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I had misremembered how the disk was connected. I am on the computer now. It is actually connected to a JMicron JMB363 SATA Controller, which was common on motherboards that had more than 4 ports and gives PATA bus for compatibility. The disk is a Skyhawk ST4000VX007. I think the driver doesn't know anything about GPT. It gives you a block device, which can be accessed via WinHex or whatever. The GUID partition table support is in the Server 2003 OS. https://imgur.com/a/uwGrMKd

PAE doesn't have direct impact on the disk size. It limits the amount of RAM. Of course PAE might limit in the sense that the driver may be incompatible and couldn't be used at all. But those drivers are good and used professionally. What about the manufacturer's driver for your disk controller? I have a 4 TB disk working with Intel IaStor 11.2. They added big disk support somewhere at version 9. It would be odd to see GUID Partition Table support in Windows 2003, but the native disk controller driver limiting the size, making GPT pointless.

Wasn't there an issue of earlier versions of XP/2003 not booting on partition starting at 1 MB? I seem to recall needing to do some dance, because my Server didn't receive that update that made the system compatible. But it has been a while. I think it's best not to use Extended partitions at all. 4 primary is enough for most needs. Recovering lost extended partitions can be tedious because the extended information is located on distant sectors. There are enough sectors at the start of the disk that a more sane partitioning method could have been devised. Primaries are also easier to clone to a new disk later. You can clone the first one or two, say, and then extend the last partition to the end of the disk. There is another way of aligning FAT32 volumes starting on sector 63 using an odd count of reserved sectors, to make the body of data on them aligned.

They keep inventing new codecs as if computing power was free. The network is getting faster and cheaper though. I can't even watch the VP codec. Sometimes I don't notice that it was pulled.

Well, I have already switched to R2 for several reasons on my main PC. It is possible that the patch has a pre-requisite. But it is fairly old. The kernel32 inside is from 2011. The total stuff that I have installed include these MSUs (renamed for organization purposes): WinNT61_Secure_Dll_Loading_KB2533623-x64.msu WinNT61_Server_R2_Update_Cleanup_KB2852386-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_Server_R2_WinHelp32_KB917607-x64.msu WinNT61_Seven_SP1_Update_Cleanup_KB2852386-x64.msu WinNT61_Seven_WinHelp32_KB917607-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_Enterprise_Hotfix_Rollup_KB2775511-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_Platform_Update_KB2670838-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_Platform_Update_STOP_050_KB2834140-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_TCP_Syn_Retransmissions_b22190_KB2786464-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_Update_for_Universal_C_Runtime-KB3118401-x64.msu WinNT61-2019_Servicing_Stack-KB4490628-x64.msu WinNT61-2019-09_Security-KB4474419-v3-x64.msu WinNT61-IPv6_readiness_b22124-KB2750841-x64.msu WinNT61-MME_Wave_Linear_Interpolation-KB2653312-x64.msu WinNT61-Security_March2017_WannaCry-KB4012212-x64.msu WinNT61-SP1-2015-Servicing_stack_update-KB3020369-x64.msu WinNT61-Srv_sys_b22608-KB2831013-v3-x64.msu WinNT61-TCP_Configurations-v3_b21645-KB2472264-x64.msu WinNT61-TCP_DoS_b22648-KB2957189-x64.msu WinNT61-TCP_Ipsec_nonpaged_leak_b22590-KB2918550-x64.msu WinNT61-TLS_WinHTTP_KB3140245-x64.msu

The BIOS limit doesn't come into play except for a boot disk. And you don't need a 2 TB boot disk even for the latest Windows that has expanded to fill its container. Yes on older computers with 8..32 GB limits it did. Under Windows the disk is accessed via a driver and programming the I/O that way. A 4 TB (decimal) disk works fine under Server 2003 x86 and the Intel driver. I think the built in driver might work, but I don't remember as I installed the Intel driver early. Why the aversion to Server which doens't have all this problems with memory and disk size? I think if you could coax an MBR disk to work past the 32-bit boundary, there could be data loss in some situations as the numbers wrapped around.

This DLL Directory thing is probably part of the secure DLL loading patch KB2533623. I have it for FileZilla Server. I have not installed a 230 MB patch and Yt-dlp works for me. I did install a handful of others. Not sure where this function was added. I can send this MSU to you if you can't find it. So what do we do after 31 Oct 2025 ?

Use it in AHCI mode then with the Rapid Storage driver? Why is there a motherboard limit for 128 GB? That limit is in the OS because it accesses the disk through a driver not through the BIOS. Windows 98 has the BigLBA patch from LLXX. You can instal Windows on the disk with a reasonable sized partition and no partitions crossing the boundary, then install the PDR driver, then add more partitions. There are Chinese SSDs that are 128 GB (decimal GBS) on AliExpress. I use XRayDisk and it is fine. I have a Western Digital Green SSD, which is practically unusable in IDE compatibility mode at 5 MB/s speed, but works in AHCI mode. I commented about it earlier. Some of these SSDs also cannot negotiate as SATA II mode and cap at 120 MB/s, but that is fine.

Why does a Win7 exist if yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP works fine now? I recall it was fixed to run on Windows 2008 R2 some time ago.

