SORTED :) Windows After XP Sux big time.

[StainlessS]

Latest Windows 10 woes.

Windows 10 bug: Certificates lost after feature upgrade? We're working on fix, says Microsoft
Microsoft confirms that upgrading to a newer version of Windows 10 sometimes results in lost certificates.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/window...ays-microsoft/

W7 --->>> W10 [ exploits have been seen in the wild - no current fix]

Windows 10 zero-day could allow hackers to seize control of your computer

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/wi...-your-computer
EDIT: regarding above link zero day exploit:

"We have evidence that the following bug is being used in the wild," researchers said.

Researchers said the newly discovered vulnerability was found within the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver.

That's because all attacks using the bug have relied on a separate vulnerability in Google Chrome that was fixed on October 20.

Google's Shane Huntley confirmed the bug had been used by hackers for "targeted exploitation".

That means hackers wielded it to target specific people rather than a widespread attack.

It's hoped that a patch could be release as early as November 10 as part of Microsoft's monthly "Patch Tuesday" effort.

If using Chrome browser, then update it NOW.

EDIT: Game hidden in [EDIT: recent] Edge Browser, in address bar type "Edge://Surf"
(might be crap, never tried it)

[FranceBB]

Oh well... I guess we're gonna wait for the update this time then.
Speaking of updates, on Win10 x64 Enterprise, I use Chrome Canary, so I'm currently on version 88.0.4314.1.
This should at least give me some kind of better protection compared to other, older, version of Chrome.

[StainlessS]

At last some good news on W10.
Since about June 2019, Windows 10 Home Edition [so probably W10 build 1909], can have Hyper-V installed,
previously only available on Pro+, they wanted to be able to run WSL2 [Windows subsystem for Linux v2]
on W10 Home Edition, which might also suggest that you can run "Windows XP Mode" on current W10 Home.
[Windows XP Mode was a W7 thing, not previously available on W10 Home].
Hyper-V probably not be available on 32 bit versions of Home [or Pro+].
EDIT I think you have to extract some kind of image from the W7 XP mode thing, which is an XP vdi virtual disk image, of XP.

From Wikipedia Hyper-V page Today! [EDIT: Many M$ pro's do not yet know that Home can support Hyper-V]

Windows 10 Home does not support Hyper-V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V
But,
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ans...s-10-home.html

I have not tried it yet, still busy setting up W10 Home 20H2 desktop.

EDIT:

HankTerrebrood-5600 · Jul 26 at 4:37 AM

Don't you wish people that didn't know what they are talking about would stop answering tech questions?

Irritating as hell, isn't it?

Create a file, anywhere, using a text editor and copy the following into that file:

pushd "%~dp0"
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\*Hyper-V*.mum >hv.txt
for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . hyper-v.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"
del hv.txt
Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Hyper-V -All /LimitAccess /ALL
pause


Now save that as hv.bat from your text editor. The desktop or download folder are good destinations for which to save and easily located for the next step.

After exiting the editor, open file manager and right mouse click the file and choose run as administrator.

Once complete it will reboot your machine and you can turn on Hyper-v from programs and features.

EDIT: Above .bat file is pre-prepared for download in this link, which is the source of info for above link.
https://www.itechtics.com/enable-hyp...ndows-10-home/

Does your system support virtualization?

Before moving forward, we need to check if our system supports virtualization. Hardware virtualization is required for Hyper-V to function correctly. Otherwise, you can use other virtualization platforms like Virtualbox and VMWare.

There are four basic requirements for Hyper-V to be installed on a Windows 10 computer:

VM Monitor Mode Extensions
Virtualization enabled in firmware
Second level address translation
Data execution prevention

You can check all these requirements by opening the Command Prompt (Run –> cmd) and running the systeminfo command. You can check the Hyper-V requirements section.

