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AI might be used more cautiously. I think it can improve research, however if it's is missused it woule be dangerous, especially a very strong integration with the system. But regarding search engines, I love a search engine called exa.ai. In my opinion, it's sometimes even better than google.

Hello @Tihiy Can you tell me what resources (UIFILES or other) is used to "Use classical drive grouping in This PC" so that I can add/edit to ShellStyle.dll (since there is a conflict between ONE and SAB) Thanks

Latest version (24.5.0 - may 2024) it's still updated with a WinXP installer, that works for "other" 32 bit systems. My outdated reference was for the builds that downloads SMPlayer when tries to "update" yt-dlp and youtube-dl. So, it's still a strong option. No ads, tonvid still its an option to search on YT (without the hassle of the monster webpage that it is YT), download vids, and in my experience, it's the less complicated way to run YT on WinXP. i'll give it a go with MPC and Pot Player. Thanks for all your work trying to stay updated this old (but functional) HW and SW.

My GPU goes into full rampage mode. That said, it's not normal, even if we all understand it was made in January 2013, it can still play games up to 2018. Load shows as 100%. Temps would be like I was playing a demanding game.

Oh wow! Interesting result on multi gazillions core CPU. I only use a 2013 dual core Pentium on that PC with the internet. Both cores frequent to the max with literally everything with this browser. Pentium G3470.

Ok thanks for info In the theme also it is not possible to change this color in msstyles, but possible to change it in the copy dialog box (blue/yellow/red among other things) I just have 2 different colors for copy And I customized the size of the thumbnail border (0px) and the cross in my theme (different from aero.msstyles) But it is T2 which sets the settings (my theme is bypassed) T2 : 3.7.10 : Possible that the custom theme takes priority ? Back to 3.7.10 in the meantime EDIT : add screen

Select Monitor Scaling, shut down Windows, then cold boot with an EBD to DOS. BTW, preview for 4) isn't correct.

No. Colors (green/yellow/red) indicate state.

I would recommend you use some formatting on your post, such as using the underline on the program names.

I tested and I like the new thing on the progress bar (progress bar just at the bottom instead of the whole) Is it possible to have the color of the accent color (color chosen in Windows) instead of green ?

Yes, at least i've never noticed anything. Even IDA-RE-things' progwrp.dll behaves itself most of the time (running it now), first time i've seen it dime out like that. z87 with 4770k & 980ti, 32-bit XP Don't think it supports HW acceleration on any HW. Can you actually feel the browser running smoother with HW acceleration enabled? (not sure I can, MotionMark tells me there's a big difference) What happens when you try running https://browserbench.org/MotionMark1.3/ ?

The most recent release with its archive file Thorium_SSE2_122.0.6261.171_WINXP_x32.zip does not run well on my system. Mainly because the provided progwrp.dll does not support hardware acceleration on my hardware. It is not able to activate it. Thus, I replaced this by IDA-RE-things' Chrome XP API Adapter which at least enables a bit hardware acceleration. The reason for "only a bit" is that, although GPU rasterisation can be enabled, it doesn't work as it should. It does exactly the opposite, it slows everything down. So I have to switch it off and use the software rasterisation instead.

Thanks for your contribution! This thread is meant to collect all methods to run YouTube and its videos under Windows XP in these days. I already wrote about SMPlayer here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/176299-latest-version-of-software-running-on-xp/?do=findComment&comment=1258461 https://msfn.org/board/topic/176299-latest-version-of-software-running-on-xp/?do=findComment&comment=1258479 For watching YouTube videos, I personally prefer PotPlayer and maroc's release of MPC, now in the version 2.2.1. Inside of UXP browsers on old, weak computers, I would use the extension uTube which is absolutely great. SMPlayer is unfortunately no longer supported but it is also a good one as long as it still works under Windows XP, of course. My experiment in a previous post was only meant to check if YouTube can be used natively inside UXP browsers on old, weak computers in these days.

Welcome!

So vanilla is fine? On my end, I've only noticed a CPU max when I leave Thorium open and go into HIBERNATE. When I come out of hibernate, the CPU maxes out. But I can generally just "wait it out" (90 seconds or so!). To be fair though, Serpent 52 does the same thing. Acer Aspire 1 with XP x86. Intel Atom. circa 2008/2009.

Just woke up to this: Just to be clear, this is Thorium with IDA-RE-things' progwrp.dll, not vanilla Thorium. Still, cool in a dancing bear sort of way.

