Pocket Plane Group
Miscellany, Inc. => Ensign First Class Blather => Topic started by: Cybersquirt on April 05, 2014, 08:12:31 PM
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Anyone else curious about Microsoft's April 8 deadline? I've been a downloading fool...
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Sorry for the info; fuck you too you viewing non- commeting (28) fools.
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Harsh.
I still have at least three computers I've fired up in the past year which run XP. It's an interesting victim of its own success. I think they'll have no choice but to walk it back and publicly release some of the bugfixes they're doing privately for large organizations who are paying for ongoing support.
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Aside from the OS XP stuff. I will always mistrust code. So should you. :)
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I highly recommend using Autopatcher (http://www.autopatcher.com/) to keep ya XP (and win 7, 8, 2003, 2k) machines up-to-date.
There's two parts to it:
[1] it'll download--but not install--all patches & modules; Important, Recommended, etc.
You can keep this as an archive. But it'll also be used for...
[2] It gives you the option to pick&choose which modules to install, then will autoinstall them without prompting to the user (except finishing the process).
It also includes some extras such as 3rd-party apps confirmed to work in XP, e.g. 7-zip; XP system tweaks; Flash, dotNet & DirectX updates, and much more.
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Uh, thanks? Be careful with 3rd party downloads.
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Actually, the downloads are not 3rd party-- the ones from Microsoft come directly from their servers (MS mandated this - the AutoPatcher project used to use mirror servers) - and the 3rd apps like 7-zip come either directly from the home site, or official mirrors.