Media Center in Windows 10
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:09 am
Have been resisting switching to Windows 10 for a very long time for 2 main reasons...1. It's nothing more than a virus/malware/phishing scam disguised as an OS and 2. Because I didn't want to lose my media center for watching live hd tv ota with my 2 tuner hdhomerun which from what I understand has been one of the more difficult and frequently mentioned tuners to get working with the various hacks. I've read some, not nearly all of the posts here and checked the latest notes/comments on versions up to 8.8.4 and looked for the new 8.8.5 but even the info on those hacks still claim to have issues with current and older versions of win10 let alone future versions that tend to invalidate media center and having to start from scratch again if successful at all. My question/idea/suggestion...is it possible or a better idea to run windows 7 in a virtual machine in windows 10 and hopefully thereby be able to run Media Center without having to deal with all the hacks and persistent issues even after doing so? As a side note regarding Windows 10 and it's native invasive settings and properties, Spybot has a line of software called Antibeacon which originally was free but was later incorporated into newer versions of spybot s+d, but just like firefox and many other softwares, older versions are still available online and I was able to install the last free version which can be found and will block over 200 telemetry services that not only continuously send private information to microsoft but also in doing so can slightly slow down your pc as well as download speeds, I believe it also blocks many other telemetry services from Nvidia and others.