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j7n

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  1. The list in that dialog box is empty for me. I have seen something there in the past, but not now. When I looked through the entries using SQLite Manager, I saw my username in a few of them. In Opera 12, I don't see anything from Wikipedia in persistent storage. Other wikis have 500-700 kB. Perhaps it considers the browser too old to use. Its global quota looks to be 10 MB for all sites together.
  2. Thanks, I don't know SQL wizardry. Last time I touched it was almost ten years ago. Looks like the biggest consumers are various Wiki sites: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Fandom, Wikinews. Each language domain has an entry between 1 and 3 megs. Wikipedia has become noticeably slower over the years with the same basic Monobook style and visual editing turned off. On talk pages they discuss how pages for some popular subjects need to be shortened, and on an old PC it is clear why.
  3. Maybe you have a problem with the PC hardware. I have GTX 750 Ti with the latest iCafe drivers and it works. I wonder if it would be stable under NT 6 on the same harware. Some games do not work under XP because they run out of 32-bit memory. Then the system spectacularly crashes. Direct3D9 seems to take double the memory, in video RAM and in system RAM (in the Paged Pool address space, which can be listed by PoolMon). If I alt-tab out of a game, it copies some of the video memory into system memory. Video memory use fall to near zero. OpenGL doesn't do this. Maybe it helps when alt-tabbing back in. On XP SP1, the paged pool was around 100 MB. On XP SP3 and the latest Server it is about 300 MB, and the problem may not be experienced. But possibly can because these new cards have a lot of memory on board. I can compare memory use using Euro Truck Simulator 1.35, which is a very demanding game, and supports both Direct3D and OpenGL. It will crash in Direct3D after driving through new maps for 15-20 minutes. A crash also occurs with GTA SAMP using the default cache memory setting, which is optimized for modern PCs. The Sims 2 FreeTime actually causes a BSOD when launched repeatedly. I couldn't understand the reason. It does not use much memory. Perhaps the driver has overlooked something when reloading a cache, and they've stopped testing it in depth for an obsolete Windows version. With this game there was some blame passed between developers of Maxis and nVidia, but supposedly it was resolved, but not for me.
  4. It is obviously a result of one or a few sites storing oversized "cookies", possibly to sneak some advertising in. SQLite Manager lists 19801 entries inside the table webappstore2. After an exercise of reading backwards, on the first page I recognize entries for hdtracks (possibly a culprit), softonic, pristineorganics, reddit, msfn, wikipedia, google, deezer (suspect), imgur (suspect), rateyourmusic, gtaforums, facebook. Looks like it may hold useful settings and logins that I need to keep, or I would need to log in to every place again, and likely don't remember the passwords. Any way to sort this table "by size" to narrow down the bloat?
  5. My "webappsstore.sqlite" in New Moon is 150 MB. When I view it with a text editor, I see it full of JavaScript and keywords apparently related to advertising from Shopify and similar domains. This is a ridiculous amount of data. Can I see in the browser to whom this data belongs to, and clear it without deleting this file in its entirety?
  6. I don't like this. On Reddit you have to constantly try to please the other participants and only say things that are generally agreed to be true within that community, and speak in the right tone. And I don't mean to speak politely, but, for example, use meme vocabulary or use cute/feminine expressions. It's hard to guess what is right at the moment. If you say something that challenges the status quo, you get punished by an army of "moderators". On Reddit I'm stuck at 7 points of post reputation, and can't ask any support questions. I can't return to a thread for followup without squinting to avoid seeing the votes I've received.
  7. The crash on YouTube before commenting keeps coming back. I might be able to get to the comments box if I take my time, and allow the loading to calm down beforehand. It happens in both New Moon 28 latest version, and Serpent 52.
  8. Ok, seems like clearing the cache may have helped.
  9. Google changed something. When I go to a YouTube page and scroll to the comments section, New Moon now crashes. It was working yesterday and earlier.
  10. Who would bother to sell any item for $5, post an advertisement, and package it? If it is worth $5, it will never go on sale and unfortunately be in trash.
  11. I've had this issue with persistent CPU usage after closing heavy sites. But it's quick to work around by closing the browser and opening it fresh. Quicker than installing any patch.
  12. If you want icons, then those need to be replaced in shell32.dll and a few other dlls (netshell, mydocs,...). I made a replacement for WinXP SP1 a long time ago, but never made anything like this for recent SP or Server because it was too much work, and Resource Hacker sometimes causes corruption if saved multiple times. I heard of a scripted wizard for this created by someone with an account on Deviant Art. I think it was called "Inexperience". But I have never used it myself. It may support multiple versions of Windows.
