It's surprising how many corporate business are still running XP.

 

We are not one of them, neither is my employers customer. The small number of remaining XP workstations will be wiped remotely and blocked from the corporate LAN before XP support ends, and the customer I work with has just two XP workstations left and these are being retired in the next two weeks. My employer has gone to Windows 7, our customer has been on Windows 7 for two years and about to trial Windows 8.1.

 

When you realise how modern malware and viruses spread, you appreciate just how vulnerable XP will become. Once an exploit is discovered it can be used and 1'000s of machines infected before any AV vendor gets around to updating their definitions.

"There is no problem using the profile folders, it's what they are there for - you can set their location to be anywhere you want (including separate drives) and Windows will make more effort to preserve the profile folders than other areas which may also get wiped."

Maybe they recoded it in one of the later service packs, I dont know; after losing everything in the "My" folders during a "Rescue", on a pre SP2 version, I have never risked putting anything in one.

Equally, I have never lost a folder OUTSIDE of the windows and "My" folders when doing a reinstall or overwrite; only during a malware attack which wiped 500GB of data from by E: drive.

"There is no problem using the profile folders, it's what they are there for - you can set their location to be anywhere you want (including separate drives) and Windows will make more effort to preserve the profile folders than other areas which may also get wiped."

Maybe they recoded it in one of the later service packs, I dont know; after losing everything in the "My" folders during a "Rescue", on a pre SP2 version, I have never risked putting anything in one.

Equally, I have never lost a folder OUTSIDE of the windows and "My" folders when doing a reinstall or overwrite; only during a malware attack which wiped 500GB of data from by E: drive.

Wow some serious reading here. I'm glad I put a thread here in this as you guys are a world of information and I thankyou all very much

I'm planning in March to upgrade to Windows 7 and say goodbye to XP. My AMD is still a great PC so W7 will run great on it.

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Wow some serious reading here. I'm glad I put a thread here in this as you guys are a world of information and I thankyou all very much

I'm planning in March to upgrade to Windows 7 and say goodbye to XP. My AMD is still a great PC so W7 will run great on it.

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Don't think you will regret it - Win 7 is basically a better version of XP and Vista. Some minor differences but unless you get under the hood so to speak it works pretty much the same

I went to Win 7 from the first output, then the second version and now a full version. At that time, I could run 98FE /W2k & XP . Don't ask why, just nostalgia. At that time I ran an AMD 2.8 with what now is considered a slow FSB.But I noticed a speed and loss of lockups compared to XP. Now I dual boot XP and Win7 ,but my online activity is only on W7. i only keep XP for two reasons- nostalgia and to run my aged Apple laserwriter to give me PCB  layouts I can heat iron to copper. I also seem to remember I've got some software that works in W7 in compatibility mode, but runs a lot better in XP.

i WONT BUY EXTERNAL DRIVE BOXES ANY LONGER, THEY ALL SEEM TO HAVE PROPRIETARY POWER PLUGS AND THE psuS ALL SEEM TO DIE AFTER 12-18 MONTHS, MEANING YOU HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER ONE. Sorry, Caps Lock key stuck - WD40 now applied..

Just noticed this one. I've had experience of external HDD with the software involved ( before the days of USB HDD), so I have one side panel on my PC quick release. The main HDD is partitioned three ways into two 68GB partitions for XP & wIN 7, and the rest as a store, with 32GB used space. Every so often I copy the contents to an 80GB  drive I keep seperate from my PC. I've also got a copy of Seatools on a bootable CD along with a bootable copy of Win98 tools ,so if Crypto man gets in, I can take control; of my PC in dos and either write zeros to the HDD, or fdisk and format in Dos.