Now, back when I wrote 8 lessons learned from upgrading a dog-slow XP machine to Windows 8 I've upgraded old XP machines before and while it's a pain, it's not a terrible process (and with a pile of spare Windows 8 licenses I bought for $40 each, it's a lot cheaper than a new machine).
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But it had XP on it, and since it hadn't been run (or dusted) since before the days of SP3, it wouldn't upgrade until I first upgraded it to SP3. My wife needed a spare box to use as a scanning workstation and rather than run out and buy a new machine, I scoured the boneyard, finding this beast. Like many of you, I have a lot of old machines and parts scattered around, used for certain projects and discarded or placed into the limbo we call the garage shelves.Īs it turned out, that machine had a solid motherboard and a 10,000 RPM (!) hard drive in it. I thought I'd found all our VMs and critical machines, but I had forgotten one machine that happened to be buried behind a box of cleaning supplies in the garage. The fact is, none of us will have looked everywhere and we will find some forgotten machines. I wrote about this in " The land of forgotten XP installs: Have you looked everywhere?" Now, you and I know that over the next year (or more), we're going to discover some hidden and forgotten Windows XP machines.
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