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I have deceided with my poor knowledge of how drivers work to attempt to recreate what he did. From what I can understand, there are just some hex numbers that need to be replaced in the driver .sys file to prevent unloading. More specifically the hex numbers that specify the versions to run on. Currently, they are: 3839: EFF (this number prevents unloading) 295A: 10586 (possibly the Pascal specification) 3FAB: 16299 (possibly the Turing specification) 4563: 17763 (possibly the Ampere specification) If it is as simple as that, it would just be going into the driver with something like HxD and changing any of those values to 3839 or, a previous version. Say you want to run 14393 on Ampere, you would maybe replace 4563 hex with 295A. Not sure if this will work though. I only have a 1050 Ti, so I can try 10240 support.

20H2 has been out since October. 21H1 was released 4 days ago. 2004 about a year ago. I upgraded my other partition from 20H2 to 21H1, no issues at all. There is basically nothing new in 21H1 compared to 20H2, other than you get support until Dec 2022. 2004 compared to 20H2 though, Control System is gone and the start menu changed to remove icon backgrounds.

So nowadays you have to spend almost 70% of your annual income for a car, plus rounding that up for taxes and rent, you almost can have absolutely no extra money meaning you can never retire. Life sucks.

Probably not. We can assume maybe an extra 2 billion desktop / laptop / embedded systems exist that are not accounted for. Adding it equally, we can assume 140 million added to each OS. This is horribly inaccurate though, so we can't really know for sure. Most ATMs, embedded machines and such run 7 or older. If we take a look at the Disney theme parks, only a few run anything 8.1 or newer, believed to be LTSB 2015. The older systems even run all the way back to Win2000 / 98, even OS/2 WARP. It is definitely safe to assume though that there are a lot more legacy systems out there in the world, very possibly more than 10. The Xbox 360 runs a variant of the Windows 2000 kernel (NT 5.0) sold 85 million consoles worldwide. Assuming around 10 million were thrown out or recycled to their minerals, another 10 million due to hardware failuire, around 65 million still exist today. That means that 65 million computing devices still run a Win2000-like OS. Add another 40 million-ish for the Win10 region for the Xbox One.

Right now im on the second to last season of Futurama.

I may be one of the younger guys here but I did grow up at the end of the tech pinnacle when everything was just greatly designed, and when companies cared. The main point of this post is for me to speak out and say that technology is in a depression, user experience and consumer wise. Let me explain from many places. Microsoft Windows Windows as you may know has not been that great since the release of 8.0 in 2012. The focus towards metro has been apperant, and especially the lack of user control and focus towards advertising and collecting data has been even more apperant starting in 8.1 and becoming even worse up to the latest, Windows 10 21H1 which released two days ago. Windows 7 and older had little to no advertising, user control, and telemetry that could be disabled but even then when enabled did not collect very intrusive data. Don't blame Microsoft entirely, they are just following what everyone else does. Game consoles Game consoles are not exempt from this. The years where it was just put the disc / cartridge in and go were awesome. My parents never bought the latest consoles so I mainly used the N64, Gamecube, PS2 and Wii even in 2013/2014. We got our Wii U in 2014 and that is when the first sign of things are going bad were found. the N64 was as simple as put in the cartridge and go, similar with the Gamecube but it was a disc and just worked. The PS2 was even more simpler, with it being the simplest of disc based consoles. The Wii was pretty cool too, it was internet connected, but didn't have advertising and it was perfeclty designed, where it was simple to just play a game but also you could watch youtube, browse the web, it was perfect. Plus, with how easy it is to homebrew using letterbomb, it still is very usable today, even though it's using the ancient PowerPC architecture and has little RAM. When the PS4, Wii U and XBone were released, we saw advertising and over-design coming into play, where they designed it so hard that it was getting worse. the Xbox One needed to be FULLY ONLINE (remember that??) and the PS4 had all these things installed. The Wii U had HORRIBLE advertising to the actual console and thats why no one really bought it. The Xbox One nowadays can't even be used online without updating. You are forced to update it. The Switch was simple when it first came out, but over time did get some advertising. Nintendo by far has been the least over-designing. The 3DS was awesome. Social Media Social media you can say has been a big problem. It allows people to communicate, but also demonstrates that many people can't stand negative feedback and lose their mind because Alex from California doesn't like James from Florida. Facebook is by far the most in this world. Mark Zuckerberg is an absolute psychopath in my opinion, the fact that he stole the idea of Facebook from someone else and it was originally going to be a "hot or not" site for the Harvard college students. I have never used Facebook and never intend to. Facebook actually sells your information. Twitter, Reddit, Discord, Tumblr, etc are all similar, they collect information about you to use targetted advertising. Google does this the most, because more often than not I Google a topic, then go on youtube and for some reason that topic I just googled on a different site is in my recommended. Sometimes, it even can predict what I am going to search which is just plain creepy. Google knows everything I ever do and knows so much about me that it is able to predict what I am going to do. Social Media has also caused many silent groups who previously lurked in the shadows to be more visible to the world, like terrorist groups and such. Social Media is throwing everyone on a public stage. Mobile operating systems Mobile OSes haven't been that awesome lately, either. iOS really hasn't done much over the years and its a similar story with Android. Android still has the same problem where OEMs don't know how to support phones at all, and iOS has issues where Apple is either controlling too much or too little on their App Store. Epic Games and many other companies are suing Apple over this and its just an absolute headache. Who agrees? I have asked my family and friends. My entire family does miss the technology of 10 years ago, because no one had to worry about social media. Game consoles were simple, computers just worked, and phones just worked too. Most of my friends also had the same statement. What do you guys think? Do you think that 10 years ago it was better, worse, or the same technology and software wise?

