Windows XP going?

In real terms, windows updates cost me more trouble than they solve.

We are still selling industrial systems running 32bit XP. Its what the customer wants and they will be reliable. They will never see the internet, so everything should be fine.

It's all on the user really. Give someone who knows what they are doing an XP install on the net and barring a 0 day OS exploit which can spread in a worm-like fashion they will likely be 100% fine months down the line. Give an idiot an up to date modern OS and their machine will likely be riddled with malware and bloatware by the same time because they just don't know how to secure it and what they should not be clicking on when online.

A few weeks ago, I started getting reminders from Google informing me that 'This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because Windows XP and Windows Vista will no longer be supported.' Ever since then my (very old) machine has been having problems which manifest themselves with high memory usage. With nothing running my memory usage is about 40-45% but as soon as Chrome kicks in this goes up to 85% or more and increases with every new Chrome tab opened until the machine grinds to a stop and quite often dies. I have tried pretty much everything in my knowledge to find out the root cause of the problem (including running all the various analytical/performance software in my possession and stripping the machine down to individual components and rebuilding it - poor contacts on memory cards can cause similar problems) but after a few weeks of trying have given up and have bitten the bullet and bought a brand new machine with Win10 pre-installed. 

Edited by jazomir - 30 March 2016 at 5:15pm