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3 hours ago, Vistapocalypse said:
I will rest so much easier knowing that extended kernel users have a Chinese alternative to Kaspersky.
I do use the paid version of this antivirus. Sincerely its not really a lot of concern to me but least i have a functional firewall and protection, but i do dearly understand the reasons for concern. Governments have a too wide surveillance apparatus nowadays around the world.
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Vista was never unstable as Windows 95. Windows 11 is.
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360 Total Security (a full, non-pricy antivirus/security suite) works with full feature parity to windows 10 if osver.ini is set to 10 and version 1809.
WPS Office (a freemium equal substitute for Microsoft Office from the same 360 chinese company including pdf) works with all nt 10.0 features in the same way, albeit with some heavy bugs, including not being able to minimize without a crash (no documents are lost due to the automatic backup), but bugs stop if osver.ini is set to nt 6.1. AI assists and AI tools work even in a 64-bit pentium 4.
The 360 cloud storage works with no issues and can completely replace onedrive or google drive. Both programs work natively on vista as well but i'm not sure if with feature parity to 10.1 -
12 hours ago, D.Draker said:
D.Draker is clairvoyant . I wrote Mozilla will ditch Win 7 soon after Google.
I usually agree with 99% of what you say, to be honest. Mozilla is evil.
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Mozilla pathetic as always. I still prefer Pale Moon (i understand the conflicts with the forum members but) + a functional version of librewolf for apps which don't run on it.
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3 hours ago, awkduck said:
That is a kind of "wide open" question.
-Why did they not charge for it?
They can charge for several types of support. It should be noted, some features were developed to meet "paying" client needs. That kind of support is worth a lot of money. Also, having a developer walk you through your difficulties, while using their product, isn't something you'll often get for free. Especially if it is a big project, you needed done yesterday.
-Why did they build it in the first place?
To make a standardized platform, on top of platforms that are incompatible. Looks good, If you need something to work; but you don't want to rewrite it, for every platform.
Why did they make it for Windows, and not just for *nix and Apple/Mac?
If you are going to sell advice, on using a wrench, that advice should apply to as many cars as possible.
Although, I'm not sure I would consider Windows users deserving? And considering the result that Java is, I'm not sure what kind of respect it is, that you are insinuating the users/companies deserve. You can hold others in poor or low respect. If Java is the symbol of that respect, I am not sure that you are saying anything nice about Windows users.
Note: I mean this all kindheartedly. No actual terseness is intended.
My question was mostly about the market ideas Sun had about Java on Windows and the impact it had at the time. I think this explained a lot about it. I actually think Windows was and still is a very respected platform and i definitely agree had a lot of things going for it in the 9x era. Thanks for giving me the historical background of it.
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Would anyone mind to explain me, in a historical context, why Sun/Oracle gave companies who used 9x and 9x users the respect they deserved and let they have reasonably developed JVMs and runtimes for a while? It may be a bit offtopic because this is related to java 8 on kernelex (and not java 5 which was the last version for 98 oficially), but i would be pleased to hear about.
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1 hour ago, TSNH said:
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Has anyone tested Alder Lake cpus that don't have any E-cores on Vista (like i5-12600). Are they also not affected by the drift issues?nvm the @winfx's i3 doesn't have them2. Has anyone tested z690 DDR5 MBs with Vista?
If anyone have tested any e-core only mode in i9-12900k, in Vista, it would be happily appreciated to give their feedback.
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Kaspersky if you don't mind the NATOsphere FUD. Their scan is pretty powerful and does not require installs, the only problem is that i haven't used my Vista machine for a while to test if it works now.
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On 12/19/2022 at 7:55 PM, Brickedandroid said:
But are the MS store apps also compatible with aero/classic themes?
I would (would, this is not certain) suppose they would not work or would have some big issues to be dealt with (there is likely a lot of plumbing and dirty work behind they in 10/11 in system level) even if there was some way to get their dependencies running on Vista/7, unless if they were fully based on edge webview, in a way they would follow their own UI instead of the system, just like chromium.
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Per W3Counter (Web Clients + Operating Systems, November 2022):
https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2022&month=100 -
On 12/20/2022 at 11:13 AM, AMDFan4Life said:
Personally I feel like Windows 7 is somewhat usable in 2023, however I wouldn't use it for anything sensitive like banking due to the obvious security risks. As well as that, Chrome is dropping support for Windows 7, which is kind of a deal breaker for me as I have to use the G Suite for school and it doesn't run properly on Firefox.
