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I use a domain, so I have it so MS accounts aren't required to install store apps. Really nice for those apps that I like. Also, I have figured out how MS accounts work. They do create local usernames, but it is your email used. For example, you signed in with "example@gmail.com". If you were remoting in or needing to find your local user, the user folder is usually the first 5 letters of your email "examp" and the username Windows knows is the full email "example@gmail.com" it makes it seem like its signing into gmail as a domain server, but the times I do it does not. I agree that local accounts are easier to handle with MS accounts used for UWP apps strictly. Local accounts are miles ahead of MS accounts. You can sign in automatically, but there are some registry entries you need to set to specify autologon passwords, and sometimes it doesn't even work.

Hm. After googling it shows that it is a Windows Server 2022 Insider build. Could be why it says 21H2, unless sun valley isnt coming out with 21H2....

Compression is actually used a lot, and if your processor is powerful enough and the software using the compression is optimized enough, you won't really notice a difference. Modern smartphones nowadays are encrypted out of the box, which would have a larger effect on performance than compression. The more its compressed, the longer it will take to access those files. Not really. The disk space doesn't really have any connectable dots to speed of the system. It more is what services have to load, drivers that have to wait for their device to respond, waiting for network link and other timeouts such as clearing pagefile for security purposes, and also just waiting for the IO of the drive, as well as if it is a solid-state or a mechanical drive. What you can do to make the system perform faster is to remove components that don't matter (I don't use ntlite, I use WinReducerEx, gives me more options) and/or disabling / removing unused drivers and services. The biggest slowdown 10 has though is that most of the UI elements are UWP now (Start, context menus, volume, network and clock) so you would have to switch them over to the classic versions, but as time goes on this will be less "able". The thing that everyone should know that I do realize is that UWP is definitely here to stay, as well as telemetry and less control of the user, and there really isn't much we can do about it. What is nice is that Linux as the days go by is becoming a more viable option, but even then still has a long way to go, even if it does start making a dent in the desktop consumer marketshare. Linux is mainly known for its server enterprise marketshare because of how versatile it is, as well as IoT devices. The thing I really hate to admit and what people here may get upset about is that as much as I love older windows such as 2K, XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, they are over time slowly fading away. I'm not sure if 2000 would be usable in 2030 or 2040. Hardware manufacturers are learning how to drop operating systems and with the introduction of DCH 10 drivers, it makes it even harder to port drivers. At that point you would have to completely write your own drivers. You can't really run MS-DOS 2.0 comfortably on an 11th gen Intel desktop, can you. I have no hate towards older operating systems, I love them more than ever. But what I do know myself is that it will physically become impossible one day. We are already seeing this with modern desktops and laptops which can't run anything older than 10. Then, you could just say to use older hardware. That still has time, but time that is running out fast. Hardware breaks. Over time components stop working. Eventually, the first components to fail will most likely be capacitors and transistors, which with them failing could destroy other components, especially if the failure was in the power supply. You can repair them and keep it going, but eventually the processors and graphics cards may start failing. Older hardware will become more rare as the years go by as more of them break. You don't see as many 1920s cars around on the road anymore because they are being held in garages to keep in good condition because they are vulnerable due to lack of easy-to-find replacement parts. As I said, I am not against older hardware, but if I can predict the amount of time until people will legitimately be forced to use Linux or Windows 10, I would put it at 10-20 years. Windows 10 is here to stay, and we will eventually in a decade or two have to leave what we love. That should be Server 2022 Insider. This build would of been released last year. The latest insider is 21332.

I came across the built-in email client and I was wondering if it still works. I entered all my info in and the error I get right now is "-ERR malformed command blah blah" I have SSL enabled and all the info entered is correct. Is this client just too old to use?

And yes, I want to like 10 because a lot of people use it, but I just can't with where it is. I am just hoping that 21H2 brings me back. 21H1 is an enablement package; no big features being added.

I'll try this out today.

Can run on my old XP era laptop from 2006 without lag. I want to like 10 but I just can't. The horrendous updates, general design choices and just things that don't make sense push me away. My PC can't even stay asleep on 10.

Well, S mode still exists in 10 but its no longer a special edition. It's a switch you can choose when making a WIM. Some manufacturers put Windows 10 in S Mode on the most odd hardware. Brother got a new laptop recently with a Ryzen 5 3450U. Came in S mode, but luckily MSFT lets you upgrade it to Home for free. Usually they are called "Windows 10 Home in S mode". Imagine it being named "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations in S mode". What's next? everything just has a "Pro" slapped on top of it. iPhone 12 Pro Max, Google Pixel 4 5G, Remember when names were simple? Nexus 5. Google Pixel. iPhone 4S. Just, agh.

S mode. We expected too much.

Well I installed 2K to the HDD via passthrough to a VM on my desktop. Now it just freezes when the bar is at 100% starting windows 2000. I think it is crashing due to an ACPI error but not showing the bluescreen. Also, I found out this HDD has 1 bad sector now from the triple boot of 2000 (trying to get working), XP and Vista.

