XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.misc, alt.windows7.general, microsoft.   
   ublic.windowsxp.general   
   From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   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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