  13. Recently, about a month ago, YouTube incrased the CPU usage on their pages. It is no longer possible to watch without stutterring on a Conroe CPU. To watch the videos, I only need YouTube-DL from this forum and Media Player Classic. I do not need FFmpeg. Direct watching with new MPC-HC is unrealiable. Seeking is slow. And my computer has a strange problem where the network is lost if certain video applications are active. It almost always happens when trying MPC-HC. Most videos are small enough that they can be downloaded to disk in reasonable time and then watched comfortably, with fast seeking over sponsorships.
  14. It doesn't come up on used market. If someone sells a "750" they have no idea which one it is, because the seller only sees the outside label, and it will likely be GM107 instead of GM206. A "960" a mighty big beast. But so far I see good encodes in h.264 for all content I'm interested in. These video cards can play multiple high bitrate streams simultaneously, seek very fast. No need for a new format that is only designed so someone can get patents.
  15. I have a 750 Ti too. There is a newer model of 750 that is GM206, and also 960 that work under XP for h.265. Even out of 3D a video player doesn't need a lot. If I choose "3D surfaces" in MPC-HC, I can rotate the picture, which I need once in a blue moon from a video shot on a smartphone. There are advanced color filters that can be run on the GPU, but if I intend to watch a film as the producer intended, I don't need those either.
  16. They added VP9 in Pascal, which doesn't function on XP because there are no drivers. But luckily nobody releases films in VP9 format. On the web, there usually is an alternative normal h.264 video, or the bitrate is so low that the video can be played on the CPU. H.265 exists on the film "market," and is supported in second generation Maxwell. If your goal is only to transport the video stream to the GPU, something like CUVID/NVDEC is more straightforward. But that needs a working display driver. The "X" in DirectX stands for a complete package of stuff that games need.
  17. If you just want to read a Discourse forum, you can focus the page and scroll it with the arrow keys.
  18. How can there be a difference in picture quality between the modes if the video card's engine does the decoding with the same chip? Less resources are consumed if you choose a rendering output that doesn't copy the data. But then you may not use smooth anti-aliased subtitles or take a screenshot. The outputs differ in V-sync behavior too, and whether the picture can be rotated. Acceleration may still work when MPC-HC has a red checkmark on the output page. There used to be standalone decoder filters released with MPC-HC 1.6. I think the video decoder also supports DXVA. Microsoft always comes up with new stuff to lock customers into an upgrade path.
  19. I installed from the INF. Then I tried to run the package. It is actually very small, and only extracts the same driver files to C drive. I suspect that the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service might be required by the driver, which I do not have installed. I was not successful in copying its settings from XP. The legit way of installing it is with the Desktop Experience, which brings a ton of unwanted stuff and defeats the purpose of having Server instead of Seven. What do you have under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\StiSvc ?
  20. FFmpeg (or the failed LAV fork) is mostly self-contained. It includes everything in the package to work on many other non-Windows OS. They have rewritten most codecs entirely. To this day, there are recent FFmpeg builds for WinXP on Doom9. An older build can still be used to decode h.265. The author of LAV Filters and the maintainer of MPC-HC (NevCairiel and Clsid2) have no interest in old computers, so they have chosen to compile the modules in a way to depend on some calls from new Windows for input and output, and have declared CUVID to be deprecated. But the core brains of the video decoder don't depend on Windows. That is why these players have been attractive since the days of ffdshow, because they don't need external codecs.
  21. I am not able to install the drivers for Canon 5600F on Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). I realize finding someone with experience in this matter is a long shot. I tried the last available driver 14.0.7a ( sd64-win-5600f-14_0_7a-ea24.exe ). It seems to have 64-bit DLLs and claims to support Windows 7 and 10. The process hangs indefinitely on "Installing device driver software" whenever the scanner is connected to a USB port. Maybe it is waiting on a component service. The driver is supposedly signed and Windows didn't complain about it. I did attempt to install 14.0.7 (without a) at first. Attempting to scan via TWAIN in this state gives an error that ScanGear was not able to communicate with the scanner. The scanner works on Server 2003 32-bit.
  22. Few people would be concerned with support for XP SP2 today when even Seven is already considered old. Other programs like new Process Explorer would still crash the system.
  23. F11 works in Serpent 52. Maybe the hotkey is being captured by another application. Although I have disabled most animations in New Moon 28. Full screen entry still does a gradual hiding of the bar at the top, which is laggy on heavy sites.
  24. No, I got rid of it a couple years ago. I had to make a clean install of Windows and most applications, which was very disruptive. For WinXP you don't need that manifest if it doesn't link to a MSVC runtime DLL. The admin rights stuff and OS compatibility matters to Vista+. But new applications being able to crash the system is worse than the CON and AUX bug on Win98. For Nvidia video adapters there is still the CUVID interface in MPC-HC which works on WinXP. Microsoft's always does its best tie APIs to recent versions of Windows.
  25. Usually the remapping will be done by the hard disk internally. The weak sectors will go into pending, then come out again. How unlikely that an error would crash the system this way instead of corrupting another piece of data. A read error would be indicated in the Event Viewer.
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