What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.
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Oh, I noticed.
MFW I use Windows ME
It was a Compaq...and I threw it down a flight of stairs. True story. I was also a frustrated teenager at the same time so this makes sense
All I wanted was to play DosBOX and the fucker froze and that was it..
...bastard still ran after that shockingly enough
Oh I definitely knew. I swore off that system after I spent hours repairing a rootkit on my families multiple computers only for it to happen again a week later.
I moved to Unix and only run a bare bones 11 install for games which is almost not even necessary anymore
I used windows XP today because the phase noise analyzer at work runs on it.
We're not allowed to connect it to the network, though.
I just did a win xp build the other day. I had to make a floppy disk for sata drivers because xp hates installing to sata. Fortunately MSI still has the drivers on their website. I'm still looking for a decent and cheap agp GPU to go along with it.
It's probably been a few months for me. If I could remember where I put that laptop.
Of course I noticed.
It was right before I installed a new OS.
Yeah, wouldn't installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would "turn off [OS] for the last time"?
For me it's playing around with an old machine years later.
Leave OP be, they just yeet their machine outta window and buy a new one.
Why do you think MS advises to do that for Win 10?
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Not for me. I have no idea when I last shut off an xp machine. My first free computer came with 98se, and my first purchased PC had windows 7 installed. At some point, I shut off an xp machine, either for school or at the library or whatever, and I have no idea when that was.
I absolutely noticed, I was holding a Win 7 install disk with my other hand, how would this come as a surprise?
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Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
Aero my beloved
I will always miss it. I love the glass aesthetic. It never went out of style in my head.
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ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.
That day, for me, is in the far future.
Healthcare, banking, or military?
Auto manufacturing.
I work in a manufacturing automation world. I still use xp.
Yup, I use a million dollar system that runs on XP. We updated the computer last year. They sent us a PC that dual boots XP and Win10. Win10 so it can connect to the internet and pull updates. XP so it can run the control program, which is written in Flash.
One of our Scanning Electron Microscopes runs Win7. Not great, it's not allowed on the network because of this.
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One day you released the latch on your 5-1/4 floppy drive and removed the Prince of Persia diskette for the last time and didn't realise.
What have you done, a cruel person. Also, take my upvote
speak for yourself. I still use XP.
Unfortunately I do too. I work in a lotto office. The lotto machines are over 20 years old and run XP Embedded. Thankfully the computers where we do most of the actual work have modern CPUs and NVMEs running a modern OS.
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The last time I turned off XP was a few months ago when I replaced it with Linux Mint on a PC I use to play old games in my room (because I wanted to play old MMOs and that required internet access, which XP would not have been safe for.)
I noticed. This was around 2008-2010. I had a dinosaur of a machine sitting around and wanted to see what would happen if I connected XP to "the modern web."
I did a complete wipe and reinstall, installed either SP2 or SP3, whatever the last version was. Ensured that I had the latest drivers for all the hardware, and connected the Ethernet cable.
Result: Complete system lockdown in less than 5 seconds due to being taken over by bots. The system was unable to reboot on that particular install of XP. I reinstalled XP, got it functioning again, wrapped the computer in an anti static bag, and put it in my storage unit, knowing I would likely never touch the machine again.
I know this might be cliche but you could try putting Linux on it. We have old laptot that can't really run windows anymore but Linux runs fine on it.
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Yeah, I remember that I left Empire: Total War open for a few hours and it smelted my video card.
Next PC came with Vista and I loved it
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It happened when Battlefield Bad Company 2 released. XP couldn't support it so I had to bite the bullet and switch over to Windows 7. At least I held out long enough to avoid Vista. Incidentally that was also the first and last game I bought for EA's shitty Origin launcher.
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me, applying sketchy system tweaks and wrenching control of my PC away from itself so that I can control my own settings again:
"The hell I did"
Nah I got a Windows XP VM for work! I love it!
That one specialty printer at work that's not important enough to upgrade, but still gets used...
At least it's not allowed on the network.
True, but it booted Win 7 next, so it’s not like I was leaving windows.
Except the last time I turn off an OS it's usually because it was BSOD and never came back. Then it's wiped and something new or it's reinstalled. Is it the same OS if it's reinstalled?
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cries in old laser printer
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