
I might put together another XP box because I got all kinds of software. If they wanted that they would just say "Not Supported". The one common denominator I see here is HP, but I find it hard to believe they were trying to force end of life on these things. It does not lock up the PC, but I mean one time we tried we went shopping and like 2 hours later it still was sitting there. In all cases the install starts and just stops. (the ones that are only a few KB and download as they go along) They are around 100MB so they are not like an internet assisted install. there is to much on it now to remove it, for example this browser. So the Vista box lacks an optical drive, Windows lost it when I installed the second HD. Yeah, how much is YOUR printer worth ? If it is an inkjet you would ave to pay me to take it. the last straw was when one said "Printer that is only worth $250". I left two PC groups because they don't like anything that is not brand new. The disk I got with the printer doesn't cover anything past XP but the Vista box worked automatically. Noone is here alone except us, ever.Īnyway I decided to plug the printer into the network directly. So someone could read my email, so can the government and I would even less want them able to. By the way I do not care about security, all my stuff stays sighed in to everything. The OS was slightly damaged but it was fine, I just could never get rid of the password box at boot even though there was no password set. I tried to get the thing to boot itself after a power outage but had some problems with that, but it worked fine otherwise. One disadvantage was that the XP box had to be to print. Had a nice old XP box that was the print server, Got a Vista box and a 7, there are 8 and 10 boxes in the house ad I would like to be able to print from any of them.
