NotHereToPlayGames

You have (intentionally) MISSED THE POINT. People that post Windows-related questions are HYPOCRITES when they use DEROGATORY abbreviations tied to WINDOWS. It's an ENTIRELY different story if a LINUX user is posting LINUX questions and use the same DEROGATORY abbreviations - at least they PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS. Besides, it does NOT take a "capitalist" to be SMART ENOUGH to know that MS = Morgan Stanley and MSFT = Microsoft. Case closed.

Irony here, I just had a conversation this past week with a "friend of a friend". For the past TWELVE YEARS, this "friend of a friend" has never had a 'job' (ie, not on any 'payroll'). He does "gigs" instead. Install a furnace, only charges $600 in labor. Build a deck, only charges $600 in labor. Auto repair, only charges $600 in labor. New roof, only charges $600 in labor. The $600 always paid "under the table". Apparently it's some IRS Tax Loophole. This of course confused the H#LL out of me, so I asked question after question trying to understand. "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Needless to say, this "friend of a friend" is now JOB-HUNTING for a "real" job.

Here in my part of the US, you can buy your lunch via cryptocurrency. Pizza and hamburger establishments accept Bitcoin. Makes absolutely ZERO sense (or should I say cents?) to me. The "news" talks about cryptocurrency as an "investment". Um, is it? I can't go into those pizza and hamburger establishments and buy my lunch via "w.xy shares of Company Z" !!!

Here in my part of the US, large cash transactions are increasingly encouraged. Retail markets encourage cash by charging HIGHER for non-cash. Of course, the $40/mo for 30 months phone folks choose to pay the HIGHER cost.

Windows Firewall CAN and SHOULD be DISABLED in Win10 and Win11. Not that difficult! You should also go one step further and disable one of its "dependencies" (ie, BFE Service [Base Filtering Engine]).

I'll leave you to it then, I do not assist folks that feel the need to spell Microsoft in that manner. "To each their own."

So you want to run them first and then suspend? Why not disable them from running in the first place?

I highly suspect that you will be DISAPPOINTED. I have been *VERY* disappointed in every "tiny" os I have ever tried - BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REALLY TINY AT ALL! If you are SERIOUS about seeking a truly optimized, tweaked, debloated Windows, then WINREDUCER-EX is the ONLY real solution.

And if it were me, I would use the OLDEST XP driver-only that I could find. Yes, the OLDEST. Or at the very least, go by FILE SIZE and use the SMALLEST.

Not sure if this is going to help you or not but since it is related, I'll offer what I do know. My HP all-in-one (color printer, scanner, copier) is the PSC 1610. I've never used it via ethernet (unsure if it is even capable). It's always been via USB. I do know/recall that my XP setup did NOT use the HP "software" but the DRIVER ONLY. And I had to install that driver with the printer TURNED *OFF*. Then turned the printer on only after the driver was installed and the driver installation only continued after that first turn-on of the printer. Unsure if that helps. All I can suggest is to make sure you use the DRIVER ONLY from the HP support web site.

I've never owned a "tablet" and am therefore unsure if you can even install a printer on a "tablet". The only "tablets" I am familiar with are for (literally, not figurarively, despite the common error between the two words) 3 to 6 year old kids and all they do is play videos as a form of babysitting to said 3 to 6 year old.

I would suggest doPDF. All of your XP apps "see it" as a 'printer' but what it does instead is create PDF files instead of actual printouts. You put those on your USB and then do an actual printout from whatever that far-more-modern-printer is connected to.

True. One of the biggest reasons I started using PROXOMITRON way back in the day (though I admittedly rely solely on userscripts/userstyles nowadays). Again, PROXOMITRON to the rescue. At least for back in the day. Nowadays, I use this for those stupid animated GIFS -- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/animation-policy/ncigbofjfbodhkaffojakplpmnleeoee There are uBO lists that also block those "cookie notices". I prefer the userscript route but "tomaytoe, tomahtah".

Agreed. I remember when "annoying" used to be (depracated) MARQUEE to scroll text. EVERY web site you went to had these d@mn things. Way back then, the "not old people" learned how to combat the annoyance. And it's still us that do that combat nowadays. ie, I didn't even realize the web site had a "blue privacy/cookie notification". This is all I've ever needed for those -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432050-anti-cookies-consent

EXACTLY !!! And when you call up the tech support, tell them a little White Lie of "my bank account has a million in it and there is none of these puzzles to solve to access that million, so DO NOT tell me that you do it for 'security' or every bank on the planet would be using these puzzles but NONE OF THEM DO, it's only folks like you, never government web sites, never banks, never insurance companies, never pharmacies, never anything that NEEDS TO BE SECURE, it's always always always you RETAIL FOLKS breaking down PRIVACY all in the guise of 'security'."

I'm not seeing the "advantage". What am I missing? Before/After comparison?

Totally understood. I was forced into early retirement when the US Electric Vehicle industry basically failed all optimistic projections. Fixed income, was expecting another 5 to 8 years of work, too close to [full] retirement age for companies to choose me over somebody younger. So I'm kind of viewing it as a 1 or 2 year "vacation" then see where the US Electric Vehicle and my job skillsets fall with hiring market conditions. Odd twist of fate in a way. EV industry paid me good income, EV industry took that away several years too soon, and I personally *never* plan on owning an EV. So in an odd way, my own buying preferences as far as automotive goes kind of shot myself in the foot, lol.

