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You probably have something in your Firefox 45 profile that blocks the offending script. Regardless of the browser engine, it's not uncommon for browsers these days to come with some sort of tracking protection enabled by default, which tends to block the offending script.

Sorry, was wrong about that. Some more searching suggests both GPUs can work at once and depending on application, the application may get either Intel or NVIDIA's rendering context. But DWM tends to be pinned to Intel by default with no way or at least no easy way to change it, but it might also depend on how Optimus is implemented on particular laptop. That's how it should work by default and what apparently causes glitches for some reason.

You have to donate at https://glass8.eu/donate to get the login information for that site where you'll be able to generate donation.key file for your machine. Donating at this forum gets your donation to another person.

So NVIDIA Optimus is involved. If my understanding is correct, only one GPU can render graphics at the time. Certain workloads activate the dedicated GPU, so then that GPU will handle application that made it activate and desktop composition, which includes Aero Glass. In NVIDIA Control Panel, you should be able to setup application profiles and force certain applications to always use integrated GPU. Your Windows version should also have settings dealing with preferred GPU for specific applications in the Settings app (System->Display->Graphics settings). You'd have to try and see which setting takes precedence. Still, there is some underlying issue on your setup as switching GPUs shouldn't result in artifacting. Upgrading (or maybe downgrading) both GPUs' drivers might help.

It comes from the browser. One of the checks that must pass for the browser to even bother with WebAssembly is SSE2 capable CPU. The base site seems to work without it, looks like some hidden Flash file lurking in the background. Flash games obviously won't work without it.

I noticed the latest version of QTTabBar (v1041), released earlier this month, does not function on mentioned OS. When enabled, error log is generated on user desktop saying it failed to load SHCore.dll, which is Windows 8.1+ DLL. Its website still says it's for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Either way, users of older Windows versions are better of skipping this one.

Does removing "Search automatically for updated driver software" also mean OS won't try to update certain drivers automatically on its own if driver updates via Windows Update are turned off? I ended up configuring group policy "Prevent installation of devices that match any of these Device IDs" to prevent Windows from replacing default mouse driver. The custom driver changes the base sensitivity and would really be only useful with the combination of the extra program that must be installed that changes USB polling rate. The driver is from Windows 7 era and any Windows version beyond Win7 would crash soon if you change the polling rate with that combination of software. So I use default driver with hidusbf to change the polling rate. The mouse is called HP Laser Gaming Mouse with VoodooDNA.

You can still take care of window borders without Aero Glass. Have a laptop running 32-bit Win10 1809, for which suitable Aero Glass build doesn't exist, but still have decent borders with shadows and everything. Custom themes are easier now since SecureUxTheme is a thing. Though it's true that you still need Aero Glass if you want rounded corners.

At this point, I wonder if AVG leaves files anywhere else besides obvious AVG folders in Program Files and Common Files and the drivers folder. I know there's also temp folder, but this one is obvious target anyway. I'm thinking of running AVG Clear at some point and manually remove left overs, if any, then take care of remaining things that were written to PendingFileRenameOperations, which should be manageable. Maybe re-install AVG then or just enable Windows Defender, though I suppose the latter should be automatically enabled in absence of any other anti-virus software. Basilisk entries - there must be a bug in the updater as the referenced entries are already taken care of when it's finished. I've never seen left-over tobedeleted folder in its installation folder.

I already answered that: Though you might just run @heinoganda's certificates updater from here instead, I suppose that'll get all certificates in order. The error shows when it can't verify its digital signature. It should "just work" on both 32-bit and 64-bit XP, unless perhaps on installations that haven't been updated in a long time.

A workaround was deployed by hcaptcha.com shortly after I brought it up on Pale Moon forum. Since then, baseline JIT compiler, which is related to the problem, is disabled by default on 32-bit builds.

So this must be different than the old glitch that was present in the old versions of Aero Glass. Maybe it's related to newer updates? Does anyone else use relatively updated Win10 1809 variant? Do a test and try disabling graphics adapter in Device Manager. Unless basic display driver is already in use anyway, in which case disabling it would be pointless, this will prevent applications from utilizing graphics hardware and DWM will fall back to software rendering. It would tell if graphics driver has something to do with an issue.

Yes. And thanks, that looks less depressing, so I can just get rid of PendingFileRenameOperations registry value and run the BAT in WinPE. Among other things, I noticed entries that are supposed to delete Program Files and System32 directories. I tested the functionality behind the registry setting some time back myself and indeed the folder has to be emptied first in order for it be removed anyway. BTW, you left those two... DEL "C:\Program Files\AVG\Antivirus" DEL "C:\Program Files\AVG" ...in there. That doesn't really make sense, right, deleting all files (and only files) in those folders? Probably just another glitch in AVG I suppose. Like with original entries in the files I uploaded dealing with System32 and Program Files folders, which would be a no-operation since those folders wouldn't be empty. That's some messed up auto-update...who knows if AVG will magically work again after this.

