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I am still using the official last XP-compatible version Sandboxie 5.22. I checked Sandboxie's compatibility in terms of Windows XP, too. Indeed, the developer David Xanatos compiled a special, last XP-compatible version Sandboxie 5.40 after it had become open source. This version does not need a licence anymore. Here is a download link: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/releases/download/v5.40/SandboxieInstall32_xp.exe However, I do have a licence, therefore, I am not really interested in.

Process Hacker 2 Process Hacker is a free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. The software installs its own driver into the system which significantly expands the search capabilities of the active processes and allows you to detect processes hidden by different viruses and applications. Process Hacker displays processes in a tree structure and divides them into categories that are highlighted in different colors for easier identification. The software offers many possibilities for various actions with processes including viewing detailed information about them and terminating process in different ways to bypass the rootkits and security apps. Process Hacker allows you to view and manage services that can not be displayed in the service console, identify software that has active connections to the network, and receive real-time information about disk access. Also, Process Hacker displays a graph and detailed statistics on the use of the system resources in real time, namely, memory usage, resource consumption of each processor core, reading and writing data. Although the version 2.38 was listed as the last XP-compatible one, the last stable version 2.39 is still compatible with Windows XP (and Vista). Features: Main features: Detection of hidden and malicious processes Termination of any process Display of full statistics processes Display of system performance graphs Viewing services, network connections and disk activity More features are described here: https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/archive/website_v2/features.php Homepage: https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ Version number: 2.39 (r124) Date of release: 29.03.2016 System requirements: Windows XP SP2)/Vista/7/8/10, 32-bit or 64-bit Release notes: Reviews: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2018/11/advanced-tools-process-hacker https://download.cnet.com/Process-Hacker/3000-2094_4-10971791.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/457252/review-process-hacker-is-task-manager-on-steroids.html Download links: Installer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/processhacker/files/processhacker2/processhacker-2.39-setup.exe/download https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer/releases/download/v2.39/processhacker-2.39-setup.exe Portable: https://sourceforge.net/projects/processhacker/files/processhacker2/processhacker-2.39-bin.zip/download https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer/releases/download/v2.39/processhacker-2.39-bin.zip Screenshots: I use Process Hacker since 2010. It's one of the first programmes I usually install in a new Windows system. I always start this programme automatically on Windows start-up. I use Process Hacker to control all loaded processes, services and drivers. One click and I know what is going on in the background of my system. Terminating crashed processes or process trees can be done in a quick and clear way. All services and drivers which are added or deleted will reported via a systray notification. This tool is like an additional security layer besides any antimalware real-time protection. Process Hacker, like Total Commander, is one of the most used programmes in all my Windows systems. I tried a lot of task managers and I know them all. IMHO, Process Hacker is the best of all. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Why nor 121? In 122 you can't disable client hints.

Forum rules have been updated to remove the following: - screenshot/image size limitations - account deletions due to inactivity Both of these were due to issues in the past that are generally not present any longer. Screenshot size due to olden days of dial-up users. Account deletions due to previous software versions table size and other database related limitations.

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Aye, Wikipedia just suggests large part might be Google's, but how much others, no idea where to get the data. Supposedly there are others from other big companies. So we live with speculations, but one thing is certain, regular mortal doesn't have much say regarding its development direction.

OK, that example on Win11 was probably extra freaky... MW3 seems to mostly hover around 1,6 GB to 1,85 GB, depending on the mission, assuming I'm looking at the right column (Slovenian translations in Task Manager for some things are weird). Mission Mind the Gap has the lowest footprint at about 1,35 GB. This game had to run on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Around 2009, consoles became an obvious priority for that franchise. Someone on Reddit wrote about that generation of consoles that frame rates being all over the place for some games was a common occurrence. One thing I know about D3D, you need to programmatically handle loss of window focus correctly and then restoration, at least in full screen. Window state is managed by the OS if I recall correctly, but graphical resources are on programmer. With OpenGL, you just have to get the window out of the way. Slowing down execution is probably good idea in any case. I wonder if you'd find differences if you compared both ATI/AMD and NVIDIA drivers. I remember years ago when they were talking about "Quake bug" in Cry of Fear (GoldSrc - Half-Life 1 engine). While I'm not sure that what I was experiencing was "Quake bug", there were crazy memory leaks on level transitions. Going from AMD to NVIDIA and then they were gone. Well, computers have become incredibly accessible, but tricks the older folks had to know are being forgotten. Sometimes I wonder if computers stayed slow, would it have any effect on people's behavior? I'm hinting at the all too often observed impatience and such.

