12 hours worth of updates

Posted by Greybeard on Feb 21st, 2012 in Technology and Music | 0 comments

All in all,  it took about 8 hours to get from base XP to  XP SP3.    Then 12 more hours for all the updates from Microsoft, to download and install.   But,   the Toshiba runs a lot faster than it did before the restore.   While waiting on it,  I researched Kubuntu and TinyXP,  both seem pretty interesting and one may possibly find a home on the old laptop someday.  (If it starts slowing down again)   But then there was always that idea I had,  to try to get Android to run on it.   Right now I’m fairly happy with it.   I think I mentioned in a previous post,  that it had a 20 gig hard drive.    XP,  AVG, and Chrome,  used up 9 gigs of the 18 gig space that is actually there.

It’s actually kind of impressive that a 9 year old laptop will run XP as quick as it now does,  and at 9 years old,  the only thing that has  been replaced on it,  is the battery.