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RE: Windows 10
September 26, 2015 at 3:25 pm
(September 25, 2015 at 8:45 pm)IATIA Wrote: (September 25, 2015 at 7:04 am)emjay Wrote: Can you still get the service packs for XP or would it best just to leave it offline except for activating?
If you do not already have SP3, you will need to hunt it down on M$.com. After that, all will go well. The automatic updates work, there is just no longer any support. In anticipation of a complete shutdown of XP, I have a disk image and full backup of a freshly installed and updated system. It makes life simple.
Thanks for all this great info  And having an image like that sounds like a really great idea. I'm in no desperate rush to do this (not to mention haven't got a clue how to do it from Linux  ) but when the time comes I'll bear all this in mind. Basically it's just for one game really, Civ2, and that wasn't all that great on a netbook anyway because the screen was too small and the bottom half of the game was missing... so I had to learn to play it without seeing my trade routes unless I plugged in an external monitor But just to get the image backup it does seem worth doing, cos it could always come in handy, so thanks for the tip
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RE: Windows 10
September 27, 2015 at 11:04 pm
If your computer will boot from a USB key, you could just install XP with the game on a flash drive and use it when you want to play the game.I believe most do now days.
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 2:22 am
It takes a lot of shenanigans to boot xp off a USB stick. It's easier to use a virtual machine.
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 8:01 am
Windows 7 - noun: The seventh attempt at creating a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. 
Linux for DEVELOPMENT
Mac for PRODUCTIVITY
Palm for MOBILITY
Windows for SOLITAIRE
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 8:31 am
(September 28, 2015 at 8:01 am)IATIA Wrote: Windows 7 - noun: The seventh attempt at creating a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Linux for DEVELOPMENT
Mac for PRODUCTIVITY
Palm for MOBILITY
Windows for SOLITAIRE
Love it! 
But I think I'm gonna go with poca's solution of the Virtual Machine mainly because it's easy, but also because I think it would be good for my SSD since it runs as software in Windows 7 which is optimised for SSDs, and because it will be isolated from the rest of the system and thus secure despite support ending for XP. Thanks for all your advice though
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 8:33 am
(September 28, 2015 at 8:01 am)IATIA Wrote: Windows 7 - noun: The seventh attempt at creating a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Linux for DEVELOPMENT
Mac for PRODUCTIVITY
Palm for MOBILITY
Windows for SOLITAIRE ANDROID for monopoly.
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 1:44 pm
Yay!! Got a VirtualBox up with Windows XP installed and activated, and Civ2 installed and working. And the whole thing's lightning fast which I wasn't expecting! Me is a happy bunny
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 2:27 pm
(September 28, 2015 at 1:44 pm)emjay Wrote: Yay!! Got a VirtualBox up with Windows XP installed and activated, and Civ2 installed and working. And the whole thing's lightning fast which I wasn't expecting! Me is a happy bunny
Damn it - Civ2 crashed! It's never crashed before.  Anyway, I'll stop talking now
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 2:30 pm
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RE: Windows 10
September 28, 2015 at 3:22 pm
(September 28, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (September 28, 2015 at 2:27 pm)emjay Wrote: Damn it - Civ2 crashed! It's never crashed before. Anyway, I'll stop talking now
Wow, Civ2 - that's a blast from the distant past. Have you played Civ5?
Ah, got it working now - just turn off all the animations and stuff and it doesn't crash Yeah, blast from the past but most of my favourite games are; Colonization, Starcraft etc. Nah, I haven't played Civ5... the highest one I've played is Civ3 and although I thought it was pretty good, it takes up even more time than Civ2 and what with the resources being spread out all over the world so you have to trade for things and can't really be isolationist (except in easy mode) I always preferred Civ2. Just simpler. What do you think of Civ5 then?
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