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I had thought and hoped that we would be more advanced at 1/4 of the 21 century, than we are. We only got to decent speed of computers 15 years ago. I would have thought that robotics would have greatly proliferated by now, but that kind of tech still is just emerging.  Just think, drone tech has only been around for about 10 years and I keep asking myself why no one thought to invent a drone before that, that wasn’t just a toy. The quantum leap we took in the early 90 with the emergence of the internet, that brought about the age of enlightenment,  that was 30 years ago and we are over due for our next quantum leap. But the question is do we yet have the tech to bring it about.

Been disabling secure boot and other tomfoolery for over 10 years now.
I run IoT 11 in MBR.

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Charlie

WSStephenB wrote:

which I like and had become very custom to using.

I totally agree, Acrobat XI is one of the last classic UI versions of Acrobat and I still also use it nearly every day. And I still, even after a decade plus, highly resent the software UI that started with Windohz! 8 and I have long hoped for the day when we see the demise of that despicable software appearance. I also continue to use Office 2010 for this same reason. Furthermore I have utter contempt for UWP.

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I run IoT 11 in MBR.

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Glucose, WSStephenB, Cybertooth

Cleotus Bartholomew wrote:

“what about installing the demo version of LTSC and never activating it, is that legal?”

The trial of LTSC will expire, just like all other MS trial software such as Server and Office. And when it expires you will be left with a non functioning PC.

Been disabling secure boot and other tomfoolery for over 10 years now.
I run IoT 11 in MBR.

Chris wrote:

LTSC seems like exactly what I want. I spend too much time disabling “features” I don’t want from my retail Win 10 Pro version.

LTSC is the only worthy version of Windows that’s left. And if Microsoft cared about users usability & productivity LTSC would be the real Windows Pro version, because it is like traditional Windows versions as it is made for the user and not made to use the user.

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JBlocksom, windbg, Peter Chapa

It makes me so mad that MS chooses to be user hostile, with users trying to use Windows in a prior simpler (and better) manner. Whether related to GUI or in computing producers.

Been disabling secure boot and other tomfoolery for over 10 years now.
I run IoT 11 in MBR.

I know this thread is getting ali’l old now but here are some mitigations that were posted on YouTube by computer repair tech Carey Holzman that may fix these Win11 drive sharing issues:

Turn off SMB Client Signing With PowerShell (for Windows 11 Home or Pro)

Step 1 – Type PowerShell in the Windows search box on your taskbar.

Step 2 – Hit the Run as administrator option under the Windows PowerShell section.

Step 3 – In the PowerShell command line window, type [or copy] the following command and press Enter to turn off the SMB signing requirement:

Set-SmbClientConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false

Step 4 – Type Y to confirm the operation.

Enable guest fallback

Step 1 – In the PowerShell command line window, type [or copy} the following command:

Set-SmbClientConfiguration -EnableInsecureGuestLogons $true

Step 2 – Type Y to confirm the operation.

No reboot is necessary. Now see if you can access your shares!

 

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huntpt, Cybertooth

Thanks much Susan for the heads up on the script for blocking YouTube shorts with uBlock Origin. They were really starting to annoy me. And Google has already disabled MV2 extensions on it sites, so ad blockers won’t hide any of Google’s annoyances anymore, like you could hide before, search suggestions with an ad blocker element picker. So now it is scripts or nothing.

Been disabling secure boot and other tomfoolery for over 10 years now.
I run IoT 11 in MBR.

SupremeLaW wrote:

We finally got it working, but don’t ask me to repeat the steps

With “MicroSloth” having purposely broken networking in 10 in the so called name of security, I would suggest using the free Win32 program  called “MyLanViewer” [search for it]. It can list every computer on your network and the shared drives they have, with clickable links to the drives. No more trying to desperately unbrake networking in later versions of “Windoh’s”

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Cybertooth

In RE: Your case, That is why I still hoard my cases from the mid 2000’s & early 2010’s, b/c I have known what a PC looks like for going on nearly 30 yrs. And to me a case is still required to have 5.25″ drive bays & a top mount PSU. Back around 2012 or so it stated to get hard to find a new “real” PC case with those specs. ATX form factor has been the same now for about 24 yrs and even cases that old are still rebuildable. But I am starting to fear a hard cutoff from the past with the new PSU standard they are talking about that doesn’t have the 24 pin plug.

Been disabling secure boot and other tomfoolery for over 10 years now.
I run IoT 11 in MBR.

[Ulti P. Uszer]

That is the biggest drawback to the browsers on portable devices, that they don’t allow extensions. Since several yrs ago, on the desktop, when I started running an ad blocker & a pop up blocker on Chrome. I don’t see trash like that anymore. And my surfing is much more secure & much less annoying. The pop up blocker that I run, you can even request to the developers that they make an anti adblock script for a site that is telling you to turn off your adblocker. I have done this before and the developer’s scripts work fantastically. This is great to have if you go to sites that engage in malvertising. When you use a portable browser, you are going on the internet naked & you might as well be using IE6. That is why I have very little use for surfing on a phone or tablet.

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I run IoT 11 in MBR.

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NaNoNyMouse, DriftyDonN

Why do you think that Office 2010 updates were released, a last hurrah, leftovers or a goodwill gesture on critical vulnerabilities

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@Woody, with this development, I hope you didn’t buy a ESU license for 7 Semper Fi. Are you still using that machine? I also know personally that abbodi86’s other script that brings 7 ESUs through WU also works magnificently.

Been disabling secure boot and other tomfoolery for over 10 years now.
I run IoT 11 in MBR.