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Welcome! And yes, please don't create duplicate topics otherwise it gets confusing when it comes to answering your question. We have a lot of awesome, knowledgeable people here so I'm sure someone will have the answer to your question.

Welcome to the forums! You did a fine job translating. Thank you for taking the effort even with your language barrier. It is very much appreciated! When I had more time and didn't use my computer for a lot of newer things, I loved Windows 98 as well. I'd go back to it in a heartbeat but most of my tasks these days require Windows 10 so I'm stuck on it now. I do hope that you'll find a lot of useful content to you though!

That's exactly what I was referring to. Thanks for the clarification. Still a bit annoying but I suppose you can predict where the icons will be depending on where you right clicked on the screen.

I hear ya. I'm even starting to get used to the new right click menu and using the icons for cut, copy, paste, etc. Although a complaint I have on there is that it seems sometimes the icons appear on top and sometimes they're on the bottom and I have no idea what triggers that but it's a bit annoying because you think you're just going to quickly click on something and it's not there...but then you look and it's on the other side of the menu. But with using something like that...I wonder how much it would be an adjustment to go back to the old style. The only thing I could get used to again is the classic 98 theme. I know there's a project that can actually restore it but it really bogs down my laptop since it relies on .net 4.8 and a few other things to run.

I did! It was fantastic! My complaint was only mostly in the music department where some of it got a bit repetitive but other than that, I really enjoyed it a lot. Luckily I made the decision to hop to Windows 10 for my daily driver or I never would've been able to play it. My main computer had a dualboot between it and Windows 2000 but somehow the 2000 install got corrupted so I cannot even boot into it anymore.

Simple worked, that's what kind of gets me in today's computing. I'm not the kind that really needs special applications for everything but even that isn't an excuse for not having a clean interface that was simple to navigate and use. Windows 95 did what people needed it to do and didn't hide things within menus upon menus.

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I don't think Windows 11 is terrible, after you install Explorer Patcher and return some of the UI back to Windows 10. I guess that sort of negates the entire "upgrade" but I don't like how Microsoft removed a lot of the customization. The few lines of code they removed just so that you can't move the taskbar where you want, or have full titles shown in the taskbar, there's no reason for it that I can see except for keeping the taskbar cleaner for the newly centered start menu button and icons. They probably want to make it look like a Mac. I'm running it on "unsupported" hardware but I don't care because it works regardless. But honestly, I just tolerate it like I tolerated Windows 10 and even then, I used the Long Term Service Branch/Channel so it wasn't bloated with so much garbage. I'd still much prefer using Windows 2000 or Windows XP x64 any day, back when they weren't afraid to let you customize your system. The honest truth though is unless you have the need, there's really no reason to upgrade to Windows 11 from Windows 10, the settings menu as I'm concerned is more of a mess than anything. I prefer the good old fashion control panel, and not the grouped kind either. I don't even see the need for a "settings" panel, the control panel was just fine but it's more change for the sake of change. But even to this day, I still can't daily drive a Linux distribution so I'm stuck with Windows. So may like how certain aspects aren't tied to the operating system, but I personally don't because it feels like it doesn't flow well with the OS. It feels less stable in my opinion and customization can be confusing.

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I've been using it for about two weeks now, I don't think it's truly that bad once you install explorer patcher to return some of the graphical interfaces back to the Windows 10 style. But one thing that has irritated me about Windows 8+ is honestly the graphical interface. I know you can choose a color for the titlebar but it's just one, flat color. I wouldn't mind a few aero traits coming back to Windows 11 though. Some of the window animations remind me of Aero to a degree but the flatness drives me insane. Then again, I preferred the original classic theme the best. It felt more colorful and vivid instead of this flat, gray/white garbage that comes out of box.

Without really reviewing the hardware too carefully, I'd say Windows 7 is probably the oldest you could potentially install on your laptop. Even though Windows Vista is part of the NT6.x line, I almost consider it to share more traits with Windows XP since a lot of things were cut off from Vista when they were with XP. That's the problem with laptops and ultra small form factor PCs though, you can't really customize your hardware and even if you had a few options from the vendor when picking out your configuration, it's iffy if things like your wireless adapter or graphics adapter will work. Generally audio works without too much of a hitch. If you could post a list of your hardware such as graphics, audio, wireless/wired network adaptor, and chipset...we could probably make a better determination.

