Windows XP End of Support

[FaT Air]

Do as I did, and it's 'activated' from the 'get go'. Just use the SystemRescueCd to restore. then you can throw away the OEM disks.

 

[mike123abc]

A few registry changes yields 5 more years of XP updates: http://www.extremetech.com/computin...ple-hack-gives-you-five-more-years-of-updates

This simple hack tells Windows Update that your computer is running Windows Embedded POSReady, rather than Windows XP. POSReady, which as the name suggests is for point-of-sales cash registers, is a variant of Windows XP that was released in 2009 — some eight years after Windows XP was first released. I’m not entirely sure why Microsoft released a variant of Windows XP about six months before the release of Windows 7, but there you go. POSReady will be supported until April 2019.

 

[jorgek]

Do as I did, and it's 'activated' from the 'get go'. Just use the SystemRescueCd to restore. then you can throw away the OEM disks.

Where do I get a System Rescue CD?

 

[Foxbat]

A few registry changes yields 5 more years of XP updates: http://www.extremetech.com/computin...ple-hack-gives-you-five-more-years-of-updates

Careful! That link does not provide the exact fix you need! You create the Key named PosReady, but the DWORD you add to that Key is named "Installed" which the extremetech.com instructions neglected to include.

 

[FaT Air]

Where do I get a System Rescue CD?

www.sysresccd.org
Find the instructions here: http://lifehacker.com/292972/partition-and-image-your-hard-drive-with-the-system-rescue-cd
(Also has the link)
You'll also need imgburn to 'burn' the iso to disk.

 

[jorgek]

Fat Air,
Thanks for all your help!

 

[Foxbat]

I tried this on one of the XP PCs that was replaced with a new Win 7 Pro PC at work. It picked up the May patches and identified them as for the POS version of Windows XP and XP-Embedded.

The one blog entry at Microsoft also mentions that this version of Windows is not a licensed version for the Office Suites, so if you're running Office 2003 or 2007, say, you're supposed to remove that version from your "enhanced" PC. I went ahead and tried Excel and it had no problems starting under the POS version, so it's strictly an ethical issue there.

 

[jorgek]

Couple of days ago the MS update site had 132 updates for my XP.

 

[FaT Air]

Anybody got a .reg file? One that can be 'merged' instead of manually editing the registry? If not may have to 'learn how' myself.

 

[mike123abc]

Couple of days ago the MS update site had 132 updates for my XP.

You should be able to update XP without issue. Just MS is not putting out new updates.

 

[kittyhas1000legs]

With XP being dead, why are people BUYING more copies of it on fleabay? Not really complaining since someone's buying mine, but why bother at this point?

 

[mike123abc]

With XP being dead, why are people BUYING more copies of it on fleabay? Not really complaining since someone's buying mine, but why bother at this point?

Perhaps they are using cheap copies of XP to get cheap upgrades?