Support for Windows XP is ending soon

I've said it before and I'll say it again because it bears repeating, I present relevant facts, I cannot help it if you read between the lines and see stuff that isn't there. In the nicest possible way I don't care what you think of me anyway, even though you have formulated what I believe to be a false impression. What I care about is that this forum presents relevant data and discussion, for all it's current and future readers. If you don't like that then I'm afraid that this forum is not the place for you because even if I am not reading a particular thread, there are plenty more like me with the same motivation, i.e. to help and inform and to do so without worrying about what people might think.

All I wanted to do was prevent you and others wasting money on a 3TB HDD that in all probability will disappoint when you attempt to use it with XP on BIOS based hardware. If I had let your comment slide about going out to buy a 3TB disk, someone might think "ooh, that's a good idea, I'll do that" then they will probably be disappointed too. Maybe, unlike you, they are thinking about upgrading.

I get that you want to stick with XP. I get that, unlike the majority, you don't think Win7 is an improvement. But this thread is not just about you. It is also about all the others that are following it now and will read it in the future. I would be doing this forum a disservice if I did not make the points that I do.

This thread is a discussion thread and in a democratic forum all people are allowed to have their say.

Tricky

Hi Shenan Stanley,

Oh, Gee, you are a scardy cat of losing your PC because of fire or inside a hot SUV for four months? YEAH, HOW about a fried CPU core? It is dead meat in either case!  Nobody is immune to 'Murphy's Law'! If that you are as stupid as my brother was, with no page file on a 6 GB drive, he as well as you are really asking for it. WITH one PC that is IT, it was a goner! HE came to me to recover the data off all three 2 GB partitions AS I had three PC ready to rescue his data for him. I had to play a few hardware tricks to get it done for him! Maybe, you haven't used floppies and casessettes long enough to learn that lesson.

MORAL: "Do not put ANY of your valued data on drive letter C!" That is for Windows only! PERIOD!!!

If Windows crashes to the point where it wont boot or you get hacked as I have, you will have to re-install Windows from a clean boot and delete all of the hard disk drive to do it! KISS ALL OF YOUR DATA GOOD--BYE! That is no joke you have to live with. SO, you want to keep it? Use a second drive internally or attach an external one... What if that glitches by accident? (Murphy's Law) by trying to access it, then you lose your first backup.

There are several other reasons why you do not stuff everything you own in one basket, or all of your DATA on drive letter C and have one PC:

1. One drive ain't big enough, especially when it 6 to 60 GB or  as high as 1 TB? This goes for all versions of Windows.
2. It makes Windows run slower! Access time is critical, as that is why you use SATA drives in favor of IDE drives and better yet SSDs, as also the WHY a faster processor and a matching 10 times page file to match!
3. Maybe you do not know what is a master backup is amongst even two PCs can do for you if one is off and the other is ON? Or on a network server HDD? It circumvents 'Murphy's Law' in your data's favor. If you lose your only picture of your girlfriend, she ain't going to pose for it the second time. HOW are you going to get it back?
4. You have too many programs and services running on your PC that IS WHY. LOOK at the Task manager You pegged the CPU METER, (Graph) in the performance tab. Turn on the Kernal times (RED line), from VIEW, if it stays up for more than five seconds, it freezes or crashes Windows. Additional services and programs raises the RED bar or line. The green one is the frequency, (HOW fast the process is going)! You have a fifteen minute limit on that! The faster it goes the more heat the CPU generates, also WHY the processor fan and the processor's heat sink, (metal fins around or on top of it).
5. Insuffient memory is the big reason what makes the PC work poorly as Windows need all it can get! and over clocks the CPU!
6. Performance is the name of the game in computing as to win a race and YOU cannot run out of resources doing any long task! Extra drives and partitions solves some of that. Maybe you have not had any crashes that stop the process and your data IS LOST for GOOD? Where is the backup or the master backup? Maybe you did not take a course in DATA Processing as I have? Surely you do not want to run out of GAS  in your car ten miles out going to work? You get fired by it? In my case a bus whizzes by you at eleven PM and you as I was on guard duty and have to go 25 miles to work and be there at 11:45 PM to sign in!
7. Equipment failure! A biggie! You may have to PAY big bucks to get the PC going again and also added expense in data recovery, With one PC, you are toast! What are you going to do while the PC is in the shop when you have an hour to file a report? A second or third PC gives you a chance to file it! There are a lot more things you are not considering as why you do not have a spare tire in your car as a spare PC at home or office! What you want to do with outweighs the cost of a new one! IT gets the job done so you can get paid by doing it! It is a link in the chain of events to be successful.

Having more than one PC and more than one drive insures what you want done gets done on time. Down time is costly in ayone's pocket book!

Edmond, The software and hardware engineer.

Hi,

Pardon my impared very poor eyesight, I had it since 3 months old, OTHERWISE the text is invisible to me on this and all posted websites in stupid plain text and there Is nothing on this website to make the text 14 points boldface or larger or Bookman Old Style or Arial BLACK as it is guessing what I type by poking on a blank page. I mentioned it to each one I visited and they do not understand handicapped people. I hope you do now? A pair of prescription glasses cost over $300 as I want has a too close of a focal point and IT has to be 2¼ power left eye and 2.0 even power  on the right eye with an axis just to see  to read anything. I do not see any objects in 3d, just 2d with either eye, I cannot help it if what you see is insulting, rude or gross, etc,, that is your intepertation of it not mine! If I use MS WORD anything, I can see the text 200% or make it so I can see it on my monitors. AND IF I do that and copy it here, it unreadable to me any way I slice it. THAT is my handicap I got my SSI on! I have to live with it, and you don't. I use clear tune from MS and thhat helps eliminate the fuzziness of the LCD monitors... STILL I have to use a 2x maginifer on top of it all...

From Edmond, the Software Engineer.