The software giant Microsoft Corporation have been providing support for the aging operating system Windows XP for the past 12 years. Earlier this year, Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP, which meant that there will be no Windows support for XP. Windows XP users will not be receiving security updates, non-security hot fixes, or technical assistance any more. This means the systems powered by Windows XP are now entirely vulnerable to security threats.
Windows XP has been targeted by many hackers and malicious coders even before the end of support, mainly because of its twelve years of presence in the market. With the end of support, it would be extremely difficult to keep Windows XP systems safe from constant threats. Since company has stopped providing Windows support and security essentials for XP, many people have started migrating to newer versions of Windows.
Now, those who have already installed Microsoft Security Essentials in their system will continue receiving antimalware signature updates for a short period of time. But, it needs to be noted that these Security Essentials will have pretty limited effectiveness on personal computers, which do not have the latest updates installed. This means the computers running on Windows XP will anyway be vulnerable to malicious attacks.
Now, there is an exception for some Windows XP embedded versions, since they will be receiving these security essentials for Windows XP until 2019.
Even normal XP users will be able to avail this support when they use a workaround. Applying this work around, Windows XP users, who wish to protect their devices will be receiving security updates for another five years. How is this possible? This hack uses the updates for Windows Embedded Industry OS, also known as Windows Embedded POSReady. This works on XP because Embedded POSReady is based on the Windows XP OS. Since the updates are compliant with end user version of Windows XP, users will be able to benefit from the security fixes.
This hack requires users to follow a few steps before you can avail the security updates. Though Windows Embedded POSReady is pretty similar to Windows XP, it actually a different software. So, you cannot use it directly because if you do, you will receive an OS error.
The only requirement you need to have is that you should use at least a 32-bit edition of Windows XP SP3 for this. It is advisable for you to create a backup of all the important data before you use the hack.
Windows XP has been targeted by many hackers and malicious coders even before the end of support, mainly because of its twelve years of presence in the market. With the end of support, it would be extremely difficult to keep Windows XP systems safe from constant threats. Since company has stopped providing Windows support and security essentials for XP, many people have started migrating to newer versions of Windows.
Now, those who have already installed Microsoft Security Essentials in their system will continue receiving antimalware signature updates for a short period of time. But, it needs to be noted that these Security Essentials will have pretty limited effectiveness on personal computers, which do not have the latest updates installed. This means the computers running on Windows XP will anyway be vulnerable to malicious attacks.
Now, there is an exception for some Windows XP embedded versions, since they will be receiving these security essentials for Windows XP until 2019.
Even normal XP users will be able to avail this support when they use a workaround. Applying this work around, Windows XP users, who wish to protect their devices will be receiving security updates for another five years. How is this possible? This hack uses the updates for Windows Embedded Industry OS, also known as Windows Embedded POSReady. This works on XP because Embedded POSReady is based on the Windows XP OS. Since the updates are compliant with end user version of Windows XP, users will be able to benefit from the security fixes.
This hack requires users to follow a few steps before you can avail the security updates. Though Windows Embedded POSReady is pretty similar to Windows XP, it actually a different software. So, you cannot use it directly because if you do, you will receive an OS error.
The only requirement you need to have is that you should use at least a 32-bit edition of Windows XP SP3 for this. It is advisable for you to create a backup of all the important data before you use the hack.
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