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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBk3dJNSQks

CONTEXT is difficult to convey. Especially in written form on an international forum. I do not recommend using the word "dude" as a "greeting". ie, as the first word in a sentence "directed at" whomever you are speaking to. You most certainly do not approach a law enforcement officer, a college professor, a priest or rabbi, a politician, a ruler of a country, basically any position of respect and authority, and start your sentence off with "dude". Like I say, CONTEXT is difficult to convey. But "dude" as a "greeting" and then followed by "did you even read" does have certain "undertones" that I would suggest most of us do not do when speaking to our own parents in honor and respect. So yeah, the word "dude" can be derogatory in nature, but it can also be an informal greeting to a friend within our peer group. But if I ever meet a foreign dictator, prince, princess, king, queen, president, vice president, et cetera, you can rest assured that the first word I utter will not be "dude".

Haven't tried it myself (I rarely make profile changes based on websites I've never visited), but have you tried either of these flags?

Agreed! And some of those captcha screens are CONFUSING. That's not a motorcycle, that's a scooter! That's not a mountain, that's a hill! That's not a 5, that's an S! You asked for TRAFFIC lights, a PEDESTRIAN walk or not walk is not a TRAFFIC light! You asked for BOATS, a YACHT and a BOAT are not one-in-the-same, let alone a NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER!

Have you tried manually editing the "Preferences" file (while 360Chrome is closed)?

Interesting. Is your E:\ directory a flash drive or a network drive?

In my opinion, yeah, that's BAD, but it's one of those topics that have hardcore believers "for" and hardcore believers "against". We live in an NTFS World. Some of us even live in an SSD World. But even those of us still spinning "platters", we live in a 7200rpm World and not a 5400rpm World. I believe in QUANTITATIVE and MEASURABLE results - don't tell me defrag makes your system "faster" unless you have DATA to back up that "placebo effect".

Always reminds me of Latka on Taxi -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymMyY4GNAE

Everyone's preferences will differ. I personally have never used (and most have been removed from my slipstreamed install media so are never "installed") things like "System Restore", "Automatic Updates", "Defrag", "Windows Firewall", "Indexing", "Diagnostics", "Font Cache", et cetera. I would rather have a fast and efficient OS then have "background processes" DEGRADING performance. I once filed a COMPLAINT with upper-management to get the local IT Department to cease-and-decist with them DEFRAGGING my hard drive!

That was my XP x64. My XP x86 is at 4.8 MB. Woot woot!

I'm at 6.2 MB. Do I win the day's Door Prize? edit - correction, 9.3 MB. Added wrong instances first time. I also prefer to KEEP the Network Connections Service (no wi-fi icon in systray without it and I prefer to keep the systray icon).

My everyday belt is from the early 90s and is a two-sided brown-on-one-side black-on-the-other-side that is only ever worn with black-side-out. The two "layers" started to delaminate 15/20 years or so ago and is being held together with STAPLES - "good as new". edit - and the even better news, I'm still on the same belt buckle hole from the early 90s!

That's always been my favorite firewall by far, and I've used HUNDREDS back in the day. MOST firewalls out there are made for "grandmas and grandpas" with SIMPLISTIC rules like "this is a web browser" or "this is an email client" and then the "pos" ASSUMES a set of ports to allow/block, ASSUMES tcp and udp actions, et cetera. ALL firewalls (and antivirus!) will "slow your computer down", but I think you'll be quite satisfied with that version of Comodo. Back in the day before I modified all OEM "installers" and ported all software to "portable", the parent-based rules in that firewall were a godsend! When an "installer" takes you to a HOME PAGE, for example, that firewall will BLOCK that access because the "parent" isn't the parent that NORMALLY launches your "default" web browser. I actually use a setup with Internet Explorer still set as my "default" but Internet Explorer is disabled, it cannot "launch" on my computer so anything that "tries to" just 'times out'. Much more "security" [there's that d@mn word again!] when your computer doesn't have a "default" web browser.

It's free, no activation required. You have the correct file. Lightweight, fast, efficient, parent-based rules (ie, you can block your default browser from accessing the internet if launched by another browser but allow it access if launched from a shortcut on the desktop).

I suggest version 2.4.18.184. If you can't find the installer then I can PM it to you.

I do have a sign hanging out in my garage. <last name> for Sheriff But it was actually my cousin that ran for sheriff about 18 years ago. One of my coworkers at the time "stole" it (after elections) on his way to work and gave it to me.

Sometimes I kinda have to wonder what some of you folks do in your spare time. Killing operating system .dll's and calling it "privacy" or "security" - trying to hide from the law? JUST JOKING. But maybe, just maybe, my browsing habits are more innocent than some of us that lay asleep at night wondering what operating system .dll's are "doing". But like I say, JUST JOKING... Mostly...

I seem to recall that @msfntor listed a very long list of IP Addresses that DCBrowser reaches out to. I've never been satisfied with DCBrowser but it does still remain on my To-Do List. I would encourage caution only in the sense that when 360Chrome was being "critiqued" for telemetry, we had between a dozen and two dozen folks doing that "critique". msfntor is basically the ONLY person that has done any level of critiquing on DCBrowser.

Puppy Knoppix Red Hat Mint Cinnamon Kubuntu

Bummer. I let Recuva scan for files overnight. It found files on the hard drive from 2017! I have a stack of installation disks for every install (AutoIt scripts are updated with every installation disk). I've installed Windows XP x64 SP2 ELEVEN times since then! But it couldn't find files accidentally deleted a mere half an hour before running Recuva because (I think) the folder file name began with a "!" so that it would list at the top in my file manager when listed in alphabetical order.

Do not delete this file just because Vista works without it. XP may work without it also, I have not tested, just saying that 360Chrome did not put that .dll in your system32 folder. For reference -- https://xpdll.nirsoft.net/esent_dll.html

Neither is telling people to use Linux on a thread entitled "Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes" !!! !!! !!! Seriously! I get so d@mn tired of "use Linux, use Linux, use Linux". But anywhoo...

Recuva took an hour and a half to get to 18% and the estimate jumped to 6 hours! Aborted scan. Trying Wise Data Recovery. It's at 28% after half an hour or so. Fingers crossed. It's all AMERICAN WATER'S FAULT (my local water "monopoly"). Their d@mn billpay website requires v13 or v13.5 effective as of a month and a half or so ago. So I was in the middle of a ground-up profile-build of NoScript, uMatrix, Tampermonkey, and Stylus for site-specific configs. Most was all Stylus style sheets to cut down on "heavy" billpay websites (internet/cable, water, sewage, natural gas, electric) that were not an issue in v11 but are in v13. Use my favorite lightweight v11 for everything except paying bills. Use v13 for paying bills. I HATE HAVING TO DO THIS. ONE BROWSER SHOULD BE USED FOR "EVERYTHING". But v13 is way too much of a memory hog for me to use on a daily basis.

That option does not avoid "all problems". It simply creates an entirely NEW set of problems.

Ugh! Holy H#77! Kicking myself all the way into next year! I had FOUR v13 360Chrome folders on the desktop so that I could load THREE of them into VMs for this "discussion". I accidentally deleted ALL FOUR and then deleted from the Recycle Bin also. ONE of those FOUR was six days work on a completely different and unrelated project! Fingers crossed that Recuva Scan can find them. Popup window for Recuva Scan says scan is going to take THREE HOURS! That's what I get for logging three registry files while I was already in the middle of a different v13 project! Ugh! Holy H#77!