Shadowing Practice: I Found Windows 9 (You may rest peacefully now) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So we all know large corporations are deathly afraid of the number 9 for some reason.
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Apple skipped the iPhone 9.
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Microsoft skipped Windows 9.
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Blackberry skipped the Blackberry 9, huh?
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But what's the big deal?
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Give me my number 9 already!
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You know, I know someone who would be very disappointed in you, Microsoft.
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Well, what if I told you I had it?
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I have it right here.
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Windows 9 on this flash drive.
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Shh, gotta be quiet.
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I don't want Bill Gates to hear me.
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No! i love windows 11 and windows 12 will be even better oh
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so windows 9 i lied it's on this flash drive actually
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also okay windows 9 doesn't actually exist this is just a random bootleg iso i found online
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and i have no idea what i'm in for
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and to make this even more stupid i'm gonna be installing
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it on my 2007 macbook pro yay let's get this usb stick in and get booting.
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EFI boot.
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I pressed enter and it's just, is it frozen?
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The fans are ramping up.
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I really hope I don't have to deal with putting this on a disc.
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All right, I'm going to try something really stupid here.
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I'm on Windows 11 on this thing.
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Watch this video if you want to know how I got it on there.
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I'm going to find the installer and run it
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and try to downgrade Windows 11 to whatever monstrosity is on this drive here.
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Is there a setup?
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Oh, there's a setup .exe.
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Double click.
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I wonder how well this will work.
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Probably not very.
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What the hell?
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What is this?
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What is this deep fried ass music?
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This has got to be the most compressed audio I have ever heard.
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Please, for the love of hell, turn that off.
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Oh, wow.
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I'm so glad I opened this.
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It's got sound effects.
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What do you mean an activator.
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Can I install it?
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I'm just going to click it.
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Surely it won't just work like this.
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I'm afraid to do this.
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Actually, this thing's connected to the internet.
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I'm going to not have this.
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I don't want it to install viruses to every network drive I have enabled right now.
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Goodbye, internet.
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Okay.
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First, let's look at some things.
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Specs.
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Oh, cool.
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So it's going to be Windows 7 Ultimate 32 -bit, and it's an evaluation copy.
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What do you mean 10 new apps? well i have confirmed
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my suspicions it is windows 7 with like bloatware installed wow
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that was incredible
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that had to be the most compressed mp3 file i have
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ever heard in the last 15 years nope no thanks okay
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facebook they have a freaking hold on i gotta enable internet
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on this thing again i don't want to sign into facebook
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i just want to see what it is all right what
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are you freeware at sys cool i think i opened an
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image that's that's gonna be great it's gonna take like three
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days to load please i just want to install windows 9 on my macbook pro is
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that too much to ask oh there we go look it loaded an image facebook is already a slow platform
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and it being run on windows 11 on a core 2
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duo is just not a good combination no did i just refresh the page?
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Okay, I'm gonna click this once.
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I think my problem was that I clicked it way too many times.
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This video is not supposed to be me exploring Facebook.
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Okay, freeware sis.
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No, I'm not signing into OneDrive.
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Shut up.
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Oh, it's actually scrolling smoothly.
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Someone said make Windows 7 .8 super.
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Please.
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This is some next level Facebook.
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Okay, so I've apparently scrolled too far.
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That's their Facebook page.
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Didn't think we were gonna look at that.
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Oh, no wonder it's running
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so slow it's got another whole window of microsoft edge open
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all right let's let's actually install this now about us hi
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there it's dill shad the moderator of this windows i'm glad
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that you chose my product thanks for trying out my product it really brings me great pleasure
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and that i'm able to get you modded os with tweak
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that intend to give you good performance uh -huh credit uh there's all the credit
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if for some reason you need
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that no i don't i don't want no no windows 11
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let me be real with you for one moment windows 11
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if i want a notification i will go seek the notification
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thank you time to install will it let me just downgrade this version of windows
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or is it gonna be like now you already have a
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new version of windows on here f* you maybe i don't even need the dvd
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that i've already finished burning by now you know bill gates is probably rolling in his grave right now
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and he's not even dead this is just something i think
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would make someone roll in their grave like actively go to their coffin
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and roll over in mental anguish nothing is happening I have clicked install.
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Nothing.
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Hello?
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Please don't, like, 7 million of them open now.
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What does the activator do?
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What is - what is opening in the background?
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Oh, cool.
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It's opening Firefox.
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Windows by Dilshad, syskeysactivator .html.
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What a surprise.
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It doesn't exist anymore.
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It was probably taken down long ago.
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Okay.
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I guess we'll be actually using the DVD.
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Goodbye, Windows 11 and everything that is on here.
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Okay, there's my very real Windows 9 DVD.
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I cannot wait to put it in there.
