Windows is falling apart
No, it's not a mistake, windows is slowly dying and rotting away. First of all. A key [INCLUDING USB] directly purchased from Microsoft costs a crazy 139 dollars. TO JUST USE A OS??? Look at ubuntu and almost all linux distros, they're free. Yet only 10% of the market uses them, I'd rather have some text on my screen hanging on forever saying that my windows copy is unactivated rather than burn away my money. They also added ads right into your start menu (atleast that's what I heard, I don't use windows 11.). They went as far to adding absolute garbage bloatware into your start menu, Like who ever used their computer to connect to their android phone??? Microsoft even forces you to use microsoft edge, if you manage to get another browser, it'll just keep edge in there, Like basically trying to get rid of microsoft edge off your computer is going to get as hard as setting your disk on fire. want your SSD to be still there tho? Erase your entire disk by burning ubuntu to a DVD, booting from that DVD, going to disks and erase your disk as NTFS. Yeah, yeah windows 95 was more expensive, but for the time windows 95 was actually worth buying it and also you couldn't just say oh yeah I've totally got a key, I swear I'll put it in later and you couldn't just go to the local computer garage sale and find a unopened windows 95 CD. If windows got this bad within one version, oh boy windows 12 will be the reverse of bloatless. They're probably going to add an app with the only sole purpose to scan a paper and convert it into .pdf if it gets this bloated.
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It's been around awhile. I use it almost daily to save web pages. and often when I get a piece of vintage software.
Create a new shortcut on your desktop. Enter this for the file path:
%windir%\system32\WFS.exe
FWIW, this has been around since Vista.
Like all things we cannot change, the path to wisdom is to ask. Ask yourself, how can I make this work to my advantage.
Yes, the advertising is getting worse. You can tame it a bit if you spend lots of time digging around in settings, but don't expect it to get any better.
Microsoft does whatever they can to force people to add ball-and-chains such as Microsoft Accounts, and OneDrive.
It will be interesting to see how bad it really gets when Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows 10, especially since it is more dependent on online crap. There will be a LOT of computers just left unupgraded.
Yup, today it's the browser that represents the desktop most of the time, and most things that once were the domain of a clunking, whirring PC are done on a smartphone.
"Yes, the advertising is getting worse...Microsoft does whatever they can to force people to add ball-and-chains such as Microsoft Accounts, and OneDrive."
Yup. But the war is over. Microsoft, along with HP, Sun. etc know their future - if they are to survive - will be in behind the screens hardware and software like servers and data management.
Weekly it seems, Windows 10 does something infuriating to me - most prominently, it's endless need to "update". Windows 11 and 12, gawd what bloviated, resource hogging C R A P.
I dual boot W10 and W7 - time to desktop on W10 - A minute and 4 seconds. On W7 - 33 seconds. And everything on W7 "snaps". Opening an application on W10 feels like I'm on an ocean liner wallowing in high seas.
My next dual-boot build will include Windows 7 Posready (because it requires no activation), and 32bit (because I require a useable 16bit ).W10 will revert back to the older, 1511 build, and I will lock it down.
The next new machine I buy - well - I'm going to have to come to terms with some version of Linux - no matter how much it's bizarre, inconsistent naming and needlessly subdivided file system it uses, and the endless list of "open-source" libraries and helper files all this "free" software uses.
My mantra remains the same: find a way to make the rock in your path part of the road and not the problem". But it does tax the old noggin...
Yet like what happened with Windows 7, one can obtain the Extended Security Updates by paying for or making use of an ESU Bypass, where it gives people and organisations more support until 2028. On the other hand, LTSC versions are supported until 2032.
and that's another thing: will someone puleez explain to me the dire need to have these security updates? I've been running Windows 7 SP1 since- well since it shipped with my then new HP laptop. Never allowed updates. No security issues have ever presented.
And am I special or lucky? I don't think so. I am daily dredging ftp sites, old torrents, eMule. Use all the search engines - including Yandex, and without hesitation, click on most but not all sites that my locked down version of Firefox says "cannot provide a secure connection" etc. "If you understand the risks, then click to proceed with caution" yada yada.
My Microsoft Defender is forced into dormancy, and Malwarebytes is set to on demand only.
No, I walk right in with both eyes wide open, check my user\Appdata and its many subdirs, and also: there are a whole bunch of sites I DO NOT WILL NOT go to. Like most gamer sites, torrent sites that focus on pr0n or newly released movies.
If these "security updates" made a difference - I can understand it. But they are always issued AFTER the threats have affected who knows how man millions of users.
In other words, a day late and a dollar short and meanwhile the bastards that write the malware have already moved on to a new technique or "vulnerability" (Expert jargon).
So as I perceive it, these security updates help only with yesterday's problem.