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Care to elaborate with some actual, possibly-useful details, rather than clutter the forum with low quality postings? In my opinion, I would find it rather unlikely, no... impossible... to be hack proof. A LAN/WAN connection or even just a console is already enough for basically any machine to get busted into, depending on the dedication of the malicious person.

I cannot be hacked because I RAM Overlay.

I'm not sure about it, as it seems that .NET is a bit of a black hole as far as Vista is concerned. Versions 4.6.2 and above have some antipathy to Vista in some way, and I have trouble figuring it out.

Try: "RLUSB Generic USB Mass Storage Driver for Windows 95. This Driver supports USB Floppy, CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Drives in addition to Hard Drives and Keys." Also: "Windows 98 RTM has a flaw causing occasional corruption of IDE as well as USB Drives, when transferring data, so use of USB Drives in Windows 98 RTM is not recommended."

More: http://walyou.com/worldwide-places-hit-by-the-blue-screen-of-death/

I tried mtp from my device and it.doesn't work and my gamepad gets detected and installed and doesn't work

Just to let you know, Video preview does not work in latest official Palemoon.

WinNTSetup 4.5.1 - VHD GUI will be saved to ini - ini option BootMountExclude supports DiskID - fixes listview font on non darkmode

First of all. What is point of this post? And second you should never ever declare yourself as hacker proof. That is like asking someone hack your system. I am not hacker proof but try reduce attack surface best I can

No.

You could try Roytam's "loader" and maybe it fits your needs better -- http://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-portable-loader.7z I've never actually used it so feel free to report back your opinion of it.

yes lol Wonder if offical microsoft service pack for windows 98FE adressed corruption issue. I remember downloading update to from windows update before got win98SE cd and even on win98fe only reason to drive corruption was bsod caused by one driver. I used 98FE 7 years and flash drives never caused issues

What kind of gamepad is it?

@VistaEX https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-bg/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=1t00y&oscode=ww1&productcode=latitude-e6430 If you have Optimus (Intel+nVidia), you need to install this too: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-bg/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=cf9wt&oscode=ww1&productcode=latitude-e6430

Windows 10 is the worst because of its scheme to make computers dumber than they actually are. You can't even undo this change without modifying system files. Even after that, there is still a fair bit of the OS which is unfinished, even 6 years after release. Windows 7 is probably the best (may be some bias!) because the UI was simple, elegant and easy to use. All your settings are in Control Panel, file explorer is simple, the start menu isn't littered with ads, the lock screen isn't full of ads, and you have control over your PC. They even give you diagnostic information on blue screens so you know what actually went wrong, but I could say that the Windows 10 one also brings the same amount of information, just less explaining. Windows XP was also pretty nice, although I never really used it much. Every OS will suck when it comes out. Believe me, XP did, Vista did, 8.x did, and 10 did even more. But all of them fixed their issues in service packs / feature updates. XP SP2 was one of the best, Vista SP1 fixed a lot of issues as well as 7 SP1. 8.1 itself was a fix to Windows 8.0. I had hopes that Windows 10 would, but now here we are, 10 releases into Windows 10 and people are still angry about it. While most people have fallen to the gigantic corporation that is Microsoft, I can definitely see that there is a community of people standing their ground here. Unfortunately, Windows 10 has locked me into its ecosystem after my almost 6 years of using it, so I am basically at a loss. Any move I make is a compromise, such as migrating to Linux or downgrading to 7. A lot of people don't like 10. They didn't use it willingly, something forced them or influenced them to, unlike previous versions of Windows.

That drive probably died. Did it have some light before when it was working? If yes, does it light up now? Try to test it somewhere else - set top box, game console, TV, phone (with USB OTG cable), whatever else you have with USB drive support. Maybe just the connector got broken off the drive board - try pushing the drive to one side while plugged, then try to the other side. If there is any sign of life from it, open the case and solder the connector.

I think I've see you around here somewhere .. hehe ... welcome :)

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Indeed, silence is lovely.

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Got USB3 to work with PAE under a new driver. Also screwed with the audio driver some more, it's fine now as well.

Newcomer here just want to say hello to everyone. And finally I got an account on MSFN.org forum by signing up using gmail account; for some reason it failed sending a validation email to my hotmail account each time I sign up BTW I don't hate Windows 10, I just get used to it.

