NotHereToPlayGames

How so? Do you SELL YOUR HOUSE if a circuit breaker pops? Fuses pop in and out no different than plugging your phone in to charge it. Put the fuses back in when they give you your car back.

Tip to improve mental health -- when you take your car to a repair shop for something you can't fix yourself, REMOVE the fuses for the side mirrors and the power seats, that way they can't move them just to drive 30 seconds around the block!

Both XP and 10 (company does not allow 11). The taskbar icon only shows on the monitor that the program is on. Unless you are talking about two of the same programs running on the same monitor, then those can't be separated and diplay next to each other even if not opened in that order.

My taskbar only "groups" if the taskbar is completely full. My taskbar(s) are never completely full because the taskbar icons only show up on their active monitor. I can have close to FOURTY programs all running at the same time (and often do) and my taskbars still don't run out of room.

Same here. I don't do a lot of audio on any of my computers. I have stayed with XP due to a "bug" that others would probably seek a "fix" for but I want this "bug" and kinda can't do "without". I do not do "screensavers", I want my monitor to turn OFF and even a "blank" black-screen screensaver DOES NOT turn the monitor OFF, it only turns all of the pixels to as low as they can go, but the monitor is STILL ON. I do not like that, I want the monitor to turn OFF. So I use the power scheme instead to turn the monitors off after 15 minutes of idle time. BUT the "bug" is that on my FIVE-monitor system, one of those five will not turn off via power scheme. So I keep the e-mail and text-messaging programs on that monitor. With the other four OFF, I can still walk by an "idle" computer and see if any e-mails or texts have come in (I work from a home office a large chunk of time).

Being the Funny Farm, I'll induldge and claim that there are multiple ways to interpret this. I do NOT claim D.Draker to be in this list, I only read his reply and the "gears" started turning. 1) I live in an expensive city, I am rich and can afford to live here. You are poor and cannot afford to live here. Please go back to where you are from, we are better off here without your presence. 2) I live in an expensive city, I am rich and can afford to live here. I have to assume that the visiting foreigners leave because they are not rich. 3) I live in an expensive city, I am rich and can afford to live here. I wish that our city turned ugly so that it is removed from international travel agency tourist attraction lists and I wouldn't have to deal with foreigners visiting all the time. 4) I live in an expensive city, I wonder if this city being so awesome is why we have so many foreigners visiting all the time? I wonder if being a tourist attraction is why this city is an expensive city? 5) I live in an expensive city, I am living paycheck-to-paycheck and struggle to make ends meet. But I love this city and it's worth the struggle. 6) I live in an expensive city, I am living paycheck-to-paycheck and struggle to make ends meet. But I cannot save up enough money to afford to relocate so I am stuck with enduring this struggle. 7) I live in an expensive city, I wonder if all of these visiting foreigners are here to look for a new home, find it too expensive and can't afford it, so they leave? 8) I live in an expensive city, I wonder if all of these visitng foreigners saved 50 years just to be able to afford to visit this one-and-only-one expensive city? 9) I live in an expensive city, I wonder if all of these visiting foreigners are traveling the globe, one expensive city at a time, and living the Good Life having saved for an awesome retirement?

I too doubt that SSE3 vs non-SSE3 has much impact. I actually quite like Speedometer - I can tell just by its score if YouTube is going to "stutter". (Though I guess if that is the metric, then just go to YouTube directly, lol.) But I am talking desktop/laptop only. I've never ran any browser from a mobile device - why run on a 3" x 5" screen when the desktop has five widescreen monitors?

Great example! But also a user-discretion, in my opinion. One of my CAD packages for PCB layouts does use windowed Direct3D rendering across multiple screens when I run in Win 7 (I suspect Vista SP2 also but I have never owned Vista for company needs). But it gives me ocular migraines and I never understood "why". I still run that CAD package to this day - but inside an XP VirtualBox VM running from a Win 7 "host" (now upgraded to Win 10 but the CAD package still runs through that XP VM). I should try the CAD package directly installed on Win 10 but that particular CAD package is showing its age and is only used with my "legacy clients".

I kind of see both sides. There is the saying "you get what you pay for". And we are talking about XP. XP is a paid-for Operating System. But clearly a thread like this can't go out and buy twenty different antivirus programs just for the sake of MSFN Assistance.