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What a complete waste of a dual -layer DVD.
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Okay, in you go.
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I'm gonna hold alt and turn this on.
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Sounding like it's shredding the disc as usual.
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Apple, why do your super drives from this era sound like
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they are actively breaking themselves every time you put a disc in? hey look windows enter i am
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so happy that i get to install this from a dvd
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because it's gonna take longer now we made it windows 9
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i knew it was real microsoft you can't hide numbers from us forever we eventually find them
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and it looks very real
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and not like crayola what why is there a random mac os close button up here what happens
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if i click it are you sure you want to can
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so that's a cancel button oh my god is windows 9
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going to have mac os buttons oh my god i can't
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wait okay next windows 9 ultimate sure that's real 2014 i'm
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just gonna overwrite the boot camp partition it will be none
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the wiser go please be patient dillshad sys is installing windows
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9 edition on your system thanks for choosing dillshad sys product wow this looks very good
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and it's very easy to read the gray text on a blue -ish gray background.
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All right, well, gonna just wait on this now, I guess.
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Okay, well, just reboot it into macOS.
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I don't want to be here.
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It did finish.
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It took like three hours.
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All right, restart.
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This thing is going to be bricked.
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Hopefully not, though.
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Oh my god, I gotta get this disk out of here.
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Every time it reboots, it has to read the disk before it can continue.
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Oh, hell yeah!
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That looks so good.
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Dilshad's real Windows 9.
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What's my username?
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I'll just go with Metrobite, sure.
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I'm gonna have my very own Windows 9 computer.
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Type a password?
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No. Oh good, it's finalizing your settings.
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What is this?
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Why did it just open like a JPEG of this?
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That's so funny, you can't just display the image, you open up the Windows Photo Viewer to show this to me instead of like coding a window?
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That is so funny.
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I have a feeling this was supposed to open in like full screen
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or something because there's a lot of stuff going on in the background.
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Oh, I minimized it.
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I'm never getting it back.
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I hope there's nothing I have to click on because I just dragged this and now it's just this now.
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Oh, good.
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It's verifying the file security.
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Do I trust Windows 9 to verify file security?
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Thanks for choosing Dilshad Sys Product.
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Sorry if I'm pronouncing that name wrong the entire video, by the way.
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Oh, wow.
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That looks amazing.
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This really encompasses the design aesthetic of Microsoft.
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Just put everything that's new over the old one and call it a day and install a bunch of bloatware.
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F*ing driver booster is on here?
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That's like something you download when you're 11 trying to make your Minecraft run better.
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Why is the Windows 8 start menu on the desktop?
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We're gonna look at all of this.
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So as you can see, it's f*ing Windows.
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I think we need the boot camp drivers in here because this does not look right.
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So wait, what even is this?
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Windows 9 Ultimate.
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For real, dude.
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All right.
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What?
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Is it 32? it's 32 -bit.
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Great.
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Bootcamp drivers are installed.
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I want Aero.
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Let's look at some themes.
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Wait, Windows 10?
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Oh my god, it's Windows 10, sort of.
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Like, very sort of.
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You know what?
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I would believe that this is Windows 10.
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If this is what Microsoft released, I would not bat an eye.
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I would be like, wow, that is looking f*ing awful, but I am not surprised because it's Microsoft.
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Okay, just for fun.
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I want to see what the other ones look like.
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Alloy.
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Pretty sure that's just a standard window.
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No, it is not.
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This is not a standard Windows 7 theme.
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Oh, wow.
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Okay, Azure.
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What have they done to these?
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Is this real?
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Are these what these themes just look like?
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Black Spider.
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I like this one a little bit.
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Oh, yep.
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That is Black Spider -Man.
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HD Rev Aqua.
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The mouse cursor has changed.
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Oh, this one's my favorite.
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Look at that.
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I'm in a gaming OS.
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HD Rev Red.
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Oh, yeah.
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This one's even better.
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Look at that.
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It's the same thing, but red.
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Okay.
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John Yuen Park.
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It's Mac OS.
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Wait, that's it?
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It just tells me that this is the desktop and what theme it is.
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Oh, cleaner alert.
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You could save, what?
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5 .38 gigabytes?
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What?
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I've been on this OS for like 10 minutes.
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Media center for Windows 7.
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Okay, this is just Windows 7, but some of the icons look not correct.
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Microsoft.
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Oh, Jesus Christ.
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What the hell was that?
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Oh, this is, this is beautiful.
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This is my favorite one.
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The recycle bin is a freaking incinerator.
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What does the file explorer look like?
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Oh, that's so good.
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Okay.
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Windows nine.
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This is the one.
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This is, this is windows nine guys.
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Oh yeah.
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And finally wishful dream.
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Oh.
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Wow.
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That's a fairy.