From Belgium, hello @g_m_1990_ and welcome to MSFN! I hope you enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. :) hpwamr

I don't hate it, I just prefer not to use it if I don't have to.

i never used it and will never use it but to say that "OS is fine, only shell isnt", for OS that in core is HUGE spyware (even if this started with XP ? but now is nightmare) and that it bypasses firewall, and bypasses HOSTS, and violates your basic human rights- yes rights- there was article where MS emloyee was QUOTED where he says that "they" can see what files you have on your disk .... for OS which updates are NOT tested, for OS that treats users as beta testers i wouldn't be so light with "OS is fine"

Hi, I'm pool7. Long time lurker... Used to have an account up until at least July 1st (last email I received from a topic I was subscribed to) Tried to login today; my account was apparently deleted (I'm guessing due to inactivity). I'm interested in old Operating Systems and software, mainly from the 90s onwards. Always looking for tweaks, customization and improvements.

From Belgium, hello @pool7 and welcome to MSFN! I hope you enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

[had to correct this, the "listdevices.txt" was misleading, only exactly ONE driver supports GTX 970 and GTX 980. Other GTX 9x0 / Titans were mentioned in later drivers, but were not in the inf files.] Interesting find while explicitely searching for drivers older than those on the NVidia-Site, but after the launch, on www.forum-3dcenter.org http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/344.11/344.11-desktop-winxp-32bit-international.exe More infos: https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=556959 I tried it, and my GTX 970 was detected and runs fine (no SLI, though, even though it is active, and detected on W10 64bit). Excerpt from ListDevices.txt: NVidia mostly lists drivers AFTER this one on their site (there may be one or two more inbetween containing the 970+, but i did not detect any more. Jaclaz?). Oh, and one further insight: There exist inf-files for OEM cards (i.e. nvmii.inf for MSI) that indicate later drivers (347.25, 347.88) support these cards as well, as long as they are from said OEM. (look i.e. here: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/30969-modding-nvidia-oem-inf-files/ ) Using these may be possible, but as these may have other settings (assuming OC, requiring better cooler, etc.), it is always a bit risky. If they can be used for your card without inf-modding, you just pinpointed a driver tailor-made for your card, congrats... Starting with version 350.xx, 970+ are neither mentioned in the listdevices.txt, nor in inf-files. I suspect, this has something to do with XP 32bit dropping out of support with Microsoft on April the 8th 2014, so NVidia possibly joined the bandwaggon here... or was "encouraged" to do so by Microsoft, and only OEMs that were complied to deliver drivers for a certain time got some support. But thats just guesswork... For modding inf-files to have 970+ GPUs use the GTX 960 drivers, which seems to be working well, search on MSFN (maybe later i'll link to those threads - give me some time...). According to an analysis of the later drivers, of which the 368.91 (iCafe) seems to be the latest, while 368.81 is the latest generic, remember, that there exists more than one GTX 960, so choose well: NVIDIA_DEV.1401 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960" NVIDIA_DEV.1406 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960"

Hi all, I just got here (well actually I've been lurking and learning from many of your posts here for a couple weeks), and I see there is an announcement about the MSFN closing in a month. That would be tragic. I gather that was a while ago, and as of now MSFN is apparently still alive. So that is good. Hope it stays that way. I am happy to have found a good community full of skilled people with lots of valuable knowledge and insight. I recently built a new PC, and while I have been sticking with win 7 on my other systems, I have some peripherals for the new build which are not fully compatible with anything below win 8. So I decided to try Win 10, hoping that the hackers had worked out solid methods of forcing it to behave by now. In trying to wrestle this monstrosity from MS into submission I found myself here, digging through some informative posts and finding bits and pieces of the puzzle. NoelC's post about scheduled tasks provided a very useful baseline for trimming these tasks, and I appreciated that it wasn't overzealous about disabling everything like many of the other resources I have found on other forums. Many other sources recommend disabling things that will break stuff. Might not be immediately obvious depending on your use case, or the breakage may not be catastrophic, but NoelC's list was a more conservative and better informed baseline than I had found elsewhere. This post showing up in a google search was the reason I found MSFN in the first place. Thank you NoelC! For anyone else trying to nail down Win 10's scheduled tasks, that post provides a good starting point. I'm sure many people here already know these tricks but for those who don't, you also might look up NirSoft's TaskSchedulerView which provides a much better interface (NirSoft offers a brilliant assortment of very powerful and completely free tools worth checking out). TaskSchedulerView doesn't force you to dig through the task scheduler directory hierarchy, provides search feature, and allows enabling and disabling multiple selections at once. It made it much easier for me to get a complete overview of scheduled tasks, and keep a concise record of changes I made. Also, if you use sysinternals' PsExec to launch TaskSchedulerView as "system" then it is possible to disable those stubborn tasks which can not be directly disabled with admin rights through normal means. For PsExec search for sysinternals' PSTools, then to launch an exe with system rights use -s and if the exe has a graphical interface use -i so for example. psexec64 -s -i "path\to\TaskSchedulerView.exe" Yeah, I know you all probably all knew all of that. I used to dig around tweaking XP, or 98. Been using win 7 for years now and it never required a great deal of tweaking. I am kind of a reluctant power user. I will get my hands dirty if I have to, but I would rather be working in photoshop or doing some solid modeling. I would rather stay almost completely on the creative side, rather than the technical side. The way computers have evolved though, catering ever increasingly to the lowest common denominator, I inevitably find myself having to work around technical issues, and I am just the kind of person that never gives up and always finds a way. Seems like Microsoft is determined to put a stop to people like me. People who insist on making our computers work the way we want them to, in order to best accommodate our own specific workflows. They are trying to lock everything down and take away our ability to configure our systems however we see fit. Since installing Win 10 I have been forced to do more tweaking than I have had to do in many years, so much of it is new to me. MSFN has been an invaluable resource. Sorry, this was just going to be an introduction post, but I'm afraid I have a tendency to go off on tangents, and I often get carried away with excessive detail. I'll stop now. Anyway, glad to meet all of you. Happy to become a part of the community. Hope we can keep MSFN alive for much longer than just one more month.

