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Isn't this short-lived bloatware that partially depended on online services? Everything Microsoft makes is pushed with big fanfare and soon discontinued. The setup wouldn't run on Server 2003 SP2, so I don't know if it works. I found bunch of Languages, and would be annoyed by their existence if this was something I wanted. http://j7n.sytes.net/temp/wlsetup-all_14.0.8117.0416.exe

To whom was this directed? I have not disabled the GPU compositioning on Windows 10. DWM is running. I even had to enable the shadow under the foreground window, otherwise it blended in with the background because of flat design. I had to have a transparent taskbar because otherwise it appears solid black with too much contrast. They could have beeen made to look good without a GPU, but Microsoft chose not to. My Windows 7 (2008 R2) doesn't have Aero. Even Microsoft though that was a good default choice. The drawing of Windows is a simple task except in applications like a Web browser. Even a Pentium II could draw a basic GUI well. Windows XP or Windows 2000 doesn't run most new applications today. Even simple ones that only appear in the console.

So I solved this problem on Windows 2008 R2 by simply pointing the registry entry to my chosen wallpaper and it works like on normal Windows. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop ! Wallpaper But it gets worse on Windows 2022 (Windows 10). The wallpaper is repeatedly transcoded into two files stored here: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper You'll find a storm of complaints on the web about it. If you give an image in BMP format, it will be converted into two JPEG files with chroma subsampling. I was not able to lock these files down with permissions. No matter what settings, Administrator can still delete them even if the owner is Network Service or whatever and there is no Write permission (opening for writing is not possible, but deletion is). I could not assign them to TrustedInstaller. The way to partially bypass this is to give an image in PNG format. It still gets transcoded using CPU but without loss of quality. This is not wise because PNG gives poor compression on photos and only uses CPU. It seems that the desktop is now implicitly "active desktop". The strangeness of modern Windows is so multifactorial and goes beyond the Start menu.

What is the normal memory use (Commit Charge) of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in task manager while it is played? 2011 games are probably quite big. I've never played it. You obviously have to size the memory for what you need, or limit the applications for what you have. If one never plays such games, he doesn't need as much. Now that you mention Direct3D. It is a bit of a memory hog. I noticed that it eats a lot of memory in the Paged Pool, which is not associated with the program directly. It is reflected in the total commit and in Poolmon application. When I minimize a Direct3D game, the video memory sometimes appears to be freed. I suspect that the Paged Pool is used to back some of it up. With 32-bit XP SP1, this memory area was very limited to around 160 MB, and some games would use it up and crash the system (it is in kernel space). With later versions of 32-bit OS it was expanded as much as it could be. Therefore it should be counted in the total for Call of Duty. OpenGL doesn't use memory in the paged pool. Euro Truck Simulator 2 versions 1.35-1.41 can't run on WinXP under Direct3D because of insufficient memory, but can run OpenGL. What I played with was Stalker Anomaly. It's a new 64-bit version that uses over 3 gigs of RAM. The game that uses a lot paged pool, surprisingly, was GTA: SA Multiplayer (samp). Another project created by modern games with new systems. Today in my experiments with Photopea, I reached 90% of RAM out of 8 GB use before Opera (Opium) gracefully reported out of memory. Nothing else was affected.

The words of many people who don't recommend disabling the swap file are so similar that they seem to be reciting the same source and each other. When swap is needed because memory is not enough, make a dedicated swap partition at the start of a disk where speeds are higher. I don't understand where the logic comes from that the swap file needs to be equal or bigger than memory. If I have 20 GB of RAM, I don't want at any point in time to write 20 gigs to the disk in a random fashion.

Today I found out that there is a Photoshop built to run inside the web browser! Here is what people say: “I remember the PCs had Photoshop CS2 or CS3 on them, which was an outdated version, [..] Literally the only thing I use Photoshop for is to fix up my scans. This includes removing dust (using the content aware fill function) and colour correction (as my scanner tends to whitewash things a bit).” “Use photopea, it's basically photoshop in the browser.” ”Tbh www.photopea.com loads almost instantly, doesn't require installing and is more feature rich than CS2 so I'd just use that.” So let's put it up to a test by loading a 56 megapixel vinyl scan with 4 layers representing each overlapping corner. It is 1 gig on disk. I worked on this on Windows 2003 yesterday with 1.5 gigs of RAM and some 5 or so gigs on the scratch disk. https://i.imgur.com/mvB72I5.png https://i.imgur.com/yzcdyyL.png It seems that my Opium 93 tops out at exactly 4 GB of RAM despite being 64-bit. There were briefly 2 processes using about 3 GB each. I tried to write on it with the brush tool and it crashed after a few strokes.

