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Hi, its been a few months but I am having an issue.
I managed to get the UI installed and everything, but when booting up a VM I get this:
I can tell it mentions that the vmx86.sys driver is out of date, but where am I supposed to update it?
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So I have a RX 5700 XT and UHD 630. I patched my UHD 630 drivers and they work on Windows 7 without any test mode. But my problem is that AMD poorly codes the Windows 7 drivers. I get microstuttering with aero enabled, fading is nonexistant too. The Intel card though runs a lot better. So I was wondering if I can run my displays off of my UHD 630 for the better coded desktop experience, but render my games on my dGPU for better performance.
Im using Windows 7 Professional SP1 fully updated to 2020-12, excluding telemetry updates.
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4 hours ago, Jaguarek62 said:
what is it?
Discord tells you to update to 10 in the screenshare menu (mentions it may not 100% function correctly)
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Does software that run and work but specifically tell you to upgrade to Windows 10 eligable for this list?
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Certain parts of the UI are annoying (Control Panel still has more than settings), I have to use 3rd party tweaks just to get the OS running well which is the largest part.
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1 hour ago, Jaguarek62 said:
You don't need security updates to stay secure. Just do not download random s*** from the internet. Also having secondary laptop for internet banking is not a bad idea. Windows Vista/7/8 will be usable as long as software do support them.. (extended kernel is saving vista right now) and btw vista is getting server 2008 esu security patches
I guess if you're the president of the usa then don't use windows xp?
Almost every type of malware you can get is from human error or from being an administrator. By having common sense and requiring yourself to enter in an administrator's password to run an application, you are almost unpenetrable, except for the 0days and malware that litterally can break through those barriers.
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11 hours ago, Jaguarek62 said:
also when I was browsing intel driver support, I found this:
There are a lot of people who aren't in for the operating system and just want to use their PC, so they develop a hate or disliking towards the ones that use their OS for the fun of it.
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1 hour ago, Win10-Hater said:
Yes, @AeroSeeker, I agree with you that Linux is in many ways better than Windows 10, but one of the things I love about earlier Windows versions is that the UI was great (for example, Windows Vista's Aero UI and taskbar), but sadly, tweaking Linux to make it look just like a Windows Vista clone is impossible. I'm saying this because I'm not a fan on the Gnome, Mate, XFCE, LXDE etc.etc. themes in Linux.
I am essentially the same way. I love Linux and I think it will get big, but in my case, I just don't prefer anything that it offers. Windows 7 and 8.1 just worked when installed and are compatibile on great amounts of hardware.
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So after installing all the updates manually it now BSOD's on start without any patches with a STOP error about CSRSS isn't secure anymore.
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54 minutes ago, win32 said:
What updates do you have?
I used the latest copy of WSUS offline that supports Vista, but it doesn't look like it installed any. I made a script to manually install the updates one at a time from the MSU files from a collection that I had. I will see what the results are after the updates finish. All the updates are the updates up to April 2017.
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23 minutes ago, win32 said:
I do think so, but it may be a little difficult to find the exact culprit (hal.dll's timer-related functions are virtually identical between 6002 and 6519, maybe somewhere else is a problem). Technically MS partially fixed them in a very recent update, but other users have told me the improvements are too marginal for me to do anything about them.
There is another option if I can never correct the problem in the files themselves, an "enforcer" that runs at boot that forces all services set to "automatic" to try and start again if they don't start initially, probably using sc.exe.
Quick question by the way, I downloaded some November 2020 pack with preconfigured DLLs and when I copied the DLLs in, it had given me a BSOD about a thread terminating unexpectedly. The specific DLLs that were premade were nxtext, kernel32, user32, ole32, dwmapi, uxtheme, kernel32x86. Is this the right way to do this?
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Just now, win32 said:
Yes, once the 32 bit kernel extensions are taken further.
Wow! I never would of expected this to be possible. Could it be possible that modern Intel CPUs above haswell may finally become stable on vista?
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Any possibility with porting Windows 7 drivers to Vista?
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On 11/26/2020 at 2:36 PM, UCyborg said:
Unless he comes here and says something, we can speculate ad-infinitum. For some people, not much has changed with the pandemic.
