NotHereToPlayGames

"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!

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.