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I most definitely do not agree. Depends on just what the process is, of course. Real-time anti-virus "bloat", for example, slows your system down. PERIOD. Even if that anti-virus runs in only "one process" (most are several processes). My former company IT forced disk defrag periodically and we had no control on when it ocurred. Walk away from the computer for THREE HOURS when that is churning "in the background". Sure, the computer is "usable", but when you are accustomed to "fast and efficient", the slowdown is INFURIATING - so "walk away" is good "conflict avoidance". Yeah, our IT department is STUPID. Blame Singapore IT. Here is the office computer right after startup, before launching my several Ungoogled Chromium windows and other open-all-day applications. This is a fairly modern "business" laptop and runs well for such a high number of processes/threads - but my home computer and its 4th Gen i7 is, without a doubt, "faster" than this process-bloated 12th Gen i7.

@roytam1 Have you tested with the modded WINNT32A.DLL and WINNT32U.DLL, if the hack in ntoskrnl.exe against Bug Check 0x5D UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR is not necessary any longer Dietmar

Ok thanks for the explanation It is therefore not possible to keep the tooltips and the default Windows font (that SAB does not "touch")

Both roughly the same. Here's a basically stock W10, running on a decade-old box, idling @ 1% CPU usage. If we get rid of all the unnecessary processes & even the necessary ones, we'd gain < %1 :\

I think we should investigate how is done 16TB HDD support in XBOX 360. Maybe we can do something similar. https://fatxplorer.eaton-works.com/2022/08/09/fatxplorer-3-0-beta-22-16-tb-xbox-360-internal-hdd-support-updated-usb-patches/ https://fatxplorer.eaton-works.com/2024/01/03/combined-xbox-360-xl-patches-now-available/

Very true! My *host* OS is always 64bit. Even my XP is 64bit. I do prefer 32bit OSs for all of my VirtualBox VMs. The process count does fluctuate by one or two, of course.

You might find some info on DCI in Video for Windows SDK for Windows 3.1. Also, check the docs and code examples from early edition of Windows 95 SDK or beta SDKs. For example, build 484: https://archive.org/search?query=build+484

We can suppose one is 32 bits OS and second is 64 bits ? To compare, you must use same exe.

Yes, this will be very usefull

That's not to be "misread" though. We (the XP Crowd) have "clung" to XP because we had TWENTY-SOME YEARS to tweak it to our liking! But then we FOOLISHLY turn around and compare that tweaked XP to a "default install" of newer Operating Systems! OF COURSE the tweaked XP is going to "win" !!! But "get off your rocker", old dogs CAN learn new tricks (it just takes them longer, lol) and tweak a newer Operating System - then compare that tweaked OS to your tweaked XP. My fully-updated (no POSReady!) XP SP3 x86 only runs 14 processes and only 212 threads. Update: XP SP2 x64 shows 16 processes and 219 threads. I don't really recall what a default install has in regards to processes and threads - but I'm sure it's quite a bit higher. My Win10 only runs 31 processes and 550 threads. Again, not sure what a default install runs as far as processes and threads. A quick internet search indicates anywhere between 70 and 90 processes is "normal" for a default out-of-the-box install. You tell me, which setup do you think is quick and snappy, the 31 processes or the 90 processes?

Technically, me neither as far as that goes. Listen, I "clung" to XP until just a month-plus ago, I really did "think" I was doing the right thing by doing so. I was wrong! Sometimes in LIFE, we get NOWHERE because it is we ourselves that HOLD OURSELF BACK! And MOST of the XP Users here at MSFN have admitted that periodically over the recent couple of years, they rely on their phone or tablets to get REAL work done, not their XP Dust Bunny. But yeah, "to each their own".

Hi JFX, could you share with the batnik to disable Windows Defender.

