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Too sophisticated, unless you're a really high ranked government official. Besides, I'm not aware of such cases in real life scenarios.

You're welcome! On the other hand, Thorium may not understand the standard Chromium flags. Usage Stats is what of the most interest. It needs to have a value of zero.

I thought it was before the flags got applied, because those surely look like the telemetry (stats) is in full swing.

Good! In my case that severely outdated piece of garbage from 2001 package added about a couple of seconds to the start of each browser. Another reason I found, old versions of Nero. Probably due to the bundled severely outdated codecs. Take a look at your third party codecs (if you have any). Shark, K-Light, etc.

@NotHereToPlayGames, did a bit of digging regarding the slow startups/hang ups you get. By any chance, do you have Direct X9.0 A/B/C redist installed? EDIT. OS doesn't matter.

It's always advisable to disconnect any LAN cables, remove WiFi card from laptop physically, or put up a copper screen (shield) above and around it, to block the signal when you install any Windows.

Probably, if you disable Windows Driver Foundation service, it will go away with it? https://itechbrand.com/fix-windows-driver-foundation-high-cpu/ https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/how-to-disable-windows-driver-foundation-for-real.3797465/

You're welcome, FranceBB! It would be a bit naive to think Microsoft will publicly share a programme that switches off all logging that easily. For me, after I ran the programme, the two pesky ones was there. Namely, SCM and ETW. But it's on Vista. I had to dig them up manually. WUDFTrace is related to logging up drivers' activities. It's not in "security" group. It doesn't run on Vista by default. Did you debug drivers, by any chance? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/wdf/debugging-umdf-2-0-drivers

@AstroSkipper, speaking of the registry entries, are yours the same? I mean, when you applied the anti-metrics flags. Thanks.

This will help you. https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/services/scm/events/wpp.htm

Please run cmd as admin, then enter the command logman query -ets It must show zero loggers. If it shows some are still running, the programme doesn't work as expected.

It's an overkill, I'd stick with 25-40W max. 60w is usually used only when it's hard to melt, like PSU board or smth like that. And don't forget to ground it!

jaclaz, you're absolutely right, no doubt. The problem is - that person originally wrote about external HDD in boxes, which are (and you know it perfectly fine) absolutely different matter due to the onboard chip that emulates sectors for XP, just like again we explained. We probably need to pin it up to avoid further confusing posts like from that person. Related matter is, starting somewhere in 2017(?) they ceased to make such external boxes, the disk and its contents is fully visible when connected via SATA directly to a Vista machine, but not visible in XP anymore, of course. XP suggests to format it.

Microsoft VPN will surely work with Bing.

It's only when you connect the HDD via SATA directly to the Mobo, but it would mean it's NOT external anymore. It's internal.

No, wrong, it depends on the year of manufacture. I had dozens of such 4TB drives made by WD, produced somewhere in 2014 - 2015. All worked as intended.

Nice, but only if Microsoft will flatten to the ground those pesky sites that always want to see your IP so they can track you. Cloudfare, for example. Otherwise - useless, and it looks more like a marketing strategy. If such sites will still block that VPN, too, this whole idea serves no purpose to us.

What makes you think I didn't understand? You wrote "external". External ones always worked because they were meant to - by using a conversion chip on-board.

If those are ready-made boxes, why wouldn't they? Those include a chip which makes all conversions on the fly. The question is, would they work (be seen with files), if removed from that boxes and connected directly, most likely - no.

IDA-RE-things says the dll has nothing to do with the acceleration. Probably nothing more than placebo effect and/or pure coincidence? "We have no any Video decode acceleration handling in progwrp.dll. " https://msfn.org/board/topic/186133-thorium/?do=findComment&comment=1267631

I don't have GTX 980 or anything from 900 series, but I've just tried on an El-cheapo Acer notebook with nVidia 820M, Driver version 348.12 (Acer exclusive, came on the disk). It has the same issue with AV1 freezing! S,o we have a third, fully confirmed case!

"enhanced-h264ify" needs to be fully uninstalled for the browser to be able to properly load AV1, HEVC and VP9.

Inability of this browser to properly play such common format as AV1, which is literally everywhere now, is indeed on-topic, so don't be shy to post your issues. I just checked the link, it also froze on me, so we both have the same issue on the same series of 700 nVidia cards, despite being on different OS.

Because he wrote you, he has an extension "enhanced-h264ify" that prevents AV1 from loading and replaces it with H264. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186133-thorium/?do=findComment&comment=1267642

Looks like for House Flipper 2 Build 14522811, too! Genres: Lifestyle, First-person, 3D