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If someone identifies which files and registry entries compose the Spectre & Meltdown mitigation, a stand-alone installable package could be created that allowed one to install the latest cumulative updates, then forcefully (re)install the pre-mitigation files and regs only. But that's a time consuming task I'd envisaged as already done for 7SP1 and 8.1 by now, and, yet, I've had no indication anything like that has ever been done. I confess I'm surprised, considering how fast a patch to revert the artificial restrictions to Coffe-Lake and the like was released and keeps available.

You need:

May I ask why? Are you collecting them?

Aha! I did remember there was some issue with an antivirus! I thought it might be with Avast!, but it turns our it was Kaspersky! Thanks for the info! Added to the 1st post!

gparted serves just to create/resize/remove a partition. To deploy an image you need an imaging program. One possibility is to create a WIM, then deploy it. Another one is to convert a copy of the virtual disk (A .VDI or a .VHD file) into a raw image and deploy it with say clonezilla, or WinHex (not free, but possible to use in trial mode for this, IIRR), or the Win32 Disk Imager, or Partition-Saving.

Install VirtualBox on your Win 10 x64. Install 2k in a virtual FAT32 partition. Image that partition. Use gparted live CD to create a partition matching the one in the VM on the Asus P8H61-M LX3 r2.0 and deploy the image to it. Try to boot it. If it works, great. If not, deploy the image again, and use a remote registry editor (I like offlinereg) to delete the HKLM/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Enum Key. Try to boot it. In case even that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas. Please don't ask me to give you a detailed, step-by-step, guide of how to do what I've outlined in this post. The only painless solution to your case that I know of is to replace the motherboard. If that's not an option, you may try what I suggested above. It may involve lots of trial-and-error attempts to get it to work. Life is like that, though. Do make sound backups before risking anything really valuable with resizing partitions and the like. Good luck!

What happens if you put USB Legacy Emulation in Auto? And in Disabled? Some boards are weird.

What about the rest of my post?

Enter BIOS. Go to Advanced Mode, Advanced Menu > USB Configuration and set Legacy USB Support Enabled and EHCI Hand-off Enabled. Use a true USB KBD, not a PS/2 with a passive adapter. Use a true USB mouse, not a PS/2 with a passive adapter. Use the ports beside the LAN port, not the lne ones. Good luck!

Tell us your motherboard model and manufacturer and which processor you have on it. Only then we can really help.

No. But you can always resync to the correct time running NetTime at boot. I still use v. 2b7, for machines that need it for some reason. But now there are newer versions, too. Last Original NetTime (attached), by Graham Mainwaring: http://www.mhn.org/~graham/ NetTime project, resurrected by Mark Griffiths: http://www.timesynctool.com/ NetTime-2b7.7z NetTimeSrc-2b7.zip

Which, actually, is plenty, because the 2k community is way smaller than the 9x/ME one...

Hrm...

July 11, 2006!

The reason is they couldn't care less...

None of those have ever been pinned. How do I know it? Easy: nobody unpinned anything in this subforum at least since last year. The Cert_Updater is here: As for the others, it's just a matter of digging deep enough.

Our own resident supermegaüberhyperultraparanoid is @glnz... @heinoganda was pulling his leg because he's the OP of this thread... As for the link I gave you it's to the post quoted below, which still exists on another thread:

Boston Dynamics Spot dances Uptown Funk

Sure! @glnz: your presence has been requested...

Knock on wood! Yes: MU/WU still use TLS 1.0. So you've got to keep it enabled or to enable it just before searching for updates, which is more of a PITA. Don't you see these settings in "Internet Options"? If you don't you have to delete a couple of settings in the registry, as described in this post.

http://windowsarchives.com/

Now, if you need it in Italian, for instance, that's OK, because @heinoganda created the workaround in all languages. Do PM him.

So that tweak was the one that did it, right? One has to remove the custom trigger, disable the task and deny SYSTEM access to it, right?

AFAIK, the latest/last version of x86 storport.sys (5.2.3790.4485) is findable in WindowsServer2003-KB957910-x86-ENU.exe.