NotHereToPlayGames

Well that was short-lived. I have officially reverted back to version 1.11.1. Despite it not showing up in Help -> About for Chrome/Chromium version v140, everything seems to be working just fine. I can "live with" it not being shown in Help -> About.

If I had to "guess", it has been this way ever since the day we went offline for "maintenance" all an account of OVER ONE HUNDRED consecutive spam posts for INTUIT TURBOTAX / QUICKBOOKS. We went offline for several hours, perhaps even an entire day.

There have been *at least* three reports of this. People have posted in "old" topics and start off their post with saying they had to reply semi-off-topic because they could not start a new topic. I'm not going to spend the time to hunt them down. At least three in recent weeks. But time alludes me at times, maybe it's been a month, maybe three months, no clue. But others *HAVE CITED* this issue where they could not start a new topic.

You can "create" and start the process of a new topic, but it fails when you hit submit.

Yep, sure enough. My bank now forces Chrome/Chromium v140 as minimum *IF* you want to avoid two-step PITA login (ie, text or email code after username/password). Two-step is a enough of a PITA that I just upgraded everything in the house from Chrome/Chromium v136 to v140. Funny thing is, my bank still works with 360Chrome's v86 if you don't mind the added step of text or email code after the username/password. "Most" of Chrome++ version 1.11.1 seemed to be working fine. But not having it displayed in Help/About made me leary of not upgrading. And I don't think it was applying all of the startup parameters. I didn't keep it long enough to see just what was and was not working. I'm okay with upgrading it to v1.13.3 but I will NOT be using its launch_on_exit feature when ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES do the job BETTER.

Disregard. Reverted to WinPenPack's launcher and using its [RunAfter] section instead of Chrome++'s launch_on_exit= section.

Today, I updated my Chrome++ from version 1.11.1 to the most-recent version 1.13.3 (due to older versions do not properly work with Chrome versions v140 or newer). I use the launch_on_exit= feature of Chrome++. v1.11.1 would run a .bat file on exit WITHOUT popping up a flash of a command window. v1.13.3 flashes up a command window, cycles through the line items of the .bat file, then closes the command window. How do I prevent the FLASH on, closes when completed, command window from FLASHING on, kind of an EYE SORE.

Seems NEW TOPICS are no longer allowed to be posted here at MSFN. I know it's not just me because SEVERAL others have cited this in recent weeks. We have to reply to current topics instead.

Well, I for one certainly hope that metro uwp framework and immersive shell *NEVER* gets backported to XP, lol.

Thanks as always to a thoughtful writeup. I'll add my own slight additions. I myself have not "installed" any software for the better part of two decades, I do as much as possible via PORTABLE applications. PortableApps.com popularized the use of portable software. They began in 2006. WinPenPack has actually been around for slightly longer (by mere months, not years). You go even further back (by years) when you include those of us with familiarity to UNIX. With regard to associations with protocols/files/applications, portable software isn't really about not having these associations, but rather having exact and precise finite control of these associations. This PRECISE CONTROL is really only limited by the user's own intentions/imagination. You really can have this PRECISE CONTROL be as simple or as complex as your heart desires. Your "host system" does NOT have to have *ANY* 'default browser' associations, no txt file associations, no ini associations, no pdf associations, no mkv/avi/mp4 associations. NO ASSOCIATIONS of any kind. But you can mix-and-match to your heart's content. Associate 'browser' protocols (http/https/ftp, for example) to all use Firefox *ONLY IF* PortableApps PLATFORM is running in the systray. But roll those ftp protocols over to something like CuteFTP *ONLY* if LiberKey is running in the systray. Split your media file associations so that audio files divert to VLC Player, mkv files divert to PotPlayer, mp4 files divert to Media Player Classic, and avi files divert to TEncoder Video Converter. "Portable" really can be as simple or as complex as you "need it to be".

No, not really. That is the "this is not an INSTALLER, just EXTRACT and EXECUTE" version. To make it PORTABLE, you have to "wrap it" wit a LOADER so that the .exe doesn't save files outside of its own directory, so that it doesn't make permanent changes to the registry, etc.

The way that I do it, it does not matter if there is a portable version or not - *ALL* Chrome/Chromium-based browsers 'can be made' portable Just replace the "bin" folder with the Supermium files that you want to turn into a portable version. You can start with anything that is already portable (360Chrome, PortableApps, WinPenPack, the list is endless).

Ooops, sorry, the thread title had me looking for Win7 but you did cite Vista.

Windows Telemetry has existed since Windows 2000! But that aside, maybe this will be of use -- https://gist.github.com/xvitaly/eafa75ed2cb79b3bd4e9

It does load *VERY* slowly. I would be okay with even taking a quality loss. Watching that image load in "chunks", wait a second, another "chunk" loads, is a bit of an eyesore. It is not my ISP, my download speed is 500 Mbps. Sure, there are faster plans available, but 500 works for everything else. Just not this Kyle of Lochalsh screenshot. My guess is that it is a server-side upload bottleneck.