MrMaguire

Microsoft did release an ISO for volume license customers, and it had IE7 slipstreamed, as well as Media Player 11, Remote Desktop 6, and a few other things. POSReady 2009 is based on this ISO.

The D630 runs Vista and 7 quite well. I have several of them and I've found the 80GB hard drives they come with are rather slow, which tend to drag down performance on NT 6.x.

I have v256. From here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/949104 I downloaded the version labelled for Windows 7 SP1 - it seems to work just fine on Vista.

I use the XP/Atom edition of Pale Moon on XP Pro x64, and so far it's worked out just fine. Usually I have around 10 tabs open, and around 40 at the very most. It has been quick and stable for me, even though I visit websites that are loaded with Flash and JavaScript. What is the advantage to having a 64-bit browser? I used to use the Binary Outcast 64-bit build of Pale Moon for XP, but I understand that it has been deprecated for a while now.

No problem. I actually got the links from a site that has something to do with ManageEngine. I used to do a lot of fresh Vista and 7 installs for work back in 2011/12, and the initial check for updates wasn't very quick even then. The NT 5.x update system has always been superior to me, with the checks being very quick in comparison. From what I've read here, there is an update that reduces the CPU hogging, but I haven't needed to install that. On my Vista systems rebuilt recently (within the last week), Windows Update returned results within an hour or so, with the CPU utilisation hovering around 50%, with the load being split evenly across a T7200 Core 2 Duo.

KB3139852 does the trick. For whatever reason, the pages hosting the update on Microsoft's website seem to be unavailable... Here are the direct links for Vista and 7: Vista x86: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/6/4E6AF60C-C739-4482-80D8-56078FF53D47/Windows6.0-KB3139852-x86.msu Vista x64: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/B/B/EBB3852D-B509-403A-AF0C-9D0DB203DDBC/Windows6.0-KB3139852-x64.msu 7 x86: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/6/856E79B4-006F-4F37-BB3B-D84D16C4C28F/Windows6.1-KB3139852-x86.msu 7 x64: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/7/9/67988833-36CA-462E-8DF8-9AE41D92FADB/Windows6.1-KB3139852-x64.msu

High resolution monitors have been available for a long time. In fact, high res CRTs were used in a lot of offices in the late '90s, for graphic design and publishing, etc. High res LCDs have been around since at least 2000 or so. As for the Windows XP setup music, I believe it was used in some other Microsoft product's setup first. Something to do with early Internet Explorer, I think.

How do I check? It was the most current 64-bit version at least 5 days ago. I've used the /wuforce switch on XP lots of times. It forcibly reinstalls the update agent, even if the installed version is the most current.

45 minutes? Bah! I recently did a fresh install of Vista Business x64 and Windows Update took well over 13 hours to return results... This is on a Core 2 Duo with the latest update agent too. I'm about to look into the solution NoelC posted.

I have Windows 7 running on a Pentium M laptop from 2005. If you want snappy performance you need a storage device with good random read / write bandwidth. In other words, you need a fast hard drive, decent hard drives in RAID 0, or an SSD.

I have the older version of search installed, plus all of the latest updates, and I don't have the same problem.

How exactly did you come to that conclusion?

Hi Roffen, If you already have a fully updated Windows XP SP3 system, the SP4 will be of little use to you. This Google Drive contains a PDF document that lists all components in Service Pack 4: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7k-l_4omFECNWRGNHBEdVBsTTA&usp=sharing

If you still care about this, you could try taking advantage of the sticky keys backdoor, by renaming the on-screen keyboard exe to sethc.exe offline, then launching it by pressing shift five times. I think the problem might be that you're using a USB keyboard? In that case, I'd invest in a cheap PS/2 one. A used one from a computer fair or eBay or something would be perfectly adequate. Just make sure to clean it first.

For the wireless driver I would try extracting the driver package, then installing the driver itself manually through the Device Manager.

