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The repack is at version 13.0.2250.0. But like the last five or six releases, the Dev Tools is still in Chinese. Looks like I may be forever stuck at build 2206 when the Dev Tools was last released in English.

How do you test these and know which true/false settings to use? I generally DISABLE hardware acceleration as a rule-of-thumb but that's been based on too many people that report issues with it enabled.

Navigate to C:\WINDOWS\Installer and look for any folders that have any Mypal files. Delete those folders. Reboot and the icons should return to normal. If not, we may have to look into rebuilding the icon cache, it's been a while since I've done that so we'll cross that bridge if still required. ps - too late for this warning, but I never use "installers", everything on my computer is from manually extracted "installers" and self-created registry settings for programs that aren't natively "portable".

I can set up a temporary host and upload my copy if you want to go that route. wusus works well also, I've done that route in the past also but I myself prefer to have all updates "slipstreamed".

I reinstall about every 6 months. But nothing to do with Windows. My x64 slipstreamed installation disk is dated 2017 and my x86 slipstreamed installation disk is dated 2018. I've yet to encounter any reason to update Windows (XP). But I have a "disk 2" of automated and fully unattended application installations that all run with no user-interaction for about an hour after Windows is installed. So I install about once every 6 months because of updating "disk 2" of my Windows XP installs. It's always been fun to show people that "disk 2" doing its thing, mouse moving around, windows opening and closing, keyboard typing directory locations, EVERY aspect of setup completely automated without touching the mouse or the keyboard.

Since you are leasing, I would contact the cable company. You are paying for the equipment and that should be buying you tech support as well.

Here's the one that I use -- https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6400 I also use this in addition to the above -- https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7231 They are dated 2017 and my needs have never searched for anything newer so unsure if newer exists or not. And I avoid "pos" stuff for both x86 and x64 - they kept breaking too many of my applications and it wasn't worth my time to isolate which "pos" hotfixes were breaking what.

Agreed! Unless, of course, it is somehow your mission in life for the rest of us to exit stage left whenever you enter stage right.

Great! Yeah, two of my laptops are pretty finicky with the order that the drivers are installed (but only Win7 and Win10, my WinXP partitions never really seem to care). This order tends to always work -- chipset drivers -> card reader -> network -> bluetooth -> audio -> graphics

Personally, if it helps, I never search for drivers by "name". I would start by going to your Device Manager and selecting your Network adapters in question and uninstalling whatever you have installed (Vista default or otherwise). Highlight, right-click, uninstall. After you have uninstalled, now highlight, right-click, and select Properties. Go to the Details tab. Select Hardware Ids. You should see a list of numbers with VEN, DEV, and SUBSYS. Search for a driver using those identifiers and skip trying to find a driver by "name". This is from my WinXP x64 Device Manager -> Network adapters -> right-click Properties -> Details but you should be able to find something similar in Vista.

That was my experience, yes! v28 became my default-for-everything soon after its "sneak peek" version was released in May 2018. To me, v28 became increasingly sluggish soon after version 28.2.2 (official numbering, Roytam's equivalent was 28.1.0a1.win32-git-20180922). At that time, I "upgraded" to v27 and found its performance much better than v28. I never really researched at the time "why" v28 became so sluggish.

I'm seeing this "identifier" as USELESS. Here's why - isn't an "identifier" supposed to be able to IDENTIFY? Then why did I get 92.35% earlier this morning and now I'm at 91.87%? Easy, because OTHER PEOPLE are getting the same EXACT "identifier" as I am getting! Namely, "0FVVVV". And I got that "0FVVVV" in two different browser (BNav and 360Chrome).

What PERCENTAGE did it give you? Ignore the detected apps, it is the percentage that is telling you if you are "unique" or not, unless I'm mistaken. It didn't find any of my apps but only listed me at 92.35% I have Word installed (but it is version 2003). If the Adobe icon is for Acrobat Reader, I have it installed (but it is version 9.5.5). But on the other hand, if I have to DISABLE extensions that run by default just to get this thing to work, then I'm being PROTECTED in the wild and this demo was kind of pointless, IMHO.

Does anybody know of a way (userscript? addon?) to automatically fill in date fields? For example, one of my bill-pay websites have payment date fields where you enter the date to make the payment. These fields STUPIDLY default to the DUE DATE. I would like a userscript or an addon that would default these date fields to TODAY'S DATE *plus* two days. ie, visit the bill-pay website today (5/13/21) and the date field is automatically filled with 5/15/21. (This was a piece of cake using a web filter called PROXOMITRON, but I no longer really use it for a web browser proxy [I do still use it for Excel spreadsheet data queries] and would like an alternative solution.) Any suggestions?

lol, very very true. I didn't know what part of China you were from.

