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   ~misfit~ to All   
   Re: How can I update a clean install of    
   29 Jun 15 13:59:48   
   
   From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   Once upon a time on usenet ~misfit~ wrote:   
   > Once upon a time on usenet Robert Grimes wrote:   
   [snipped]   
   >> Google the Windows XP hack script.  It will allow you to get updates   
   >> until 2019.  I did this on both an old Dell that had XP SP3 and also   
   >> my VirtualBox install of XP on my Linux machine.   
   >   
   > Thanks for that, will look into it. :)   
      
   So it took me a while but I recently looked into this. You say that you've   
   done this - Can I ask if all's going well on those machines?   
      
   I'm being extra-careful as this T60 laptop running XP is my main machine   
   used for email etc. and as such is 'mission-critical'.   
      
   Cheers,   
   --   
   Shaun.   
      
   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy   
   little classification in the DSM*."   
   David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)   
   (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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