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What the US Treasury does is out of our European scope, hence the word "think", meaning we, (INTERNATIONAL members), can't influence the US treasury decision. You too need to accept it as a fact. The reason for this topic is obvious. Oh, and I kinda suspect why you don't vote.

Which hoops? TBH, there are none. Of course, only if you have chosen a well-functioning image hoster. In any case, I don't have to permanently delete pictures so that I have storage space for others. Life is too short for posting images via an image hoster, but life is not too short for posting permanently off-topic treatises. Of course! That really makes sense!

You can't do any meaningful hardware performance tests with PCMark inside a VM. You already did that, and as expected, it didn't turn out well. BTW, all your posted images are no longer available. Providing images in this way actually makes no sense at all.

2.b Topics devoted to political or religious debate, unless technology related, are prohibited. https://msfn.org/board/guidelines/ This post is technology related.

Just for clarification. There was nothing "bumped". My thread "General and specific solutions for problems regarding AU/WU/MU in Windows XP " gets updates and new information when necessary. I am kind enough to share my experience with people. And using MU/WU does not mean that all offered updates have to be applied. It's up to the user to decide which updates are wanted and which not. No need to install all updates. So, I don't understand your objection at all. However, my Windows XP always gets all necessary updates. And that's a good thing.

Hi, Today, I broke rockstar launcher artificial block. Since I can't link you anything, you need to do the modification yourself. Get your hands on rockstar games launcher version 1-0-83 and install it. DO NOT open it! Make the folder read-only and restrict yourself and all Administrators from write permissions. Delete launcherpatcher.exe and run the launcher.exe, let it install socialclub and if for some reason it gets stuck on installing social club, just download the latest one and install it. We are not done, now you'll see an error complaining about missing dependencies. Download CEF explorer and locate social club folder. open socialclubhelper head into import directory and select user32.dll change adjustwindowrectexfordpi to adjustwindowrectex. and that's everything. To be able to play gta v for example, you need to locate playgtav.exe before the artificial block, even versions from 2020 works since the are just a stub. https://prnt.sc/2Ucu5Np45BM5

Maybe "tsu schee" ? In my posting of 10Sep2024 I had displayed a screen shot of the test results of PCMark04 on an Inspiron 7500 laptop (650MHz Pentium 3 SSE-only), run with Windows Media Player 11 installed. The overall score was 568. I have subsequently restored the WinXP partition to a clean, pre-PCMark partition backup. I then installed Windows Media Encoder 9 and PCMark04 v1.3.0 and then ran PCMark04, i.e. with the default Windows Media Player 9, which comes with WinXP, instead of Windows Media Player 11. The overall score was 617. The better test results with Windows Media Player 9 show that the last version for WinXP (i.e. v11) is NOT the best version for every computer, e.g. the old Inspiron 7500. The test with PCMark04 shows that installing the system component Windows Media Player 11 will probably degrade the performance of the old Inspiron 7500. Unfortunately PCMark04, in contrast to PCMark05, does not create a log file showing how long the tests took. The above comparison of Windows Media Player 9 vs 11 with PCMark04 has, however, a major issue: the initial test of 10Sep2024 was not made after a partition restore, so other issues may have contributed to the worse performance of Windows Media Player 11. BTW, Windows Media Player 11 canNOT be uninstalled, only a rollback can be made. I made a rollback to the previous version (i.e. v9) in two steps: -> Start -> Run -> enter %windir%\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe -> Start -> Run -> enter %windir%\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe I had installed WMP11 NOT by running wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe, but by first extracting wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe and then running first the extracted wmfdist11.exe and then the exptracted wmp11.exe I don't know how long the test with PCMark04 took on the Inspiron, PCMark04 does not create a .log file. The test with PCMark05 took 7:40hrs PCMark04 does have a special use with very old computers, e.g. the Inspiron 7500 laptop, identifying software and hardware components which slow down the computer, a critical issue for the usefulness of old computers. One benefit of installing older PCMark04 instead of PCMark05 is that PCMark04 works OK with Windows Classic. To restore my previous Windows Classics, e.g. after uninstalling PCMark05, I made the following 3 steps: 1) -> right-click on desktop -> Properties -> in Themes tab: -> select Windows Classic 2) in a Windows Explorer window: -> Tools -> Folder Options -> select Use Windows Classic folders (had been changed to Show common tasks in folders) AND: ->select Open each folder in its own window 3) to restore colors used for high-lighting, etc: -> right-click on desktop -> Properties -> in tab Appearance: - in drop-down box Color Scheme: -> select Windows Classic - in drop-down box Windows and buttons: -> select Windows Classic style I am not sure whether I will keep PCMark04 on the old Inspiron 7500. The 3D test component of PCMark04 still takes many hours. eventually I will test-install PCMark2002. Maybe this old Win98 version is the best version for the Inspiron 7500 under WinXP.

