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  1. I had recently upgraded my gaming PC to Windows 10 from Windows 7 in order to maintain Steam compatibility, and at that time I had bought a new SSD. But ever since then, the computer was basically unusable for 5-10 minutes after boot, or when downloading anything like Windows Updates. I tried many different things, then the other day I decided to try running a benchmark program. The reason why my computer was so slow became immediately clear. The original disk is a Crucial, and the new disk is a SanDisk. I've since moved back to the Crucial for reasons that can be seen below. Both of these were tested on Unclesocks2 Crucial MX500 SATA SSD SanDisk SSD Plus SDSSDA-480G Others can feel free to post their own results here as well
  2. Make sure to read the forum rules in regards to how to make a topic title.
  3. Drive C was in Caution for about a year before I ran into some slowdown and Bad Blocks, so it had to be replaced. The replacement disk is the same size, but it already has 128,673 hours (14 years) on it. My two PATA disks are at 177527 and 177682 (20 years) And an odd-ball situation, this disk was not in the original post but it has the wrong hours showing at just 1487 which is a couple of months. This disk is over 10 years old so not sure why the hours are showing at such a low number. EDIT: Mystery solved regarding the low hour drive. What ended up happening was that I have both the C and G disk in an enclosure, and both were WD800AAJS. I got the serial number of the C drive and marked it on the disk, but I didn't mark the G drive. I was counting on being able to tell which were the original disks by the amount of dust on them. BUT one of the potential replacement disks was also a dusty WD800AAJS. I ran into problems cloning the C drive because Clonezilla was not erasing the destination disk and had multiple partitions, so the clone was always failing. And then when it did work, the OS booted into startup repair because it had the bootloader from the replacement disk and the OS from my disk. Eventually I got it sorted but in the end what ended up happening is that I put one of the potential replacement disks into the enclosure and ended up imaging my C disk to my G disk. And the new G disk is low hours because it was the actual replacement disk I was supposed to be cloning to. I have the data backed up so it didn't turn out to be a problem in the end but I was sweating for a bit once I realised what happened. Moral of the story: mark all of your disks before doing this kind of work.
  4. Changed title. The issue has to do with links and the link preview function. Other users get similar error just posting and not editing. Other portions of how the post editor renders content also effected.
  5. Well some people get the impression that anything or everything can get ported simply because many things have. But there is no actual porting community, most efforts are the result of selfish pursuits that were released to the public. Some things get a life of their own for sure. The possibility exists for anything to be ported to anything, someone just has to do it.
  6. Current version of the IPB Forum does not actually support BBCode like in the old versions and with other forums. It uses it as a markup only and of course you can't set the editor to bbcode view only. Personally don't care for this direction IPB has gone. As for the links thing, yes it is an issue and appeared to be disabled a few weeks ago. Don't need two topics for this. Rel: https://msfn.org/board/topic/185994-cant-edit-my-first-post-in-thread/
  7. It took a lot of tooling around with boards, video cards and chassis but I finally get to a place where I can install an OS. BUT it looks like I should be using a Japanese keyboard since the installer prompts to use it. I have one already but it is USB and probably won't work right on this old hardware. The BIOS has no options for USB and it won't boot using the USB ports. I already had some issues with Grub being present regarding installation of various DOS versions. I've forgot more about these old OSes than I remembered, so I'd rather stay with the original designs and not use any of these newer implementations. Having dual boot is not a priority right now but I will do it just in case it works without a problem. I have enough computers that I can run a dedicated Windows 2000 system if I wanted to set one up.
  8. If it is about simultaneous output of sounds, it was in relation to a computer I had built for a client that used 4 sound cards (3 discrete + onboard) and ran on Windows XP 64bit. The specs for that may be located on a backup hard drive somewhere, I could attempt to find the info if required but it doesn't appear that is related to this topic. Personally, I've resorted to building physical computers to run the older games. Mainly because some of them have hardware requirements that cannot be used in a VM or emulator. Then again, I know of others who exclusively use VMs for running games and not their host OS. As long as the game doesn't have any special hardware requirement, it should be possible but a LOT of research and testing may be involved. A site you should check out to see if any old game has a patch or way to run on the modern OS (it may be limited to modern re-releases) is https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
  9. Are they really supporting Windows 7 or are they just indifferent to it? When they dropped XP, I seem to recall they put actual blocks in the client to prevent it from running. I expected the same to happen this time around. Rather it sounds like they are just saying they stop supporting it (officially) but don't go about actually preventing it from running. Kind of like when Overwolf (Curse Mincraft launcher) dropped support of Win7 but it still worked if you tried to run it.
  10. There are a lot of spam bots on there and seemingly no moderators. Also Nuno still has not made that forum HTTPS after all these years.
  11. RIS would be using another file to know what it needs to copy. This could either be in the media or perhaps something in the OS. I would do a procmon trace on the RIS window/process to determine what files it reads before it gets to the task of actually copying the files. Then you have a better chance of finding where it is getting the instructions from. Also make a dir (with no space in name) on your data disk* to store your OS into and manipulate it from there instead of from inside of My Documents. * It is my presumption that you have set this up like a typical WDS/RIS implementation where your distribution share is not on the same volume as the OS.
  12. The thing that person is talking about is happening across all sectors of society.
  13. Fortunately for me, I don't have to actually use the OS personally, on any of my personal systems. I already have the idea that if I ever had to go to Win 11, I'll probably use a Server SKU if there aren't (still) any shells available. Unfortunately, for the systems that I have to interact with (such as in this instance) we do not have the opportunity to use any sort of software that changes the OS, since those computers are used in manufacturing. While it is nice to know that people are still out there creating workarounds for Windows UX annoyances, I'm still suprised no one has attempted to make shell replacements. Even like a launcher-type thing that could be customized. Perhaps it is due to how much functionality is baked into explorer, but I haven't looked into it. Building a simple launcher is easy enough to do.
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