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I also have a Toshiba Satellite A350-134 from 2009, which ran Windows Vista Home Premium at the beginning. I havent used that Laptop since 2013 I guess. I recently used it again and thab I realized that Vista is unsupported for 2 years now. So I upgraded it from Vista to Windows 7 (which might be also a bad decision as the Upgrade took ~2 Hours and Win7 is ending soon). I dont really like Windows 7's shell, so I used this transformation pack and I am REALLY impressed! It feels like Windows Vista SP3 or a refurbished Vista that is so much faster. Windows 8.1 will be my next upgrade, as Windows 8.1 is the fastest OS on this old Laptop. Windows 7 Boot takes over a minute, while 8.1 took 26 seconds. Specs: Model: Satellite A350-134 Ram: 3 GB Memory: 150 GB HDD Processor: Pentium T3400

I'm very pleased to finally report that the problem I had with Sky e-mails displaying very slowly in Eudora is fixed! With the great help of @jumper, whose patience with this has been extraordinary, the fix turned out to be very simple indeed. All I needed to do was to add - 127.0.0.1 assets.sky.com 127.0.0.1 helpforum.sky.com 127.0.0.1 www.sky.com to the HOSTS file, and the messages now open after just a second or two of delay, instead of the 20 seconds or so it was taking before, which is fine with me! They look fine and aren't apparently missing any elements either. Amazing how you can take so long looking at ever more complex possible fixes, and the answer actually turns out to be something so simple! Of course the Marks and Spencer e-mails will still be a problem, but now I know how to fix it when I next get one! Cheers, Dave.

Windows Defender in Windows 7 and Windows Vista is anti-spyware only. In Windows 7 it is more hidden than in Windows Vista, why? I don't really know. It doesn't even show up in the taskbar IIRC. Using built-in Windows Defender only in Windows 7/Vista is not really recommended, as it is considered deprecated. Microsoft expects you to install Microsoft Security Essentials to get full anti-virus like experience like you see in Windows 8/8.1/10. And make it easier to actually find it. And it will be in the taskbar. More information here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-my/help/14210/security-essentials-download https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Security_Essentials

Yes, there is one: Hopefully the day when the only viable Windows OS is 10 never comes.

I found a bug in WinNTSetup4 Beta 2 After launching WinNTSetup, then I can Load a previously Saved .ini file with Settings to overrule the default WinNTSetup.ini It turns out that the Tweaks from that previously other saved .ini file are not taken into account to switch off tweaks, allthough the switch offs are present correctly in that saved .ini file. Also the program WinNTSetup crashes when a wrong type of wim file like boot.wim is selected. May be for the unexperienced user it is good to give WARNING - This WIM file is Not Valid as Installation file

I suspect that a lot of Win 7 users are either upgrading to Win 10, switching to new Win 10 machines, or just abandoning Windows altogether. That's probably due to all the hype M$ is pushing as Win 7 EOS nears. Win 7 users abandoning Windows would push up the percentages of all other Windows versions. That may explain the apparent rise in Win XP users. To confirm whether the apparent rise in XP use is real, you'd need to see the raw numbers, not just percentages.

The best you can hope for is to use Application Verifier on the desktop client to fake Windows 7 once it starts to block XP/Vista. However, they may take the opportunity to recompile it with dependencies on DX 11.1 (Windows 8 and up, partially backported to 7) or other Windows 7-specific functions. You may still have a glimmer of hope in the former case, if these DX 11.1-specific libraries can be copied over to Vista with no dependency issues, as that's what happened to later iterations of DX9 with so-called XP-exclusive components; they work in Windows 2000 even without the extended kernel. All I can say is, keep your copy of dependency walker handy.

Excuse me, I was under the impression that you were running XP 5 days ago. I'll get right on it, just as soon as I have time to kill.