That may be true also, but I have never worried about my computer getting screwed up. I am ready for anything. Nothing is saved on my computer. Everything I have of importance is backed up twice on 2 externals. I have a 200GB HD and 3 partitions with 3 operating systems. (Win XP, Win7, Win XP Media Center2005) Total HD Free Space 147.2GB's. I've used about 53GB's. Images made up for all systems. Redoing an system with the image takes about 10 min on my old slow computer. Yep I think I am ready for anything and not worried if I get caught with something. I'm not too sure about this reg hack lasting too long. I think M$ is going to get around this. If and when I try this, I will try it on my test partition which has XP Media Center. No loss,,, no gain!!
...afaik WinFLP (Fundamentals for Legacy PCs) is basicly Windows Thin PC (Embedded) Don't know if it works; I don't run WindowsFLP nor do I have the OS. I guess if previous Windows XP updates worked for you it probably will. Why don't you try and find out? The 'hack' isn't exactly rocket science. To be on the safe side just make a backup of your registry first. /edit/ Any chance of getting ahold of a copy of WinFLP? (.iso) Nevermind, sorted.
Thanks for this tip! Was hoping to keep an old XP system updated since my parents are used to the interface. Cheers!
But won't an installation of Win XP slowly "mutate" into Win POS over time? Would there be any issues to a home user with that?