Thanks for the comments, folks. Very enlightening. I'm going to talk to the company that took over Verizon's system (Frontier Communications) and...
I don't see a difference between copper wire and fiber optics if it's the phone company that powers the system and your land-line service survives...
Today was the second time we've run into this problem in a few months and I'd like the group's opinions. A couple of years back, our local...
Doc: I can change from one account to the other through either browser, but the address book associated with each account is the only one I can...
We have two email accounts on Comcast. I access one account through Chrome and the other through IE8. The IE8 account has been active for several...
Evan: By next year, finding W7 might be difficult. My desk-top is a bit marginal for it and some of my other software isn't compatible, but I...
Just leave the bloody thing alone. It doesn't need the perennial updates and it works just fine for most folks that still use it. Don' support it,...
Neil: Do you really think the various hackers will be interested in hacking XP? Surely, that's small potatoes compared to the challenge of trying...
I stopped accepting the MS updates to XP a bit less than two years ago. My take is similar to others on this group, that the bad guys will be so...
Lincoln: Glad to see someone with a similar philosophy. If it's not broke, don't fix it. Perhaps "perfectly" is an overstatement on any MS...
Quit trying! I stopped that stupid update system 2 years ago. My computer runs just fine and anyone trying to hack it is welcome. They'll die of...
As long as my system runs like it does today, I really don't give a rats about updates and improvements. I quit taking the MS auto updates 2 years...
I was in our local hospital ER for X-rays on a dislocated finger just 5 weeks ago. Every computer screen I saw was XP. Two years ago, I has an...
Thanks, guys. I went to the site and enrolled. I'll post this "Resolved ".
I know this is a bit cheeky, but I've searched for several hours around the internet and can't find what I need. My wife recently wiped out her...
James: I had all kinds of trouble with NewEgg's website and gave up in frustration. If I were to replace my desktop, it would be with a...
Thanks, Bill. I've just run the Advisor, and as I expected, my IGP can't hack it. I did install a good separate video card a while back, but...
I've been running into issues with various items out there because my steam-powered box is still on XP. I've been keeping it that way because DW's...
That explains it. Thanks, Christer. I still don't understand why they came back for installation three times. In the end I deselected them and...
I just activated three updates that were waiting to be installed. Two of them were for Office 2007, which I don't have (still using 2003)....
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