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There is one thing that I've found annoying on Firefox browsers lately. If I select some text and want to press Ctrl-C to copy it, and then I press Control while still dragging with the mouse, it transitions to selecting whole table cells and the initial selection is lost. It doesn't happen on most websites today where the layout is somehow not a table even though it looks like it (tables became not as cool as divs), but on others, like older forums, tables are still used. I couldn't figure out what was happening for a while, and thought it was something for "accessibility".

I understand it as it couldn't open a 3D application (game) at all, and could only do Windows GUI. Even older drivers were quite different on NT5 and NT6, and not interchangeble. The NT6 driver doesn't use paged pool so much and has the new display scaling page.

I use Total Commander all the time and even bought it. Works well, and good compatibility with old OS. The author still thinks about Windows 98 occasionally. But he also made the design flat to not be quite dismissed by the new crowd. A fine balance.

It shouldn't impact speed. The patch was for quickly opening many connections. I think Server probably doesn't need the patch. Maybe you need to tune the TCP parameters in the registry: send and receive window. Those are probably the same in the 64-bit version.

Wait until some years pass, and people will remember how great Windows 11 was in comparison to what will be current then. Look how people say Vista, Millennium or Metro weren't that bad. You have no choice but to be assimilated. The "fluent" Web UI of normal applications is a resource hog and definitely creates obsolescence. You also have to have a big screen to see enough content. It also makes the computer look like an "app" to which I am a guest. More of your snobbery, which is off-topic. Windows WDM uses cubic resampling, which is fast and good enough. The artifacts of full band resampling sound nothing like mp3. Where you would notice a difference is in old games that used low sampling rates and would appear muffled and brickwalled with the better resampling algorithms. A common rate is needed to mix the output of multiple applications. Video content comes in 48 kHz, and multichannel downmixing to stereo in XP only works when the system's rate matches. Simple non-professional sound cards internally run at 48 kHz. You can always pick a professional sound card like an E-MU model with excellent support under XP (sans PAE) and use the ASIO interface, which bypasses Windows. Windows NT 6 introduced the audiodg process and WASAPI that caused crackling on some systems. They have a special priority allocation to make it work smoothly. XP's sound is in kernel drivers and is uninterruptible. There was actually a KB2653312 patch to make the now legacy Wave API in Windows Seven use a better resampling rather than whatever poor choice was the default.

No such limit on Windows 2003 itself. May be limited by the controller driver. Windows 2003 officially supports GPT and works with at least 4 TB disks. You can browse an upartitioned disk past the 2 TB mark, for example, in WinHex.

Which experimental features would you recommend switching for maximum compatibility?

/USERVA addresses the split between application and kernel memory, which is normally 2 GB but can be increased to 3 GB, not the total available memory, which is limited by /MAXMEM. The /3GB switch is known to cause compatibility issues, and I never recommended using it. I would just accept that the biggest single program you can run is about 1.6 GB or so. Direct3D 9 on XP/2003 uses a lot of paged pool memory, which has to fit in the shrunken system area. It just keeps growing as more game objects come into view. Understanding the effects of the Windows USERVA and 3GB switches: https://documentation.bluecieloecm.com/BCWebHelp/en/teamwork/2012/sr/Content/Meridian AG/Understanding the effects7.htm

So what you're saying is that Supermium is older than it claims to be? But all in all, is still the most "modern" we got out of all options, right? I have the last working Opera (Opium), which shows warning banner on sites like Discourse, but Supermium doesn't show it.

I don't know any problems with Nvidia drivers. Maybe they only arise when using a hack on XP. Nor do I know any particular Intel device that has a problem, although they may well exist. Intel parts are found on legit server boards. I put the GPU through its paces while experimenting with CUVID as well as with games. Creative Labs sound cards don't work however.

R2 is almost the same as Windows 7 in practice. I use it. I greatly enjoy calling my computer a "Datacenter Server". With Windows 2003 you get PAE memory, which XP fans refuse to acknowledge. But if you're jumping to Windows 2008, then go 64-bit. Nothing to be gained by staying 32-bit. They made certain basic features part of the "Desktop Experience Pack" like the Character Map, which you can install manually. I do not install the DEP because it comes with visual bloat that I dislike coming from older versions of Windows. In server you have to manually enable audio service and hardware acceration. The new sound stack has some strange priority system, which is not the same as the normal process priority. Somehow XP was fine without it, but they moved sound out of the kernel or something. To get Wave sound working without crackling, you need to adjust the following seting [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\multimedia\SystemProfile] "NetworkThrottlingIndex"=dword:ffffffff "SystemResponsiveness"=dword:00000014 Windows 2022 is much better than Windows 10 because you don't get most of its "apps" bloat. In this version the "Desktop Experience" is the basic version with GUI and all multimedia and charmap included (but still without the most annoying metro apps). The non-Experience is command-line only.

The memory is fine. I have a 2 GB video adapter. Only some memory is mapped to the system, which you can see in the device manager. They later invented Resizable BAR to expose more memory directly.

The arrogance of Discourse knows no bounds. Just as we learned to live with its quirks and hidden vertical scrolling, they announced a few days ago that even "recent" Chrome browsers will not be allowed. I saw this on Mp3Tag. They want even more "modern" features. https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropping-ios-15-other-old-browsers-in-may-2025/358131

Downloading an Opus file in a Matroska container still gives it a .webm extension, which I need to rename to .mka to play in MPC-HC. It should be given any audio extension. (MPC-HC can pick up extra audio files, which is meant for dubbed movies.) The previously mentioned command-line asks for AAC, but sometimes it gives me Opus.

I am not watching any video. It is paused and the loading circle is spinning. I watch exclusively in MPC-HC. Usually I go to the site to comment after watching.