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All right, we're going to stay on Windows 9 and we're going to look at what this thing has installed by default.
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Well, I think I want to activate my version of Windows 9.
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Internet Explorer restricted this web page from running scripts or ActiveX controls.
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No, allow it.
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Allow.
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Please install viruses.
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Oh my God, is this an HTML file like saved to the desktop?
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This is never going to load.
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You know, I think what they did is they tried to save that as a shortcut to their website, but it didn't.
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They didn't do it right.
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And now it's just a broken html file like stuck in
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limbo forever incredible well this is what their website may have
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maybe looked like with a lot of missing icons what else do we have i guess we're not activating
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that free software oh hell yeah i love me some piracy
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allow it i think this it's the same thing just it's their site
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but they saved it as an html file does it gotta work okay
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and then there's like c cleaner yep it's c cleaner all
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right driver booster what does it do it's it's scanning driver performance is bad.
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Really, is it?
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Because I just installed the official Apple drivers on this.
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Scan failed.
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Driver booster server could not be reached.
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Yeah, I, you know, this is probably a version of driver booster from like 2014.
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I am not surprised that you can't reach the server.
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Windows 8 start menu.
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This version is outdated.
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You want to download.
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Fine.
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Oh my god, you have to like look at this.
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Fine.
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Download.
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What is, what?
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What do you mean?
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What is this image?
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What am I supposed to be able to tell from this?
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This is, like, taken by, like, a toaster, printed out, re -scanned, and then a screenshot was taken of the PDF that it was scanned.
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What?
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Oh my god.
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Don't show this again.
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Okay.
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Install.
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That was fast.
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Does it work now?
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What is this?
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This is, like, the Xbox interface, like, before they changed it a bunch.
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So, like, where's the Windows 8 start menu?
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It doesn't work.
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Still, I updated it.
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Fine.
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Whatever.
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Box it reader.
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This is just a PDF reader.
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No, I don't want to - I don't want whatever that said.
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Yep, sure is a PDF reader look at it.
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It's like better than Adobe probably.
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Windows 9 x64.
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Wait, is this like advertising the 64 -bit version of Windows 9?
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Because this is definitely the 32 -bit version.
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Oh, it's another broken HTML file.
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Cool.
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Control panel.
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Is there anything installed?
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Nothing but drivers.
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Wait, so that means like they didn't create the registry links for any of this software, so it's just stuck on here forever.
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Unless I go find all the folders
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and files these have installed really nice cool windows 9 well that certainly was windows 9 all right
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this is my favorite theme right here perfect you can't even
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see the like buttons to close anything i suppose i should
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probably game on this thing let's get minecraft on here all signed in
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and we're playing java edition let's see how well this runs this computer actually runs minecraft pretty well.
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I remember my laptop from 2011 with an i3 used to run Minecraft way worse than this thing, which has like an NVIDIA graphics card.
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I don't know what it is, but I'll put it on the screen.
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So if this runs badly, blame Windows 9.
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What?
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Launching game failed.
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What do you mean it failed?
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Unable to locate the Java run?
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Oh, it doesn't have Java installed.
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You've successfully installed java well i better hope
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so god these sound effects okay play do you have java now it's probably not the correct java
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so it's gonna yell at me i hope not are you
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kidding me it needs java 21 right java 21 it only
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has 64 -bit versions that's gonna be a problem clearly the latest one isn't gonna work
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because i think there's only 64 -bit versions of java for
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that one so what about 1 .7 .10 the golden age of modding let's see if
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that works yes i understand the risks of using an old
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version of minecraft play it i think it's working hey look at that
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gaming how well will windows 9 play minecraft wow so yeah this is running
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it's right it's running
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and i'll tell you how well it's running that's the wrong button We're getting about 30 frames per second on default settings.
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Now, if that's not absolute gaming, I don't know what that - what is.
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Okay, it's dipping into like 15, but this is still pretty playable.
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I would not be unhappy playing this, but there's a difference between not being unhappy and being disappointed.
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Also, the mouse is moving very weirdly.
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Other than that, this is pretty good.
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I give it two o 'clock logs out of seven gamings.
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We didn't play Minecraft until we craft something.
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Hold on.
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Oh, we just made Oakwood.
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Let's make a crafting table.
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This is a crafting table.
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All right.
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Bye.
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Well, that's Windows 9, everybody.
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I don't think you can even have this much customization in Windows anymore.
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So honestly, this is pretty cool
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but oh my god this looks like ultimate gaming os
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but uh anyway that's about it if you enjoyed the video go ahead
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that are scrolling on the screen right now and i make music
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so you should check that out on like spotify
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and my other youtube channel anyway i hope you enjoyed the video
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and thank you for watching oh what the fuck what is
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that eject noise what does it sound like when you plug it in.
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Oh.
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Okay.
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