Who knows. He did say some time ago that he is a bit busy because of the pandemic.
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I may be jumping to conclusions, but there could be a chance that he is no longer here with us considering the current situation in the world.
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Today my PC randomly installed overnight an app called Meet Now. Can't uninstall it because it is appearantly a part of Shell Experience Host. Argh. Along with that, the UWP apps that I had uninstalled reinstalled themself. Sure enough, Windows 10 thought it was a good idea to install the MsEdge update on my system without even telling me when I put my PC in sleep mode the night before.
Doesn't it seem just like malware practices...
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I haven't been on MSFN ever since mid this year, but all I can assume is that bigmuscle has not been online since July. Before that, he would occasionally come on every month or so and maybe like something or respond to a post.
Ever since July, he went offline and hasn't said anything since. I don't know if its just me, but I am a little concerned, not that aero glass isn't done, that he won't be coming back.
Not that large of concern, but 1903 ends support in December. 1909 ends support in May 2021. The last two supported builds of 10 that AG still works with.
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I only use Windows 10 because of hardware issues. My GPU drivers suck on 7 and 8.1, as well as the GPU power control. My laptop is even worse of a story. It requires custom Intel UHD drivers, plus the touchpad is terrible because its a Microsoft Precision touchpad which only works well in 8.1+.
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Yes, there was an update somewhere between 2013-2016 I believe that added a more optimized NVMe driver. I am able to use Windows 7 on an NVMe drive and installing from a USB3 port + drive and both work fine with all the updates and drivers intregated.
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I am starting to wonder if bigmuscle was unfortunately taken by covid. He hasn't been on MSFN since July 31 2020.
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The point is though is not even the UI or that. Sure, Windows 10 uses a lot of ram, and it's not surprising because as time goes on, the operating systems for whatever reason keep getting bigger.
The main reason for this in Windows 10 is the addition of like 100 more processes running, most of them being svchost.exe. Microsoft added a LOT more services into Windows 10, most of them being diagnostic and telemetry related. First red flag there.
I will continue to hate the Windows 10 UI until it is consistent. Fun fact, there are still Windows XP and 2K icons in Windows 10. Generally because shell32's code hasn't changed since then. Only the resources have.
The telemetry is the main reason why I really want to leave 10. I don't like having my data sold, its not Microsoft's data. The OS on my computer is what I purchased. I have the right to tamper with it, modify it, and use it without what I do on it being sold and Microsoft telling me that I can't modify it. They think that Windows is a service that you bought to use your computer. They call it that so people don't realize that its really just so they have control on the computers.
People say that Satya came in and fixed everything. That is a businessman's perspective. On the consumers, it completely destroyed our right to use Windows privately and personalize it the way we want to. Remember back when everyone used 7? How most of the time you would see really modified and personalized installations? You don't see that often with 10 anymore.
For those who like 10 and argue back to the ones who hate it, saying that modifying it is casuing the bugs with it, you are right. Exactly correct. That is the problem. We shouldn't NEED to modify our OS just to make it secure and less invasive. That is just how Microsoft made it need to be.
Does anyone still remember when Microsoft actually had Windows Update channels regardless? People who clicked Check for Updates more often got less-stable updates on purpose because Microsoft assumed they wanted beta software?
Windows 7 was the last OS that Microsoft actually tried to make good. After the rocky road with Vista they wanted to redeem themself. And they did. Everyone loved Windows 7. People still use it 11 years later.
Windows 8 was the first attempt at a "OS for all." They failed at that because they never made it appealing for mouse and keyboard users. They overestimated the growth of touch screens.
Windows 8.1 just added the start button back and nothing else. Still fine as you can use Classic Shell to fix this.
Windows 10 was supposed to fix all the issues of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, as well as bring all the features loved. We're talking the best OS of all time. But what we recieved at launch was an incomplete OS that had LESS features than Windows 7 and 8.1. The worst part of all, is that unlike Windows 8.1 release and Windows 7 release, this time Microsoft wanted people to use it. So GWX existed.
