Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Sep 13 11:38:06 CDT 2014
An interesting aside, is that Googles "sunsetting" SHA-1 and other old security protocols. How is this going to affect Microsoft? It means that a number of OSs and applications will be deprecated as they can not accommodate the new security. This means that only Window 8.x +, the latest Office versions and the latest IE will be able to be upgraded to the new signing capabilities. For further details: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ca/2014/09/gradually-sunsetting-sha-1.html This may work very well for Microsoft in getting customers away from older products. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 4:27:08 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8 Hi all Well, this old zd8237 is now nearly 9 years old and still in good shape. So I decided to beef it up with a 128 GB SSD drive and Windows 8.1 Update 2, of course as 32-bit. It installed in half an hour. The trouble was - as expected - the old Radeon X600 chip for which the latest driver is for Vista. I managed to fix this: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/94640ce9-9160-4166-8908-acffab5c71d5/ati-mobility-radeon-x600-driver-update-installs-but-screen-goes-black?forum=w7itprohardware&prof=required The machine now boots in 25 seconds to the logon screen (domain logon) and 5 seconds more to the Desktop and runs as well as ever before. So this must be the end to the myth that Windows 7/8 doesn't run on old hardware. /gustav ________________________________________ Fra: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Gustav Brock Sendt: 2. december 2011 22:48 Til: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Emne: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8 Hi Jim Of course, most old hardware won't do. But I just installed Windows 7 Pro on my 6 years old HP 17" Pavilion zd8000 (zd8237) laptop (P4, 3 GHz, 2 GB ram, 90 GB disk, ATI Radeon X600 with DirectX 9) and it runs of course not fast but smoothly. It took a little to locate the legacy ATI video drivers for Vista, though. /gustav >>> jimdettman at verizon.net 01-12-2011 22:11 >>> Try running Win 7 on older hardware and you won't like it. Jim. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com