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The client works but I can no longer launch games after the last update The steam ui displays that they are running for a few seconds, but no game's exe is launched

I've found such a card! Broadcom BCM943142Y Both WiFi and Bluetooth work on Vista x64 with Windows 7 drivers (tested with October 2022 extended kernel). The only downside is that it only supports 2.4GHz frequency

I think you should check out Windows Sidebar port for Windows 8 and newer called 8GadgetPack, it comes with a gadget for safely-removing drives

I remember that on my old (not functional anymore) laptop which was running Windows Vista & Windows 7 my eternal drive would spin-down on safe-removal only when it was plugged into USB3 ports and not USB2 (same behavior on both OSes). But what probably made the difference was that for USB3 I had AMD drivers installed, while for USB2 I didn't bother and stayed with Windows's build-in ones. So you should probably just install drivers from AMD/Intel.

It is generally a good initiative, but remember you can't share Windows ISOs here. But I can't recall anything that is broken in Vista itself Which ones are broken? Internet Explorer? Just use Pale Moon, Supermium or Firefox October 2022 version is more stable. If you want to try fixing something I would suggest you to concentrate on fixing issues with Intel Haswell and newer CPUs and AMD Ryzen USB controler BSODs.

I am curious if 24H2 is the first version where these problems exist. Have you been using some unsigned drivers that worked in 23H2 and just upgraded to 24H2?

Tested on version 4.1.1.5022896 Baldur's Gate 3 is a game that is oficially supported by it's developers only on Windows 10. There are both Steram and GOG versions available, but I would advise against buying it on Steam since the steam client may stop working on Windows 7 at any time, while GOG game releases are DRM-free and have offline installers available so you aren't going to lose the ability to play. This game comes is two variants bg3.exe (Vulkan based) and bg3_dx11.exe (DirextX 11 based). You probably want to be using the Vulkan version as dx11 one has a broken map (and minimap) To run the Vulkan version you need a pretty recent video driver: Nvidia: for example version 471 will be fine AMD: not tested On Windows 8.0 and Windows 8.1 the game works out of the box and you just have to launch bg3.exe in the bin directory (don't even bother with a crappy Larian launcher) On Windows 7 you have to follow these steps: 1. Download CFF Explorer (part of Explorer Suite) 2. Find bg3.exe and open it in CFF Explorer 3. On the left panel go to Import Directory then find kernel32 under module name 4. Replace a function called GetOverlappedResultEx with GetOverlappedResult (just rename) 5. Save the file as bg3_win7.exe or whatever 6. When launching the game's exe always hold the Shift key 7. Congratulations. The game should now work on Windows 7. Keep in mind tho that replacing functions is a dumb and dirty trick and GetOverlappedResultEx =/= GetOverlappedResult, which may lead to some occasional bugs. I haven't done any deeper testing

Yeah I know that, it doesn't replace anything still installs them. Also it adds it's own tab to the file properties dialog Right, but for example Supermium by win32 was: https://forum.eclectic4un.me/viewtopic.php?f=89&p=605&sid=17c82f4acdcb73e724057ac0464dd0b7#p605 "Adware [...] installs modified versions of popular browsers on affected Windows systems. The browsers installed by Adware.Ghokswa have different start pages, new tab settings, and search settings than the original browser." So basically everything that is a modified version of something common has a high risk of getting a false positive.

It makes sense since it installs modified unofficial Microsoft dlls to your system. It's up to you whether you trust VxKex's developer or not.

I would never install install spyware like Tik-tok on my phone unless maybe in a deeply virtualized and isolated environment. Nevertheless I am generally against any kind of software bans, including this one. It feels like banning (names are made up) Turbo KMS but allowing (forgetting about) Super KMS and I don't think it's how the law should look like

For Linux to take over, there would have to be new retail computers that come with it preinstalled. Most people just use whatever comes with their laptop (or desktop) and don't bother with installing anything custom. + Installing & finding hardware drivers is usually the most difficult thing when setting up a Linux system. Laptops with Linux preinstalled do in fact exist and they are called Chromebooks. So if Linux somehow takes over, it's gonna be Chrome OS or some other distro managed by a by a big corporation which won't be any better and likely more locked-down than Windows 11. Still, I don't see this happening in the near future and especially not in businesses.

I believe LegacyUpdate has an option to activate XP with a legit product key https://legacyupdate.net/ https://legacyupdate.net/faq/security

https://msfn.org/board/topic/183194-windows-7-on-the-intel-alder-lakez690-platform/page/2/#comment-1214533 ThrottleStop may help Well, the modern standby actually leaves the CPU in a working state and on Windows 10/11 the computer would install updates in the background and do other random stuff that heavily drains the battery. The true standby is not there regardless of your operating system.

Some of them even claim XP compatibility https://www.ebay.com/itm/134559754166?hash=item1f5462e7b6:g:9KcAAOSw6vdj4fWU ofc I'm not promoting this exact one Maybe you should contact the seller about driver

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