Never had that happen on previous releases of Windows. People hated GWX because some people got forcefully upgraded without their consent and against their will. Microsoft never owned the computers. They do not have the right to forcefully change how our computers work. I BOUGHT THE COMPONENTS AND THE LICENSE. It doesn't matter what the EULA says even though it may be in there, but it is my property and I have the right to do whatever the hell I want with it.
In fact, a small business computer, which was used for basically all their things, was forcefully upgraded to 10. The upgrade failed and the revert failed so it was stuck in an unusable state. They sued Microsoft for it.
Microsoft calls it the "latest and greatest Windows ever" because its extremely profitable for them. They could not care at all what you think about it.
Microsoft also tries to shut out the competition and absorb it if they find it dangerous for their business. Its an extreme monopoly thats happening there.
The reason that Office 2019 didn't support 7 or 8.1 even though they were still in support at the time was because they wanted you to stop using 7 or 8.1 regardless of support or not. They wanted you on 10 so they could earn more money. Telemetry did exist in 7 and 8.1 near the end of its life because Microsoft made it that way, but you could easily disable it and remove it, because they were just Windows Updates.
Another reason is that WSL suddenly over the last few years got a lot more development going on with it. Mainly because, Microsoft does realize how much poetential Linux has in the future. To prevent Linux from gaining motion, they suddenly started developing hard and fast with WSL to drive people considering to switch back into Windows and move some Linux users back to Windows.
Nothing will change under Satya at this point. They never wanted to copy Apple. They just had a strategy to control their userbase and shape it into what they wanted it to be. And we here are the last of the legacy Windows fans.
I loved Windows 7. I was such a big fan of it. I just loved how it was so simple and I was so much more productive on it. It was an actual tool, unlike Windows 10, where you have to tool the OS.
I really don't know what type of drugs happened in 2014 but ever since then Microsoft has completely destroyed that Windows fans loved about the OS.
And all of this will be forced upon us in the next few years. As programs drop support for Windows 7 and 8.1, we will find most of us forced on Linux (which will also fall apart because of Microsoft trying to destroy it) and last of all Windows 10. Microsoft will force everything to run Windows 10 in the future. It's how they want it.
Until there is a class action lawsuit against them (which will never happen, because those companies get some nice juicy data about their users from Microsoft) nothing will ever change and we could be seeing the most unexciting software.
I guess in the future its time to just give up our privacy and right to own our computer.
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On 10/22/2020 at 3:43 AM, Koishi Komeiji said:
It's very interesting how people used to use that exact same description to describe the jump between Luna and Windows Classic, and now people want the likes of Luna and Aero back regardless of their criticism at the time. :P
We never realized how great it was back then. Fluent on Windows 10 looks fine, I like it. What I don't like is just how BIG everything is. Settings is big, the start menu is big, just everything is big.
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For me Windows 10 is pretty mixed. I never use any UWP apps and usually uninstall them all, incl. Microsoft Store when I first install my machine after a feature update breaks it. It's blatanly obvious that the telemetry they collect and use is sold to advertisers and 3rd party companies, which is why Microsoft fired the QA team as well, because that is now the consumers computers. I currently use Windows 10 for one reason, is because of my idiocy back in 2015. I wasn't as smart with computers as I was back then and was like "oooh new windwos lets upgadte!!!!!" but now I know that Windows 10 is terrible. The only thing I actually like about the OS is that fluent doesn't look that bad. Other than that, the UI is horrendous with settings being so big. Everything on Windows 10 is just so big. Seems like some Fisher Price computer OS that was made for children who are under the age of 3 trying to comprehend how to change their display resolution. Control Panel did it so much better, it was more effiecently using the space and had more items in it with less space taken up.
There are many things that I can talk about being stupid. Specifically the most horrendous one is Settings. That app when on an ultrawide monitor has 73% of it being nothing. When very small and compressed it looks like the Windows Phone.
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I use RX 5700 XT and other than the Adrenalin 2020 drivers being extremely *****, it has a driver for it and AMD continues to make drivers.
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VMware Workstation 16 on Win7
in Windows 7
Posted · Edited by Tonny52
okay I did that and now im stuck here:
