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Well, they can if they would like to. Otherwise they can just delete these entries bit by bit as other Windows version will expire.
Up to them.
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Just sometimes. My daily OS is Windows XP Professional for "relax" and Windows 7 Enterprise for work-related stuff, while my favourite server OS is Windows Server 2008 r2 'cause it's a way easier to set up a failover clustering solution than with the 2003 edition.
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@sd73 and Roffen...
Start, run, regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CURRENT CONTROL SET, CONTROL: Windows Embedded.
Click with the right and delete.
Reboot and everything will be back.
As to other people who need to install all the POSReady updates from scratch, save this text in a txt, change the extention to .reg and apply it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00;Windows XP Embedded SP3 (Support ended 12/01/2016);[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\ProductVersion]"FeaturePackVersion"="SP3";[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\ProductVersion]"ProductVersion"="0x00000000";Windows Embedded for point of Service (Support ends 12/04/2016)[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WEPOS]"Installed"=dword:00000000;Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (Support ends 08/01/2019)[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WES]"Installed"=dword:00000000;Windows Embedded PosReady 2009 (Support ends 12/04/2019)[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady]"Installed"=dword:00000001
As you can see, I added a few comment lines.
We had to modify the registry key 'cause Windows XP Embedded SP3 support ended.
Windows Embedded for point of Service is gonna be the next one (Support ends 12/04/2016), so we will have to delete [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WEPOS].
After that, we will be fine 'till 2019, when Windows Embedded Standard 2009 support will end (08/01/2019) and we will have to delete [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WES].
The very last one, Windows Embedded PosReady 2009, will expire a bit later (12/04/2019) and that will be the end of Windows XP Support.
Good night.
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@jaclaz... JodyT
I still remember running XP smoothly with 128 MB of RAM and an old monocore. To be fair, I never really used 2000, 'cause I moved from 98 to Windows XP; that may be the reason why I appreciated it so much. (And, by the way, I used to run 98 with as little as 64 MB of RAM. Anyway, XP was a pretty fine OS when it came out, but SP2 brought a lot of stuff. Still, if we take a fresh XP SP2 install, it's able to run in just 256 MB of RAM. As to the SP3, instead, it uses quite more RAM, but it's still light compared to Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1. I like XP because it's the right "compromise" between "nice" and "practice". I mean, it's fine for eyes, with a minimal GUI (without animations I mean) and light (such a GUI doesn't use much resources). When they introduced Vista, it brought a new heavy GUI, with the sidebar, so heavy for stuff like the weather etc running in background every single time. As to Windows 7, it's basically Vista without bugs and with other improvements, but it's one of my favourite OS, together with Windows Server 2008 R2, which introduced some big changes over its former rival Windows Server 2003. For instance, it was easier to set up a failover clustering solution, 'cause having two identical machines wasn't mandatory anymore. When 8 came out, instead, they released Metro. While the idea of running apps meant for tablet in a desktop OS was great, what wasn't great at all was the concept behind Metro itself. I mean, an UI that runs in background together with the OS that has the same GUI of Windows 7 while using the Desktop window? No way. It was (and still is) a pain for the RAM. Windows 8.1 was just an upgrade with some bugfix of the former OS.
These are just my thoughts, you are all free to agree or disagree. Have your say!
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This is gonna be a remarkable OS 'till the end of its days (2019 perhaps?).
We are all fighting for Windows XP and we'll keep supporting this wonderful and light OS!!
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That's absolutely great!
I look forward to see the final result.
By the way, while you're doing it, can you keep us updated? I would really like to know how you are going to port/customise certain dependencies.
Anyway, this is a really good project.
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Still weird, though.
I mean, as they said, if you truly are a developer and if you truly are doing something like that, you must know how to handle certain things. Anyway, I still don't get why someone should have tried to fool us, but still what he did was awkward. I'm a computer science engineer myself (telecommunication area, though) and I should have known it from the very beginning, but we were all too happy to see "the truth behind the lie". That said, I would be happy if he will come back here and prove that he was right, but I don't see that happening.
When I have time (and he has time), I would like to talk with blackwingcat instead. AFAIK he developed/ported some stuff in Windows 2000. Even if Windows 5.x kernels are very close to each other, I think it could be a good starting point in order to learn something.
P.s if we look at the bright side, we still have semi-official Microsoft updates 'till 2019, root certificates update, SP4 updated 'till January 2016, a way to unlock PAE up to 64 GB of RAM and Directx 10 ported and working.
I mean, it's not that bad and these are a lot of things, isn't it? :')
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Log into your router and look for the network diagnose. It will show you the signal strength (with its noise level) as well as the speed, so you'll find out whether it's an ISP problem or not.
