Microsoft ended its support for Windows XP officially more
than a month ago on April 8, 2014. This made a large number of users to switch to
the latest version of Windows, but still a wide portion of users are using
Microsoft oldest and most widely used operating system, despite not
receiving security updates
While some companies and organizations who were not able to
migrate their operating system’s running Windows
XP to another operating system before the support phase ended, are
still receiving updates by paying Microsoft for the security patches
and updates.
Now a relatively simple method has emerged as a trick for
the XP users which makes it possible to receive Windows XP security updates for
the next five years i.e. until April 2019.
It makes use of updates for Windows Embedded POSReady
2009 based on Windows XP Service Pack 3, because the security
updates which are being released for POSReady 2009 are inevitably the same
updates Microsoft would have rolled out for its Windows XP, if it was still
supporting XP Operating System.
Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 is the operating system
installed in "point-of-sale" (POS) systems such as restaurant
machine, ticket machines or other customized version of Windows Embedded
systems. POS machine most likely uses the XP operating system, therefore
receives the same updates that are delivered by Microsoft for the officially
unsupported version of Windows XP.
You are not allowed to directly install these Windows
updates for your OS. In order to download new security updates for your Windows
XP, you just need to perform a simple intervention into the Windows
registration database.
STEPS TO FOLLOW:
Open Notepad and create a new file.Add Below given code to it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady] "Installed"=dword:00000001
Save file as .reg extension and run it by double clicks.
Once executed, you will find lots of pending updates in your
Windows Action Center.
Because the extended support for Windows Embedded POSReady
2009 systems ends after 5 years, Microsoft will continue to deliver new
security updates and patches for this version of its embedded operating system
till April 9th, 2019, so users can use this trick to get security updates of
Windows XP for another five years.
Important Note for our Readers - Despite receiving
security updates for Windows XP by using such tricks, it is not possible to
secure the complete system appropriately. So we highly recommend all
of you to upgrade your operating system to the latest versions, i.e. Windows 7
or 8 or any Linux Distro.
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