jaclaz

Maybe you have to switch HALs? https://msfn.org/board/topic/150563-whats-the-differences-between-windows-xps-hals/ If you want to test you can do it (without making any damage) using a specially configured boot.ini: http://www.vernalex.com/guides/sysprep/hal.shtml jaclaz

@we3fan JFYI: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=21165 In some cases (but not always) there is a setting in BIOS that allows to remap memory and recover some RAM as available, as well in some cases you can use part of that for a Gavotte Ramdisk (useful for - say - temporary data). jaclaz

Maybe "delighted" is a bit too much, more like "moderately pleased" jaclaz

https://xkcd.com/386/ jaclaz

Hey, you started it. If your incipit had not been senselessly aggressive (and gratuitous, besides incorrect), I wouldn't have replied. jaclaz

Yes, it is the same but this is XP alright, only in some "particular" setup, it is rare, but not impossible to get it (it depends on ACPI working/installed or not) it happened (only as an example) with this minimal-minimal build: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=3717&p=27253 There was an image of that same screenshot (that is now deleted by imageshack). jaclaz

Have a look at Speedcrunch: http://speedcrunch.org/index.html http://speedcrunch.org/userguide/index.html Though cannot say if it can do exactly what you want (but you can write formulas in it). jaclaz

Sure, but (besides the extreme slowness of Open/Libre Office, at least on windows, on low power machines), the MS Office '97 up to 2000/2002 (XP) is all in all "acceptable", see the graph (old news - 2009) here: https://www.oooninja.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-microsoft-office-moores.html See also how Word 97 compares with later versions: https://www.oooninja.com/2008/07/benchmarking-microsoft-word-95-2007.html jaclaz

It all depends of course on how one counts (seconds). 1-10 is a no brainer 11-20 (with my shoes off) can be done 45 = many = infinity jaclaz

Spread32, slightly smaller and faster than OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc (and of course also more limited): https://www.byedesign.co.uk/ jaclaz

... if you want to make a common (but severe) grammar error. its videos, NOT it's. https://everywordcounts.co.uk/it-s-or-its/ Besides, Youtube could be considered a collective name , considering that there is an implied team of developers or marketers, that would make it Youtube are hiding the dislike count from their videos On the other hand, the "its" or "their" appears redundant, if they were hiding dislike count from videos that were not their own ones, or not on their own platform/site, that would be a much bigger problem jaclaz

Yep, it reminds me when at school there was an (unofficial/unwritten) rule about minimal length of in class essays/compositions, besides writing in VERY LARGE CHARACTERS, the second most used trick was to add (parenthetic ) sentences about who the historical character was married with, how the place where he/she was born has become - or was at the time - famous for, how at the time of his/her stay in <location> also some other famous people happened to be there, etc. But the US newspaper writers are doing it at what I consider an unbearable level, even on (supposedly) prestigious sites/magazines, a good example on Esquire. one for all: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a38241136/keanu-reeves-interview-2021/ jaclaz

You mean like in the badly titled newspaper articles or clickbaity sites[1], I see . jaclaz [1] particularly US-based ones, where - besides the article title - the contents of the "long form" are often interspersed with unneeded anecdotal references, pointless trivia and useless descriptions, something like: An ex-DJ from Holland hacked Mozilla/Firefox code and wrote a tool to mock this pitiful "browser". I observed this handsome young man crossing the parking with his distinctly athletic pace after having carefully parked in a tiny slot a classic VW Beetle, delightfully painted in a rather uncommon shade of turquoise. He was here to meet me for the interview and just from his clothing (dark tie, informal shirt, paired with a sporty yet classic jacket) I could see his mid-European ancestry and his obviously marked attitude to communication, undoubtedly derived by the long years he was a re-known DJ and by the classical studies he undertook before. Yet, surprisingly, even without any formal education in computer science he managed to create something that thousands of qualified programmers failed at, as a simple hobbyist and in his spare time. What can only be described as an on the fly, real time, Mozilla Hardware ID preventer or blocker, a software device that promises to solve many of the privacy issues that anyone navigating the web with Mozilla Firefox is daily confronted with . The details on how the at the moment unnamed tool works are obviously reserved, but the existence of a transparent to the user mechanism that at the same time increases the privacy and reduces the amount of unneeded processes that the browser would otherwise spawn, hogging RAM and slowing down the computer, can only be called a miracle (some of the fans of this incredible tool are proposing to call it HUMP, short for Hollandaise Ultimate Miracle Piggyback, but many other ones simply call it TUT, The Ultimate Thing). When we shook hands my first impression was surely confirmed, unlike the weak, soft grip that is typical of so many professional programmers I met before, his was definitely firm, yet at the same time comfortable and conveying a sense of reliability, a sort of power under control that is difficult to describe in words. ....

