NotHereToPlayGames

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.

You have (intentionally) MISSED THE POINT. People that post Windows-related questions are HYPOCRITES when they use DEROGATORY abbreviations tied to WINDOWS. It's an ENTIRELY different story if a LINUX user is posting LINUX questions and use the same DEROGATORY abbreviations - at least they PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS. Besides, it does NOT take a "capitalist" to be SMART ENOUGH to know that MS = Morgan Stanley and MSFT = Microsoft. Case closed.

Irony here, I just had a conversation this past week with a "friend of a friend". For the past TWELVE YEARS, this "friend of a friend" has never had a 'job' (ie, not on any 'payroll'). He does "gigs" instead. Install a furnace, only charges $600 in labor. Build a deck, only charges $600 in labor. Auto repair, only charges $600 in labor. New roof, only charges $600 in labor. The $600 always paid "under the table". Apparently it's some IRS Tax Loophole. This of course confused the H#LL out of me, so I asked question after question trying to understand. "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Needless to say, this "friend of a friend" is now JOB-HUNTING for a "real" job.

Here in my part of the US, you can buy your lunch via cryptocurrency. Pizza and hamburger establishments accept Bitcoin. Makes absolutely ZERO sense (or should I say cents?) to me. The "news" talks about cryptocurrency as an "investment". Um, is it? I can't go into those pizza and hamburger establishments and buy my lunch via "w.xy shares of Company Z" !!!

Here in my part of the US, large cash transactions are increasingly encouraged. Retail markets encourage cash by charging HIGHER for non-cash. Of course, the $40/mo for 30 months phone folks choose to pay the HIGHER cost.

Windows Firewall CAN and SHOULD be DISABLED in Win10 and Win11. Not that difficult! You should also go one step further and disable one of its "dependencies" (ie, BFE Service [Base Filtering Engine]).

I'll leave you to it then, I do not assist folks that feel the need to spell Microsoft in that manner. "To each their own."

So you want to run them first and then suspend? Why not disable them from running in the first place?

I highly suspect that you will be DISAPPOINTED. I have been *VERY* disappointed in every "tiny" os I have ever tried - BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REALLY TINY AT ALL! If you are SERIOUS about seeking a truly optimized, tweaked, debloated Windows, then WINREDUCER-EX is the ONLY real solution.

And if it were me, I would use the OLDEST XP driver-only that I could find. Yes, the OLDEST. Or at the very least, go by FILE SIZE and use the SMALLEST.

Not sure if this is going to help you or not but since it is related, I'll offer what I do know. My HP all-in-one (color printer, scanner, copier) is the PSC 1610. I've never used it via ethernet (unsure if it is even capable). It's always been via USB. I do know/recall that my XP setup did NOT use the HP "software" but the DRIVER ONLY. And I had to install that driver with the printer TURNED *OFF*. Then turned the printer on only after the driver was installed and the driver installation only continued after that first turn-on of the printer. Unsure if that helps. All I can suggest is to make sure you use the DRIVER ONLY from the HP support web site.

I've never owned a "tablet" and am therefore unsure if you can even install a printer on a "tablet". The only "tablets" I am familiar with are for (literally, not figurarively, despite the common error between the two words) 3 to 6 year old kids and all they do is play videos as a form of babysitting to said 3 to 6 year old.

I would suggest doPDF. All of your XP apps "see it" as a 'printer' but what it does instead is create PDF files instead of actual printouts. You put those on your USB and then do an actual printout from whatever that far-more-modern-printer is connected to.

True. One of the biggest reasons I started using PROXOMITRON way back in the day (though I admittedly rely solely on userscripts/userstyles nowadays). Again, PROXOMITRON to the rescue. At least for back in the day. Nowadays, I use this for those stupid animated GIFS -- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/animation-policy/ncigbofjfbodhkaffojakplpmnleeoee There are uBO lists that also block those "cookie notices". I prefer the userscript route but "tomaytoe, tomahtah".

Agreed. I remember when "annoying" used to be (depracated) MARQUEE to scroll text. EVERY web site you went to had these d@mn things. Way back then, the "not old people" learned how to combat the annoyance. And it's still us that do that combat nowadays. ie, I didn't even realize the web site had a "blue privacy/cookie notification". This is all I've ever needed for those -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432050-anti-cookies-consent

EXACTLY !!! And when you call up the tech support, tell them a little White Lie of "my bank account has a million in it and there is none of these puzzles to solve to access that million, so DO NOT tell me that you do it for 'security' or every bank on the planet would be using these puzzles but NONE OF THEM DO, it's only folks like you, never government web sites, never banks, never insurance companies, never pharmacies, never anything that NEEDS TO BE SECURE, it's always always always you RETAIL FOLKS breaking down PRIVACY all in the guise of 'security'."