"obvious security risks" are debatable depending on context and non-obvious by essence.
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On 12/10/2022 at 11:42 PM, Brickedandroid said:
So you must try more newer modern apps that are released beyond 2019, or apps with version/build newer than 2021, in which they are currently popular and have aesthetic-minimalist UI with rounded corners and eye-catchy effects and animations e.g. Spotify, Dropbox, Netflix, etc., and use Dependency Walker to check for the missing functions.
Please try also the Microsoft Store apps on Windows Vista Extended Kernel if possible.
We do not like WinUI and most win7/vista users use aero/classic theme and win32 programs. I hate apps and sorry, apps are inferior in every way, not to mention all important apps are electron and therefore run with standard APIs
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9 hours ago, mina7601 said:
Yeah, I know, rounded corners of windows like in macOS, start menu similar to ChromeOS's, as well as the centered taskbar buttons.
Let me remind you that Classic Shell is no longer in active development as of December 2017. Open Shell is the reborn of the good old Classic Shell, and is actively developed.
Yeah, me too. That's what I like too, although I mainly prefer traditional Windows XP/7 start menu. And also the classical Windows 95 start menu!
I constantly use 7/vista in classic theme + 16 bit color. It still brings performance advantages in cheap GPUs and laptop integrated GPUs from ultra-thin machines and i've even benchmarked it/tested real life usage in both.
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3 hours ago, FantasyAcquiesce said:
I can see Windows 7 lasting well beyond 2030 quite well. It's been almost 10 years since Windows XP was dropped and it's still-well supported by third parties. A lot of people don't have the luxury to buy a new PC. Often, they are in a developing country and new hardware is very expensive, a lot of old hardware and software won't work properly on Windows 8.1+ (one notable example being DRM disabling Hardware Acceleration on Adobe applications using BeTwin).
In all honesty, is buying newer hardware besides for work purposes and video games even worth it? Why should I fork over 500+ USD for an overpriced new PC that literally holds the same amount of ram and hard drive space that a computer over 10 years old holds? I could buy a cheap used PC that can still run Windows 7 on ebay. Sure, the newer PCs "faster," but the bloat and high requirements for Windows 10 and 11 just kills the purpose of even purchasing such a machine. Top that off with the number of bugs 10 and 11 hold. I can't even run an i7 with 8gb of ram properly on Windows 10. It's beyond dumb.
I'd rather just stay with my "legacy" Windows versions and be able to get my activities done. Digital art, file storage, family photos, and media files shouldn't require 16gb of ram and an intel i9 just to work properly. I can literally do the same tasks on my Pentium M with Windows XP at a faster speed. If security is a concern, just dual-boot with a lightweight Linux for web browsing and email.
Long live Windows XP/Vista/7/8.1!
I find security issues well overblown. People really believe their home machines are as much of a solid target for malware if they barely keep them turned on in a year as much as a company would and rarely expose themselves besides by their ports and IP itself. I sincerely doubt antiviruses are necessary at all aside from a classic 90s-like malware scan ran weekly if you are simply keeping a routine of using and turning your computer at suspend or shutdown time randomly across the day.
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-kb5020044-makes-task-manager-partially-unreadable/?fbclid=IwAR0GkaQ_XNqL16p_ZvmEvoKbr7R7_MRZug6EmIVJfosWS8DjoRRsZbmT41o
Eternally beta since windows 10. Why leave vista/7 if we have all kernel extensions we currently have? better to use two machines1 -
On 11/13/2022 at 3:51 PM, win32 said:
Official Chromium browser snapshot 1070779 (110.0.5417.0 - at https://storage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Win_x64/1070779/) is available today. No work has been done to break Windows 7 compatibility yet.
Vista and 7 will have a harder time because of the lack of support of nested job objects in those operating systems. Though even if VxKex and Vista Extended Kernel are unable to enhance job objects in time, I think we can run them with --no-sandbox in the interim. as most of the code relevant to job objects is in the sandbox.
As far as i know, BSD/true unix world mantains their chromium ports without a full multi-process sandboxing environment as well.
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I would like to switch to vista from 7 in my ryzen laptop but the nVME SSD isn't recognized in install (lack of appropriate driver likely) and vega 8 has no modded driver for it (there is a win7 one which i still have in backup as it may be down but i have no idea on how to mod it) I wonder if AMD graphics drivers could be modded in a more widespread compatible way, from radeon r4-r7 to vega and RDNA, but they are significantly distinct architectures.