I thought about that, but it's such a mess that it doesn't seem really helpful. The files are below, the first's from May, the seconds one's from today. Straight copy-paste from Registry Editor's text field: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vxSRrFPMQQsyjCSOk2EDVN1I621CB0co/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rba7dofD88Ny8qpGsLcK2H7Y-ay5x9z/view?usp=sharing

So this piece of crap anti-virus AVG (or its updater) spammed PendingFileRenameOperations with thousands of entries on my work computer, many of them look like duplicates. I somehow ended up with two exported text files of the said registry setting with slightly different content. One is the current state of the entry and the other is the previous. I remember making backup of the content the last time (actually in May) and it apparently changed until current date. I notice both have some unique entries that are still to be taken care of, not just at the end. There was no reboot since february. So Registry Commander has the most convenient UI for this particular case, I'd just like to merge the two files content and just let Windows do its thing on reboot. Not concerned about anti-virus as much, I could probably just completely purge it via alternative means, rendering its entries in PendingFileRenameOperations irrevelant. It's just that it would be preferable to let the stuff in between that's not related to anti-virus being taken care of, so I figured it'd be the easiest to just paste content of both files in, one after another. But Registry Commander has the problem handling that giant multi-string, which consists of about 15000 entries. Can't paste or type anything new, I can use backspace key on existing entries, but that's about it. O&O RegEditor, which also has suitable editing window, just crashes opening PendingFileRenameOperations setting. I wouldn't have started poking around in registry, but that stupid anti-virus started occasionally showing popup that its GUI is having a bad day (literally). I really hate anti-viruses and other such software, all they ever did was get in my way.

There's apparently a whole bunch of videos that can't be watched via Invidious, even if the browser supports everything. I get either The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported or the infinite spinning circle.

While I clearly remember having problems with front jack in terms of having to mess manually with headphone connector to get the sound, that doesn't seem to be problem now. Not sure what to make of that and certain details from back then aren't clear enough. I clearly remember interference caused by nearby USB ports activity though, still a thing. Anyway, I wonder what's the deal with that setting. If both back and front jacks are used, sound will be sent to the device plugged to the front jack. That's with EnableDynamicDevices=0. But isn't that supposed to be standard behavior with default setting as well? Also, are you supposed to see two separate entries in Control Panel->Sound->Playback tab under any circumstance with default driver, one for headphones (front jack) and one for speakers (back jack)? It's all crammed into one here.

Who knew you can get stuck in the situation without sound with default audio driver. I unplugged headphones from the back jack because I needed them somewhere else. When I plugged them back, they were no longer detected! Or the system just pretended the back jack doesn't exist. They were still detected on the front jack, but this one broke in the early years so no sound comes out if it. Rebooting by itself didn't help. What helped was turning off EnableDynamicDevices setting in the registry in the sub-key GlobalSettings under the key representing the sound card (see here).

I haven't noticed. Most differences are under the hood. Live previews actually worked at some point with v1.

Polymer v2 has those previews.

Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006? Don’t you ever update drivers?

I tried reverting to default folder view control on Win10 1809, it doesn't have the spacing issue with original shellstyle.dll, so this must have been fixed way before Win10 1903.

MS regularly breaks things left and right with updates, so why bother when things more or less work as expected?

It just sends mouse wheel event (WM_MOUSEWHEEL message) to the window under the mouse instead of focus window - the one with keyboard focus. Note that UI elements such as buttons, text boxes, dropdown lists etc. are all windows and if certain element doesn't process the event, it goes to its parent. In IfranView for example, if you position the mouse cursor over the zoom box and rotate the wheel, it'll zoom in/zoom out the image you're viewing. Normally, you would have to click the box to give it keyboard focus to make the zoom box react to the mouse wheel. Another part of UI that responds to rotating mouse wheel will only trigger the zoom function if CTRL is held at the time. Why are mouse wheel messages delivered to the focus window instead of the window under the mouse?

Right, I wrote the post assuming one knows what goes on in the background. Registry Commander handles multi-string values correctly. I found another two editors that handle those values correctly: O&O RegEditor and Advanced Regedit. The latter doesn't show 64-bit specific parts of registry and is non-Unicode application, so some parts of registry are inaccessible on 64-bit Windows and there might be trouble reading/setting certain values. Its editing window for REG_MULTI_SZ values is more interesting though, it allows to easily reorder strings.