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Best option for just reading pdf files located on your HD is Sumatra PDF reader. Very small and fast PDF reader. It has also portable version. In fact I don't use the over bloated Adobe Reader even on Win 7 or 10.

A friend of mine disconnected a PS2 mouse and immediately connected another one during running Windows, since then the PS2 mouse port is not working anymore, of course he is using an USB mouse now. Also I fried a Geforce 210 just by disconnecting VGA cord, some time ago because PC was Suspended, not turn OFF and I didn't notice it.

Every time you open the machine box, you need to first unplug AC power cord on desktops and laptops, and additionally extract the battery on laptops, before connecting or disconnecting anything on your machine, to avoid any possibility of damage to the motherboard. Latter once you did all required inside your machine box, connect all external PS2 (like mouse and keyboard) LPT printers, serial connectors, soud cord if any, etc., and finally you can plug again (first battery if laptop) AC power cord. Only devices that can be hot plugged without risk to your machine are USB devices. So if you didn't follow this procedure it is a big chance you damaged your MB. NOTE: I have seen some MB Bios where you can select the option to hot plug/unplug SATA devices, but this is allways disabled by default, and many other MBs don't have this option anywhere. So to be on the safe side never hot plug/unplug SATA devices unless this is done through an eSATA external port.

And the big questions are: Why MS didn't say this since the very first 10 release? Why wait until now to say this? This looks more as a new (recent) policy for updates, and a good oportunity to use it also as a very good excuse for a big bunch of bad updates plaged of troubles.

Yes, it is. I have IE 11 on my own Win7 SP1 uptated upto December 2017 install.esd, but only used IE 11 once, to download FireFox.

Well as I think people using Win7 now do not like anything related to 10, and since on 7 you can avoid especific updates, I don't think many Win7 users will download a Windows remake of Chrome when they can download real Chrome if they want, or Opera, or FireFox (as I prefer). So this is going to be just another fiasco. But this seems to me more like accepting actual Edge is another failure, and they are desperately looking for new ideas for the browser (copying others and not developing anything new).

I also have upgraded to 1809 and saw the OS running a new "feature" to erase all old stuff on my profile, fortunately all my documents are always on a separate partition to easily use them from any OS. Anyway with all comments everywhere about troubles in every update of 10, Do you realy think it is a good idea to be betting every time an update is installed? And for average users there is no way to stop updates. alacran

@Dclem It is good to hear you have your PC running as you like without troubles, but unfortunately your case is an exception, maybe IMAGEFOLIO 4.5 didn't make changes to Windows register when it was installed on your previous PC/OS, and it only expanded to its folder location on Programs directory during install, but that is not the case for almost all programs. alacran

Just stop using this trash, v1809 is the worse of all versions, I do not use 10 as my every day OS, but I have a partition with 1709 updated to Dic 2017 and all is working fine, updates service is disabled and metered connection selected just in case, to aboid updates.

I remembered I had a GT 710 2 GB RAM on another PC and decided to try this one, now after installing it with its last version drivers all is working great and I have Win7x64 running very fine on Coffee Lake without any issue. Anyway I know this is and old graphic card, but it is good enought for my actual needs and I will remain running Win7 updated up to Dic/2017 (I'm not installing any more BS updates on any of my machines since that date). for as long as possible until FireFox and Avast Free stop supporting it, then go to some Linux distro and a virtual machine to run my especific programs. It's been some time I'm testing some Linux distributions to be ready when needed. Ubuntu is too bloated, Linux Lite (Ubuntu based) seems as a good option for MBR paritioned disks (not bigger than 2 GB). Also Linux Mint x64 is a very good option, good to install on MBR and (UEFI) GPT partitioned disks. alacran

As I read about new H310 ChipSets supporting Win7 on Coffee Lake platform, in order to improve my old (Win7x64) PC, recently bought an Asus Prime H310M-E R2.0 MB, a Pentium Gold G5500 (3.8 Ghz, 2 Cores, 4 Threads), two Kingston HyperX Fury 4 GB at 2400 MHZ modules of RAM, an Adata SU650 240 GB SSD, and as secondary the old 1 TB HDD. On MB page there are available (almost) all drivers for Win7x64 but not the Video Driver, CPU Processor Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630, and on Intel there is only driver for Win10. I tried all known tricks used to install HD Graphics 630 for previous generation processors, adding line for ID (PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3E91 taken from a Win10 install on another partition) and in fact they work and let me install the HD 630 driver (unsigned, but install anyway), but it is not loaded by the OS during boot, on device manager it is with the yellow mark and says device reported a problem and was not loaded by system (code 36 or 42 depending on driver version), driver versions tested are 21.20.16.4508, 4526, 4541, 4551 and 4678. So even if I think (and also read) both graphics drivers are basically same thing and new one is just renamed from HD 630 to UHD 630 the fact is I can't make it work so far, and I have several programs that do not run on Win10, so Win10 is not an option (and also I hate it). Any ideas? Please don't suggest to buy a video board, I don't want to spend more money. and processor graphics should be enought for my needs (including watching NetFlix by HDMI and play some low resource consuming games). alacran

No doubt they are getting better all the time.

You are not forced you to use it, you are free to install any other AV. But on the other hand in the past they were forced to make N editionts without Windows Media Player, and also add an option to download and install other Internet browsers.

Go to device manufacturer site and see if there is some software or driver for your device: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/q1u-series EDIT: On this page: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/q1u-series on software there is this: Touchpad Version 1.2.0.0 APR 22,2008

Better call MS for assistance, your case is really unique.