Hun er dansker . She is danish I think.

Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS https://hitesti.com/compare/gpu/intel-hd-graphics-ivy-bridge-vs-nvidia-geforce-8400-gs

After you install the driver, can safely delete both nvcompiler s from windows. both nvptxjitcompiler (s) also.

Not advisable. PhysX is needed for old games.

"The GeForce G210 is better than Intel HD2000 integrated graphics, but neither are worth using for playing games" https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/intel-hd-graphics-2000-vs-nvidia-geforce-210.1753057/

The famous French Furmark by Jerome Guinot. But don't run for long. "FurMark is a powerful and popular benchmarking tool for testing the capabilities of your GPU." https://furmark.en.lo4d.com/windows

My scientific guess would be: the real reason is, google had removed the old OS UI elements completely, it happened after v.126.

Country Flags are back. Update members flags running in the background. It will take some time.

I already tried windows vista and no, im definitely not lucky at all in the silicon lottery otherwise i wouldnt have brought this up. Im no stranger to the problems on win vista for my cpu generation and i still remember all the side effects i had when i tried vista x64 but i didnt notice anything different with build 6498 for that matter. It was just odd that build 6509 had survived ALL the reboots i made and i have yet to experience any of the issues i had on win vista x64, it worked perfectly just like my vista x86 install which definitely doesnt have this problem at all. Seriously, try it and see for yourself, you'd prob see a difference between build 6509 and 6498 so make a usb stick of 6509 and try to swap boot.wim periodically after some amount of restarts with a regular vista boot.wim and/or build 6498 boot.wim and you'll see what im talking about.

It was like that some time ago, a couple of years back (or more). Then got back to normal. But the avatars were the same,

Correct! I was not logged in at the time. The eBay link is in the format that you are offered as a simple guest. It actually only contains one real tracking component starting with _trksid, the other two are purely item related starting with itmprp (followed by a checksum) and itmmeta and are not normally filtered by tracking filters. The current URL tracking filter list inside uBO does not even clean _trksid, although it is included but not activated.

My startup manager gives a notification for every newly created startup entry. Trust is good, but control is better.

Right! There are many cases where AV programmes don't warn the user about such strange threats.

Thanks for posting such a typical case! That's a very good example what I meant in terms of security programmes. Finding strange processes is the best everyone can do first. You can't seriously hand over all security tasks blindly to an anti-malware programme or whatever. You have to take a look at what's going on inside a computer yourself.

Yep! We all have our tactics. But Process Hacker is not a normal Task Manager. It provides additional security features I already described sufficiently. And here is your System Information window taken from my installation of the version 2.39: Hitting Ctrl-I and bam, there it is. One additional click on CPU or I/O, you see all further information. Of course, it is not three-in-one but the version 2.39 is much more recent. Always important in terms of fixing old bugs. But as I already said, to each their own!

Do you refer to the systray icon(s) or the main programme view when talking about a three-in-one view? In my main programme view, I see all of this information about processes, RAM, and CPU. And I have configured Process Hacker to see two separate icons in my systray, one for used RAM and one for the CPU history.

I presented Process Hacker with a lot of additional information here in my thread. Additionally, I have given my experience and assessment about this programme. Now, I would like to hear from Windows XP users about their experiences and opinions in terms of this programme. So if you should use Process Hacker under Windows XP, feel free to let us know what you think about it! Greetings, AstroSkipper