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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
They do. I know I've tested that in the past (I own 8 computers!). But I don't recall if I had to do anything "special" or not. -
I'm "mixed" on that, to be honest. I really don't "expect" XP to last 'forever' and I actually support developers that stop supporting XP. But I equally support developers that continue to support XP. I personally AGREE with "official" Pale Moon's decision to no longer support XP. I certainly do not support "official" Pale Moon trying to axe down any developer that does wish to continue support for XP.
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I've never actually used "Firefox", strictly speaking. I've used IE6, IE8, GreenBrowser, Sleipnir, SlimBrowser, Opera 12, QupZilla, official Pale Moon 28, Chromium 49, NM 27, NM 28, Mypal 27, Mypal 28, and now 360Chrome. All as "daily-for-everything" browsers spanning months, if not years, but all eventually died out like "Firefox" [as far as XP-support and web compatibility]. I've tried literally dozens outside of that list, but they were more out of curiosity and none of them became "daily-for-everything".
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POSReady 2009 updates ported to Windows XP SP3 ENU
NotHereToPlayGames replied to glnz's topic in Windows XP
My favorite. And it's a bonus that my beloved NY Mets won the World Series in '69 -
THREE of my computers were GIVEN to me all because of the previous owner taking a computer with XP on it and installing 10 then hating the computer ever since so they went out and bought brand new and give me their "slow" Win10 computer.. Back up to speed once you reformat and install XP.
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Running Windows 98 in 2020 and beyond...
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Wunderbar98's topic in Windows 9x/ME
That's the equivalent of throwing money into the toilet and flushing it into the sewer. It takes a disciplined spender, but I purchase EVERYTHING on "cash-back" credit and it's always paid-in-full each and every month. That "cash-back" adds up and is "free money". -
Running Windows 98 in 2020 and beyond...
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Wunderbar98's topic in Windows 9x/ME
I have four laptops and almost never use them. I've always advised AGAINST them. People will claim to buy them for "portability" but then they end up on a DESK and NEVER MOVE FROM THAT DESK. You could have purchased a DESKTOP instead of a laptop and gotten TWICE the computing power at HALF the cost. Two of those laptops are from former employers, I got to keep them at the end of my employment with those companies. The third is an Acer Aspire One that I mistakenly thought would be useful for its size and portability. I've used it twice in the last three years. The fourth is a garage laptop for tuning turbo cars as a hobby. The laptop ties in with aftermarket EPROM engine-control-unit and sits in the pasenger seat running diagnostics when doing 0 to 60 in 1.8. -
Since I have heard this type of "Placebo Effect" 'advice' for twenty-plus years, I'll screencap PROOF that a cluttered desktop has ZERO EFFECT on your bootup time. I encourage all of the "non-believers" to run this test themselves - so that I don't have to spend the next twenty-plus years listening to this type of 'advice'. Google for a freebie program called "BootRacer" - it MEASURES your bootup time and REMOVES the d@mn "Placebo Effect" nonsense, "Wow! I cleared the clutter from my desktop and my computer boots faster." No! It does not! I have FIVE widescreen monitors and a LOT of room to store files on the "desktop". Here's my screencap of my NORMAL desktop (five monitors, the black region kinda shows how all five line up) - it booted in 33.609 seconds I downloaded a torrent of 810 landscape images and placed them on my desktop - My bootup time DECREASED and booted in 32.125 seconds! That's right, it DECREASED with a "cluttered desktop"! Boot time will fluctuate a few seconds between boots, but cleaning your desktop will not cause a computer that boots in 60+ seconds to miraculously boot in 20 seconds. Q. E. D. The icons on the deskop go "off-screen" to the right and not on the two monitors placed "above" the first three monitors. This desktop-clutter myth dates back to Win98 (and "maybe" is/was true for Win98), but it is NOT true for XP.
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"Placebo Effect". A cluttered desktop only loads ICONS into memory and this is but a few TINY TINY TINY kilobytes of resources. A cluttered desktop does not effect how long it takes Windows to load. This is one of those "Placebo Effect" 'solutions' that NOBODY takes MEASUREMENTS ON because THE MEASUREMENTS PROVE THE THEORY WRONG. If clearing your desktop gives you a warm "fuzzy", then go right ahead. But it will NOT improve your startup time. The truth is, people that are OCD about their desktop icons (which includes me!, btw), are also OCD about their Windows REGISTRY - and this is what keeps our computers loading efficiently. Okay, "having said that"... @Dibya - please run some registry cleaners. Here's a good read to get you started - https://www.lifewire.com/free-registry-cleaners-2626176
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
NotHereToPlayGames replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
10+ minutes of a total waste of time, in my opinion. I gave it 70 seconds and am kinda ticked off with myself for giving it that long. Just not a "tuber" fan. All of these "video" sites that people complain don't work with such-and-such a browser, I've never heard of most of them, I got a thousand things better to do. Heck, even YouTube was NEVER visited until folks around here kept insisting that we need 360Chrome to run twenty different YouTube videos simultaneoulsly as some sort of "crash test". But I guess "to each their own", as the saying goes. -
On second thought, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME with a screencap. Because it really DOES NOT MATTER. Most of us started using 360Chrome because Roytam browsers STOPPED WORKING on HUNDREDS of web sites. Why would I take a step BACKWARD and go to DcBrowser when it suffers this same fate? I cannot pay my water bill using DcBrowser so DcBrowser is NOT WORTH MY TIME.
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It is NOT a "remote font". It is NOT SP2 versus SP3. It is DirectWrite font rendering, PERIOD. Research DirectWrite in your free time. Please post a screencap of your DcBrowser without any web page open but with the settings dialog open. It is VERY POSSIBLE that you just can't SEE the font issue, not everybody can.
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I am officially REMOVING DcBrowser from my To-Do List. Aside from GUI DirectWrite issues (will vary from system to system), it also does not work for American Water (a billpay site that also doesn't work on ANY of Roytam releases [you do not need an account to test, the login does not work on older browsers, not even to tell you that your username/password is incorrect]).
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Can anyone find download links for OLDER versions of DcBrowser? I can only find versions 4.0.3.6, 4.0.7.14, and 4.0.7.22 -- and I need something OLDER. Perhaps a 3.0.x.y because the GUI in the 4.0.x.y branch is absolutely HORRENDOUS due to the lack of anyway to disable "DirectWrite". GUI fonts are "squished". Absolutely HORRENDOUS LOOKING on my system.