EDIT: At Last, some great use for W10
Import Windows XP Mode from Windows 7 to Windows 10
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html
EDIT: Wrong link, this one:- https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

EDIT: Acrobatic lorry jack caught on cam in Romania:- https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/133912...es-steal-ps5s/

[kerry7]

I have very strong hopes for the upcoming Windows, to be honest, it seems a very interesting change of direction of Microsoft during the last years by moving closer to the open-source community, like buying Github, or adding a Linux console... that is great and I am pretty sure it will impact positively on the next Windows

[StainlessS]

Not a move towards Open Source, is just wantin' to seem that way, and as Linux can host Windows apps, so M$ is now just mirroring that.
The Github/Open Source thing, is just leaving the door ajar in case they find it of use, and are attempting to tie devs
to M$ via different tactics, like VsCode/VsCodium, just as they have done lately with VS Express/Community.
Visual Studio should have always been free, but they [being money mad] wanted to charge devs for supporting their own OS,
now that there is a viable alternative to windows, they see that devs will quite happily leave the M$ domain.
M$ can see that without some change in direction, there will eventually be no M$ artefacts that are spoken of in the present tense.

[feisty2]

I would recommend using Windows Server 2019 as a modern desktop OS.

- You're able to run the latest version of any program, it shares the same kernel with Windows 10.
- There is no UWP nonsense, it's fully optimized for desktop experience.
- There is no Microsoft account nonsense, the Administrator account is available to you by default.
- There is no UAC, everything runs with admin privileges.
- Updates are automatically downloaded but NOT automatically installed, and there's certainly no automatic restart.
(In fact you're required to manually specify a reason if you ever want to shutdown or restart the computer, but that could be turned off in group policy.)

EDIT:
plus it looks a lot prettier than win10 with aero enabled.

[StainlessS]

Feisty, what do they charge for server nowadays, cant remember what the two options were, "by-the-seat" and something else.
[and how does it work out for single use licence, ie not a client server.]

I am fed up to the back teeth with W10 [home], 20H2 is real awkward, and dont like some other AV software to replace M$ AV.
It was proably my fault in beng a bit totalitarian, but I ended up not even being able to start up control panel [or much else either], insufficient memory [or similar] despite being 2GB used and 30GB in reserve. I give up on current W10, defo goin' back to 1709, no updates, but hey - that sounds like just what I want [I'm not gonna be using it on-line anyways, gonna be gong Linux only on-line at some point].
[You can Get some M$ thing to stop updates, but damn thing tends to switch back on when you are not lookin'].

Linux-wise, bit pissed off there 2, Mint 20.0 [Ulyana] was not shuttin' down properley [history of same for some years, not just Mint],
and after imaging, does not restore/run at all, [Macrium Reflect].

Just had a skin full of beer [with a substatial meal], no longer suicidal - tomorrow is another day.

[feisty2]

there's an official way to use windows server for free for 3 years (you need to run an activation command every 6 months, you're allowed to do it 6 times), it should be good enough for personal use because you will want to upgrade to a new version of windows server after 3 years and you can continue using the new version for 3 years and so on.

alternatively, there're some scripts in this github repo: https://github.com/massgravel/Micros...vation-Scripts that allow you to activate windows server 2019 until year 2038, but I'm not sure if it's legal.

[StainlessS]

Thanks F2, think I'll come back and hava play with WS19 then, after I setup 1709, still got about 650GB left spare on SSD after install of
W10 client and Linux Mint, maybe I also try get Gentoo going too, and leave a bit or room for Reactos or other [Maybe Android x86].
[I dont really use OS drive for data].

[feisty2]

you might also wanna check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEw25YaEjaI, it lists a bunch of configurations that make server2019 more suitable as a desktop OS

[StainlessS]

I've DL'ed, will take a look, thanks F2.

Windows 10 getting you down ?
Feel like you're gettin' nowhere fast ?
Sick of feelin' like you're on your knees ?
Could be worse [EDIT: It takes a little while to get started, dont give up]:- https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/12/icy-p...ians-13741555/
[ Funniest thing I've seen all year - you''ll need a handkerchief for the tears ]

[StainlessS]

Thanks again F2, I've watched the clip and it does look like it could be more useful than W10.
Was already aware of about half of the config options in the clip, but a few were non familiar.
I suppose register every 6 months aint too bad.

