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Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware

From	"John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware
Date	2025-02-05 03:53 -0800
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Newyana2 wrote:
> On 2/4/2025 4:13 PM, MummyChunk wrote:
> 
>>
>> Alot of people still use Windows 7 with absolutely no issues.
>>
> 
>   That's true. I use a Win7 box for streaming movies. The
> woman I live with is still using mostly XP. I'm not concerned with
> Windows per se. I don't much care about updates. But Win7
> is no longer supported by browser makers and will gradually
> be unsupported by other software. For now it's fine. FF115 ESR
> is up to date. But in a year or two it might start to get iffy.

Excellent point, Newyana2. And this is why I'm giving serious
consideration to running two computers from this point:

1. an air-gapped one running Windows 7
2. another for accessing the internet and running a bare minimum of
programs for doing so.

File transfers via thumb drive or portable hard drive, often after
running anti-malware scans on such files.

-- 
John C.

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What is critical Windows 11 hardware Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-04 01:15 -0700
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-04 06:39 -0500
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-04 11:50 +0000
    Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-04 15:36 -0700
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-04 07:35 -0500
    Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-04 08:39 -0500
      Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-04 14:09 +0000
        Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2025-02-04 21:13 +0000
          Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-04 19:49 -0500
            Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-05 03:53 -0800
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-05 04:02 -0800
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-05 09:28 -0500
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-02-05 17:55 -0600
          Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-02-04 19:13 -0600
            Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-05 12:10 +0000
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-05 12:55 +0000
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-06 13:26 +0000
    Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-06 17:04 +0000

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