I remember back when iOS jailbreaking allowed people to do cool swiping animations. I remember when android also had the futuristic tron style UI too. Same with cool animations on Windows 7. But, companies now say that oversimplifying makes it "better for the eyes" which is actually them just making the logos remember simpler so people remember them faster. It isn't for protecting eyes or reducing resources. Its so they can yell over every other company.

I'll try out a driver from 2016 from when my card came out. Might act better, and I will check if my games comply.

The farthest back that I can remember is December 25, 2012. I was really young and I remember when we got our first family PC. Custom parts on the table and a Rosewill case, with a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. We were upgrading from our old Sony Vaio desktop which had a Pentium 4, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB HDD, running Windows XP Home. The new PC was a AMD Phenom 1055T, 8GB of ram, and a 500GB WD Blue which is now in my NAS. My first laptop was a Dell Inspiron from 2007 which came with Vista, but eventually made its way onto Lubuntu 12.04 LTS. I then had a HP Pavilion G7. AMD A8-4500M and 6GB of ram running Windows 8. I didn't mind it, but it worked fine. in 2017 I upgraded my CPU to an FX 8350 and my laptop then moved to a Toshiba Satellite R945, i5 3210M and 8GB of ram, running Windows 7. At this time I was on 10 for the most part. 2019 my PC broke and then I upgraded to an i5 8400, 16GB of ram and Windows 10 1809, plus a 250GB NVME SSD. Later last year I upgraded to an i7 9700K. The dumbing down of computers, software and hardware is not JUST Microsoft. It's a trend that I don't understand. It removes unique parts of things and everything just looks the same. Back in the mid to late 2000s, you had console menu music like the PS2, Gamecube, Wii and even the original Xbox. You had the Wii shop music, the DS alarm feature. It got even better in the early 2010s with the 3DS eShop and the PS4 which had menu music. The Xbox One though was our first look at the decline of technology. Techology was at its peak in the late 2000s. Windows Vista and 7 made huge changes to Windows. But then in 2015 Windows 10 came around and that was our look at oversimplification. Logos started going flat, design started losing its transparency. macOS went flat, Ubuntu went flat. We lost startup sounds and in 2017, we lost the Nintendo charm. The switch had no eshop music, no menu music, no fun text or easter eggs. I wish technology was like how it was back then, when it had charm and everything was unique. Now everything just feels the same. W10 1803 vs W10 2004, no difference in the UI. Just some icons are different and some defaults have changed.

So I saw a post here about "What are you listening to?" which was about music. I decided to make one of the similar topic, but about TV shows / movies. So, what have you been watching lately? I'm currently watching through Rick and Morty for the first time. Funniest thing I have seen. I know there is a topic of this from 2012, but considering how old it is, better off to start off a new one I guess.

Well I thought updating it to the latest would help.

I use a gigabit network switch from 2007. As well as that, a breaker box from 1969. Software wise fully, the oldest game I play is probably The Sims 3, and Portal. Non-gaming wise, I never update my software, so the oldest software that I use a lot is Windows Explorer. 6.1.7601

Daft Punk is great.

Fixed the issue by disabling aero transparency, but still using aero.

I've talked about this before but its never been this bad. I love the aero theme on Windows 7 and its great, but when im playing games my framerate gets really unstable. More specifically, the game says its running at 60FPS, but in reality it looks like 25. It then keeps bouncing between 30 and 60 back and forth randomly. Is this due to 3 monitors, drivers, or something else? I love Windows 7 and this is the only thing that really pushes me into using Windows 10 again. GTX 1050 Ti, nvidia 461.72

So I know that this forum existed from around when XP was the latest. It still exists obviously. But for those who have used it for a while (6+ years) what was it like when each version was released? How were the reactions on this forum? Did people have any hate towards the latest (example, 7) back then same as the 10 hate? I haven't been around long enough to know, plus my memory goes back as far as 2014. Any farther and its just a blur. What was it like anyways when XP, Vista, 7, 8, or 10 was the latest?

Okay so I am still having acpi errors even after booting it with the modded acpi.sys. I'm not really sure what else I should do here

Okay so I decided to try installing 2000 in a VM on this HDD to at least get past setup. After that, I'll see if it can boot and when it can I will get a list of devices that are missing. Does SDI work on 2k?

The thing is XP had the USB and the HDD drivers built in. Plus, im not really sure how to integrate the extended core into it. Is it just like another update I would add for nLite?

So I am setting up a legacy Windows laptop (going to have a triple boot of 2K, XP, and Vista). I already got XP and Vista installed with all drivers, but installing 2000 the same way I keep getting frozen on "Setup is starting Windows 2000" and when disabling ACPI i get a BSOD of 7B. I am trying to install from USB because this computer doesn't have a working disc drive anymore. The only one I have is a USB disc drive. I already used nLite to integrate all the updates. I am not sure what drivers I am going to find to get ACPI working and USB drivers in the text setup. I'm not that advanced in the 2000 department More specifically, I do have IDE enabled in the BIOS and USB Legacy enabled. USB 3.0 is turned off. The specs are: Toshiba Satellite R945-P440 8GB DDR3 Intel Core i5 3210M