On 05/04/2017 04:28 AM, philo wrote:
On 05/04/2017 06:06 AM, Bud Frede wrote:
Diesel writes:


Just another way MS is ****ing you over. For those of you drinking
the Windows 10 koolaid... What flavor is it supposed to be? And,
does it taste like it?

It's the same flavor that all Microsoft software has had since day 1.




No, MS is really making things worse.

I recently built a machine with a mobo that was designed for Win10 or
Ubuntu 16.


I was able to install Win7 with no problems but there were no drivers
for USB. (also generic video drivers)


None were provided by the mfg and none of the "usual tricks" worked.


For example, back in the old days XP drivers worked fine for Win2K.


What I did was install Win10 then find the drivers USB was using and I
copies the .sys and .inf to a cd.


Booting back to Win7 I used the Win10 drivers in attempt to get USB
working. I got the usual message concerning "unsigned drivers" and
installed them, That normally would have done the trick but in the
situation here, the USB drivers were non-functional.


The upgrade from Win7 to Win10 is still free,so... since this was not
costing me anything, I went ahead and decided to use Win10.

A default installation of Win10 is **** poor, but after doing a bit of
experimenting and tweaking I managed to get it working quite well and
have turned off quite a bit of MS spying...but am quite sure there is
more left I will have to trace down.


Some of the tweaking is routine, such as taking apps out of startup and
disabling un-needed services.

One thing I had to do was use a minor registry tweak to disable Cortana,
then also a (free) 3rd party utility to easily change system fonts.

Some of the problems MS may some day fix, but most of them will be
ignored by MS.





Hi Philo,

M$ is a pain-in-the-ass over these matters. They should,
but they don't because they want you to buy their
latest garbage (Windows Nein, oops Ten).

You have to create a USB flash drive with the Windows 7
USB 3 drivers included.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...reator-Utility

After FINALLY getting mine to work, I created a "dd" copy
of my flash drive and burn them off whenever I do a custom
system.

I am still trying got figure out how to do this with
NVMe M.2 drives and W7's ISO, but haven't tried too
hard as no one have bought a W7 custom system from me with
an NVMe drive in it yet. (NVMe drives EXTREMELY fast.)

-T