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@xper Is there an actual issue with the donation plugin when it comes in regards to anonymous donations? Unless the option is in PayPal which I don't remember seeing, then there's no way to change if the donations are anonymous or not. I remember at one point there was a way to select anonymous donation/amount right from the donation plugin itself. I gave $15 the other day and it hadn't showed up, so I'm hoping that you received it as well?

This happened to me as well, although I don't recall any option existing to change whether or not it is an anonymous donation or not.

I'm moving this since it's not specifically related to Windows 11, so for now it goes into General Discussion. Thank you!

My question is: Why would you want it this way? 32-bit and 64-bit should never touch each other. Are you looking to just save on resources and keep it all on one DVD/Flash Drive, rather than having it on two seperate media? Other than that, I really don't have a clue what the benefit would even be for doing this.

I wasn't aware of that, thank you for the clarification. I think it was on their site that I saw something about them discontinuing the 32-bit version of Windows 10 which I wouldn't even have investigated in the first place but after Carey Holzman was investigating the y3k bug through the BIOS, he was trying to figure out why someone would return a Gigabyte motherboard to Amazon with a BIOS year of 2091 and apparently Windows won't install if the year is beyond a certain threshold but it sounds like it was more of a 32-bit issue rather than a 64-bit.

In case anyone isn't aware, but Microsoft has quote on quote dropped 32-bit support on Windows 10 as well. I can't remember which version was the last, might have been 2004...that you can't do a new install of Windows 10 32-bit. Now if you do have an older version of Windows 10 installed you can still fetch the newer version via Windows Update and it will install and run just fine. But that means they're already axing 32-bit support. I can understand why they're doing it even if I don't necessarily agree with it either. But as someone else mentioned in the thread, it was inevitable for this to happen since the server versions dropped that in Windows Server 2008 R2 (based on Windows 7). And with Windows 11 having such steep requirements, they probably figure there's no sense to have a 32-bit version and have to keep two different repositories for them and just focus on one single 64-bit because for *most* people, there's no benefit to having 32-bit over 64-bit.

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I'm skeptical on the whole thing like I was with Windows 10. I've been using Windows 10 as a daily driver for a year now and even though I'm not fond of it, it drives a lot of the programs I've been running. So while it's not bad, it's not awesome and I've had more problems with it than my beloved Windows 2000. But of course as we've seen time and time again from Microsoft, there are usually a lot of bugs and stability issues with vanilla releases of Windows and don't really improve until the service packs start rolling out. It would be nice to see actual service packs again rather than these continuous rolling updates. Windows 10 never felt finished because of this update method. A small thing I miss is the ability to really tweak the user interface and use real themes. I don't care for the flatness of Windows 10 and prefer above anything, the Windows Classic theme which was completely removed. Even Aero had a bit more character than the Windows 10 theme. So I don't really expect that to change judging from the screenshots I've seen so far. But of course the big thing will be functionality and we'll have to see what the system requirements are to run the OS but I'm assuming they won't be too different from Windows 10. Probably anything that can run Vista smoothly will most likely be able to run Windows 11. For anyone that wants a little more information: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22466394/microsoft-windows-11-launch-teaser-rumors I would have to agree that launching a whole new Windows would be a smart move, considering that like the article says, new versions of Windows spark more PC sales and considering the whole Covid mess over the past year and a half and many US citizens receiving stimulus checks from the government, it could potentially nudge people who saved some of that money to buy a new computer. That's just my thought though.

Here's my take on it. I agree that too many stickies in a forum can get cluttered and look unorganized. So if it were me, I would go through some of that information and make a good one stop thread with links to all of these important articles, sort of like what I did with the Windows 9x forum. So make a sticky with all these links and unpin some of the less important ones. Or we could create a subforum within the Windows XP forum and move all of the important topics/references in there so that way they're easier to find, but leave it so only mods and above can make any post or topic in there. It would be more like an archive. But we don't want people just posting in there randomly and creating more fluff to bury other topics. But that's just my two cents on it.

There is an ongoing thread trying to accomplish just this: With that being said, I'm going to lock this so that we don't start having conversations about it in a bunch of threads so if a solution is found, then it'll be easier to locate instead of mucking through threads trying to find it. Topic LOCKED