Looks like even my No2 m/c supports Svr19 [x64, NX & DEP, CMPXCHG16b, LAHF-SAHF, PrefetchW, requirments].
Arh, damn, dont got me no ECC RAM.

RAM

The following are the estimated RAM requirements for this product:

Minimum:

512 MB (2 GB for Server with Desktop Experience installation option)
ECC (Error Correcting Code) type or similar technology, for physical host deployments

Arh well, it was a nice thought, cheers anyways

Might be OK for VM though.

EDIT:

Windows Server products & resources

Windows Server 2019
Evaluations | 180 days

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/eval...ws-server-2019
D/L options, Azure, ISO, VHD.

Windows Server 2019 System Requirements
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...19/sys-reqs-19
CoreInfo [for system requirements]:- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/coreinfo

Produces this on my No2 m/c

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q9550  @ 2.83GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel
Microcode signature: 0000070B
HTT       	*	Hyperthreading enabled
HYPERVISOR	-	Hypervisor is present
VMX       	*	Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
SVM       	-	Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization
X64       	*	Supports 64-bit mode

SMX       	*	Supports Intel trusted execution
SKINIT    	-	Supports AMD SKINIT

NX        	*	Supports no-execute page protection
SMEP      	-	Supports Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention
SMAP      	-	Supports Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
PAGE1GB   	-	Supports 1 GB large pages
PAE       	*	Supports > 32-bit physical addresses
PAT       	*	Supports Page Attribute Table
PSE       	*	Supports 4 MB pages
PSE36     	*	Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages
PGE       	*	Supports global bit in page tables
SS        	*	Supports bus snooping for cache operations
VME       	*	Supports Virtual-8086 mode
RDWRFSGSBASE	-	Supports direct GS/FS base access

FPU       	*	Implements i387 floating point instructions
MMX       	*	Supports MMX instruction set
MMXEXT    	-	Implements AMD MMX extensions
3DNOW     	-	Supports 3DNow! instructions
3DNOWEXT  	-	Supports 3DNow! extension instructions
SSE       	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2      	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3      	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSSE3     	*	Supports Supplemental SIMD Extensions 3
SSE4a     	-	Supports Streaming SIMDR Extensions 4a
SSE4.1    	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1
SSE4.2    	-	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2

AES       	-	Supports AES extensions
AVX       	-	Supports AVX instruction extensions
FMA       	-	Supports FMA extensions using YMM state
MSR       	*	Implements RDMSR/WRMSR instructions
MTRR      	*	Supports Memory Type Range Registers
XSAVE     	-	Supports XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions
OSXSAVE   	-	Supports XSETBV/XGETBV instructions
RDRAND    	-	Supports RDRAND instruction
RDSEED    	-	Supports RDSEED instruction

CMOV      	*	Supports CMOVcc instruction
CLFSH     	*	Supports CLFLUSH instruction
CX8       	*	Supports compare and exchange 8-byte instructions
CX16      	*	Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction
BMI1      	-	Supports bit manipulation extensions 1
BMI2      	-	Supports bit manipulation extensions 2
ADX       	-	Supports ADCX/ADOX instructions
DCA       	-	Supports prefetch from memory-mapped device
F16C      	-	Supports half-precision instruction
FXSR      	*	Supports FXSAVE/FXSTOR instructions
FFXSR     	-	Supports optimized FXSAVE/FSRSTOR instruction
MONITOR   	*	Supports MONITOR and MWAIT instructions
MOVBE     	-	Supports MOVBE instruction
ERMSB     	-	Supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
PCLMULDQ  	-	Supports PCLMULDQ instruction
POPCNT    	-	Supports POPCNT instruction
LZCNT     	-	Supports LZCNT instruction
SEP       	*	Supports fast system call instructions
LAHF-SAHF 	*	Supports LAHF/SAHF instructions in 64-bit mode
HLE       	-	Supports Hardware Lock Elision instructions
RTM       	-	Supports Restricted Transactional Memory instructions

