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since 60 is ESR, github should support it for longer period :P

But you can add it yourself easily. Just right-click on the about:config page, select New / String, enter the name (general.useragent.override.github.com) then the value: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 (Pale Moon)

erpdude8, that article ends with the paragraph: Which to me seems presumptuous with its, "everyone would have to upgrade to Windows 10", why 'have to'? aren't there other options?, and Win10 is a downgrade, and "It's just a matter of time anyway." If ever I'm forced off Win7 then I've got Win8.1 as my next OS, for a while. If I ever get pushed off that then I'll go back to Linux Mint and to hell with Microsoft. I would never in a million years install Win10 or any upstream derivatives thereof. Of course there is the outlier of ReactOS but when, if ever, that will be stable and usable is anyone's guess at this point in time. But if the drip, drip, drip of its development continues then eventually it will fill the tub.

I disabled Activity stream with ccleaner https://i.imgur.com/1Nf8XQd.png Last from old piriform https://download.ccleaner.com/ccsetup532.exe

Yes. but one only needs to uninstall KB4134651-v2, if already added, to install @heinoganda's mod. The bad file in the previous one is overwritten by either.

Indexing is too much last millenium! On NTFS, no indexing and no Windows Search is ever needed. Try SwiftSearch instead:

Yes, this is so. The propaganda worked on me for a couple of years many years ago then I recognised it for what it was, a heap of sh*t. Yup, mostly propaganda too. It's like they say about the paid-for anti-virus vendors, "If viruses didn't exist they'd be coding them themselves." I do often think that Microsoft are in the same position when it comes to updates - code in something naff somewhere then somewhere down the line release a 'fix'. Keep the masses thinking they need to be suckling at the teat - tripe! Only thing about Microsoft that isn't propaganda is that they're after your data, and at that, big-time now! Strongest case for not updating I know of - to Hell with them! Punting Spyware Suites and calling them Operating Systems. Of course with Win10 you get the Suite even if you don't update. It's a malignant joke. "It's just telemetry." "'Telemetry', what!" They think our heads zip up the back.

A Haswell-based system running Win 7 and serving as a small server is working perfectly. And when I say perfectly, I mean it doesn't even log anything more than an informational message in the System Event Log for months at a time. It runs forever without fault, does its job with aplomb, has plenty of free storage, and will not likely be asked to do any more in the next few years than it already does. It's layered with much more (and smarter) than typical security and its usage is such that it's not at risk from typical things like web pages loaded into a browser and downloads by a user. Likely it won't need updating until the hardware actually fails. Since it's high quality server hardware, that won't be for years. So... To update it or not? I'm seriously leaning toward not. Ever again. My father tried to teach me, "If it works, don't fix it". I'm knowledgeable enough about networking and OS operations that I'm not affected by FUD and hype such as "OMG, if you don't update you'll be infected for sure". I know how it could be attacked, and it's just very, very well protected. I always try to keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't fixed anything since Win 7 went off mainstream support, and the only thing they've done lately is to slow the OS down... Even if the heaviest patches are disabled (GRC InSpectre, anyone?) it's still slower than it was in 2017. I can't believe I'm even considering whether to run another Windows Update on it. The social engineering that has brought us to this point and made us feel dependent on Mother Microsoft to keep trickling out fixes for vulnerabilities they originally built in is mind boggling. What price, (a false sense of) security? -Noel

Done, thanks! Well, yes, the very nature of the webpages already introduce some uncertainity as links change, pages die and even with the ginormous effort done by the Internet Archive, things fall into the memory hole without being actually intentionally thrown there. Besides this (which is, after all, due to entropy growing), we do have lots of cases of things very deliberately thrown into the memory hole, but it all becomes really outrageous when some agent (usually a corporation or other non-physical entity) reaches inside one's device at one's home or inside one's pocket to remove (pilfer?) content from inside it, no matter what kind of licence they purportedly have allowing them to do it legally (if at all).

It's not the 1st time involving amazon, though, maybe it's already becoming a habit. That's why I abhor autoupdate, remote support (by corporations, at least, not from friends one trusts) and the cloud in general... remember the matter quoted below?