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Then that would be a good thing if it would be impossible for a hacker to hack in through 2 layered OP systems to gain access to the 3rd party trading platform. Maybe I'm on the right path then.

...you sent me some acknowledgement notice but I don't know what it is for?

Well I have a mini-PC AceMagician T8 Plus with 256 GB of hard drive space and 8 GB RAM so I have enough space for that machine to do anything. I was going to install Windows 7 or warez and then the VM environment and then OSX ontop of that with Think or Swim TOS as the final layer. But since Windows 7 some say has security breaches, could someone hack into my system through Windows 7 then into the VM environment and then into OSX and then into TOS? Like hacking though each layer? The really small 32 GB hard Drive space with 2 GB of RAM is on these tiny travel mini-PC sticks that I use only when I travel. They are easy to transport. So I was going to copy the layered system idea as I stated above into those Asus VivoSticks TS-10 as well and just run these systems infront of every day not remotely tapping in or using another computer to offload the op system hard drive space. Can I do that with this set up? And I prefer OSX over Windows. And I can't shutdown the Windows updates.

Just to make something clear, my aim is to use this mini-PC in front of me not remotely. Someone was telling me that running a VM setup is for only remote access to tap into another computer. But I'm not looking to do that, so I'm trying to have the Win7 installed then another 3rd-party program installed into that to be able to run an OSX Mojave ontop of that so then I can install the Think or Swim platform which is the ultimate goal of this process. Does "ESXi and Hyper-V" do this? act as that 3rd-party program? I was told to look into Proxmox as well. I will be studying up on this over the next week or more. I saw some YouTube tutorials saying to not Hackintosh a system if going the OpenCore or Clover route and that there is a much simpler way of setting up a Hackintosh virtually, but I'm not sure if they meant by the Hypervisor way. If you know of any other way, a 3rd approach to getting an OSX onto a daily-use mini-PC I would appreciate that advice as well, thank you.

1) okay so which OP is smaller with less bloatware? - Home Premium Edition or the Professional Edition or which version is best for an ultra-small HD like 32 gb's on those Asus sticks? 2) and; I see many Dell Reinstall discs with Win 7 that came with a new Dell purchase and when I emailed some of these sellers on eBay some were telling me that the disc will only work with Dell computers, would that be true? 3) Also; since the product key code was already used with the machine during the time of purchase can I use another product key code from my buddy who owns a computer shop and says he has many to give me, will that work? 4) What if I install OS and install an OSX into it like Mojave as I don't like the latest OSX's. And then run the Think or Swim platform on the OSX which is really the ultimate and only goal here. I'm reading to avoid OpenCore of Clover hard installs and set up a virtual machine with something called Hypervisors? What do you think of that approach?

okay all of you guys gave me some good information as you had that discussion amongst yourselves. A few things here, @dixel you said for me to find "Win7 without SP1, only RTM" and I don't know what "RTM" stands for? Should I get the Home Premium Edition or the Professional Edition or which version is best you think? I see many Dell Reinstall discs with Win 7 that came with a new Dell purchase and when I emailed some of these sellers on eBay some were telling me that the disc will only work with Dell computers, would that be true? Also, since the product key code was already used with the machine during the time of purchase can I use another product key code from my buddy who owns a computer shop and says he has many to give me, will that work? What if I install Tiny 7 and install an OSX into it like Mojave as I don't like the latest OSX's. And then run the Think or Swim platform on the OSX which is really the ultimate and only goal here. This will always keep atleast 10 GB's of space on those little 32 GB VivoSticks I have and I can run TOS fluidly. I'm thinking of going this route now. What do you think of that approach?

Hello, I have some mini-PC problems, it started when Windows 10 kept pushing updates to flood my 32gb hard drives to a mere 100 mb's in my Asus VivoSticks TS10 making them inoperable. I had to keep deleting updates everyday and could not shut down the automatic updates in the policies no matter what I did. The same thing happened with Windows 11 in my AceMagician T8 Pro (albeit it has a 256 gb sized drive, so size wasn't the issue there) but I was able to shutdown many update functions in many policies and directories, yet it still says its updating, but only during boot up. I'm trying to figure out how to shutdown all updates forever. Frustrated, I wiped these drives on both mini-PC's and formatted to EXT4 with a Linux install. I've learned to hate Linux, its far too complicated to deal with and I don't want to waste days-on-end in the shell and I don't know code to play around in it. Linux was a dead exploration. So now I want to go back to Windows for both mini-PC's but downscaling to a Windows 7 or Vista or XP where I can affectively shutdown the automatic updates features for real and not have it run secretly in the background without alerting the user. A real and permanent update shutdown. I'm told by various people that Windows 7 is the last Windows op system where you can shutdown automatic updates for real and its not a fake shutoff. I'm wondering how true this is and what your input is? And if there will be a driver issue in downscaling to Win 7 or Vista for these particular PC's? Now before 'some' start jumping-up-and-down shouting that shutting down automatic updates is wrong to do and you don't want to do that and blah, blah, blah. I've heard that all before, but I have my strong reasons to never update anything I own and I don't, and I've never had a problem doing so in 15+ years. Lastly, I use these mini-PC's to run just 1 program - Think or Swim stock trading platform on TD Ameritrade/Charles Schwab. I do not use these PC's for any web browsing, photos, music, not even office like Word, Excel, any chat messengers or anything. These PC's will have no other programs loaded into it besides Think or Swim and never used for anything else. They are as barebones as you can get, only the default installed programs from the Windows disc. I use an iMac as my daily workhorse, I don't need to use these PC's for that. So the update issue whether some think is good or bad is irrelevant. So with all that being said, my question is what Windows platform can I completely shutdown the automatic updates? Can a Dell reinstall disk do this with no product key code or a reusable key code for multiple machines? And I'm told that all the drivers for Windows 7 are the exact same file as used in Windows 10 so is that true as well? Thank you.