And it seems this gigantic tiles "style" infects many sites all over the web. Probably made by the same company.

Hey members, "members" (one more time, in the new "style"), I love how you both completely ignore the increased size of the UI, fonts, replaced buttons to the absolutely flat ones, but got glued to the brightness subject. Edge colours are the proper ones, they are tuned by the pros for using in Windows, Gonna argue about that fact, too?

It's the new, trendy overlay they use to get the brightness up. MSFN uses the acidly bright greenish overlay.

I think that might be a bit of a big ask, why don't you ask him yourself?

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240914-3219d2d-uxp-1b648cc1d8-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20240914-3219d2d-uxp-1b648cc1d8-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240914-3219d2d-uxp-1b648cc1d8-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240914-d849524bd-uxp-1b648cc1d8-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240914-d849524bd-uxp-1b648cc1d8-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240914-d849524bd-uxp-1b648cc1d8-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20240914-d849524bd-uxp-1b648cc1d8-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - js: Support for the MPROTECT security feature (PaX and NetBSD) (dd6526daae) - Issue #2578 - Part 1: Implement preference for controlling same-origin policy (09b3c7a2d8) - Issue #2578 - Part 2: Implement preference for disabling CORS preflight requests if CORS is disabled (2d60c54926) - Issue #2578 - Part 3: Expose CORS and CORS bypass preflight requests preferences. (290489edda) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

No, I dont, https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=142009 https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/identifying-blu-ray-vc-1-discs.237950/

In English, (if we are to assume you're from US, as your flag claims), it'd be "you yourself haven't voted", now you owe me 50 bucks for the English lesson, it's about 5000 in Russian Rublies.

VC-1 is disabled by default in LAV?!?!?! Are they crazy? It's the default format for BluRay disks. How is this possible? Probably, you wanted to say it's disabled in MPC-BE, the enemy of old OS? I just can't comprehend who would want to compromise the common BluRay disk standard playback...

I'd gladly help you, but I don't have a high end CPU or PC. My most "powerful" is Pentium G from 2013? 2014? Supposedly, I can push it hard (overclock to the max.), but them again, it's not far from that old Quad Core.

What I am 100% certain of, - MPC-HC 64bit version decodes 10bit H265 faster than the 32bit counterpart, Try 64bit XP, maybe?

I said quite sure, not 100% certain. It's easy to guess because nVidia is famous for making artificial restrictions for older OS in general, a goof example was the artificial rate refresh limit introduced for XP. Sorry, I don't have GTX960/50. I have a GTXTitan (Jan. 2013). And some time ago found a working 780 Ti in the local dumpster (E-waste). Both only support 8 bit H265, not 10 bit.

Not very trustworthy as the integrated version is very old. I believe it is version 3.21. This SystemInfo Explorer version was not able to indicate the correct memory size in my system. It says 2 GB instead of the correct value of 1.5 GB. BTW, the last Windows XP compatible version is 4.48.

At this point, I would like to quote a saying that someone here usually gives off:: To Each Their Own!

Madonna 1992 - Erotica 2LP set, Made in Germany.

The OP specifically asked about decoding, not encoding. His GPU obviously lacks NVENC anyways.

Keep in mind that PCMark04 requires Windows Media Player 9 (and not higher) whereas PCMark05 requires Windows Media Player 10 or higher.

PCMark05 is a very sensitive software and also seems to have problems on certain computers if all tests are to be performed. Here are my test results so far: After various tests, changes and corrections in my system, I was able to run all the tests from System Test Suite successfully. Here is my missing PCMark Score: Although all tests from all categories can be run now successfully on my system, the software does not manage to run them all at once. This indicates a bug in the programme, which is probably only noticeable on certain systems.

It was the security update KB2447961 for Windows Media Encoder 9 from December 2010. My Windows Media Player 11 is of the version 11.0.5721.5293. So, a bit more recent than yours. Check for updates via MU/WU!

