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Good! But then... Please do tell us what do c:\windows\system32\tasks\Microsoft and c:\windows\syswow64\tasks\Microsoft have inside. I, for one, got really curious.

Try rloew's RAM Limitation Patch demo. I bet it'll work. Do try it even if you don't intend to buy. If it works, you'll know the problem is in VMM.VxD.

Hey, thanks, man! I didn't know that! So I went looking to a clip of it, but didn't yet find any (@jaclaz: could you please give it a go?). Then again, I did find this, which illustrates reasonably an underflow, although a non-bubly and colorless liquid, preferably water (vodka, grappa, gin or sake would also do fine) might be best. Now physics remains physics... look how a real fill-from-the-bottom looks like (more noticiably at the start)...

Try running as TrustedInstaller...

I don't know, I've skipped Vista altogether, but I doubt it. Anyhow, the best person to consult about that would be MagicAndre1981... If he doesn't chime in soon, it might be a good idea to PM him about it.

ElevatedShortcut by Winaero simply works! It'll create a shortcut, and one must run from the shortcut, of course.

OR to keep using dumb cell phones and TVs for as long as one can possibly source them (and they're cheap if not even actually free, people will thank you for actually ridding them of those!)...

Note that XP, for one, doesn't require executables to be signed at all. So, that company might as well offer an unsigned version for XP and divulge its md5 and sha-1 (or whatever), for the more paranoid to check by hand. Nothing more than that is actually required, hence, they sure are being disingenuous.

@NoelC: Maybe this can be of help? Delenda Cortana!

Yes. No.

It sure does! While I have a clear recollection of the underflowing glass scene, it has to be part of another film or TV series. But, right now, I'm clueless as to which it may have been... but I'm sure sooner or later I'll stumble upon it again! Thanks again Jorge, you do rock!

However, plenty of not-so-new motherboards and processors are still findable on eBay, and some are quite powerful, BTW. AFAICS, i7 4930K or 4960X should also work, but nobody, AFAIK, ever tested either.

I have used Win 98 SE well beyond any support provided by MS, and keep on using XPSP3 for more tha one year since MS started declaring it suicide to do so. I've been using MS-DOS continuously, from v. 1.1. Moreover, my backups are dumb byte-by-byte images, and I keep libraries of them. That said, my answer to "You're Leaving Your PC Vulnerable and Exposed to Attack and If You Get Infected, You Deserve What'll Happen to You" is:

+1 I currently have two 7SP1 setups each in one of 2 different machines (all others are XPSP3). I have full image backup libraries of each bootable partition, going back more than one year (at least 4 per month). One of the 7SP1 is not being updated for a while already. The other receives only those updates I vet, but I'm confident if I make a mistake, my backups are sound enough for me to recover. It's not a VM, but it can be seen as a test setup, because the work OS on that machine is currently XPSP3, and the machine is a multiboot setup.

IMO, that's the way to go. The 10 fail is still ongoing, and if push comes to shove, 7 is mature enough to allow stopping udates altogether, if need be.

No. I'm sure NoelC is not surprised. Nor am I. I've drawn my personal line at 7SP1... he's more adventuresome and drew his own at 8.1... but anyway it's becoming clear as a summer day that 10 is unusable.

With all due respect, I disagree. Uninstalling and hiding that update is effective and clean. And one can still add also the registry keys MS divulged to disable GWX, just to be double-sure. But there's no reason in the world to keep GWX in the machine, if not to help MS backstab one somehow...

With all due respect, after about one week and 194 views, what makes you still think there actually exists any working driver for that specific setup? I do think that, if any existed, you'd have been already pointed to it, by now...

Just to keep related info together, there's another very reliable way to become the TrustedInstaller:

Make sure the d.reg has at least two blank lines at the end.

Thanks a lot, Bersaglio! You rock! BTW, KB3092601 (MS15-119) updates tcpip.sys to v. 5.1.2600.6935... So, those of you all using LvlLord's patcher need to patch the new file once more (yes: v2.23d still works beautifully!).

If maxXPsoft has an image of the 10240 previously installed in the machine, then reverting to that image probably would be faster than restoring/reinstaling things, and guaranteed to be exactly as from a fresh install. It's not necessarily more complicated than otherwise. Just my 2¢, of course...

@NoelC: just for my information, since you've done a lot of experiments in a relatively short time... do you still think 8.1 is worth the effort, or you'd say the best cost-to-benefit relation lies with well-tweaked 7 SP1?

+1. Sure it is.