(12-19-2019, 03:28 PM)Alexrose Wrote: [ -> ]I'm just not going to reinstall my entire OS just for 1 program that worked fine until a certain revision and would rather seek other options if they exist. Thanks for your patience.
There is not. You have a broken OS.
You either fix the OS or you can't use newer versions of Dolphin.
(12-20-2019, 02:20 AM)mbc07 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not ruling out it might be something wrong with Dolphin, but keep in mind this is an open-source application and everyone who works on it is unpaid, people come and go frequently. Given nobody was interested on investigating this issue in the past 5 years and taking into account it only affects an OS which will be dead in less than a moth (whether you like it or not), the odds of a fix being made at this point are close to zero.
Somewhat unrelated but judging from your background, you might be able to get a license for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC by talking with those Microsoft reps. It's a bare minimum, stable edition of Windows 10 (without Microsoft Store, Microsoft Edge, Cortana, Modern Apps, etc) that gets only security updates (optionally schedulable) and that will receive support until 2029. It's the closest you can get of Windows 7 but in an updated and still supported OS...
Interesting, I'll look into this next time I make a new build (probs 2021). At some point I'll obvs have to switch but Enterprise LTSC does sound significantly better than the 10 I've been using, assuming it's compatible with the software I use.
Thanks a lot for your help. I guess I'll just use old builds and just not netplay. Cheers.
While you can't do this with Home, with Windows 10 Pro (which is what I'm assuming the aforementioned M$ reps will have given you), you can defer feature updates for a year and security updates for a month. I've not double-checked, but I believe this is nag-free, so you don't even necessarily have to know about an update existing until it's had plenty of time for any issues to be ironed out. I guess you'll still have to check once in a while, though, as otherwise it might just force install an update from a year go without asking.
I wouldn't recommend staying on 7 past its EOL. There's still a lot of code in common between 7 and 10, so malware authors are just going to look at what security fixes get released for 10, and check if the same exploit is possible on 7. In today's world of rootkits that can get you via ads on legitimate sites *, simply avoiding doing anything dodgy isn't always enough.
* I'm not sure if this has actually happened or is just theoretically possible due to all the steps being possible. There's definitely been malware in supposedly legitimate ads on legitimate sites, and there are attacks that can break out of the browser sandbox, and if you're running unpatched Windows, there's probably a way of gaining full access to everything.
Your OS is obviously broken. Now there might be something you could do besides reinstalling, but it would take an absurd amount of time to pinpoint the problem, and would require deep knowledge of Windows.
Your best chance is to clean install Windows 7. But like the others, I strongly advise you to move to Windows 10. You can completely pause updates now, if that's your concern.
But at the very least wipe everything on your hard drive, and reinstall Windows 7.