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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    Cloudflare now works most of the time after a long wait. Why does Youtube sometimes, but not always, seems to consume all CPU on a slow computer? Typing in the comments happens one letter every 5 seconds. I only go there to download and comment, so commenting is important to me. I can't use Opera(mium) or Supermium becasue I don't have Open With in those.
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    I forgot to say that I use YT-DLP. But it seems to also work with today's update.
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    I'm starting to get an error "WARNING: [youtube] xxx: nsig extraction failed: Some formats may be miss ing" It then fetches only the video and no sound, which is not obvious from the start. Sometimes it only finds a giant VP9 video that I can't play and no sound. It seems that in this fallback [hlsnative] mode (after nsig error), it wants to put the audio on the same MP4 file extension, which didn't happen before. It would give either m4a or webm. This is the command-line I use to get h.264 video that is possible to play with a GPU.
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    The last version works better! Now it shows the dialog about an unresponsive script and I can close the CloudFlare tab.
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    What gang? The one that presses the Like button for one another, and the gang that throws out old computers & aluminum cables? Not really. New Moon crashes on a CloudFlare captcha when memory usage reaches 1.7 GB and commit of 2.6 GB. I use 32-bit on purpose to keep the memory in check because it shouldn't be allowed to use more than this.
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    Yes, that is one way of solving the problem. https://imgur.com/a/OeXueXD Supermium and Opera (Opium) work, but I have to click the checkbox every time. I am on their blacklist.
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    Now on Cloudflare I get 100% cpu usage when I click on the captcha and must unalive New Moon in the task manager.
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    It no longer crashes after updating. Now I see the Feedback again. I am always afraid that something will fall after updating.
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    CloudFlare captcha now crashes in mozjs.dll in New Moon. It showed a send feedback last week. I just didn't visit those sites. I reset my fun user agent to default. Would updating New Moon make a difference?
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    PNG is exclusively a raster format. The compression for continuous tone data like photographs is worse. It would only make sense to use PNG if for some reason the limit was not enforced for it. Sometimes web servers apply more compression to JPEG and worsen its quality, which can be bypassed with PNG. You might be thinking of Macromedia Fireworks, which I think created PNG files with a private extension for its data. But it was only understood by this software.
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    But on Windows XP digital signatures are not mandatory unless you have a restrictive group policy enabled. You can install through the device manager, it will warn that the driver is not signed and you may continue. The certificates are in a CAT file, which can be examined to find the root certificate and its date. If the CAT file is removed, then the driver is considered unsigned and on XP you can install anyway.
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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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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 ?
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    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.
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    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.
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