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Windows 7 is becoming a lost cause on modern hardware, even Windows 7 Embedded. Many Win7e client are having to move into Windows 10 (IoT) OS because the available compatible CPUs on the market are starting to dry up.

Most of the comparisons that people know are in their own limited testing. Whereas the person would use 1 thing, and have to switch to the other for some reason or another. For example, there was some issue with Flash a few years ago where a specific version did not allow you to watch videos on Youtube in Chrome and the most used "solution" was to enable the HTML5 player. I think that people really do not have a good understanding about which is actually better than the other. The only comparison testing I had done (in 2015 already) was a temperature testing using 4K Video at fullscreen. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/0-*/?do=findComment&comment=1099455 But even that is not a real world test, one where I could say one was better than the other. What we know for sure is this hard facts: 1. Flash was designed to create movies. It became used for many things such as games and even software applications, but the original purpose was for video animation. 2. HTML5 is an updated version of the HTML specification. It is not a fair comparison to Flash. The problem always seemed to be the openess of the particular platform. HTML5 being a web standard would end up being supported in everything. Flash being a proprietary platform requires a plug-in. It is just the most recent in the long chain of things that eventually bowed out that were fine for websites but required a third-party plugin. Think also SVG and Java. But you can say "what SVG works in all browser" and yes it does as an image format. SVG was much bigger and could have been a Flash competitor had it been developed properly. For many years, SVG only worked in IE with a plug-in and did not work in Firefox for many years. Even Firefox did not support XSLT properly for many years. So SVG was an example of something that ran purely on text files (XML) using the XML spec but was only supported on IE until maybe 5-7 years ago. Another reason why people often have a bad taste for these plug-in based technologies is having to interact with the software itself and the differences in how the popular browsers handle it. I can't speak for Macs or Safari or Opera because I do not use those. We know the "best" or easiest browser to use with Flash is Chrome because you never see anything about it. It is because Chrome will update the plugin and extensions on its own by default. This is not the case with Firefox or IE. For those browsers, a scheduled task is created to check for Flash updates. Which then opens a program to click a button saying you need to update Flash. Then you click it, and it will open to the Adobe website to download the new .exe, which sometimes might install some crap-ware (like McAfee or Chrome or a toolbar or whatever) if you forget to uncheck a box. Then you have to run that .exe, which then tells you to close "your browser" and re-open again. This process is annoying in itself, because you could think if Chrome can update Flash without you knowing, why not other things? Another thing is that Flash went through at least two noticable periods of system requirement change. One for client, one for developer sides. Flash had become "slow and bloated" when the web was in the "2.0" phase and got bad press in the same way Vista had. In this period of time, it became obvious that for some websites (especially multimedia ones like youtube, or websites with 3D such as the original Quake 3 that id made to run in your browser) that your minimum system requirements was a two "core" CPU (Hyperthreading, dual core, core 2, etc) and 4GB RAM. Existing computers did not have this and the internet became slow for a lot of people. Vista launched and was being sold with single core CPUs and 1-2GB RAM and ran like crap. The developer requirement changed happened around this time also but with some different specs. For a Flash developer, the new software came from Adobe and a 32bit OS didn't cut it anymore. You needed a 64-bit OS and at least 6GB RAM in order to author in Flash CS2 without running into slowdowns or soft-locks during processing. The only other thing I can think of is that Flash never really became "Easy" to use. After Adobe purchased Macromedia's products, they never changed anything. You'd think that since Flash had shifted away from its Shockwave roots of being a movie creation tool, to being more popular with web animations, menus and games, that perhaps a different UI would have been made specifically for those types of applications. But it didn't happen. In fact, Adobe's programs were largely unchanged from when they were Macromedia branded. I can cite the example of Fireworks in CS4 (or CS5) which is basically no different than Fireworks 2 or MX 2004. The only change seemed to be the ability to use Bridge. Well that was more typing than I expected.

