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Thanks to everyone for their browser suggestions. As superliew noted <above>, Mozilla has given Firefox ESR v115.x (the legacy version for Win 7 and 8.1) another last-minute reprieve and decided to extend support for this browser until March 2026 (see the official Firefox ESR release calendar at https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr) so I'll be recommending my acquaintance stay with Firefox ESR v115.x, assuming uBlock Origin and other popular browser extensions continue to work with the FF v115.x branch for the next 6 months. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen any similar announcements about an extension for Mozilla’s Thunderbird ESR v115.x mail client for Win 7 and 8.1. AFAIK Thunderbird ESR v115.18.0 (rel. 24-Dec-2024) is still the final release for Thunderbird ESR 115. --------------- Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.6218 * Firefox v142.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25070.5-1.1.25070.4 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.3.8.212-140.0.5364 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * MS Outlook 2019

Here's a copy paste of a report with my experiences with this advapi32.dll patch, until now being on win32's patreon it was probably also "members only" : I was probably the first user testing it, there were no comments before. That's how it was before: Tons of services failing to start, UAC being super-annoying, USB drivers that used to BSOD the system, with the patch don't

Working at the now bankrupt captcha company that hired low wage poor educated individulas, and we see the result. But like I already wrote, they allowed me to get in only by guessing the word! It's strange to see people having troubles understanding simple sentences, even with the screenshot attached. Now I get a standard Google captcha (very simple!), But I only tried from work.

Just like Supermium, others have a huge memory leak and crashes, so I tested this one, no leak! Most likely due to the 32bit nature. https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Chromium-for-windows-7/releases/tag/136.0.7063.0 More info about the leak. https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1566

@CommanderKeen Try XP Integral Edition. That should work.

Thanks for the info! So you bought this patch from win32 ss? How fo you know it somewhat works? Or it's just rumours, hearsay?

Hello, Is it possible to only use the classic volume mixer in the "Windows 7 classic fly-out menus" but not for the calendar? I prefer the new calendar but want the old volume mixer. I want to mix and use Windows 7 volume mixer with Windows 10 calendar. Would love to have that as an option.

Windows 11 Beta 25H2 bug report: In 25H2 the menu bar in File Explorer doesn't display whether it is check marked or not. It would seem that "MicroSloth" has robbed even more code out of this new 11 version.

To verify which timer is in use, get falco PhenomII Tweaker and run TimerCheck.exe, not the tweaker's main exe Read the value right on the top called QPC freq: PM Timer = 3.579545 Mhz HPET *classic* = 14.31818 MHz HPET new Intel = 19.200000 Mhz TSC = On Win7+ = CPU_BASE_FREQ/1024, On WinXP = CPU_BASE_FREQ, On Win10 1803+ = usually upscalled to 100MHz

On the LSC patreon site, there is a patcher that edits advapi32.dll from your system, there are also instructions on how to patch it manually. The access to it available only to paid subscribers of the Supermium support, however the patcher itself contains no DRM-like elements https://www.patreon.com/win32 Modern motherboards have no setting to disable HPET, you could modify the BIOS, or I've heard you could disable it when you load Windows using GRUB, myself I've tried neither of those methods yet. Windows 7 and up don't use it by default on modern (Nehalem and up I think) systems except from time to time to resync. Vista does use it as the main timer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/acquiring-high-resolution-time-stamps Also Windows 7 and newer accept bcdedit entries that control which timer is in use: https://sites.google.com/view/melodystweaks/misconceptions-about-timers-hpet-tsc-pmt#h.bbv7ue62w883 Vista does not. With equal timers used, yes, with a modern Intel HPET that is 5 times slower than it used to be, it loses to systems that are able to utilize TSC. EDIT: Now I ran this benchmark again on Ivy-bridge and it mostly takes like 700-800 ns, so maybe it's only 3 times slower but still

Vista beats 10 and 8!

Where is it!? No such setting on either of my motherboards. HPET is of course always off, every first grader that plays games knows that.

