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What does it matter in the topic that has long gone off-topic? If anything, it puts your stupid Titans to shame if rendering simple stuff is about to fry them, LMAO.

I suspected Vista would be the last since it was the last OS before the big taskbar overhaul. My guess turned out to be correct.

It doesn't go above 23 degrees under that load. It doesn't even reach 50 degrees under full load. It's a GTX 750 Ti, one of the most energy efficient cards of its time + plus my model has a WindForce cooler with 2 fans. Mostly irrelevant, what is being rendered matters, not which API is used to render it. Besides, CS:GO is D3D9. Rendering Prototype menu shows 26% GPU usage at 135 MHz @ 60 FPS while COD:MW1 Remastered (D3D11) menu shows 32%. A bit higher, but it's unfair comparison to begin with. Something that supports both APIs would have to be trialed.

I pondered with hosts file back then since there wasn't/isn't any other obvious ways to block ads on Android. Ever since I don't have any ad ridden app anymore and my browser of choice comes with an ad blocker. Things are kept simple on my desktop, Windows Firewall off, Windows Defender off, uBlock Origin and NoScript with an old trusted list of many sites I used to visit in the past. Worked well for years, haven't been missing out on anything or had something bad happen online. I don't visit many sites anymore. Many years ago when we got internet connection for the first time, Windows XP was in use on shared computer and it was filled with crapware rather quickly. I guess there could be multiple factors - IE6, not being behind a NAT, clicking random crap online.

Took the test at the official testing point today, previous two were self-tests using one of those kits you buy at the pharmacy, and I'm POSITIVE! Someone at work must be spreading it...I wasn't anywhere else last week.

OK, the thermometer says that I'm burning...38.8 degrees Celsius. Back to resting until situation improves. I'll be back then.

It just seems to me generalizing running games at 120 FPS in menus and having GPU stressed that much is ludicrous. The 2nd example is more demanding simply due to game world being rendered in the background, menus without 3D world oughtta be much less taxing. And at least GPU usage percentage as show here is relative to the GPU clock speed, lowest clock speed here is 135 MHz, highest is 1100 MHz. So in the first example, 48% @135 Mhz would be below 10% @ 1100 MHz.

*HEV suit warning beeping* "Warning, vital signs are dropping!" *In GLaDOS' voice* "Hahaha, I'm kidding." Symptoms did seem like that it could be corona, but a HAG test I took yesterday and today doesn't confirm it. So who knows. It started with my throat being all messed up, then came muscle pain in legs accompanied with being cold in one moment and being hot the next, plus slight headache. Took some pills, ATM only the throat still feels a bit weird (inflammed?). When the pandemic started, I imagined if I contract it by any chance it'll either kill me or do nothing. I discarded the first theory when my dad contracted it in late 2020 (he was 84 then) when he had to be taken to the hospital for broken hip (he fell when getting out of bed). Came in negative, came out positive, no symptoms, we were wearing masks at home for 2 weeks and that was it. Already doing it. This position is very uncomfortable for me. I had to lie that way when I was in the hospital for broken left elbow. Horrible! Do walks count? I don't game much anymore. Must have been at least 8 months since I played something. I miss it, but it often feels like a chore due to having to spend extended periods of time behind the screen at my stupid job. And weekends are often utilized to catch up on sleep. My brother doesn't even have full weekends, has to work Saturdays. Ironically, at least according to my mother, I was a computer addict back in my school years. So spending reasonable amount of time behind a computer is considered an addiction, but spending 8 hours daily at the job with hardly any leave, that's life. What a load of crap! Both my parents (retired) complained few years back "What do we have now from working all those years? Nothing." Exactly, NOTHING! NICHTS! NIŠTA! NIETZSCHE! (referencing Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche here ). Yes, you don't have to tell me. Wow, tragic. At least it was quick. My grandma died in 1998 in her sleep from a heart attack. Thanks, getting better. I'll probably skip work on Monday, just in case.

There goes my streak of being a healthy horse. I think I got omicron. f****** bul*****, as if life wasn't miserable enough as it is.

120 FPS in menus is nothing unless the game in question actually does a bunch of things then that it shouldn't. Just refreshing the screen that many times won't load it that much. Can't say for example above, 'been years since I played it + there were numerous updates since, but I will say back then at least it was the only game I ever played that lagged when transitioning certain menus, even audio would get stuck then.

That's new to me. Now I wonder which was the last Windows version that supported it. I didn't find this mentioned in the help files. Even though holding Ctrl to select multiple things is regularly used, never thought about applying it to taskbar buttons.

CS:GO is capped at 120 FPS in menu by default (fps_max_menu - https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/List_of_CS:GO_Cvars).

I just answered my own question. C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT is temporarily mapped under HKEY_USERS\TempKey from which settings are read/written (same as selecting HKEY_USERS in Registry Editor then loading said file with Registry->Load Hive... and naming it TempKey or whatever. If you map this file in Registry Editor and open the dialog from that screenshot, it says it can't read anything under New user accounts. Didn't make that connection the first time, thought HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT maps to C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT file even though it maps to another file, so no wonder nothing added up. The content of C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT is normally not visible in Registry Editor, it's just a template with initial registry data for new users. I found it easiest to clear most of the clutter in Process Monitor by setting the filter to exclude everything that doesn't come from DllHost.exe process to see what is read/written.