I got a 403 Forbidden today. Now it works again after an update. Google can put their web where the sun doesn't shine. The problem with opus audio having a WEBM extension is still there. My player doesn't pick it up until it is given and audio extension like MKA.

Have you tested them in AHCI mode on XP? AHCI mode has been around for long time and people were trying to use it even when it brought little to no benefit.

I only use static DNS entries for the most offensive servers because of low overhead. I accept advertisements coming from the same server as the useful content.

Maybe they somehow can't negotiate an Ultra DMA mode? There have been drives that get stuck in the lowest DMA mode and very, very slow. Using AHCI mode would fix this.

What are the chances of damaging a hard disk should it happen to lose power during an active writing process? I understand that at that point the heads are retracted in an emergency manner. Would the system be "smart" enough to cease writing before this happens? Perhaps I am thinking in a too analogue like fashion. But I am imagining how it still writes and corrupts data across the emergency trajectory. I happened to break a hard disk at a time which coincided with a loss of power, but I can't say for certain as it only showed a fault when some areas of it were accessed and I discovered it about a week later. It was one of those I mentioned on the leaderboard.

What do you use to block youtube ads in Supermium? Does it need updating often?

Advertisements often start with a sound right away. If the website doesn't know that playback has been disabled, it starts with an advertisement video, which then must be watched for 5 seconds, rather than the static advertisement which expires by itself. Unproduced, live videos may also start with a sound. The delay seems to be variable depending on how loaded the processor is. When the page is first opened, it has to churn through a lot of stuff.

With the autoplay disabling script, it's not sometimes possible to start playback when I want to. If I click on a direct link to a media file, I need to click on the black background and not the play button, which does nothing. Going to www.tampermonkey.net opens 20 chromes now with the extension active and 17 chromes with it disabled, and 12 operas. They will likely say that the extension is malicious because you're not supposed to tamper with webpages or software anymore. If you load an audio file in the brower, it displays this tiny playback window with black unused space all around it. Who invented this horrible slider widget with the circular grab handle that doesn't precisely point to any marks on it? It is not even suited for a touch screen like metro apps because of how small it is. Can I make the browser not close when I close the last tab?

Calibri was added since 2007 Office System. How does it indicate that one runs Office 365? The Half-Life references came because people saw I had a video open in a screenshot.

Removing MoveImages setting fixed the issue. I did set it some time ago. On computer B with 20 GB RAM and similar settings set by me the out of the box experience with Supermium is equally good under Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 R2 with MoveImages 0 or default. At default, everything is relocated to some random numbers. At 0, chrome.dll is at 12000000 (not relocated). However, on computer A, the setting 0 caused the problem because of an unknown other factor. I opened a great number of webpages and only used 5 GB of memory. https://imgur.com/a/mRljd3T The task managers seem to show different memories so there is not quite a parity.

Xul.dll is shown as relocated. Maybe there is a security setting that does it. There is only one copy of New Moon anyway. Those websites seemed to be a bit heavy, but that's how they are today. I have only one extension TamperMonkey. If I find that it starts a new process, I will remove it and have autoplay back because 170 MB for autoplay is silly. Shareable working set for Chrome.exe is about 12-14 MB. I will check later on other computer.

Your imagination is running wild. It is "Black Mesa," and has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Foobar2000 is playing the BBC. Realtime priority makes sure there are no interruptions. It works well. What do you think BBC is? Of course there are too many processes with 27 chromes. Without chrome, memory use was about 30%. Lots of experimentation to do. Using libase.exe didn't improve the situation. All child processes of chrome.dll are still put at 0x15360000 and the root process has it at 0x16840000. My value of "MoveImages" is 0. "MitigationOptions" doesn't seem to be a valid setting in Windows 2008 R2. I ran a full text search and found no references.

Opium is Opera built around the Chromium engine. Lol. They seem to be relocated. Opera is also relocated. Could this be a side-effect of 32-bit program running on 64-bit Windows? I can take a look tomorrow on my other computer with 32-bit Windows. But it has 20 GB of memory for the browser to expand like a gas. https://i.imgur.com/uoLDUQ5.png I have Supermium 126.0.6478.256 (Official Build) (32-bit) which was the latest when I got it a few weeks ago.

The extension works on YouTube. I see the static advertisement that I expected. I don't like the video playing by itself because it robs the CPU and often times I have already seen it. I only do simple adblock using DNS. Installing extensions and keeping them up to date is a bit daunting. They would need CPU and memory for themselves too. What is a rebase issue? In Opium 93 each process is about 35 MB. I've not edited or compressed the Supermium binaries. Is one expected to do that? Does installing the Tamper Monekey Autoplay script cause new processes to be created? I think this is too many processes. One per tab I can accept. Maybe this is a good reason for reddit fans of WinXP to finally upgrade to Server 2003 to have enough memory to run the browser.

Jesus, that is four tabs and one internal tab open, and it ate all my memory. https://i.imgur.com/FPrv0q8.png

Is there any appreciable benefit from AVX? People say AVX was created a long time ago now. But back then there was no gain from paying for an "i3" when a "Pentium" was exactly the same without AVX and hyperthreading that I always saw a bit of a gimmick.