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1 hour ago, Lirk said:
Is there some modified drivers for such cases?
No. There is nothing to be modified. Geforce 4MX 440 is a DirectX 7.1 videocard. While Windows 7 need hardware support of Direct X 9 with 2.0 shaders.
Your videocard predate windows 7 on 7 years, and use DirectX from year 2000 with no shader processors at all. To have normal 3D hardware acceleration on AGP system with windows 7 you need Geforce 6 or 7 series videocards or radeon analogues - X800 (unnoficially), X1xxx, x2xxx, x3xxx with AGP port.
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On 1/22/2025 at 4:54 PM, Nomen said:
In the Minitool Partition Wizard, if I select "Align Partition" in the left-hand column option list, a window opens that says "The specified partition does not need to change partitions alignment. It is already aligned."
The disk alignment test (diskat-gui.exe) still says "Wrong alignment detected. Volume C is not aligned".
Well, after all, diskat-gui.exe is old program, more then decade old. And your SSD is new. So maybe it's detect wrong.
So better use AS SSD test program - it is far more informative and is new, because it's constantly been updated. Please test your SSD with this program and make and upload here screenshot of AS SSD benchmark result.
Here is a picture describing what is what in AS SSD interface:
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On 1/27/2025 at 5:19 PM, Nomen said:
When you were installing Win 2k or XP back in 2002-2003, was sector-alignment a thing? Was 2k / XP aware of (and perform) sector alignment during installation?
Before 2010 change for 4K size of physical cluster consumer HDD was ALWAYS from the begging of they mass production in early 1980's - a 512 bytes drives. Meaning they physical sector size was 512 bytes. Thus why all windows OS before Vista formatted them with correct alignment by default. It was the only alignment.
On 1/27/2025 at 5:19 PM, Nomen said:If a mechanical HDD actually does have a physical sector size of 512 bytes, and the installed NTFS-based operating system has a 4-kb cluster size, then is it possible to have a "mis-aligned" formatting?
If you talk about windows OS - apparently NO.
As i understand you are confused why NTFS use 4K CLUSTER size as standard even where sectors were 512 bytes? Am i right? The explanation that i read is next:
As far as i understand the 4K cluster size in NTFS system before 2010 year 4K FORMAT era was because CPU native minimal memory page size is 4K.
The 4K memory page was standard first in late 1970's with VAX and ОS VMS. In x86 CPU world support of 4K memory page was introduced in 1985 with Intel 386. So as i remember the explanation why NTFS use standard cluster size of 4K - it is minimal memory page size of modern popular CPU's. Thus why later, when better efficiency of storage of information was in discussion, 4K as native physical sector size was obvious choice.
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What we figured out from this topic so far:
Karla - super gorgeous lady.
D.Draker - a true CHAD.
Woudn't png drastically reduce the quality?
No. PNG is high quality format.
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On 1/22/2025 at 10:40 PM, Cixert said:
After many years using MiniTool Partition Wizard, I recommend not using it.
The program does not align the partitions when creating themNonsense. You just didn't figured out where in Partition Wizard option for 4K alignment when creating a new partition. Here it is in menu of creating a new partition:
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7 hours ago, Nomen said:
The Disk Alignment Test said that the C volume (the only volume) IS NOT aligned.
Then you should aligned it using this function in MiniTool Partition Wizard. Click in Minitool with right mouse button on your 240 SSD, press "Align" (sorry my Minitool use not English interface, so i don't know how exactly this options called in English version) and then press in left upper corner of program button "Apply". Also pay attention of info and warnings that program give to you (i mean read it with attention).
7 hours ago, Nomen said:The Minitool says the disk has 512 byte sector size and 8 sectors per cluster.
It means that Cluster is 4K, it's just not aligned. In my case it's also 8 sectors per cluster, just my partitions are aligned.
7 hours ago, Nomen said:Does this program test for alignment or display alignment status?
I guess it's do both.
What a weird question.
7 hours ago, Nomen said:Does mis-alignment only happen when the sector-size is 4k and NOT 512 bytes?
In Windows misalignment happens when you format drive with old windows before Vista. Your cluster is 4K, just it's start in wrong place - meaning program cluster of file system are not Coincides with physical cluster on HDD\SSD.
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Serpentza on YouTube released video about Rednote. This guy knows China very well - he lived there and married on chinese woman.
