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And you want a medal for it? You think that makes you special?

So do i, daily, which says nothing about "XP is insecure and not recommended." being factually incorrect. Apologies if feelings were hurt.

Isn't this encryption thing Windows only? I'm almost sure you can move Chromium based browser profiles around on Linux by default. Almost because last time I tried it was with Edge around version 94 era and I just replaced the distro (Arch-based -> Debian-based) on the same machine and kept Edge's profile folder from somewhere under .config folder. Likewise, there's no registry on Linux, so how do extensions' settings survive there? No Thorium at hand at the moment, but I tried getting rid of Supermium's registry key, launched the browser, extensions and their settings survived. Just the picture showing the extensions so I don't have to write them down.

Tihiy: not sure if this is something you can fix, but I noticed that the classic Alt+Tab dialog box (shown if you hold down Alt, tap the other Alt key, and then press Tab, or if you set HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer→AltTabSettings to 1) doesn't work any more on 24H2 (Windows 11 Pro 26100.268, Windows Server 2025 26100.560) – the dialog box doesn't appear at all, and Windows instead behaves as if Alt+Esc was pressed. Is this something that could be fixed by StartAllBack?

Ethics on this forum doesn't allow to use such references in regards of old OS, MSFN is a home for old OS fans. Probably, you still don't know that? For example DAVE, our respected moderator, uses XP on his daily basis, I use Vista.

I always advertise WinNTSetup to as many people as possible, among others on the MDL forum. One of the users there tried it, with the "No Defender" tweak, and left the comment below. I have to say I haven't had any problems like that, but then again I haven't tested W11-24h2 that much yet (only tested it to see if I could live with it if I ever have no other options). But I wanted to leave his comment here, to see what you guys think of this. Here it comes: (About the "No Defender" tweak): "When I tried this on IoT LTSC 2024 I noticed that reputation based protection in settings was enabled and I could not disable it so I had to re install and disable defender in other way. On my 26100 Enterprise G it is showing as disabled. So maybe it's better to not disable WD this way on IoT or perhaps both versions of LTSC 2024."

First what i wanted to say than i WAS booting from a USB disk using grub4dos with patched Windows Whistler build 2419 in nLite. But when the setup started, it said "TXTSETUP.SIF is corrupted at line 36" Unpatched one loaded fine, patched one didnt. (I KNOW that nLite breaks betas of 2000/XP.) I was integrating a SATA driver.) Also, any way how to unlift timebomb or even cut it off?)

XP is insecure and not recommended. If not this batch file (Thorium portable), what where you talking about?

i know i made two topics about haswell drivers, but i want to run aero on vista (on my old pc), since my new pc does have very new drivers, also radeon drivers are patched for vista, but i never saw anyone patch haswell drivers for vista, also im not good at patching, im not sure if aero would even work with xpdm drivers, can someone at least patch haswell xp drivers to run aero.

Unless you're suggesting that all this is an elaborate ruse, all you need do is watch the vid or ask me. The only loader i'm using is the batch file included with Thorium, the one I'm clicking in the screencap (THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat). It simply starts Thorium with the following flags, thusly: START "" "thorium.exe" --user-data-dir="%~dp0%\USER_DATA" --allow-outdated-plugins --disable-breakpad --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id. Now, I know what you did. You are using the flag --disable-encryption which is unsecure and not recommended. This is a flag which makes Thorium more portable, though. I do not use it.

Unless you're suggesting that all this is an elaborate ruse, all you need do is watch the vid or ask me. The only loader i'm using is the batch file included with Thorium, the one I'm clicking in the screencap (THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat). It simply starts Thorium with the following flags, thusly: START "" "thorium.exe" --user-data-dir="%~dp0%\USER_DATA" --allow-outdated-plugins --disable-breakpad --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id. As suggested in my previous posts, you have a trivially simple way to verify it works in *your* case: 1. Run THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat & close Thorium, taking note of installed extensions, configuration, and open tabs 2. Delete the Thorium key i delete in the screencap vid 3. Run THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat 4. Observe the key mysteriously restored to the registry & thorium open to its last state.