So it seems like people do still use 8.1, and I decided to go about finding rough estimates. As of January 2020, there are 1.2 billion Windows PCs on the internet. We will use that data for our estimates. As of today, the current marketshare of each Windows version is: Win10: 66.64% Win7: 18.49% Win81: 2.57% Win8: 0.5% WinXP: 0.48% WinVista: 0.07% 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000 are all at 0.00% marketshare, meaning it is probably a very small number. If we use our percentages with our total # of Windows PCs, we get: Win10: 1.3 billion (as of Mar 2021), not calculated with the total becuase our latest data for that was before 10 hit 1 billion Win7: 221.8 million Win81: 30.8 million Win8: 6.0 million WinXP: 5.7 million WinVista: 840,000 (Assuming marketshare of 0.01%) Legacy: <120,000 Meaning that around 30.8 million use 8.1, and 6 million use 8.0. This is not exact numbers, these are rough estimates. Lets go deep into the specific Win10 versions. We have 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909, 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and Insiders to find. According to AdDuplex, per 70K computers it is: Insider: 0.7% 21H1: N/A 20H2: 40.1% 20H1: 40.6% 1909: 11.1% 1903: 3.3% 1809: 1% 1803: 1.4% 1709: 1.0% 1703: <1% 1607: <1% 1511: <1% 1507: <1% If 1.3 billion devices run 10, we get: Insider: 9.1 million 20H2: 521 million 20H1: 527 million 1909: 144 million 1903: 42.9 million 1809: 13.0 million 1803: 18.2 million 1709: 13.0 million >1703: <13 million Why get this data? Just to see actually how many computers you are in a pool with on the internet.

So the rounded corners design has been leaked and so far, It looks fine other than the enormous title bar text, and why is the button not rounded either? Honestly, I kind of miss Metro from seeing this design. It's not really as exciting as I thought, and it honestly seemed like Metro was just so much more colorful, better for tablets and such. So far sun valley is, okay I guess?

I gotta give Windows 10 some credit recently, the enablement packages make it really easy to keep one install for more than 6 months unlike builds before 1809. Especially with how 21H1 is also an enablement package, its very easy to rollback, you just uninstall the update. Windows 10 has gotten better in certain scenarios, but in most cases is still a disaster. 21H2 is completely eyecandy changes.

With 10, it suffers massive "upgrade rot" that happens because NT was never intended to update two times a year. With 7 / LTSC, I never have to reinstall.