I think the CAT file includes all the stuff, so nothing can be taken out to de-bloat the driver without Windows throwing a fit. On Nvidia and such you can skip the supplemental applications and frameworks like Experience and PhysX and the ATI Control Center or whatever it is called now. In the past I would always take out all the languages. These days even an INF may be 2 MB because everything is translated into Unicode in there. I put this driver into my collection. Maybe it will come useful for something. BTW, does anyone know a small and simple GPU benchmark tool that is compatible with old systems. The new stuff is very flashy for gamers. Something like AIDA64 where you run it for a few seconds and it tells your memory bandwidth and processor speed. I'm curious where Intel HD Graphics sit compared to entry level GPUs.

I gave an example of TechSupportForum dot Com. There are also giant vector icons visible under every message. I can't dismiss the prompt because the button is handled by the stopped script. On a fast processor like Ivy Bridge the CPU finishes the work and the site can be browsed. But on a slow CPU it hangs. Turns out it's an offspring of Fora.com too, as is AvsForum, which I can't tell by the domain. https://fora.com/communities/ https://xenforo.com/community/threads/a-quick-peek-at-fora-com-s-modified-xenforo-community-software.224690/ Ross-Tech.com appears to be older, as is Paradox-Plaza.com (now flat design), or SteveHoffman.TV. Look how easy it is on the eyes in comparison.

The new XenForo software is spreading. Now it's not just motorcycle boards. It causes 100% CPU for me in New Moon until the script is stopped and the cookie prompt stays obstructing some of the view. My Windows 2008 partition is only 24 GB with great room to spare. https://www.techsupportforum.com/threads/solved-extremely-bloated-c-drive.610414/

That's not for me. It is for Skylake and Kaby Lake. What are the certificates in the Reg file with boxes as the filename? That looks a bit sus and should be clearly labelled.. Also 700 MB for a display driver. Lol.

I found how to make file associations unrestricted and normal. 1. On later builds probably remove the UCPD.sys driver and reboot (not needed for me) HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UCPD ! Start := 4 2. Remove OEMDefaultAssociations.dll Remove OEMDefaultAssociations.xml 3. Remove DENY permission for Administrator, and have all subkeys inherit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts 4. Delete all contents of this key to clear Open With choices. There is a list of protected extensions in shell32.dll but it seems to not be important. I'm surprised that the DLL wasn't essential. .3g2 .3gp .3gp2 .3gpp .aac .adt .adts .avi .bmp .dib .flac .gif .htm .html .jfif .jpe .jpeg .jpg .m2t .m2ts .m3u .m4a .m4v .mkv .mod .mov .MP2 .mp3 .mp4 .mp4v .mpa .MPE .mpeg .mpg .mpv2 .mts .pdf .png .tif .tiff .TS .TTS .txt .url .wav .website .wm .wma .wmv .WPL http https microsoft-edge microsoft-edge-holographic ms-xbl-3d8b930f https://i.imgur.com/fjH0orY.png

In the end, the component has to boil down to files and registry that are either taken from INFs during setup or DllRegisterServer. I'm surprised that the program error box depends on something external. My reasoning for removal was that I don't ever want errors reported to someone. On Windows 2022 a group policy setting was needed to display the dialog. Customizing the computer has taken me several days. It's never 3 to 5 hours. I encountered a crashing program only later.

I removed the Error Reporting service and some other things from Windows 2003. Now, when a program crashes with a protection fault, I get no message. It just closes. I have checkmarked "But notify me when critical errors occur". I tried to put ersvc.dll and registry entries back in, but the service has some other dependencies and won't start. I just want to see an error message. Maybe it is caused by another removal. Can I restore it?

There used to be some avatars here: https://i.imgur.com/77prUWg.png The flags were a new thing for modern sensibilities. Years ago people wouldn't have liked their location identified.

Country flags seem to be gone and some avatars in the forum index view.

I tried to insert these settings into every possible key: Parameters Parameters\Port0 Parameters\Port1 Parameters\Port2 Parameters\Port3 Parameters\Device And they would not stick. I rebooted the computer, looked with Crystal Disk Info, and the previous value was retained. (iastor 11.2.0.1006) I have disks on ports 0,1,2, and 1 and 2 support APM. For me hdparm for Windows [1] is the best choice. The MSI file had to be extracted manually. I set hdparm to run on bootup as a scheduled task from the SYSTEM user. This way the console window doesn't show. The program doesn't stay resident. I have a lappy disk from HGST, which apparently has 491 thousand of load/unload cycles, rated as 49% of its life! For Seagate drives there is a proper solution. New models: A win64 application called Power‎Control from SeaChest. [2,3] Old models: Editing the ‎Device Configuration Overlay with HDAT2, which makes a disabled APM setting stick. [4] 1. http://disablehddapm.blogspot.com/ 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/p1ebnf/seagate_exos_load_cyclingidling_info_solution/ 3. https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest 4. https://msfn.org/board/topic/168799-seagate-nas-hdd-vn-do-they-chirp/

