard disk and a temporary copy of Win7. ...

Message posted on the January 28th, 2011 - 6:31 PM ET

WinXP wont activate after trojan / repair install

I recently had a trojan manage to infect my Master Boot Record. Symptoms were slow internet access and constant browser hijacking. None of the conventional methods detected this. I actually installed a second hard disk and a temporary copy of Win7. ...

Message posted on the January 28th, 2011 - 6:31 PM ET