OT: Win7 Make Desktop Classic ???

It should be listed as an optional update, click on the Optional updates link from the main update screen. You'll then see a list of the optional updates. Don't check any boxes, just right click on the update and select hide. ( you can hide any update BTW)

As long as it is hidden it will not show up as one of the updates eg '

6 optional updates'.

uninstalling It doesnt stop MS from making a new update ;(

THe wusa (windows stanalone installer) scans for the KB number and uninstalls it. you can remove the /quiet switch to see what it does.

I recomend a reboot to fininsh the uninstall.

I think 2 of the KB's are for Win7 and the other 2 are for Win8. I only had 1 or 2 of those KB's installed.

Cheers

Run UAC at the command prompt, which really isn't the command prompt any more. That's a separate rant.

Use it to escalate your privileges so that you won't get nagged about being unauthorized to do the things you'll do anyhow.

On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:52:08 -0400, legg Gave us:

It is another lame ploy to get users to "move" to Windows 10.

The reason I say that is because it works/looks fine in that set-up.

I know you can run W2K in VirtualBox and Qemu, although I think even W2K was starting to frown on some things that applications could get away with under W9x, like trying to write to their own installation directories when running.

If I had something that absolutely wouldn't run on NT/2K/XP, I'd probably try running 98 or 98SE under VirtualBox. VirtualBox doesn't officially support W9x anything, but you can kinda-sorta make it work:

Qemu would be my second choice of VM; it's harder to configure but seems to support "weirder" things than just running an XP or DOS guest.

VMware may have a solution for this, but most of their stuff costs money, so I've only gotten to play with it when somebody else was buying the licenses. It has some neat features for setting up VMs over the network that VirtualBox and Qemu either can't do or can't do as slickly.

With any of these, I'd figure out how to have a copy of the virtual disk image file, so I could go back to a known good state when such applications inevitably go wrong.

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Matt Roberds

It really shouldn't do that Joerg. Win 7 Pro is considerably more stable than XP and orders of magnitude better than Vista(a real dog).

Only software that is naughty and using peeky pokey IO tends to fail.

If you are encountering problems my advice is get a copy of blue screen analyser to see which programmes or drivers are responsible.

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It isn't that complex.

You make an image containing a virtual machine and you can click on it to run awkward squad programs that need an XP environment to work.

Anything relying on peeky pokey access to physical IO is unlikely to work but anything written to a previous Windows API should run OK.

Recompiling anything you use regularly is worthwhile but keeping a VM for legacy stuff is worth it if no other alternative exists. From the POV of the main OS the VM is just another application albeit one that invokes virtual machine implementation when it runs.

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Is there a padlock on it? (hoping)

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