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Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't let it update. Find a list of their update servers and block them locally. My computer was totally normal and during this last update last week it took a long time updating. So I tried logging in and it would just load part of the desktop ui before freezing totally. I found it was the cryptographic service. Once you kill that service the machine works just fine. But then that program gets called by every program multiple times. So you open services and keep ending that service multiple times during the day. Its annoying to no end. Definitely not encouraging me to get windows ever again.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I will do that today. I am blocking all window updates. My wife has Windows XP on an old laptop and it works fine. She just doesn't connect to internet.

Wonder what would happen if she did?