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I think it is just naming. Defender is just MSSE and the the Defender Firewall is just the Firewall with Advanced Security. If it were me, I would change the ACLs on HOSTS to deny write permissions to the Trusted Installer security context and then look in Event Viewer for errors. I did a quick look at my "Windows Security" app (apparently not called Defender anymore ) and I didn't really see anything besides "allowed threats" option.

32bit vs 64bit is really a matter of preference. And specifically about what kind of programs you are going to want to be running. With Windows 10, there probably isn't going to be any need for running a 16bit program, but there may be a need for a 64bit program. If there is any chance to add more RAM to the system, 64bit would be the way to go.

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What, tabbed browsing? IIRC Maxthon was the first IE shell (or maybe even the first "browser") to have tabbed browsing, but I don't know if the 9x versions have it. Unless you are talking about memory pages...

Wireshark can be overwhelming for beginners, you can also look into something else like TCPView. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/tcpview

Moved to GD. I tried to figure it out, but without a complete inventory I can't say for sure. Perhaps I will do that and confirm. For this post I will say 5 that are current, plus an additional 6 that are known to work, and perhaps another 15 20 that are complete systems but in an unknown level of operation. EDIT: oh god I forgot about the servers.

WHY YUO SHOULD NEVAR INSTALL DIRECT X 8.0 OR AND MICROSOFT IS SUCKS!!! ANYWAYS!!!

I have no clue how a multi-boot with Win7 on UEFI would work. I was never able to get a deployment with a recovery partition to boot, and while Microsoft supposedly did support that configuration, no one could tell me how to do it. They never did release documentation for that type of configuration, and only later did they (incorrectly) state that the Windows 8 deployment docs would work with Windows 7. In order to maintain license requirements, any Windows 7 on UEFI that was done had to ship with a recovery DVD, and of course DVD install had no problem installing to UEFI. So for my Win7 on UEFI deployments, I used these parts: 260 MB EFI 128 MB MSR "remainder" partition where the OS was deployed. A recovery partition is the same basic concept of a dual boot, since you just have an additional partition with a WinPE in it instead of an OS install. BCDEdit had no issues and BCD was always correct, but with the other partition present, the OS would never boot. I had given up on it myself, since there is a difference between what is technically possible and what is allowed by license. The only guidance I can give is that you likely would want to remove Setup from doing anything, and to manually be building the BCD for any multiboot setup. Using a partition scheme like so: Part 1: EFI Part 2: MSR Part 3: Windows 7 Part 4: Windows 8.1 or 10 Part 5: Windows 8.1 or 10 Perhaps look into using something else such as Grub4DOS for UEFI: https://msfn.org/board/topic/182107-grub4dos-for-uefi/

Windows 7 64bit works on UEFI with GPT spindle disks just fine. It is only some NAND or NVMe that can cause a problem. IMO: unless you want to use Bitlocker, a boot disk larger than 2.2 TB or a UEFI-only video card, there is no reason to enable UEFI for Windows 7.

Sure it is an A6 CPU and not an A9? Obviously, see if your installation works on another computer.

The EFI partition is the "system reserved" partition it is referring to.

For what I use of them, I find no real functional differences between 2008 R2 to 2019. As for which to use on a specific hardware platform, I would pick the OS that is certified or qualified for it, so that drivers are available and that support is available if needed.

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Merged with intro thread. Read the forum rules regarding topic titles. Also, in the future use status updates instead of making a thread for posts like this.

It seems a lot of mice recently are just not built the same way as they used to. Sure there was always the possibility to wear down mouse buttons naturally, especially if you play a game a lot. Personally I've found that Microsoft Intellimouse branded and Basic Optical Mouse 1.0A seem to last the longest. Any that have the separate buttons, so not the Basic Optical Mouse 2.0. I want to add I only use optical USB mice and no ball mice (although I'm sure they are still fine) or any cordless or laser mouse variaties. A lot of the mice I see at stores like Logitech seem very flimsy. Another thing I notice about looking at mice in stores is that while there are multiple brands to pick from, they are all actually just made by Logitech.

People would rather post news into the forum and we never had any success in getting people to submit stories for the front page.

It hasn't been a real requirement from MS to use a System Partition, at least not to the end user. It has been in every instance of installation guidance since Vista for MBR and is a requirement for GPT disks. But note that while it is "System Reserved" on MBR, it may not be called that on GPT. Are you using MBR with 1 partition? Post a list of paritions on your disk, perhaps you do have one but is instead, full.

How does the CPU appear in Device Manager for Home vs Pro?

I'm sure I have a ton of older programs on my current systems but a lot of them end up being a use once and forget it type thing. One that is a daily use for me is Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004.

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In the pre-2010 days, I remember that you would get updates for other Office products if you had anything relating to them. So if you had any of the document viewers installed, this would generate a match on Windows Update. For example if you just had Excel installed but had Word Document Viewer installed, you would get Word updates. You can post some of the KBs you have been offered and we can know whether these are actually new or what.

0x7b is storage driver. If you get this while booting off the USB, you'll need to add the USB drivers to the installation.

There is some versioning with AutoIT, but the developers do not really break the features down to my liking. Their responses are usually just "upgrade to the newest version" when some weird situation crops up. I think that you can still use older version of their kit, I just don't know if they keep archives of that on their site. I wish more companies used the Minecraft approach when it came to versioning.

I do not answer the phone anymore unless it is a call from someone in my address book. For years now I get at least 2 calls a day from random "local" phone numbers that are scammers of some sort. None ever leave a message. Any time I answer it is a recording in another language. I don't want to say it is Chinese but I could guess it is that, but I do not know the sounds of the other SEA languages to know if it is. It is not a European language, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic or Urdu, that I can tell you.