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I try to not use the .exe if at all possible, rather see if I can find a download with the INF files in it. Alternatively, you can look onto the Windows Update Catalog for cabs by searching for the DEV_* value.

All the drives in my first post are still running, but the first 80 GB one has two SMART warnings now and really should replace it.

Sounds like the price of doing business.

In the past, I certainly did have specific reasons for using Chrome. Mostly that certain websites worked properly with it while others didn't. Things likely changed and now I can't really think of any real reason to want to prefer Chrome for anything, except maybe to stop Google Drive from showing the incompatible browser message. So I think my initial reasoning for wanting to stick with Chrome is just old ideas, or perhaps that it is what I had been used to.

I can't speak for anyone else as to how they are acquiring it, but IOT Enteprise in the LTSB/LTSC branches is not a retail OS. There are two ways to acquire it: 1. Be an Embedded Channel Partner/IoT Distributor 2. Buy a computer with the OS already installed There are demo/trial versions that can be acquired. If you buy an appliance with the OS installed, you do not get installation media, but certain companies may provide recovery media depending on volume. So far in my experience, no one has bothered to request recovery media for any appliances with an Embedded SKU since XPe was still available. Nowadays clients are perfectly fine with hotswap warranties. Official info here but note that ways to acquire this OS outside of these methods cannot be discussed here. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise/commercialization/licensing

You didn't put the model for the system. DDG seems to indicate that it is S01-pF1013w, and if so then the maximum amount of RAM supported by the board is 32 GB (2x 16 GB) https://support.hp.com/id-en/document/c06696087 https://support.hp.com/id-en/document/c06678632

I have not seen any messages on Chrome on my Win7 32bit at home about EOL yet.

At least with Mozilla based browsers, you can download a specific version and just never update it.

It was always clear that stop/start was a big picture thing and has nearly nothing to do with the individual. That is the primary failing of the article that takes the individual point of view, or the single car angle. It is entirely big picture and that aspect of whether it helps or hurts is what is important. But for the individual, or "the selling point" for a person to buy or use this technology, it depends on a couple of things. First of all is the lifespan of the product. We may have been living in a world recently where people do not keep vehicles for a long period of time anymore and this shouldn't effect how technology is designed but we all have a feeling that it does. This stop/start thing may work well now, but will it work well in 6 years? How about 10 years? I never wanted it because I live in a area where it gets cold. I know how regular cars work when it is cold and the start/stop tech always sounded like a recipe for disaster. I am glad that (at least for now) if you buy one of these cars, the dealer can disable that option for you.

It won't stay. Fix your post and read the forum rules. I fixed your title, now you'll have to fix your post.

Sounds like an oversight, not a "this is normal" type thing. The OS should know that the software is disabled and not malfunctioning. It is easy enough to check for these things.

Chrome updates often enough for it to be an issue. Do you think Google will be ethical and disable updates on Win7 systems when this last version arrives or do you expect they will do what every other lazy developer does these days and push an unsupported update to a system thus making the software unusable? I'm not willing to bet that updates will be automatically disabled on the last version, or that they will show a prompt saying so, or block a future update to an OS-locked version.

It gave me a lead. Apparently the board I have has a TPM header but doesn't have one installed.

Well I guess I might as well install Iron on everything then.

Either one of Hiren's boot CD still contains warez and cannot be discussed here. Make a new topic on how to fix your booting issue.

I haven't been able to try Windows 11 22H2. I went to make a base image but it stops during setup saying the computer doesn't meet system requirements. MS has changed their online support and now it is a gauntlet for me to get answers as to why it is giving this error. In regards to multi-boot, I only use it on specific devices. Regular computers I want to have maximum uptime, makes no sense for me to multi-boot or VMs in. The only systems I use multi-boot on are my notebooks which are for specific purposes, and are supposed to be turned on as needed and off most of the time.

You can run MGADiag. Click Copy button and paste the results here. It may reveal the issue.

One reason why I always use Pro editions (at least) so that if my profile were to get corrupted, I can boot into Safe Mode and have access to the Users and Groups cpl in MMC without having to enable Administrator. Profile corruption was common in NT4, 2000 and XP inside of domains specifically because users would always be saving things in local profile folders even if considerations where made to have a User share. The corruption happens due to there being a large file size in the domain profile, and copy errors occur during synchronisation. However, having very large "for the time" user profiles (2 GB+ is where it becomes a problem) in local only (no domain) profiles can still cause issues with corruption. Those OSes also occasionally had issues with path length and also there was that mysterious "number of files in folder*" issue which did not match to Windows or file system limits which did not help. The local profile corruption still occurs these days but not because of size or file counts in modern OS. Now it is usually caused by some program or virus behaving badly. The network desync in AD can still occur for those types of profiles however. * This is some bug where some dirs became unresponsible/unusable when number of files in a single dir/subdir would number 1000+. The actual limits by the OS or filesystem (even FAT32) were well above where the problem occurred so it must have been something else. I never did figure it out. Sometimes would happen over 1000 files, sometimes over 3000 files.

Done

It probably doesn't like the pipe.

Ubisoft had an update to Uplay/Connect and now some games launched from them (even via Steam) will not run. I say some because Far Cry 4 works for me but Far Cry New Dawn shows this message:

No and no.

Ref: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/intel-confirms-leaked-alder-lake-bios-source-code-is-authentic/ As Intel's position is not against is being released and is actively asking for people to look at it (for security purposes) we shall allow this content... for now.

Windows is a lot more resilient these days. Back in NT4 times seeing corrupt user profiles was commonplace.

I am well aware of what a dummy driver is. For me it depends on the application. If this is for a product, and the client signs off on it, then using a dummy driver is fine. If it is for a personal system, I'd rather just not even bother and just leave things not installed for devices I'm not going to be using.