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2012 r2 is almost same as 2012 expect it got better UI (bit less metrofied). It would fine to your use. I recommend atleast server 2012 r2 standard not essential or web edition to have hyper v and more ram support. If you want you can do in place upgrade on retail version of windows server. I upgraded one server from 2008 r2 to 2012 r2 without reinstalling all

Highly depends on usage and hw. I used server 2008 r2 on newer servers (sandy bridge and newer) and server 2003 on older (771 xenon). 2012 would be fine for stability and compatibilty use any offically supported ones. Mostly raid controller is why needed. Stock drivers never worked well on array if you plan use windows server to virtualisation you need atleast windows server standard. Also make sure your server version supports all of processor cores and memory on system. Standard version of 2008 r2 supports up to 32 GB of ram and 4 physical cpu sockets while server datacentre/enterprise edition supports 2tb ram, 8 physical sockets (enterprise) and 64 (datacentre). For server 2012 r2 both standard and data centre do 4tb of ram and 64 physical cpu sockets. Different is on licencing features. Just make sure edition you are installing can utilise ram and cpu sockets

Been on plan. Just have not had lot time upgrade it

When hardware allowed they did all type of cool things with it like 3d, animations etc. Later they dumped it all out to flat design. I remember my phone having animated menu items when highlighted.

My server and switch is from same year. Both hp branded. Old enterprise equipments lasts long

For me it is WSOY (finnish book publisher) finnish to english dictionary software for dos/windows 3 from 1991. It is even today very decent to translate stuff, got small footprint and runs on almost every system

I cannot say from this forum experience but reaction/experience on boards plus personal experience. Windows 3.1 when came out had mixed feeling. Biggest issue many was mix of real mode dos drivers and windows drivers and out of memory for that reason Windows 95 when came out corrected driver issues. Many peoples here had 486 and 8mb ram which supposed to be plenty for it (minium requiments were 386sx and 4mb of ram). Many run out to buy 16mb or 24mb of memory which made user experience way better. I have used windows 95 on 8mb ram and it is slow as snail. Also windows 95 original RTM was very unstable. 95a corrected many of issues also microsoft released update to windows 95 rtm to fix issue. And 95b got stuff like usb support, fat32 and made it more stable but it was OEM only Then Windows 98 came out. It was very buggy and slow mostly for one reason. Internet explorer 4 and web integration which meant windows explorer (file manager) was internet explorer window. To have usable windows 98 experience you need atleast 32mb or ram and Pentium 133 and many still had pentium 90 with 16 or 24mb ram and experience was quite bad. Most of windows 98 issues were either ie4 or new driver architecture. Most even I did remove ie4 from it using one utility Year later Windows 98 Second edition came out. That fixed lot of issues from windows 98 and got way better reception. Some did not like it since still had web integration and you had to pay to upgrade it from windows 98. But overall 98SE was faster and way more stable than windows 98 and many used it for quite long and still do. Then windows 2000 and ME came out. It caused confusion and annyoance since Microsoft had promised Windows 98 is last windows 9x based os. Windows ME was very unstable on my experience. I had lot of issues with it compared windows 98. One magazine here advised skip it and wait for Windows Whistler. Windows 2000 in the other hand was very good os and reliable. More of it after sp3 was installed. It had nt4 stability with windows 9x features like usb, plug and play, direct x. Mostly peoples avoided windows 2000 since had no dos support and many older games did not work out of box and needed appcompat tool to run proper. Next Windows Whistler aka XP came out. It had very mixed repection. Before SP2 Windows XP was buggy and had lot of security holes. Also many did not want use XP since needed online activation. When sp2 came out it had merged many good features from server 2003. It was near perfect and I started properly use xp with sp2 and still do. SP3 had nothing so special. Then was Windows Vista turn. When it came out it was rushed. It introduced new WDDM (Windows Display driver model) to gpu and vendors were not ready for it. Nvidia and ATI drivers caused many display driver failed recover bluescreens. Second was windows vista required lot beefier hw than XP to run and Microsoft underestimated requiments in windows vista capacable badge. Any pc with 800mhz cpu, 512mb ram and any type of display adapter got that badge. I have seen one vista pc capacable OEM pc that had s3 trio64 pci. That video card was used back in windows 3.1 and 95 era. Second critic was overtightened DRM that broke many bought music temporary due experied certificate. Then there was Windows Genuine advantage that caused many vista users who had legal licence get "Your windows is not genuine" error due Microsoft server crash. After sp2 though and when drivers matured Windows vista was very stable but those two came out too late for new Boxed windows/New system buyers since Windows 7 was just around corner When Windows 7 was coming out many were speaking from windows 7e version that supposed to remove internet explorer (like windows N edition removed media player) due opera lawsuit. Ie would have been standalone browser like firefox or chrome not OS component. It would have had rolled out in europe. Many peoples were waiting for it since could mean end to MS monopoly with IE but on last moment ms cancelled plans and made browser ballot update which was basically ad for other browsers and was annyoing. Windows 7 was way more stable than Windows vista at beginning mostly due matured driving architecture and it had many useful management/other features to power users. Windows 8 hype started almost right after Windows 7. When Windows 8 came out it was mostly advertised to tablets not desktop pc. UI was meant to touchscreen and having mix of classic windows app, metro apps, ribbon apps, web apps made quite mess. For me Metro felt like Windows 1.0 or 2.0. Also almost all features needed microsoft account. Want add note to calendar? Need ms account. Also it had no visible start button, it Open with dialog pushed Microsoft store and did hide other apps. Windows 8.1 fixed some things bug only was get update was create account to microsoft store and download from there. Also windows 8.1 broke many windows 8 apps since Kernel version number change When Windows 10 came out it caused confusion first since was offered free. It had bad features of Windows 8 and more. What really annyoyed me was Microsoft forced update that automatically forced Windows 10 even if you dismissed update. I had to deal many systems that did that and broke lot of stuff including my own even after I reverted it windows 7 again. Any of windows versions before forced itself to my pc without me inserting install media and installing it manually. Second issue was mix of control panels and browsers. Windows 10 had and still do have two web browsers, two control panels. Also windows 10 got ads and many unremovable features. Windows 10 keep changing all the time breaking many apps and drivers on new versions. If you bought windows 10 pc in 2015 you may lose driver support to it someday. Some Atom based systems did. I have been able use every older version of windows with same drivers trough every service pack/updates. And for Admin on corporate environment constant feature updates will cause headache. I do not want beta test product on my main pc or on production network. What I found over time is many peoples defend latest windows no matter what bad features it got and says no excuse keep older version. It goes like "Windows <latest version here> is way better than <older version here> and got there is no excuse not to use <latest version here>. You are just scared of new things and not thinking with common sense" That same sectence been used as argument to every new Windows version since windows 98 came out

