What do I do when Windows XP ends?

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

ESXi uses its own kernel. It has a ton of similarities to RHEL, etc, but uses its own kernel and has a very small selection of libraries available. Any exploit would need to be compiled specifically for ESXi.

Ah, it was ESX (no i) that used the RHEL userspace and Linux 2.4 kernel.

Something that does all that would be absolutely state of the art and likely way beyond my capability to analyse anyway. I'm not going to be downloading mysterious malware to test but recognised Windows PE only samples

Not something I'd expect to see outside of an academic proof of concept tbh, way too niche a target.


... Actually now that I think about it, maybe not. VMWare has a sizeable share in the enterprise virtualization market and compromising host machines could present a particularly juicy target.

[Halcyon]

I would move to Windows 7.

I stuck with XP for a long while whilst the messed up Vista OS was out. Never wanted Vista on my machine.
Then Microsoft finally created a decent OS and Windows 7 is not as memory hungry and runs well. I now use Windows7 as my stable OS to install.

You may find also that manufacturers of hardware will have developped updated drivers for some of your hardware that now needs a better OS to run on.

[qasdfdsaq]

Windows 7 is really just as memory hungry as Vista. You just don't notice because hardware got faster and memory got cheaper in the meantime.

Win 7 is equally horrific to try and run on 1GB of RAM as Vista was, both require 2GB as a minimum and ideally 4GB or more.

That said business versions of W7 include XP Mode which gives you an option to run a lot of older and incompatible software, but I expect that'd also be going out of support now that XP itself is.

[Graham M]

Vista didn't really run well even if you did have good hardware, I've upgraded a lot of people from Vista to 7/8 and the difference is very noticeable!

[qasdfdsaq]

I disagree. Vista ran perfectly fine on my machines and the various technological advancements it incorporated meant a number of tasks were an order of magnitude faster than XP. When Windows 7 came along it improved reliability and useability, but there certainly was nowhere near the speedup I experienced going from XP to Vista. Not to mention Vista improved my laptop battery life by about 40%, while 7 made no difference (since everything there was to improve was already incorporated in Vista)

[Qtx]

Windows Embedded POSReady is a windows xp version for point-of-sale machines which will get microsoft support and updates until 2019. So with a registry hack in your normal windows XP you can make Microsoft think you have the Embedded POSReady version and continue to get security updates.

Create the following registry entry and data:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady]
"Installed"=dword:00000001

The easiest way to do this is to copy and paste the above in to a notepad file and save it as "something.reg", then double click on the newly created file and agree to let it enter the change in to the registry. After that Windows Action Centre/Windows update should show patches for the next 5 years. I doubt it will 100% keep XP secure but it's the best option for those not upgrading their XP copy.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Qtx

Windows Embedded POSReady is a windows xp version for point-of-sale machines which will get microsoft support and updates until 2019. So with a registry hack in your normal windows XP you can make Microsoft think you have the Embedded POSReady version and continue to get security updates.

Create the following registry entry and data:



The easiest way to do this is to copy and paste the above in to a notepad file and save it as "something.reg", then double click on the newly created file and agree to let it enter the change in to the registry. After that Windows Action Centre/Windows update should show patches for the next 5 years. I doubt it will 100% keep XP secure but it's the best option for those not upgrading their XP copy.

Good post

[-Chris]

Come in to 2014 and get Windows 7...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Wi...ords=windows+7

or you can get it cheaper still second hand on eBay (about £30 usually incl shipping).

[Hom3r]

Try running Windows 98, that last saw an update in 1998.

As there is no CD for some software that is on it, and the guy who owned it died 2 years ago.