Thursday, November 11, 2010

Windows XP: Looking back, looking forward

I subscribe to the Windows Secrets weekly newsletter. You can do so by donation. There is no fixed fee. I like the service and have over the past couple of years read many very worthwhile articles. The newsletter is always there in my Inbox folder on Thursday mornings.

This week's newsletter has an article titled Windows XP: Looking back, looking forward. I have provided a link to that article below. For those of you, like me, who still run XP on one or more machines, this is an outstanding reference article you will want to hang on to for the next 4 or more years.

As stated many times before, Windows XP will be supported by Microsoft through 2014, so there is no rush to migrate upwards if you don't have a need to do that.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

MSRT

I just installed a half dozen or so Microsoft updates on my XP system, and saw that Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) was included in the list.

I have just clicked on START/RUN, keyed in MRT (not a typo), and clicked on OK to start the MSRT tool running. I noted that the window indicated the NOVEMBER 2010 version (up on top) and selected FULL SCAN, and it is now running and will finish while I am asleep.

This should be a routine by now for you all, I hope.