UCyborg

Don't get me wrong, I think knowing is great, I just think sometimes not being aware of certain things would be easier on the mind. I heard rumors before about some people's computers taking MINUTES (!!!) to boot. I have a slow laptop; 1,35 GHz dual-core APU (a CPU with onboard GPU), 2 GB of RAM, with some 256 MB taken away as video RAM and additional 40 MB disabled because it went bad and a 5400 RPM HDD and that doesn't take that long to cold boot 32-bit Win10. Haven't actually used Windows on that laptop and that laptop in general in a while, I'll turn it on occasionally and plug it in to try to prevent battery from going completely bad. Don't remember the exact cold boot time of Win10, must have been somewhere between 45 seconds and a minute I think. I dealed with one particularly odd Win10 machine (or maybe it was server variant) at work once and it took a over 1,5h (!!!) to install .NET Framework 4.8. My laptop didn't take more than 15 min I think (going from my memory). There could be something more going on in these cases than mere "running with defaults". That OS is too weird even for me. And even pretending the OS being in that shape is the norm, developing solutions for the shortcomings is quite a feat. Did you see how much code ExplorerPatcher has?? Quite a turn from Steve Ballmer's attitude towards Linux, huh. I agree with what this guy is saying: https://itsfoss.com/windows-linux-kernel-wsl-2/ I don't like the idea of having to switch OS multiple times a day, but having a possibility to use some other OS than what came with PC is good. Lack of that option is worrisome. Mainstream browsers are changing too much in general, you never know what you'll get. If there were just layout engine additions / fixes, fine. Besides that, I noticed in practice even Firefox has problems migrating profile data between versions, eg. it can happen you can't login to a certain website after upgrade because it corrupted data under storage folder in your profile folder. Too much complexity that even developers can't cope anymore, forget the poor clueless end users! The ageing creeps me out. I'm very aware of it, still young, but would turn back time by 10 years any day. I get easily tired as it is, not sure how I'll cope if I somehow make it to the (distant?) future, especially if working hours don't get shorter. You're way beyond even some younger folks in your capabilities and understanding of technicalities involved. My father never bothered to learn computers, I think it's the combination of inflexible character to some degree / lack of interest and he was a workaholic whose work didn't include computers.

They're the lucky ones IMO. Not burdened by the knowledge of tinkering possibilities. I do; constant screen lag / stutter on my dual-screen setup.

Too much monotony can do that. I got the letter from the financial board few days ago that I owe the neighboring municipality 40€ for "speeding" fine, which I already paid in time in January, so then half-price applied. I wrote an email to the municipality, attaching payment confirmation document and they apologized, saying the list of transactions for the day when the transaction was made was missing. Holy moly, with all the computers in place, LOL! Late edit: About the "speeding"; to clarify, I'm not some maniac overconfident in his driving abilities, I was merely entering...is it the settlement?...can't find the right word...a town or village doesn't seem fitting neither...and there was apparently a hidden radar at the beginning where my speed was apparently 58 km/h. The limit is 50 km/h. I tend to slow down gradually and use engine alone as a brake when deemed safe to do so. Also, the road was bloody empty! Guess if I'd let go of the gas pedal about 2 seconds earlier, I'd made it there within the limit.

I hinted that it might as well be disabled because if it isn't just a no-op var (can't be bothered to dig through the code), querying for "Flash embeds" (which is the default if the code is still there) on YouTube is pointless and a waste of CPU cycles.

Nothing new, the place I work at changed system requirements of the software produced there from specific versions of the browsers to "latest version of Chrome or Firefox" months ago. The era of explicitly supporting older platforms is long gone, no value is seen in supporting the old platform if the application in question can be run on the newest. Perhaps development was also slower in the past so supporting older platforms due to less differences from newer ones was easier. You'll be dead by then and WWW in its current form might as well not exist, if it even still exists by then, so hardly a reason to worry about!

Anyone installed IrfanView 4.60 recently on Vista? Installer fails to create desktop / start menu shortcuts here, only empty folder is made in start menu.

Note that the solution above...depends on your POV and what sites you visit, but you may end up with TONS of certificates you'll NEVER need. Microsoft's default way is on demand, if a root certificate of the site doesn't exists in your store, a check is performed if MS trusts it and if it does, the certificate is fetched and put in the store.

Judging by the prefix, it's probably an outdated variable that was probably relevant when YouTube was still using Flash Player...yup, that was it...https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Youtube_Embedded_Rewrite. If there's still active code behind it, it's useless in 2022.

Anyone happens to know an easy fix for Google Drive, if it exists? The file view is broken, unscrollable.

Check again in 7 years.

Interesting, is it possible that keeping the time service running prevents the clock reset every hour when running normally (no standby / hibernation)?