No. Install it and check via MU/WU if there are updates available! On my Windows XP system, an update for the Windows Media Encoder 9 was offered.

Does anyone know why only this test failed? PCMark05 otherwise ran smoothly and had nothing to complain about.

Best Endeavour

fixed, try redownloading archive

I have always felt that extension signing by Mozilla (another move of theirs to ape Google Chrome) just gives the user a false sense of security, certainly the non-advaned ones; I found it a real nuisance myself, so I would choose to use unbranded Firefox builds and/or switch to esr/aurora/dev/nightly channel, where the signing can be disabled via a pref... As such, I applauded MCP in their choice of not implementing it in their UXP browsers... And I can't help remembering the whole debacle some months ago involving an expired intermediate certificate, that caused most installed Fx extensions to be disabled, with no possibility to re-enable... Though signed, one can't be 100% sure an extension doesn't include malevolent code, this is true for both the Google Web Store (GWS) and AMO ; signing is basically an automated process now, I doubt addon reviewers manually inspect every new extension update (for existing ones) along with the truly new ones on AMO... This is slightly OT, but now Mozilla have segregated signed extensions on AMO to "recommended-by-Mozilla" and to the "not-recommended" ones (probably ones poorly reviewed, if at all), and the prospective user should exercise caution when installing one of the second group... So much for the value of the contained signature... Returning to uB0, I believe the version on AMO compatible with UXP is still signed; as for the legacy version on GitHub, this is indeed unsigned, but, unlike you, I trust gorhill (a Canadian, BTW) more that what has become of Mozilla these days; the code is still open source, let alone when a broader community of developers/advanced users, without hidden agendas (I can't, in all honesty, say the same about Googlezilla), keeps a vigilant eye over it... There's always a slim chance GitHub hosted files (now owned by M$) get hacked, but this is true for everything hosted on line (even Moonchild's ftp archive got hacked...). In any case, I'm not passing judgement in the slightest, anyone is totally free and independent to make one's own choices here - what works best for you, as long as varied choices remain available... Best regards