For intelppm.sys, wouldn't you need to update checksum for Windows to accept the driver? Or is this a only a post-Vista behavior?

I've been recently writing a list of programs that used Microsoft Agent technology that were released between the late-1990s to early-2010s, for those who want to be interested in old MSAgent content. Here's the list of known programs that are powered by Microsoft Agent: Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003 - The Office Assistant feature from used in older versions of Microsoft's Office suite software that were released in 1999, 2001 and 2003 respectively. Programs included Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Visio, Binder, PhotoDraw, FrontPage, Project & OneNote. The Office Assistants were discontinued and removed from Office 2007 and forward due to its unpopularity. Microsoft Agent Character Editor - the official character editor released by Microsoft in 1997 and last updated in 1998. MSAgent community member Konnor88 later made a custom version of the program called the Frontier Agent Character Editor. Lego Creator: Harry Potter - A 2001 PC video game that served as the third installment of the Lego Creator series of games and based on the Harry Potter series, making it the only commercial PC game to use Microsoft Agent technology. BonziBuddy - a desktop virtual assistant developed by Bonzi Software that was released in 1999 and discontinued in 2004 after two separate lawsuits that resulted in the company's closure, and many antivirus companies labeled the software as both spyware and adware. MaxAlert - a desktop virtual assistant developed by Bonzi Software which was a redesign of sorts to the company's InternetAlert software that was released in 2003 and discontinued in 2004. This software is unfortunately Lost Media. Vox Proxy - a shareware addon for Microsoft Office PowerPoint that allowed Microsoft Agent characters to be used in PowerPoint presentations. powerActor 2000 - another shareware addon for Microsoft Office PowerPoint that allowed Microsoft Agent characters to be used in PowerPoint presentations. Ace Buddy - a shareware text reader program developed by Zero2000 Software. Cyberbuddy - a multi-purpose instant messaging software that utilizes Microsoft Agent. MSAgent Play Functions - A demonstration software by Viper-One for Microsoft's official characters, those being Peedy, Merlin, Genie & Robby. WebSpeak - a shareware program developed by ShadiSoft that allows you to make your Web pages talk using Microsoft Agent characters. Aveo Attune - A PC tune-up software bundled with some Dell Application CD-ROMs, the Gravis Xperience 4.4 drivers CD-ROM, CorelDRAW 10 and a obscure PC game called Forbidden Forest 3. The software was known for being spyware, resulting in it fading into obscurity. Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer (MAPV) - a small and easy to use freeware program developed by Abhisoft Technologies that allows you to view detailed information & status about MS Agent 2.0, Characters, Installed TTS engines. Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper (MASH) - a utility software developed by Bellcraft Technologies that allowed for users to record and playback presentations made with Microsoft Agent. MASH originally costed $25 USD before being declared freeware. DeskBot - a freeware program developed by Bellcraft Technologies that was a multi-featured Clipboard Reader, Text Reader, Time Announcer, Desktop Application for Microsoft Windows featuring Microsoft Agent Animated, Talking Characters. CharPackage - a freeware program developed by Bellcraft Technologies that allowed users to put MSAgent characters into Self-extracting installer files. Microsoft Agent Powertoy - an ActiveX control developed by Costas Andriotis that required Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher. Microsoft Music Scripting Helper (MUSH) - a freeware program developed by Pepedog that makes Microsoft Agent characters sing. Microsoft Agent Scripting Software (MASS) - a shareware program developed by Abhisoft Technologies that allows you to make animations with one of your characters. Agent Character Manager - a freeware program developed by Mnerea-Darius AKA MnD Software. Double Agent - an open-source alternative to Microsoft Agent that allows Agent applications to work on Windows 7. It's available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. PopAgent - A shareware email notification utility for Windows 95, 98 & NT 4.0. Moony ISDN Call Monitor - a shareware caller ID program developed by Emtec that has an answering machine, and built-in send and receive functionality for faxes. Ahsha Math 1.5 - an edutainmemt animated math tutor for kids developed by Ahsha in 2002 that uses Microsoft Agent characters. IBM ViaVoice Pro Millenium Edition - a speech recognition software product developed by IBM in 1999. MSAgent Decompiler - a utility developed by Lebeau Software that will allow you to extract Microsoft Agent characters (ACS) files. AnswerPad - an Artificial Intelligence Interface program made by David Whalley that was hosted on the DesktopMates website in the 2000s. HP Tour Guide - a desktop companion software that came with HP Pavilion PCs pre-installed with Windows ME between 2000-2001 and Windows XP between circa 2001-2003. TimeAgent - a Freeware clock program developed by Fred Just Soft in 1999. Web Scrapbook - a webpage designer software originally developed by WebPrecinct in 1999 and later by AgentTaskForceUK. AgentTaskForceUK's Microsoft Agent software - a series of software titles released between 2000 and 2002 by a small British company called AgentTaskForceUK, these titles were WeatherAgent, NewsAgent, SportsAgent, ShoppingAgent, TraderAgent, GamesAgent, MovieAgent, BookAgent, AstroAgent & TravelAgent. Each taking a grasp at specific topics of online interest, and each with a unique MSAgent character. Unfortunately, all these software titles and their unique characters are now considered Lost Media, with only three of the nine characters found. the other two programs they made were AgentChatter & NetMessenger. Both software offerings from the same company are also lost media as well. Agent View - a Microsoft Agent Character Viewer developed by James Jenkins. Agent Clipboard Editor - a utility developed by Lebeau Software that uses Microsoft Agent and Text-to-Speech technologies to read the Windows Clipboard to you whenever it changes. Cliptalk - an HTML application designed for Internet Explorer developed by Rob Lindman. DJamp - a freeware plugin for Nullsoft's Winamp developed by Don Johnson from Working Technology that utilizes Microsoft Agent and Text-to-Speech to provide and animated talking DJ. FreeVoice - a Text-to-Speech and Voice Control software developed by Rohitab Batra. Karen's Power Toy - a program developed by Karen Kenworthy that uses Microsoft Agent technology to create a kid's toy. Language Reader - a freeware text reader developed by Authorsoft. Talking Translator Pro - a shareware program developed by Abhisoft Technologies that allows you to make animations with one of your characters for translating text from foreign languages. This is just my comprehensive list of confirmed software that uses Microsoft Agent technology, developed in 1997 and discontinued in 2009 with the release of Windows 7. If you know of any other programs powered by Microsoft Agent technology that I've missed, let me know about it in this thread.

