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Re:Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 200... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:25PM (#34022622)
You can switch Win7 to classic theme and pretend it's an improved Win95. That's what I do in my VMs since I don't need to be burning cycles and RAM on eyecandy.
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Re:Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 200... by supertrope on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:26PM (#34023687)
Ironically in Vista and newer the GUI is GPU accelerated and switching to the classic theme switches from GPU acceleration to CPU rendered.
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Re:Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 200... by froggit on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:31AM (#34025402)
But isn't this somewhat moot in a lot of VMs considering they often lack GPU acceleration?
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Re:Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 200... by supertrope on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:47PM (#34057448)
I casually use VirtualBox and GPU acceleration works.
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