How to connect Windows XP to broadband

Keep XP off the Internet. It will just end up being a bot. Xp OK for a non Internet connected device, but Not for connected devices. The more XP pc’s connected makes the Internet a less safe place for everyone.

You cannot activate it even if you have the Internet, M$ closed down the activation site when they withdrew support. T went that route with a 64Bit XP that I was trying to activate on a vm setup.

Your best bet is to stick a Linux distro on it, but even these have problems with XP era graphics drivers. Maybe Damn Small Linux will run but do not hold out your hopes.

My pc w3as realrove decent P4 at about 3.6Ghz iirc (it warmed my feet), and for me vista always ran fine. Preferred it to xp from day one. Then bi the time 7 came along 2 years later, vista was a fine os, that had a bad rap from the ‘vista ready’ stickers that shipped on terrible bearly capable stickers.

7 wouldn’t  of ran anybetter on them than vista did.

I liked vista airo on two monitors, I was flash lol, (2x 800×400). Then I went to i7 920 for my next upgrade and its still going.

I’m thinking of giving shadow copy a go instead of building enouther high end pc. Promises to deliver high end pc on a thin client over the cloud.

It interests me quite alot. I just need to look into data protection etc and who if anyone has access to my data. Though I could do office work ony old first gen core I pc’s untill I die I think, and get some intrw low power pc’s and use a the gaming window.

It’s waort a look at £25pm. Sounds expensive at first, but give you’d pay a grand of a pc, and then have the high energy bill, it actully could make sense. If the latency issue isnt one.

You might fare better with Windows 7 Basic:

http://tinyurl.com/y9vy5nrr

Your old XP games might run on that. Whatever you do, you have to realise the truth in what everyone here is telling you: XP is dead, even if you could get it up and running it would be dangerous on the net.

There comes a time in the life of a system, when the system is no longer technologically viable. Your old PC has reached that point. I have just given away a base unit with an AMD Phenom X4 Black Edition that was a very good PC in its time, running off a Gigabyte ATX mobo with many bells and whistles. It had reached end of life, even though it was usable on a basic level, it was too old and behind the curve to be useful.

I will throw in a couple of comments here. If you buy one of the Win XP-SP3 editions off Ebay, you can install it, and 28 days later, reset your PC’s clock to the starting date again. All the above objections still apply though.

Hardware. I also have an AMD Athlon-X2 based rig, bios date 2009, though it was 2 years later when I bought it. On it, I have only ever used Linux (Ubuntu 10.4 originally, but later Mint), now Mint 19. The on-board graphics could not keep up with probably,  Mint 16, so in went a GT620 (now 720 I think).

Like you I had 2Gb of ram, but watching motoGP playback through “Simplescreenrecorder” failed on me this year (OK last year). An upgrade to 4Gb ram fixed that.  — I think the programme must have been upgraded and “complexificated”.

So, in my opinion, nothing wrong with your hardware –YET. And when yours is too old, so will be mine.

Les.

Just been digging – I have found a copy of XP SP3 – which I or a friend may have downloaded when it was in vogue.  I also have official MS SP1 and SP2 disks but the SP3 is home made. Had it for years I have no idea whether this will take you any further than anything you could buy on Ebay?

Anyone with views on this?

I too use an old XP PC about once a year – I have a labelling programme that won’t work under W7 and that PC is connected to the internet.  To date no problems but I am aware …. !!  I can’t really disagree with what far more knowledgeable people have said here.  Currently I am still a hard & fast W7 user!!