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[Keith Brannen]

It’s highly unsafe. Vulnerable, full of bugs. The worst OS ever created.

Works well for me, no issues at all.

 

[charlesrshell]

This is off subject but want to share anyway. Here is a nice add to Win 10 /11 that gives you the start menu like what is in Win 7. Wife and I have used it for several years since we upgraded to Win10/11 from Win 7. Learned about it from a fellow SatGuy member who hasn’t posted in a while. Also, this same member figured out how to connect multiple HWS receivers years ago that wasn’t DISH authorized. I wish he would participate again in SatGuys. He was a great help.

StartIsBack: real start menu for Windows 8 and Windows 10

StartIsBack returns Windows 10 and Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7. It's totally awesome and easy solution for your new Windows woes.

www.startisback.com

 

[Foxbat]

It’s highly unsafe. Vulnerable, full of bugs. The worst OS ever created.

I always thought that was Windows ME…


BTW, our Software “Library”:

 

[KE4EST]

Yes, ME was way worse than Vista ever was.

 

[Don in CT]

Yes, ME was way worse than Vista ever was.

Aren’t they basically the same with minor tweaks. I thought they were based off the same code.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I always thought Windows 8 was the worst.

 

[TheKrell]

Thanks to pointers from Keith, I have K-Meleon running on W7 and it looks like it should even work on W2K. Wow. I haven't been able to use SG from that partition in ages.

 

[harshness]

It’s highly unsafe. Vulnerable, full of bugs. The worst OS ever created.

While that may be the incessant public relations drumbeat of Microsoft in an ongoing attempt to support the fallacy that the latest version of Windows is "the most secure Windows ever", the malware and virus statistics clearly show otherwise.

Consider that the download size of a single Windows 10 update may be larger than a year's worth of Vista updates back in the day and may take significant fractions of an hour to install. I remember contemplating Windows 7 updates in terms of how many Windows 95 distributions they were in size (Windows 95 was available on 13 floppy disks; about 19MB).

30 years ago, "zero-day" meant that someone had cracked the copy protection on a game or software application within two dozen hours. Today it often means that Windows has a new vulnerability that has been discovered within hours of its release -- something that the programmers and pre-release testers at several levels weren't able to identify.

Windows Vista doesn't present the attractive "threat surface" that Windows 10 and 11 share (though it is vulnerable to the bugs in Windows 11 that remain from Windows Vista and sometimes earlier). Windows Vista wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it wasn't any more flea-bitten than Windows 11.

The worst Windows OS ever created was surely not Vista. It would have to push aside at least two other major clankers in the form of Windows Me (an attempted bridge between 16 and 32-bit Windows) and Windows 8 (an attempt to change the direction of Windows that was substantially rolled back With Windows 10).

If it doesn't cause anyone else heartburn and hasn't been trashed thus far, why not?

 

[mackie99]

Likes are still messed up and can't see how someone liked. They are still no longer links. It's all just text.

 

[TheKrell]

And now all our avatars are missing. What the hey?

 

[waylew]

And now all our avatars are missing. What the hey?

Avatars are fine for me,Robbie,

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

And now all our avatars are missing. What the hey?

Sounds like the CDN for your area is having issues. I am sure they will get it fixed soon.

 

[TheKrell]

Avatars are fine for me,Robbie,

Thanks for mentioning that. My version of FF was in mid-update, so I shut it down and started it up again and still no avatars. They appeared just fine at home. I suspect some gnarly firewall issue here at work.

 

[TheKrell]

Sounds like the CDN for your area is having issues. I am sure they will get it fixed soon.

That would be nice. I'm in Silver Spring, MD, right now.

 

[TheKrell]

Well, this is weird. I'm on a different computer at work with an older version of FF and it shows avatars in the Dish forum, but not here. It's obviously not our firewall.

 

[comfortably_numb]

No "edit" function available in the following thread:

https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/daylight-savings-time.368168/page-8#post-4782302

 

[navychop]

I’m getting a top banner I haven’t seen in ages. Havta check to see if the old app is working.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I’m getting a top banner I haven’t seen in ages. Havta check to see if the old app is working.

View attachment 161213

Wow! Holycrap where did that come from? Those banners come from Tapatalk (not the app but the people who make Tapatalk and also made our app.)

 

[navychop]

 

[rvvaquero]

The past 6 or 7 days SatGuys website has gotten painfully slow loading pages. Not having any problems on any other websites. Speedtests are showing my normal results. Any ideas?