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On 1/19/2025 at 6:27 PM, Nomen said:
I remember maybe 10 years ago when there was talk of hard drives moving to 4k sector size (from 512 byte sector size) if that was going to be a problem for the older windows versions.
Actually it was 15 years ago. It is a minor problem for windows XP cause by default XP will format with cluster size of 512 bytes, and also not aligned to disk 4K advanced format sectors because:
QuoteWindows XP and other older OSes work by accessing specific disk sectors, not by using 'atomic writes' that work on byte-level data placements that we see in Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008, MacOS 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 (Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) and recent Linux kernels from 2.6.31 onwards.
Windows XP (and Windows 2000 and Server 2003) use a method of accessing the hard disk that starts at sector 63. Because 4KB sectors match eight 512B sectors, sector 63 is unfortunately is one sector shy of being directly compatible, so using a 4KB data sector with these OSes causes mis-aligned writes.HDD will suffer speed penalty from wrong cluster size and misalignment much more then SSD. But if your HDD and SSD correctly formatted with 4K cluster and aligned correctly - there will be normal fast work with winXP. I use with winXP both HDD and SSD that are 4K Advanced Format devices - i create partitions on them using program mentioned below - program that works under windows XP and give ability, when formatting disk\partition to set 4K cluster size and correct alignment.
There is a method to format disk in 4K with command prompt in winXP, but i never used it and instead use 2 programs to check alignment and format in 4K with correct alignment.
The first program is MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition 7.8, - it can format drive correctly with 4K size of cluster and set correct alignment, and also can aligned correctly already existing partition. If you want this program in Server Edition write me Personal Message i will give you a link. The Home Edition is free and can be downloaded via wayback machine - http://web.archive.org/web/20140904082151/https://www.partitionwizard.com/download/pwhe7.exe
The second program is Disk Alignment Test - very simple program, it just checks are your partitions and disks correctly aligned. It is free and you can download it via wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/20160221100017/http://diskat.net/
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On 1/16/2025 at 10:08 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said:
I am not TikTok fan. Or Instagram or Facebook or X or *anything* classified as "social".
But this "ban" is USELESS. Why? Because everybody that uses it DOES NOT CARE about "privacy rights" and don't beleive that they (the users) are being manipulated like puppets, indoctrinated, mind control, whatever label you want to give it.
This ban is NOT useless. And it have nothing to do with privacy right. The reason for ban is simple - Tik-Tok manipulating western society to do harm to they own countries and weakened them, in ideal - elect spy's of CCP\ru. We just see that in Romania, when those who don't use Tik-Tok have no idea who was that guy who "won" in first tour of elections.
On 1/16/2025 at 10:08 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said:People on TikTok DO NOT CARE about "privacy rights".
So again ban have nothing to do with "PRIVACY RIGHTS", it have to do with nefarious activity of CCP\ru to harm and, eventually, destroy free world.
In Ukraine every dog know that telegram is ru\FSB property, but many people still use telegram. They say: i just upload videos there and do not share confidential information, but installing telegram app on smartphone make smartphone compromised! People are not that smart of species.
On 1/16/2025 at 4:37 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:The userbase here in the USA is already migrating to Red Note - which is also based in China.
Then ban this Red Note - what seems to be the problem? I heard american kids play in that game "whack-a-mole", well now it's maybe that game. No problem, just ban them all. Don't let them in your informational space. They do more than that, not only YouTube is banned there, but even Wikipedia is banned in China, which explains why Chinese segment of Wikipedia is smaller than Ukrainian segment despite huge size of Chinese population.
They already banned western platforms - you should do the same - ban all their platforms.
Let they speak to themselves, cook gooses and talk to each other how good that all they houses land are just rented from CCP government and they don't own it.
P.S. By the way, to learn about real "values" of china society go in google and search
4chan chinese webmyou will find out how psychotic they population and how they have zero empathy to each other,
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14 hours ago, D.Draker said:
"TikTok Preparing for US Shut-Off on Sunday"
Let's all hope it will happen. I hope EU will follow. I heard that ruzzkies and chinese run wild this thing in Romania and create a chaos there. I don't understand this "magic" of short vertical videos where cringe teenagers carefully selected by
CCPalgorithm tell you what to do and for whom you should vote. Let's send thisCCPteens to trash-been of history!2 -
On 12/29/2024 at 4:06 AM, Leokids123 said:
Modern processors these days support AVX,so that'll not be a problem. The problem is when you have a Celeron,Pentium and even Atom,that typically never supported AVX except in latest gens.
