any computer gurus here?

I thought that Microsoft has eliminated all support for XP.
The older, isolated computers on base all had to get updated by IT support staff that made the aforementioned claim.

I have not investigated, but a friend "who should know" told me this..........you can make a small registry hack and make your XP edition show up as "business edition" and still get support

A very quick Google seems to think this is true:

https://www.google.com/search?num=3...1.0....0...1c.1.48.hp..14.23.2320.rVyoQMX37nQ