Alright, I read everything but there's no way that I have enough time to reply to it all, so I'll reply to the things that I feel like I most need to, now:
rtcvb32: I'd say take the hard drive out, but a clean (
small) one in, install 7 and see what happens, and if you can get all the drives. Doesn't work? No harm done. Works? Well...
Well, I don't have an extra HD, but more likely I'd make a small partition to test it. That's not necessarily a bad idea I guess, but I'll see if it even comes to that. I swear almost everyone's first thought is "ditch the OS and replace it".
rtcvb32: Hard to say. In my mind if it doesn't offer any real benefit i turn it off. This includes themes. It could make a huge difference, or with very fast modern CPU's, not so much.
Well then I guess maybe I'll give that a try as well.
Darvond: Didn't I tell you to investigate in learning how to paragraph and to use the reply button? Do you really think RTC is going to read that brickwall of text?
Well he
did, didn't he? So fine, I did this just for you, even though I can only directly reply to one person, and then after that it's a pain to type all of the "quote_66" nonsense between everything that I want to say, but I did it. Are you happy? For the rest of my post I'll just reply how I want.
Paradoks:
Alright, but I still don't know if I trust SSD, because you just said yourself that they don't necessarily implement it properly! So in that case, maybe they're
not actually erasing it correctly, which is unacceptable. At least with HDD I KNOW when I've erased it.
I just got the RAMMap thing and now it looks like 13.8 GB is "Mapped File", 7.2 GB is "Shareable", 1.8 GB is "Process Private" and everything else looks like it's 1 GB or less. If I look at the individual processes then none of them use more than 246 MB, and only 4 of them use more than 100 MB, so I don't know of any specific thing that's eating all of my RAM.
As for the Windows upgrades, all I can tell you is that it happened just the other day, my computer restarted and then Shutup10 said that a lot of stuff had been re-enabled. So unless that was one of the twice yearly huge upgrades, I can't explain it. I'm honestly not sure what good security updates do, considering that if I already use antimalware and I keep
that upgraded then shouldn't it to its job? One thing that I absolutely can NOT afford to do is to allow updates to re-enable telemetry, because that is something that I will under absolutely NO circumstances accept! If it comes down to it, I'd rather risk the relatively unlikely event of getting a virus then to have Microsoft constantly spying on me! I keep my important stuff backed up, so with a virus, if I
had to, at least I could reformat the drive, but I don't know how to break into Microsoft's servers and erase any information that they steal!
Actually, I believe Windows 7 is more like 13 years old, because I got it in 2007 and it was pretty new then, just FYI. But I agree with you - why use some old incompatible junk? If I wanted to do that I'd still be using Windows 2000, because that was my favorite version, anyway (and I actually used that for a LONG time!). And it looks like a lot of other people agree with us.
Dark_art_: thanks for the image, but I can't read Portuguese.
Orkhepaj, go lick the back end of a horse.
