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I think what you're trying to accomplish relies on the shell's internal logic, the option along with all supporting code would probably have to be added to the dialog that opens when you click Change desktop icons from Personalization control panel. So, since MS won't do it, the only option would be analyzing system DLLs and injecting new code into them, a non-trivial task I imagine.
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18 minutes ago, VistaLover said:
Have you, by any chance, tried GreaseMonkey for Pale Moon :
https://github.com/janekptacijarabaci/greasemonkey/releases/latest
(file greasemonkey-3.31.4-pm_forkBranch.xpi) ?
Thanks, this one works. Still find it odd; GreaseMonkey 3.11 doesn't have compatibility issues with Firefox 51. Waterfox on the other hand runs them all.
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9 hours ago, LoneCrusader said:
Let's not start this whole name changing bit again. There is nothing to be gained from it, and only more work to be created.
There's a relevant point in another thread (that thanks to the lack of a proper BBcode editor in IPB I can't just copy and paste here
) about how this may affect addons and related applications, requiring them to be modified to recognize the resulting renamed binary.
There are already bugs with existing addons (at least with Basilisk). Options dialog in GreaseMonkey doesn't work. Also this particular fork's default configuration breaks ColorfulTabs (it expects Firefox version number in the user agent string).
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The option is really gone in Chromium 76. They removed conditional check (feature toggle via command line parameter) that used to enable native caption bar. There's no hidden registry setting for it or anything like that.
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Moonchild Productions ported the custom caption bar drawing code to their Pale Moon fork as well, see this thread. You'll find my comparison screenshots if you scroll down a bit. They say there would be visual glitches on Windows 10 without custom caption bar drawing, but I don't see anything off with the native caption bar. The caption text is always enforced by Pale Moon, the only other difference I can see is spacing between min/max/close buttons and the caption bar height (I might have reduced default caption height setting in Windows, but I'm not 100% certain).
So honestly, I've no idea what they're talking about. Looks like the only option that still exists in the current nightly is setting browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar in about:config to false to enable the native caption bar (and put tabs separately). CSS moz-win-glass property is indeed gone.
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Back when I wrote my last post here, policy setting for InPrivate mode was still called IncognitoModeAvailability. Now it's called InPrivateModeAvailability. There's also -inprivate command line parameter that is accepted by msedge.exe, equivalent to Chromium's -incognito.
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Recently experienced the same issue. I was trying to boot one of OSes I have on the USB flash drive and it failed. Plugging the drive in a running Windows machine showed it as unformatted. Could access the data from Linux, TestDisk showed invalid boot sector and some unimportant files were corrupted. I could probably avoid reformatting if I knew the correct numbers for drive geometry (they were different than after format). At the end, I also had to change drive's unique ID with diskpart because it apparently changed to the exact same one my laptop's disk has, so Windows refused to mount it.
I'm certain the actual cause was loose connection. If you even slightly touch the drive so it moves just a little to the left or right when plugged in, it can lose power. That's how my laptop's ports are and the fronts ones on my desktop aren't much better.
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On 5/19/2019 at 10:30 AM, ED_Sln said:
P.S. It seems that the display in the skins themselves is wrong, the program is not to blame. I will try to remake skins.
Yes, it seems they have to be made specifically for non-default taskbar configurations.
On 5/19/2019 at 10:30 AM, ED_Sln said:And if you can, add a setting to turn on the sound (preferably with a file selection) when a message appears.
When I have more time and if I figure out how to do file selection and such.
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I wonder how much effort it actually takes to provide 32-bit builds. Is it just the compilation part or are there also significant chunks of processor specific code?
Graphics cards with 2 GB of video RAM were already common in low-mid price range 5 years ago. So that takes the half of the 32-bit addressable space, so one can use 2 GB RAM max. 4 GB card would take that number down to zero.
Then there's PAE, which, AFAIK, on today's Windows can only be utilized by unofficial patches to the kernel (assuming drivers in use on the particular system aren't buggy).
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I noticed clicking on the thread title from the index page (https://msfn.org/board/) takes me to the last post. Obviously, the selection of threads is limited to specific one per each sub-forum.
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19 hours ago, VistaLover said:
an inspection with Resource Hacker reveals it does indeed support Vista in its manifest:
<compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1"> <application> <!-- Windows 10 --> <supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}" /> <!-- Windows 8.1 --> <supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}" /> <!-- Windows 8 --> <supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}" /> <!-- Windows 7 --> <supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}" /> <!-- Windows Vista --> <supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}" /> </application> </compatibility>
Compatibility section is irrelevant when it comes to Windows Vista because it's only recognized on Windows 7+ and even there, the Vista supportedOS entry alone is meaningless and equivalent in behavior as if compatibility section is absent. The OS looks for the entry of the highest Windows version it recognizes (so either itself or that of the older version) and modifies the behavior of certain APIs accordingly.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/win7appqual/compatibility---application-manifest
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chkdsk is useful to get certain file system structures back in order if they were corrupted, though it can't ensure data integrity. There are also cases when TestDisk fails. Never had problems with USB thumb drives unless the one in question was actually faulty.
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Disregard my previous post.
47 minutes ago, bphlpt said:If there are posts you haven't read, there will be a "quote balloon" marker to the left of the thread title, which will be filled in if you have participated in the thread and open if you haven't.
Yup, that's it. Works as intended. When you think about it, it would be silly if clicking thread title would take you to the last post instead of that being separate action.
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Looks like users of certain forks aren't affected. Waterfox, Basilisk and Pale Moon have xpinstall.signatures.required set to false by default.
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Right, should've said that it's supposed to be stored on the server. Actually, I think it still is, but I guess some of the old data was lost. At least in this very thread, I see the "New content begins here" marker, while it's absent if I view any of the old threads I've visited before, but have new posts added since.
Edit: Or instead of some data being actually lost, could just not be interpreted by the updated forum software.
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Just now, Dave-H said:
I assume this is a cookies-related thing.
It's not, it's stored on the server.
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I figured it reads group policy settings from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge, while Chrome reads them from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome. I haven't found policy definition files for Edge specifically, they might be released in the future, but I can confirm the registry settings for forcing/denying Incognito/InPrivate Mode and the ones for allowing/blocking Flash Player on certain sites do work.
On 5/1/2019 at 7:42 PM, Jody Thornton said:How can I set cache to use RAM only?
How can I delay page-loading until the whole page has been downloaded? (akin to the nglayout.initialpaintdelay setting in Gecko)I'm not aware of any ability to tweak such parameters, AFAIK there's only the stuff that you can turn on or off on edge://flags page.
On 5/1/2019 at 7:42 PM, Jody Thornton said:How can I set to tabs below the address bar?
This would probably require the UI to be implemented differently than it is in order to have the ability to change that. It's possible in Vivaldi with CSS tweaks.
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The old Edge still has better video playback performance, smoother scrolling and lower CPU usage.
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@VistaLover
True, but there are always some extra details involved and one might see inconsistencies from one time to another due to certain usage patterns. It's possible to run the Thunderbird's installer with limited rights, in which case the program will be installed for the current account only and won't be registered.1 -
Games from newer Windows except some API functions not present on XP. There are alternatives online. I suppose messing with XP games would be more of an academic thing.
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To revive these games, someone would have to reverse engineer their communication protocol and implement their own server that would behave like the one that used to run at freegames.zone.com.
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Great! I was just looking into it. It's like this; you don't normally need admin rights to choose a default email client for your own account, but a prerequisite is that the email client has been registered on the system (which does require admin rights). Usually, that's the installer's job. After that, anyone can pick their favorite.
So in your case, the client had to register itself on the system first (which failed due to lack of permissions) since the installer wasn't involved to do it.
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No, having Thunderbird installed and registered shouldn't prevent MailNews from successfully registering itself. Something else must be off.
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Chrome 74 - Glass no longer supported in title bars!
in Aero Glass For Windows 8+
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If anyone's interested, Vivaldi is one of the more interesting Chromium based browsers and has the option to enable native title bar (Use Native Window under Appearance in Tools->Settings). It doesn't put tabs on it in that mode.