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Work computer has no updates, home computer has updated but not since 2014. Nothing is being done without my knowledge. Unless you are being pedantic, home computer gets definitions updates for MSSE but this is happening with my knowledge. My point is still valid, you can configure Windows 7 to never get updates automatically without registry hacks and impersonating a security context to modify tasks.

An update to this topic, there is still a problem but only in Windows. I have replaced the ODD with another and confirms it works in DOS with CD-ROM boot disk. I have also replaced the IDE cable AND even recapped the board. It does not give the "not ready" message anymore, but now it will either sit forever to read the disc, or the computer will do a hard freeze. It no longer created bluescreen if I try to read a disc and then eject it. Autorun on music CD will cause a program to open (WMP) but it stops responding. The trick of having the disc in the drive on boot up will make it show the disc label and icon in Explorer, but it still can't be read.

Some MSU may add a task like that, but it doesn't mean that all Windows 7 have it. Updates were never run on my Win7 systems, and no MSU I have added have put in a task for checking updates. My home PC has install date of 6/1/2013 and also has same settings as the screenshot above, and no updates were installed automatically.

Direct donations to the paypal address doesn't do anything, only if you do it directly through the forum. I've donated to the forum also direct with paypal but the forum says $0 and doesn't put the $ anywhere.

Well here is the way to disable updates, right in Control Panel. Install date 10/18/2019 (from c:\windows\panther\unattendgc\setupact.log) So I think it is working properly as well.

Maybe a better question would be, can you make XP ignore all signatures on drivers? This would make signed and unsigned equal, if the OS doesn't look at them at all.

There is no reason to actually do that, since Windows 7 has a disable update option.

The purpose of doing such work isn't to get back to the original source, but rather to be able to have a copy of the program that can be changed.

Whatever was on that link isn't there now. It goes to a 404.

You have to understand that closed source is dead, but this is not a well known fact yet. Basically, there are LLMs that can reverse engineer* compiled binaries which means nothing is secret anymore. The only way for legacy corps to keep their stranglehold on things is to make a move to remove the openess of source, at least in a legal definition sort of way. *either decompilation or re-writing disassembly to another language

The Pegasus NES was sold in Poland. Dendy system were more of a thing people knew existed but didn't know about, more popular to know about than the Pegasus. I wouldn't consider Russia to even be a country to use as an example for famiclone proliferation, rather Hong Kong was the primary source for those. On translations, "just aware" meaning that I've heard of it before, not to mean that I just heard of it from this link. One of my side-projects is research into international release of computers and video games. Gruz is Polish word, not Russian, as one would expect that a book written in Polish would be using their own words. It translates to "rubble" as per Google translate, so I wonder if it is to mean "junk" like "retrojunk" type thing people from English speaking countries may refer to something as. Maybe a Polish speaking user can post here what the title is supposed to mean.

Read last line of this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/186232-configuring-mini-pcs-with-zero-auto-updates-on-windows-7/?do=findComment&comment=1267319

IIRC Windows Home Server was something you could download from MS publicly, but the various XP Embedded versions were not. There is no reason to convert XP Pro to XPEE or XP Pro for Embedded because they are functionally the same as XP Pro with exception that the licensing components are different aka uses different product keys. I think that it would be impossible to convert XP Pro to XPES without having the actual media to use as a base, since the Setup process is completely different and I don't know if ICE will work with the retail files. Other issues is that XPES uses different IE and update files than XP Pro. Installing retail IE/updates on XPES either fails or breaks the OS. I never tried to install Embedded IE onto XP Pro. Another issue on top of that is a lot of those files are no longer on the internet as they were only released on the now defunct EECE portal or on physical media from the Embedded Partner. It is possible to use the EWF on the Retail SKU with publicly available files, so it may be possible to add that functionality by default through setup, although obviously you'd still have to run the commands to enable it afterwards.

Once you are established, you can post a link to your site in the Websites and Boards section.

I don't think I've ever used that function and I don't think my company has either. They set up VPN tunnels in the network but I think that the OS is agnostic to it.

I can't say exactly if it doesn't work properly, as there are way too many external includes for me to want to figure out which exact one will make the pictures appear. w3c validator shows a heap of errors, so does the browser console. It is just a badly written page.

This forum is English only. If you post in French then you need to also put in a translation or just post in English.

There is no such thing as a secure operating system. I am wondering if this software will run on a Windows PE.

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If I'm not mistaken, I believe that may be a legacy option relating to SMB which has been disabled due to security reasons. Setting up share permissions between computers is trivial and doesn't use that option. You can post which edition of Windows 8 you have and also what OS is on your new computer and someone should be able to answer.

Presumably, you could re-sign MACHINE.INF after editing it, but I do not know if you have to sign it with a certain tool to match how it was signed originally. Also I do not know if you can use just any program to do it. Back when my company had to sign MS OS files, we had to use a PC with a PCI cryptography card to sign files.

I have doubts it is relating to the OS, rather how the firmware makes the information about installed devices available to the OS for enumeration. The question I would have is where that information is kept (or being read from) when Standard PC HAL is being used, since it wouldn't in the MPS table, and (apparently) not an ACPI table.

Running a VM not necessarily for remote access. There are programs that can run VMs, I use VMWare Player. The issue you had is that you don't have a lot of storage space. Offloading where the OS is located to another machine on a VM would alleviate that issue because you would be using disk space on a different computer. Running an emulator/hypervisor on the device and then making a VM to run inside of it does not solve your issue. Why do you need OSX? Think or Swim runs on Windows. And since that is a serious business software, it may be better to pay the price of doing business and buy/use something with a larger hard disk.

I would recommend you use some formatting on your post, such as using the underline on the program names.

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