1 hour ago, Jakob99 said:If anyone is interested in Windows Vista on AMD Radeon platforms like Stoney Ridge, please check out this thread:
I'm currently investigating the graphics driver for this platform to see how it can be ported to Vista. It does have a 6.0 section, so I'm hopeful this isn't too hard to do. If anyone wants to controbute anything useful to my project, feel free! Also note, Extended Kernel should not be needed for this.
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I think the main point about the viability of hardening a browser is the case where the code from it is already safe enough along with how architecturally vulnerable it is. By that i mean, chromium may be the worst because it's a whole operating system inside a binary with so much stuff that isn't even browsing-related and the code is just so massive and long-standing. but the complexity of things like its true multi-process architecture, and, particularly, the way the architecture works in certain operating systems, brings extra attack vectors where things do not always happen in userland in a more dominant way and things get mixed (windows NT is an example where that may be a security liability from the way the browser manipulates the OS, but linux is just a kernel and we know there are plenty distros that operate in a very similar way). The browser may be jailed like people in OpenBSD world do, but sometimes you can't jail the browser because you do not want to lose performance (i'm fully anti-sandbox in a desktop system level, for me it was a way of reducing OS and virus protection costs from microsoft, google and apple, the same i think about real time protection). Firefox is better in that respect, and some kind of safari-like browser would be better than the two, as webkit seems to be, in a contradictory way, the freest and easiest community maintainable open source engine from the 3 mainstream ones today, and you can even see people backporting webkit2 code to webkit1 in the WebPositive Haiku browser. I think the ideal mainstream browser to be hardened should be a webkit2 one,
Although i'm biased to UXP/PM due to design decisions, way cleaner/smaller codebase, and architectural differences, i think these are my views about the three main platforms.0 -
I would rather die than use win10/11 daily ever again. better to use 7 or maybe in the future vista or if i someday had something that cannot run on NT, BSD. linux distros have the special power to kill me inside me because it's the same buggy unstable ***** experience from 10/11 + bloated from non-PC-related code slow linux kernel + its server/mainframe nature inpraticity and weirdly unintuitive more work for no benefit (for my use at least) way of doing everything.
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12 minutes ago, Centrix8 said:
oh really can u send me the thread?
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On 6/19/2022 at 5:52 AM, D.Draker said:
Thank you, I try to do my best.
IMPORTANT for you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerspirits/comments/74flks/configuring_nox_app_player_to_remove_adware/
https://www.reddit.com/r/noxappplayer/comments/i06p96/unwanted_programmes_in_the_nox_installer/
Thanks for your suggestions mate, i will be reading them asap. Sorry for the very late reply, i've been off for some time.
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5 hours ago, Centrix8 said:
Yeah I'll probably choose 7 because most programs still support it and most of my hardware was designed for it
The (stilll in early development stage) 7 extended kernel brings some very useful win10/11 programs as well.
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On 6/17/2022 at 3:51 AM, D.Draker said:
Some time ago I used Nox (I'm sorry , I don't remember the exact version, smth like 5.x or 6.0), but it was only for a short amount of time when I was a beta tester for the older version of kernel. Later I uninstalled both 'cause it didn't allow to run a newer version of instagram. I mean Nox didn't allow , not the kernel. Bluestacks is like a virus in my opinion . Nox sucks too , but it's a lesser evil. You can find articles on how to block Nox's unwanted connections. Hope I helped you a bit.
Thank you, i see your efforts for vista as one of the most important here in the forum as you try as much to help people to get into it. I really dislike having to use a smartphone in any setting i can be at my PC (vista) or laptop (seven), and to leave all windows advantages in the deeper system level, win32 apps and classic windows 95-98 theme/UI (which vista and 7 still mantain as usable) for the awfulness and inconsistency of material design 2.0 in android or, god forbid, iOS. I say that as an avid user of custom ROMs and linux kernel tweaker. It is ridiculously, ridiculously inferior to Vista or 7. So i usually like to use some kind of emulator. Didn't knew about Nox. I will try to test it on my 7 laptop and uninstall bluestacks (never knew it was such an privacy backdoor)
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[WIP] Windows Vista Extended Kernel
in Windows Vista
Posted · Edited by Eddie Phizika
I think most do not understand how kernel development is a hard task and how it works. Its a lot of difficult code and its very doubtful there are not security fixes along the whole kernel and dependencies, stability and bugfixes along implementing the functions. I'm actually happy win32 is actually providing us with free updates alike to service packs.