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WCCF Tech: Intel and Microsoft joining hands in making a Windows 7 unfriendly ecosystem - Skylake Removes Support for USB based Windows 7 Installation "... You might be thinking that one can always take the bootable DVD route and even though research indicates that dependence on optical drives is diminishing by the second, it has its own caveats. You better hope that your motherboard has a PS/2 port because even while installing from a DVD, the USB ports wont work (during the install setup). If you have just one PS/2 port you will have to switch your PS/2 based mouse and keyboard as required through the entire process. All this means that Windows 7 will be very very troublesome for people to install and in most of the cases, people will consider it not worth the effort. Even if you do get it to work, the lack of EHCI means there might be unforeseen compatibility issues in the future. Effectively, from Skylake, and thanks to Intel’s spec upgrade, Windows 7 is now officially an obsolete OS ..." Anandtech: Intel Skylake Z170 Motherboards "... One big shock will be for Windows 7 users. By default, the Z170 chipset and BIOS will not support full USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller (EHCI) mode. This means that for a number of circumstances, USB devices will not work unless an XHCI environment in play. In our testing, this means that in order to install Windows 7 you need to do the following: · Navigate to BIOS · Enable ‘Windows 7 Installation’ or ‘EHCI mode’, Save and Exit. · Have your Windows 7 image on an optical disk. USB sticks will not work! · Install the OS as normal via the optical media. Install OS drivers/USB 3.0 drivers. · Disable the BIOS option. This is done for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it helps reduce the size of the BIOS for more customization. It also aids moving users to AHCI capable operating system installations. For everyone else, it is a bit of a headache. As far as we can tell, almost all motherboard manufacturers (at least the Tier-1s) will have this option in the BIOS to enable Windows 7 installation ..."

^ Whenever they use such epithets (of a kind normally reserved for descripting a recently acquired girlfriend) you know you're in the presence of a paid shill.

Has to be some prank.

* That must be a new world record in pathogen virulence.

^ You've touched it with a needle. Devastatingly true.

Sorry but I'm not impressed. The 4K read speed (the one that really matter) isn't better than in a decent SATA3 SSD. Wake me up when some new SSD achieves 100+ MB/s @ 4K read.

Another quote from Wargames in regard to all this post Windows 7 idiocracy:

Hope this helps:

Not to mention vests :

^ Wise decision. Here's an awesome ramdisk roundup and testing: http://www.overclock.net/t/1381131/ramdisks-roundup-and-testing

It's flat-topped, like a guyot. JPL We may be looking at a cryovolcano here. Cryovolcanism may also explain the white spots.

If you liked the white spots don't miss the 'pyramid'. http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/whats-up-in-space-great-pyramid-of-ceres-mars-conjunction-lunar-dust-cloud/52920/

Nice NASA/JPL video:

Worth quoting:

Are these guys right? Is the "upgrade" to X a journey of no return? http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/upgrading-windows-from-windows-7-home-premium-64/77905387-7940-4821-a0f7-483d0520a862?rtAction=1433361236012]

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Thus showing that even amongst the folks on this forum, where we have been discussing the GWX Windows Update and how to avoid it, even people who consider Windows 10 malware still trusted Microsoft to deliver only goodness with Windows Update into their Windows 7 systems. And to think the article says "With Windows 10, we start delivering on our vision of more personal computing, defined by trust in how we protect and respect your personal information," (emphasis mine). And to think people accused me of having a tin foil hat. My Windows 7 systems are popping up no such icon! -Noel Neither are mine.

(Sorry, couldn't help it )

^ For the scientific interest: Given such a low surface gravity, escape velocity from Ceres is also relatively low, just 0.51 km/s (510 m/s or 1673 ft/s). That means if you'd fire an M16 rifle (muzzle velocity 948 m/s or 3110 ft/s) from there, the bullet would escape Ceres' gravitational influence and (provided superb markmanship ) could potentially hit Earth.

Some theoretical models of Ceres' interior postulate an icy (perhaps even watery) mantle around a rocky core. Such a heavily cratered ancient surface suggests a geologically quite dead world in principle, but who knows, Ceres might be somehow venting water like Saturn's moon Enceladus:

Yet another way, we can create this shortcut: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"Then right-click on this shortcut, and then left-click on 'Pin to Start Menu'. Now the programs tree is just 2 left-clicks away, one on the orb and another on the pinned shortcut.

Closer views of Ceres' most popular crater as Dawn tightens its orbit.

Behold the wonders ahead. W10 will automatically install Candy Crush Saga, bundleware comes to Redmond