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Not sure what you mean. If we're talking about XP, it's the only version of Supermium & is substantially faster than other XP-compatible browsers on decent HW, both subjectively & benched by Speedometer 2.0: Mypal 68 and Supermium, side-by-side on x99 (x64) On x58 (x64) On Haswell (x86) I use Google & like having sync. Different set of priorities.

These? MPC-HC 2.1.4 MPC-HC 2.1.4.7z MPC-BE 1.6.11 MPC-BE 1.6.11.7z

Tough crowd. My new favorite browser for XP, XP x64 & Vista; twice as fast as other XP browsers on all my HW. BTW 32-bit Mypal works fine on x64, not sure if there's a performance hit, though i doubt it.

Arguably more secure than an "insecure" web browser on an "insecure" OS.

Hi, sorry if this was mentioned already, but have you tried sticking progwrp.dll in \windows\system32 folder? Also: what's the file size of your progwrp.dll? (already had a 13KB progwrp.dll sitting in mine, the new one should be 125KB)

Surrender Dorothy!

Can't readily explain this, but the test does run without an internet connection: Running on disabled connection Result Edit: Might've misunderstood what you were trying to say, thought the spread between wired & wireless was nontrivial (it isn't).

Guessing i'm that someone. Mypal 68 and Supermium, side-by-side, XP x64 on x99. This is on overkill HW, but anything Sandy Bridge & up with 4 gigs or more should show a similar spread. Subjectively, it's also much faster. P.S. Mypal 68 & Supermium side-by-side, 32-bit XP on Haswell P.P.S. Mypal 68 & Supermium side-by-side, 64-bit on x58 Speedometer 2.0 is not based on connection speed.

Guilty. That's a HW install (x99 board). Plagued with the typical 4th - 13th gen Vista boot issues (black scree ~1 out of 3 times), but once it is up, everything's fine, been using it without issues.

After 3 reboots (had to sign 3 files), everything works as it should. Thanks again, great tool.

Thanks, found your tutorial, found Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider, will try in a few. Thanks again. EDIT: So simple! Thanks for the tip.

More accurately, it's signed, but the sig can't be verified, so i need to F8 each time i boot. Looking for a way to permanently disable driver signature verification, or somehow add add George King's (public key? authority? cert? the thing that would make that signature valid). Have tried thus far: bcdedit /set nointegritychecks on bcdedit /set testsigning on bcdedit /set ddisable_integrity_checks No luck. Not a coder, know nothing about driver signing, so nothing's 'too obvious.' Thanks.

The very rich are very few; the hoi polloi are ~8 billion. Common folks who run Windows run Windows 10. Less than half a percent of Windows users run XP, and [just guessing here] a much smaller fraction still does it out of necessity.

It's ~27% vs. 68% for W10, going up pretty steadily. The thinking's "make it less cluttered/more fingerpoky tablet-friendly" i guess. Get the old one back with a registry edit, or by clicking a checkbox in Winaero Tweaker (which also has a bunch of other useful stuff, i'm a fan).

...(but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth

It does, Not for security afficionados, but work it does.

You're surprised that a new, niche program is "currently not on [Avast's] safe software list"?

Yay! 4.7 did it! Thanks

Huzzah! Could you go to Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts & scroll down to Fs, about here, and post a pic?

Uninstalled https://github.com/creationix/font-awesome/blob/master/FontAwesome.ttf (boxes returned); downloaded 'Free For Web' V6; installed (no change -- just boxes); ditto V5. The boxes are nothing more than a minor inconvenience, Supermium rules on Vista! Not sure if this helps, but got several Vista installs (all x64, unmodded & extended kernel), Supermium behaves exactly the same in all of them.

We're heading in the wrong direction, the boxes are gone

I didn't, that's Supermium running in W11 (not Vista). Back in Vista now. From what little i know about CSS, i guess the font i'm missing is something called FontAwesome. Googled/downloaded from https://fontawesome.com/v5/download & wanted to install, but it's not a regular TTF, just a bunch of .svg files. I can certainly learn to live with boxes

Just the default fonts -- Standard & Serif: Times New Roman; Sans: Arial; Fixed width: Consolas; Math: Cambria Math. Edit: I guess what I'm missing is something called "FontAwesome."

Not sure, just the default set of fonts used by Vista.

Thanks! Assumed it was a font, but i guess those are icons? Any idea why they show up in 11 but not in Vista?