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From what I understand regarding the different NAND types, it gets worse over time. Meaning the newer types are not as good as the older types, but the newer types have higher capacity and lower price. Look on page 2 of this PDF which has a short description of the 4 main types: https://business.kioxia.com/content/dam/kioxia/ncsa/en-us/business/memory/asset/KIOXIA_SSD_NAND_Endurance_Tech_Brief.pdf But it has always been the case with SSDs that you want to minimise the amount of writes that are made. With Windows, that is difficult to control without using RAM overlay. The best I could figure is to disable indexing and using a spindle disk as a dedicated page file/vmem location. With Windows also you can choose to install programs on another disk, but most programs are still going to be writing a lot to AppData and in the user profile, I wish there was a way to redirect those write without modifying Windows to store User folder on another disk, which causes many problems with just Windows.

New car smell is actually toxic fumes.

The performance falloff can be fast for TLC NAND (which this disk of yours is) especially if there are many write operations. It has been known for a long time about this issue with NAND and it is not a magical cure to data storage as compared to spindle disks. It depends on what your "use" of the disk is, whether or not it would have been expected that the ssd got slower or not.

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Another gripe I'm not sure I mentioned: the borderless windows. Since by default the explorer windows are white, now with no borders, there is no way to know where one stops and another begins. I am getting confused when having multiple windows open and having to resort to Alt+Tab to navigate them and not being able to use the mouse.

Well the camera in the MS-163K isn't great but for a video conference rarely is it required to have good picture quality. Now you talking about streaming, meaning you are broadcasting/recording instead of watching, then that is an entirely different situation. I'd say you need a quad core + HT and 16 GB RAM minimum. Not sure about what video card would be needed. Also many people use a separate PC to handle the streaming aspects in order to reduce overhead on the system actually playing the game. Just looking now, you can find an older 4 GB Radeon for under $300 on Newegg.

Is it a discrete graphics controller or add-on?

I found the answer myself https://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI#UEFI_class_0-3_and_CSM Calling it UEFI class 3 is incorrect, as it clearly indicates a class 0 is BIOS and thus cannot be UEFI. I don't see why it would matter. Vista SP1 x64 should support a Class 3 system. Just use boot menu and see if the DVD has the UEFI prefix.

Can you explain what you mean by class 3? UEFI spec is still on version 2.

Presuming the working dir for the program isn't System32, you can be safe but you put the "newer" file into the program's working dir. Typically the working dir is where the .exe is, unless launched from a shortcut that indicates the working dir is somewhere else. Windows depends search order is in your favor as the working dir is often the first place Windows will look for a file with System32 being last, which is a compatibility shim that dates back to the 9x days. BUT the caveat is that this only works if the binary uses relative paths to find files and may not work if the binary uses absolute paths or paths with env vars. At least it doesn't hurt to try using the working dir method as you aren't changing anything with the OS.

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If you expect nothing, you can't be disappointed.

I must not have saved the original PCB or had taken a picture of it. IIRC there was a burn mark on it and one of the components was missing.

I think you are OK with Zoom with just about anything. There is more to needing a modern OS for that than anything. I used zoom just once in 2020 and it was on an MSI MS-163K, a notebook from 2009, and it worked just fine.

Not allowing someone who disagrees with you to have the last word or let something slide is what caused this thread to get out of control. MSFN does not have a War Room but we do have a Hurt Locker. Edit: We can try again now

The chip shortage is only really effecting new products and only certain ones at that. It shouldn't have any effect on buying parts for an old computer or a mid-range new build. You're only going to run into problems if you need highly specific parts. IMO we are at a plateau when it comes to components being any better than the past few years. In my gaming PC, my CPU came out in 2017 and my video card is from 2018. Are CPU and video cards that are recent better than that? Maybe technically, but not to a point where I could tell the difference and I can run all of the games and programs I want with no performance issues. My work computers often have issues with detecting USB drives. The notification about needing to be scanned can be ignored for the most part. That happens because the dirty bit is written by the OS, which is normally cleared when you use Safe Remove Hardware option on the drive. In my experience, that is the only thing wrong with drives that make that show up. But for USB detection for rear ports, it can indeed be an issue with the ports themselves or with the board. Front ports are usually remedied by replacing the USB header but those tend to be proprietary to the chassis so getting a replacement may not be ideal. For my one PC where the fronts do not work anymore, and I have no replacement USB header, I just don't use those ports anymore.

I just used Google Maps on Directions mode and changed it from driving to walking. I live close to a supermarket and I used to live close to work. But my company got purchased a long time ago and the office moved farther away. I could walk to the old building in 45 minutes each way if I wanted to.

If this page is to be believed https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Asus-X55A/88 You can use a 2020M CPU which has VT-x https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/71142/intel-pentium-processor-2020m-2m-cache-2-40-ghz.html The board in the X55A has a socket so the CPU can be replaced.

It seems like it may be a trend going forward. That company is not relying on Microsoft doing the drivers, MS doesn't do that. Instead the ODM is pushing the correct drivers to Windows Update only. I am working with a product from Intel that has been frustrating me for some time. Where with both Windows 10 and Windows 11, there are drivers for it you can get from Intel or the update catalog, but they do not work in the OS manually. Only the drivers installed from Windows Update work. So for products that are not specifically aimed at Enterprise channel, appliances or Server OS, drivers may more and more only appear on Windows Update.

1. https://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill 2. All (or most) but it seems that this is just a modern term for an old thing. One could consider the classic MM_reloadPage javascript function from Dreamweaver 2 to be a polyfill. But if that is not an example of one, then perhaps I need clarification as well.

Just for fun I decided to calculate how long my commute would be if I walked instead of drove 12 miles. It would take 4 hours to walk that, but I suspect it could be shorter. And that's one way, so an 8 hour commute of just walking. Not really so much of an easy solution in my case.

DISM supports offline installation. So you can boot a PE and attempt to inject a driver to another vol using the -IMAGE option. IIRC DISM will be able to install any driver you'd normally be able to install that way. For example, you wouldn't be able to add a stock .inf for a video driver. You may also need to use -FORCEUNSIGNED depending on the situation. I use this method to add some drivers after deployment, mostly storage drivers. Drivers of other types may install but you can't know if Windows will actually use them or not until you boot the target.

A test of Windows 11 Search has failed spectatularly, but of course I have come to accept that Search will never be as good as it used to be. The test being have a folder with a text file and a string, then do a file contents search for that string and ideally that file should appear in the results. Well, no it shows no results even after choosing the option for file contents. This has been a big issue for me for years even going back to Vista. Even Windows 7 has this issue where file content search doesn't work except for when it does. I have 3 PC here (2x Win7 and 1x Win10) and if I need to find a string in a file, I have to copy everything to the other Win7 PC to do the content search because it doesn't work on the other Win7 or the Win10 PC. And even so, actual file search in Explorer (when not looking for contents) is usually so slow that I may often find myself using CMD to find file locations instead.

You can be certain any systems running some version of XP are running on hardware purchased over a decade ago. And the fact that the computers are old and running old OS gives you a clue about how much they invest on something new. No instead they hold onto what they have and resist upgrading until there is no other option. I'm aware of one company that has an active "bounty" on specific types of motherboards with VESA slots on them because they are stuck in that type of rut of continuing the use of the old tech because making things work with modern hardware is either prohibitively expensive or time consuming.

It is perhaps not a situation where ATSC 1 has been turned off (I read it hasn't) rather that the broadcasters like to move things around to different transmitters and share channels with others, and it is perhaps these particular channels that I can't get had their ATSC 1 source moved to a transmitter I don't get good reception from.