bennymacca wrote: Time you upgraded that too, given Microsoft no longer support XP
The problem is the cycle is getting faster - new processors, more complex software to use them, new operating systems that won't work on old equipment.
Currently I'm having trouble about a software package I use which installs its own SQL instance. My W7 Pro 32 bit i5 based system struggles to run it efficiently, mainly because of the RAM limit, but I don't want to make that machine 64 bit because of some legacy software I like to use at times. However, my newer i7 runs 64 bit W8 Pro and the software won't install the newest update because they have not yet managed to make it work with W8's UAC system.
There are companies still using XP because of the cost of re-writing specialist software to suit anything else - as I found when I was working in the public health services in WA several months ago. The had i5 computers having to run XP Pro 32 bit because the hospitals didn't have the money to have the recording software that exchanges information between hospitals revised.