NoGeekLeftBehind.com » XP http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com "Building Better Geeks" Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:32:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Support for Win 2000 / XP SP2 Expired July 13, 2010 http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com/2010/07/14/support-for-win-2000-xp-sp2-expired-july-13-2010/ http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com/2010/07/14/support-for-win-2000-xp-sp2-expired-july-13-2010/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:46:00 +0000 timbarrett http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com/2010/07/14/support-for-win-2000-xp-sp2-expired-july-13-2010/

Buh-bye, Windows 2000Ding dong, the witch is dead…

Support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 ended on July 13, 2010. Customers need to be on at least Service Pack 3 now.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean31

Likewise, Extended Support for Windows 2000 Professional is also over.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean35

If you need more guidance on support scenarios regarding these operating systems, check Eric Ligman’s blog post from June 16, 2010 here.

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dead_canary We just got word from the ivory tower that we’re not deploying Windows XP Service Pack 3 on HP machines with AMD processors (just yet, anyway).  There are also some rumblings in the public forums regarding Dell, Lenovo, Gateway and Asus chipsets.

More details here: http://www.crn.com/software/207800165

I think I hear Susan‘s 2×4 swinging cross-country ;-)

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Ping me if you’ve seen this one before.

29 network icons in the system tray. Machine is Windows XP, SP2, fully patched, AV & AS up to date, and is only 2 weeks old:

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All icons point to the same NIC, and they all work (not screen artifacts).

Only client applications running are:

  • QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2008 Trial Version
  • Outlook 2003 SP3 with BCM 2003 (patches up to date)
  • Lacerte updater & the other icons in the system tray.

Event logs are clean. Wow. That’s all I can say. :-)

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