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14 hours ago, BudwS said:
Thank you. Perhaps I'm used to the Apple restrictions. But when compared to Win 10 restrictions, it feels like Apple is an open garden. I much prefer to be able to open and close the garden door myself. I feel that we are of a common mind with computers. Again, thanks.
Apple's iPhone and Mac App Store restrictions are just as absurd as the Windows 10 Store's.
Though Apple don't try to force the App Store as much as Windows 10 forces things on users or tries to.
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3 hours ago, aaronfranke said:
Will you be creating "Windows 7 Unofficial SP2" when Windows 7 loses support in 2020? I am definitely interested in this!
What about "Windows Vista Unofficial SP3"? Not that I care very much, but it would be neat.
Um... I doubt the OP has the resources to work on more than one service pack style thing actively. It is a good idea though!
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It's fine, you didn't come across as rude much ^^
Anyway this can be closed.
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Walled garden = heavily restricted if that's what you're asking.
(And I like MacOS/iOS too if that's also what you're implying)
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Hm, what are the reasons for not having one? ^^
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Does MSFN have an IRC channel? I'd like to easily talk about things, but there doesn't seem to be such a thing present as IRC or such.
If you're looking for an IRC network to host on, I'd recommend Rizon since my server is impractical for serious stuff (it uses a free domain and self-signed cert for example).
Thanks for any response!
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It's a shame the browser hasn't shown much development as of late, I heard about the HDD crash.
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What is your favourite Linux DE?
Mine has to be Budgie. It's elegant and looks amazing, and functions well on my low end hardware with an Intel HD Graphics 6000 board. Solus is one good Linux distro tbh.
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13 hours ago, jaclaz said:
2) The actual working version of Vista (from a certain point of view even better than 7) was SP2
My opinion too. Vista SP2 ran slightly better than 7 on my Dell XPS M1530 laptop which I owned until it broke down in December due to faulty GPU.
1 hour ago, ~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ said:A few reasons why people hated on Windows ME
- The operating system was more bloated compared to Windows 98 and manufacturers forced the operating system onto cruddy, outdated hardware as they did with Vista. The main reasons Windows ME was slow because of system restore would take up cpu and ram.
- Windows ME lacks real time DOS, however you can edit the operating system to make real mode dos available again.
- Windows ME literally had no new features (at least above the hood). According to rloew, Windows ME does have a few API's unavailable in Windows 98 but it just appears ME never caught on enough for developers to take advantage of the new API. This may explain why Windows 98SE with KernelEx can't use a newer version of flash player ME w/ KernelEx was capable of (I believe it was 10, 11, or 12)
- Really, it seems people's experience with ME is hit and miss. Some people say ME was the most unstable thing ever, others said it fixed unstable 95/98 installations upon upgrading. Apparently Windows ME was bad on a certain brand (forget it at the moment).
- Because of the forcing of Windows ME onto bad hardware, developers were not devoted to driver development so they mixed VxD and WDM drivers. These two separate types of drivers were meant for two separate kernels, the NT and DOS kernels. Mixing the two causes conflict with each other, creating instability. So, if your Windows ME driver developers didn't practice mixing the two, the installation would probably be stable.
Windows ME is no different from most operating systems (aside from 10). As long as system was tweaked properly, it was as good as any other OS.
Your third point can be applied to Windows 7 vs. Vista too and everyone loved that OS it seems, 7 didn't introduce too much different from Vista and I remember thinking when I first tried 7 "is this just Vista with a fat taskbar" back when I was 9 years old.
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16:04 <~amy> cant believe AIM is dead
16:04 <@SonicHack> ^^^
16:04 <~amy> or will be in 2 months
16:04 <~amy>
16:04 <~amy> a piece of internet history gone forever...
16:04 <@SonicHack> private server will happen eventually i guarantee u
16:04 <~amy> lol yea
16:04 <~amy> like MSN
16:04 <@SonicHack> yeah
16:04 <~amy> heh
16:05 <@SonicHack> for my messenging needs msn works rly
16:05 <@SonicHack> escargot on msn 7 and sometimes on 1 for when im bored
16:05 <~amy> i want to go on the msn private server to relive the nostalgic messaging experience
16:05 <~amy> lol
16:05 <@SonicHack> msn 1 is a pain to setup
16:05 <~amy> lol
16:05 <~amy> msn 7.0 is meant to be easiest?