That's one way to date XP. But I think of XP as being from 2008 because that's when SP3 was released. Unsure when the last official (non-POSReady) hotfix rolled out - 2014? 2017? Don't recall. Ubuntu users don't define their OS as being released in 2004, do they? I'm not even sure how to "date" Win 10. I kind of think of the different versions of Win 10 as "service packs". Potato, potahto (phonetics saying in the US).

lol, I guess that is one way to interpret. If we are counting non-working, then please make it SEVEN. The '53 Studebaker doesn't drive - but the engine does work, so does that count?

Front Note: "you" in the US is plural and I use it here in that fashion. "you" does not 'equal' AstroSkipper. I agree in the sense that if you "fully support" a program, you don't generally concern yourself with being "counted" by embedded telemetry doing that "counting" and reporting back to The Creator. But even as such, there are generally Opt-Out clauses where the consumer can decide for him/her self if they want to be "counted" or not. Some consumers are concerned that their anti-virus has data on them being, purely as an example, both as a church-goer and as a frequent visitor to "Web Site X" (or should I call it "Web Site XXX"?). I personally follow the philosophy that if you want "privacy" and not be "tracked" online, then you need to pull the plug and live in a cardboard box. Or something like that, lol.

If you want to be truly fair, then you have to say that about "all" antivirus programs, regardless of what country it came from. https://restoreprivacy.com/antivirus-privacy/ (April 2021) https://tweaklibrary.com/is-antivirus-tracking-on-you/ (August 2021) https://www.howtogeek.com/540658/is-your-antivirus-really-spying-on-you/ (January 2020) https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/antivirus-tracking-youd-surprised-sends/ (March 2020) https://www.pcmag.com/news/do-antivirus-programs-spy-on-you (December 2013, too old to be relevant but listed since PC Mag is a respected source, by most standards) https://www.securityweek.com/how-antivirus-software-can-be-perfect-spying-tool/ (January 2018, also old, but also the same time frame as most of these XP antivirus programs) "Security" and "privacy" go hand-in-hand. One has to be cautious that they didn't give up one in order to gain the other. Just my opinion, of course. Opinions are like butts. Everybody has one, doesn't mean everybody wants to hear them.

"Default" means I unzipped it and ran as-is, did not add any extensions, and it does not play DRM content.

Not by default. https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm

Does your about:config show the word "techsmith" anywhere?

How so? I have Windows Server 2003 and it looks exactly like XP Pro. The two can both be made to look exactly like each other, it's all just the "theme" and theme support exists in both. The 98SE crowd would always use the Win2k "classic" theme, but I myself disliked the classic theme and would use the same theme as XP Pro. I didn't have to install the Pro theme on Server, it was already there and only needed selected/enabled.

The two can co-exist. I leave it at that.

Did the "Virus signatures updated" page's signature number change? The "Last Updated" could still be misleading and the actual signature number be the same virus signatures from BEFORE the "update". The "My Bitdefender" clearly reads Could not connect to server, are you 100% sure that your virus signatures were updated? Wouldn't these come from the same server that was unable to be connected to?

This seems extreme and equivalent to your ban-all-Russian request. Why thwart competition? We currently have two competing paths towards the "Future of Chrome on Windows 7". 1) Catsxp -- Vanilla Windows 7 2) Supermium -- Extended Kernel Windows 7 The two can co-exist.

The YouTube "version" is not the same as the version posted by AstroSkipper. YouTube's is .1099. AstroSkipper's is .1109.

I myself would not go by the "last updated" date in the GUI but rather look at timestamp info for the definitions file. I only say that because we can't rule out that what you downloaded "today" and thusly reported by the GUI as "last updated" is actually an OLD definition database. Not sure how to verify that, but just saying it is "possible".

Or perhaps another test could be a Roytam Fork test. He compiles SSE and non-SSE versions. Does Speedometer 2.0 score different in SSE versus non-SSE?

It should throw a banner uner the address bar / tab bar if SSE3 is not active. If you are not seeing this banner, then I'm not sure if the slowness is SSE3-related or not. Is there an "emulator" or "virtual machine" program that can run XP with or without SSE3? VirtualBox doesn't seem to support CPU flags such as emulating SSE3 or not.