So out of the box, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (the new one) does not support 7 or 8. Obviously, it came out past the EOL date of 7 and MSFT wants to forget about 8. But I really think it is possible to get working. Trying to run the app with steam just ends up in it closing, and running FlightSimulator.exe gives us this: Alright, a missing function. This is something we would need to extend in the DLL, but I am not sure what would be a worthy replacement. Someone with knowledge like win32 would be helpful here, but I don't want to disrupt his time making the already awesome Vista extended kernel. I would assume that it may be easier to port 8 functions over first, but we aren't in a need of that. The first step is to find if this function exists in 8, and see if we can use the same dll on 7 or port over its function. But this isn't our entire problem. The main issue is that this isn't the only missing function. There are a lot of missing API-MS-WIN-* DLL files (might exist in 8) and as well as that, the missing functions using DependencyWalker tell us this: ESENT.DLL -> JetStopServiceInstance2 IEFRAME.DLL -> Entry Points not bound, function #160, 141 and 159 API-MS-WIN-CORE-THREADPOOL-L1-1-0.DLL -> SetWaitableTimerEx IMM32.DLL -> ImmDisableLegacyIME NCRYPT.DLL -> NCryptKeyDerivation MFPLAT.DLL -> MFRegisterLocalByteStreamHandler, MFCreateMFByteStreamOnStreamEx UXTHEME.DLL -> GetThemeAnimationTransform, GetThemeAnimationProperty, GetThemeTimingFunction DWMAPI.DLL -> DwmTetherContact, DwmRenderGesture NDFAPI.DLL -> NdfCreateNetConnectionIncident OLE32.DLL -> CoIncrementMTAUsage, RoGetAgileReference MFPLAT.DLL -> MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager API-MS-WIN-CRT-PRIVATE-L1-1-0.DLL -> __CxxFrameHandler4 Those are all the missing functions. There is a lot to do here, but who knows if it will work anyway because the game is DirectX12 now. After looking through deeper, the last missing DLL seems to just be a number that is wrong. *FrameHandler4 does not exist in that DLL, but *FrameHandler3 and 2 exist. I am wondering if they give the same results when used. Some other DLLs like OLE32 tell us that the missing functions just don't have anything related at all. Any ideas here?

Group Policy states that automatic updates are DISABLED but it still installed them anyway. It installed the May 2021 cumulative on one of my Server 2019 systems.

They probably wont change, which is why most people who want control of their PC have to chug along with older Windows, deal with 10 or move to Linux distros like Mint or Arch, since those are by smaller companies. Canonical fell to what Microsoft started doing.

Microsoft likes to introduce new things, and either forget that it exists or forget what you were previously using exists. As Tripredacus said, Windows 10 is just a giant clump if every Windows version shoved together in a 3-5GB ISO that you have to download twice a year or reinstall your PC twice a year because more and more updates get added to the mess until your PC's SSD wants to eject itself from your PC because your 5 years of this has written 50TB to it. Don't even have to mention how HDDs feel. The funny thing is that it seems like the features we need the most are the ones that are changed, and the ones absolutely no one uses aren't.

All the glass on computers is not a good thing. It blocks perfectly usable airflow space and makes the PC brighter than the sun during the night. Windows 10 seems to like to wake itself up at night to start trying to do updates, causing me to wake up because its blasting white LEDs into my face. Windows 7 however doesn't do this, I told 7 to only do updates on Saturdays at 5AM. As far as the problem you had, I really doubt it was the PSU or anything electric. RAM just over time goes bad and I wouldn't be surprised if it was from 2011-2012, I too don't have any working sticks from back then. My first W7 desktop built in 2011 had its ram start going bad in 2014, until it finally went fully bad in 2016. I bought a whole new 8GB kit from Micron and that pair has been working well since. Of course, my Dad has this desktop now and its been running Ubuntu since he got it. He hates Ubuntu 20.04, wishes he could go back to 18.04. Seems like every OS nowadays except the least-supported ones are terrible. Ubuntu is not as good as it used to be, Windows 10 is a disaster, modern versions of Android are bloated with telemetry and iOS is becoming more and more jailbreak-resistant. 2006-2014 was the absolute peak of technology. Nothing can get better than what we had during then, unless you are talking how many features it has, then obviously 10 and newer versions are better. As far as user experience, 06-14 best time period. That isn't the point of this thread though. Your problem was probably just ram goes bad over time, just like how SSDs have limited write cycles and HDDs can only write for so long until they start losing sectors. It just happens.

