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jerrypc1 · Sep 17, 2025

Josey Wales said:
Good Day @Bree @labeeman @Marie SWE @jerrypc1 @Helmuuth

Good Day to you Josey Wales.

jerrypc1 · Sep 17, 2025

labeeman said:
Hello Marie

Hello Bree I hope you have a good day.

Bree · Sep 17, 2025

Marie SWE said:
I always did the clean installs.. and in the past i got product keys for free, so i never had to chase the upgrade path....

The only keys (Windows or Office) I've ever had were the ones that came with the used PCs that I bought, so upgrades were a necessity.

This particular XP I upgraded to Win10 was retrieved from the HDD of my trusty old XP laptop that had not only a Windows key, but also a licenced copy of MS Office 2003. When the laptop died the only remaining working part was its IDE HDD.

It sat for years in a draw, gathering dust. After Win10 arrived I took an image of the drive and restored it to a VM to do the upgrade(s). It then spent another few years waiting for an appropriate machine to put it on. It now lives on my little Acer AOD270 Netbook that's too old to run anything newer that Win10 or Win11 23H2.

Enrolled in the Win10 ESU it has another year of useful life before the almost inevitable switch over to Linux....

Bree said:
Remember my 'least appropriate' laptop? At 10" this Acer Aspire One AOD270 netbook has my smallest screen....

I've ended it's extended Linux test for now. I've restored its 32-bit Windows 10 and enrolled it for ESU.

jerrypc1 · Sep 17, 2025

labeeman said:
Hello Marie

Hello Charlie and Labees.I hope your day will be a good one.

jerrypc1 · Sep 17, 2025

Marie SWE said:
Good Morning Josey

I forgot to grab win10 keys.... I have a bunch of win7/8.1 home,pro,enterprise keys.. i did use one key to a clean install of 10pro and then activated 10 with a 8.1Pro key.
I have never not on windows or on linux done an upgrade 7>10 or before win7. I always did the clean installs.. and in the past i got product keys for free, so i never had to chase the upgrade path.... But my free days are over.. i cant get used hardware or windows keys any longer.. I have to do as normal people and by stuff... and that is evil as back then i had more money then i have now... so it should be the other way around... Pay then and free now *LOL*

oh, so they fixed it... Nice.. I never had the problem as i never had small system partitions.. On XP the system only used 10% of the partition... and that still goes today.. 10% system and then 90% to grow or install or temp storage.

Hello Marie.

Bree · Sep 17, 2025

jerrypc1 said:
Hello Bree I hope you have a good day.

Good morning Jerry, hope yours is a good day.

Mine is miserable out, but I'm keeping busy and entertaining myself indoors.

Marie SWE · Sep 17, 2025

Bree said:
The only keys (Windows or Office) I've ever had were the ones that came with the used PCs that I bought, so upgrades were a necessity.

This particular XP I upgraded to Win10 was retrieved from the HDD of my trusty old XP laptop that had not only a Windows key, but also a licenced copy of MS Office 2003. When the laptop died the only remaining working part was its IDE HDD.

It sat for years in a draw, gathering dust. After Win10 arrived I took an image of the drive and restored it to a VM to do the upgrade(s). It then spent another few years waiting for an appropriate machine to put it on. It now lives on my little Acer AOD270 Netbook that's too old to run anything newer that Win10 or Win11 23H2.

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Enrolled in the Win10 ESU it has another year of useful life before the almost inevitable switch over to Linux....

That laptop with HDD and old hardware running win10... I'm guessing there is not much resources left for web-browsing and other things.

that reminds me of the first time i installed XP on a 486 sx25... it did boot and worked.. But you had a lot of time to go and grab a coffee between it booted up and also start other programs. Now looking back in the mirror, it was fun to put in modern OS on old software... But i also remember the frustration of actually use it on daily bases.

Yeah i have been spoiled on software... In the 90's it was pirated software(except win3.11+9.x i actually got copies of those from one that worked on microsoft)... Then in the late 90's and during the 00's i got free keys for Windows and office from my work as a lot of systems we installed we installed with volume licencing, so all keys we got with the software, we kept them for a rainy day.
So i think i have around 15ish XP keys laying around i dont use, around 20ish Win7 keys and around 10ish win8 + 8.1 keys.. But i never got hold of Server keys.. so i had to go down the non spoken rabbit hole on my server OS i have used over the years.

