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Java 7 update 60 should install and work ok under Windows XP.
Java 8, on the other hand, requires minimum Vista.

found out the hard way that after disabling the registry “hack” on an old XP machine after enabling the “hack”, I can’t re-enable the hack afterwards on subsequent restart (not without reformatting & reinstalling Windows XP). disabling the hack by changing PosReady “Installed” from 00000001 to 00000000 in Regedit made the change permanent and after rebooting XP and launching Regedit, it won’t let me change it from 0 to 1. oh well.:(

Check whether your processor supports either Intel EM64T extensions (minimum Intel Pentium 4 5×1, 6xx models or Celeron D 3×6 models) or AMD64 extensions (minimum AMD Athlon 64 or K8 CPUs). Don’t bother installing 64-bit Windows 7 if using Intel Pentium 3 / AMD K7 or older CPUs because those processors can only handle 32-bit OSes & a 32bit Windows 7 OS will have to be used on those older CPUs.

In Windows 7.
1. Open Control Panel.
2. Click Network and Internet.
3. Click View network status and tasks.
4. Click Change adapter settings.
5. Right click the wireless adapter and select Properties.
6. Select Internet Protocol Version 4.
7. Click Properties.
8. Tick both obtain automatically boxes.
9. Click OK and OK.

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cheers, Paul

Paul, this is an XP forum so the steps for Windows XP might be a little different. OP (Fatima) hasn’t said what version of Windows was being used.
In Windows XP, go to Control Panel > Network Connections > Wireless Network Connection, right-click on Wireless Network Connection and choose Properties, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” [not TCP/IP v6] and click on the Properties button to access the TCP/IP v4 properties dialog box.

Note to OP (Fatima): I noticed that the Intel 3945abg wireless adapter was mentioned. I also use that Intel 3945abg WLAN adapter but under Win7. In that case be sure to install the latest XP drivers for the 3945abg adapter from this Intel page. Best to get the Wireless_15.3.1_Dx32.exe package if using 32bit version of Windows XP. Run that EXE file to install or update the 3945abg drivers to v13.4.0.139.

for all you XP users out there, check the version of Microsoft Security Essentials installed on your machines.
If the msseces.exe file and their DLL files are version 4.5.216.0 or higher, you need to completely uninstall MSE, reboot and install version 4.4.304.0 from this Filehippo.com page.

Far better than just copying an EXE file with an older one that has full features for Windows XP and have mis-matched versions of the EXE/DLL files for the Microsoft Security Essentials program. XP users should stay with version 4.4.304.0 of MSE, period!

And as Khun Roger has said, shut off Automatic Updates to prevent MSE from being upgraded from 4.4.304.0 and also dump Microsoft Update and revert to the plain Windows Update feature on XP.

(I think your KB number should end in 7, not 6: KB2949787)

Bruce

no Bruce. neither 7 nor 6 worked as of right now – KB2949786 and KB2949787 lead to dead ends on the Microsoft support site saying those pages are no longer available.

but you’re right about installing MSE version 4.5.216.0 under Windows XP as it will give the “unprotected” status on there. XP users should AVOID upgrading or installing 4.5.216 of MSE at all costs and stick to using version 4.4.304.

First, there are no Vista with SP2 included, so that is not an option.

you’re wrong, WildcatRay. there are Windows Vista DVDs that have SP2 included but they’re only available to MSDN/Technet subscribers.

The posts I’ve seen @ mydigital life claim to have SP2 integrated. HOWEVER, there is no telling the origin of the ISO file. Since the links from Microsoft’s partner Digital River are no longer active it is a crapshoot.

Joe

@Joe: The integrated Vista SP2 DVD ISO downloads are from MSDN/Technet so they are real. they were never made available on Digital River and were only made available to MS Technet subscribers.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/lifecycle

Extended support for Windows 7 (the type now ending for XP) will end in 2020.

more accurately, Microsoft will end extended support for all editions of Windows 7 w/ Service Pack 1 on January 14, 2020.
support for Windows 7 original/RTM release ended on April 9, 2013.

before upgrading from XP to Win7, I’d install the Windows Easy Transfer 7 program (wet7xp_x86.exe or wet7xp_x64.exe) on an XP OS to gather program settings & documents and transfer them to the Win7 OS.