First Generation Core i5 and i7 processors are fast and does not have AVX;
Phenom II X4 and X6 are pretty fast too. You can play even Metro: Exodus on them. Not supporting this CPU's is a bad move.
I am so grateful to roytam1 for New Moon that spare us from that bs!
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On 9/3/2024 at 1:54 AM, Rod Steel said:
I have a problem with 4pda.to forum - pictures under spoilers are not shown at all. I checked this site with Firefox on Android - pictures show just fine.
Examples:
https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=93526&st=8540
https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=1029478&view=findpost&p=108243958
I finally resolved this issue after intensive brainstorm. See, recently some cool sites also stop loading for me with any browser on my quad-core XP machine. So i figured out that it's DNS servers. I changed DNS in my TCP\IP settings in Win XP to Cloudfare DNS addresses (cause they fastest and supposed to be secure). And, Voila - those pictures from 4pda and cool sites began to load.
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19 hours ago, vinifera said:
i'm too lazy to go in whole debate so i'll shorten it...
Yeah, yeah, yeah - "i am to lazy but let start HOLY_WAR!!!" You contradicting yourself - if you don't want to argue - don't do that.
19 hours ago, vinifera said:people expecting 1 person to protest or talk about everything is ...
I expect consistency and uniformity of actions and words.
When Germany TEMPORARILY open coal mines to not left without electrical greed - she is there protesting it.
But when ruzzia explodes Nord Stream (by the way - thanks, id*#**!
) she do nothing, only post in twitter. And when s*** hits the fan with ecology in Dnipro river or in Black Sea - where is her actions? It's double standards! If that happen near any western country - she would go in apeshit mode. But what - it's in Eastern Europe? - crickets, no reaction.
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On 12/18/2024 at 7:22 PM, Karla Sleutel said:
The ecological catastrophe caused by the Russians using defunct oil tankers
It is not the first time they do that. It already happen in XXI century in Black Sea with they crappy "tankers". I wonder where Greta Shmumblerg when ruzzia destroy ecology in Black Sea? She never protests ruzzian crimes, never talk about it, she is such a knucklehead. It's tragically that adult people on West now listen to, basically, mentally retarded teenager.
P.S. Right now near city of Kherson ruzzians stand on another shore of great river and every day killing civilians, children, woman with FPV drons. They set a training camp there, where they training they drone piloting skills with as they say "SAFARI". "Safari" on ukrainian children, woman...
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I recently watched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_(2024_film)
I enjoyed this movie.
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On 12/13/2024 at 7:47 PM, D.Draker said:
First and foremost, please don't compare Germans (even by using German words), and by that I mean every German individual, to Russia/Russians.
Germans are the unique nation, to whom we owe so much! Look at their numerous inventions and achievements.
May i remind you that hitler was not german - he was austrian man that pretended to be german, just like putler is finno-ugric veps\karelian who pretends to be slavic. Just like ruzzia mostly (>50%) consist of conglomerate of finno-ugric people who speak slavic language and pretend to be slavic.
P.S. Its hard to me to find sources in english on topic that i write right now. It seems, that despite archeological and genetical ironclad evidence this facts for a western people it is Terra-incognita. It seems like westerners is steel don't understand that ruzzians is basically mix of finno-ugric people and tatar people (who are turk origin) with dominance of the first one. Even they capital name is Finno-Ugric word! Thousands of rivers, streams, cities and villages NAMES have Finno-Ugric origin - how come on west almost nobody notice that?
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On 6/7/2024 at 10:00 PM, D.Draker said:
The World's populace numbers are terrible, agree. "Thanks" to China, Russia, Latin America, Africa and India.
I'm sorry, generally i am on your side with your point of view, but here i must correct you a little bit. Ruzzia are not overpopulated. Putler lied in 2018, on his press-conference, that population of his "third reich" is 160 million of people. This is ridiculous lie.
According to former Vice-Prime minister of ruzzia Mikhail Poltoranin population of his country in 2010 was around 89 million people. And it is declining fast.
Here a link of his interview on YouTube - https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=r6CMmXUfwx4 (sorry no english subtitles) in comments also a lot of facts from ruzzian citizens that confirmed that.
