The biggest issue I’m having is my socket. It’s an LGA 1366. I wont be finding any new or recent gen chips to fit that…most of those chips/chipsets stopped using 1366 in 2012, I think. Hence the overriding need for a new MoBo.
All of this started when the AVX issue happened with D2, and since then my realization of “Upgrade the CPU just like you did everything else” snowballed into needing a newer MoBo cause chipset → new mem → new wires/cables → whatever else pops up. So disheartening!!
Im back to your original suggestion and guidance: time for a costly overhaul of most of the guts
To a layman, there’s probably little difference between an add and a system reminder about missing setup or required updates.
That said, one can easily just do the setup for one drive or disable it and never see it again rather than just dismissing it every time one logs in and letting it keep one up at night.
Thats why I built it. Every piece, cable, card ordered through a variety of suppliers, like newegg. Built to swap out and upgrade as needed. Alas, 12 years has been a good (and lucky) run for the main component.
Why? My last PC worked for 7 years without problems. Then it started to get video error crashes only when I would try to play WoW. That’s when I got my new PC. But for 7 years it worked fine, played WoW fine, and ran Windows 7
It’s free, you just have to remember to run it every once in a while once the initial trial of always-on monitoring runs out. Quarantine everything it pings as being suspicious.
I’ve never once had Windows offer me “hot deals” and it shouldn’t be doing that.
Except it does pop up again after disabling it. As they’ve even admitted and I’ve told you. Every few major updates you got to go through the skips again.
Pop-up Ad
Pops up on your screen, in your face, to advertise something they are selling or offering a free demo for. You can close it easily, but it tends to happen frequently.
Windows OneDrive Setup
Pops up on your screen, in your face, to setup OneDrive. A “feature” they offer a free sample of and monetize for more. HAS to be skipped through multiple screens before even finishing startup. Happens infrequently. Happens even if you’ve disabled it.
But magically not a popup… If it looks like a popup, it does the same thing as a popup, it’s a popup.
Better make sure your PC is compatible. Run the test. It will run on PC’s with motherboards that were made within the last 2-3 years. Mine is 6 years old and i can not upgrade because of something my mobo is missing.
I had absolutely no reason to upgrade. I know some people always want the latest and greatest, but if everything is working fine, why change? Ill now use W10 until something forces me to upgrade again or my pc dies.
jesus christ…its like some here just refuse to accept REALITY lmao.
it is PRE INSTALLED in WINDOWS to do this and HAS been since 8. END of debate. NOT my problem if some of you cant cope with facts in here.
Now PLEASE StOP responding to me on this issue or Im auto blocking anyone else who does
That thing right there just made its first nagging appearance in the last few days. I thought I had dealt with it. Evidently there was some update or something middle of the night. PC had rebooted thru the evening. I get up and now THAT thing is popping up every reboot at the very least. Hadnt even seen anything for one drive in over a year lol.
Iiiitss baaaaack, lol.
ANY time windows does an update there is some chance theyve changed or reverted settings youve made. Its happened a number of times with us where an update reset some of the settings and now I have to go digging. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-update-changed-my-personal-settings-why/a4c82b96-ec0b-4a7a-ba18-648f5c34ad81
No point in trying to argue that point in here, however…ive posted irrefutable proof of the popups being a thing and have had to block half of them in here over insinuating Im a liar or too stupid after 35 years of dealing with computers of one sort or another to not do something stupid like click “OK” to something I dont understand.
The links above proof my case for me.
Just going to leave that there… along with the multiple 9+ severity rated exploits that came out this year alone.
Also the fact that there are major APIs missing from Windows 7 that are holding back game dev the longer people stay on it. I’d highly encourage vendors to move on to newer versions.