I experience that too. Additionally, there's a similar issue with the sound icon where it occasionally opens up at the bottom rather than the top. It's quite annoying...

Due to the regular maintainence of my Windows XP, there is no need to reinstall the OS. It is even faster than in its early days. I did so much to it that even Thorium runs well under Windows XP. I also have a well thought-out image system and can return to a previous state at any time. Even to the very first one.

Agreed. As an admin on another forum, we get these ALL THE TIME. Sure, a "bot" created them, but the "member" visits ONCE and never again, no spam posts ever posted by the "member". Makes for a tough world for "statisticians" (do you really think there are 2.5 billion users on Instagram? how many have multiple accounts, how many are "bot accounts", et cetera)

I saw this as well on Pro 24H2.

Everyone is allowed to have a website in their profile.

My dad would buy a brand new computer every two years! Complained it was "slow" so he would just go out and buy new! It took YEARS to finally convince him that "electrons don't slow down with AGE, your computer is slow because the REGISTRY is not being MAINTAINED". Of course, I could never "train an old dog" on how to MAINTAIN the registy. But I could teach him to REINSTALL WINDOWS every two years and be back to BRAND-NEW FAST without spending money on a new computer.

Many issues in Windows are caused by corrupted or missing registry entries. From the very first in the 1990s, I learnt to correct such things. Especially, the installer and uninstaller of that time were often badly programmed and caused problems on a regular base regarding the registry. My Windows XP partition was created from scratch in 2004. It has existed since then without reinstallation only because of my maintenance and corrections. And the registry is particularly affected by this. For 100% portable use of Thorium, I have also backed up its registry entries and would create them if Thorium were to be run on another Windows XP computer.

I looked at the network traffic with Wireshark and even if the padlock is not green and https is crossed out, the data is transmitted in encrypted form. I also tested with an unencrypted page (http) and the transmitted data is readable. I assume that the faulty certificate is then only decisive for the identity of the server and that this cannot be confirmed. Thorium or Supermium may be good, but it is nowhere near as fast as 360Chrome on my computer. And the memory consumption is also much higher.

Another example, they simply include their business model in the account name, and their site in the bio, new (?) form of spam. Recently joined. https://msfn.org/board/profile/441166-pacific-lubrication-consultants/

Registry is there for a couple of main purposes. It includes tracking, logging for devs, surveying the legitimacy of software (trial timers, etc), simplifying police/forensic investigators.

Commercial logos, commercial websites in bio (in both cases) don't count?

We have no way of telling/knowing what portable loaders you used to achieve that, and we have no way of proving/disproving it works or doesn't work in your case, I run this browser with my personally written starter App on Vista, so I don't care about that entries. @AstroSkipper doesn't run fully portable version, there's no reason to accuse a higly respected member of MSFN, and simply a good man, of trolling!

This PreferenceMACs key is the strange one, extensions' data it holds are all binary, but it's always brought up when profile migrations are brought up. I don't know about registry in general either, I prefer a static set of programs for main Windows install so things don't get deleted constantly from registry. It would be interesting to have some reproducible way to "gunk it up" to make computer slow. There's a lot of snake oil out there for registry, "leaving it alone" works for me, I only mess with it if I know about some user program's setting I want to change or if I want to alter Windows behavior in some specific way. I definitely never went out of the way to block programs from writing their stuff there if that's how they were programmed. I ran NTRegOpt every once in a blue moon, but the impression I got was that in my case fragmentation was always low and not worth the bother. Windows itself (re)writes stuff there all the time, can't say if it really makes things slower with time.

Ok. Then I'll be a little clearer. When I write something technical or computer-related here, it's certainly not to tell any anecdotes or to troll. I'm happy to leave that to our specialists. Here is a little food for thought. If an application writes values to the registry, it is certainly not doing so to make itself important or to fool the user. Thorium is not a purely portable application. It does what other Chrome browsers do. And recently I had to unfortunately realise that these registry entries play a role. And BTW, they are not stored in the main folder as this version of Thorium has not been made portable. Just that simple. PS: Further information what a portable application is or not can be found in @VistaLover's post here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/186133-thorium/?do=findComment&comment=1267361