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The question was not whether XP will work on such a system, as pretty obviously it will, it was whether an existing installation will continue to work if the CPU is changed. or whether I need to reinstall. I'll just have to suck it and see, Patronising posts that just say "Google it" aren't helpful, except make you feel superior.

Just got an Alienware AW510K keyboard. Operates fine under XP as expected, but to customise macros and lighting, you must use their "Alienware Command Center" software, Currently at version 6, oldest version they have is 5, and only for Win 10 x64. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-au/product-support/product/alienware-keyboard-aw510k/drivers Anyone know where to find older versions that might support this hardware on XP? Nothing at oldversion.com.

Well, Safe Mode with networking is pretty safe. There was no internet connection regardless, and you can always physically disconnect to be sure. That made it work for WinXP removing Avast free version at least. It takes a few minutes, as opposed to a few seconds, to boot up quite but compared to wasting hours or hacking the registry, it's pretty painless. Avast work at all with Win XP now? It seemed impossible to register to continue use, The permanent key they publish wasn't accepted by my install, and anyway it couldnt get updates for quite a while. Have now moved to Clam.

Great. I found specific instructions to remove Avast there: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184730-antimalware-firewall-and-other-security-programs-for-windows-xp-working-in-2023-and-hopefully-beyond/?do=findComment&comment=1244949 He has a link to an old version of AvastClear that works on XP. One problem though: it hangs trying to delete a firewall file, which does not exist. I found that rebooting into "Safe mode with networking" let it complete; just "Safe mode" doesn't work. .So now Avast free and will try ClamWin. Thanks.

I just did this, as Avast no longer works at all on XP, or at least my registration expired and seemed impossible to renew it. One issue with removing: it hung at deleting the file aswFW.sys. (which does not exist in the free version.) I found threads in Avast's forum saying they waited a few hours and it finally completed. But after 3 hours i had no progress. I assumed that "aswFW.sys" is a firewall. So I rebooted to "safe mode with networking". Ran avastclear again and now it did complete in a few minutes, rebooted and it did a clean up and now Avast is finally gone.

I have a new Motorola phone running Android 14. I want to transfer files between it and my WinXP PC. My older phone, I just connect it via USB and it appears as a drive. This, the phone pops up asking what USB mode it should use, "File transfer" or "Photo and video transfer". But at the same time, Windows has popped up "Camera detected" and shows a camera in "My computer" and offers to connect it to Photoshop. No change regardless what I choose on the phone. Anyway to get it to be a drive? I did transfer files over wifi using Airdroid, but that is much slower than USB.

I've been using the free version of Avast for about ten years. A few months ago it gave its annual warning that I needed to re-register it. But that didn't work, it just hung. Tried to register at their website, that also went nowhere. So now it's completely non-functional, but still sucking up resources, particularly on booting it takes 50% of the CPU for several minutes. I turned off all shields (which weren't working anyway) and the self protection. There is no obvious way to uninstall it in the program. The Control Panel "Add or remove programs" doesn't do anything. Avast has a program "avastclear.exe" to remove Avast which will not run on WinXP. Is there an older version of that anywhere that does work on XP? Or any other way to excise this program without reinstalling Windows? I did search the forum, but there are 600+ posts mentioning Avast. I skimmed a few dozen without finding anything relevant. But if there are any, please point me to posts that are if you can. And are there any AVs that still work on XP now? The only one I now have is PCTools Threatfire, which being "behaviour based threat scanning" doesn't need signatures. In any case, no viruses the last 10 years I've been running XP.

@Dietmar Sorry, didn't get notified of this reply. The new CPU is 4 cores. So sure it will work, one way or another. Still yet to install it, will advise on the result when I do. Mobo is Intel DH61WW. Current CPU Intel Pentium G2020 New CPU is Intel i5-3570, 3.4GHz 4 core RAM is maxed at 16GB, though Win XP only using 4GB. (Have a disk with Linux Mint to transition eventually.)

Planning on upgrading my CPU from a 2 core to a 4 core one. Are there any settings in XP that need to be changed, or will it just recognise and use the new cores?

I have a PC about 5 years old with a 450W PSU. I've been using the onboard Intel graphics, but concerned that the video socket may be damaged. I have a video card I'd like to try as a backup. I don't want to overstretch the PSU. If it is drawing too much,, how would that show? Just suddenly dead screen? What is a good way to estimate power consumption? Tools like HWmonitor show temperatures and voltages, but not power.

OK, I went with that as I used "original" Palemoon back when it was compatible. Now I can get to sites that were bouncing me. It was a real drag using my tablet to do anything online other than read passively. Thanks for hooking me up.

Haven't tried that yet. Not much point if the hardware didn't recognise it. Currently using MyPal 29.3. When development of that stopped I couldn't work out what the successor if any was, seemed a lot of argument between developers was going on. Now getting glitches at archive.org, Every time they revise the site, something breaks for old browsers. Banking sites reject me, Cloudflare sites tell me to go away. At your link there are plenty of download links, not much explanation of what they are. Where is the discussion? Or which is the most updated Firefox descendant that I could hope to upgrade to?

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Well, I recently checked the BIOS and saw there were several updates since the existing one, so updated. Didn't expect it to affect the RAM issue, as there was no mention of that in the notes on issues solved. But I put it back to give it one last try before I tried to sell it off, and now it works perfectly. The BIOS shows 16GB, and I ran memtest86 and that checked them out 100%. Booting to XP, Windows properties shows it having 3.35GB RAM as before. But CPUZ shows 16 GB and the correct specs. Has been working with no glitches for a day now. So now will try setting up Linux Mint as the primary OS, and run old Windows apps in "Wine bottles". Running XP alone is too restrictive. Every week now I find another website has locked me out because my browser is unsupported.

Well, I bought the RAM but not smooth sailing. I installed both 8GB chips and the BIOS boot screen didn't come up, just black, and beep-beep (which is not documented as a beep code in the manual). I took one stick out and then BIOS seemed OK, showed 8GB RAM, but on booting to XP (32 bit), it lasted about one minute then crashed hard. Same happened if I used just the other stick. Anyway, the motherboard is vintage 2012. Intel DH61WW. According to the spec, it supports up to 16 GB DDR3 RAM, and 1333 MHz. The new RAM is 1600 MHZ (Kingston) , but should be backwards compatible. There are a few revisions to the BIOS I can do though the notes don't mention anything about fixing RAM issues. But not now, since I have work to do and can't risk bricking the PC. Will try a 64 bit OS and see how that works later as well. Can live with 8GB, many new PCs come with that, just annoyed at missing out on the big upgrade. Need to wait on a new PC for that. And Intel are jerks; they've "archived" (taken off their site) all relevant docs, BIOS files and forum posts for these boards. But got them via the Wayback. HP has docs for every printer they've made back to the 80s. Doesn't cost anything to just leave stuff there to help people who bought stuff from them. Intel goes to my "last choice" option now.