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After a few reads on mscorsvw, your configuration has the operating system "optimizing your machine to launch apps faster". I would seek out that configuration setting and disable it. "Optimizations" going on behind your back is never a good thing, IMO. I'll add that once it took me three days to figure out why an online radio station would have choppy audio. The culprit there turned out to be the disk drive "defragmenting" itself behind my back - I no longer allow disk drives to "defragment" behind my back.

Next time you see it at 100%, see if mscorsvw is running - if so, you have a .net process updating or even "optimizing itself", axe it and see if svchost's percentage drops. As a rule of thumb, I axe anything called "updater".

I'd also look at what "services" you have running. I seem to recall that a small handful of services show up as "svchost.exe".

That is generally a required process. But you could have something "piggybacking" that process (I don't recall the correct term). Show a screencap of your Task Manager's "Processes" tab and I bet there is something else running that looks "suspicious".

I never was able to fully restore Luna. I created an XP skin from screencaps of Luna buttons and then embedded those into a 360Chrome skin .srx file (which is nothing more than a .zip file).

I could ask the same of you and the answer would be the same. 1) would take a great deal of time 2) are there enough users interested to warrant that time From what I see (so far), there are only about 6 of us that use 360Chrome as their default and all 6 of us have been able to tweak our own editions into a variation we ourselves are satisfied with. I don't know software distribution rules, I never read the so-called must-read "license" info - I'm not a lawyer and reading "legal-ease" (if that's a word) piques zero interest. But it would be interesting to know if it is "legal" to create an "MSFN Version" of 360Chrome and distribute that to forum-users ??? And then the "6 of us" with that vested interest of this being our default can collaborate as a team and first agree on which build number to use as our base and then create that "MSFN Version".

I run Win XP and therefor before the days of Aero.

It's been 9 months or so since I started using 360Chrome as my default browser - I have lost track of the NUMEROUS changes I have made along the way to get it to a stage where I trust it. I do think that there are enough of us here that we should be able to create a version that other users can trust as their default as well. I use XP as my default OS and this is the only browser I have run across that can run in XP while being able to do pretty much everything the "modern web" throws at it. I'm sure we can find exceptions for what it cannot do but those exceptions would also likely not coincide with my "normal usage" so I don't see the need to prove what it can't do. Like I say, it's my default, I have a vested interested in being able to trust it and that's why I monitor this thread.

I do recall that one of my fixes was a replace-all and converted all "360.cn" with "broken" (same number of characters). But I cannot remember how many different files (plural) that I made the 360.cn -> broken change in. Maybe we need a "definitive" guide instead of several of us doing changes on our own and we are all doing bits-and-pieces here-and-there? I've monitored connections on my own version and I'm satisfied with my own results - but I did not document all of the changes along the 9 months or so it took me to get here.

ENOUGH !!! We all know your view on this, we are all attempting to create a version for ourselves with all of the telemetry removed. Let us all strive for that end-in-mind and cease with "added commentary" PLEASE !!! NONE of us have denied that telemetry exists, be it Chinese or Russian. Onward and upward, my friend

In options.zip, I have made changes to five files inside of it -- appstore.js options.html options.js options_page.css privacy_security.js

I wonder if that connection is skin-related? Here is the list of files that I have changed, I could reverse-engineer my changes but it would take time -- root folder -> Chrome -> 360Loader.ini -- should have no effect as far as telemetry goes root folder -> Chrome -> Application -> 360chrome.exe -- no effect, removed Chinese from file -> properties root folder -> Chrome -> Application -> 13.0.2206.0 -> chrome.dll and options.zip and resources.pak root folder -> Chrome -> Application -> 13.0.2206.0 -> Locales -> en-US.pak root folder -> Chrome -> Application -> 13.0.2206.0 -> skin -> en_skin.srx and skin.srx root folder -> Chrome -> User Data -> Default -> Bookmarks and Favicons and Preferences and Web Data -- these just revert to a default state when profile is rebuilt and to prevent fetching of favicons when default bookmarks are restored root folder -> Chrome -> User Data -> skin -> geekkoedlankmgbjiogodoaibieloiep.srx -- this is just my default WIN-XP skin and by copying this to new profile I don't have to visit skin-select page then do my WIN-XP changes over again

That's not one of my hosts file entries and build 2206's bookmark manager is not connecting to that IP/address. I don't know for certain if one of my other tweaks/customizations disabled that connection or if build 2206 just doesn't attempt that connection. I would kind of have to rebuild my tweaks/customizations from the ground up to isolate. Seems I should have taken better notes along the way but at that time this thread was kinda dead and too many users abandoned 360Chrome too hastily.

I stopped updating at build 2206. I've spent a lot of time with how there are "lookup strings" as far as how the language "locales" (ie, "en-US.pak") work and several of these "lookup strings" stopped working after build 2206 (unless 2250 fixed them, I have not checked). I'd have to review my modifications to recall where they are at and how they were fixed, there were several typos that once you see them, you can't not see them. I know one of them was in the Speedup / Optimize Memory tool info dialog boxes. There are also several typos like uplaod instead of upload but I don't recall when those show up. Once those "lookup strings" did not function as they did in previous releases, I stopped updating. It is on my to-do list to benchmark/compare build 2206 with the beta versions that @Dixel uses but I have not done that as of yet. edit -- for purposes of my archive, was there any version 13 builds between build 2220 and build 2250?

Did you remove the Russian Language setting in the Preferences file? <excerpt> C) Changes made to the file "Preferences" (in Chrome/User Data/Default) - I searched for the "accept_languages" entry and then modified the line "accept_languages": "ru-RU,ru,en-US,en" and replaced by "accept_languages": "en-US,en". This action allows to display websites in English and not in Russian. </excerpt>

Perhaps something in your Options -> Advanced settings?

I don't think @Dixel is referring to me on that one. There were several conspiracy theory discussions in the 360Chrome thread(s) but I have moved on and accepted that @Dixel and I simply had a case of misunderstanding and I have moved beyond it. I haven't seen the need to dig up any sort of "history" as far as on my end. I think I have a relatively good history here of being "helpful" and staying "out of the fray". Long Live MSFN... Long Live Win XP...

Thanks for the links. I have not seen the traffic cited but nor have I dedicated hours/days/weeks to try to catch a needle in a haystack. Regardless, the fewer number of services running on my computer the better - so again, many thanks.

That is my experience as well. I just block the settings page connections via my HOSTS file. I have not removed those HOSTS file entries to see if the latest fixes submitted by @Humming Owl prevents those connections or not.

I technically only download from https://lrepacks.net/repaki-programm-dlya-interneta/182-360-extreme-explorer-amp-portable.html But they only keep the link to the most recent. So unless I upload my own copies downloaded from above link, then I don't know of any better place to find the "betas". @Dixel - when you refer to your preference for one of the early betas, which build number by chance?

From what I've seen regarding next release is just GUI and Store changes. No "real" changes under the hood, just the way it "looks" and the Store (which I axe anyway).

I was unable to get all three monitors to work when I tried Win 8 on my secondary computer.

Definitely high. My i7-4770 runs 40c +/- 2 at idle.

I see no "lack of care" but if there were, that would be a GIGANTIC PLUS in my book.

True dat. The rest of the story was more about how dad has been bitten time and time again on rental properties and how "my generation" has done much better staying AWAY from real estate "as an investment". A place to LIVE, of course, but not as an "investment".