NotHereToPlayGames

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.

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".

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.

They have Humming Owl's version. I see ZERO benefit to DcBrowser. It is a step BACKWARD as far as I'm concerned. It would be different if we had a "hundred" visitors to this thread. But we don't. We have less than a dozen and that number is decreasing by the day.

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.

Crap! That was a total waste of my time! Being Dibya's post was five and a half WEEKS ago.

"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

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.

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.

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]).

NOT relevant. I am referring to the GUI.

Here's the best way to describe it -- https://browser.taokaizen.com/chrome-directwrite/ Again, it's the GUI of DcBrowser, not the font rendering of web pages that you visit, it's the d@mn GUI itself that looks HORRENDOUS to my above average 20/10 vision!

The GUI looks like CRAP! I haven't visited any web page in DcBrowser because the GUI by itself LOOKS LIKE CRAP!

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.

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!