I found that the setting from TweakUI on WinXP still works, and mitigates the issue in applications like WinRAR and similar. The horizontal scrollbar was particularly lazy. This should be in Performance -> Visual Effects. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "SmoothScroll"=dword:00000000

Don't fix what isn't broken. Try it on a spare PC. Or plug in a spare HDD and disconnect the good one. I wouldn't even risk dual/tripple booting it, which in the end is probably a good idea to ease the transition. It's always good to have another OS to fix problems without a boot CD. Treat a new Windows like a virus. What's going to happen in 2025? I can't delete the Microsoft Reserved Partition from inside Windows either, and must use BootIce or Gdisk to set up a disk before installing Windows. When Windows 8 came out, it was the worst crap ever, and now people look fondly upon it in comparison. Lol. How so? You can compare any business application that came out at the time with what we can get new today and it will be smaller and faster. Back with Win98 we had to install our choice of applications to handle graphics and media, and Windows only did the core. Now they bundle everything but the kitchen sink into Windows, and those programs are rarely optimal.

In what situations would hardware accleration make a significant difference? Most normal, even rather complex webpages are rendered once and stay like that as they are scrolled. You'd have to have some elements overlayed onto one another with transparency and moving, or being constantly refreshed as if they were moving, or a video. There probably are such. But what are any concrete examples where h/w acceleration makes the CPU usage noticeably go down?

Are there any motherboards that can accept 128 GB of RAM and work satisfactory under Win NT 5?

I can drag the mouse, but it is not enjoyable. One core of Conroe is pegged at full. Of course a faster CPU solves many problems as with other growing applications. The screen is also upsampled from 800*600 and jaggy with no obvious way of setting the picture to 100%. I'm not complaining that a DosBox is be slow. But just like with playing videos, there is additional overhead from the browser. I don't see what is gained in this case by putting it inside the web browser. Every time I go to the website, it downloads the 45 MB package. They could give it to me directly, set it up with a batch command to run DosBox with the intended settings and it would be faster, save network traffic and independent of the server being up. It has many preinstalled applications and games, fit within that size. Nice perspective of software bloat that has occurred since. DRM in Palemoon is about as useful as a fifth wheel. I would put up with sluggish websites if they are free. But paying to watch protected films inside the browser makes no sense.

I found a website that runs Windows 3.11 inside the web browser. It seems to be a DosBox in JavaScript and not a remote desktop. Jesus. On my computer it is unusable in New Moon. pieter.com

The backround on my screen is almost black 18,18,18 in Opera (Opium). I think reduction of contrast on webpages is the result of people using new monitors set up to compete with the daytime sun. They won't turn them down at night. So webpages or browsers do it for them. The button that says "member" is white (247,250,249). Such stray elements make everything around hard to see and the dark mode a non-starter for me. The "member won the day" frame is almost unreadable. I can appreciate the limited viewing angle of a flat screen for cases like this. I tilt my head and can read it again, lol. I've adjusted my monitor all the way down, for the other monitor the backlight can't be modulated so it must be kept bright.

I think the limit is 64 GB which is more than everyone will ever need, lol. Windows 2003 works flawlessly with it, especially considering how web browsers today are broken up into multiple processes. Each process can use about 1.7 GB. That is not enough for giant, bloated games. With the /3GB switch they can use more, but that can cause instability when the system portion (1GB) is too small. A problem arises with direct memory access to the PCI bus, which have to be in the low memory. I recall that WinXP had one or two built-in drivers that were not safe.

I have 8 GB of RAM in my main computer. I've reached the limit only on a few occasions when I did something stupid like simultaneously opening a big game (3.5G), and a web browser (1.5G) with a long uptime, plus everything else. One of the programs just says that it is out of memory like in days before swap files, and you can correct the situation (close the web browser) and continue as normal. On WinXP/2003 you get an exclamation mark in the systray when memory is almost full. My other computer has 20 GB of RAM and I couldn't even figure out how to fill it up to fully test it. I paid for it maybe 25 or 30, so I decided how cool would it be just give win2003 so much. In the end I launched many copies of IrfanView. If there is something that Microsoft has added, it maybe is present in Windows 10 or 11 only. Usually people bring up debug information for a BSOD to justify the existence of a paging file. But most people can't read that or have anybody to ask to read it for them. They say that the paging file wouldn't be used if enough RAM was available, but it cleary is used.