Thank you, it means more than you realize to me that you took the time to post those songs. Walk Unafraid ... Stop Crying Your Eyes Out ... Bad Day... And by those artists ... Means a lot; will try.

https://youtu.be/wJ46Y6xt2pU https://youtu.be/SFYRVVpatqo https://youtu.be/-7QhRdhtnzE

I think I need to stop thinking and just 'be" and whatever happens happens, I'm just along for the ride I guess, how long, who knows. I don't know. Gonna settle in with a chamomile tea and just be grateful and true! About all I can expect lately. I'm automatically by nature Kind and Mindful (too much sometimes) but hard to be positive. I don't know. Could be worse! I'm fortunate in a lot of ways, I guess and need to see that for what it is, just struggling with my reality Ok, peace out.......

for sure we could have a better browser than the Serpent 52 @roytam1 but the @basilisk-dev has no actual interest on WinXP

patch 2 JNZ and replace 2 JZ with nops: 7:44 D:\OS\xp-486-hack\eng-orig>fc /b WINNT32A.DLL ..\eng-hack\WINNT32A.DLL Comparing files WINNT32A.DLL and ..\ENG-HACK\WINNT32A.DLL 000250C7: 75 EB 0002986D: 0F 90 0002986E: 84 90 0002986F: 87 90 00029870: 04 90 00029871: 00 90 00029872: 00 90 0002987D: 0F 90 0002987E: 84 90 0002987F: 77 90 00029880: 04 90 00029881: 00 90 00029882: 00 90 7:44 D:\OS\xp-486-hack\eng-orig>fc /b WINNT32U.DLL ..\eng-hack\WINNT32U.DLL Comparing files WINNT32U.DLL and ..\ENG-HACK\WINNT32U.DLL 000323CC: 75 EB 0003739E: 0F 90 0003739F: 84 90 000373A0: 43 90 000373A1: 07 90 000373A2: 00 90 000373A3: 00 90 000373AE: 0F 90 000373AF: 84 90 000373B0: 33 90 000373B1: 07 90 000373B2: 00 90

booting in safe mode shows a device driver (ksecdd.sys) is in fault:

@roytam1 With my XP TXTSETUP runs ok. But then, after first reboot, compi hangs after about 4 min. Sometimes hanging after about 4 min and sometimes during detect of devices (37min to wait is shown). Are WINNT32A.DLL and WINNT32U.DLL on the german CD the same as on English ones? Please tell me the crack or send me the already modded files Dietmar

Replacing resources with English one and repack it with cabarc.exe and replace same files in English CD. WINNT32A.DLL and WINNT32U.DLL has CPU check cracked to allow 486 to run. and English SETUPLDR.BIN has different offsets and I have to patch it manually (just patched the condition branch ops). after 1st copying it reboots and got BSOD:

https://www.uwphotographyguide.com/fish-behavior This makes me happy.

Insidious (2010) Director James Wan Just something mindless to watch that if fun.

I live a humble simple life. Must appreciate what I do have ... 2 working computers and a modest wardrobe and cds and dvds and 2 nice plants to keep me company. I don't feel like I need anything else, nothing else would make me feel better. I feel incomplete and empty inside and its showing on the outside. Now to add insult to injury and only add to my anxiety I feel as I'm doing something wrong by using Thorium as I read that browser developer is infringing on Supermium which is paid and I can NOT afford to purchase anything at this point as I have spare cash to buy diet coke on my walks so now I don't know what to do anymore. Likely just stick with 360 Redux until that day comes and just go with Linux completely if these computers are even still working - they're on their 'last legs' and barely hanging on - like me. Its been said they would like all of use to be on phones only and I'm fighting it - I don't like phones and don't want a smart phone. They allow me to use a computer but the catch is I can only have 1 working at a time and this Dell 745 Optiplex is the better of the two so I rarely fire up the Dell Dimension anymore only to update Mypal68. I guess, Like, I don't know, other priorities are more important like my health. Sort of been trying to taper off the Clonazepam and one day be free from that monkey but there is never gonna be a good time and my anxiety and stress levels are through the roof; currently. My doctors are working with me on this and they know (full well) what I'm going through but I don't want any more medication to be added to the list. I already feel Dumbed down enough already and flat and stunted, but my thought process(es) lead me to dark places of hopelessness and we don't know what to do about that and my Derealization is not managed and I can't tell between that and this crazy world anymore.

Oopsie Daisy, i guess i lost

Testing inf and inf. Edit: No delay here.