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For the time being, try third party Instagram browsing sites, maybe? No login needed. https://www.pixwox.com/profile/INSERT_PROFILE_NAME_HERE/ Not sure whom this site belongs to, but works fine,

Facebook as well as all these social media sites have become overbloated more and more day by day and year by year. I've just logged in an old FB account in Mypal 68, and the RAM eating started. Only my FB front page open, and Mypal 68 consumes 750 MB. I won't test this crappy service in Thorium as there is not enough RAM for such bad sites. I think such social media sites are more made for mobile devices the last years. On Android, there are corresponding apps for each of these services. Personally, I do not use these services. And I hate them all.

Please upload following files, so I can take a look: CONFIG.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT SYSTEM.INI HDACFG.INI

Joaquim is a patient one, for over four years trying to make his wholely incompatible laptop to work with Win9x. I've asked him plenty time to buy a cheap USB Sound Card to fix audio issues... We are Win9x experts, but we can't make laptops made later than approx ~2004 magically work with Win9x, that's why we prefer desktop PCs.

Intel Core2 Duo. The modern system built ... 15 years ago.

There are MANY protection errors possible in Windows 9x on modern hardware. It is far better to give exact message. SATA on modern laptop? Are you joking?

To install Windows ME on modern hardware, you'll need to do the following: Use the emergency disk/boot ability to run the ram patch Do the same with SATA drivers I recall these are the two main components you will need to run Windows ME physically on a modern laptop. However, I have yet to find any laptops newer than the 915PM chipset that hold full driver support.

On my local PC with StartAllback installed I have a full "Shut down" menu: Switch user Sign out Lock Restart Sleep When I connect to a remote PC on my LAN with StartAllback installed using RDP (remote desktop protocol) I have only a partial "Sign out" menu: Disconnect Lock Is there any way to recover the full "Shut down" menu on he remote PC? TIA

Thanks for your opinion! Then, I will update the download links as soon as possible.

I see it like this. If websites can't be loaded properly on my old computer under Windows XP, it's a sign that this website has disqualified itself for my system and now has the pleasure of making the acquaintance of my Android tablet. BTW, websites that take up hundreds of megabytes of RAM are simply rubbish in my world. Especially if they waste my precious RAM to show ads, offer meaningless things and collect user data.

I'm pretty sure it's not the same man, and the Russian simply took another famous man's name just forthe laughs and giggles. No one would ban the real Blaukovitch on github, not to mention the real Blaukovitch wouldn't post cra*cks on github or anywhere else, to begin with.

That's because websites simply load less scripts for phones. You're too low on RAM. I use a 16GB junk (low specs) PC with Pentium for the internet at home. It's the bare minimum,

Looks like you didn't pay attention to the post, the leak had happened with 64-bit Supermium. But then again, the function is glitchy on both - 32 and 64.

Contrary to my original statement, I have tried to open the Facebook website in Thorium. Even there I am rewarded with a 100% CPU load, and my free RAM memory is being eaten up. The only thing that allows the page to load is using a mobile user agent. Unfortunately, many elements are then not displayed correctly. So, it remains the same. The FB page is just rubbish.

The reason lies around the PrefetchVirtualMemory and VirtualAlloc, since 110-112 the memory management code in Chrome was rewritten. This was the reason they dropped everything below 10, starting V110. PrefetchVirtualMemory (newly introduced function) glitches out on XP. The porters tried to replace it VirtualAlloc. No luck, as we see,

You can't compare browsers running on Win10 to any previous OS. I'll explain why. RAM management is different on Win10, it's the cause for the bug. They weren't able to fix it. The Russian guy (forgot his name, Blunauvich, was it?) he also acknowledged this huge memory leak, he couldn't fix it, then wrote about it to win32, the leak is still not fixed,

"I can confirm this as well. Renderer process commits about 2.5 GB on Supermium 126 x64 when it finishes loading that page, well above any practical 32 bit limit. Google Chrome 126 is even worse at about 2.75 GB. But then I tried Google Chrome 49, and about 300 MB is committed and the page loads successfully." https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/841#issuecomment-2322122240

I share everyone's frustration towards the "modern" web, though in this case the problem lies within the browser, even simple text directories have a huge leak. https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/841

I had those right from the start with all ported forks of Chrome that came out after v.111. I found a good China made fork which doesn't have any of those problems, but it doesn't run on XP, otherwise I'd given it to you a long time ago. Unfortunately, I can't be of help since I'm on a very long vacation. And making a further research is not so convenient from an iPad. As a quick fix, try to use the below command. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186133-thorium/?do=findComment&comment=1270805

Inductive conclusion and generalisation of my empirically acquired data regarding sudden Thorium (Chrome) browser crashes: After all the measures, investigations and my proof, I described in detail in previous posts, I have come to the conclusion that spontaneous, recurring crashes of Chrome browsers, as, for example, Thorium, can be caused first and foremost by drivers or driver corpses, but also by services or programmes, running in the background responsible for interference, among other things like hardware defects and so on, of course. The so-called filter drivers deserve special mention at this point. Many of the Chrome browser crashes that have been numerously reported in different Internet forums, are probably due to this. But without a thorough investigation, such issues can't be clarified, and their real cause was therefore very often never discovered. So, my advice at this point. If such crashes happen, check first the Windows\System32\drivers folder for drivers or driver remnants that could be the causer (in most cases rather drivers from third-party providers), even if they are loaded correctly and do not produce any error messages! Problematic drivers can of course be loaded from other locations than the Windows\System32\drivers folder, too, especially when it comes to third-party drivers, all depending on the respective system, of course.

Glad to hear that all is now working for you!

If Thorium works properly in Safe Mode, then your issue is definitely related to a driver or a service as only absolutely necessary drivers and services are loaded in this mode. Switch off first all drivers and services one by one starting with the third-party ones, and check in each case whether the issue has been solved! At least, I would do so. TBH, the Microsoft ones only need to be checked for proper function via the Event Viewer. They are rarely responsible for problems. And I have many Microsoft services started in my Windows XP installations without any problems.

@Dave-H For solving browser or other software problems related to drivers and/or services, you can use third-party tools. For example, the DriverView v1.51 tool from NirSoft to easily identify all third-party drivers. However, this tool can only list all drivers but doesn't let you delete or modify any of them. But you get an informative and quick overview. Contrary to it, the Service Manager 4.6 tool from foxplanet.de let you manage and delete all drivers and services. The latter is simply a great piece of software. You can list services and/or drivers in different ways to get a better overview. Try it and you will see yourself! Unfortunately, I hadn't installed it in my secondary, problematic Windows XP partition but only in my primary one. It would have been very helpful if I had consulted it regarding my Thorium issue.

@Dave-H When my Thorium problem still existed, and this browser was crashing permanently, I was still able to open it with a link from a document by a single left-click. And all internal pages were accessible at any time. Furthermore, the Default Browser 1.8 tool successfully made Thorium my default browser. I suspect that something in your Windows XP installation is preventing all this. These culprits or perhaps still problematic registry entries seem to be causing this. Have you tried the Default Browser 1.8 tool at all? I hadn't seen any feedback from you.