DE        	*	Supports I/O breakpoints including CR4.DE
DTES64    	*	Can write history of 64-bit branch addresses
DS        	*	Implements memory-resident debug buffer
DS-CPL    	*	Supports Debug Store feature with CPL
PCID      	-	Supports PCIDs and settable CR4.PCIDE
INVPCID   	-	Supports INVPCID instruction
PDCM      	*	Supports Performance Capabilities MSR
RDTSCP    	-	Supports RDTSCP instruction
TSC       	*	Supports RDTSC instruction
TSC-DEADLINE	-	Local APIC supports one-shot deadline timer
TSC-INVARIANT	-	TSC runs at constant rate
xTPR      	*	Supports disabling task priority messages

EIST      	*	Supports Enhanced Intel Speedstep
ACPI      	*	Implements MSR for power management
TM        	*	Implements thermal monitor circuitry
TM2       	*	Implements Thermal Monitor 2 control
APIC      	*	Implements software-accessible local APIC
x2APIC    	-	Supports x2APIC

CNXT-ID   	-	L1 data cache mode adaptive or BIOS

MCE       	*	Supports Machine Check, INT18 and CR4.MCE
MCA       	*	Implements Machine Check Architecture
PBE       	*	Supports use of FERR#/PBE# pin

PSN       	-	Implements 96-bit processor serial number

PREFETCHW 	*	Supports PREFETCHW instruction

Maximum implemented CPUID leaves: 0000000A (Basic), 80000008 (Extended).
Maximum implemented address width: 48 bits (virtual), 36 bits (physical).

Processor signature: 00010677

Logical to Physical Processor Map:
*---  Physical Processor 0
-*--  Physical Processor 1
--*-  Physical Processor 2
---*  Physical Processor 3

Logical Processor to Socket Map:
****  Socket 0

Logical Processor to NUMA Node Map:
****  NUMA Node 0

No NUMA nodes.

Logical Processor to Cache Map:
*---  Data Cache          0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
*---  Instruction Cache   0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Data Cache          1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Instruction Cache   1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
**--  Unified Cache       0, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64
--*-  Data Cache          2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--*-  Instruction Cache   2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Data Cache          3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Instruction Cache   3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--**  Unified Cache       1, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64

Logical Processor to Group Map:
****  Group 0

EDIT: Dont know if I need HyperVisor for the VHD, I aint got it. Maybe convert to VirtualBox thing.

[feisty2]

I guess the ECC RAM thing doesn’t really matter if some rare hardware related system crash is tolerable, I don’t have ECC RAM in my desktop computer (I suppose?) and I installed server2019 and it works just fine...

[StainlessS]

Yeh thanks for that also, I thought it was a bit of an artificial requirement.
Guess I'll get both ISO and VHD.

No1 m/c from CoreInfo

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
Microcode signature: 000000D2
HTT       	*	Hyperthreading enabled
HYPERVISOR	-	Hypervisor is present
VMX       	*	Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
SVM       	-	Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization
X64       	*	Supports 64-bit mode

SMX       	*	Supports Intel trusted execution
SKINIT    	-	Supports AMD SKINIT

NX        	*	Supports no-execute page protection
SMEP      	*	Supports Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention
SMAP      	*	Supports Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
PAGE1GB   	*	Supports 1 GB large pages
PAE       	*	Supports > 32-bit physical addresses
PAT       	*	Supports Page Attribute Table
PSE       	*	Supports 4 MB pages
PSE36     	*	Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages
PGE       	*	Supports global bit in page tables
SS        	*	Supports bus snooping for cache operations
VME       	*	Supports Virtual-8086 mode
RDWRFSGSBASE	*	Supports direct GS/FS base access

FPU       	*	Implements i387 floating point instructions
MMX       	*	Supports MMX instruction set
MMXEXT    	-	Implements AMD MMX extensions
3DNOW     	-	Supports 3DNow! instructions
3DNOWEXT  	-	Supports 3DNow! extension instructions
SSE       	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2      	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3      	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSSE3     	*	Supports Supplemental SIMD Extensions 3
SSE4a     	-	Supports Streaming SIMDR Extensions 4a
SSE4.1    	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1
SSE4.2    	*	Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2

