vinifera

kernel is not OS noodle head

no graphical polishing will help this sinking ship

but isn't this clashing with itself ? i mean win10 when can't and/or doesn't use GPU "powered" DWM (D3D), uses CPU "powered" mode, which is GDI no ?

i'd go this way: if OS always returns same crap, why not fool the OS that you have it, but you actually don't. a simple example, on win XP, when SP2 came out, MS inserted a stupid service that appears every time user browsed through (i guess) large amount of files in folder which cripple the system to stall, service itself supposed to be some sort of protective thing ... but whatever, safest thing was to replace the calling service with an app which didn't do anyting, but unload the second it was called for https://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/22/dud-is-a-program-that-does-nothing/

all visual complaints can be easily restored the old show desktop button (among others) are just in hidden toolbar (search of quick launch toolbar on google) the up level button (which is pointless) you can have via classic shell, which among many things can tweak your explorer to look and work so much better than in both 7 and XP alot useless things can be removed and SPED UP via registry

isn't that natural progression ? since everything that "was", was improved upon, not copied and left duplicated... not to mention, since they started componentisation thing with reset of Longhorn, the issue with so many crap inside should have been put to minimum

wasnt this always the case ? not that i support it, but bloating software actually pushes hardware to become better/faster/bigger to some point, we would still be on single core CPU if they didn't push for less GHz and more cores we would still be on ~512 MB RAM if XP didn't become hungrier but is that excuse to CRIPPLE and OS, or make such app (chromium crap) that will paralyse your system ? NO

used it since it was in alpha stage, M3 build 6801 to be exact completely migrated to it when SP1 hit the net still on it, won't upgrade to any newer win-crapware

1. no 2. no 3. it works as good enough i need it to work (and is not as disgusting as win-ten)

i wont have

you were right in appdata\roaming\waterfox\profiles.ini [Profile0] Path=Profiles/c5prw4uk.default but dont make nothing... since i dont need nothing more than you already did and it works perfectly !

i use ECHO %myvar% i think firefox classic does this, coz PaleMoon makes same thing, and i use Waterfox based on FF classic (not proton) ALSO --- THANK YOU SO MUCH

i hate to be one of those guys but i just noticed this, if full path is "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Waterfox\Profiles\random.garbage.folder\cache" but variable returns "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\random.garbage.folder\cache" (so \appdata\local\waterfox\profiles) is missing :/ maybe i can ease the calculation of ...something., I just need the random.garbage.folder name, not the full path, nor anything after (dunno if that makes it easier for you)

it works nicely, but for some reason it echoes myvar=full path\*.* (its not big thingie, i'm just curious why, and can it be avoided)

mmm i use 1.80 portable tho but it ran on both XP and runs on win7

yes i'm avoiding powershell

so heres my problem; in this specific case, but would be nice even for any future problem in any way... waterfox profile folder is this: "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Waterfox\Profiles" but on every new pc the default user profile folder is garbled mesh and always different generated in my current install it is named c5prw4uk.default (so full path is "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Waterfox\Profiles\c5prw4uk.default") my question is, how to make within BAT/CMD script, so when you do DIR /A:D (to show only directories) that name of that folder which is displayed gets set in %variable so i can do cleaning of c5prw4uk.default\cache\*.* anyone understood ?

tried to search portable version ?

forgot to say >>> THANK YOU <<<

err no SP 2 contains everything SP 1 did

i never used it and will never use it but to say that "OS is fine, only shell isnt", for OS that in core is HUGE spyware (even if this started with XP ? but now is nightmare) and that it bypasses firewall, and bypasses HOSTS, and violates your basic human rights- yes rights- there was article where MS emloyee was QUOTED where he says that "they" can see what files you have on your disk .... for OS which updates are NOT tested, for OS that treats users as beta testers i wouldn't be so light with "OS is fine"

/f /b /r but, it seems it did help HD sentinel now only sees 1 bad sector and 1 weak sector before it was 5 in total if im not mistaken so does using microsoft scan disk even makes difference or should user avoid it ?

yes, it still sees them CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)... 77312 file records processed. File verification completed. 44 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 2 EA records processed. 60 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)... 99538 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)... 77312 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 37 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 37 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 37 unused security descriptors. Security descriptor verification completed. 11114 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 1246896 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. Removing 1 clusters from the Bad Clusters File. CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)... 77296 files processed. File data verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)... 19812042 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete. Adding 1 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File. Windows has made corrections to the file system. 140511231 KB total disk space. 61077768 KB in 57047 files. 36268 KB in 11115 indexes. 4 KB in bad sectors. 149023 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 79248168 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 35127807 total allocation units on disk. 19812042 allocation units available on disk.

so too offered to repair bad sectors, i said OK then result: SMART Status: PASS Test Result: PASS

heres a "mush" or things HDD: WDC WD32 00AAKX-00ERMA0