[Elecraft] OT Looking for PC advice.

[Kevin Stover]

I have a couple of home brew computers.
One running Linux has 2-256 Gig SSD's, 32 Gig of Ram and a ridiculously 
fast video card. It's a host for Oracle Virtualbox Virtual Machines 
(Guest OS's, 3 versions of windows, a Slackware install and a month ago 
I installed MSDOS 6.22 for giggles and a little Castle Wolfenstein), and 
one computer running Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate (same hardware as a 
above). I have no reason to upgrade so won't. I will ride the Windows 7 
horse as long as I can.

I absolutely hate forced updates. The first thing I turn off on any 
Windows install is auto-updates. NO patches will be installed on my 
machines without my inspection first. IMHO auto-updates are for people 
who don't care or don't know how to update their machines without MS 
looking over their shoulder. I have seen what mistimed or disordered MS 
patches can do to a network (just last week at work, took three days to 
clean up the mess.)

Remember, these are the same people who brought us Windows Me and Vista. 
Nuff said.


On 5/23/2016 5:25 PM, Phil Kane wrote.
> I have a 6-year old Dell tower for my business and personal use and a
> 3-year old Dell laptop for my ham radio use.  Both of them run Win 7 Pro
> 64 bit.
>
> I tried "upgrading" the laptop to Win 10.  Too much effort on defusing
> all of the nasty Microsoft "call home" stuff and auto-updating (I prefer
> to see and review each and every "patch" before letting it run).  Even
> with ClassicShell (which I use on all of my computers) I could not get
> Win 10 to look and behave the way I wanted.  I had to re-install Win 7
> on the laptop because it was beyond the 30-day "easy rollback" period
> and fortunately I had the "reinstall media" from Dell.
>
> Bottom line - I am sticking to Win 7 as long as I have those computers
> and when either needs replacing I will order new ones with Win 7
> installed (not-so-secret that one can still do it if one is a good
> customer of the supplier).
>
>
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
>
> >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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