[Elecraft] WinXP - SP3 ... too late!

[Edward R Cole]

Essentially, what we did, so manual upgrade is still possible.  But 
this experience has me wondering if they will continue to have this 
available after support is pulled?  I am going to attempt to download 
the files to a flashdrive so I will not be  relying on MS.com in the 
future.  I plan to keep my 2.33 GHz P4 duo-core desktop for running 
my station as my special accessories for eme do not have drivers for win7/8.

At some future date I will likely pull internet connection and run 
this computer off-line.  For my eme sw to operate, I will have to 
install a GPS accurate-time standard to control computer 
time.  Currently this comes on-line with D4.

I suspect the two XP computers I just rebuilt will get sold as they 
are surplus in our home.  My wife just bought a 17-inch DELL Inspiron 
i7 laptop with win7 installed, so doubtful she will continue using 
the old desktop. Guessing the hamfest will get a couple cheap 
computer deals!  I also have a P90-win95 IBM Thinkpad that I am 
holding onto for legacy sw running (Packet & CW keyboard) and have a 
PacBel P100 win-95 desktop which may also get sold at the 
hamfest.  Looks like spring cleaning has started :-)

In my case, I have a 2009 Dell laptop with win8.0pro installed in 
January.  I previously had Vista.  I can imagine it will slowly 
become my connected computer.  I have the two side-by-side for 
running multiple windows when doing eme.  I have a KSM switch to 
share keyboard and mouse between them.

Thanks to all who wrote with solutions!
Ed - KL7UW
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It?s not too late...
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I just finished rebuilding an XP machine from scratch (reformatted 
hard drive) and also had only an XP SP2 CD. IE 6.0 (as contained on 
the CD) would not update to IE 8, nor would the service patches apply 
because ?Windows Update? is no longer supported. ?Microsoft Update? 
is the new method, but could not get it to install either. Finally 
found all the updates on Microsoft?s website, but it?s a manual 
effort. Going from XP SP2, first update to SP3 via a download of SP3. 
That gets you IE 8, but in order to update to ?Microsoft Update? 
there is a security patch that has to be applied first. Once that is 
applied, then there are 132 updates that come automatically after you 
enable ?automatic updates?.

Worked for me. My old Dell P4 is running an updated XP just fine.

73, Charles, K4ZRJ

73, Ed - KL7UW
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