(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.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy