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I wonder what MS omitted from the update's changelog. They haven't fixed Aero Peek bug, have they?

If Android's kernel on those devices has USB gadget support and you have root access, you can use UMS Enabler. Otherwise, you'll have to obtain root access / install custom Android flavor with sufficient support. Someone might have built LineageOS for those devices, which might have support.

That explains is then. You probably only took the Win7's calc.exe, which won't work without accompanying language file.

Have you tried this installer?

Vista came out and some things have never been the same since: Direct3D9 clip planes (Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry) DirectMusic scripting (Solving the Unreal II intro problem) MCI doesn't send notification after CD audio playback has completed if the application opted to receive it. MCI also has a bug that if you pause playback and ask for status, it returns stopped instead of paused. but that was already broken in XP. I don't know about earlier versions, it could be broken as well, but I do know that MCI predates Windows 95.

Where are they documented?

It starts and then crashes when trying to render?

Oh well, I guess a reboot might inevitable, even though it's just a workaround. I found this text: If I sort processes by Private bytes value in Process Hacker, when it comes to background processes, Windows Update service scores the top place with 148,45 MB. Now that's a waste considering my group policy setting for keeping automatic updates disabled. I suspect that can't be all.

That can't work without also modifying the calling code as the signatures of the two APIs are incompatible. Or having a simple wrapper function in a proxy DLL or similar that would properly pass the parameters to CreateEventA, which could look like: HANDLE CreateEventExA(LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpEventAttributes, LPCSTR lpName, DWORD dwFlags, DWORD dwDesiredAccess) { return CreateEventA(lpEventAttributes, dwFlags & CREATE_EVENT_MANUAL_RESET, dwFlags & CREATE_EVENT_INITIAL_SET, lpName); } I don't know if there would be issues or not due to ignoring the access rights that the last parameter of CreateEventExA deals with. Should show the message box like this (source):

WPA doesn't show any stack under CM16 tag, just n/a. 10 MB per day may not be the most exact number though. Paged pool at 807 MB now after 97 days. If I remember correctly, non-paged pool starts at about 110 MB - 130 MB (now at about 260 MB).

If I don't fully shut down Windows every day, I notice in Task Manager that the Paged pool under Memory on Performance tab increases by approximately 10 MB every day. It was similar on Windows 8.1 (a bit worse actually) and just logging off didn't clear it up. I don't know about Windows 7 and earlier because I haven't kept them up for more than a day. PC is hibernated at night (and most of the day actually, I mostly use it in the evening). I got some results from poolmon.exe - was following the instructions I found on superuser. So I don't find CM16 tag in any of the driver files, so it must be Windows (ntoskrnl.exe? - findstr did pick it up when scanning System32 folder). Ntfx tag scores the top place when it comes to non-paged memory, this one belongs ntfs.sys - MS driver dealing with NTFS file system I suppose. Non-paged memory pool is increasing over time as well, just at the slower pace. Is the thing just buggy or could there be something else causing the issue?

I see that person must have been already dealt with. Thanks!

Regarding Mafia, it's interesting that only those specific missions are somehow bugged. With older games in general, it's common that if they have issues with higher frame-rates, the entire world / physics simulation is bugged. Interstate '76 for instance doesn't only have the issue with higher frame rates, but the entire world simulation almost comes to a stop if the operating system has been running for too long. It converts 32-bit unsigned integer representing system uptime in milliseconds (from GetTickCount function) to seconds and stores it in float, which doesn't have space left for the part after decimal point after several days. So it seems when it happens, the state is only updated every second. Managed to fix that along with some other problems with it and published a patch for it. Since you mentioned NFS: Porsche 2000, the unofficial patch that exists for it is quite extensive, same for some other older Need or Speed games. I usually just lowered the resolution on that old computer in games, I think I left Mafia at something higher than 640x480 though. That alone helped a lot with the performance. Only lowering resolution still leaves details in place, but makes things pixelated on LCD screens while settings dealing with texture quality can take a direct toll on the quality of the original assets. Maybe the world data contains pathways that they follow and they won't move in places where pathways are missing. Right, back to Mafia II. Do you notice this also if you alt-tab out and back in? I've got a hitch like something's not fully loaded yet when you load the saved game. And if you tab out, it must be restored when going back in. And what little I've read about programming with Direct3D, some care must be taken when handling such events.