I sometimes really just can't help but laugh at some of the conspiracies that run rampant in these hallways. You don't trust Chinese software, I get it. You don't trust Russian software, I get it. But how about a little perspective here! The UNITED STATES is number 2 on the list of top hacking countries worldwide! China is #1, USA is #2, Turkey is #3, Russia is #4, Taiwan is #5, Brazil is #6, Romania is #7. That ordering was true in a 2012 article and remained the same order in a 2019 article - I'll leave the Google/Bing/Duck searches for your own free time. And, um, roytam1 is Chinese - I'll ask this, where do you think top Chinese Hackers got their start? Maybe by doing projects like roytam1? What will roytam1 be doing 30yrs from now? No offense to roytam1, I/we really do love your work! But come on, does MSFN really have to be so chock full of anti-this, anti-that at every turn of the corner? But I digress...

Right you are, I thought there were a few api files but upon double-checking, you are correct, there are none. I use the "portable loader", maybe that's 'sandboxing' everything and not letting my 360Chrome fetch OS runtimes? (which I'm okay with, TBH, as I prefer as much of my software to be "self-contained" as possible)

No, that screencap is from my XP x64 machine (my primary rig). But I have the same runtimes (x86 only, of course) on my XP x86 machines. From what I can see, "installed" runtimes have NO EFFECT on 360Chrome. In fact, I get the same benchmark figures from my XP x86, my XP x64, my Win 7 Enterprise (32bit), my Win10 LTSB (32bit), and even from my XP x86 VMs with NO RUNTIMES installed at all. So my 360Chrome is using ONLY the api files within its own subfolders and isn't grabbing any from the OS.

These are my system runtimes. I do not copy any api files into 360Chrome. As far as firewalls go, my nod goes to Comodo v2.4.18.184 (I no longer use a firewall on my host pc, but several of my VMs still use it).

I can only assume all of that was just so you could hear yourself talk...

I'm confused. Adding additional api-ms files killed your 360Chrome's performance, correct? So this demonstrates that 360Chrome found those api-ms files and loaded them, correct? So you removed the api-ms files and 360Chrome's performace returned back to normal. Then you installed the latest runtime and that killed 360Chrome's perfmance again, correct? I'm confused because I have the MS Visual C++ runtimes installed and IF my 360Chrome performed as poorly as Mini Browser then I assure you, I would NOT be using it. My 360Chrome really is extremely comparable to Mypal 27.9.4 or it would not have dethroned it as my default. And it gains me several dozens of websites that I simply could not visit using Mypal 27.9.4. Or even the newer New Moon v27's, New Moon v28's, and BNavigator, for that matter. Yes, we have to jump through a few hoops to get to a full English version and to prevent telemetry, but WELL WORTH IT in my view.

I really haven't done that much with Mini Browser but I do agree that I am thus far not impressed with it. However - with only 2GB RAM in a 1-cpu VirtualBox, my 360Chrome uses roughly the same amount of memory as my Mypal v27.9.4 when playing a YouTube video.

@CRK At the BARE MINIMUM, please do the above step. This will prevent the Russian pages you keep seeing. I also suggest the HOSTS file updates as a BARE MINIMUM in the post above the post copied above (see Page 1 of this thread). If you have a real interest in using 360Chrome, these procedures are not that difficult, even for a "new dog" to learn

For 360Chrome, I personally don't recommend anything newer than version 13 build 2206 for the "repack". Anything newer is "broken" as far as being used as an ENGLISH browser. I would suggest this thread also -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/182370-extreme-explorer-360-a-how-to-guide-converting-remaining-chinese-to-english/ 360Chrome v13 build 2206 has never crashed for me since upgrading Stylus to v1.5.17, I would get constant crashes during style edits on earlier versions of Stylus. I don't use uBlock Origin, I prefer uMatrix (development ended in late 2020 but it has matured to the point of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it").

Not really XP per se but sharing in case others may also benefit. My wireless network has always had a download speed of only 8-13 Mbps on the living room computer. But it has also always stayed in that range even when the living room Roku is streaming HD at 4-5 Mbps (bedroom Roku streams at 33 Mbps but it's six feet away from wireless router). Those living room speeds have always "been enough" so I never really worried too much about it. Until a new customer requested Webex meetings on a regular basis and the living room download speed had choppy audio unless the video was disabled for non-share meeting attendees. Here's my stumble-upon -- a program called Vistumbler - https://www.vistumbler.net/ (only tested on Win10 laptop and did not try the GPS and Google Earth features). And a few Google search articles regarding a Roku "feature" called 'interference mitigation' (enabled by default). Basically, against my knowledge and with no regard for "my" preference, the Roku 'by default' was using a "technology" to DEGRADE traffic on my other devices so that it could steal bandwidth for improved signal to itself! So very very very NOT COOL !!!... This "feature" was forcing my router to use Channel 2 (wireless should always use Channel 1, 6, or 11 for best performance). At any rate, after a long day of research and antenna signal strength testing and disabling Roku "features", my living room is now at a 19-23 Mbps download range (even saw 26 Mbps a couple times). The Roku's didn't change, one is still at 4-5 and the other is still at 33 - the "feature" did NOTHING to improve it's OWN speed, only to DEGRADE my other devices. We now return you to your regular channel (1, 6, or 11).