I used rufus to install win 11 on my tpm/secureboot ok but not ok cpu. Runs fine, same as 10 did brand new. The first 6 months of Win 11 were a mess, and I had to do the latest full Win 11 update with rufus. But it's running entirely stable and pretty fast.
is the folder you are trying to access located on a slow hard drive? it sounds like windows defender is hogging access to the disk by trying to scan every file in the folder, try adding the folders you use often to exclusions and see if that fixes it
It's weird, for the first 6 months my Win 11 file explorer would take about 15 seconds of 'working on it' when I opened it too. I cleared out the cache settings on it, reindexed the system, and then some update they put out seemed to fix it. Was one of the big feature updates, maybe 2H22.
I turned off Defender and it doesn't matter the speed. It happens on a fast NVME drive as well as a 30TB NAS drive.
Oh yeah I did. Win98 improved on 95, and 98 SE improved on 98. ME, for me at least, wasn't any worse really than 98SE.
ME was buggy as shit and MS should have never released it. It would have been better to sell Windows 98 for another couple years until XP was ready.
They had to improve the upgrade process because with 10 and this "The last version" bullshit they essentially made every major update a full OS upgrade.
This is 100% user error and shitty apps, and it persists to this day.
Windows 8's issues were easy to work around. Install a 3rd party Start menu, ignore the Metrosexual bullshit. I used it from the start of the public beta until about the middle of 2018 and never had the problems people were bitching about. The core OS was in many ways a clear improvement over Windows 7, which was really just Vista SP4 without the Vista name.
That's more or less what I was imagining.
You'd get an "Application has stopped working" dialog box if your game attempted a memory access violation.
That's really weird behavior. Have you tried setting compatibility settings in the exe's Properties?
Yep. I tried a bunch of things. I'm not the only one who's had issues with these games either, but I've never seen a solution.
tempted to say "but some people said windows runs everything..?!"
PC Gaming Wiki. 99.9% of old Windows games can be ran natively under Win10/11 with enough wrappers to beat them into submission. I can run The Sims 1 natively under Win10 in 1080p. Yes, you need to fuck with shit to get it running under Windows, but let's not act like it works perfectly right after installing and running it under Wine in Linux.
There've been third party implementations for more than a decade (with some limitations). Very convenient when one wants to avoid the hassle of right clicking and navigating and then clicking agian.
Firefox ESR is kind of usable on a T60 with a (32-bit) Core Duo. Under Linux (with only one tab).
