Glad I'm not one of your contacts, VegasEddy. And if I lived in a small town unsuitable for major begging, I'd beg just bus fare and lunch money, then get a bus to a bigger town to beg. If I couldn't save up that much money for a secure computer, though making reasonable efort, I'd literally be going out and begging for the money. The above also applies to Windows 7, with risks increasing as every month goes by. Much cheaper in the long run, your bank accounts won't get hacked (unless you're clueless in other ways), and your friends won't hate you for life for making zero effort to run a secure system and eventually having a virus on your computer email viruses and phishing scams to them. Or you could do what wiser people do, bite the bullet and buy a new computer with Windows 10 for around $200-250 U.S. Expect multiple disastrous infections damaging to the computer systems of yourself and others. If you use an email program (client), expect it to get infected and email viruses to all your contacts.
If you use your XP system for online banking, expect your account to be hacked and all your money taken.
And Windows 7 is also no longer patched for free as of January this year. Peronally, I have some legacy XP systems for running old third party software, but wouldn't even think about using an XP system for my main internet-facing system. It's even hard these days to find a realtime antivirus for XP that still has definitions updated and doesn't have a zillion nag popups. By now it has many security holes which no security software (antivirus, firewall) will protect you against. Supported browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or 8 Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or 3.6Īdobe reader 11.0.XP hasn't been patched by Microsoft for many years.
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home, Professional, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 3 (32 bit) or Service Pack 2 (64 bit) Windows Server? 2003 (with Service Pack 2 for 64 bit Windows Server? 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows Vista? Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 2 (32 bit and 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise (32 bit and 64 bit).Processor: Intel® 1.3GHz or faster processor.