IT... Computing....

[Reese Riverson]

That's correct, and when I force it off and back on again, things behave like nothing ever happened, until it just happens again at any given time. Be it in an hour, a few hours, or a week or so.



I just realized too, the one thing I forgot to copy off that machine... my fonts.

Also, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I find myself missing Windows 10 already...

[Hunchman801]

I miss Windows XP.

[dr_st]

I miss Windows XP.

Why miss it? I still have Windows XP on 3 laptops in my house, and a couple of systems at my parents' place. All of them are used very infrequently, and mostly just to test some old Windows games.

[Hunchman801]

Are they connected to the internet though?

[dr_st]

Are they connected to the internet though?

Well. Most of them are laptops that most of the time are not connected to anything, not even power.
Those that are connected to power are off 95% (in some cases 99%) of the time.
When they are on - they automatically connect to my LAN, so yes, they have internet access from behind the router.
They are also mostly patched to SP3 and beyond.
I feel there are no genuine security issues in this setup. It is not like these computers are running servers.

However...
It seems that 50%+ of the modern web is other not functioning well on old XP-compatible browsers, or is simply too heavy to run at adequate speed on these old systems. The newest of them is a Core 2 Duo 2GHz laptop. The rest are single-core Pentium M / Pentium 4 PCs.