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Fortunately I've been able to not have to deal with a defender detection for my software... yet.

Post the model of the computer or board you are trying to find the drivers for. Also post the Hardware IDs for the particular devices.

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The only issue I've come across has nothing to do with Microsoft, rather nVidia or AMD setting minimum Windows build requirements for video drivers. It basically has made it so the LTSC 1809 is the only viable option if you want to use a modern video card.

It would only reverse it over time. The immediate effect would be that a lot of things would not be available, and potentially for a very long time. Think of it like this. We do not make any computers or displays anymore. An extreme change like this could cause a situation where you could not get any computer, television or cell phone or potentially any other type of appliance or consumer electronic device (because their industries decided to put computers into everything) for at least a year. It is not like we can just reopen the old food and manufacturing facilities we used to use 40 years ago. Those are all gone and the skilled labor groups have moved on. The doubling of gas prices (diesel would likely follow suit as usual) would primarily impact commuters, but also shippers by truck. If the prices of other fuels also increased suddenly, then the cost of using jets, ships and trains would skyrocket. Anything imported would either disappear or become immediately expensive, and anyone in rural and in-land urban centers would not have access to anything. Port cities would become big again that's for sure. The appropriate solution would be to remove all of the roadblocks to alternative power methods that are currently in place. Either government regulations, or the efforts of lobbying groups or other corporate interests. Then once a viable solution is available for all sectors, then you can ease the market in another direction. Doing so now would be a disaster. (this is all based on the apparent agreement that battery powered vehicles are not a solution to the issue at hand)

FYI This is Realtek RTL8188ETV

There is no point to raise gas prices on the consumer alone in order for them to stop using gas, when there is no current alternative for many applications. You think too small if you are only thinking of people driving in cars and going to work or on vacation or whatever. Think about the immediate impact it would have onto the economy, specifically in the supply chain and service industries. If you think the situation is bad in the world now, doubling gas prices would compound that.

Kill Em All to black album (the one you linked) and Garage Inc I like, anything starting with Load (I can't stand to hear that one) is not for me.

The impact a consumer makes is nothing to the manufacturer. Even if a person decides to not buy a certain type of car, or even if enough people decide, the industry could take years to adjust and stop manufacturing something. So the environmental impact from manufacturing is not something the consumer has any control over. And besides, the manufacturer already had made that car that is on the lot, the impact of its creation already occurred. And the one thing that the politicians do not take into account, when they make these laws (or want to or are trying to) regarding cars and the environment... such as changing of emission standard or saying that gas powered cars can't be made after 2030 or whatever, is the fact that we will just be replacing one environmental issue with another. Not having cars run on gasoline means that cars will run on electricity and that is the big push right now. We already know that creating electricity damages the environment no matter how it is produced although perhaps it could be argued that hydroelectric is the cleanest. Windmills and Solar have their own issues but they are different environmental issues than coal plants. Nuclear sounds great unless something goes wrong then we have to wait 10,000+ years because we haven't figured out how to properly handle the waste or deal with a meltdown except by covering it with concrete. And then there is the situation regarding the batteries which are created using rare earth minerals which are mined from the ground and cause damage not only to ecosystems but also pollute groundwater. So people seem to be tricked into just trading one pollution problem for another.

There was a time when a retail Win7 Pro key would work to install the Windows 10 that you were able to download from MS during the "free upgrade" period. I do not know if that still works.

Things change over time, get really into a band and then later it dies down. Some have a couple great albums and some I could notice that I just like the one or two albums and not everything they made. Metallica fits into this category. Some bands where all of their albums are good but some are just "ok" and I do not care about some albums (as opposed to the Metallica example where some albums are terrible) and a band like this would be Yes or Laibach. But for a favorite band, it would have to be something where everything is good and not just what I have heard like King Crimson or Emerson Lake & Palmer or Giorgio Moroder. And for that title I'd have to say it would have to be Morbid Angel.

The website trackers are likely wrong in the low end. There are more computers online than are capable of being tracked. Especially since we know that these sites are "trackers" and also advertising platforms, they are missing the large portion of computers running ad blockers or other types of URL filtering, not to mention custom user agents and of course, any computer that doesn't use a web browser such as appliances. For example, does that 5.7 Million Windows XP number include XP Embedded systems? Does it include the huge amount of Bank ATMs?

No this is the incorrect answer. You may be able to call the cable company to get the specs, if you can't find the actual model number of the cable modem in order to look it up yourself. There is nothing wrong with the modem (as far as this thread goes) so there is no "support" for the cable company to provide.

Well ok, but did you have this same issue? I also forgot to mention that I also uninstalled all of the USB devices as seen in NirSoft's USBDeview before updating the driver for the USB controller. And as far as the method for troubleshooting, the typical, take one thing at a time, which was: 1. run windbg on the memory.dmp and it pointed to Chrome, so attempted to do an Update in Iron but it does not have an update option like Google Chrome does. So I ran memtest. 2. Then I wanted to run the virus scan, but it complained of the SHA2 update being missing 3. the next crashes produced memory.dmp that pointed to USB driver, so I did the USB driver stuff. Then of course, the issue disappeared.