Be sure to type in WIM not WMI when you post. We get what you mean but you should at least fix your post and be aware of how you are typing it in the future. I personally try to use Windows Setup as little as possible, so I wouldn't take this approach at all. You should look into a unified deployment platform like MDT (which can be used to create external install media) to handle this type of task rather than trying to get Setup to deploy two totally different operating systems. For .Net Framework, updates for that I get from the catalog are EXE and thus can't be intergrated like MSU files can.

I still prefer XPS over PDF but that is likely more to do with the software itself and not the file format.

Lack of error logging (actual regressions) is one thing I do not like about Windows 10. One example is the change in OOBE made it so half of that phase is not logged into the setupact.log in Panther or UnattendGC anymore, making it impossible to troubleshoot some first-time boot scenarios.

Sure any code that is hidden can be a problem... and PHP is used to target servers for sure. But PHP is not a big threat to clients, because it only runs on the server and does not interact with a browser at all.

After installing the Flash update on Monday, now in Firefox it is set to prompt instead of enabled, which was my old setting. I only had Flash configured to deny/prompt for local storage. So it seems that that update change a setting in my browser without asking or notification. Also the prompt has changed, it says now Flash will slow down my computer.

Flash was too innocent when it came into being, or after its separation from Shockwave. Macromedia had put in the ability to not only have local file access but their own scripting language. Once this happened, Flash became a problem. Macromedia did remove the local file access in SWF but not Projector. Then they removed it from Projector in the MX 2004 version. (Projector was the ability to compile an .exe from your Flash movie. I would put it on the same terms as what an HTA is to HTML/ASP.) Then later they removed Projector. They never did remove ActionScript, and this was the main issue with Flash. Since the SWF was compiled, it hid what script it had inside of it. The SWF could be decompiled but not on the fly in a browser or at runtime. People even figured out how to code it so the SWF couldn't be decompiled properly. It became pretty much void that Adobe could not remove the ActionScript from Flash and only would continue to patch it to fix exploits or other bugs. The writing was on the wall and it was already a dead product for many years now. The problem was that it was the best at certain things up until just recently. While there had been many ways to provide fancy graphics or do video playback, there was nothing better than it functionality wise. Things are a lot different now that HTML5 is defacto staying around and is proven enough to take over that responsibility from Flash. So now Flash can go away. I do not know how the Wii or iPod works, but Flash won't stop immediately. Anything that runs on projector or local files would still work. SWF that is linked to embedded SWF would still work, providing the files are still on the server. Same for anything else it links into, such as images, XML/flatfiles or a database. I'm sure that there will still be extensions for browsers that allow Flash content to work, it is just that Flash will no longer be maintained. Big websites that keep up with trends won't use it anymore, but if your browser still supports it and you go to a site that has it, it will still work.

That is the wrong term. Planned Obsolescence is when a product is created with the plan baked in from the get-go that it will become unusable at some point. So this can't really be applicable to Adobe since it was not them who even made Flash in the first place.

Only until the next one comes out. Also why would Asus decide to name their new phone for 2017, "ZenFone 4" which was also a name of one of their phones from 2014?

Fortunately, Canon still has a website: https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/products/fax__multifunctionals/inkjet/pixma_mp_series/pixma_mp230.aspx?type=drivers&language=EN&os=WINDOWS 7 (32-bit)

I should have four-five notebooks but I can only find two at the moment. Compaq LTE 5150 Compaq Armada 1592DMT I know I have a more "modern" Armada somewhere. I did used to have an Elite LTE 440/CX (my notebook from college) but it went underwater. I am not 100% certain, but the HDD from the LTE 440 might be in the LTE 5150. Alas that 440 went into the trash. I also believe a Toshiba Tecra was lost to the same fate. The only one I had kept that went underwater was a GRiD 1520. I've been meaning to do a proper PC part inventory and I hope to find those other systems then.

Need to know what the STOP code is, not speculation about what it is. You should still be able to disable the automatic restart on system failure, even on an install, using F8 menu. This will make it so the error remains on the screen until you manually shutdown or reboot the system.