I've made some benchmarks comparing TSC vs. HPET timers impact for CPU's gaming performance and spoiler: it matters quite a bit. First a little bit of history/background: PM Timer (ACPI Power Management timer) is a high-latency timer used in Windows 2000 days, it clocks at 3.579545 Mhz TSC is a low-latency timer on the CPU, originally, it clocked at the same freq as the CPU, it is used by Windows XP by default So when CPUs started downclocking to save power TSC would also downclock, that's why with Vista Microsoft opted for: HPET is a high-latency timer on the motherboard, used by Windows Vista, it clocks at for example 14.31818 MHz on Ivy-Bridge and 19.200000 Mhz on Alder Lake, it is unstable on newer Intel platforms. Vista fallbacks to PM timer when HPET is not available Invariant TSC is a TSC (low-latency) that always clocks at the CPU's base freq regardless of whether it pawer-saves or turboes, it is used by Windows 7+, but Windows XP can use it too as it would an old-school TSC. On older platforms where TSC is not invariant Windows 7 uses HPET just like Vista Windows 7 still uses HPET to sync TSC from time to time, but XP can still work stable on newer system without it so Vista should also be able to if forced to use TSC. Benchmarks were performed on 12th gen Alder Lake i5-12600, DDR5-4800MT/s, NVIDIA 3090 Windows 10 has all of it's new security mitigations that impact performance disabled, all systems are debloated, all systems have Meltdown/Spectre patches disabled/ not applited, BIOS patch that allows Vista and 7 to properly use turbo on Alder Lake is applied The benchmark was Cinebench R15 OpenGL, with a 3090 this benchmark is almost exclusively CPU-bottlenecked Here are the results (a median run out of 3 for each config), lowest to highest 215.15 FPS - Windows 10 HPET 221.91 FPS - Windows 8.0 HPET 234.92 FPS - Windows Vista HPET 242.84 FPS - Windows 10 TSC 257.58 FPS - Windows 8.0 TSC Vista TSC is dnf cause I don't know of any way to force it to use it, the code could still be there left from XP times. Vista HPET on ivy-bridge usually scores higher than 10 TSC, but lower than Windows 7 TSC, Windows 8.0 TSC also wins there being marginally better than 7, but I don't have all of those system installed on ivy-bridge to provide a benchmark right now, and these are results I remember from back when I did This make's sense since when I run falco PhenomII Tweaker's Timer Check (Tweaker is only for AMD PhenomII, but timer check is universal), it runs a benchmark of running 1 Million QueryPerformanceCounter calls. On Alder Lake it takes 2243ms, whiles on Ivy-bridge around 750ms, So Intel's new HPET is around 3 times slower than the old one Now, after @win32 created his new patch for Haswell+ Vista instability Vista is now very much usable on 12th gen Intel - there is absolutely 0 serious crashes but the stability is not yet perfect - 3 services and startup programs still sometimes fail to start. So the question is obviously how to force TSC on Vista for improved stability and performance?

Thanks, but the idea of it being a cable issue is hard to reconcile with it being fixed by a reboot. Conceivably, the router has put the wired connection to sleep and doesn't wake it up correctly when XP pings it? But have never had such a problem before, with other routers and this PC over the years (it's about 11 years old). Most of the house: laptops, phones, lights, cat feeder,.... uses wifi, so need that to be on. Pretty sure no neighbours are connecting. I check the router's webpage fairly often, especially while playing around with this problem, and see the list of connected devices. And today booted first to Linux: full speed. Later rebooted to XP, and still full speed. Will do a cold boot to XP next time and see what happens. So, still not seeing a pattern. PS: did a cold boot to XP, and get the delayed appearance of the Network Connections icon on the toolbar,and the bad connections and time outs for web pages and email. So I tried disabling the LAN in Network connections, wait a few seconds, reenable. Now a "good" connection. Check email in a second or two instead of 30 or time out. Beginning to dread this may be a sign of an underlying hardware issue, making it take longer than normal to bring up the connection. Have seen a TV slowly lose functionality, probably due to aging capacitors not giving full power when needed. Maybe Linux is OK because it takes longer to boot, or handles it better somehow,. Later may try connecting a laptop by cable and seeing how that goes, will tell me if it's the router or cabling. . . .

to me to that sounds very weird, but when fixing a pc problem i often had someone putting it that way this would be a case for a "being on the place" for a better meaning the idea to use a cable is not a bad idea, but if that connection problems persists in that case it´s likely to be that device i would disable wlan in that router, just in case someone of your neighbors somehow can connect to your router

What about differance between pentium4 and cor2duo or differance between xp and vista. You please tell what is the point? Okey the one certain differance is multi and singleprocess, then I suppose 60% of the code is a differance.

Installed what? If I were to guess, StartAll/IsBack related, but if you can confirm we can move this thread to that section or for a different one if this is the wrong place.

hi I've installed the program, on the bottom bar, right switch, before you could create a quick lunch menù, now no more, can you help me?

Well, today first boot had no connection. System was 99% idle. Rebooted and have normal speed. Maybe it is somehow hardware after all, Tomorrow might try to boot up Linux first and see how that goes.

What is the differance between MyPal and Palemoon 28's most recent version???

I've noticed a weird problem on one of my computers: if Explorer is restarted for any reason (eg. due to StartAllBack upgrade), Alt+Tab dialog stops working afterwards until I log out and log back in (meaning Alt+Tab behaves as Alt+Esc, since 24H2 removed the better, classic Alt+Tab dialog).

I made stupidity today (forgot the golden rule - if everything works, do not touch anything) - updated to version 3.9.15 (stood version 3.9.13), and that’s all, SAB stopped working (it was installed, but no buttons and ticks change anything, the Task panel remains standard, the Start remains standard, transparency does not change, that is, nothing works at all, the presence of SAB = 0). Win 27842 system (Canary). I wanted to download and put again on 3.9.13, but I did not find a link in the topic, but on the official website only version 3.9.15. I found in one of the comments a link to the test version of SAB, downloaded, turned out to be 3.9.14. Installed it - everything works fine.

The browser I was using was Roytam1 Newmoon28-sse browser it is recent build 2025-08-08 I will update it and a;so try with other browsers. I see a file that is maybe it's a base64 orientated which cold have all the pictures. Now understand for your thinking all the pictures should be there and showing. As the web page did download completely. After updating and trying with other browsers if I am still getting the same results I will let Roytam1 know in his thread my-browser-builds-part-5 Thanks for the info Tripredacus

Thanks for the 3.9.15 update, I can confirm the address-bar issue is fixed for me too!