helpdesk98

I miss Windows 98 the first system I ever used. I dreaded the day I had to move on, however, I got my start working on 98 and a lot of the experiences help me even now. back on subject I have to say @NoelC your system looks amazing and the amount of control you have over it.

the bribe (via MS Rewards)

I think Microsoft need to go back to XP style updates (with its own interface on they system not in IE/Edge or metro) It has been a long time since I used Windows Update for XP, but from what I remember they used to give you more information about the update not just a vague description that is so general it explains nothing and links to a .001% less vague description that leaves you searching the boules of the Internet just to see if anyone else knows what the H___ is going on. If they ever would update such an interface I would like in the information filed more details about the update, any previous update dependency, and any know compatibility issues. I would also like to see them bring back the options to disable/enable WU, Download but choose when and what to install, and be able to choose a time to update (update now, update at 3am when I am sleeping, hold on I am in the middle of something please try again later) Sorry it is a bit of a messy rant

the cloud is simply taking away control. I miss the days when I had to manually maintain software I wanted to use on my system. (im not saying all cloud services are bad by any means)

remember when they started making it so you had to hit the function key (fn) before you could use the normal functions that used to drive me nuts. I prefer real normal keys if I still had my old ibm keyboard I would use it. I like the nose it made when you pressed and released the keys also it could take a beating lol.

I wish they would make PCs PCs again and not phones with flat, dull design, bloated with trash-ware & spyware, and removal of useful or fundamental features that make a PC a PC! there is my rant for the day lol.

adapt or become assimilated! loving the ST references

I did not think about that, but I do have a W7 VM that is activated the only difference is it Home Premium not pro. I can just configure the VM by hand as close the physical machine as possible.

What I want to do is clone my windows system turn it into a VM and load it in under my Linux operating system and be able to access a few programs that work best on Windows. Another thought I had was to setup remote apps on the Linux system and pull them to Windows, but I think that would be a whole lot more involved and in the end the performance would be worse then just running a VM.

got to ask has one tried Unity mode (think thats what it is called) in VM ware on a linux machine? I was going to try it some time ago, but I was having trouble getting VM Ware to run under my version of fedora never got back around to testing it.

still not updates no major issues most things seem to be fine decided to just hold off on updates for the time being.

I remember my first bad update it was for a graphics card WU insisted the driver I had was out of date and every time it got installed Windows would boot with 16 colors and the lowest resolution possible every configuration I would try to get it working failed so I would roll it back the driver I got online and everything worked just fine. I had an advanced user who like to run updates on his own and about once I week I would have to go down to the class room the system was in and remove the "updated driver" Please note this was way before I knew anything about locking down systems with group policy.

It is kinda of funny to think about, but I am back on the same update strategy I used with Windows 98-XP (mostly because I did not know about updates other then service packs) Now with the dawn of Windows 10 I have happily returned to don't fix what isn't a problem and use common sense when browsing the web and installing new software.

Windows 10.2 ftw? eh? na no faith in MS lol

The surgery was successful the virus known as Window 10 free upgrade has been removed and Windows 7 restored! Someone listened to me an made a restore image they just did not create boot media lol.

I would have multi step verification 1: biometric 2: password & or some sort of randomly generated key

What is Cortana? and how do I uninstall it from Windows 98?

the xmas trees are telling me other wise! just joking of course.

I miss the original ad-ware bonzi buddy I remember that from when I was a kid.

as an experiment couldn't you just set a 32bit systems clock to 1 minute before 19th January 2038 and just wait and see what happens? I would test multiple operating systems starting with older ones like 3.1 and 9x systems. I think the clock would just geek out for a minute throwing some sort of invalid system time error lol.

I feel sick already and I have not even put the VR head set on! If that is what is to come from MS I don't see this going well at least not until VR gets improved (seems like a neat gimmick like the Nintendo Wii was). That is not just a blank page you have been added to MS's watch list that page actually sends detailed telemetry about you back to MS. lol

Just imagen your a small business owner working on your MS Access Database and as you are entering your company's private data Microsoft serves you a pop up ad related to the very thing you are entering into your database. just think about how great that will be!

Everyone that I have helped restore their computers to a previous OS they have asked me to do it well after the forced I mean optional upgrade has been on the system for more than 30 days. So I would suggest more time be added I got lucky on most machines the OEM restore partition was still in tact and I was able to create restoration media for each machine.

My Mac is currently unable to access the out side world I think it is due to a botched update, but who knows as long a boot camp works I don't need to use it for much. It is not a bad OS has a bad balance of over simplified vs technically insane.

Windows 10 makes me sleepy! Not sure why, but I believe the UI drains the life from it's victims users that or i'm getting old one of the two.