New NewMoon 27 Build! 32bit https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win32-git-20200201-6a75a56f2-xpmod.7z 32bit SSE https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win32-git-20200201-6a75a56f2-xpmod-sse.7z 32bit noSSE https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win32-git-20200201-6a75a56f2-xpmod-ia32.7z 64bit https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win64-git-20200201-6a75a56f2-xpmod.7z source repo: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27 repo changes since my last build: - import changes from `devel' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 943820 - Add visibleLabel attribute/property and tests. r=ttaubert (95540e489) - Bug 902729 - Add a new telemetry probe for session lifetimes. r=ttaubert (725e51e1a) - Bug 1150529 - Remove code for expired telemetry histograms r=Yoric (6a1540c7f) - Bug 732303 - Redesign safe mode dialog with the profile reset option. r=dolske, ui-r=limi (8a0253b18) - Bug 894188 - "resetSupported is not defined" in safe mode dialog. r=jaws (a45930696) - Bug 498181 - Offer to reset a user's profile if it was last used more than two months ago. r=jaws (5295b1629) - fix duplicted entries (eb068619a) - Bug 1063702 - Update all Reset Firefox strings and relevant UI to new UX requirements. r=MattN (4771a9da5) - remove some DEVTOOLS and console related code, not found in FF/TFF (11b163829) - Bug 1147236 - Use AppConstants in session store code (r=ttaubert) (68b6ceedf) - fix redeclaration of cc (b1b1611b0) - bug 1137792 - Ignore the first timing for an add-on r=mossop (59e48d895) - Bug 1140113 - Catch direct (and some indirect) callers of CreateDrawTarget* and deal with failure. r=mstange (89cf1d361) - Bug 1010552 - Breakpoints not removed from server when tab is closed;r=jlong (bf63d0b31) - Bug 1139181 - Add missing MIRTypes to StringFromMIRType(). r=efaust (d716f2fe9) - Bug 950373 part.2 Don't consume keys which are used by <tree> for navigation in session restore UI r=enndeakin (06435f06b) - Bug 925771 - Generate consecutive window IDs to avoid collisions. r=ttaubert (74c81ef33) - Bug 931891 - [Australis] Backed out bug 887515 and the followups (bug 896291, 909662, 896896). r=ttaubert (b8f02497e) - Bug 930901 - Move TabState and TabAttributes to their own JSMs r=billm (be255adac) (3fd1b0d56) - Reverted all AF front-end changes to restore session restore function. (5abf6194f) - import changes from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1137166: Change the Content moreStrict sandbox pref to an integer to indicate the level of sandboxing. r=tabraldes (b5333092c) - Bug 1140806 - Initialize JS random seed using arc4random on Android and BSDs. r=fitzgen (c39ad68da) - Bug 935862 p1 - add flag for ex/ch unit usage. r=heycam (47b3a36a3) - Bug 935862 p2 - add various userfont lookup methods. r=heycam (ede140ecc) - Bug 935862 p3 - implement selective reflow for downloadable fonts. r=heycam (9d6abc4aa) - Bug 935862 p4 - add reftests to sanity check @font-face reflow behavior. r=heycam (8c56a5f2f) - Bug 935862 p5 - handle SVGTextFrame reflow correctly. r=jdaggett (b5f420748) - Bug 935862 p6 - fixup problematic reftests. r=heycam (13fd7b36b) - Bug 1140946 - tweak fall-through for ex/ch restyle on font load. r=dbaron (e05284f0a) (00c9e7452) - update UXP version of NSS 3.48.1, and import changes from tenfourfox: - #369: add back build system changes [partly] (a7ee0d3a4) - #369: bustage fix for opt builds (cc2e336b2) (80ce3707b) - import changes from tenfourfox: - #587: update TLDs, certs, pins, etc. (35584e5e6) (a85a1fd22) - port changes from tenfourfox: - #584: M1507180 M1598605 (7b58ac561) - fix M1607443 as a precaution (b8657e696) - #587: M1513855 M1596668 M1602944 M1599420 M1595399 (35a4358b3) (a61b8c3d3) - import changes from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1130891 part 1 - Add W3C HTML5 ruby tags to atom list. r=smaug (ea17ccc67) - Bug 1130891 part 2 - Add option in document encoder for including ruby annotation in plain text. r=roc (d3e0dff72) - Bug 1130891 part 3 - Add param to HTMLCopy to allow copy with ruby annotation. r=smaug (8e75e87a7) - Bug 1130891 part 4 - Do copy with ruby when the whole selection is inside ruby. r=smaug (891d7590d) - Bug 1140741 - Teach JitProfilingFrameIterator to read DebugModeOSRInfo. (r=djvj) (f468e332e) (603e20b30) - import changes from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 932865 - Add ThreadHangStats for collecting background hang telemetry; r=vladan (2f08a076b) - Bug 932865 - Add way for telemetry to iterate over active threads; r=froydnj (535615d3d) - Bug 1128768: Part 3 - Update BHR to allow for hang annotations; r=vladan (0b880a667) - Bug 935092 - Add ThreadStackHelper to get a thread's pesudo-stack; r=BenWa (1422cfe4d) - Bug 942488 - Don't report pseudo-stacks without SPS profiler. r=nchen (e160a7a08) - Bug 946817 - Don't assert mPseudoStack on B2G. r=BenWa (9f846df3b) - Bug 951431 - Don't get stacks during profiler runs on Linux; r=BenWa (15036e907) - Bug 978262 - Ignore duplicate frames when getting BHR stack. r=froydnj (964721b1b) - Bug 985155 - Add