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We already have a topic for this: https://msfn.org/board/topic/174208-windows-10-deeper-impressions/

In my experience, ReadyBoost is great for a day or two, but it always has destroyed the cache media. If you aren't actually going to use it to run cache media, then it should be disabled.

It was a client requirement at the time. Client was using Linux systems in-house to run this particular hardware setup but wanted to introduce a Windows based product. The typical Windows behaviour (even to this day) is to use default outputs. We had tried many different OS to accomplish it, XP Pro x86, XP Ultimate x86, XPe, XPee, Vista Business, Ultimate and even some versions of Server 2003. XP x64 was the only one that allowed for each sound card to have dedicated input and output. Basically, they could output audio on each sound card simultaneously. Whereas the other OS (or even current one) likes to only use 1 "Default" output, no matter how many audio controllers you have. Even on my Win7 PC at home it cannot do this. Despite I have sound controllers on the video card and sound card. If I want to have audio go to my AVR instead of my PC speakers, I have to set the HDMI Audio output as default and then it will work. There is no option for me to output audio through both the video card and sound card.

I find it hard to believe that the system does not support hibernate. I would suspect there is something wrong with the system or that the BIOS isn't set properly. None of the notebooks I work with have this type of issue. If I were to come across a notebook that did not suspend properly, I would contact the manufacturer support and/or issue an RMA.

Post the most recent memory.dmp or minidump file.

Microsoft does not fix bugs unless it is forcasted to have an impact to their bottom line. It doesn't matter if it is related to a currently supported product or not. I have submitted bug reports including PoC for current MS Office and with the ADK and they do nothing about it, not even acknowledge it. The typical reaction goes something like this: If I do a specific thing, I get an error. How should I fix it? Let me ask you a bunch of irrelevant questions ... (a lot of back and forth) I found what makes the error. Here are the commands I run, what happens, the logs and traces, and how to fix it = Sometimes it comes down to who you talk to. If the person you are interacting with is a support person and not a tech or engineer, then they may see a "resolution" of using a workaround and never pass it up. Once they think they have "solved" the issue, it is over. Nothing is ever done, not even make a KB or a post about it.

The only thing I can add about XP x64 is that it is the only OS I have used that allowed 4 separate sound cards to work using dedicated and separate channels. Obviously this is a very specific requirement that most people aren't going to run into.

Here is the error [HRESULT = 0x80073712 - ERROR_SXS_COMPONENT_STORE_CORRUPT]

Any time I attempt to count computers, I certainly count the GRiD Systems 1520, which is literally a brick since it went underwater and ended up becoming completely destroyed with corrosion and dirt. It is too special of a computer to have thrown away. I didn't consider counting the micros. That is 1 C64, 2 VIC-20, and if they count a TI-99/4A and a Timex Sinclair 1000.

For your particular error: Error: Package_for_RollupFix Error: 0x80073712 Unless another solution presents itself, the DISM log doesn't usually pass failures caused by the OS into the DISM log, but it does reflect this in the file you uploaded. Now CBS log is going to be quite large, so you'll want to look at (or post only) the portion around the same timestamp as the error below. 2021-04-23 10:44:58, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=2404 Further logs for online package and feature related operations can be found at %WINDIR%\logs\CBS\cbs.log - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine

I am watching season 2 of Arrow.

OK that part number matches what you put in the first post. If your computer has an N license/OS on it now, the key from the SBK probably isn't going to work. You can attempt to change the product key in the OS and/or even trying to activate it but knowing a couple things: - The OS installed may or may not access the new key but beyond that, it may not have the additional stuff inside of the OS to change to Pro. - If it happens to take the key and does actually activate but doesn't change the edition (or worse, changes winver but not the actual features) then you might need to use the telephone activation when you reinstall using the SBK. I have not had to deal with N, at least in this type of scenario, there is no production or support scenario where changing a product key to change editions is viable. So I do not know whether or not N would accept the key or not. My gut tells me that the OS would just say the key is wrong. No such thing as overkill for backup drives, sometimes it is just what happens to be available. For my main computer which has maybe 400 GB total space among 4 HDDs, I have a 4 TB backup drive. Why so big? Well it is simple, I went to the store to buy a USB HDD for backup and that was the size for the cheapest one.

