Can't you rollback to Win7? You'll probably get much betterI dont think so. It came with win 10 pre installed.
performance. 1.5GB free wouldn't even bode well under Win7.
Re: Windows update.
By: Digital Man to Melkor on Mon Apr 12 2021 08:52 pm
1.5 gigs of free space sounds suspiciously low to me. I'd to get that free space up to a least 10GB before attempting an update of Windows. -- digital manThat would be nice but its a cheap HP Stream laptop that only has 32GB of eMMC storage.
MRO wrote to Melkor <=-
it would be good if you could use a usb flashdrive to install windows. maybe some day we can do that?
Can't you rollback to Win7? You'll probably get much better performance. 1.5GB free wouldn't even bode well under Win7.
it would be good if you could use a usb flashdrive to install windows maybe some day we can do that?
I do it all the time. Microsoft had a media creation site where you can download an image for CD or USB. License sold separately.
Can't you rollback to Win7? You'll probably get much
better performance. 1.5GB free wouldn't even bode well
under Win7.
I dont think so. It came with win 10 pre installed.
Can't you rollback to Win7? You'll probably get much
better performance. 1.5GB free wouldn't even bode well
under Win7.
Even if you could, that would be a bad idea. Windows 7 is no
longer receiving security updates unless you've purchased
Extended Security Updates from Microsoft.
unfortunately newer windows 10 versions seem to require 32gb just baseline. they even list separate criteria for earlier windows 10 versions..
Re: Re: Windows update.
By: fusion to Melkor on Tue Apr 13 2021 01:11 pm
unfortunately newer windows 10 versions seem to require 32gb just baseline. they even list separate criteria for earlier windows 10 versions..
So much bloat. I remember when 1GB seemed huge..
Depends on how one would use Win7. I have Win7 Pro on three
pcs. No problems whatsoever. I just use the MS Security
Essentials on them. Infact, I was still getting rollup reminders
MS Security Essentials does not patch vulnerabilities found
in Windows itself. Even MSE is on life support. It's no
longer available for Windows XP and virus definitions will
no longer be updated after 2023 even for Win7.
The fact is, that unless you are enrolled in ESU, all Win 7
machines are vulnerable. I get it, there are lots of reasons
to use old software, but there risks to doing that and it
shouldn't be minimized.
As long as I don't capitulate to phishing emails, and as long as
I stick with trusted websites, there is no reason for me to be
afraid to use XP or Win7.
I paid $1500 for my for first "large" hard disk in the early '90s:
a 330MB 5.25" full-height Siemens ST506 drive. That was a massive upgrade over my collection of 20-80MB drives at the time and helped to make Vertrauen a popular BBS for image upload/download around that time.
Then in the mid '90s, an upgrade to 1.2GB drive (another $1300), and I thought I'd never need another hard disk again. :-)
Then you visit a website that is posting content from an
advertisement network that got compromised, get a malware-
infected piece of advertisement, and then your machine
belongs to some Russian blackhat mafia.
There are reasons to stick to old operating systems, but you
have to be extra careful. I have a Win 7 virtual machine
which I run behind a filtering proxy in order to minimize
vuln impacts, for example.
gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
Your domain is still timing out from here.
MRO wrote to Melkor <=-
it would be good if you could use a usb flashdrive to install windows. maybe some day we can do that?
I do it all the time. Microsoft had a media creation site where you can download an image for CD or USB. License sold separately.
Can't you rollback to Win7? You'll probably get much better performance. 1.5GB free wouldn't even bode well under Win7.
Even if you could, that would be a bad idea. Windows 7 is no longer receiving security updates unless you've purchased Extended Security Updates from Microsoft.
I paid $1500 for my for first "large" hard disk in the early '90s:
a 330MB 5.25" full-height Siemens ST506 drive. That was a massive upgrade over my collection of 20-80MB drives at the time and helped to make Vertrauen a popular BBS for image upload/download around that time.
Nightfox wrote to Digital Man <=-
:) My first PC was a hand-me-down PC with a 10MB full-height hard
drive. For a little while, I used Stacker (and later, MS-DOS's DoubleSpace) to try to get a little extra space out of it.
My co-sysop at the time worked at Addstor, makers of Superstor - another disk compression client. They had a business relationship with Digital Research, so he was able to get copies of DR-DOS with Superstor.
Then, Microsoft made Windows not run on DR-DOS, and it sort of faded away.
Those were fun times, though - DR-DOS with all of its add-ons, Geoworks, LANTastic and OS/2 were my home network back then.
Re: Re: Windows update.
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Apr 15 2021 09:15 am
I paid $1500 for my for first "large" hard disk in the early '90s:
a 330MB 5.25" full-height Siemens ST506 drive. That was a massive upgrade over my collection of 20-80MB drives at the time and helped to make Vertrauen a popular BBS for image upload/download around that time.
i'm sure it was literally large and weighed quite a bit too.
Even if you could, that would be a bad idea. Windows 7 is no longer
receiving security updates unless you've purchased Extended Security
Updates from Microsoft.
i have 3 win7 computers and they are getting updates and
they fuck up every once in a while and i have to figure out
whats wrong with the update. -+-
I suppose these things can be downloaded individually outside
the WUA system, and installed manually?
Even if you could, that would be a bad idea. Windows 7 is no longer receiving security updates unless you've purchased Extended Security Updates from Microsoft.
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