Hi Paul Yes, spot on I bought a Star LC200 colour dot matrix in 1992 for £187 And I paid a similar amount as you did in the 90's for a 486 Time machine package (remember those) I had better stop thinking how much I have spent on computers etc as its depressing <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > That brings back memories of paying GBP1,200 for a 486 with a 40Mb hard > drive in the days when 486's were state of the art - maybe about 1993 ? And I > was assured by a friend that I had wasted my money on a 40Mb, as nobody > would ever need that much hard disk space. His 20Mb was perfectly adequate ! > > At the same time, I also paid the best part of GBP200 for a new-fangled > monochrome printer - a Canon BubbleJet BJ10SX, if I remember rightly. > > What frightens me is comparing a 40Mb hard drive with the memory in a > mid-range smartphone of today. > > Best wishes. > > Paul

Some links for info on what to do about the Windows XP end of support date of April 8, 2014... Securing XP PCs after Microsoft drops support http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/securing-xp-pcs-after-microsoft-drops-support/ Microsoft TechNet -- Microsoft antimalware support for Windows XP Microsoft will continue to provide updates to our antimalware signatures and engine for Windows XP users through July 14, 2015 http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/15/microsoft-antimalware-support-for-windows-xp.aspx http://winsupersite.com/windows-xp/microsoft-extends-anti-malware-support-windows-xp Google Offers a Life Line to XP Users: Chrome An interesting support option for XP users http://winsupersite.com/windows-xp/google-offers-life-line-xp-users-chrome Some good advice here... http://www.ublog2us.com/secrets/windows-secrets-week-03-2014/ However, if you do plan to stick with XP after April, there are some sensible steps you can take to minimise the risk of getting hacked or contracting a virus. 1) First of all, switch to a browser that is being updated. Browser problems give hackers one of the biggest backdoors into your Windows system, so if you switch to a browser such as Firefox or Chrome which is still being updated for XP, you will minimise your risk. 2) Also, you’ll need a virus checker which is updated every day. Free variants such as AVG or Antivir will do perfectly, but you should avoid Microsoft Security Essentials, which has been shown to perform very poorly in recent tests. 3) Finally, you need to take care when handling email attachments. Never open attachments from Spam messages or other sources you don’t know, and if an email claims to come from someone you know but the English looks dodgy, they may have been hacked so take care. By following these three simple steps, you should have another year of happy computing with XP in 2014. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Nivard Ovington <ovington.one@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Paul > > Yes, spot on > > I bought a Star LC200 colour dot matrix in 1992 for £187 > > And I paid a similar amount as you did in the 90's for a 486 Time > machine package > (remember those) > > I had better stop thinking how much I have spent on computers etc as its > depressing <g> > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > >> That brings back memories of paying GBP1,200 for a 486 with a 40Mb hard >> drive in the days when 486's were state of the art - maybe about 1993 ? And I >> was assured by a friend that I had wasted my money on a 40Mb, as nobody >> would ever need that much hard disk space. His 20Mb was perfectly adequate ! >> >> At the same time, I also paid the best part of GBP200 for a new-fangled >> monochrome printer - a Canon BubbleJet BJ10SX, if I remember rightly. >> >> What frightens me is comparing a 40Mb hard drive with the memory in a >> mid-range smartphone of today. >> >> Best wishes. >> >> Paul > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. You can buy/sell for free on the Genealogical Materials lists. > > This list is for peer-to-peer support and discussion of computer problems incurred in genealogy research. Use caution when following any advice. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- -------- K. Ross kr5927@gmail.com

