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Well, I'm sorry. You're right, this feels bad. I've tried to outline a method to my madness; but feedback process still needs improvements. In your case, I've answered about your feedback on different forum and was wrong to hide it here.

Disregard. It is working. Silly me forgot that I had a startup switch that disabled components. I never use widevine, but do want the "option" to be able to. Thanks. But I only use portable non-system-integrated browsers.

What is "Eclipse.cx"?

Hello all. I've been using this site as a reference for quite some time and figured I should probably give something back. No idea if anyone will find it useful or not, but here it is, regardless. Basically, I've been tweaking away on a final customised XP install so I never have to fiddle with the d**n thing again and when I need it, it'll be ready. To this end, I've done a fair bit of tweaking and integrating, but there were a few things that I didn't spot cropping up anywhere, so here they are. I'll separate them into multiple posts to keep things coherent. Handy tidbit #2 - Automating ramdisk management of Gavotte's ramdisk (and friends) I want to make use of the RAM in my machines, even when running XP for whatever reason. I found out about the "unmanaged memory" techniques et al., and after much (much) faffing around, I settled on Gavotte as it offered the behaviour and configuration I needed in the most minimal package. I have attached the package I have built to run during my setup. It installs a service that will run at startup and will check and configure the ramdisk with a swap and temp directory on it, and will set up the various junctions to point at it so you don't have to use a drive letter. It will cache the initial state of the built ramdisk in the registry so it will start up faster next time. Now, I've made it very configurable, but I've only fully tested it in my use case, namely, no drive letter, and temp and swap on it where possible. Did I mention, it looks how much RAM you have installed and only moves swap to the ramdisk where it makes sense to? (i.e. > 4GB). I've tested this exhaustively in vmware by adjusting memory amounts - it should handle any sizes (fingers crossed!). As I started to mention, it's pretty configurable. There's a reg file in there with the default values that you can add, and then easily change (i.e. if you don't want any temp management, change the NOTEMP reg value from 0x0 to 0x1...or indeed, anything other than 0x0). It also has some desktop.ini files hardcoded in there with icons you probably won't have. I should probably make those easier to change with out fiddling with the script, but I'm pretty sick of fiddling with this thing now, so I'll leave that as an exercise for the user. As part of this project, I needed devcon.exe and srvany.exe, neither of which are redistributable, so if I wanted to share, I had to find alternatives. Well, I found that Microsoft have made devcon a sample bit of code that, if I read the license correctly, I can redistribute, if I compile it myself and maintain all copyright notices. You can find the original source here. I've fixed it up to compile under my old copy of VS2008 on XP, and it works a treat. I'll package that up some other time if anyone asks. As for srvany, that was a bit harder, but I found an open source reimplementation of it here. This required a fair bit of fixing up to make drop-in compatible with the stock version, but it now is. Again, I'll package up that source when someone asks. The complied binaries for both are naturally in the 7z SFX executable attached. I don't really have the time to support any of these properly, but let me know and I'll do what I can. I just figured it was better to share something rather than nothing. Thanks to you all for the help you unknowingly have been giving me. EDIT: for anyone worried about opening strange EXEs (and well you should!), I've attached the raw 7z archive...though you could just open the exe in 7z if you liked RAMDISK - Gavotte - 1.0.4096.5 - 20081113 - x86.7z RAMDISK - Gavotte - 1.0.4096.5 - 20081113 - x86.exe

I agree exactly. I have 4GB RAM on WinXP 64-bit, pagefile disabled. I've reached the limit only on a few occasions: virtual machine 1GB RAM, Internet Browser with 10-12 tabs, other Internet Browser with some tabs Once, when I had 1GB of RAM, I set pagefile to 320MB. If we have 4GB of RAM and more, you can easily turn off the pagefile. It also depends on what we do on the computer - when we play only in a solitaire, pagefile it is not needed at 512 MB or less. It's best to install twice as much memory than we need e.g. we need 3-4GB so install 8GB

