NotHereToPlayGames

Regarding Win7 - is there some trick for the USB to be POWERED OFF when you eject a flash drive? XP and 10 both power the flash drive OFF when it says safe to remove.

That's what this does -- https://www.plop.at/en/pbm6/bios.html You boot from CD/DVD. But then select USB. My BIOS doesn't have a USB option so I have to skip BIOS, boot from CD, then boot from USB.

You could always download ALL of the drivers and slipstream ALL of them - https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/3-series/ideapad-3-14iml05/81wa/downloads/driver-list/ Then when you install, it only uses the drivers that are needed. Once up and running, I prefer to use "DriverGrabber" ( https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/drivergrabber.html ) and slipstream what it collects.

I'm kind of liking Win11. It's not for me as far as my Daily Driver (an XPS 8700 i7-4770 at 3.4 GHz with 16 GB RAM, roughly 10 years old, it remains on XP x64). But to be truly open-minded and give Win11 a true shot, I would have to compare it directly to Win10 on this XPS 8700 - which will never happen so long as I have bank account access from XP.

Win7 x86 VM .vdi == 1.28 GB Win Vista x86 VM .vdi == 1.74 GB Win10 x86 VM .vdi == 1.84 GB

I'm working on a Win11 VM as we speak. I wanted to test Win11 on my Win7 laptop first and wanted to make sure that my Win7 product key activates Win11 -- it does I'm days/weeks away from having my Win11 VM NLited/WinReducer'd. In progress. My VM sizes kind of indicate how big OS's have become. Win3.1 VM .vdi == 20 MB Win3.11 VM .vdi == 78 MB Win 98SE VM .vdi == 218 MB Win NT4 VM .vdi == 236 MB Win 2k VM .vdi == 578 MB Win 2k3 VM .vdi == 1.07 GB WinXP x86 VM .vdi == 635 MB WinXP x64 VM .vdi == 1.12 GB WinXP x86 VM .vdi == 1.48 GB (this one contains IE8, WMP11, and .NET 1 and 2)

I had to learn two new "tricks" just to install Win 11. It's only an i3 with 4 GB RAM and the BIOS doesn't even have an option to boot from USB. Trick #1 -- use a CD Loader and the loader then boots from USB (I'm guessing quite common, this was just my first need for it) -- https://www.plop.at/en/pbm6/bios.html Trick #2 -- the Windows registry is actually available DURING a Windows install and you can use it to bypass "requirement checks" and install Win11 when it tries to not let you -- https://www.alitajran.com/this-pc-cant-run-windows-11/

Have you tried disabling "Plug and Play" service? That seems to work on a few of our assembly line robots where factory employees think any USB port they can find was put there for them to charge their PHONE. Although in our case it was primarily COM Port numbers that certain types of mobile phones would effect and others would not.

But I guess this explains why I have been given two i3 laptops and one i5 laptop all since January. Because people keep "upgrading" to Win11 because they don't feel "safe and secure" unless they're running the "latest and greatest". ps - took quite a while to figure out how to "cut", "copy", or "paste" via context menu in Win11. I guess the target audience is illiterate kids that are conditioned to know what an emoji represents but can't read "cut", "copy", or "paste".

Yikes! Win11 bootup time ranges between 76 seconds to 83 seconds! Granted, my test-case laptop is only an i3.

Without PROOF that the "event log" is being SENT somewhere, then I view this as nothing but a "conspiracy" unworthy of additional time on my part.

I've spent way more than an hour, lol.

I welcome, encourage, and appreciate any and all assistance. I do not welcome the "patting yourself on the back". Advice is not really advice when it is delivered in a "look at me" undertone. Good night, my friend. Long day of yard work and I'm exhausted.

Can you demonstrate if this truly happens? An OS "event log" is a "log" by definition, but they are not sent to MS. When I worked in UNIX decades ago, an "even log" was called a "syslog". I don't recall if UNIX could be set up in such a way to PREVENT the "syslog". But they too were not "sent" anywhere. They were simply LOCAL files for the inquisitive geek to peruse in their free time or to use to assist in debugging a frequent crash.

I do not work in IT. This is just a hobby. I've spent DECADES tweaking XP. I am only roughly two months in on testing Win7 and Win10. Had to NTLite them both very heavily and it's still a work in progress.

This is what my Win7 is showing. I wouldn't call this "everything" that I do, but I'll still axe these logs now that I know about them.

Do you know if you use hibernate or sleep? I have less then 15 seconds when coming out of hibernate (which is all I do 95% of the time). But a full MINUTE for "restart" (ie, full shutdown).

Win10 has basically become my "backup plan". I prefer XP for everything. But there will come a day that I won't be able to access my online banking so I went on a quest for an alternative OS. I have Win7 on a different laptop but so far I'm liking Win10 LTSB better.

The only entry my LTSB has under that key is a DWORD named "Status" with a value of 0.

All I get is - 'logman' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. My Win10 is LTSB. Corporate OS. My hunch is that my Win10 doesn't do "as much" logging as non-LTSB. I can't clain it doesn't to "any" logging. Still "new to me" as far as tweaking/optimizing.

Correct.

Agreed! That's why I never enable Fast Startup. My computer does a full RESTART in 58 to 62 seconds. "Restart" recreates all RAM, nothing is saved to be restored with the next power-up. What Fast Startup is for is the "shutdown" option from your Start menu. A "shutdown" with Fast Startup enabled writes the kernel to the hard drive and puts that back into RAM on the next power-up. A "shutdown" with Fast Startup enabled still takes 58 to 62 seconds! A *true* hibernate writes the entire contents of RAM to the hard drive then puts that back into RAM on the next power-up. My computer comes out of a *true* hibernate in 8 to 12 seconds.

"Fast startup" is definitely a marketing ploy based on my tiny test --

How do you measure your startup time? BootRacer is the best thing I've been able to find.