Sleep is a button to press, but all it does is turn off the screen. He contacted Dell, they told him that this laptop is fitted with modern sleep, and when asked if legacy sleep is possible, they said that option has been removed from the system and it cannot go into sleep mode. The only similar option they said was to hibernate the system or shut down. Modern sleep seems to be a Dell thing on systems 2020 and newer. Disabling modern standby still does not fix the problem that this system's firmware even on Linux and other systems of the same model, prevents the system from going into S3 sleep. Here, a ton of other people have the same problem. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-power/how-to-disable-modern-standby-in-windows-10-may/db950560-33da-4a90-8340-b1f181f5efe6

Microsoft is very similar to Google with their products. KilledByGoogle is a notable statement because Google has killed many products, the least lasting being just a few months until it was discontinued. Microsoft does a similar tactic, where they launch services then after a while want to kill them. Cortana launched in 2014 (and earlier on mobile) but was recently discontinued by Satya himself, stating that he does not vision it being a competitor. 1903 removed Cortana from the OOBE, and moved it to a seperate app that can be uninstalled with Powershell. The Xbox Kinect launched around 2010 with the release of the Xbox 360 Slim, but then was discontinued around 2014 when the Xbox One had no use for it even though it had it. Microsoft likes launching things then killing them the same way Google does because they don't want to continue it or lose motivation. They really want to get rid of Windows, and definitely have showed that they are attempting to, which is why the only reason Sun Valley exists is because they want to show that they care just a little bit. Windows has no idea what it wants to be, if it wants to be a mobile OS, desktop OS, laptop OS, or server OS. Microsoft wants to be all of them even though Microsoft proved that its better off to keep it all seperate. I have fears of ARM going to PCs because I am afraid that means everyone will be running Android or iOS on their computers, which I hate because it means the end of normal desktop computing with a keyboard and mouse as everything moves over to touchscreens. Linux has proven to be the dominant in the server and mobile world, and Microsoft knows it with their Surface phone and Azure. As far as laptops and desktops go, they have ran the same OS for the past few years, but clearly development in Microsoft since Windows 8.0 has been laptop-oritented. People don't care anymore because its been going on for almost a decade now. Windows 10X will never make sense. It is just a project that Microsoft wanted to do so they can take over the education department that they have been losing since the release of Windows 8. The enterprise world has slowly been moving their way to Linux (my dad's office is 100% CentOS and Ubuntu), my school has mentioned about moving their machines to Ubuntu Education LTS so they don't have to image as often. Windows 7 and XP were the two perfect operating systems for the world. Ever since then, its been a downfall of people leaving Windows. The reason 10 is on 1.3 billion machines is because most people don't care. But the majority of people who do care probably still use 7, moved to macOS, chromeOS or Linux. I don't care that 10X is not coming in 2021. I had no intent of using it, and I doubt anyone did. It cant even run win32 apps anyway, and UWP is a failing platform. If Microsoft ever forces consumers to use Windows 10 without win32 support, thats the final straw. Windows has been on a downfall since 2012 with the pinnacle of that downfall starting in 2018 with 1809 and still ongoing. People for SOME reason forgave Microsoft on the whole 1809 fiasco.

I'm not sure if aeroglass will be continued anymore. 1909 goes end of life in just 4 days, even with more modern cumulative updates for that version breaking aero glass. 2004 goes end of life in 7 months, so at this rate we may not get Aero Glass before 2004 goes end of life, meaning he would rather just skip the version if he comes back. I remember hearing about this project rising back in the Win8 days, sad to see it possibly stopping soon. I'm just assuming, he could come back and the project continues. Right now, we can call it an abandonded project.

