![]() And it shows no sign of its age when running Linux. ![]() When it comes to booting up a desktop, I have to say that – just because I have so much confidence in it – it’s the ‘old’ Ubuntu machine that increasingly has preference. I still (perforce) use my laptop most (about 60%) of the time. There’s a lot it won’t do that Windows does – including a whole load of annoyances. I have to say it’s just amazing how often I still boot up that machine. When I bought the Win7 desktop, I wiped the HD on the old one and installed Ubuntu. I still have the old desktop that used to have XP. Have to admit I don’t use XP any more – due more to circumstance than anyhthing else.Ī new desktop 2 years ago brought Win7 with it – which I honestly think is a worthy successor to XP (more than can be said of Vista.) A new laptop a year ago (birthday gift) brought Win8 – which I hated then and I hate now – what a cobbled-together piece of junk that is. Nevertheless, this is better than not installing any security updates. While POSReady 2009 uses the same core, some things are different after all. I recommend highly that you create a backup before you update the system as there is no guarantee that all updates will work properly on XP PCs. If you are running Windows XP and do not want to switch to a new system or cannot, then you may want to try this trick to install security patches designed for the POSReady 2009 operating system on your PC. It involves running a batch file that replaces original update files with temporary ones that bypass the restrictions set in place. If you open the Sebijk site, you will also find instructions on how to get this to work on 64-bit Windows XP systems. ![]() (via Desk Modder and Sebijk)īoth source sites are in German. Navigate to the key listed above and create a new Dword with the value listed there as well.
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