Hi. For some years now I have been off-grid, and have been forced into using laptops and tablets instead of the usual tower machines I once had set up with legitimate copies of XP, and I own four copies including one server version, which were installed into computers I no longer use.
I have recently installed a copy of XP that I wasn't using anymore, into a forgotten laptop which I discovered in the back shelves of my workshop, I have it working, but I really hadn't planned to use it on line, I wanted it for taking to the workbench to view service manuals etc. To do this, I need to install a PDF viewer.
As I have nearly always used Adobe, I went looking for a copy and found that DC versions abound, but whenever I find a downloadable version, as I have to download it on a different computer, which runs Win 10, the downloads don't want to let me have an XP version.
So, if I can put the XP laptop on line just for the download, that problem would be solved.
How can I set up the HP Compaq running XP, to operate on my WIFI internet ? It seems to think that if I want internet I have to be connected to a telephone line. I can set it up for WIFI but it seems this was used only for local area networks back in the day Would this be correct?.
Is there a simple solution?
thanks,
Technomaniac
I have recently installed a copy of XP that I wasn't using anymore, into a forgotten laptop which I discovered in the back shelves of my workshop, I have it working, but I really hadn't planned to use it on line, I wanted it for taking to the workbench to view service manuals etc. To do this, I need to install a PDF viewer.
As I have nearly always used Adobe, I went looking for a copy and found that DC versions abound, but whenever I find a downloadable version, as I have to download it on a different computer, which runs Win 10, the downloads don't want to let me have an XP version.
So, if I can put the XP laptop on line just for the download, that problem would be solved.
How can I set up the HP Compaq running XP, to operate on my WIFI internet ? It seems to think that if I want internet I have to be connected to a telephone line. I can set it up for WIFI but it seems this was used only for local area networks back in the day Would this be correct?.
Is there a simple solution?
thanks,
Technomaniac