Windows 10: Even something that used to work in the Windows 95 - Windows 2000 era is broken now:...

Seriously Microsoft? Is it that difficult?

I put a USB dongle that has previously been formatted to become a bootable Windows 10 installation media and the Format action in Windows Explorer derps when I want to format it.

Seriously? You are a trillion (thrill-ion?) dollar company and you can't/don't fix something as basic but important as this?

I've seen the workarounds (go to CMD, run this, run that, etc.). Even these workarounds don't work consistently.

This mess is so bad that 3rd parties are selling $40 apps just to format a freaking USB flash disk.

Come on! Ask one of your gurus to fix this over this pandemic crisis period. You were better than this.

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Windows 2000 support

Windows 2000 is unsupported by Microsoft as of July 13, 2010, so it is expected that GPU-Z no longer supports Windows 2000, probably due to using newer libraries or something only found in XP or higher. I'm not entirely sure why you would need to use it on a Windows 2000 computer either.

 

Map Windows 7 Shared Folder to Win 95

Okay .. I figured it all out.

Configuring Windows 95 so it can map Windows 7 shared folders.

You need to update Windows 95 so that it can utilitze NTLMv2 network protocols (and use 128 bit encryption for authentification).
Nothing needs to be done on the Windows 7 machine other than sharing a drive or folder.

On the Windows 95 Machine you will need a local account with the same name and password as on the Win7 machine or in the domain.
The Windows 95 computer does not have to be a member computer in the domain (ie. does not need domain authentification)

1) Install the Distributed File System client for Windows 95 (dfs41w95.exe)
2) Install WinSock 2.0 (w95ws2setup.exe)
3) Install Microsoft Dial-Up Network 1.3 (MSDUN13.exe)
(I wasn't sure what msdun13 does to the TCP/IP stack so I reinstalled winsock2.0 again)
4) Install Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2 / 32 bit (ie40sp2.exe ... you need this or step #6 will termintate without installing)
5) Install Microsoft Installer 2.0 (InstMsiA.exe .. you need this so Windows 95 knows what to do with the .msi file in the next step)
6) Install Distributed Services Client for Windows 9x (dsclient9x.msi)
7) Go into the registry editor (regedit) and go to ...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control
Create a Key named Lsa
Create a DWORD in Lsa named LMCompatilbility with a hex value of "3".
8) Reboot once more.

Mapping a network drive on a Windows 7 machine should now work.

 

Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

DTS supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 and it should work on windows 10 too just DDL require to unlock your driver .