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I removed .net 1.0 SP3 and that, indeed, solved the error in Windows Update, but now when I try to perform a fresh install it says that it's not possible to install .net 1.0 SP3 'cause is not compatible with the version already installed (which is none, except for the new ones). I think I'll need to uninstall all the other .net frameworks and then re-install them all from scratch...
I'll keep you updated.
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FranceBB is just France (my name - Francesco) and B is the first letter of my surname. If you Google FranceBB OPF-Italia you will find out that I used to be an important fansubber in the Italian fansub world and that I'm no longer a fansubber.
Anyway I don't wanna go off topic any further
Thank you Dencorso for your help; I'm gonna uninstall and re-install it tomorrow!
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Thank you for that.
I'm gonna do that and I'll let you know asap.
Besides, I would like to keep .net 1 due to compatibility with a few old programs.
Off topic
As to the country, I'm in Italy on a temporary basis since I live in Elgin Mews (Notting Hill, London). It's a lovely place, pretty close to Hyde Park. I'm Italian, though, so I use to go back to Italy quite often; you know, family etc so you will see my ip change quite often. Anyway, if you want I can change the flag, I mean, it's not a big deal. Up to you.
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Agorima, I'm gonna try that way and I'll let you know.
Acheron, building a new SP4 for localised versions would be amazing. I hope Harkaz will tell us how he made his own SP4
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I have to apologize for the horrible topic title in the first place, but I seriously wasn't able to think about anything else rather than this. Sorry xD
Ok, then, I have a few questions about XP, language packs and Service Packs.
I have a localised version of Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 installed, but, since I have an Italian version (blame on me, I know), I can't install Service Pack 4, which is not exactly a big deal, but still...
Anyway, I successfully installed updates post EoL and everything run smoothly.
Unfortunatley, my OS is in Italian and I tried to change the language times ago via International Options, but it didn't work (of course), it just installed the U.K keyboard since I don't have an international English version with the Italian language pack installed, but just an Italian version. Then, I tried to install the official multilanguage pack, but it didn't work for the same reason. As to the updates, I know that in Windows XP all the updates are localised etc, so Windows Updates is downloading updates in Italian every single time.
In a nutshell, my question is: is there a way to change the OS version without installing it from scratch? Besides, is there a way to install a kind of localised version of Service Pack 4?
Thank you in advance.
p.s almost forget, a question totally unlinked to this topic, what's the difference between XP and XP MCE? I mean, I read the Wikipedia page and, as long as I know, there should be the change to install a sort of MCE patch in Windows XP Professional in order to include MCE functions in that; is that correct?
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Hi,
I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 3 plus all the updates post end of support (WEPOS and POSReady 2009), root certificates updates and I have a modified kernel made from Windows Server 2003 x86 in order to have PAE unlock as well. When I open Windows Updates, it keeps finding two updates and tries to install them but they both fail to install every single time. I tried to install them using Windows Setup and using the shut down function (I mean, when user is logged off) but none of them worked. I tried to disable and create from scratch the update folder created by Windows, but it didn't solve the problem. These updates are (KB928367) and .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3.
The funny thing is that I have all the .NET Framework already installed and I don't even think I need these updates:
.NET Frameworks installed
v4.0 Full
v4.0 Client
v3.5 SP1
v3.0 SP2
v2.0 SP2
v1.1 SP1
v1.0 SP3So... yep, that's about it. Any sugestion?
Thank you in advance.
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Updated again; no problem so far
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Yep. But again, this is a really bad decision made by Google chrome.
There are plenty computers still around with XP...!
I wonder if, compiling chrome from chromium source codes ourselves will still work in making it running on Windows XP.
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Well, newer .net frameworks would be amazing since the last supported by XP is 4.0.
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Same here!
I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 3 32bit (PAE, unlocked kernel 36bit), avast premiere, avast firewall and... well... an SSHD!
I run regular scans and I have the POS Ready updates.
I never had to format since 2002 and I just cloned several times my Windows XP to change my computers.
This exact copy of XP "lived" inside different hard drives, going from PATA to SATA and together with an old Sempron, then several Athlon single core, then an Athlon dual core, then a laptop, then a Phenom II X6, and now it's in an old netbook 'cause I have to move frequently between IT, DE and U.K.
I actually have two backup copies of this OS and I proudly consider it my "baby" :')
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How about manually porting the new .net framework into xp as well as they did with dx10?
It would be really helpful.
dx10 was never ported nor XP has ability to use it
FYI I found this, made a few researches, and it worked: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174666-get-directx-1011-in-windows-xp/
Anyway, it would be nice to have other .net frameworks.
As to the updates installed this week, everything is fine.
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Installing now.
Thank you for the update!
How about manually porting the new .net framework into xp as well as they did with dx10?
It would be really helpful.
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20 Facts About Windows XP
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Windows XP, the best OS Microsoft ever made. Light, essential, reliable.
P.s: fact 21) Do you know that XP has been installed by BT (British Telecom) in their public landline phones?