there is some but hard to say depending from your area where can get. Seen some supporting up to 4 monitors. Second and much better option is if your monitor got two ports is buy single port switch and hook two other monitors to both systems using monitor ports like this: PC1--->gpu dvi/hdmi/vga port-->kvm switch-->monitor 1 -->display cable1>monitor2 input 1 -->display cable1>monitor3 input 1 -->display cable1>monitor2 input 2 -->display cable1>monitor3 input 2 PC2--->gpu dvi/hdmi/vga port-->kvm switch-->monitor 1 this way you can have relatively cheaply and easily kvm and multimonitor setup

That will work. When looking kvm look one with usb and hdmi and support to usb passtrough, support monitor refresh rate and resolution, seperate button to switch between systems. Passtrough is needed to use usb hub or gaming keyboard or mouse features like quick keys, lights etc. I got shared usb ports since that between my systems and gaming mouse and keyboard works fully.. KVM switch model is ATEN CS692. It works fine to my system with resolution 1920x1200*60hz that is it max on spec sheet

I am running dual system on same monitor and keyboard using KVM switch. I got XP system (Phenom 2 X4 945, 4gb ram, 8800gts) and "Modern" win7 and linux system (ryzen 7 2700x, rx580 8gb, 32gb ram) both in my dell ultrasharp, g110 keyboard and g203 mouse. I can use logitec gaming software on both since passtrough and can go to xp or modern system with press of button my desktop. Maybe KVM dual pc setup would work to you too. I can enjoy both of them whenever want

One more thing to note. If you send message using SSL SMTP port every sent message will have warning that has been sent "insecurely". It works but receiver sees that warning

I have been able run windows 7 even on "unsupported" ryzen with some tweaks, NVME and usb3 driver was only needed. Also few days ago made win7 works on zen2 to friend with few major tweaks and been running stable so far. Older Vmware works fine even as win 10 guest. I got win10 offline vm on Vmware workstation 7 under XP. Only thing needed was manually download latest vmware tools. If I can still use it on xp win7 with 15.5 player/workstation wont have issues with it anytime soon run win10. that laptop got offical windows xp and windows 7 drivers on dell site. Microsoft cannot just magically make windows 7 or windows xp incompatible with existing hw (expect in theory with bios flash)