Here's a list of changed files between original and GOG release (source): sds/music/Radio/40/empire/buttons_and_bows.fsb sds/music/Radio/40/classic/good_little_bad_little_you.fsb sds/music/Radio/40/empire/therell_be_a_hot_time_in_the.fsb sds/music/Radio/40/classic/youre_driving_me_crazy_dr.fsb sds/music/Radio/40/empire/sing_sing_sing_bg.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/che_la_luna.fsb sds/music/Radio/40/empire/it_dont_mean_a_thing_if_it_a.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/oh_marie.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/speech/0_14_3_51_0191.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/speech/0_15_3_06_0196.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/makin_whoopee_dd.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/speech/0_10_3_07_0181.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/aint_that_a_kick_in_the_head.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/delta/aint_that_a_shame.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/delta/i_put_a_spell_on_you.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/empire/why_do_fools_fall_in_love.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/classic/when_youre_smiling.fsb sds/music/Radio/50/empire/speech/1_11_1_50_0161.fsb sds_en/script_sounds/m06_sounds_4.sds sds_en/script_sounds/m06_sounds_4b.sds sds/music/Menu/Credits_theme_music.fsb I'm curious about Mafia I on 500 MHz CPU because the first computer I used that could do 3D games had 2 GHz Intel Celeron (I think its codename is Northwood) and an entry-level NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. Frame-rate drop was quite noticeable at night, I guess due to the lighting. Even on later hardware, it can be felt that rendering city at night is more resource intensive than during daytime. Heh, I don't think I tried running it on low settings back then. Plus, there are two missions in Free Ride Extreme (Exploding Celeste and Bridge Bombing Zeppelin) that are impossible to complete unless you cap the game's frame rate to about 20 FPS. That made me think it didn't run too well for at least some of the developers and whoever tested those missions. Games already looked pretty detailed in general were back then if you ask me. Even if you do remaster such a game, I don't think the difference would be as huge compared to if you go and remaster a game from 1995. Either way, it's possible to replace textures in both games.

This article says Storage Sense cleans dated Windows update temporary files, so maybe there's a certain age threshold in place. You might still be able to run the cleaner from Settings app, just don't go through Storage Sense, rather click on Temporary files right after you open the Storage category, assuming whatever Windows 10 version you're dealing with has that (older versions don't). That should behave the same way as Disk Cleanup application. So with older versions, there's no built-in alternative to the good ol' Disk Cleanup application. With newer versions, things are improved in the Settings app, but, running the old Disk Cleanup still gives a better idea about what it's able to clean up. I'd have to test to be 100% certain, but it's possible that the Settings app just hides the items where there isn't anything to clean.

This video? Aero Glass watermark is there overlapping with Windows 10's watermark.

The :80 part shouldn't be in the address. It would only work accessing site via HTTP, not HTTPS.

Mafia II Director's Cut on GOG.com is missing some music that's there in the initial release. PhysXLoader.dll should probably be deleted from the game folder (pc subfolder, to be precise). It gets installed with other PhysX DLLs when you install PhysX so it's kinda redundant and will likely result in unintended mixing of PhysX DLLs of various ages (which could cause problems). I noticed even newer games may have minimum requirements above what's needed to make it playable. I've no idea how Mafia I runs on 500 MHz CPU. Might be OK with the drawing distance of 5 meters.

SteamCMD still seems to work on Windows XP x64. It doesn't replace regular Steam client for playing games though, there's only download/update functionality. It occasionally complains about some certificate check failure while downloading. I haven't updated system certificates, maybe that would fix it.

It's possible to modify it with msstyleEditor. Open the theme's .msstyles file, then navigate to AeroWizard->TITLEBAR. On the right pane, make sure TEXTGLOWSIZE is set to 12 and GLOWINTENSITY is set to 250 - this restores the Windows 7 glow effect. You can also change the text color (TEXTCOLOR), it can be different depending on whether the window is active or not. It's possible to change the font as well (under AeroWizardStyle), but I'm not sure whether msstyleEditor can do it. I'm looking at the options in the older version of it, which only allows setting predefined values. With Windows Style Builder, you get the full dialog allowing for font selection, size etc.

I was talking about official release builds starting with 2nd paragraph. Exactly, running a pre-release build isn't a viable option for obvious reasons.

I find the fact that you have to run this build with the wrong date alone problematic. Win10 in general does take forever to load initially on HDDs, that's for sure. It doesn't seem like they have any plans to address this. Even though the OS already hibernates by default when you use shut down option, it still takes some time to log back on after turning the machine on. Recently, I've been skipping the logging off part and just put it straight into hibernation. That helps a lot with having it ready ASAP after turning it on. Also, what exactly does turning off Superfetch service accomplish? It doesn't seem to turn off the whole standby memory functionality.

The notice about disabling ad-blockers is OK now, but still no sign of ads.

Aero Glass can't function 100% correctly without having accurate information about Desktop Window Manager's internals (exception being the Windows versions from the time of Aero Glass release), so in that case, it'll complain unless symbol files for the actual versions of dwmcore.dll and uDWM.dll libraries are present. Also the symbol file for ApllicationFrame.dll is needed for the extra functionality of restoring classic window frames of UWP apps. One way to get them is via a script such as this one. The prerequisite is installed Debugging Tools for Windows, which you can install by running Windows SDK installer. Another is using this PDB Downloader tool. You must browse to the DLL files in C:\Windows\System32 and set save path to C:\AeroGlass\symbols. If you donate to this project, generate donation.key file for your machine and put it in C:\AeroGlass folder, Aero Glass downloads required symbol files on its own.

Because you already have a donator account. The password is the same as you received it in the mail when you first donated unless you changed it.