Tech Advice for Windows Needed Please

[Sheep]

4 hours ago, Pabo said:

I still use Classic Shell on my work laptop. I'm staying with Win10 until it is absolutely necessary, and by then, I will probably have a new laptop then.

 

I still use a Dell E6520 Win7 at work, as it still has a software that a client uses and we no longer have the intallation disk. What OS is the client still using? Win XP!

Not that this is a competition... (), but I still have a desktop computer with Windows 98 on it!!! I still run an old program on it that won't work on anything new. And... uh... yeah... I also have an old laptop lying around with Windows 7.

 

(No Internet on either of them...)

Edited yesterday at 12:09 AM by Sheep

[Qapla]

Yes, I still have a computer that runs a photobooth that runs on Windows 7 - I won't let it update so the already installed photobooth software won't quit working.

[Pabo]

21 hours ago, Myew said:

I wouldn't recommend connecting any device before Windows 10 to the internet at this point. XP is extremely vulnerable to remote exploits. Old government/utility services get hacked all the time.

 

My old Win7 laptop is still connected to the internet. No issues with it. Also it have a very good security and vpn as well.

[Myew]

Aside from ransomware, the vast majority of modern exploits don't cause noticeable issues with using the device. It's the ones that you don't know about that you need to worry about. There are hundreds of patches to modern Windows every month - thousands more vulnerabilities and zero days on older systems that go unpatched. Even if you're using something comprehensive on your network like Bitdefender, no amount of antivirus or software suites can fix core issues with operating systems. In most cases, it's a major risk without benefits.

Edited 11 hours ago by Myew

[jwhess]

I moved into town about 4 years ago.  Before I left the rurals, I had an old IBM XT (8086-type) with a 40 meg MFM hard drive that ran MS-DOS 5.0 and Win 3.1

I liked it and had several games on 5 1/4" floppy disks that I liked playing (Lemmings, Oil Well. etc)

It went in the dumpster when I moved...😞

 

I had added a CD-Drive and ran the early 1993 Watchtower Library (Dos). 

And the Watchtower Folios program for the NWT Bible. I still have more than one set of the Folios disks...😀