Thanks for all the replies. Yes it is working now. Still attempting to get all the OS updates completed, on the 3rd day now. Having to go through each and every update individually to get them to install, starting with the earliest ones. With around 400 updates, I am getting close to not bothering with wasting any more of my time. Unfortunately the major issues I have can only be rectified by m$, which I highly doubt will change their evil ways.
Really unbelievable as I build custom OS's based on the Linux kernel, amd64 and arm. I can compile from scratch a complete running Linux system in much less time, than this clean install of win 7 is taking. A binary Linux install literally takes just minutes. I have no idea why doing the updates takes so long, as they are binary installs, that are already compiled. Part of the problem is the download speeds, combined with all the bugs. It is obvious that m$ has made it as difficult as possible to do a clean install of windows 7. It is clearly intentional, obviously in an attempt to get people to move to windblows 10. Found their download that has all the updates to 2016 in one file, but of course it does not work!
I have no idea how you guys put up with such crappy performance along with all the other issues with m$ products, not to mention having to pay for the really crappy software.
But perhaps they have seen the light, they are talking about making winblows open source, and have recently joined the Linux Foundation. Time will tell what their real intentions are. As they were complicit with stopping amd64 and Linux being put on the shelves in the middle 2000's, more than a year prior to them having a 64 bit OS and Intel having a 64 bit processor, not to mention the SCO scam in the early 2000's. Of which they were complicit in financing and ultimately found to mostly be merit-less. IBM, Novel, Red Hat still have ongoing claims due to the damage caused by the BS lawsuits. There is still a lot of misconceptions concerning Linux that were started by m$ in the early 2000's, that are still believed today, yet not true. Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO/Linux_controversiesBut anyways, track ir is working as it should. Still a pain to get that perfect setup though, will take some time. This is the last instance of winblows I will ever deal with. When it is no longer supported, no more winblows games for me, not many games are only m$ any longer, only a few hold outs left. With Vulkan being the new up and coming replacement for opengl, and AMD having made their drivers open source for the Linux users, the old arguments for not building for Linux are becoming fewer. I have been gaming since 1981, long before windblows came along, did not need it then, do not need it now.
AH is no great loss for me, as it has gone in a direction that deters me from being a continuing monthly subscriber, like so many of the old players. I will stick with paying for a month and checking it out for a week or few every year to see if things have improved, but history shows it will not improve. Looks like it will be a long slow death, as there are clearly not enough subscribers to keep the lights lit, usually less than 100 online playing. Even if there are a total of 1000 subscribers that is only 15K a month, after taxes, overhead, salaries, highly unlikely the revenue is paying all the bills. It will only last as long as Dale continues putting his own money into it. Perhaps he has deep enough pockets that it really does not concern him at all, more power to him, there are other alternatives out there, while some are better in many aspects.
Thanks for all the replies. But unfortunately my days here are most probably limited. To much of a pita dealing with windblows, combined with where AH has gone, will most probably keep me on the Linux side of things.
