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You're mistaken. Remember, Google is still your friend

AFAIK, government-approved VPNs are allowed. ? NotHereToPlayGames is either using a government-sanctioned VPN, is a scofflaw, or is not posting from Russia. Struggle to see how this is relevant to the thread, explain? Any number of reasons.

"Explicit" as in showing [cartoon] genitalia? Horrifying... The dev has stolen my dreams and my childhood; my innocence is gone! Yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying

Nah, just interweb drama. [Cartoon] furry pron is illegal in UK? The dev left a furry pron Easter egg (long since removed).

From the README file: "Welcome to One-Core-API! Here you can found source code of One-Core-API project. It is based on ReactOS source and use ReactOS's build environment" Lies? GitHub [currently owned by Microsoft] links aren't allowed? Seems like MS would have trouble challenging links to content MS itself hosts.

I think Skulltrail192's One-Core API (releases), (source) is based on ReactOS. Would call it a 'usable beta,' though it does introduce its own set of issues. Worth checking out though, and irrc the uninstaller works (not a recommendation; try at your own risk).

Not that it matters much, but 122 setup.exe actually works on XP.

Thanks so much! Edit: The first one i tried WORKS! Thanks again!

CPU's stuck at base clock (3.4 MHz), and doesn't want to budge. Guessing it's ACPI, but only guessing. Current ACPI.sys is 5.1.2600.7777; tried 5.2.3790.7777, but that just bluescreens. My HW is obviously unsupported, but x64 XP installed on the same box works without any issues. - Is ACPI the likely culprit? - Are there other modded ACPI.sys versions i could try? (read some, but not all of Compiling ACPI v2.0 driver for Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003 SP2 (x32/x64) thread, mostly over my head) Any ideas welcome.

You mentioned you preferred ungoogled because "Ungoogled version has more useful flags for user's convenience," so when i asked "which flags do you use," i meant "flags available in ungoogled Chromium, but not in vanilla Chrome." So: which flags, available in ungoogled Chromium, but not in vanilla Chrome, do you use? I was trying to recreate your voltage spike issue, and you don't watch vids in browsers, iirc. Should i reproduce an issue you've never experienced? But sure, when a GPU is actually used, core voltages go up from a state in which nothing is being done. This is perfectly normal & shouldn't cause concern. Your GPU will be fine, lots of us (most?) have HW acceleration enabled, that's simply not how GPUs die. Worry not, GPUs are hardy

You could shut off HW acceleration in Supermium by going to Settings->System->turning off "Use hardware acceleration when available". OTOH, couldn't reproduce the symptoms you're describing on this box (Titan X GPU), in XP or Vista. Here's a screencap vid of Supermium being closed and reopened, with hwmonitor not showing any voltage/power change. Tell me how it looks on your Philips TV.

I guess, though not sure if reads/writes contribute substantially to HDD failures -- the heads are never in contact with the disks, the disks are always spinning, whether they're being used or not. I mean, maybe the head assembly wagging back and forth might eventually wear out the bearings... dunno, tangent, could be wrong. >voltage spikes Core voltages momentarily ramp up? One of the joys of having old HW is not having to worry about stuff like that, close that HWMONITOR. The GPU is there to be used, enjoy it If he's messing with Microsoft's binaries, sorta has to be (just guessing here, know not what i speak of etc.).

Which OS? On XP, Supermium takes a long time to open (on all my boxen), and often fails to load pages (leaving them blank) on the first try. OTOH, ungoogled doesn't run at all. Two-part question: 1. Why does it matter if, while you're using a browser, the HDD led flashes? Are you concerned about a nominally higher electric bill, heads servo noise, HDD wearing out, what is the drawback of the HDD being used? 2. Ditto for GPU acceleration: Why would you not want your GPU to be used?

The interesting bit is Supermium doesn't require extended kernel to run (ungoogled, just like Chrome/Chromium, does).

How does one measure? Got 2 open side-by-side, both open in less than a second in W10 (i guess i could screen-record & count the number of frames, though sub-second seems good 'nuff). You got me there, don't have anything with a HDD. Out of curiosity, why does heavier HDD & GPU use matter if it doesn't slow the browser down?

Does 'heavier' translate to 'slower,' or is it about 'task manager number go up'? Edit: Disregard, it doesn't (W10 LTSC IoT, i7 4770). My browser customization doesn't get more involved than using the Nord-looking color scheme & Dark Reader to match. What flags do you use? Sure, though will boot into 10 or 11 and give it another shot. Would be fun to see if 'light' really does mean fast (just to satisfy my curiosity -- i'm pretty reliant on my Google account (Gmail, YT, Sync, etc.)).

What is it about vanilla Chrome that makes you dislike it? What data, specifically, do you not want Google to lay its prying corporate hands on? Or is it a religious/political thing? Serious question, since i use Chrome, YT & Google search.

Hoarding. The hoard. P.S. Anyone else get this when trying to post images? "Maximum file size" changes, depending on the size of the file i try to drag in.

The cruelest joke XP has ever played. Not what you asked, but have you tried drive-swapping to another box -> installing some drivers on that -> swapping the drive back in? If your HP has a working Ethernet port, you could also enable RDP while the drive's in the other box.

Hi we3fan, it's a regular MBR scheme, 3 primary and 2 extended [edit: one extended with 2 volumes, can never remember the jargon]. Extended partitions can have operating systems, the only thing they can't have is a boot manager (which goes on one of the primary partitions). On a different box now, but this one has similar layout.

W11; FF 115.7 esr doesn't start (same box as in my XP pic above, current Chrome on the right). Edit: Current FF works.

Yikes. Supermium almost in single digits, nothing else even starts. Number go down; my sadness very big :'(

Thanks, gotcha. On my x64: Inexplicable :| P.S. just in case there's doubt, both notepads are empty.

Dual-boot XP 32 & 64. What am i doing wrong? https://imgur.com/Daa5VB8

Supermium 32 usues 32-bit code, supermium 64 use 64; 64-bit code uses more memory, because it uses 64-bit words. Think of it this way: One book is written in a language in which all words are exactly 32-letters long. Each word, no matter how simple, is made up of 32 letters. The book becomes a best seller, and is translated into an even stupider language -- one in which every word is exactly 64 letters long. The languages are otherwise identical, so the translation's both accurate and exact, though the translated book is somehow thicker than the original. Why would that be? Edit: of course it's more complicated than this, but 32-bit code will always be lighter. not 50% lighter, but lighter. Not sure what WOW64 does with 32-bit code, so could be totally wrong here.