AES       	*	Supports AES extensions
AVX       	*	Supports AVX instruction extensions
FMA       	*	Supports FMA extensions using YMM state
MSR       	*	Implements RDMSR/WRMSR instructions
MTRR      	*	Supports Memory Type Range Registers
XSAVE     	*	Supports XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions
OSXSAVE   	*	Supports XSETBV/XGETBV instructions
RDRAND    	*	Supports RDRAND instruction
RDSEED    	*	Supports RDSEED instruction

CMOV      	*	Supports CMOVcc instruction
CLFSH     	*	Supports CLFLUSH instruction
CX8       	*	Supports compare and exchange 8-byte instructions
CX16      	*	Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction
BMI1      	*	Supports bit manipulation extensions 1
BMI2      	*	Supports bit manipulation extensions 2
ADX       	*	Supports ADCX/ADOX instructions
DCA       	-	Supports prefetch from memory-mapped device
F16C      	*	Supports half-precision instruction
FXSR      	*	Supports FXSAVE/FXSTOR instructions
FFXSR     	-	Supports optimized FXSAVE/FSRSTOR instruction
MONITOR   	*	Supports MONITOR and MWAIT instructions
MOVBE     	*	Supports MOVBE instruction
ERMSB     	*	Supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
PCLMULDQ  	*	Supports PCLMULDQ instruction
POPCNT    	*	Supports POPCNT instruction
LZCNT     	*	Supports LZCNT instruction
SEP       	*	Supports fast system call instructions
LAHF-SAHF 	*	Supports LAHF/SAHF instructions in 64-bit mode
HLE       	*	Supports Hardware Lock Elision instructions
RTM       	*	Supports Restricted Transactional Memory instructions

DE        	*	Supports I/O breakpoints including CR4.DE
DTES64    	*	Can write history of 64-bit branch addresses
DS        	*	Implements memory-resident debug buffer
DS-CPL    	*	Supports Debug Store feature with CPL
PCID      	*	Supports PCIDs and settable CR4.PCIDE
INVPCID   	*	Supports INVPCID instruction
PDCM      	*	Supports Performance Capabilities MSR
RDTSCP    	*	Supports RDTSCP instruction
TSC       	*	Supports RDTSC instruction
TSC-DEADLINE	*	Local APIC supports one-shot deadline timer
TSC-INVARIANT	*	TSC runs at constant rate
xTPR      	*	Supports disabling task priority messages

EIST      	*	Supports Enhanced Intel Speedstep
ACPI      	*	Implements MSR for power management
TM        	*	Implements thermal monitor circuitry
TM2       	*	Implements Thermal Monitor 2 control
APIC      	*	Implements software-accessible local APIC
x2APIC    	*	Supports x2APIC

CNXT-ID   	-	L1 data cache mode adaptive or BIOS

MCE       	*	Supports Machine Check, INT18 and CR4.MCE
MCA       	*	Implements Machine Check Architecture
PBE       	*	Supports use of FERR#/PBE# pin

PSN       	-	Implements 96-bit processor serial number

PREFETCHW 	*	Supports PREFETCHW instruction

Maximum implemented CPUID leaves: 00000016 (Basic), 80000008 (Extended).
Maximum implemented address width: 48 bits (virtual), 39 bits (physical).

Processor signature: 000906EA

Logical to Physical Processor Map:
**----------  Physical Processor 0 (Hyperthreaded)
--**--------  Physical Processor 1 (Hyperthreaded)
----**------  Physical Processor 2 (Hyperthreaded)
------**----  Physical Processor 3 (Hyperthreaded)
--------**--  Physical Processor 4 (Hyperthreaded)
----------**  Physical Processor 5 (Hyperthreaded)

Logical Processor to Socket Map:
************  Socket 0

Logical Processor to NUMA Node Map:
************  NUMA Node 0

No NUMA nodes.