"Been there, done that." I was on XP until just months ago (I forget my actual migration date, but it has been less than a year, maybe just over one but less than two). The computer I am typing at right now is 12yrs old. The computer in the home office is 18yrs old. Trust me! I do get it! I'm just "man enough" to ADMIT that those computers are that old out of a LIFESTYLE SPENDING CHOICE of spend-on-this and spend-on-that over upgrading a computer (or mobile phone). So YES, I do get it! The DIFFERENCE is that I am "man enough" to admit that I could "afford" a new computer WITH MONEY THAT I DO NOT HAVE just by shuffling around those LIFESTYLE SPENDING CHOICES. And my viewpoint is that is true for ALL OF US. And NOBODY "owes me" ANYTHING. Including web designers, I do not need their hand-out of them working around my lifestyle spending choices. We have to draw the line SOMEWHERE. It really is kind of "narrow sighted" of us to think that web designers should "focus" on maintaining functionality for when somebody running Windows 3.1 visits their web site !!! But anyway, I've derailed the thread more than necessary.

That's kind of par for the course in recent years. ie, that spoofing a UA 'almost always' works in Mozilla-based but 'almost never' works in Chromium-based. Also par for the course for the last several decades - ie, Mozilla behind the curve of technological advancements. I kind of MISS THE DAYS where I could do *MORE* in Mozilla then I could in Chromium. Maybe, just *MAYBE* that tide will turn again one of these days. At least the divergence isn't too wide, for the most part.

I do not own any Pentium D. Also, that seems a bit vague, "Pentium D" reveals a benchmark score of anywhere from a terrible 374 to an impressive 3240. That's only talking about the launch time for the GUI to load, that doesn't really reveal "good performance". For me, running all three v132s on the same exact hardware, Supermium is THE SLOWEST PERFORMANCE compared to "real" Chrome and "real" Chromium.

Technically, the developer doesn't have to create a portable version. Any web browser, be it Mozilla-based or Chromium-based, can be 'made into' a PORTABLE version by using a "loader". I've only used PORTABLE browsers for the last THIRTY YEARS.

Not the folks that I know. They live paycheck to paycheck, not a dime in savings, but can't keep a phone more than a mere six months or so without cracking it. They upgrade OFTEN, *very* often, not because they can "afford to", but because they eventually get tired of the cracked screen that their NEGLIGENCE added to the phone they do have. But that is also just *PROOF* that anybody and everybody can "afford" a phone. These folks were very likely raised BREAKING their toys left and right, with their parents ALWAYS telling them, "This is why you don't have NICE THINGS." So here they are, young adults, STILL BREAKING their toys, but EVERYBODY has choices to make in life, "Hmm, should I buy a new phone or pay for car insurance?" These folks opt for the phone over car insurance. Sure, not "all" of these 'kids these days', but you know what I mean, lol...

I never claimed that it is! NOR did the person that originally cited the "100", it was just a passing PHRASE *not* intended to be taken LITERALLY. YOU CAN AFFORD A COMPUTER OR A MOBILE DEVICE. I have 1-million-percent confidence in that statement. YOU CAN AFFORD ONE! I did not say that a computer costs 1% of your annual income or that it costs 10% of your annual income. The bottom-line REALITY is that EVERYBODY reading this CAN afford a computer or a mobile device. And I'd all but "bet" on it that EVERYBODY reading this has MORE THAN ONE (ie, one computer plus one mobile, or one computer plus two mobile, or two computers plus one mobile, or two computers plus two mobiles). You requested another member to "Please don't mislead people". SO WHY ARE YOU DOING THE SAME? You are ACTING LIKE you have to SELL A LUNG OR A KIDNEY to "buy a computer". And I am telling you, THAT IS MISLEADING PEOPLE.

It doesn't matter. Not when 56% of European market share is doing their internet activity on a MOBILE DEVICE versus 44% on a desktop PC. And the GLOBAL stats are 61% on a MOBILE DEVICE versus 39% on a desktop PC. My point remains - we the consumer are being HYPOCRITES if we think a web site should taylor specifically towards a TWENTY YEAR OLD COMPUTER when "follow the money" shows everybody, and I do mean EVERYBODY, is using their MOBILE PHONE for their banking transactions or whatnot and the REASON that their computer is 20yrs old is BECAUSE "follow the money" REVEALS that the consumer would rather buy a brand new MOBILE PHONE every two years and will spend sizable portions of income on that MOBILE PHONE yet hypoctritically claim a computer is outside of their affordability. Europe has the most affordable mobile data in the world, followed by Asia !!! https://www.broadband.co.uk/mobile-data-world-affordability By all means, DIG INTO THE REAL-WORLD NUMBERS, "numbers don't lie". Cost of a personal desktop pc is IRRELEVANT because nobody really uses them, nor expect to be able to, as they prefer to do their TikTok, or Facebook, or banking FROM THEIR MOBILE PHONE.

No offense, but people that spell Microsoft this way are OFTEN hypocrites. But I shall refrain into explaining why I believe this to be true 80-plus percent of the time and NOTHING more than a personification of "have versus have not". This is NOTHING against Mathwiz but more of a GENERALIZATION to "open the eyes" of anybody that has ever spelled Microsoft in this fashion. Sorry, just my "two cents"... ie, 2% of that $ used in said spelling... To each their own, of course.