16:06 <@SonicHack> pretty much
16:06 <~amy> OOH
16:06 <~amy> 7.5 IS PREPATHCED
16:06 <@SonicHack> i meant 7.5
16:06 <~amy> THAT WAS MY FAVOURITE VERSION
16:06 <~amy> I USED THE s*** OUT OF THAT BACK IN 2007
16:06 <@SonicHack> add me if u want
16:06 <@SonicHack> sonichack@hotmail.[REMOVED]
16:06 <~amy> will do when I get it setup
16:06 <@SonicHack> because im a loser
16:06 <~amy> lol [REMOVED]
16:06 <@SonicHack> yes
16:06 <~amy> u weeb
16:06 <@SonicHack> xdd
16:06 <~amy> xdddddd
16:06 <~amy> i have this xp vm
16:06 <~amy> i could use that
16:06 <~amy> lol
16:07 <@SonicHack> it works fine on crappy win dows 10
16:07 <~amy> XD
16:07 <~amy> but i use 7
16:07 <@SonicHack> it sh ould work fine
16:07 <~amy> yea but i want to fully relive the experience
16:07 <~amy> so xp vm is needed
16:07 <~amy> if i could find sp1 then it would be even better
16:08 <~amy> someone should patch the windows messenger installed in xp
16:08 <~amy> would be a pain tho
16:09 <@SonicHack> tru
16:09 <@SonicHack> wait what version is it
16:09 <~amy> idk
16:09 <~amy> you know, the one that comes with xp
Some IRC logs from my own channel, we were just discussing this thing and then went on to discuss about MSN's alt server.
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Stuck on Installing Devices, 27 minutes remaining. Been hanging on that for about 10 minutes or so now.
I've set the BIOS date to 14/12/2000 or something, ACPI is off and am using VMWare 12 PRO.
Why this is happening? :/
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I've tried ME in a virtual machine and while I know that isn't the true experience as compared to running it on real hardware, is there a reason why so many people reported issues with it (like Vista) - was it buggy drivers or such thing like with Vista? As well as the fact it was superseded in under 500 days by XP's release, what made ME so bad, and why are there people out there that do praise it if it was considered to be unstable? I've noticed it running fine with 512 MB of RAM on a single-core CPU emulation in VMWare with the tools installed...
What I can tell from it is that it is more or less like 98 SE with a few new features and MS-DOS real mode being hidden.
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Microsoft will probably release a new version some time, maybe they are doing a rebranding much like with what they do to their web services or are moving to a more cloud-based OS in the future like ChromeOS has, more than likely the latter given Windows 10 itself.
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While I don't mind Metro, I really hate how Microsoft is so pushy with Windows 10's Apps and such, as if they are trying to emulate Apple with their mobile OS and turn their desktop OS into a walled garden...
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Aw, thanks
Nice avatar, by the way. ^^
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Reminds me of when MSN closed down back in 2013, because I was a heavy user of it back in the day (when I was like 6-7 years old XD). I suppose a lot of people's Internet nostalgia will be lost...
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1 hour ago, 98SE said:
If you want to install Vista on a Haswell/Broadwell laptop with an Intel iGPU you can still use the basic Windows display driver but games would probably be out of the question. As for the USB 3.0 you can get an ExpressCard on eBay to take care of that problem.
That's the main issue: I like Aero, too. Plus the fact I use RetroArch, which while is not demanding it is probably need the device drivers.
I'll look into the transformation stuff, @2008WindowsVista and thanks for the detailed reply ^^
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Wow, awesome project! ^^ nice to see some love for the Win9x line of OSes
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Voile - The Magic Library from Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
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Awww, that's a shame.
I don't really have the resources to buy older hardware given I'm 16... :/
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Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire ES1-531 and would like to run Windows Vista on it, since I prefer it over 7 for some reasons. ^_^ I noticed that there aren't USB 3.0 drivers or Intel HD Graphics drivers for my machine, running Celeron N3050 (Braswell) however the Windows 7 drivers for them work perfectly fine with the system. Hoping some sort of tweaks can be done to the INFs to work with Vista ^^
Thanks for any help!
--Amy
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Just thought I'd introduce myself first
I'm Amy Scarlett, a 16 years old MtF from the UK. I'm hoping to get Vista working on my rather low-end Acer laptop from 2015 (which works like a charm with 7 and most drivers seem to be compatible with Vista too), hence why I joined, but I hope to stay around for longer! ^^
Hope to have fun :3
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Though Apple don't try to force the App Store as much as Windows 10 forces things on users or tries to.
Is ME really that bad?
in Windows 9x/ME
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Thanks for the replies everyone. It's good to see there are people that do support this much hated operating system and the 9x line in general