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The term "better" implies its use is based upon opinion. Arguments over which OS is "better" than another are stupid because you are basically saying your opinion is correct and the other person's isn't. There is no way to benchmark specific features or compare numbers of opinions, which is why these types of debates never get resolved. This community is home to people who both use Windows 98 and Windows 8.1 computers. The reason why someone would keep an old OS around must certainly mean that person's opinion is that the OS is better at doing something than another OS. Then there are things we can measure. People (or bought-out journalists) laud the fact that Windows 8 can boot to the desktop in less than 10 seconds. So what? I had a PC that was Windows 95 that could boot up in 6 seconds. Which one is better? Who cares?

It reminds me of the flight super-power argument. Having flight as a power would be great, but you'd have to make sure you survive learning how to use it in order for it to be effective. A thing these website articles don't really bring up is... how do we stop?

You are not allowed to sell hardware on MSFN. Read the forum rules!

We will wait for someone to make an Ad-Block program for Windows itself.

We don't want MSFN to turn into Technet where people don't read posts and respond with form answers... The OP may find it difficult to open OneNote files if said software has never been used. Additionally, the linked problem is not the same as the one being reported.

Looks like that "automatically connect to networks shared by my contacts" thing has been figured out and it doesn't sound good. http://reviews.gizmodo.com/why-the-hell-is-windows-10-sharing-my-wi-fi-passwords-1719900675

While it is a valid question, this is likely to be a trap topic for spambots to reply in. First post is a copy/paste of a post on another forum where that has occurred, you can find it with these google terms: "corrupt read only tables" calebbaxter

There is a way to set your Flash player to prompt for storage. I don't remember where you can set this but I have that enabled myself. I agree that actually being able to click on the Yes/No is quite difficult. I don't have the problem of not being able to click other things tho. Regarding the 2 Flash players thing... There are separate plug-ins for IE or Mozilla browsers. If you have both open you can see the separate plug-in containers running in Task Manager. I do not think they are conflicting.

I can't say for certain. I doubt it is actually tied to the license and more or less just enabled on that current installation. So reinstalling Windows would make it so you didn't have the reservation anymore and you could prob get GWX to install and prompt for it again.

This thread is for software or drivers that one would reasonably suspect should work on Windows 10.... For example, it may have worked/installed on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, but doesn't install/run on Windows 10. Also this is for any Windows 10 builds 10240 (RTM) and newer. So far I have found one program that does not install: Norton Antivirus 2014

So these Win7 PCs do not have One Note installed? What about Office?

Do you already know what this device is?

No floppy drives you say? Something to test! Regarding C drive, it seems Windows can handle the letters well enough* nowadays. Most of the headaches regarding what letter the OS was using was with older versions of Windows. *except for the habit of Setup putting boot files on other physical disks or USB keys.

I believe that during the reservation process it asks for an email address. I'm not sure but it also isn't mandatory. The reservation I did couldn't possibly be accessable as I neither registered, nor kept that OS installation around. How can I explain... I can't get my reservation because I formatted the hard drive about 5 minutes after making it.

Two complaints so far, both pertaining to Audit Mode. 1. Start Menu does not work. Fortunately the right-click on the Windows logo still works, as well as Win+R. 2. MS removed the Change user and Power options from the lock screen. This means if the PC goes to sleep then you must fully remove power in order to boot back into the OS.

The biggest pain I ever dealt with when trying to get a version of Windows to boot from another drive letter, was software or drivers. Either they were hardcoded to install on C: and you couldn't choose another installation location, or some part of the software was hardcoded to look in the C drive.

Is it possible to 3d print a Fluid Mechanics Lab Equipment to keep startup costs down?

Yes/no. There is an RTM build (DVD image) that the PC Maker gets and there are "hotfixes" that come out post RTM date/pre GA date that need to be added to a Windows OS that is deployed to a PC. However, MS does not go about and update that DVD image. So to me, that is still the RTM version. This isn't even anything new. Most of the time, the hotfixes are for things no one notices. One example of a post RTM/Pre GA hotfix was to correct this behaviour: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158189-netcfg-log-files-in-system32/ So it really isn't anything new, its more likely that no one wrote about it or was interested in it before.

July 28 would be best...

If you mean the updates that you download from the Update Catalog that are just .EXE and not .MSU files, then I don't know. I usually just ignore those. i know it is annoying that you still have updates left to get. One possible way is to grab those updates manually from Audit Mode, then make your image. Be warned, sometimes a conflict may occur and cause the OS not to boot.

Windows OS ISOs are not redistributable. Link to that site has been removed from your post.

The only thing that's really not an incremental improvement would probably be the apparent ability to stack VRAM. Example: You have GTX 980 Ti's in SLI. Normally the machine only sees 6 GB of VRAM because each card is using its own VRAM. However, with DX12 this would become 12 GB of VRAM... apparently. DirectX 12 will add new capabilities that game developers can make use of to make graphics "better" however it is MS who restricts which OS can use DX12. So yes you can potentially get better graphics in Windows 10. The same was true of how Oblivion had better graphics on Vista than it did on XP but that was only because DX10 was only available on Vista. It is a way for MS to force gamers to use the newest OS if they really want to play some new game.

The word "better" is a word of opinion. I'd like to know what made someone say it is "better" (than what) at gaming.

That is referring to the TH1 build that the Insider Previewers use.

Specifying an invalid language shouldn't generate a bugcheck. Is your Windows 10 image natively in that language? The stuff I am seeing is that RTM is en-US and you add a LIP to get other languages. Is that what you did? Also try just using en-US locales and see what happens. I have to say, I have had mixed results with using an unattend file while installing. My first attempt caused a 0x80070017 error (bad media) but install without XML worked fine. Then reinstall with XML worked fine. That was with Win 10 Pro x64. I haven't gotten to test Win 10 Home yet.