New version 181017 with very minor changes is available. What's New in Version 181017 = Added: Link to repository. Starting from version 181017 all translations (*.ini and Readme.txt files) are now available on separate folders on: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/a39a3kebewmlu/Wimlib-clc You may download your prefered language files, and just put them on wimlib-clc folder and rename them by deleting from the original name _DATE (as an example clc_es-ES_181017.ini renamed to clc_es-ES.ini), to let the program find them easier (or automatically if you prefer).

It is my pleasure to share with all of you this Great Tool made with AutoIt: wimlib-clc v181010 first multilang version. Since long time ago Retokener (the author), a very good friend of mine, has been working hard on this project and made several builds since August 2014, this great tool is a Command Line Compiler or in other words a GUI for the fantastic tool of Eric Biggers wimlib-imagex, To use this GUI you need to extract it to a folder (I suggest use wimlib-clc as folder name), preferable to the root of a drive (C:\, D:\, etc.) and download wimlib-imagex x86 or x64 as required (I recommend download v1.13 Beta 5) , links to wimlib-imagex project and download page available on the program Menu under Info, just dowload your required version and make a subfolder x86 or x64 (or both if you want) and put into it libwim-15.dll and wimlib-imagex.exe files respectively, the program will find and use the correct set of files the first time you run it. If you ran before a previous version located on other place, the program could be still pointing to previous location, then on this case on Menu open File >>> Select Program File, and select it on its actual location. For more info on wimlib-clc use you may reed Readme file. Source: http://reboot.pro/topic/21861-wimlib-clc/#entry207901 Download link: http://reboot.pro/files/file/588-wimlib-clc/ Thread on wimlib forum: https://wimlib.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=369 MediaFire Alternative download link: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/a39a3kebewmlu/Wimlib-clc Password (just in case any stupid AV complains during dowload): clc Author deserves all credit, I only have collaborated with him as Beta tester, Spanish translator, and giving some suggestions. Now for the first time this program is multilingual: English, German and Spanish available for now, translators to other languages are wellcome, into download you can find clc_readme_en-US.txt and clc_en-US.ini, you can use both as a template to translate to you desired language, savig it as clc_readme_xx-XX.txt and clc_xx-XX.ini changing xx-XX for the codes of your translated language, you may use this page as a guide https://ss64.com/locale.html use codes under column "Short string". New translations can be uploaded here: https://www.mediafire.com/filedrop/filedrop_hosted.php?drop=7068e57385e9c4c85920e2c63e18d02c726253cf0c40ee55 Best Regards alacran

This means it was more than a month ago, MS give you 30 days to let you go back to your previous OS, after that period all related files/folders to previous OS are deleted. If restore partition is from HP and it is still there (undamaged), It is the usual way you can bring back your equipment to the initial state (as purchased), better make an external backup of all your documents, pictures, music, videos, etc., before doing this, since if they are located on same drive that will be restored they will be lost as the drive will be formated and initial image of OS will be deployed on it. Even if infrequent, there is always the possibility of some corrupt files/folders on restore partition that could make the procedure fail. I wish you good luck. Best regards alacran

Maybe some are out of tune.

OK, let's say then they pretend to be "programmers" Well, If that were the case, things would be done better. They look more as kindergarten kids.

I think programers working on 10 updates type with their toes not their fingers, it is always the same, they fix something but they break other thing(s), they all look as amateurs making their first programs. alacran

See this topic, this may help you: alacran

This is a very interesting and needed project for all 10 users, still on development, but so far: See the project on Github: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr/releases/ Build using .NET Framework 4.6.0 alacran

All my 5 PCs at home are running Win7x64 SP-1 updated up to December 2017, Browser is Firefox on all, but two of them also have Google Chrome, AV is Avast Free, and also have Malwarebytes Antimaware Free only to run on demand (just in case), not a single problem so far. Also all of them can dual boot Win10x64 Pro from another partition since I got and ID for them during free update, but nobody here use Win10, all they have an old 10 version. Only one PC has Win10 with a more recent version 1709 updated to December 2017, but updates dissabled, used mainly for running PEBakery to make some new WinPEs. I installed on this PC on a VHD (just to test) the 10x64 Pro 1809 (downlodaded last week with MCT) and I was able to see during second reboot a message saying something like Deleting or maybe Cleaning all old files on user profile, but since it was on a VHD I assume only files on that VHD were affected by this, I didn't loose any file on the HD Documents partition. So since thread title is UpdateWin 7 or Not? = I may say yes but only upto December 2017. Update to 10 = Better don't, it do not have any advantage over 7 and on the contrary it has all disandantages, it is Malware by definition, and ALL updates have a problem, especially the last one that can make you lose all your documents, you can never trust on MS anymore. Best Regards alacran

I as you, prefer to have only OS and some programs on C.\, all documents, games, downloads, etc are on separate drive/partition. This way my backup images are smaller and faster to update or redeploy, I use wimlib-clc for my backups (a GUI for wimlib-imagex ), not the faster making the first image but the smallest image file, and following Delta images are very fast. I have done something like this with some games that do not install on another drive/partition, installing them to C:\ and latter copying the main folder and all file/folders into it to another partition, and by means of Junction Link Magic created symbolic link (symlink) to new folder, and deleting all content of folder on C:\ (but not the folder), so far all has been working fine. In this case games were allready installed, but if we know the folder name (to avoid confusion) that will be created by the program/game, then we can create the symilink before installing the program/game etc. I know it can be done directly on Windows, but it is easier using this free tool, Download link: https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Junction-Link-Magic.shtml But we need to remember the symlink is pointing to a path like D:\My-Game, just like a shortcut, so if we change drive letter it will stop working. More info here. Best Regards alacran