Well, here are a few thoughts on using 0Patch after a few months, for what they’re worth:
1. No real, irremediable issues so far; two days after installation we had two “Can’t find boot path” failures on boot up, but they resolved themselves on the third try, and have not appeared again in 3 months. I’m not altogether convinced it was 0Patch’s fault, but it was the only real change made before that.
2. Boot up time from a cold start has increased by about a third on this machine & OS; this is probably due to 0Patch “reloading” itself (and it’s patches) into memory each time the laptop boots up. “7 patches have been applied 26, xxx times!” So says a dialog box.
Lord knows, with a 5400 RPM HDD (slow as Molasses in Northern Franz Josef Land), this was not a welcome development, but, on the whole, so far, a more than even trade-off between this and paying LSMFT/MSFT $140, and going though the whole turgid rigmarole of fiddling around with validation routines, decoding obscure product keys, chanting by a fire at a crossroads at midnight, and running around the house counterclockwise and touching an object made of wood.
Not to mention missing all the fun and games MSFT Support provides, what with garbled phone connections, missed appointments, no phone connections at all due to a power outage in India somewhere, some very poor ESL speakers, and support engineers who don’t even know what diagnostic routines your OS iteration is capable of. One guy in particular remotely thrashed my machine in a troubleshooting remote control session, and left quite a pile behind him; I felt like the “Digital Sump Pump” for a week after.
Anyway, I digress, a habit of the old. I apologize. Summary: 0Patch: for $27 USD, Like the guy said who fell off the Empire State Building as he passed the 50th floor,
“So far, so good!” 
Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit, Dell Latitude E6330 ("The Tank"), Intel CORE i5 "Ivy Bridge", 12GB RAM, Group "0Patch", Multiple Air-Gapped backup drives in different locations. Linux Mint Newbie
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"The more kinks you put in the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the pipes." -Scotty
