Support for Windows XP is ending soon

YOU got Rooked by paying WAY too much money, Each CD or DVD of Windows is good to go for about FIVE PC installations as claimed by Microsoft at that time! EXCEPT some versions of Windows XP PRO as I have, in which case, is UNLIMITED!

You are incorrect.

Other than VOLUME LICENSING - the case has always been one-to-one.  Now if it was RETAIL, you could move that license from one computer to the next computer (removing it from the last) indefinitely.  If it was OEM, first motherboard it was installed/activated upon was the last one you could legitimately (in accordance with the license agreement) install it on.

It's not the CD/DVD of Windows that makes a difference - that's just data and often easily obtained or modified to work - it's the product key/license/CoA.

Hi Shadow1429,

YOU got Rooked by paying WAY too much money, Each CD or DVD of Windows is good to go for about FIVE PC installations as claimed by Microsoft at that time! EXCEPT some versions of Windows XP PRO as I have, in which case, is UNLIMITED! YEAH, WE both agree that Microsof is WAY too greedy for our own good. THEY are way too afraid of piracy!

In the olden days, once you bought the software, YOU can do with it all you want because YOU OWN IT but you can't sell it. However, you should be able to install that CD's version back on the SAME PC as many times you want that you got with the PC initially and you do not have to register or validate it because it is meant for that PC. THAT is WHY I ask for the BOOT CD with my PCs when I buy them new, now the manufacturers are being lazy about it, and instead use the valuable drive space to put in a 18 GB recovery partition for Windows 7 and a SYSTEM partition of 200 MB, that rarely is needed and only works after you take out all of the other drives... That is a big riot. When I got my Compaq PC it had only one 40 GB IDE hard drive with a 5 GB recovery partition, when I got hacked on IT I tried to use it after I made three DVDS of it, All I needed was the sound and Video drivers from it, I bought specially this version of Windows XP Pro CD and it booted ok but I needed both the AGP video drivers, and the motherboard sound drivers, I tracked by the icon and installed the Video AGP drivers okay, but I had to spend monney to get me a PCI sound card to hear the audio, a usual case when anyone reinstalls Windows. I perfer to reserve the white PCI slots for the extra USB ports I do need.

I also do not like touch screens for the same reasons because I am sight impaired and any smudges even on my glasses make the screen unreadable as far as text is concerned. The slowness in anyone's PC is due to lack of enough DDR memory and a large page file of 20 GB or more. IT is not what Microsoft tells you in Windows Help and support. I know it is a fact you cannot have enough page file. With Windows 7, you can have it all on the remainder of the C partition on the drive. and it can be larger, as 80 GB or more and watch your Windows Experience rating JUMP up from a 3.3 to 4.4 a whole point. Of course, you are really asking for it to be slow if you don't do this. My brother litterally smoked his PC's processor by not knowing this... I ended up recovering his data off a 6 GB hard drive running off Windows 2000 Pro having three 2 GB partitions and NO page file! When I finished adding the 80 GB page file to MY PC, (Windows elbow room), to my best I3 PC using Windows 7, its experience rating jumped from 4.3 to 5.2 just like that. It is NO slow turkey! I bought that PC NEW at half price and I upgraded it from one hard disk drive to four with 6 TB internally and 14 more TB externally making it a SUPER DUPER PC with 20 Terabytes of drive space... I had to disconnect the DVD SATA optical drive in favor of four SATA drives internally At a Quad core running two at a time (what I3 means), I can do my copy work also at USB 3.0 speed AFTER I also installed two PCIe to USB 3.0 cards giving me four USB 3.0 ports. It is worth $649.99 from the manufacturer only with 4 GB of memory, 1 TB hard disk drive And one DVD R/W drive without any USB 3.0 ports... I added the second  4 GB DDR3 card making it 8 GB max. You cannot expect any PC to be a formula one racer unless you add the extra drive space and the extra DDR memory, as it come from the factory, or you have it built especially for you. As I have done to all nine of my PCs.  As a clue as my older brother wanted to know because he wanted a special built PC that is very fast and wanted to have three 27-inch color flat-panel LCD monitors: I told him it has to be twice as fast as my I3 PC and beat my PC's experience rating by one whole point. It took me twice to get him to understan what I mean and he got 7.8 with an I7 PC... And he got it with  a 128 GB SSD and the initial 1 TB drive to hold all his data. THEN I started to buy the SSDs myself, I have about six of them. ONE the lowest size being 64 GB went in one of my PCs as a replacement of a WD 40 GB SATA drive, and I cloned its C Partition only and dropped its XP Pro recovery section because I wanted the entire 64 GB SSD for drive letter C. I surely could not have done it using Windows XP on any of my PCs. Knowing this fact from my last POST I used it as an external drive temporarily with the I3 PC using Wndows 7 just to do two things: A: to expand the SSD's partition into the unallotted drive space from 35 GB to 64 GB and B: to customize the Windows folder with Vista's Windows Icon from "Imageres-v.dll", Index 59, I had renamed and the "Sustem32" folder as index 21 from the same DLL. It went as smooth as silk after I put it back inthe other PC... I do think outside the box, so shall you if you want to succeed using Windows! YOU may have to use your pocket book to get ahead in computing as the same thing to even fix a car as to compete in a computer race for processor time.

From Edmond The Software and Hardware engineer.

What are you talking about? I use those sort by features in Windows 7 every week. I impress other people by using these features, or show it to them to help them out. How could they not be there?

I updated my licenses from XP to Windows 8 when Microsoft released Windows 8. Windows 8 has a lot of advantages over XP. All my computers are synchronized with Windows 8. You need to remember of the hardware changes in last years: How to efficiently use an SSD with Windows XP? Memory management with the latest technologies? How the software manages the energy of multicore processor, multi-display support etc. With the new technological advances in use, the software development needs to adapt to new technology avaiable. It's easier to create a new operating system from scratch  adapted to new technology than to rewrite the lines of an old programming to adapt to a today's technology. One must also remember that the third software companies want that their softwares also come exploit this advantages of new technologies of the hardware. Upgrade now!

It becomes more and more obvious you should not be working on (fixing) peoples (especially friends) computers.  *grin*

Program Files (x86) is not for "Windows XP programs", it is for 32-bit programs.  Windows XP comes in 32-bit and 64-bit editions, by the way.

as for the folder system - looks and works the same.  You did not list anything that doesn't work the same in Windows 7 as Windows XP so far.  Including look and feel.  :-)