Neither Hotmail nor MSN are on the block list. Perhaps there is a technical reason, such as the email provider marking the forum emails as junk. There are two users in validating who have an MS email but neither are from Australia. If you want to PM me the email address you tried to sign up with, I can take a look see.

Welcome to the MSFN! The days of Windows Updates breaking things are still the current days!

I wanted to post into here an experience I've had with my development machine, it is quite possibly "solved" but the things done to fix it do not line up. Hopefully either the problem is solved OR the problem returns but has a more definitive error to work from. And the reason why I wanted to post it as a thread is because I do not know if the issue is related to SSL. For the backstory, this computer is SKYLYNXV2 which has Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 with minimal updates. It is a fairly recent installation as it did have Win7 32bit as of 2019 when the system had an "incident" that required a rebuild. The system has been decent since that time with no real issue. Possibly unrelated, but not certain, the only issue that has been seen in the past month or so: - Ebay pages in Iron tabs would randomly crash immediately or after a few minutes of being open. Say open up 5 tabs, 1-2 of those would crash with the "Aw snap" message. Reload fixed. This morning I was doing my browser work as usual when suddenly I get a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT bugcheck. Rebooted, checked the .dmp in windbg, nothing really sticking out other than the crash was caused by chrome.exe. Ran memtest for 2 hours, no errors. Boot back into Windows, check eventvwr, nothing special besides SChannel (which is SSL related but there isn't any way I can find that points to what app/process received the error on what file or location that prompted the log to be written) and WMIC error relating to the processor... and some other computer on the network rejecting the Master Browser request. Open Iron, bugcheck 0xD1 pointing to USB. Restart, try Firefox, same error. Eventually determined that it was not the sole act of opening a browser that caused the bugcheck, rather going to a page that required SSL. What does that mean and why would going to an HTTPS site cause the USB driver to crash the OS? I only have keyboard and mouse. So i want to check for virus, run Malwarebytes but it complains that an update is missing. It tries to go online to get the update but again... 0xD1. The complete process that has (currently) resolved the issue of getting bugcheck when trying to visit HTTPS website is: - install KB4474419 v3 (the update Malwarebytes wanted, name was stored in the log file in AppData for the installer) - run malwarebytes (it only finds false-positives) - clear cache/history/etc from Firefox and Iron - update the driver for the USB Controller (was using the stock "2006" MS driver, updated to one from 2014 from Intel) Now everything is back to normal. So now the thing to point out here is that KB4774419 is a sha-2 code signing update which was the reason why I wanted to post this, considering there has been a lot of talk on the forum about it lately. And I really hope that the "windows crashes when visiting websites" isn't actually fixed by installing an SHA-2 code signing update and installing a 7 year old USB driver. Did some deadline relating to certs come to pass from May 14th to 17th? Or is it just a coincidence?

C202 doesn't seem right. But this probably isn't a router per-se, it is more likely a cable modem. Do you know if they own it or it is leased from the cable company?

You match the capabilities of the wifi card/device to the existing router. You say they have a router now, but do not say what model. From experience: since a desktop is largely immoble, you want to make sure that the desktop's current location is good for using wireless. You can easily test this by seeing what kind of signal strength you get at the location at the back of the computer (or wherever the antenna would be) with a cell phone. See if that location can even get a good signal. If the location isn't good, then you may need to get a different router, a repeater and/or determine what is causing the issue in the environment. For any wireless add-on you'll want something with an antenna, and also probably one using a standard connection. Some of the USB ones have a built-in antenna. If you have one with the standard connector (such as with a PCI card) then you can use an extension if having the antenna directly on the card isn't good placement.

If you told me 20 years ago that in 2021 I'd have a television in almost every room, I wouldn't believe you. At least I don't have a computer in every room. :p

That sounds like a better idea that to have to determine what you want your empty WSUS to be, physical or a VM.

Want to add this, because it is missed by a lot of people but there was a separate IE for Embedded OS. This IE does not work properly on retail OS and the retail IE does not work on the Embedded OS. As such, the updates are different and you should be very careful when crossing them. IE should not be treated like the OS where people cross channel the updates. For example, using retail IE on the Embedded OS would result in portions of the OS not working. This is only really an issue for XP and Vista related embedded OS. I do not know anyone who has tested embedded updates for IE on retail IE on retail OS, so it is impossible to know if they even work even if they do not cause a problem. And considering that times are changed from back then, it may be impossible to test properly since websites are not built for those browsers anymore.

You need to dig through the Task Scheduler to find the things that check for updates or turn the disabled options back on. A lot of these tasks are under the SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller security context and/or execute in Session 0, so they are not visible to a regular logged in user, even one in the Administrators group. Also wanted to add, I have a theory that you could point your computer to a WSUS with no updates in it to prevent updates.

The sharing of OS files or modified OS files of this type cannot be posted here. Security Certificates are about trust and modified certificates break that trust. For files that are still available on the MS Update Catalog, another MS website or in an archive, there is no need to repackage a download for them. Just post links to where they are. For people who want to know how to change certificates on their personal systems, or to fix or create drivers, you can post tutorials for people to learn how to do that themselves.

For the song thing, not sure if it is related, but I wonder about audio files with unicode characters in the file name or ID text. I've known some audio players not being able to play those, or others (like winamp) just shows garbage characters but you can still play the audio.