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The title...I'm unable to figure it out on my own. With Process Monitor, I see modifications made in registry under HKEY_USERS or HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which either changes settings displayed in the dialog below under Current user or Welcome screen. It's interesting that that person had a problem that it said that it's unable to read settings under New user accounts. Fresh unaltered installations have all settings in that dialog set to whatever was chosen during installation, plus the text below checkboxes appear that says new user accounts' display language is inherited from welcome screen's display language. When you tell it to copy current user settings to new user accounts, the said display language is no longer inherited. But where are they stored?

Watching in real time seems to be fine with PotPlayer on my end. I wonder if we will get alternative service that alter youtube using scripts to show dislikes that are not hosted by youtube? The extension mentioned there uses https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/, which is the alternative service hosting these statistics. But it depends on users using the extension to submit their vote (the user script they have does not have the function to submit votes), as only historical data will remain otherwise. As per FAQ on https://returnyoutubedislike.com/faq:

I once put such a giant hosts file on a Samsung Galaxy Mini with 600 MHz ARMv6 CPU. It obliterated its performance to the point it was practically useless.

This presumably changes HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay. Old setting still relevant today. I used to have it at 100 (milliseconds), but even that proved to be a pain for certain deep menus. Some set it to 0. Will see if I can work with 200. Default is 400. Raymond Chen - Why is there a menu show delay, anyway?

This one made me chuckle: My old Ubuntu 15.10 installation with MATE desktop environment did something similar, I kept settings as it is as I want monitors to go off after a period of inactivity but it seemed there wasn't a way for program to tell "Yo, keep the screen on, user is watching video". This was in a web browser actually, I haven't watched anything long enough in a proper media player on Linux. This guy did have odd problems. Even in Ubuntu 15.10, NVIDIA drivers could be installed via GUI. You can find such rants for any OS, really. Old problem on the Windows side from these waters, the OS wakes the monitor on very slight mouse movement. Like even mere vibrations moving around the house cause it. Never had that problem on Linux, the movement has to be good enough that it's considered that the user returned to the computer. I like this comment: Ain't that the truth!

No idea, you can try re-enabling that pref and let serviceworker.txt be regenerated. If it remains OK, then that probably confirms the theory something wasn't cached right. I think there's a high probability something didn't actually work right in that Firefox version and was only fixed with newer version, otherwise you'd probably hear about the issue elsewhere. I guessed that it could be connected to service workers as I encountered the problem in Pale Moon (another browser descending from Firefox code base, where service workers are disabled by default) with a service worker originating from MSFN, it prevented navigating the page with back / forwards buttons.

There are real people behind those numbers and others are left with awful consenquences. I'm a lucky bastard in a sense that the virus didn't (knowingly) get to me (yet), but not everyone was so fortunate.

Do you have serviceworker.txt file in your browser's profile folder (open the folder from about:support page)? If so, maybe try changing dom.serviceWorkers.enabled to false on about:config page, closing the browser then renaming serviceworker.txt to something else and restarting the browser to see if it's connected to service workers.

I held on to 51 version as long as possible, for version 52 I read Removed support for Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins other than Flash. Silverlight, Java, Acrobat and the like are no longer supported. in the changelog and said "nope nope nope". And while I personally don't relate to this one since I've no idea how to manage without PulseAudio on Linux, but: On Linux, Firefox now requires PulseAudio to play sound and no longer plays sound directly with ALSA. Source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0/releasenotes/

Shortening quarantines here while people are getting infected left and right.

MS added their own way to playback media through Media Foundation (on Windows 10+ only) behind a flag edge://flags/#edge-mf-clear-playback-win10. Needs specific codecs installed for widest format support. VP9 was already installed out-of-the-box here, AV1 may be added, though it's more for experimenting and because why not rather than for practical use since AV1 is computationally very intensive to decode, 720p at 30 FPS is the max that is smooth here in a browser with that codec on my aging hardware. MS seems to have removed Chromium's codec for playing AV1, hence why YouTube may appear much smoother out-of-the-box with Edge compared to equivalent Chromium version. Observations with Media Foundation playback: Significantly more efficient than stock Chromium, 2560x1440 videos at 60 FPS encoded with VP9 are actually watchable here, compared to stock which seems to put out a frame or two before it chokes. Switching to another tab or minimizing the window seems to pause processing the image of the video, according to CPU usage, here come the connected glitches after it's paused that way: switching back shows the effect of catching up in fast-motion to the current frame, looping does not work if enabled, it'll start playing again only after switching back to its tab. Some lag was still detected with 1440p@60fps at some points, though it didn't register as frame drop on YouTube's stats. On Pale Moon, there's a lot of lag/dropped frames right after starting playback, then it stabilizes and it's fine. However, playback in Linux version is smooth right away.