Here is fun artcile from russian-american paper (google translate it!) where they count index of grain consuming in country and calculates that in 2010 it was 84 mln of people and by 2017 it was 66 mln people. I mean they have to eat something - they can not survive only on Holy Spirit. :) And considering, that after WW2 bred and grain was idolized and become almost a cult thing in USSR (eastern european nations consume bred more than any other nations on Planet Earth) that calculations should be relatively precise.
Here is also fragment of Alexander Sotnik from May 2023 where he say his informant from ruzzia sad to him that population in 2023 was ~47,9 mln of people.
Note that Poltoranin in video above was doing prognosis, that by 2025 year population of ruzzia should be around 50 mln. people. He was Vice Prime-minister, i think he knows what he talking about. And look how precise turns out to be.
Also officially all real and detail demographic data in ruzzia is complete secret. And they government have this year sudden meltdowns about demographics is ruzzia, and how they need to ban all abortions. And we need to ask - why so? If your population is 160 mln according to your Führer, then why you need to suddenly freak-out so much about declining population?
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2 hours ago, j7n said:
There appears to be no way of viewing this image in New Moon or any other modern browser.
Right mouse click on image ---> "View Image Info" ---> click on "Media" ---> Search your image among type "Image" ---> Here it is 11MB PNG 3 944px × 2 388px (scaled to 1 212px × 734px) --->Click on "Save As" and as French people say - Voilà !
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Bluesky - new trendy social network, has now more interactions then twitter. In both recent versions of New Moon and Basilisk pictures in posts does not show. Can it be fixed?
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15 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:
If I were to report every dirty website that doesn't run properly in UXP browsers, this thread would be completely littered.
15 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:Apart from that, I consider requests for members to register on such a questionable website to verify login problems to be highly dubious and a no-go.
I think rather important and reputable websites should be considered here. 
5 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:Just to report here a rather important and reputable website
, I checked Microsoft's
According to Wikipedia (as ranked by Semrush) Xvideos is 11 most popular site in the world and is ahead of such sites like yahoo.com, amazon.com, netflix.com, twitch.tv, microsoft.com. Ooops, turn out your beloved microsoft.com is less important to people.
Also there is nothing "dubious" in it, this is same company that owns Penthouse magazine and many other brands.
Oh well, i guess i will test it with New Moon and Pale Moon on my other computers.
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On 10/6/2024 at 6:32 PM, UCyborg said:
I don't have an account there so not sure if an attempt with made up credentials would count.
Well then, please, make account there using 10 minutes mail service. Because that bug is annoying and need to be fixed. But i need somebody to confirm it first. Is it me or everybody have it with New Moon.
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On 10/5/2024 at 1:03 AM, ragnargd said:
(128bit, 256MB, no power connector... ATI Radeon 9600 XT ?
Why don't you use GPU-Z to find out. Also, did you buy this new on ebay? Why? There is ton of original super-cheap used AGP videocards on used market. Like Radeon X800GTO\XL\XT or Geforce 6800\GT\Ultra. So why buy this?
The original Radeon 9700 PRO have 256 bit memory by the way.
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On 10/5/2024 at 1:17 AM, Rod Steel said:
Ok, that would be a naughty problem. Latest New Moon can not login in to, gm, xvideos.com
When i put login and password and press login button it always put me this notice:
QuoteThis page was opened a long time ago and we are no longer able to validate this action. Please reload the page and retry.
I cleared my cache and updated to latest version to no result. Interestingly Serpent52 CAN login to xvideos.com account with no problem. Any ideas?
Excuse me, but can somebody help me with my problem. On my post on previous page nobody answered.
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Ok, that would be a naughty problem. Latest New Moon can not login in to, gm, xvideos.com
When i put login and password and press login button it always put me this notice:
QuoteThis page was opened a long time ago and we are no longer able to validate this action. Please reload the page and retry.
I cleared my cache and updated to latest version to no result. Interestingly Serpent52 CAN login to xvideos.com account with no problem. Any ideas?
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Windows XP drivers for graphics card on Windows 7
in Windows 7
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No, no such things.
P.S. Why don't you visit radiomarket in your town and buy mentioned above by me videocards? AGP versions of X800 or Geforce 6800 should be dirt cheap now, like 500UAH or something.