I've been using this splash screen ever since, and have had no issues relating to it. I made three bitmaps, one for Pro, Server and Server without the Powered by Extended kernel text. I use ResHack to replace the previous version in NTOSKRNL.EXE, and the Recovery Console to replace the file outside Windows. They are resources 1, 4 and 12 in NTOSKRNL.EXE respectively. Something worth noting is that I make the NTOSKRNL.EXE file for each install using the process above, to avoid any issues with the kernel not matching with the system's HAL. I did attempt to figure out how BlackWingCat changed the colour of the loading bar, but I never made any headway, and he doesn't accept PMs on here. Somebody I know doesn't like the modified splash screen at all, and they wanted it to look original with UUR. Plus I would like to change the loading bar on the server version so it's dark grey as well.

Here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/download/4eb3fn6h43iktbn/Windows+2000+Splash+Screen+Bitmaps.rar Thank You so Much No problem.

Here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/download/4eb3fn6h43iktbn/Windows+2000+Splash+Screen+Bitmaps.rar

Windows Update on Windows 2000 is a dedicated website hosted by Microsoft. The icon in the Start Menu is just a shortcut. If you want to make new updates available for Windows 2000 in the same fashion that they were previously available, creating another website for that is the thing to do. You basically need to copy the Windows Update website, and change it for your own needs. Microsoft may disapprove.

Is anyone here using a Compact Flash card as a substitute for an IDE hard drive? Which CF cards make the best IDE SSDs? I'm planning to buy one at some point. I'll be looking at around 32GB capacity, and will probably be using Windows 2000 or XP. I've ran Vista and 7 on slow hard drives before, depending on the random read/write speeds of the CF cards, I may choose to run NT 6.x.

I never buy or even use those no-name power supplies. Computer power supplies have used switch mode technology since the early '80s. Switch mode technology generates quite a lot of electronic noise in the process of the creating DC current from the AC current from the wall. So a switch mode power supply needs proper filtering and shielding, of which pretty much all of those cheap power supplies don't have enough. Without proper filtering and shielding, that electronic noise makes it back into your house electrical circuit, and can interfere with other appliances. The noise also escapes as radio waves and interferes badly with TVs, radios and your Wi-Fi. See this video for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nTRIxloDcI It's also important that the power supply has adequate protection. In the case that the components start to fail (which is likely with cheap power supplies), the power supply's voltages can rise significantly, and it could kill your motherboard, keyboard and everything else. Some cheap power supplies have even caught fire in a violent fashion. Some good power supply manufacturers are: AcBel, Hipro, FSP Group, LiteOn and Delta. OCZ, Silverstone and other brands are usually manufactured by one of the above.

The Compaq Deskpro EN suffers with this same limitation - I believe it has the same chipset. It's a shame. Those older Pentium IIIs are still quite capable for daily usage otherwise. I have quite a few laptops with the Intel 915 chipset. They're all limited to a max. of 2GBs of DDR2 for that reason, even though the desktop version of the 915 will address up to ~3.5GB. I did try 3GB of RAM in one laptop, Windows 7 reports 3GB of RAM, but states that 2GB is usable. The BIOS states 2GB of RAM. Hmm...

Rebooted after installing the updates. CPU hogging is gone ...for now.

Windows Update was running in the background. I'm actually installing updates now. svchost's CPU usage is around 2%, and TrustedInstaller.exe is now dominating. I have Windows Update set to Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them. I'm hoping that Microsoft will do something to alleviate this. 2/3/4 years ago, Windows Update on NT 6.x was more merciful than this.

I have a beef with Windows 7. On occasions I start up my laptop to find very slow performance. I then come to find that svchost.exe is hogging 80%+ of my CPU. Now, I'm using a 10 year old laptop with a Pentium M 2.13GHz, but... Windows 7 does perform well on this hardware when the CPU is fully available (especially since I have an SSD). Killing svchost in Task Manager results in greatly reduced CPU usage, strange behaviour, and the process only starts itself again. The solution to this CPU hogging at the moment is to just wait until it subsides. Of course, I have no idea when that will happen... Any suggestions?