I need more answers to be able to help what device did you try MTP? Phone, mp3, camera. What is your hardware/software config? Do you have sp3 and media player 11 installed? what is model number of gamepad on back. Does it use direct draw or xinput? If you go to game controllers on control panel and is controller listed? If it is if you click it to properties, go to test tab and press button does it list like this (number 1):

you cannot according rules. 4.b Should you be suspended or banned from MSFN, you are not allowed to open a new account to re-obtain the ability to post on the forums. Suspensions and bans are given for a reason and are not up for debate. Users found to be using multiple accounts on the forum, regardless of being suspended/banned or not, will have their accounts immediately banned. Do not give wrong instructions

I have been planning setting up windows 95 to one of my system for experimental purposes to see how far can push it and got some questions from any possible remain win95 users. I know win98SE got better driver support on this but just want try win95 since got original OSR 2 cd and usb update, win95 can be installed without active desktop, ie or other bloat and since want experiment with win95 on faster HW. Target system I will be using specs are Asus P4P800 mainboard, Intel Pentium 4 2.80ghz HT, IDE dvd drive, ide cd-r, 250gb sata hdd, 320gb ide hdd, 160gb sata hdd, nvidia 6800gt agp, onboard soundmax ADI AC97 codec, 3com nic. So far been founding/got following: 3com nic got offical win95 driver, windows can support most of flash drives and other usb storage medias using RLoew usb driver for windows 95, RLoew ram, high capacity disk and sata patch allow me to use even 4gb of ram and sata mode with large hdd on windows 95. For fast cpu this fixed issue on every fast cpu Ioaded windows 95 on. For partitioning I will use windows 98 updated fdisk. Nvidia 77.72 driver can be forced on windows 95 likely. All expect control panel should work just fine, for media player I can use one linked on this msfn topic. I plan keep it IE free. For browser/email client Retrozilla is best since support tls 1.2 What is still problematic: Soundmax ac97 adi codec only driver supporting win95 was this on IBM site, there is no chipset driver for 865 chipset and not sure how much issues it can cause if use without. I will be trying it on someday when time but wanted ask if anyone here got experience on any of that hw with windows 95 for possible tweaks/others I may need to do

Have you considered dual gpu? I have used win98 and win7 on same board once. Had radeon hd 4800 pci e I think and nvidia 6600 pci e on same machine. I disabled Unsupported gpu on win98 and was able to use 6600 on it. I wont remember all details but that is possible. Should work even with xp. That of course works only if you got 2x pci e slots

IIS server error is more common than apache/wordpress server error on internet still since many still uses IIS for some reason. Mostly on companies to intraweb services

That is exactly what I was looking for. No need javascript, videos wont buffer and site wont lag all the time (on real youtube did despite fast 100mb/s broadband and fast quad core cpu).

First of all. What is point of this post? And second you should never ever declare yourself as hacker proof. That is like asking someone hack your system. I am not hacker proof but try reduce attack surface best I can

yes lol Wonder if offical microsoft service pack for windows 98FE adressed corruption issue. I remember downloading update to from windows update before got win98SE cd and even on win98fe only reason to drive corruption was bsod caused by one driver. I used 98FE 7 years and flash drives never caused issues

^this. Also it is your life not someone else. If you want live it way you like do it while you can. Nobody else can desire what you should like or do. Something I learnt when grew up. I do not have to please anybody. And if live way you want no need regret in 40 years why did not enjoy life. No reason to stop.

being younger does not mean you cannot feel nostalgic. Last thing years been way faster than 10 years before it (too fast to me lol).

I'm feeling: old color screen phones with cameras, operator logos, fast broadbands, large (over 100gb) hard disks, flatscreen hd televisions just became new hot thing then I realised that was over 15 years ago. I still remember seeing 32" flatscreen plasma tv on friend and thinking how tv can fit such thin case.

Same issue as on new Youtube layout. Old one worked perfectly even on windows 2000 using palemoon 26.5 or Firefox 10 esr new one seems need hw accerlation to work proper. likely to push you for newer browser and hardware. One site needed 10 javascripts to be allowed on noscript to enter 4 lines of text

have you tried change useragent for mobile on those sites? on about:config create new string called general.useragent.override.facebook.com and set value "Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Tablet; rv:51.0) Gecko/51.0 Firefox/51.0" without quotes. That should give you better performance but still desktop usable UI on facebook.