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What I write is not a criticism of what you wrote. Readers will learn little about Thorium (but also for other browsers) if the most important issues consist of feature changes that are left to the developers. It would probably be more useful to develop advice/opinions on how to improve the default settings of the various browsers.

No sure if you still can disable defender online. This should work from WinPE/WinRE. Another Windows would need to run it with TrustedInstaller rights. Defender.cmd reg load HKLM\SOFT C:\Windows\System32\config\software reg load HKLM\SYS C:\Windows\System32\config\system reg import Defender.reg reg unload HKLM\SOFT reg unload HKLM\SYS Defender.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "SecurityHealth"=- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "SmartScreenEnabled"="Off" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows Defender] "DisableAntiSpyware"=dword:00000001 "DisableAntiVirus"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Features] "TamperProtection"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection] "DisableRealtimeMonitoring"=dword:00000001 "DisableAntiSpywareRealtimeProtection"=dword:00000001 "DpaDisabled"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpCmdRun.exe] "Debugger"="NUL" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MsMpEng.exe] "Debugger"="NUL" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\smartscreen.exe] "Debugger"="NUL" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "EnableSmartScreen"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender] "DisableAntiSpyware"=dword:00000001 "DisableAntiVirus"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\SmartScreen] "ConfigureAppInstallControlEnabled"=dword:00000001 "ConfigureAppInstallControl"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYS\ControlSet001\Control\CI\Policy] "VerifiedAndReputablePolicyState"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYS\ControlSet001\Services\SecurityHealthService] "Start"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYS\ControlSet001\Services\WinDefend] "Start"=dword:00000004 P.S: Not sure why I set SecurityHealthService to autostart, either there was a problem with disabling or it's a typo.

Agree, Disabled on this box, wouldn't recommend to others. Why IT couldn't schedule such tasks for downtime is a mystery. Anyhow, defragging isn't a thing for SSDs, TRIM takes a second or two. Posting from one now (it also runs a bunch of other OS). Thorium, which emits alpha particles and mild gamma rays, is mildly carcinogenic. Back on topic: anyone else dropping frames in YT under XP? Supermium seems to have the same issue,

yeah, tried upgrading from Win2000 to XP. Without patch it will pops out a message box of requiring Pentium processor and exit. as it runs cpuid by its own, patching kernel doesn't help.

Wow! Is this thread here about hardware? And performance comparisons between Win XP and Win 10? The answer is crystal clear: Definitely not! This thread should actually provide information about the Thorium browser. Thus, the last 7 posts are therefore completely off-topic. The reader will not learn anything worth knowing about Thorium here. No matter how you feel about this browser.

Well, on topic, process tamer 2.14 (which I now see comes in the portable zip of the link I first gave) works in my set up and helps me tame processor usage peaks in the latest version of mypal. I also use process lasso, which I find better suited for memory management, as its "always" priority class process settings sometimes freezes browsing apps (in my set up), while process tamer doesn't. That occasional freezing may not occur in mypal (I will try it - it's always good to have alternatives)

@genieautravail Can you tell me more about your error 21? I need to know details about that disk which is not listed using ListDisk. Currently it means your disk is unsupported, but I don't know where should I dig, when I don't know nothing about it and can't reproduce it.

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: