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Also, several HP support forums suggest that most anti-virus programs seem to be okay. But that MALWARE SOFTWARE (ie, Malwarebytes, Bitdefender, Avast One Essential, ESET Essential, Emisoft) are known to cause printing delays.

Try disabling "bi-directional printer support".

I can... But you will not like the answer or you will think that I am being sarcastic. The answer is "supply and demand". If people are paying it, then why would the developer stop accepting the "fee"? Demand dictates a fee. If nobody is paying it, then the project will either cease to exist or the cost will decrease or the project will get split into a reduced-function "free version" and a full-function "paid version". Or ultimately some balance in the middle. Or I could call the answer "greed", but one person's "excess" is another person's "minimalism".

There are at least two dozen reports of this web site not working in New Moon, dating back to at least a year and a half ago.

Court cases are kind of meaningless in this case. Or the "Tor Network" would have died out long ago... Torrent files would no longer exist... Multiple social network sites could be sued for "bullies" leading to teen suicides or "cutting"... We'd have ZERO news networks because both sides would have court cases identifying the opposing view as "fake"... We'd have seventy-times-seventy times as many "activist judges" as we already have... Web sites with "general discussion" sections would all fall of the face of the Earth... Et cetera...

Are you getting the below "consent" dialog? Or have you at least gotten it in the past? If not, maybe this "consent" dialog is not working in New Moon so everything else is "Googleismed" as unreadable.

My wireless adapter drivers are all dated 2013 thru 2015. Once I find one that works, IT NEVER GETS UPDATED. I often intentionally attempt to track down OLDER and never newer.

It doesn't happen in my Win10's either! *ALL* (minus a garage laptop for tuning turbo engines) of my computers now run Win10. They *ALL* ran XP as recently as only two years ago. THEY ALL PERFORM LEAPS AND BOUNDS *BETTER* ON 10 THAN THEY DID ON XP !!! But a "debloated" 10, obviously. And I'm talking real quantifiable metrics, not some "gut feeling placebo effect". BUT they are *all* stuck at Win10 21H2. At least until the day I can "debloat" newer to also perform BETTER THAN XP. All (except one) of my computers are 15yrs old or older. Granted, that one exception is less than 2yrs old, but it too runs Win10 21H2 (and gets an ocassional Linux every once in a while, only to return to Win10).

ps - what are your inidications that your wi-fi is dropping out? In newer Win10-and-newer, you can't "only" go by the wi-fi ICON next to the clock. I have witnessed situations where the ICON simply isn't "updating" but the wi-fi *IS* connected. In my situation, it was when "startup services" were DISABLED, so the icon didn't think it was connected. But then as soon as a web browser started doing anything, the icon would then update and properly indicate that the wi-fi was connected.

Why are you using "fresh installs"? Testing should always be performed in a VIRTUAL environment. I do all of my older Win10-and-older testing in a PORTABLE VirtualBox 5.1.22. Newer Win10-and-newer was being tested in PORTABLE VirtualBox 6.0.24. But I did have to install (then quickly uninstall) NON-PORTABLE (ie, "normal install") VirtualBox 7.0.26 in order to test (then quickly delete) Win11 25H2. VirtualBox is currently at 7.2.2 but the 7.0 branch has been more than adequate for my needs (thus far). And that's only because I needed to "witness" Win11 25H2. More often than not, the 5.1.22 version serves all of MY needs (higher is only required when assisting others and not wanting to "guess" at solutions).

Is this of any help? https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24434039/RECOVER-LANGUAGE-BAR-IN-VISTA-DELETED-FROM-TOOLBARS-LIST.html

I can officially confirm that the OLD TRICK still works even for as new as Win11 25H2. The utility is called Windows Update Blocker v1.8 (last updated way back in 2023 - again, STILL WORKS for brand new Win11 25H2). It's just a run-as-is portable program, NO INSTALLATION, just extract and execute once then delete if you so desire. Yes, this was originally intended to block Windows Updates but it also works to disable an otherwise 'automatic' Windows Defender Firewall. YOU HAVE TO EDIT / ADD TO THE DEFAULT .INI FILE - Before: After:

I've trial-ran Phoenix in the past and again as recently as two weeks ago (when "Nexus" was brought to my attention). Phoenix, Tiny, Micro, Slim, Nano, X-Lite, Nexus, Chris Titus Tech - DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH ANY OF THEM !!! These (all of them!) are targeted for the SPOON-FED CROWD too "lazy" (my opinion) of doing the legwork themselves. Not to be misread, there is a HUGE "MARKET" for that route (I applaud the endeavor, it's just "not for me"). You kind of sound like me - ie, YOU WILL NEVER BE 100% SATISFIED with these spoon-fed variations and the ONLY way to achieve 100% Satisfaction is to DO THE WORK YOURSELF. I cannot stress it enough, you need WINREDUCER-EX. Yes, takes time, but WELL WORTH IT in the end.

I should add that when I say "can be", I am referring to *ALL* versions of 10 and at least *early* versions of 11. I will have to REINSTALL a newer version of VirtualBox and a Win11 25H2 VM to see if the "old tricks" still work for *all* versions of 11.

I can post the How-To later today. Trust me, it CAN BE PERMANENTLY DISABLED. Admittedly, I would still be running XP if there was no way to disable Windows Defender "crap" in 10 and 11.