Windows XP Professional, but 32-bit or 64-bit?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

I think there is one confirmed case in the USA thus far, and folks from the affected area in China landed in 4 major airports--the closest one to us is in Chicago.

They said by the time they develop and deploy a vaccine, the epidemic will most likely have run its course, like the SARS virus did.

You have a great weekend too!

[Alan255]

Hi again, was too exhausted to reply Saturday, will return to my dc7600 exertions this week!

China taking Coronavirus very seriously.  As with SARS which prev affected Hong Kong, Chinese live in close proximity and usually too with animals.  2 new hospitals being built, a 1000 bed and a 1300 bed, ready in a week. in Wuhan.

Canada has one case, US has the Chicago and a newer case in Washington State, France has 3 cases, scatterings of cases in other Far East nations.  UK advice is for all Britons to leave ASAP.  No reported deaths yet in western nations, and overall death rate is very low in China, 42 plus.  All escapees must have passed it on to some fellow passengers.  Virus seems not mutated so far.

We're same generation.  I born in 1952, baby boomer, around at right time for the pop and rock boom in mid-1960s, then ever evolving genres.  Post -2010, reinventing the wheel as none producing anything not already heard before! The Cold War, James Bond movies, the (USA successful) Moon Race,  Log tables to make calculations, mainframe computers, digital calculators at work, wow, almost into the PC age!  And yet work was indeed done, the globe still rotated.  School children talked, they did not text.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I sure hope that they can put a lid on this virus before it gets much worse.

I was also born in 1952, but was not born while King George VI was still alive.

Yes, things have changed quite a bit during our time, but I think the changes folks observed were more dramatic had we been born 100 years earlier.  Horses to cars, electric lights, airplanes, radio, TV, antibiotics, just to name a few.

[Alan255]

I'm not medical professional, indeed, can only follow news as it happens.  Relative to malaria (and accepting many thousands of deaths annually in relatively poor nations), Coronavirus so far 'only' about 43 deaths in China. Confirmed cases are in isolation tents or wards.  But the very concerned Chinese politbureau, and President Xi, may mean far deadlier than we imagine.  BBC News, 24 hours ago, stated the very construction of TWO large hospitals does not instill confidence...quite the opposite!

I born during King George's last few weeks or days.  I always thought I, like you, was Elizabethan.  Not that a young baby knows anything about the monarch (or in US, The President).  

Industrial revolution was a key turning point: mass production, factories not farmsteads, steam engines, pumps, mechanical contraptions.  Some steam engines ran on rails, hence mass transportation commenced.  Growth of cities, in US and Canada the founding of cities where none existed before, say logging and mining centres, agricultural produce assembly centres.  Immense and profound the changes were, these were observable, or physical changes, substitutions really.  Into 21st century, the rise of social media and all the issues this creates, and cyber attacks, these are 'invisible' changes.

Meanwhile, still tasking this drivers issue, at long last, established my Windows XP is 32-bit.  From the  below link in Windows XP section,  in the System Properties portion of My Computer, the phrase "x64-bit" is absent.  I have 32-bit Windows XP.  So, am a step closer to cracking the drivers update concern!

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02002390

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hopefully you will be able to install the drivers then.

[Alan255]

Yes, that's the hope.  Your memory serves you well!  I have the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express LAN controller.  Have to pluck up courage to hook into internet then get Norton 360 cover on.  Cannot access device Manager when offline...or down;load drivers.  Did experiment  right-clicking your drivers links, but no results.  Unable to Copy links!