Logical Processor to Cache Map:
**----------  Data Cache          0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
**----------  Instruction Cache   0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
**----------  Unified Cache       0, Level 2,  256 KB, Assoc   4, LineSize  64
************  Unified Cache       1, Level 3,   12 MB, Assoc  16, LineSize  64
--**--------  Data Cache          1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--**--------  Instruction Cache   1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--**--------  Unified Cache       2, Level 2,  256 KB, Assoc   4, LineSize  64
----**------  Data Cache          2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
----**------  Instruction Cache   2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
----**------  Unified Cache       3, Level 2,  256 KB, Assoc   4, LineSize  64
------**----  Data Cache          3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
------**----  Instruction Cache   3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
------**----  Unified Cache       4, Level 2,  256 KB, Assoc   4, LineSize  64
--------**--  Data Cache          4, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--------**--  Instruction Cache   4, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--------**--  Unified Cache       5, Level 2,  256 KB, Assoc   4, LineSize  64
----------**  Data Cache          5, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
----------**  Instruction Cache   5, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
----------**  Unified Cache       6, Level 2,  256 KB, Assoc   4, LineSize  64

Logical Processor to Group Map:
************  Group 0

I think I can get Hypervisor installed on No1 m/c with hack as outlined a half dozen post prior to this.

EDIT: I may have got a couple of Processor options turned off in firmware settings.

EDIT: Think I'll go to the pub now and D/L from in there [ISO/VHD].
Maybe London goes into tier 3 lockdown soon

EDIT: The Hyperthreading Enabled flag (for No1 [EDIT: No2] m//c) seems a bit wrong as I dont have hyperthreading for that processor. 4 physical cores only.
EDIT:

HYPERVISOR	-	Hypervisor is present

I take it that the HYPERVISOR flag is OS related rather than Processor abilities, maybe I'm wrong there.
EDIT: Nope, seem to be something in CPU abilities, which I dont got on either No1 or No2 m/cs..

EDIT: ECC ram will have 9 similar chips on each side, whereas non ECC will have 8.

EDIT: Anyways, pub here we comes

[feisty2]

I should probably also mention one small pitfall I encountered while installing server2019 on my surface tablet. THERE IS NO WIFI SUPPORT BY DEFAULT!!! so you should definitely check how to enable wlan on server2019 before installation if your device relies on WiFi for internet access.

[StainlessS]

Thanks again, think I can get around that.

[StainlessS]

F2, personal question.
What is you gonna be doin' when you is leavin' yor school work behind,
NASA, or got summick else in mind [Elon Musk stuff maybe] ?
You've always been a bit of a Sheldon Cooper type pain in the rectum, guess thats why we
all love, deplore, and despise you

[And how is R.I. workin' out]
EDIT: Is this it, looks very grand:

EDIT:

Enrollment is predominantly from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
67% of students are female.

Good choice then, always nice to have choice.

Whatever you is gonna be doin, best wishes you irrrtating young pup
PS, big hugs for XMAS [such a needy fellow]

EDIT: Won't be long till Hanz Frunz produces his latest XMAS offering
Cum'mon Hanz, give it all you got.

EDIT: I got the ISO [EDIT: ~5GB, I think, VHD ~11GB [EDIT: Actually only 8.4GB]], but mid VHD W10 was doin' updates [unbeknown to me,
had busy hours set for use in the wee small hours]
whilst tryin' to down the VHD, then we got chucked out of pub, so need to doit again.
[think MS currently does links with 24 hour validity, so may nolonger be valid tomorrow [or day after], gotta start again, although if already part downloaded, may not apply].

EDIT: I eventually got the 8.4GB VHD file.

[feisty2]

oh boy, wish I'd ever be smart as Sheldon

[Ghitulescu]

Some deserved it (Vista, Millenium/ME etc.) others less.

I think XP was the first to get completely rid of MS-DOS.

And anyway, most people criticise the whole Windows while using the least worthy versions (like Entry, Learning or Home editions). Differences towards corporate or professional are like between W98 and NT4.

For each version there are mayn small toys and tiny impressive tootls that circumvent many troubles and make the living with agreeable.

I learned to work with each version, and did not upgrade unless absolutely needed for.

[feisty2]

Vista is fine, it's still my favorite version of windows after all these years, it's just too ahead of its time.