People just repeat what they are told and this is especially true if they do not fully understand how something works. The root of this comes from sales pitches from companies from years ago. Even old versions of Windows have had advertisements like "most secure ever" which implies the predecessor is not secure once the new version comes out. Also people conflate installing updates or the ability to get new updates with security. They know some bad thing happened to someone online and there is an update, and if you have the update you will be protected from that thing. But people do not actually look at what the update is, or the CVE or anything like that. They have no idea whether or not the update even has anything to do with their operating environment or how they use their system. This is why I never understand people who just go an install all of the updates, or worse, brag about installing all of the updates. No one needs all those updates, but people will just put them all in there anyways because it is easier than learning how their computer or OS actually works and being able to determine which updates they actually need.

N editions and typical System Builder (OEI DSP, which is in the retail channel) are not in the same channel and the keys are not compatible with each other. There is no shared upgrade path between the two editions. You will need to buy the media kit and will need to reinstall the OS entirely. But, what is the kit number on your existing media pack? Because the name you put in bold does not look to be for an N edition, but we can know for sure with the part number. This is the "End Item PN" above the first barcode on the pack.

Played Just Cause 2 for the first time since 2017, according to the save game.

The drivers at that link appear for me, showing XP to Win 10.

No.

You can buy COAs on the secondary market, either used or NOS FPP. It is a license violation to transfer a license to different hardware but it isn't illegal. If you are a individual who purchases and uses a license, there is no problem but caveat emptor if a used key doesn't activate. There is no recourse with the seller or Microsoft in that case. If you are a business, you can fail auditing if you are found to be in violation of the license (or contract should you have one) so it is not recommended at all for a business to buy used licenses. A sealed System Builder or Retail FPP is perfectly safe from any of that. As for the forum, you can ask for a product key but no one is allowed to post one that isn't an install key.

If you hate Windows 7, stay out of Windows 7 threads. When a person asks "how can i fix this" we should never answer with "change the OS" unless it is specifically a software related question. For OP, my recommendation is to get the OS to 4 GB RAM, or if the system supports more than 4 GB RAM physical, get it to above that and use a 64-bit OS. Would like to know what type of operations are being done on the system that make it slow. If you are talking about using websites, then this is a totally different situation. As a daily user of a 32 bit Win 7 (specs are higher than yours but) I can tell you that some websites are just too heavy. For example, Youtube works fine but sites with heavy scripting can lock up or crash the browser. Examples of this are sites that continuously load into RAM such as Facebook, Twitter or say... Yandex image search. In my experience, once a browser's memory usage hits around 800 MB on a system with 3.2 GB RAM (4 GB installed on 32bit OS), things can get very slow or things will stop working. It is this experience that I am even considering of replacing my own Win 7 system.

Not using ClearType for Font Smoothing?

Merged threads

This version of IPB doesn't show who leads what anymore. The "leaders" are typically the moderators or globals who used to be the moderators of a specific section. I knew it was some "old OS" section, I just couldn't confirm. Back to the topic at hand, doing a quick look and it seems to me that there should only be 2 topics pinned: puntoMX's AHCI thread and mixit's H.264 thread. Everything "above" the H.264 thread are active enough that they do not need to be pinned. Everything below is the dead weight. If that seems to be correct, we can just unpin all of them besides the two I mentioned. And an FAQ/link thread can be made later. But the reason why a forum "leader" needs to do this is because they would be the ones to know what is and what isn't important enough to put into there. I haven't used XP in 10 years now except for doing disk work.

We do not need more than one thread created for this.

Closed poll. Forum moderation/administration is not up to community vote. Typically we would like to limit the amount of pinned topics to at most 1/4 of default view of forum index. Our typical way to manage this is to create FAQ/Important Threads topics such as in win9x: https://msfn.org/board/topic/95815-important-stickified-pinned-959898-seme-topics/ and in winPE: https://msfn.org/board/topic/131897-new-win-pe-faq/ However, this is managed by the "forum leader" and is not usually handled by globals or supers. I believe the XP forum leader is @LoneCrusader

The primary reason for archiving is to save space on the server. We are well past the point of that being useful.