NotHereToPlayGames

This will have to wait !!! I have no d@mn clue why I keep landing on a "forbidden" page when trying to post. Kind of don't care, "death to MSFN", things are clearly not back to NORMAL yet.

Okay, seems okay now. I kept getting "forbidden" notices when trying to add replies or edit an old reply when a new reply was "forbidden".

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Correction. I will NOT be able to help. I cannot EDIT posts and I have to WAIT 10/15/20 minutes between posts. F Dat!

No, it isn't.

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I can help with that. I use Win 10 LTSC 2021 and it has been a GODSEND over XP (which I only finally ditched roughly a year ago [maybe two, but definitly not more). Even on a ten year old Dell Latitude E5470 with "only" an i5-6300U at 2.4 GHz and only 4GB RAM. I have to admit that I don't know the difference between mine and your "IoT" and whether or not there is more than a "2021" version. I *prefer* to use WINREDUCER EX-100 and cut MOST of the bloat *directly out of the install ISO* BEFORE ever installing and NONE of it ever lands on my hard drive !!! But... That approach has seemed too "complex" for the average MSFN user. That is not an indictment, just been down this road before and no "interest" was ever garnered from the MSFN Community. So here's what I'll do. I obtained this ISO from MSFN way back when I was still on XP: en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f That may not be the most recent, it's just the one that I have (my company IT shares these with me, I do not have the download link). I'll install into a VirtualBox VM and walk through how I debloat an "already installed" Win10. Again, that's not my PREFERRED route, but it is still effective (and even a WinReducer EX-100 approach still needs SOME of this still done after install). Will keep you posted...

Strictly from MEMORY, as I did just look at Nov, Dec, and Jan "new members" just a couple days ago. I'm pretty sure that @Gregg was one of only FOUR real members out of EIGHTY TWO that joined in November. I say "real member" in the sense that they joined in November and actually had a NON-ZERO "post count". My guess is that @Gregg and three other real people kind of got caught in the crosshairs as all of the fake accounts started the same month that they happened to join. While a slight inconvenience, he is able to read the forum without being logged in and he'll have to re-register his account. A small price to pay, but things are all FIXED now and with only ONE (I'm guessing FOUR in total) that were slightly inconvenienced.

Yep, just saw that. Criss-Crossed when posting replies.

Pretty much what I expected. At least it wasn't a manufacturing date code, those things can be brutal to decode.

I completely missed that one. I almost always have to "convert in my head" posted dates. The US is kind of backwards, we mostly do month-day-year but the standard online seems to be day-month-year. So to VistaLover's credit, I do prefer when people SPELL OUT the MONTH - avoids confusion when other countries do things backwards.

Hmm... I guess I should pat myself on the back for predicting the donation requests ??? But I won't... Wait, yes I will...

Agreed. But please don't break your own arm with the obvious patting of self on own back. Stroking of own ego. Blah blah blah. Feel free to add your "you are OT" rant, won't stop me any.

Obviously (to me at least) a typo. If you're pointing out typos, then you missed "requsted".

It appears to me that the forum was reset to a January archive as far as settings and forum software but without loss of any "content" dated after that archive. Some aspects appear to have been reset to last November. For example, the list of members wiped out all "new members" (they were all FAKE anyway!) from December and January. There never was any new members past January. New members were not able to join until just a couple days ago, per that list of members. Unsure why ONE from January was still kept, as it too appears "fake". Along with the "repeat names" which are clearly fake as well. ie, if you see an angryduck and an angryduck22 both join on the same exact day, they are BOTH *fake*. xper is making appearances (ie, seeking donations), so maybe he'll shed actual light.