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    You can also use the tool called autoruns. There you can easy find the startup entries and services in one place.
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    I preffer DRM free. No hassle there.
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    The AC adapter should be easy to find on ebay. My father had one of the newer ones that came with Windows 7. But as soon as the internet ditched Flash for html5 browsing the web with it was slow and it would get really hot. I put an SSD and installed Q4os on it with the skin that looked just like XP. With that Linux distro the sytem was actually very responsive and it was usable. It can be found here in case anyone is interested: https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/ It's not a perfect OS any means. It would work perfect for that laptop but for my desktop it wasn't so great. Just try it and see if it's compatible with your hardware. I think if it worked on my fathers laptop it would work with any netbook since they all had the same specs.
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    I always heard that there was some sort of emulation going on if you partition a native 4K hard drive in XP. And that it would work but at lower performance if it was not correctly aligned. Obviously if you buy an external HDD today it will come correctly aligned and work fine on XP. But if for whatever reason you need to partition the hard drive again you should do it on Windows 7 and then use the drive on XP normally. At first when 4k native alignment was new there were all sorts of software that would check if the drive was correctly aligned. Even HDD manufacturers provided free software for that. All that was done for using the drive on XP. I remember using Acronis from WD just to check if they were correctly aligned. If you partition a 4k drive on XP it won't be correctly aligned and you would lose performance. I just remember reading about that constantly when 4K alignment was new.
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    As far as I know even external ones couldn't be read because XP 32 bit couldn't handle partitions bigger than 3TB. Or at least that's what I kept hearing back in 2009 or something.
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    You didn't understand my post. It's been said many times that XP 32 bit can't read HDDs that are bigger than 3TB and you have to patch the OS or something as a workaround. I'm stating that XP 64 doesn't have that issue. Second thing I said is this. If the partition is made on Windows 7 or newer it's already aligned in 4K sector. There's no conversion involved when you use that drive on XP. The difference is this. You shouldn't partition the drive using XP because then you will end up with 512k sectors. And yes the drive will work. But there will be performance loss because of the conversion on the fly. Sorry I wasn't clear enough.
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    I have 2 4TB external hard drives and they work fine on XP 64. Didn't have to do anything. They just work. Edit: I saw people here talking about 512k and 4k sectors. The thing is this. If you format the drive on Windows 7 or newer the drive will have the 4k alignment as it should by factory. After that, when you plug the drive on XP it will stay that way and it will work without the performance drop you would get if you try to align them to 512 for XP compatibility.
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    XP and new CPU

    tekkaman replied to Asp's topic in Windows XP

    Upgrading the CPU just will just work. In 2021 I upgraded from an AMD Phenom II X4 905e to an AMD FX-8320E. So I went from 4 cores to 8 cores. Windows XP recognized it just fine without reinstalling Windows. You can see all the threads in the Task manager.
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    Well I had a problem years ago where I tried using aswclear. It did remove it. However after I remove it many programs failed to start because of missing files or dlls. I don't know how that happened. Another thing about Avast is that it doesn't have any cleaning function at all for the infected files it finds. Unless you had the vrdb ready then you were screwed. One time I was servicing a computer and I let it scan at boot. And I it deleted Internet Explorer completely because it couldn't clean it.
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    As mentioned before. Avast can be really difficult to remove. And it can sometimes even leave a system crippled after removal. I prefer to just reinstall Windows at that point.
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    From what I've seen, when there are no drives to choose from during Setup it could mean you need to load the ACHI drivers. If you load them, the hard drive should appear. Or you can check if your laptop supports IDE mode for hard drives. Usually when a laptop doesn't support other older OS it won't boot the setup disk at all. Giving you acpi errors or something. If the setup does launch, it's most probably that you need to load the achi driver.
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    There is one other thing I wanted to mention. It's about document compatibility. I have old OpenOffice documents that were made before Oracle acquired it. I don't remember if it was 3.0 or something. Those documents either don't open or don't look good in any recent OpenOffice or LibreOffice. So be careful while upgrading.
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    I always found LibreOffice to be unstable. OpenOffice is better.
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    Dude I read that link. You're only strict sometimes. Anyway, what I wanted to know is from people that actually have that installed in their systems. Since I never heard of this application before. Things like this: 1- Does it run in the background all the time ? Or can you end the process? 2- Do you have to run it before installing before installing Panda ? 3- Does it affect performance in any way ? Sorry I wasn't more specific.
