Of course I noticed.
It was right before I installed a new OS.
Yeah, wouldn’t installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would “turn off [OS] for the last time”?
Leave OP be, they just yeet their machine outta window and buy a new one.
Why do you think MS advises to do that for Win 10?
You make a compelling point.
Not for me. I have no idea when I last shut off an xp machine. My first free computer came with 98se, and my first purchased PC had windows 7 installed. At some point, I shut off an xp machine, either for school or at the library or whatever, and I have no idea when that was.
For me it’s playing around with an old machine years later.
Oh I definitely knew. I swore off that system after I spent hours repairing a rootkit on my families multiple computers only for it to happen again a week later.
I moved to Unix and only run a bare bones 11 install for games which is almost not even necessary anymore
I absolutely noticed, I was holding a Win 7 install disk with my other hand, how would this come as a surprise?
Or it was the day my old ass laptop broke.
6/12/2007. Never forget.o7
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Dad??
Yes my child?
Who the hell are you?
You aren’t my dad that’s for certain
Is that any way to speak to your father?
What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.
ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.
That day, for me, is in the far future.
Healthcare, banking, or military?
Auto manufacturing.
Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
Aero my beloved
I will always miss it. I love the glass aesthetic. It never went out of style in my head.
If only because it was the last windows to have the windows classic theme.
Yes, but this is Win XP not Win 7. Edit: I suppose there backups could have had both 7 and XP.
Some old VMs, not one. Had 95,98SE,XP, 7, and 8.1. Also found NT install disks.
One day you released the latch on your 5-1/4 floppy drive and removed the Prince of Persia diskette for the last time and didn’t realise.
What have you done, a cruel person. Also, take my upvote
Oh, I noticed.
MFW I use Windows ME
It was a Compaq…and I threw it down a flight of stairs. True story. I was also a frustrated teenager at the same time so this makes sense
All I wanted was to play DosBOX and the fucker froze and that was it…
…bastard still ran after that shockingly enough
I work in a manufacturing automation world. I still use xp.
Yup, I use a million dollar system that runs on XP. We updated the computer last year. They sent us a PC that dual boots XP and Win10. Win10 so it can connect to the internet and pull updates. XP so it can run the control program, which is written in Flash.
I took courses in actionscript 😂😥😥😂😂
Flash
Diabolical
ActionScript ? or is Flash something else ?
One of our Scanning Electron Microscopes runs Win7. Not great, it’s not allowed on the network because of this.
Oh yeah, I swear that two years ago Southwest had a total crash of their systems because they still had NT4 machines.
speak for yourself. I still use XP.
Unfortunately I do too. I work in a lotto office. The lotto machines are over 20 years old and run XP Embedded. Thankfully the computers where we do most of the actual work have modern CPUs and NVMEs running a modern OS.
I hope it is a Virtual Machine? 😮
it’s a physical device. running on an old AMD Athlon X2 64 939.
I use it to play old retro games on. it is connected to the internet but browsers don’t really work on it anymore. Usually I find the old web root or ftp sites on my main and download them directly in xp.
edit: I forgot about the XP desktop I made my kid too. not connected to the internet, but is connected to the lan. it’s in storage right now, which is why I forgot about it.
hospital, not unlikely
I noticed. This was around 2008-2010. I had a dinosaur of a machine sitting around and wanted to see what would happen if I connected XP to “the modern web.”
I did a complete wipe and reinstall, installed either SP2 or SP3, whatever the last version was. Ensured that I had the latest drivers for all the hardware, and connected the Ethernet cable.
Result: Complete system lockdown in less than 5 seconds due to being taken over by bots. The system was unable to reboot on that particular install of XP. I reinstalled XP, got it functioning again, wrapped the computer in an anti static bag, and put it in my storage unit, knowing I would likely never touch the machine again.
I know this might be cliche but you could try putting Linux on it. We have old laptot that can’t really run windows anymore but Linux runs fine on it.
Just switched my win10 laptop to opensuse tumbleweed (trying it out) and didn’t realized how accustomed i was to the slowness of boot, opening programs, lagging, etc
The last time I turned off XP was a few months ago when I replaced it with Linux Mint on a PC I use to play old games in my room (because I wanted to play old MMOs and that required internet access, which XP would not have been safe for.)
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
“It’s all safe now… sweet dreams, old friend”
Yeah, I remember that I left Empire: Total War open for a few hours and it smelted my video card.
Next PC came with Vista and I loved it
Ewww, Vista.
That’s like stepping in something nasty
Vista was good, actually.
Like fuck aero but it was glanced, the chess, the useless performance metric, the ugliness and the final straw before switching to Linux
It happened when Battlefield Bad Company 2 released. XP couldn’t support it so I had to bite the bullet and switch over to Windows 7. At least I held out long enough to avoid Vista. Incidentally that was also the first and last game I bought for EA’s shitty Origin launcher.
Good news, origin is dead! And the replacement is… worse?
to the surprise of absolutely no one