So to get around this, we would just be adding SHA-2 support to XP? Seems like that would fix any issues. What concerns me is if this will break existing Microsoft Update files and such, since they are SHA1 signed by Microsoft. Does anyone know if existing files signed in SHA1 will expire on this date? Still may be too close to find any differences right now between signed and not signed.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/microsoft-to-use-sha-2-exclusively-starting-may-9-2021/ba-p/2261924 Microsoft startin May 9, 2021, will expire the SHA-1 Root Certificate Authority in Windows. Could this possibly kill XP? Most of the XP drivers are SHA-1 signed, as well as internal programs. Will XP "expire"?

The registry key only works on 1909 or older. Considering how most modern computers don't even support 1809 or older that well (im looking at nvidia) its not really a good way. Plus, MSFT removed the ability to do that in 2004. As far as an EFI program, all it does is remove the S0 sleep. This does not fix the problem that S3 sleep just doesn't exist anymore. A friend I know tried this, they said after using this it just says that the firmware does not support sleep.

It's no surprise. Microsoft since Windows 8 has been trying to turn the PC into a phone so they can dominate the mobile market. Microsoft needs to realize that they don't have the same userbase as Apple and Google. I will accept Modern Sleep when my PC is able to sit in it for days on end and only lose a few percent every few days.

Recently, a friend of mine bought a new Ryzen 4700U laptop. Believe its the Dell Inspiron 5505. When he first got it he never noticed it because it apperantly worked fine when he didn't have much applications installed. But over time, he started noticing that when he puts it in sleep mode, the fan never shuts off. In fact, he ran a powercfg command and it only returned one option. Moden Standby (S0 Low Power Mode). He has explained that this is why his backpack is always hot when he gets back from school, and why the laptop is hot as well. He put it in "sleep" overnight, and it was at 75%. The next morning, it was at 3% and thats how he found out it never goes to sleep. All sleep does on modern laptops (from basically any manufacturer) is turn off the display and slow down the CPU. But because Windows is a multipurpose OS running on a billion different devices, their implimentation of it sucks, therefore it has been known on many, many forums to be a buggy, power consuming mess. And even if you think "Oh you can probably disable it". You can't since 2004. Microsoft has removed the ability since 2004. Because of this, it also broke the ability Linux has to go to sleep too! Because its "there" but not enabled, Linux will just hang trying to go to sleep. And to make it work, every time you want to go to sleep you have to run 50 different commands before it finally works. This S0 Low Power thing also means that trying to use older versions of Windows at this point on laptops (maybe even some desktops!) you will just not have sleep at all. I get it that most smartphones are able to do this fine, but thats because the OEM can customize the images! Apple is able to do this because they make their hardware and only them. Android is able to do this because its FOSS and OEMs can build their own images and modify the way they do sleep! But Microsoft does not let OEMs make custom images modifying the windows system because its "against their terms of service" so the OEMs have to pray that their hardware will cooperate fine with Microsoft. The most the OEMs for Windows can do is install programs + drivers and maybe set a desktop background. This is obsurd and extremely frustrating. MY PC IS NOT A PHONE

I think I did this, but i'll check if this is still disabled. I wouldn't say 2003, I would say 2012 R2. 2012 R2 finally added UEFI to HyperV and Microsoft finally started getting marketshare in the virtualization world. I would not use Hyper-V before 2012 R2 because its just too feature-less.

NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti. I can check the VRAM usage. I wonder if an alternative Discord client would fix this. I know the IT guys at my school, and I've asked them why they updated to Windows 10 so fast (they updated in April 2016) and they mentioned to me how they've always updated fast (they went to 7 in April 2010) because some of the administrators run software that needs to run the latest version of Windows, and instead of having different OSes deployed they just run the same thing on everything to keep it all together, but have mentioned to me that they are considering not updating as often because of how often Windows 10 updates come. They have a lot of consistency issues, where they gave me exact percentages; 60% are on 1909, 20% are on 1809, 10% are on 1709, 5% are on 1607, 4% are on 1511, and 1% are still on Windows 7. They also told me that with Windows 7, they had better control over the computers and generally had less tickets. They told me though that updating their servers is the least of their priority, with most of them still being on 2012 R2 and a few being on 2008 R2. They haven't adopted Win10 in their servers yet.