@Roffen took the text from your (edited) duplicate topic and put into your post on this topic. Deleted the duplicate topic.

I was at a gas station on Saturday and saw that the ATM screen was showing that Windows XP was shutting down.

I still have some feeling that the ability to get music from Youtube isn't as "legal" as these websites indicate.

Welcome to the MSFN!

Yes I had moved the INFs to different folders because it specifically says to use one vs the other depending on the controller. So I moved the H to a different folder so Windows could only pick the INF I wanted. So since this is a "VIA SATA RAID" controller, I didn't want Windows to try to use the uata_xph.inf so I took it out of the folder. direct link: http://i.imgur.com/IQoS5Wkl.jpg FWIW, I did also try to use the xph driver on there, but it added about 6 flagged devices and all of them had the "not enough free resources" message in device properties.

Ok for this one, I followed the instruction to update the VIA SATA RAID controller device in Device manager and browsed to the folder that only has uataxp.inf in it. It did not change the VIA device but instead put a flagged device into Other devices. I then installed the driver for that, and now under System there is a UATA Virtual Communication Device. That driver is in the root of the Release folder of the driver download. The instructions do not mention having to install this device. This particular computer does have the IDE controller also, but the only thing connected to it is a DVD drive. Now having rebooted with this UATA driver installed, it doesn't seem to make any difference. It still shows the inaccessible drive (now E) in My Computer, and the same "healthy" extent sized volume in Disk Management.

I am now to another board now. I had also tired to use an ECS board but I couldn't activate XP. So now I am on an MSI PM8PM-V. It has the same issue in IDE mode with the Microsoft driver, the VIA IDE driver and the VIA RAID driver, as downloaded from MSI's website. For RAID, I have it just in JBOD, but the VIA Tool program opens and shows this information about the disk: I will try that UNIATA thing out. Regarding the XP OS, I can easily reimage it without an issue.

Same result with Intel D2700MUD.

Ok there are some other old systems here currently I can test XP on.

Shutdown and unplugged the XP disk. Was able to boot into the Win7 and the partitions are all the same as before. Back in XP, Changing to the Microsoft driver instead of Intel for the PCI IDE controller doesn't change how the disk is seen. There is no newer storage driver for this board, I installed the latest chipset and it says everything was up to date. This board is a SFF board, it doesn't support RAID, so there is no IRST for it. I can try to install an old version to see if it matters. It does seem right now that this XP install doesn't see the disk properly because of drivers. PS: for reference. This PC has 2 disks in it. A 160GB with XP on it, and the 3TB with Win7 32bit on it. The 3TB was not used as a secondary disk in a different Win7 system. Win7 32bit is installed on to the 1.8GB partition. Still want me to try that TinyHexer from within XP? For older OSes like 2000 or NT4, I do not think I have any hardware that support that OS and also have SATA ports.

You can't rebuild that array now because you have changed the data on one of the disks. Usually in the case of a failed mirror, I would ghost (sector copy) one of the drives to a blank disk of the same size. Then erase both of the original HDDs, and recreate the mirror. Then ghost the backup drive to the raid array. But you say "the recovery utility" which makes me thing you didn't do a repair of the existing installation. Usually the case for IRST is that you can't create the mirror after the fact, say using 1 blank disk, because that is a feature not in "cheap" desktop boards, but more a feature in more expensive controllers. Some do apparently have the ability to do it, but typically the IRST will erase your FAT when it makes the mirror. You could use the outlined step from last paragraph to get your OS onto the RAID, but you would need the storage driver in your OS. You can experiment on getting that to work by changing the SATA mode in the BIOS to RAID and then boot your single disk. If it can boot, then the image should work on an actual array. I can't say about your Office key. A pre-install Office doesn't have a product key only in the software. The only reason it would be there is if you put it there. It should be on a COA on the machine, or on your original disk packaging that came with the computer.

I have Win 98FE with 768MB RAM and a 256MB video card. The OS is modified but I do not believe it has a RAM patch installed.