@feodor2 To be even more precise, the actual culprit is the command goDoCommand("cmd_copy") if used in multiprocess mode only for fetching selected content on a page without actively copying it via Ctrl+C or using an associated copy feature in the form of a menu item or button. Normal copying content with this command works correctly. BTW, I am only talking here about the native command goDoCommand("cmd_copy") without the help of specialised extensions or scripts. For the purpose of copying selected content automatically to the clipboard, there are a lot of extensions or user scripts. Needless to say, I don't know if it is possible to fix it natively in Mypal 68. However, I personally found different solutions to circumvent this issue or bug in my coding project without the help of specialised extensions or user scripts. Whether the ideas of my solutions can be used for a native fix in Mypal 68 or not, I can't assess. Nevertheless, if you are interested in, please let me know!

I know this is ten years old, and mjrt hasn't been around since 2016 ... but maybe someone is watching this. I have been looking at using Gavotte with my XP with 16 GB of physical RAM. This seems to do what I want: to use the inaccessible RAM for a swap file and TEMP. But I'm trying to understand exactly how it is set up: Do I just run : "install.cmd" and then Gavotte will create a RAM disk on every boot and set it as location for pagefile.sys and the TEMP folder? Do I need to do anything else? Do I need to run "Ramdisk Layout Builder.cmd"? I previously tried to install Gavotte from the original release, and got mysterious errors (Process Explorer would not load, for instance) and beeps so uninstalled. How do I uninstall this if it does the same? How do I uninstall if I can't get it working? Not seeing that makes me wary of just trying it out.

My account is registered there on archive.org using Google too, and I can login there without the "login using Google" button, but unfortunately, uploading is still disabled.

@feodor2 Again, same problem as quoted above but a bit more detailed. If you select a word on a page In New Moon or Serpent, the command goDoCommand("cmd_copy") in combination with the gClipboard.read() method fetches this selected word first and only then the last copied content from the clipboard during a second, following execution. In Mypal 68 (running in multiprocess mode), it is unfortunately the other way round. For me, it looks like an issue of execution priorities. So, my request. Can you restore the original execution order when this combination of commands is used in your browser such as it is in New Moon or Serpent? And just as a further information, the combination of the commands goDoCommand("cmd_copy") and goDoCommand("cmd_paste") works correctly in Mypal 68, though. Same applies to the gClipboard.read() method which solely executed also works correctly. @feodor2 After some tests, I can confirm that the issue I reported in my previous posts only happens in multiprocess mode. When running Mypal 68 in single-process mode, the command goDoCommand("cmd_copy") in combination with the gClipboard.read() method works correctly such as it is in New Moon or in Serpent. So, it is definitely a multiprocess mode issue. BTW, I really love to talk to myself.

I don't trust any those "new" on-the-bench-hacked Win10 drivers will bring more FPS to an old OS and/or 12-15 years old Vista/XP chipsets. Do you honestly believe Intel employees do real world testing on that e-waste? P.S. I even doubt they have something from over 3-4 years old at their testing lab.

Makes my OS brighter, like it's highlighted by cheap blue leds. Reverting isn't possible, it's uninstallable. Also, the framerates in games drop. It patches way too much files in the OS. And for what purpose, to install a driver?

What about the good ol' TESTSIGNING? bcdedit.exe /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING ON Reboot and install then after the installation bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING OFF reboot again.

As far as a more up-to-date version of uBO is concerned, I'm with you although uBlock Origin Legacy still works fine. And a more up-to-date script manager would also be great. YouTube works great with VORAPIS V3. And you don't have to open every piece of crap with the UXP browsers. That's what tablets and smartphones are for.

I can't really say whether the problem also occurs in Pale Moon (32-bit or 64-bit ), as I don't use this browser. It was also just a guess. In any case, the Speed Dial 0.9.6.18 and Tab Utilities 2.1.2 extensions in the latest New Moon 28 32-bit release definitely break the session restore function on my Windows XP system. The Session Manager extension only generates some errors in the Browser Console but is still working so far.

