NotHereToPlayGames

I have never worked in an IT Department. NEVER. I do use "IT deparment", IN QUOTES, as a REFERENCE to how STUPID our company's "IT department" is!

Fair enough, I can agree with that.

I'm not a fan of "extended kernels". Seems they have been a huge "target for takedowns" at github et alia. Unsure if MSFN moderators "want" projects that github "takes down" to migrate to here. Feel free to ask them directly.

I could do what your followers do - ask for proof of being a mathematician.

Still quite strange! You're a self-proclaimed "mathematician", so as you know, TWO data points do NOT form a hypothesis. Seems to me that the variable that needs changed for this research is no longer POSReady=0 versus POSReady=1 but something else. Can you perform this test between two different CPUs? Both of them with POSReady=0! Both of them with XP + SP3 + post-SP3 thru 2014.

Still very strange. Thorium works great for me without POSReady. I can easily "clone" my XP VM and install POSReady if that helps in this "investigation". It's quite confusing how Thorium can work FLAWLESSLY for me without POSReady but crash for you. For your "without" POSReady - are you referring to a "real" XP from the ground up? Or are you referring to a POSReady XP that later had the POSReady "uninstalled"?

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Define "custom oses". If you are customizing a MICROSOFT operating system, this is not the forum for you to post them!

Is it base Thorium crashing? Or Thorium "plus" a handful of extensions? My only Thorium is "base", no extensions, no flags, just ran directly from the portable .bat. Until it becomes truly "ungoogled", it's really just something I follow the development of and see if it matures into something of use to me - it's not technically there yet, but I do have high hopes. Higher than Supermium, at least "so far".

What is RAM utilization at time of crash? Over 80%?

Not that I'm aware of. But I know that it runs in my XP VM with zero runtimes installed - no .NET, no DirectX, no Java, no Visual C++, no runtimes of any kind. I install runtimes in my real XP machines, but I want my VM to be as tiny as possible.

Since you edited to add bold and underline. You may want to consider that I am very likely the ONLY member of MSFN that runs XP (both x86 and x64), both in VM and real era-correct hardware (slower performance than yours, as I recall), that does NOT install POSReady.

Yes. Thorium works great for me in XP x86 SP3, fully updated, without POSReady (you already know my "view" on POSReady, wink wink, it "killed" a past XP machine with several CAD programs, forced a complete reinstall, have never touched POSReady since). On all three of the following -- Single-core VM. Dual-core real hardware. Single-core Intel Atom. Also works great in XP x64 SP2, fully updated, unsure if POSReady is even "for" x64 (never tried POSReady in x64, never will). I actually have the exact opposite experience with Supermium. Crashes or won't even launch for me. Only tried it on my single-core Intel Atom and in single-core VM.

SOLVED IT !!! Once you "bold" all the vowels, the password 'catches on fire' and all the rules go from green to red as the letter or number is turned into a "flame" and that rule is no longer met.

Closer... But really, a bold letter in a password ???

Getting closer.

All I know is "keep doing what you are doing". Three or four of you will be over 10k in no time! All the power to you! I agree with the moderators that keep saying it is a meaningless number. But ask any newcomer and they'll disagree. They see mod or admin next to a user's name, that means something. They see a huge "reputation" score and that means something. I literally just laugh each and every time I see one person post ten likes in a row when I launch my MSFN shortcut - https://msfn.org/board/discover/ I just see it as some sort of CONTEST on who will hit 10k first.

May not have a solution. The chess move violation of c8 is only there to pass Rule 10 captcha.

made it past Daily Wordle, lol

My guess is that you can not make it past this:

Changing passwords every 90 days is a SECURITY RISK in my opinion. It "creates" a work environment where people WRITE THEIR PASSWORD on a post-it note and that post-it note is usually quite easy to find! I can show you two dozen offices here at work where there is a post-it note "hidden" on the underside of the cubicle shelf that contains the desk lighting.

Shhh. Don't tell my IT Department! My work computer "forces" us all to change our password every 90 days. And the "system" will not let us change to any of our last TWELVE passwords. So you asked what I do - my password has technically been IDENTICAL for the last TWENTY YEARS !!! Every 90 days, I change my password thirteen times in roughly 4 minutes with that 13th password being the same EXACT password I've been using when I first started working for this company!

I've had better luck with Thorium. Not such luck with Supermium. Both are early in development so time will tell. My remaining XP machines are either dual-core without hyperthreading or Intel Atom processors. Supermium crashes for me on these XP machines.

Have you tried that one? If so - good, bad, or indifferent? I thought I tried it on XP x64 and it DID NOT LAUNCH. Do not recall offhand.

You will notice that an admin stopped by and "took care of it" (many thanks, btw). *ALL* of this BOTS posts have been deleted/hidden. His "Introduce Yourself" bot-post = gone. His "Vista games" bot-post [over 1yr old] = gone. His vote for Athlon over Pentium in the Poll Center [over 1yr old] = gone. That *IS* what "bots" do. They reply to a DEAD THREAD with a MEANINGLESS post that says NOTHING. Replying to a DEAD THREAD is not against forum rules (it's just a tell-tale sign that the person doing the posting just might not be a "real person"). 9. Do not bash old topics when a member has made it active again; it's been made active for a good reason: to answer an unanswered question, or to bring up new information. It does not need to be closed or deleted. In the case above (already deleted/hidden by an admin, thanks again!), an OLD TOPIC was made active again, but it was NOT by a "member". It was by some computerized BOT with a HISTORY of replying to OLD THREADS with MEANINGLESS posts that say NOTHING. No "person" is doing the typing/posting. It's all computerized/automated. Carry on, my dear MSFN Friend. I think I made my point and this "conversation" has ran its course. No need for either one of us to continue this "discussion" at this point. Though yeah, it gives your "gang" OFF-TOPIC posts to throw their "likes" at. Gives the rest of us something to laugh at. You are all correct! You all have very HIGH "reputations" now. All because of these "likes". Some say they don't mean anything, but NEWBIES to the forum see them, you guys are doing great, "you win".