signal trampoline on ARM Linux to work around kernel bug. r=snorp (cb8a7846c) - Bug 995730 - Convert xpcom/threads/ to Gecko style. r=froydnj (fe150404e) - Bug 1013326 - Distinguish chrome and content scripts in pseudostack; r=snorp (81273c977) - Bug 1023461 - Remove temporary stack buffer in ThreadStackHelper; r=snorp (cf5a717c2) - Bug 1023461 - Record filename and line number for chrome JS entries; r=snorp (10c89808f) - Bug 1022456 - Fix modelines in xpcom/{base,glue,io,string,threads}/. (48dbc0416) - Bug 1016441 - Switch to using real-time signal in ThreadStackHelper; (2c5f818be) - Bug 1016629 - b. Use RAII class to assign mStackToFill; r=snorp (769eae130) - Bug 1016629 - c. Add define for ThreadStackHelper pseudostack support; r=snorp (67def0d2f) - Bug 1016629 - d. Add and implement GetNativeStack method in ThreadStackHelper; r=snorp r=jseward (46c52f2be) - Bug 1016629 - e. Implement platform-specific code for filling in context; r=snorp r=jseward (e6a66858b) - Bug 1016629 - g. Avoid ASan flag when copying stack; r=snorp (0159628b5) - Bug 1045176 - Unbreak build on non-SPS platforms after bug 1016629. (f1d60d838) - Bug 1047123 - ThreadStackHelper should use UniquePtr<uint8_t[]>, not ScopedDeleteArray. r=jchen (0e4af313c) - Bug 1049161 - Fix ThreadStackHelper thread handle permissions on Windows; r=snorp (c05172b1c) - Bug 1050185 - Make ThreadStackHelper::FillThreadContext Valgrind-friendly. r=nchen (368725774) - Bug 1050440 - Remove repeated js::RunScript frames in ThreadStackHelper (2a79600b3) - Bug 1046841 - Fix more style violations in previously touched .cpp files in xpcom/. r=froydnj (02afe2493) - Bug 1069694 - Remove or move around functions in OldDebugAPI. r=shu (177197302) - Bug 1069694 - Remove OldDebugAPI from the browser. r=shu (b8c917d42) - Bug 1100911 - For MacOS builds running on Valgrind, make ThreadStackHelper::GetStack be a no-op. r=nchen. (d99c02e16) - Bug 1091758 - Report full paths for most chrome scripts; r=snorp (2b72e7878) - Bug 1109291 - Include better paths for hanging chrome scripts in profile extensions directory; r=snorp r=bsmedberg (1997b9532) - Bug 1113416 - Don't read stack labels inside hang monitor sighandler; r=nfroyd r=snorp (9688f6069) - bug 1146027 - more final r=froydnj (7b0f295e5) - Bug 1164090 - Check for Windows path separator in BHR file name; r=snorp (f014b4d78) - Bug 1169034 - include <cstdlib> in ThreadStackHelper.cpp to declare correct overload for std::abs; r=jseward (874d4447e) - Bug 1182996 - Fix and add missing namespace comments. rs=ehsan (054fc00b2) - Bug 932865 - Collect thread hang stats in BackgroundHangMonitor; (ac80c8e9f) - minor anticipated fixes to get it compiling (2bd701d15) (8f529f64f) - import changes from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1115438: Move PluginModuleParent's invocation of CreateToolhelp32Snapshot off the main thread; r=jimm (e2c4f828f) - Bug 1141093: Ensure that FinishInjectorInitTask::PostToMainThread is no longer executing before leaving FinishInjectorInitTask::Run; r=dmajor (7ca55b82d) - Bug 1140725 - Fix unreachable code after semicolon-less return statement in nsContextMenu.js. r=jst,dolske (bbb360053) - Bug 486172 - Don't ignore a -p command line argument when using the Xremote protocol. r=bsmedberg (8492d3df8) - Bug 1128798 - [e10s] Make a version of nsIContentPolicy that doesn't pass the node as a parameter (r=mrbkap,tanvi,ckerschb) (bbd6147ee) (6a75a56f2)

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you should check your extensions as well. easiest try is test it in new profile.

same URL as before: http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/phoenix-0.5-cl933-tls12.7z http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/classilla-9.3.3-win32-tls12.7z http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/rzbrowser-tls12-20200127.7z http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/retrozilla-suite-tls12-20200131.7z http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/K-Meleon1.5.4en-US.tls12.7z http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/KM74-g22-20180718.win2000.7z http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/palemoon-26.5.0-20180718.win2000.7z

having chacha in 2000? Yes! archives updated.

I can certainly add this to the list. But, currently my installer is in maintinence-mode (only fixing serious bugs and not many new stuff) due to not having much free time. I have things for the installer of a higher priority when the free time arises, but I am commited to adding an "install as portable" option eventually. But, yeah. As a reminder, @roytam1 is not affiliated with the house of cards known as my browser installer. He ports changes and compiles binaries, I just make an (Unofficial!) installer that eases the retreival and unpacking of said binary archives.

then this is no longer portable.

The thing is, @roytam1 didn't write and doesn't maintain the installer; @i430VX does! It probably wouldn't be hard for his installer to ask if you wanted a portable install, and add the necessary options to the shortcuts it creates. But @i430VX is the one to ask.