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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    Maybe, just maybe, too many of us MSFN Members are like the grandma I saw on the road this past Sunday. One lane of traffic going forward through the intersection, one turn lane to turn left, one turn lane to turn right. She makes a left hand turn from the center lane and cut me off in the process. She can barely see over the steering wheel, I let it slide but follow from a distant two bus lengths behind. She did it again two intersections up, she makes a right hand turn from the center lane. That's us XP Users, if I may be so bold. Too set in our ways and we will put our family through the Nine Levels of Hell before handing over the keys! Maybe, just maybe, the family is right and we are wrong. We are no longer safe behind the wheel. But it's not because the car isn't safe, it's all the person at the controls.
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    Not sure how much traction that would attract. The end-consumer is more interested in something like uBlock Origin and "downloaded lists" doing as much of the work as possible "for them", an ideology I myself do not subscribe to. And while I do applaud Astro's "intentions" in creating this thread, I do think that the most tech-savvy among us (the MAJORITY of MSFN Members?) do not run real-time antivirus "all the time". I don't even run manual scans, haven't in over 20 years! But again, I applaud the intentions of this thread. I see it more of as an EXPANSION to the MSFN USER BASE by bringing in a NEW AUDIENCE. I don't think it has (yet), but it has the potential to. I don't see the intended audience being the ACTIVE MEMBERS here at MSFN. But rather a NEW generation of active members.
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    Present the point and let the reader decide. No "post scriptum" explanation required. Nobody wins if everybody strives to get the "last word". Just rambling... Carry on...
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    In my experience, you are much MUCH better off just doing the copy-files route and NOT doing any clone or image. The Windows registry "mangles" over time (some registry "cleaners" will make matters worse!), files become "fragmented" (and defrag does not always solve!), et cetera. And you just clone or image those "degradations" and carry them over to a new hard drive -- self-defeating. Back up your files. Then reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows. That is the "best method" in my view. "Mileage may vary." "To each their own."
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    My experience is the more you "test" them the FASTER you degrade them.
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    It's "funny" because we have an Engineer here that is quite "low tier" as far as Engineering Hierachy at our company but when he is in any meeting with "higher echelon", he miraculously dons a British accent. He's never been outside of this midwest State, he's never traveled abroad, his parents didn't attend college and live with him due to being poverty-level. He thinks he sounds "smarter" when he does this and he denies doing it, but we ALL notice it and it only REDUCES our professional perception of his competencies. In high school, we called such types of people "posers" or "wannabes", unsure if there is a more modern nomenclature. It's mainly "P" words that he (seemingly unconciously) starts to pronounce with a British accent. Progress and Process in American English have a first syllable that rhymes with "ah" - he pronounces them with a "long oh". Privacy in American English has a first syllable that rhymes with "eye" - he prounounces them with an 'i' as in "in" or "win". He'll say "naught" instead of "no". Among others.
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    I find it quite funny that you switched from "programs" to "programmes" within the last week or so. Both are legit spellings, of course. Just a funny "observation".
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    Those are more often than not very easily defeated. Just open the Dev Tools and hunt for the "overlay", uncheck its display/visibility/position/etc styles parameter at the right, you generally only need to uncheck ONE parameter once you learn "what to look for". You can also right-click and "hide" the overlay element in the left pane, once you learn "what to look for". There are probably "extensions" that can do it "for you", if you prefer that route.
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    Thanks, I've add v15.11 to my collection.
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    Agreed. I'm NOT a fan of any software that "phones home".
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    I guess I don't recall if mine is Process Explorer or if it Process Hacker. Will have to double-check later this evening.
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    I'm afraid I do not have a frame of reference. I've never had a Facebook account, never had a Twitter account, never had a Reddit account, never had an Instagram account. NOT being on the platforms probably gives one a better view of them "from the outside". They are biased and maybe one does not see that bias "from the inside". I am not a Musk fan. But I don't mind a few eggs getting broken in the path of reforming "free speech" - which should never be reduced to "getting your voice out" while squashing/banning/censoring all opposing views from seeing the light of day.
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    Not sure I follow. I remember when Kuwait was invaded and how the WORLD reacted, 30-some nations across the Globe. Crimea and Ukraine is not as cut-and-dried as Kuwait and global armed defense assistance. Media news cycle or not, Ukraine is being supported by more than what Kuwait was - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War So I don't follow with the fast and constant news coverage comment - I would much prefer the support level being "on the ground" as opposed to being "on our television screens". But again, a very lengthy discussion best not suited for MSFN.
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    More like the 60s in my view. But that is a very lenghty discussion best not suited for MSFN.
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    Two sides to every coin. Not everyone views what is happening to Reddit and Twitter as corporate self destruction but rather a course-correction, a righting of the ship. To make an omellete, you have to break some eggs. That's life in the USA, a gigantic pendulum swing of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", extreme policy swings and spending way too much time at both of the extremes and not enough time in the middle. A very divisive country where fighters fight it out and never return to their corners when the bell rings - an all-out no-holds-barred duke-fest without the Daisy Dukes.
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    Not all members enable "signatures" (I don't). You can turn them off and on view profile settings.
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    Should probably start a new thread as I suspect you are "new" to VirtualBox. The easiest overly-simplified way to describe VirtualBox is "an operating system within an operating system".
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    One of my pet peeves and I view it as a security threat but probably more of a privacy rights issue - installers that launch a web page! Hate that! My system doesn't have any default web browser for that reason alone. Installers can't launch a web site!
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    To each their own. If we were really that concerned, we would have to admit that we should not be running XP. So again, "to each their own".
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    I'd call that "marketing" moreso than an actual "review" of what Process Hacker does. I mean, look at it this way, who labels "Task Manager" as an anti-malware security layer? But, having said that, I myself use Task Manager and Process Hacker with every software I run on a trial basis and don't use ANY of the other programs/programmes listed in this thread. So we all have our own tactics to keep our computers top-notch and running for MUCH longer than the average consumer.
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    But then again, to me, VirtualBox is my biggest and most-used "security program". Run anything I want, without regard to crashes and holes, without regard to uninstall remnants left behind, without an internet connection to communicate anything whatsoever. Then delete the VM and revert to the base VM, clone it, and start all over again.
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    No, but Astro specifically asked to hear from XP users running Process Hacker under XP. I run XP and run Process Hacker under XP, so I provided my two cents.
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    I only have two versions that I have kept over the years. Version 2.28 is the last that doesn't do an auto-update check without asking me (I hate phone-home auto-update checks!). I was going from memory when I replied at work and it's not processes, RAM, and CPU - version 2.28 has this for a System Information view: Version 2.23 has this view for System Information and I prefer all of that info right there on one screen (I am aware that the same info can be viewed in different screens on newer versions), I just like hitting Ctrl-I and bam, there it all is:
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    I use an older version of Process Hacker, forget at the moment what version number it is (I'm at work and it's on my home computer). The older versions default to a three-in-one view for processes, RAM, and CPU and I prefer the three-in-one view.
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