AFAIK - and historically - the different perception in speed derives mainly by two factors: 1) comparing a brand new fresh install of the new OS against a (poorly maintained) old OS install (including any number of not fully removed/uninstalled services/drivers/runtimes and what not) on the SAME hardware 2) doing the above, but additionally testing the new OS on new (faster) hardware, so that the difference in performance of the hardware adds up On the other hand, and this is very common among MSFN members, when they "judge" an OS they judge it not "as from factory" but rather a particular version/install of it, adjusted/tweaked, etc. as I pointed out on the referenced thread. jaclaz

Out of curiosity, what is the relevance of the writer of the tool being an ex-DJ and/or that of being from Holland? And why the third person in the title? jaclaz

Here you are: https://frame.work/laptop-diy-edition Screen resolution 2256x1504, It has 4 expansion slots (with a USB-C connector I believe) and you can use 4 USB-A expansion cards: https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards jaclaz

No (meaning that is not in any way faster than Windows 7 on SAME hardware and with clean installs). We have a member here, NoelC that did objective tests: https://msfn.org/board/topic/170634-i-need-to-confess-regarding-windows-81/ The UI actually sucks, and sucks big, but of course that it is just a matter of personal tastes. jaclaz

Nitpick: organizations of a certain size .... jaclaz

Sure , the note was only about the "young", if you are young you cannot possibly have experienced the solidity and reliability of NT 4.00 and later Windows 2000 in the years 1995-2001. jaclaz

Would two years categorize as "immediately"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia But I was talking of good taste, someone can have good taste AND break the Law or have "bad" behaviour. jaclaz

And it shows , as of course the best OS ever made was Windows 2000, but you probably missed it as it was "reserved" to professional environments. jaclaz

I believe that when they took Windows 2000 and bastardized it for the masses[1] they thought that it was a good idea to have a (hidden and by default passwordless) built-in administrator account accessible in Safe Mode only, and - as a matter of fact - I think it saved countless reinstalls. So, while making little sense (there could have been tens of better ways to provide a similar mechanism) it does make some, in organizations, the Administrator account would be protected by a password (set by the IT people) but the account would remain hidden, and the user (coming from a Windows DOS/9x/Me) would have only "self" to choose at logon. jaclaz [1] Consider that in those times noone, and I mean noone outside an office or organization had network nor any need for authentication of users (which 99% of the time was only one) so that the DOS/Win9x/Me world was effectively "passwordless" and "all users are admins".

Hmmm. https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/hidden-administrator-account-win-xp/ jaclaz

For experiments, I would suggest easyOS (the evolution of Quirky *and/or* Puppy Linux), its frugal install approach is - IMHO - very convenient and since it uses grub4dos as a loader, it is very easy to setup in dual boot with *anything else*: https://easyos.org/ jaclaz

I don't know , one can be a spammer (or anyway professionally do bad things[1]) BUT have good taste, after all. jaclaz [1] I mean, think of art thieves or forgers, they are not "good" according to common society standards, yet they are on the same level (if not on a higher one) of many art professors and critics.