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    Actually Panda didn't work on Windows 7 32 bit for me either. Errors with dot net as well. Anyways you mentioned you got it working on XP64 by installing application verifier and dot net 4. I never heard of this application verifier. What does it do ?
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    It's logic. All of them do. Even Windows does it. Windows reports to NSA and everyone here uses it without complaining. But NSA are the good guys right? It's just the equivalent to the Russian intelligence but American version. https://www.denverpost.com/2013/07/11/microsoft-gave-nsa-access-to-user-information-guardian-reports/
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    Same way every antivirus reports users data to their home. Please stop with the politics.
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    Actually the computer I was trying to install Panda was Windows 7 32 bit. And it would download net framework 4 but fail to install all the time. However I downloaded net framework offline redist from MS website and the framework installed without errors. But Panda Setup wouldn't work anyway. I installed 360 Total Security instead. No issues at all there. My main OS is XP 64 though. And it seems Panda doesn't work there. I wonder how many AVs do work on XP 64. In the past I was using Eset 5. And with a trick I managed to keep the definitions up to date even after support for XP ended. All the way to april 2022. Now it can't get definitions at all. Eset however is now forcing users to keep more recent versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 or else it says it can't get updates because Azure compatibility.
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    You have to leave all of the versions for better compatibility with all software. Let's say you have a program that runs on .net 2.0. Even if you have 4.0 it will keep asking to get 2.0. Same thing with Visual C Redistributables. It's best to have all versions. If you have XP64 like I do you need both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of them as well if they're available. Of both .net and visual C.
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    I know that. I just wanted to know if the problem was present in XP as well. Which is what I clearly asked and NotHereToPlayGames confirmed it works.
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    Has anyone tried Panda recently ? I tried it on a Windows 7 computer and it wanted me to install netframework version 4. It said that setup would download and install automatically but it always fails. I installed netframework 4 manually with the offline redist and the framework installed fine but Panda setup still wouldn't work. I don't know if this problem happens with XP as well. I know that netframework 4 is the last version that XP supports but it's not even in the requirements in the Panda website.
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    Thanks for the tutorial. I think that it was also possible to make a bootable XP 64 with diskpart from Windows 7 and it works as well. I haven't had the need to do it so much because I have an external Blu ray drive but I think the process was easier. I don't remember ever needing a USB driver to be able to run setup. But maybe it's because my motherboard is newer. Anyways it's been so long since I had the need to do it. My XP 64 install was from 2017 and I haven't needed to reinstall Windows since then. All I know is that there was an easier process to install. Just don't remember exactly what it was. If I have time I'll check it out. By the way. You're right about the Sata-Achci drivers. I just included them With Nlite.
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    I second that. Been using XP 64 for years. The process for making USB bootable in XP 64 is the same as XP 32. Driver support was bad at first like it was for Vista 64 at first. You had to throw out printers and scanners that just didn't want to make a 64 bit driver. But after the 64 bit adoption period ended XP 64 has more or less the same driver support as 32bit. Sure if you use hardware from 2001 it might not have 64 bit drivers. But my motherboard from 2014 has all the drivers for XP 64 bit. I can vouch that XP 64 is even more stable than 32 bit because it's based of the Server version. It simply never crashes. Tutorial here:
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    Another thing about 360 Total Security is that you should install the offline engine as well because the cloud engine doesn't detect Eicar to check if the realtime protection is working.
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    You know I always wondered why Wilders Security Forums don't allow posts of This Antivirus Vs this Antivirus. After what I see here, now I know why. It leads to nonstop bickering. We have to allow people to make their own choices. You can't force people to like your favorite antivirus. All we can do as I said before, is list all antiviruses that work with XP. And let people decide whatever they want to use. In the end you test and decide what you want to use. Years ago I used to use Rising antivirus. It didn't do well in tests. But I liked it because it had a very easy to configure HIPS. You could set it to block programs from being added to startup and prevent any Browser Helper Object from being added and Prevent homepage from being changed among other stuff.. That alone helped me a lot. I used it myself and I put it on some of my clients computers. My clients were happy with it. I didn't let the thought of "If it's from China is bad" cloud my judgement. I just tested it and see if it worked. I would send malware samples to them and they were added quickly. I used it until they discontinue the english version. In conclusion test for yourself. Don't let anyone, not even a magazine review tell you what to use. After all, opinions can be bought. You have to test for yourself and make an informed decision.
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