Windows XP Users

[Mike]

Lately my 2 xp computers have been really slow using ie 8. I noticed an update and reboot happened within the last day or two. Damn what a difference. IE 8 is finally just as fast on this 6 year old computer as it is on the new Windows 7 computer. (knock on wood)

After some research of the recent update, it supposedly had nothing to with performance, but was an emergency security patch. Hackers were having a field with a newly discovered flaw in the desktop icons. I don't think that was my problem, being that the problem has existed since around the time ie 7 or 8 came out.

Anyone else see an improvement on their XP machine? Anybody still have xp? :mrgreen:

[formgen]

Lately my 2 xp computers have been really slow using ie 8. I noticed an update and reboot happened within the last day or two. Damn what a difference. IE 8 is finally just as fast on this 6 year old computer as it is on the new Windows 7 computer. (knock on wood)

After some research of the recent update, it supposedly had nothing to with performance, but was an emergency security patch. Hackers were having a field with a newly discovered flaw in the desktop icons. I don't think that was my problem, being that the problem has existed since around the time ie 7 or 8 came out.

Anyone else see an improvement on their XP machine? Anybody still have xp? :mrgreen:

cant believe theres still xp users out there, windows 7 is so much faster and more stable then xp or vista, plus it can be found out on the internets for free via a torrent site or two.

[MonteC]

Still running XP here. But i use firefox. If it aint broke, dont fix it.

[snakeplissken]

Still running XP here. But i use firefox. If it aint broke, dont fix it.

Same here.

[Silver-Dollar]

XP is still strong in the business world. It was the platform for the longest time. A lot of money tied up in it and a lot of money to convert deskstops, software, and training. XP will be around for a while.

[Illusions]

I have one XP machine at home, one windows 7 ans a vista 64 machine. the xp one runs my cutting software. I haven't tried running it on a win 7 machine yet. I also run Firefox

[LXtasy]

firework here. and i converted my pc in the garage to vista. laptop is also vista. i havent tried 7 yet.

[Matts94Z28]

IE makes my vista slow as balls. I switched to firefox and haven't had any issues. Google Chrome is also an alternative. Chrome is faster than my firefox, but I just don't like to use it.

[LadyInRed]

I have Windows 7 on my laptop, love it. XP still works great on the desktop. Use Firefox on both. Glad I didn't get stuck with Vista :lol:

[Mike]

cant believe theres still xp users out there, windows 7 is so much faster and more stable then xp or vista, plus it can be found out on the internets for free via a torrent site or two.

My XP machines have less than a gig of ram. Windows 7 loves ram, so I doubt I would see any performance increase going to 7 for what I use the machines for. I don't know what Microsoft did, but I can tell you the 2 old machines are now blazing fast. Just as fast as this newer multi core Windows 7 machine I use. I mean I had clean installs of XP that aren't as fast as these are now. No idea what happend, but I'm thankful for it. I was considering upgrading the old machines, now I don't have to worry about it. :ty:

[04ctd]

i think 2 gig is min for a XP box.

i had 1, went to 2, big upgrade.

went to 4 gig of ram (3.43 by control panel) and no real diff for surfing net and looking at cars/bikes/trucks/donks

[Derek]

Does any body else have flash player issues with firefox and windows 7? choppy playback. Try it in ie it runs fine. had this issue on multiple machines.