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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.

4GB GDDR5 VRAM, 16GB DDR4 2400 RAM. I did actually figure out that its one program causing it. Whenever Discord is in the foreground or open at all, and playing back someones screen / camera, it causes Aero to lag down to 30 FPS. With it minimized, Aero goes up to 75hz. I started using computers around the Vista era, but we still used XP at the time. We moved to 7 on the family PC in 2011, but I can remember using XP for a year before then, but can barely remember that. It was mainly 2013+ when I started fully remembering and enjoying it, so yes, Windows 7 era.

I actually have. From passmark scores that I did on 7, 8.1, and 10 2004: 7 was the best for CPU, 2nd best for RAM usage, worst for disk usage, and 2nd for graphics. 8.1 was the best for graphics, 2nd best for CPU, and best for RAM usage. 8.1 had the best overall score. 10 was the worst in pretty much everything else. Only thing that can redeem itself is the better program compatibility. In my case, the only thing that 10 gives me is that running a billion windows open at once runs laggy on 7 with Aero transparency enabled. Aero was a little bit of a hog even though it looked really nice. Probably the problems with 8 and newer is that Microsoft stopped caring about it, and just started piling more stuff onto it. Thats why I call it, Inconsistency Hell. Sad to see that the days of consistency are numbered now. Use whatever works for you. I don't care if you use MS-DOS, Me or Vista. I use 7 and 10 because those are the two that i'm used to.

I see on many, many forums, such as r/windows, the Microsoft discord and even the Linus Tech Tips forums where people mention using 7 or so nowadays and people lose their minds, breaking out in cyber arguments about if its a good or bad idea to keep using them. So I have a question. Why do so many people just have problems about older operating systems? As well as that, how many real-people would actually say if 7 or 10 is better? Most of my family says 7 is a lot better. Even a lot of my friends say 7 is better than 10.

Windows 10 is probably staying for a lot longer than that. I hope Linux becomes a better alternative by then, but knowing how Linux came around in the desktop OS world after Windows already monopolized the hell outta the OS world, I wouldn't count on it.

Always thought this day was long from now. Sad to see functions now not existing in 7 Anyway, 8.1 is NT 6.3 so I wouldn't expect them to be that hard to backport, but could pose challenges with NT 6.2 not having it.

The start menu was changed in Build 19042 to be more fluent-like by removing icon borders and making the icon borders on the tiles theme-aware. If you don't want this feature, you have to go back to 19041 or older. (20H2 changed the start menu)

2008 R2 is in ESU and uses the older version of server manager, and 2016 has such a slow update system. 2012 R2 is just a minor update to 2012 so I will be going with 2012 R2 Datacenter Core.

Dell says this supports 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016. I'd rather not use 2008 R2 or 2012 (even though I like them) and 2016 has a very slow update systen, so 2012 R2 is basically my only option, or I can figure out if 2019 runs fine on it when I get it.

The R720 I'm getting has drivers on Dell's site for 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016.

I recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge R720 and I'm wondering what people would use on it. I would happily use Proxmox, but because of some problems with the drives i'm using and how they are setup, Windows Server would be an easier option. What would you use? I'm considering 2019, but wondering if 2012 R2 would be a better option. What are your preferred versions of Windows Server for a Sandy Bridge-era Intel system?

An interesting thing that I learned is that Microsoft didn't remove the QA team, they moved it. They now rely on AI to find and report the bugs. In all the cases they test, they never upgrade the testing containers. This is why 1809 never had that file deletion bug fixed in the betas; because the bots never found it. Even when it existed in the feedback hub, they never look there. The insider program is a joke. You aren't helping shape Windows, you are just making it harder on yourself on an already hard operating system. AI can work if you shape it enough, but it will never be able to replace human intelligence. Anyway, 21H2 development hasn't changed much. In my opinion now I am hopeful, but also a little upset because they aren't focusing on what Windows was good at. Windows 7 and such worked well because it was simple. All Sun Valley may be doing now is just overcomplicating it more. We had hope for when 10 came out that it would fix the "disaster" that 8.1 was. I use quotes on that because 8.0 really ruined the reputation. 8.1 is awesome. What recently came to realization is how much MSFT is changing in only half a year of development. That itself is a little worrying.