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T3sl4co1l:
Explorer also has this thing where renaming or deleting files pops up an error dialog, "Could not find this item", Try Again / Cancel.  Hit Try Again and it works.  Don't have a clue what stupid thing started that (it's been some years), or how to fix it...

But eh, there are bigger oddities with how this Win7 is installed.  It's like a beater car, it still works fine as such, but it's got so much crap moved around and patched over that you sometimes have to just wonder...

Tim

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on April 24, 2020, 03:49:03 pm ---Explorer also has this thing where renaming or deleting files pops up an error dialog, "Could not find this item", Try Again / Cancel.  Hit Try Again and it works.  Don't have a clue what stupid thing started that (it's been some years), or how to fix it...

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Never seen this one.


--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on April 24, 2020, 03:49:03 pm ---But eh, there are bigger oddities with how this Win7 is installed.  It's like a beater car, it still works fine as such, but it's got so much crap moved around and patched over that you sometimes have to just wonder...

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Ahah, I see.

Well, my current install of Win7 is the same as the original one I did in 2009 I think. Of course updated. I upgraded the machine on a regular basis, but always cloned the OS instead of reinstalling it, to minimize wasted time. Has always worked fine and I was always able to reactivate the license (the key is never to change too much at the same time: for instance, change the motherboard+CPU, but not the hard drive. Then change the hard drive later on and clone), and get my exact environment back to what it was before upgrading the hardware.

I don't know if such a procedure would work these days with Win10. I suspect it may not.



Electro Detective:

Win 10 is always calling home, in a desperate effort to eventually update itself from it's ongoing Beta status, to Win7 or XP usefulness ,
and mine some private user data on the way  8) 

so any legit hardware swaps or disaster recovery may not stay activated

Unlike Win 7 and all the Windows OS previously  :clap:  it's not your OS anymore, just some lease/rental code with no option to buy the annoying pos

rdl:
I'm not sure Microsoft really cares if a copy of Windows 10 is licensed or was paid for.

Electro Detective:

It's still Windows and still a 'one horse race' computing monopoly for the average home clicker to roll with

so they're not losing money giving it away  'loaning' it for free, as they get a good cut from apps running on it 

a few bucks from hardware manufacturers and OEMs etc

and they won't do anything seriously silly to be out of a paycheck

For me Win 10 is just a re-skinned Win 7, 8, 8.1 OS that wants to play guard dog come boss

I'd rather fire up a COA OEM licensed XP or Vista box or Linux, rather than Win 10 or a Mac money pit
 
I could care less if XP. Vista or 7 are 'unsupported',
they work, run all apps and fast, and malware free,
what's the 'support' or lack of it going to do for a reasonably informed user ?  :-//



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