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Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP

Posted by samzenpus on from the buying-time dept.

DroidJason1 (3589319) writes "A registry workaround, which tricks Windows Update into thinking you are running Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, allows you to get free security updates until 2019. All you need is a simple 32bit or 64bit registry entry in order to make this work. POSReady 2009 is slated to receive security updates for another five years. Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on April 8th of 2014."

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  1. Yeah not quite... by craznar · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone who works with POS Ready 2009 a lot (I write Point of Sale Software), the catch with this idea is that many (a great many) of the components in normal XP just don't exist in POSReady.

    SO you may, or may not get updates for some parts of your OS - because Microsoft will not be writing updates for the rest.

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  2. Re:Excellent by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even the older Slashdotters have a blinkered view of culture it seems. The original reference is from George Orwell's "1984", only it was fingers and not lights.

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