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Old 12-19-2013, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by zcaveman View Post
The only thing that I would be worried about is the security issues cause by not getting patches for the security problems that MS finds. As far as the rest, unless you want to put new programs or peripherals on your XP machine you should be fine. And you would probably still be fine if you put a new printer on it anyway.

To go from an XP OS to W7 or W8 would probably require an upgrade to the PC anyway.

I will keep my one XP machine until it dies. I network the printer off of my W7 machine anyway.

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