Hello and welcome to MSFN! Please pass on the warmest greetings from my Iguana to the Chilean Iguanas. P.S. * My pet Iguana, from the Dutch territories in Latin America.

I don't have 9 series, and I always disable acceleration because more and more videos are now AV1 or HEVC 10bit. To sum it up, anyone with older video cards (below 2014) needs to disable it, too. Not sure if the developer would even bother himself with the testings on relics.

AV1 decoding isn't natively supported with the 7th series of nVidia. But then again, it's the browser's fault, Thorium would need to fall back to just software decoding instead of glitching out.

Sup. I find interesting that all the things u propose or have made, were already done. https://www.smplayer.info/ SMPlayer can do all the stuff (well, with the mix of alternatives sources of youtube-dl and yt-dlp mentioned here, since WinXP drop support and the creator of SMPlayer hasn't update the sources). It's a mix of mplayer, ffmpeg, and other open source stuff. It's not like VLC, but close, and with a plugin already made for youtube, SMtube https://www.smtube.org/ FIrst u need to install SMplayer. Second, the SMTube plugin. SMPlayer tries to download yt-dlp or youtube-dl but yt-dlp does not work since the exe is from the official sources. youtube-dl is an outdated version and doesnt work either. We need to download updated versions of yt-dlp and/or youtube-dl mentioned by @VistaLover in this same thread (both if u want). Then, we need to copy one or both exes to... C:\Documents and Settings\usernamegoeshere\.smplayer ...after a first run of the program. After that, in config, u need to define resolution and what downloader you'll use. DONT UPDATE WITH THE PROGRAM (you already did that :p) SMTube works like a browser, that links to a couple of sources for YT search (tonvid.com and other one...really sus.). You just search the video, click, and then SMPlayer opens right away. After a while the video starts (needs to download a bit of the file, i guess). If VLC is executed instead of SMPlayer, u need to change player priority in the config of SMTube. That's it! If u need screenshots of everything let me know. Tested and working in WinXP (with a 1.6 Ghz Atom, 2 GB of ram, and a normal HDD). i'm not affiliated with the creator, just an average user. Cheers!

This integral xp is the one I use. edit: I just foud out that new version from june 24, is available so I will have to download it and check. Thank you for tip.

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Hi guys. Long time lurker, but now i'm in the need of contribute some stuff regarding WinXP, so i've sign up. Greetings from Chile! See u around