So now I'm sadly back on the "Don't ask, don't tell" train again.

..... But as i never ask for OS-support in here or on 10F Its not a real problem.

Just irritating i have to go down that road again.

jerrypc1 said:
Hello Marie.

Good Morning Jerry

labeeman · Sep 17, 2025

jerrypc1 said:
Hello Charlie and Labees.I hope your day will be a good one.

Hello Jerry, Anna, and Grayson

Bree · Sep 17, 2025

Marie SWE said:
That laptop with HDD and old hardware running win10... I'm guessing there is not much resources left for web-browsing and other things.
that reminds me of the first time i installed XP on a 486 sx25... it did boot and worked.. But you had a lot of time to go and grab a coffee between it booted up and also start other programs. Now looking back in the mirror, it was fun to put in modern OS on old software... But i also remember the frustration of actually use it on daily bases.

It's actually not too bad. Booting up gives only enough time to drink about half a cup of coffee if you already have one to hand. There's not enough time to make a fresh one.

It came with an HDD and 2GB RAM. I have upgraded it above and beyond what the OEM specs say should be possible with an SSD and 4GB RAM (3GB useable).

Marie SWE · Sep 17, 2025

Bree said:
It's actually not too bad. Booting up gives only enough time to drink about half a cup of coffee if you already have one to hand. There's not enough time to make one.

I have upgraded it above and beyond what the OEM specs say is possible with an SSD and 4GB RAM (3GB useable).

That is not that bad..

Okay so you cheats with an SSD

only 3 usable.. How much have you put to internal graphic's then?... or do you mean Win only takes 1GB ram?

Josey Wales · Sep 17, 2025

labeeman said:
Hello Josey

Hello Charlie

Josey Wales · Sep 17, 2025

Bree said:
Good morning Josey.

Good Day Bree.

Josey Wales · Sep 17, 2025

Marie SWE said:
Good Morning Josey

I forgot to grab win10 keys.... I have a bunch of win7/8.1 home,pro,enterprise keys.. i did use one key to a clean install of 10pro and then activated 10 with a 8.1Pro key.
I have never not on windows or on linux done an upgrade 7>10 or before win7. I always did the clean installs.. and in the past i got product keys for free, so i never had to chase the upgrade path.... But my free days are over.. i cant get used hardware or windows keys any longer.. I have to do as normal people and by stuff... and that is evil as back then i had more money then i have now... so it should be the other way around... Pay then and free now *LOL*

oh, so they fixed it... Nice.. I never had the problem as i never had small system partitions.. On XP the system only used 10% of the partition... and that still goes today.. 10% system and then 90% to grow or install or temp storage.

Good Day Marie

Josey Wales · Sep 17, 2025

jerrypc1 said:
Good Day to you Josey Wales.

Good Day Jerry

Bree · Sep 17, 2025

Marie SWE said:
That is not that bad.. Okay so you cheats with an SSD
only 3 usable.. How much have you put to internal graphic's then?... or do you mean Win only takes 1GB ram?

32-bit Windows can address up to 4GB, but according to Intel its Intel Atom N2600 can only support addressing 2.44GB of that. In practice that turns out to be 2.99GB available to the OS. The remaining 1GB isn't wasted though, apparently it's available for the graphics to use.

Marie SWE · Sep 17, 2025

Bree said:
32-bit Windows can address up to 4GB, but according to Intel its Intel Atom N2600 can only support addressing 2.44GB of that. In practice that turns out to be 2.99GB available to the OS. The remaining 1GB isn't wasted though, apparently it's available for the graphics to use.

1GB GPU.. not bad, then you can play some fun games then.

Helmuuth · Sep 17, 2025

as of sept im no longer investing in amazon prime. however, i will resume by june, 2027. too much online buying. i havent gone to a real clothing store in 2 years lmao

Marie SWE · Sep 17, 2025

Helmuuth said:
as of sept im no longer investing in amazon prime. however, i will resume by june, 2027. too much online buying. i havent gone to a real clothing store in 2 years lmao

Good Afternoon

Then we make the world in balance.. I have not bought clothes online for two and a half years :wink:

labeeman · Sep 18, 2025

Hello Bree

Josey Wales · Sep 18, 2025

Good Morning Everyone, have a nice day. On a side note I have never bought cloths online.

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