Startup Repair Loop, Apparently : Long story short, after an inexpected shutdown, when powering my laptop back on, I am taken to the Start HB7September 7, 2024
Steam versions that still work : Tracking steam versions that still work on 7, lock down steam.cfg because you might not get back. I MalnebSeptember 7, 2024
startup problem : hello this problem on win7 in the sense that when I start the two pages start and open by themselves wolfmdSeptember 7, 2024
Windows 11 even cannot search by date/time range. A common task for PC users. and easy on Windows 7.
If do, you have to do manually setup time range on Windows 11.
answers.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/forum/all/usin g-file-explorer-to-search -by-date-range
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Too more user-friendly apps are gone on Windows 11. I cannot believe it.
I just finished sending a long missive to Microsoft (since they asked) about why I hated Windows 11. I literally asked them when they were going to make another stable, full-fledged OS like Windows 7 Ultimate. I also asked them when they were going to stop resorting to antiquated and archaic hardware such as TPM to make newer hardware obsolete when they are in the software business. I don't suppose I will be getting much of a response but I felt it was incumbent upon me to share my insights. Not many people know that TPM first came out in 2011. Making TPM on Windows 11 mandatory is like making USB 3.0 mandatory for all Windows 10 users. It's silly and totally unnecessary. TPM (both 1.2 and 2) needs to remain an option because it consistently fails.
I still use W7 on my PC and on my DW's PC. I'm really going to be sad when it quits working but so far with the help here I have a good system. I had to enable TLS(?) 1.2 for my email but it's in there. One of my boys is crazy about Linux so I will probably use that when the time comes. I bought W10 and W11 so I don't mind paying to stay up to speed but really, they can't compare. Dual booting 7 & 10 right now and 10 rarely gets used.
I foolishly "upgraded" my laptop to W10 Home.
I haven't being able to connect it to the Internet since 2017.
It tries to download some useless W10 update, which it can't install and then it tries it again, ad nauseam.
It is dual boot with LM21.1 so I can always start that if I need the Internet.
I also have a W10 Pro VM (2017).
It also tries to download some useless W10 update, which it can't install and then it tries it again, ad nauseam.
Both of my desktops dual boot W7 and Linux Mint (one has LM18 and the other has LM21.1).
We had a power outage (a few days ago) that caused a "PFN_List Corrupt" BSOD.
I assume something was being written/updated at the time.
I whipped out Macrium Reflect, re-imaged my OS and everything was "hunky dory" again.
W7 has been a solid performer for the last 13(?) years.
I expect it will still be going strong when MS brings out W12.
I have W7U on my work station. Within 48 hours of Win 8.1 EOL all the PCs in my home using that "tablet" OS crashed. Scans revealed no malware, nothing unusual. They just all crashed and were no longer bootable. I was not able to recover all the OS but I did manage to recover the user files for each OS. File history helped to recover some (not all) of the operating systems. I was unable to recover the OS on my work station so I opted to "upgrade" to Win 11 using Microsoft's instructions on installing Win 11 on a TPM1.2 based platform. What a joke.
It took some doing but I managed to deal with most of the yellow triangles in device manager. There is one stubborn "device" that can neither be removed nor can it be updated. I'm stuck with a niggling yellow triangle until Windoze decides to do something with it OR NOT. Now when I want to access Windows Manager I have to click on "show more options". Why I have to dig deeper just to access something so basic is beyond me. It is as though Windows doesn't want people to manage their OS independently. It is the same for many other things in Windows 11. Standard features have to be sought out and hunted for without any discernible advantage. I wouldn't exactly call Windows 11 user friendly.
Meanwhile, Windows7 U keeps on chugging along and thank goodness because I wouldn't have been able to accomplish many things I needed to do otherwise. What concerns me is will some "mysterious" thing happen to my Windows 7 that happened to all the Win 8.1 OS in my household? I guess I'm going to have to get Legacy going in my BIOS and get Linux back. Of course this means I'll have to scrap Win 11 entirely coz you can't run Win 11 in Legacy. . . Or, can you?
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