Although your question is of rhetorical nature, I just want to understand what happened. The reported extensions worked for many years properly. So what is the cause for their sudden breakage?

To me, these two statements contradict each other. Not at all. UXP browsers are evolving, but many old extensions are not. Conclusio ultima: These old extensions must be adapted or can otherwise no longer be used. Same applies to old, complete themes which are no longer compatible.

Personally, I do not use any complete themes in UXP browsers but they have always been responsible for problems. Without regular theme updates, they don't really make sense. And these no longer exist. When using the most recent releases of UXP browsers without these problematic extensions I reported in my previous posts, the internal, native session restore function is actually working properly. So you don't have to stick with old UXP browser versions.

Not tested by me: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/454587-youtube-always-loop-playlists

When using the TURBOLAUNCHER script, you are automatically using the "long", full version of the VORAPIS V3 userscript. The TURBOLAUNCHER script is a launcher which processes and launches the actual VORAPIS V3 userscript. The advantage is for example the processing which is first done before finally loading the complete script for execution in the browser. That's why @UCyborg could execute the replaceALL command before then using this modified version of the userscript locally. So in the end, you are always using the script Vorapis.user.js, only in different variants depending on the code inside the launcher script. Another advantage is that you are always using the most recent version of the VORAPIS V3 userscript without the need to manually modify it. As long as the browser or the userscript have not been fixed, the modified TURBOLAUNCHER 2.1.0.0 userscript is currently the best option for using the VORAPIS V3 frontend in UXP browsers in terms of the already reported issues.

There's no script on the image, and the image is doctored, edited. What does it prove?

And of course, by the old tradition, you won't show it to us.

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 doesn't have to, it's a standard for decades in Chrome, and huge text and tiles are seen in "light mode".

My screenshots are from the same browser, ans yes, Edge has proper colours, Thorium is off because it's based on Supermium, and Supermium is always brighter, it has grey instead of black, but it's not a browser issue, in this case.

Yes it is, or you want to say you don't notice the absolutely flat upvote button? Or the bigger tiles and fonts?

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

I have no problems accessing Amazon Music from Centbrowser (it has a flag block CH). https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/831

@NotHereToPlayGames Eventually, everything's comes to an end, what are the chances Cloudflare will just die off someday? As with the Telegram case where they finally caught its KGB agent (creator) in my country.

If by that you mean my friends, I wouldn't be sure about that. Our favourite AstroSkipper runs XP, Saxon runs Vista (but it's 32bit!). No Kernel for 32bit Vista exists, and so on. Karla moved to Win8 (if I'm not mistaken), Dixel has a build version mismatch (with the ex-Kernel). But yeah, neither of us run Win7.

CH sends whatever it can find (see the later post), even more now, but yeah, right, the sent info is the same as it can obtain on a Win7 machine. That raises even more questions.

I never ran Vista with Ex-kernel as my daily driver and or gaming/browsing machine. I sometimes partially use it for newer version of browsers to act as a stub (only locally!). I can't run Vista with the ex-kernel, I don't install the required updates it wants me to.

Not only! See about the mismatches in 7. https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/797#issuecomment-2303311131

RL comes first. When I have a bit more time, I will update my post, of course. 7-Zip ZS sounds interesting but if not compatible with Windows XP, it is of no use for me on my main desktop computer. Don't forget I am a Windows XP die-hard fan! But I will check it on our Windows 7/10 laptop. In any case, thanks for the information!

I checked the homepage of Spybot - Search & Destroy again, and the last release compatible with Windows XP does indeed appear to be version 2.4. Here is a quote on this from the link posted above to the page with the heading Spybot 2.5 Compatibility:

Hello @Cixert! Thank you for testing! That means the last XP-compatible version 1.6.2 of Spybot - Search & Destroy is now obsolete, and the database can no longer be updated in any way. Right?