Windows 8 was released in October 2012. You don’t think that is modern?

obviously, speedball isn’t paying attention or is blind. though Windows 8.1 was officially released in October 2013 and that is a modern OS.

I’ve already moved away from XP and upgraded my bedroom computer to Windows Vista SP2 in July 2013 since it’s good enough to run Vista/Win7 (AMD Sempron 3000 [2.0ghz] cpu w/ 1Gb of RAM, 120gb ide hard drive). I’ll eventually upgrade to Windows 7 SP1 once I get a license to run it on my bedroom PC.

at least there’s one third party program that requires minimum of Windows 7 and that’s Realplayer Cloud. that one won’t install nor run under XP/Vista.

my aunt’s older computer will still have XP SP3 even beyond April 2014 since it’s not capable of running Vista/Win7 or higher [it’s an old Dell Optiplex GX100 computer – Intel Celeron 1.1ghz cpu w/ 512Mb of RAM max]

I think XP users can run XP even when Microsoft drops support for it in April 2014 until many third party program developers decide to drop XP support for their apps, which won’t happen for a while.

CWBillow, are you using a retail version or an OEM version of Windows 7?
and what kind of computer are you using?

You can try to validate your copy of Windows by going to this site using Internet Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/validate/

I really like the part where Susan Bradley mentioned about giving aging XP machines some new life when upgrading hardware like RAM and hard drives. However, she did not mention about doing CPU upgrades, which is what I do after performing RAM and hard drive upgrades if performance in those old XP machines are still not satisfactory.

Installing a faster processor chip (although it may sometimes be expensive) helps out when viewing videos online or doing intensive graphics stuff. Videos are smoother and less jerky with a faster CPU. My friend’s Gateway/eMachine T5048 computer with pre-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (updated to SP3 level) used to have 512Mb of RAM (now it’s maxed out at 2Gb) but still doesn’t seem fast enough after a RAM upgrade since it came with an Intel Pentium 4 (524) 3.06Ghz processor chip. I’m planning to install a faster CPU [either an Intel Pentium 4 3.60Ghz 661 CPU chip or an Intel Pentium D (dual-core) 2.8Ghz 820 processor chip].

So first do a memory/RAM and a hard drive upgrade, then upgrade the processor chip to the fastest one that is supported by the motherboard of your computer.

Then ipconfig /release
and ipconfig /restore

It is ipconfig /renew, NOT ipconfig /restore, sigrossman. the “restore” switch is not valid in any version of Windows.

JCadogan, I think you mean KB2808679, not KB2898679 which does not exist.
I wish you can “edit” the forum topic and change the KB number from 2898679 to 2808679.

Try downloading & installing the update from the Microsoft download center > KB2808679 32bit or 64bit
But check to see if you are using either a 32bit (x86) or 64bit (x64) edition of Windows Vista Business edition before downloading the update.

On my Vista SP2 x86 computer, KB2808679 installed correctly.

I also recommend not installing IE10 final (version 10.0.9200.16521) under Windows 7 yet because IE10 requires certain Windows 7 SP1 updates to be installed first before IE10 actually gets installed. See Microsoft KB article 2818833 for details on several Win7 prerequisite updates to install before installing IE10. KB2670838 is one of the prerequisite patches to install (yup, that particular patch that has been causing some problems with some Win7 users out there). IE10’s setup program automatically downloads and installs these prerequisite Win7 SP1 updates before installing the actual IE10 program files.

Also, you can only install IE10 under Win7 SP1 and not the original/RTM release of Win7. If you are using the original release of Windows 7 and you have not yet installed Service Pack 1, you will not be able to install Internet Explorer 10.

far better off to just install java altogether. also check the WindowsSystem32 folder or the WindowsSysWoW64 folder for the deployjava1.dll and npdeployjava1.dll files. if those two java plugin files exist in those Windows system folders, delete them.