I appreciate the articles. ". . .By and large, there’s no compelling reason to stick with XP — and, as noted above, there are important reasons not to." http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/securing-xp-pcs-after-microsoft-drops-support/ Yeah right how about cost? My 12 year laptop works just fine, it's cost prohibited to upgrade, I could buy a new one with Windows 8 for what it would could to upgrade my antique. Getting a new one is cost prohibited right now as well. My laptop is not going to just up and stop because of no more updates and since it works well I'm not going to worry about it. J. Asche On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Kevin Ross <krt5927@gmail.com> wrote: > Some links for info on what to do about the Windows XP end of support > date of April 8, 2014... > to > Securing XP PCs after Microsoft drops support > http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/securing-xp-pcs-after-microsoft-drops-support/ > > Microsoft TechNet -- Microsoft antimalware support for Windows XP > Microsoft will continue to provide updates to our antimalware > signatures and engine for Windows XP users through July 14, 2015 > http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/15/microsoft-antimalware-support-for-windows-xp.aspx > http://winsupersite.com/windows-xp/microsoft-extends-anti-malware-support-windows-xp > > Google Offers a Life Line to XP Users: Chrome > An interesting support option for XP users > http://winsupersite.com/windows-xp/google-offers-life-line-xp-users-chrome > > Some good advice here... > http://www.ublog2us.com/secrets/windows-secrets-week-03-2014/ > > However, if you do plan to stick with XP after April, there are some > sensible steps you can take to minimise the risk of getting hacked or > contracting a virus. > > 1) First of all, switch to a browser that is being updated. Browser > problems give hackers one of the biggest backdoors into your Windows > system, so if you switch to a browser such as Firefox or Chrome which > is still being updated for XP, you will minimise your risk. > > 2) Also, you’ll need a virus checker which is updated every day. > Free variants such as AVG or Antivir will do perfectly, but you should > avoid Microsoft Security Essentials, which has been shown to perform > very poorly in recent tests. > > 3) Finally, you need to take care when handling email attachments. > Never open attachments from Spam messages or other sources you don’t > know, and if an email claims to come from someone you know but the > English looks dodgy, they may have been hacked so take care. > > By following these three simple steps, you should have another year of > happy computing with XP in 2014.

Please insure that you follow the steps outlined AND use Firefox or Chrome as your browser, to insure maximum security. You could also try to limit your access the Internet to only when you need to ! I still have an older laptop that runs Windows 98 ! It boots up VERY fast and runs the older programs I have installed perfectly... So, it does the job. I do not connect to the Internet with it, though ! Regards, Kevin. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:40 PM, JLA <jasche45133@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate the articles. > > ". . .By and large, there’s no compelling reason to stick with XP — > and, as noted above, there are important reasons not to." > > http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/securing-xp-pcs-after-microsoft-drops-support/ > > Yeah right how about cost? My 12 year laptop works just fine, it's > cost prohibited to upgrade, I could buy a new one with Windows 8 for > what it would could to upgrade my antique. Getting a new one is cost > prohibited right now as well. > > My laptop is not going to just up and stop because of no more updates > and since it works well I'm not going to worry about it. > > J. Asche > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Kevin Ross <krt5927@gmail.com> wrote: >> Some links for info on what to do about the Windows XP end of support >> date of April 8, 2014... >> to >> Securing XP PCs after Microsoft drops support >> http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/securing-xp-pcs-after-microsoft-drops-support/ >> >> Microsoft TechNet -- Microsoft antimalware support for Windows XP >> Microsoft will continue to provide updates to our antimalware >> signatures and engine for Windows XP users through July 14, 2015 >> http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/15/microsoft-antimalware-support-for-windows-xp.aspx >> http://winsupersite.com/windows-xp/microsoft-extends-anti-malware-support-windows-xp >> >> Google Offers a Life Line to XP Users: Chrome >> An interesting support option for XP users >> http://winsupersite.com/windows-xp/google-offers-life-line-xp-users-chrome >> >> Some good advice here... >> http://www.ublog2us.com/secrets/windows-secrets-week-03-2014/ >> >> However, if you do plan to stick with XP after April, there are some >> sensible steps you can take to minimise the risk of getting hacked or >> contracting a virus. >> >> 1) First of all, switch to a browser that is being updated. Browser >> problems give hackers one of the biggest backdoors into your Windows >> system, so if you switch to a browser such as Firefox or Chrome which >> is still being updated for XP, you will minimise your risk. >> >> 2) Also, you’ll need a virus checker which is updated every day. >> Free variants such as AVG or Antivir will do perfectly, but you should >> avoid Microsoft Security Essentials, which has been shown to perform >> very poorly in recent tests. >> >> 3) Finally, you need to take care when handling email attachments. >> Never open attachments from Spam messages or other sources you don’t >> know, and if an email claims to come from someone you know but the >> English looks dodgy, they may have been hacked so take care. >> >> By following these three simple steps, you should have another year of >> happy computing with XP in 2014. > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. You can buy/sell for free on the Genealogical Materials lists. > > This list is for peer-to-peer support and discussion of computer problems incurred in genealogy research. Use caution when following any advice. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- -------- K. Ross kr5927@gmail.com