nornen:This might have to do with the fact that your OS has reached the end of its lifecycle on April 14, 2009. Five and a half years ago the manufacturer of your OS stopped supporting it. This could be a broad hint that you might start to consider using an OS which is actually still supported.

Haha, that's a nice idea, but not always an option for a pauper who ends up with the computer her brother sold to her for forty bucks .* Besides, IT STILL WORKS!!! So, as I always say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! I get along just fine without an E-o keyboard layout; I just use Tajpi. It's free and works great. And besides that, XP is the best OS Microsoft ever made. It's not my fault the lunkheads stopped supporting it.

*Vista will so not function on this machine, and I highly doubt that 7 would either; I don't like 8; everybody talks about Linux, but I need something that can run all my Windows programs.

Christa627:Haha, that's a nice idea, but not always an option for a pauper who ends up with the computer her brother sold to her for forty bucks .* Besides, IT STILL WORKS!!! So, as I always say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! I get along just fine without an E-o keyboard layout; I just use Tajpi. It's free and works great. And besides that, XP is the best OS Microsoft ever made. It's not my fault the lunkheads stopped supporting it.

*Vista will so not function on this machine, and I highly doubt that 7 would either; I don't like 8; everybody talks about Linux, but I need something that can run all my Windows programs.

Your system is highly vulnerable against viruses. Then once your computer gets compromised it distributes viruses and spam itself. Assuming you don’t have an antivirus-software this is more likely to happen.

Which specific programs do you need use that only work on Windows?