Glad to have MSFN back up a second time. One of these days I will have to donate, even though I know this wasn't the case of the down time (this time around.)

Welcome! It's great to have you hear and thanks for coming out of the shadows and becoming a member! And don't worry about donating. Although it's a big part of keeping us going, if you can't do it, you can't do it. That's sometimes how life is. But we definitely appreciate any little bit that we can receive. Even $5USD is very much appreciated!

Yes. But the flow of donations has to keep going, because the (steadly srinking) ad revenue is not enough to keep the site going anymore.

As xper announced in the original topic, the possible takedown was postponed into far and undefined future :>

Okay, so today I was finally pushed over the edge. Why is everything putting "HD" in its title now? First it started out with Oxi-Clean Laundry Detergent which their new stuff lists itself as HD. Now this morning I saw a commercial for Crest toothpaste, which now it identifies itself as HD. So, just exactly how much more "High Definition" can you get than real life itself? If anything, I truly find these HD titles to be totally bogus. What's next? Bacon HD? Chevrolet Malibu HD? Just slap on an HD at the end and it automatically becomes better!

Those appear to be "QD" or Quadruple Density: http://www.hardware-bastelkiste.de/floppy.html Even so, that HD is actually meaning High Density. Here is a baseball card set, 2001 Topps HD: http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/1497/cid/282642/2001-Topps-HD-12-Cal-Ripken-Jr.

In case of floppies, it stands for High Density, which is more tightly connected to the way the technology works, than today's High Definition, which can describe really anything.

Most of the 3.5" floppies stacked at the back of my desktop have an "HD" logo. Some date back over 25 years! Several read: maxell SUPER RD MF2 HD DOUBLE SIDED HIGH DENSITY DOUBLE TRACK/135 TPI

Well, back in the old days everything was labelled as 2000, to show that it's new, cutting edge et ceterea. For obvious reasons HD tag aged much better

HD had been a tag word before, during the first run of HD 1080i TVs in the late 90s, early 2000s.

A few years ago the "hot word" was "Turbo". As for HD in some cases it actually means "Heavy Duty" so it makes sense for things like Oxi-Clean. Bacon, not so much. Hope I never need "HD" toothpaste.

You CANNOT make bacon better! jaclaz

FWIW, I'm not saying at all that those three nameless IP's should be removed from your list, but for me: 65.39.117.230 -- Webpage not available -- took too long to respond 134.170.30.202 -- went to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps-and-games 137.116.81.24 -- brought up a page that just had "Ok" on it, whatever that means. Cheers and Regards

I'd be more interested in what parts of Windows accessed those locations, actually. And yes, I would expect ALL of these tweaks to be undone with anything more than the most minimal Windows Update. Microsoft thinks they have everyone conditioned to accept that kind of crap now. The tweakers of the future will have to be re-tweakers - programs that run at startup and make sure things stay as the user wants them. Not a big deal, really, but more of a pain than the "set it and forget it" stance we're used to. Nice job on the reformatting of the OP by the way. -Noel

I took these two while at the Trump Plaza Casino about 2 weeks ago.

Ahhhhh. I can't understand German. And, it requires me to log on. Ahhhhhh. Can anyone help me?