Windows 10 always writes full path to the sound file.

Chrome on Win7 keeps Windows theme aesthetics in the title bar. It's still drawing tabs in the title bar (this applies to all OS), so no actual caption. On Win10 it custom draws Win10 style caption bar over Win10 default caption bar, which is even funnier. Even MCP guys did this to their Pale Moon and said this was the only way for it to look right, which I never understood. Of course, then it sticks out like sore thumb if you use Aero Lite (the only official MS theme besides default one) or any unofficial theme. Last time I checked, there was still a command line parameter to disable this behavior on Chrome and Pale Moon also has a setting, though I think it changes something else and that is just side effect, forgot exactly and it's late. Vivaldi has the checkbox to enable normal title bar, of course all GUI inside the window is still custom.

Yours still didn't have real title bar last time I checked, always custom drawn XP Luna images over the real title bar regardless of system theme, always white caption font (probably hardcoded type as well). I have green font color set for active window and red for inactive window. I like how PotPlayer (media player) does it, you can have it custom or follow Windows theme aesthetics. Still, you can try --no-sandbox command line parameter. Who knows if sandbox is even effective on XP / on these browsers. But it's the only thing in my experience that actually helps.

Yay, more incompatibilities (Stack Exchange sites, Tumblr...). I tried transpiling that MSFN service worker, it still didn't work. I've held on for a very long time, but even from my POV, this ship has sunk unless the developers behind these browsers step it up. Until then, as Agent Smith would say: Late edit: Seems inline (in HTML) incompatible JS might be only on some Stack Exchange's sites, at least on Stack Overflow for now.

Yeah, misunderstood documentation. I've put those two to 128 now.

Oops, byte limit starts counting from where the match is found. Why did I bother counting preceding bytes?

Nothing new, MSFN's service worker...did it ever work? I know it didn't even before the forum update. The difference is that Serpent 52 has dom.serviceWorkers.enabled disabled so you won't encounter it while Serpent 55 has it enabled.

Well, it's how I do it regardless of whether I'm on Windows 10 or XP. I'm rather spoiled so probably wouldn't use it if it wasn't relatively easy to manage.

If you ever messed with event sound settings on XP x64 (Control Panel->Sound and Audio Devices->Sounds), chances are the new sounds you've set are not playing for certain 32-bit applications. It seems settings are not written in registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps in a consistent way compared to default settings. Certain sub keys of the keys representing events, eg. AppGPFault, Minimize may not have the default value of type REG_EXPAND_SZ and the full path to the WAV file if residing in C:\Windows\Media. For example, you set Minimize event to play the provided Windows XP Minimize.wav. By default, this event doesn't play any sound. The .Current key may be updated with default value of event sound file name and type REG_SZ and similarly another key may be created representing that the setting applies for particular sound scheme. But for consistency with the way default settings are done, it should read %SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP Minimize.wav and the type should be REG_EXPAND_SZ, both easily altered with Registry Commander. Equivalent value in .theme file should therefore read %WinDir%media\Windows XP Minimize.wav. TBH, I've no idea how many applications even have a problem with not having full paths in the first place, I really only noticed the problem with 32-bit Mozilla based web browsers like Firefox 52.9, Serpent 52, Mypal 68. 64-bit versions, where available, are OK. Edit: Actually, Mypal 68 still doesn't play certain event sounds, eg. minimizing and maximizing.

PotPlayer may no longer be updated to support XP (their download page still says it's also for XP!), but Extension\Media\PlayParse\MediaPlayParse - YouTube.as file is usable with the older XP compatible version and may be extracted from the installer using 7-Zip. The old parser of early 2021 is unable to stomach YouTube of 2022 as expected.

CUP protocol...oh well, no auto-updates from local repo then...not auto-updating from Google / MS unconditionally is already much better than how it is by default. https://keydiscussions.com/2021/06/25/when-chrome-extension-developers-sell-out-users-get-pwned-so-why-not-disable-auto-updates/

I currently use 14 filters in total.

Yes, that would be better for consistency since expecting minified JS and escaped = is taken as literal without the added documented behavior. Now I've put that MIME-List into use and added the following rule: In = TRUE Out = FALSE Key = "Content-Type: Fix MIME types" Match = "(*|(^?))$URL([^/]+*.([a-z0-9]+{2,5}&&$LST(MIME-List))((^?)|\?))" Replace = "\0"

Ooops, that wasn't the case...it just uses update.googleapis.com instead of clients2.google.com. All documentation points to the latter... The way query is sent to that URL is different and response is in JSON rather than XML, which I haven't quite figured out yet. I prevented it from connecting to Google, but haven't got it to use local extension respository. Is it a secret? I certainly can't find anything about it.