Re: SSL Connection error

Support? I thought that MS officially discontinued all support for XP about a year ago. 

I have Win 10 on all my machines. I really think it's a solid OS.

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From: David Allsopp [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:25 AM
To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions.
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] SSL Connection error

Gent, R.H. van (Rob) wrote:
> I appreciate your help but I was already successful, thanks to the 
> help of Ulrike Fischer (and off-list from Peter Zimmermann), in 
> getting the MIKTEX updates working again.

Ah, my mistake - I read too quickly the link Ulrike posted and somehow decided it was the Windows XP retirement URL, not the environment variables reference!

> Why I still use a Windows XP computer?
> 
> I also use Windows 7 computer in my office but it will not run certain 
> programs which I also like to use.
> 
> For certain programs I will use the Windows 7 computer, for others I 
> depend on my Windows XP laptop.

Virtualisation is your friend - www.virtualbox.org and in particular https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows (I have done this with several Windows XP machines which now exist solely as virtual machines, even if only for archive). Then you can run a modern OS and literally use ancient OSes solely for programs which must run on them. With suitable use of local virtual network cards, you can even trivially access the files of each from machine from the other too.

It's a one-time piece of faff which eliminates trying to install new software on the older machines - support is only going to get worse.


David 

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