Re: Windows 32-bit

Paul wrote:

> On 6/8/2024 12:34 PM, Auric__ wrote:
>> Java Jive wrote:
>>
>>>> On 6/7/2024 10:50 AM, Auric__ wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>>> All of the "msecnd.net" links are 404 for me.
>>>
>>> Yes the original links are all dead now, so what you have to do is
>>> copy each link from the list into the clipboard, and then paste it
>>> into the WayBack Machine to see if they've archived it, which it seems
>>> almost certain they will have, then note the date of the archive, and
>>> be sure that when you repeat for the next part of the download, you
>>> use the same date's archive for the remaining parts (although the date
>>> will be the same, the time will be a little later, denoting the
>>> WayBack Machine going serially through a site to archive it), as per
>>> the example I gave for ie11-win7.
>>
>> I already have about half of those VMs in storage, and the rest don't
>> really matter to me one way or another. IIRC, they're time-limited, and
>> if so are of minimal use to me. I should probably delete them; the ones
>> I need I have complete installs on other VMs anyway.
>
> I have received good service from the ie11-win7 one.
>
> After the grace period expires, you can boot the VM and it will
> run for 30 minutes, before shutting down without warning (dirty
> shutdown). You'll notice background color changes, a few minutes before
> it abruptly dies. It will operate this way, forever. (It is not
> activated.)

That's pretty odd, IMO. I would guess the weirdness was caused by a previous 
"dirty" shutdown borking something.

> This allows running in a 32-bit environment, and using some old
> 16-bit program you might have.

I have multiple ways to run Win16 and DOS apps, none of which are time-
limited in any way: WineVDM, DOSbox, full installs of various DOS and 
Win16/Win32 systems on VMs, and a PC from 1997 running honest-to-god Windows 
95.

> You can boot the VM for 30 minutes, as many times in one day as you
> would want. Try not to upset the jiggler inside the OS, with regard
> to hardware resources, as if you do that, it could stop booting.
> It may not like, for example, updating of the VirtualBox Guest Additions
> all that much. You should attempt to make any changes you want, during
> the grace period. Making changes when it is in "30 minute mode",
> could have consequences.
[snip]
> Thirty minutes is not enough time for the final section
> of WSUSOffline, and I'm not even sure that is a good idea
> anyway, because the activation logic might not like it. I don't
> think mine is patched up all that far. I have definitely patched
> up other VMs, but... they were within the 30 day grace period.

30 minutes? Count me out. When I sit down to work it often takes me longer 
than that to really get going; having to restart a VM that often is a hard 
no from me.

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