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Typically when seeing the individual files being loaded, the ones last shown on the list before a crash or freeze are the ones that loaded properly, and it is the following ones that are causing the problem. You should do the step-by-step confirmation boot to hopefully find out which item is actually causing the problem. Also your hardware may not be correct for Windows 2000, can you post your specs?

We already know Valentina doesn't have good taste, since their first post on this forum was to post a spam link.

Vista was the transitional stage. Recovery media was a requirement from before that, but Vista was the first that had a Microsoft provided hard-disk based recovery solution. Prior to that, OEMs were using custom third-party solutions such as SoftThinks among others. Large OEMs were the first to ditch providing a DVD and it likely comes down to cost reasons. Since there are minimum order requirements at a replicator, an OEM that sells a large amount of systems like Dell or HP could move more towards the minimum order instead of having to ensure they purchased enough DVDs to match systems. For smaller companies where their forcasted sales figures were at or below this minimum order requirement, those OEMs would just ship a DVD anyways because they had enough stock to do so. And these minimums still exist to this day, so you could potentially find recovery DVDs from small OEMs for Windows 10 and maybe even Windows 11. There has been options for years to use USB recovery but it is more expensive and I have no knowledge of any OEM using that method.

Just yesterday, suddenly there is a stock price indicator on the taskbar. It is for Amazon and for the life of me I can't figure out how to change what stock symbol shows on there. Even worse, sometimes it is shown, sometimes it shows some other symbol (Apple) or goes away completely. I don't mind that a stock symbol sometimes appears next to the tray, but it would be nice if I could control how it looks.

Confirmed the (moon) button does "something" but it doesn't change the theme on the forum.

I find it interesting that I haven't done any work with Windows 11 since installing it two times before GA, and that it appears to be the case that there is no interest in this OS. I am aware of one instance of something asking about availability of editions and that seems to be it.

Pressed discs are rare to show up as blank in a PC CD drive but there are reasons for it. Primary is any CD that has a "rot" issue, such as some damage to the reflective layer in just the right spot may lead to a disc being unreadable. Another possibility is that if the disc is "Enhanced CD" but the data portion is not compatible in some way. Since on a PC, it will try to read the data content before audio content in Explorer. Then there are discs that are just bad altogether, it is rare and I'd say you're more likely to run into this than incompatible Enhanced CD discs. I also just looked up Wii discs, it seems concensus is that they are based on DVD format, not CD and the filesystem used isn't something Windows can recognize. There have been some advancement as now there are PC emulators for Wii so someone must have come up with a way for a standard DVD drive to read that kind of disc. In the early days of Wii, you apparently needed some specific LG/Hitachi DVD drive in your computer to read them normally... or say like how you can see what is on a PlayStation disc anyways. For the Wii discs if you are going to move those, just note that they are untested. There is even a market for defective game discs (on any system) for some reason, but "untested" games is common to see.

It is done, but now your avatar is an N instead of an A!

There are certainly some instances where a small company may have made a run of discs themselves and used CD-R and then put a label on it, I have seen it before. There are also times where a contracted company may have used CD-Rs in order to send media to companies, contractors for large companies who could afford pressed discs like Sony. The main issue with CD-R is that they do not stand the test of time as the organic dyes will degrade after many years, so it is not uncommon to find 20 year old CD-R not readable in a drive. But also consider that CD-R from that long ago used to have issues with how they were "mastered" or created that could effect how they could be read. The primary example was that sometimes CD-R could not be read in a CD player outside of a computer, but I do recall some other instances where some CD-R could not be read on a computer that didn't have (for example) Adaptec EZ CD Creator installed. I have never tried a Wii disc in a computer.

I'm not certain. In the panel it says "change display name" You may want to PM a person who got a name change in this thread that is an active user and ask them how it changes logon.

Ok it is the type of message as I suspect, the black boot error screen. Hal.dll is important, yes. It comes with the OS but an update may have put a new version of it in, or had added a linking file of some sort, registry redirector and/or pipe to point to the file and that is what was removed. I doubt hal.dll was actually removed. You can verify if the file is actually missing or not. It should be in c:\windows\system32. As for putting the update back in place in offline, it may be possible using DISM but I seem to recall that this ability is something that came about in Windows 7 and I never attempted it with Vista. Even if it is possible with Vista, you'd need the Vista WAIK and I would not trust modern versions of ADK to work.

The first step would be to reinstall the update that was removed, to see if it fixes the missing hal.dll message.

Split from https://msfn.org/board/topic/183016-palemoon-drama-has-gotten-bad/page/3/

No I think you have it backwards. It is more likely as I said, the fingerprinting (or some portion of it) is still happening, but since JS is disabled and the site is using JS to show the test results, you just can't see it. Block all and allow as necessary, even if temporary. If the site requires JS to function but it is not that important, then it may not be that important for me to even use it. If I really do want to use it, then I will use a different browser and/or computer entirely.

I used to use a calendar in Thunderbird on Win 7. I'm sure there must be something lighter than having to install an email client or whole Office suite to just get a calendar.

No need https://msfn.org/board/topic/183119-new-web-browsers-sub-forum/ PS: Your last unread post location may have been lost after the threads have been moved. This means when you click to read last unread you will go back to Page 1. This should only be temporary.

With the large amount of interest in custom web browsers recently, we have created a new sub-forum specifically for topics about web browsers and the customisation and development of them. https://msfn.org/board/forum/200-web-browsers/

I tried the EFF site on my second browser (Iron) and it makes it to the white results page with "Our tests indicate that you have some protection against Web tracking, but it has some gaps." with a Yes on blocking tracking ads and a No on blocking invisible trackers... but the "Protecting you from fingerprinting" option just shows an animated gif and never completes.

Well it is 16 hours later and it still didn't change from the "Testing your browser" screen. I doubt it will ever return and show me the results. Now this doesn't particularly mean that the site didn't work on their end. It may well have recorded information and just isn't showing me the results screen.

I don't think that link is working for me. Just in case I'll go home and see if it has completed before I come back in the morning.

The article talks about things involved in this fingerprinting that is beyond the User Agent, so likely the method being used to get this information from the client is going to be javascript. Obviously the answer here is to whitelist sites for javascript, meaning unless the known good site you visited is compromised (such as from ads or external includes) then you are more likely to be safe.

Well that isn't an example of smart technology turning on itself, more like the companies who made the tech turning against the people. Sure some people like the idea of interconnecting everything and it does sound good in theory but it just hasn't been implemented well. I think a better example of smart technology turning on itself would be the products that have been running in botnets, due to the poor security implementation of these devices.

There are other users who have gmail who have registered and validated, so I am thinking that there isn't any issue with the forum being able to send to gmail.

Have been using these for some years, for clients that run embedded devices such as those with digital signage. I've always thought they look a bit hack-jobbish. The other side of the coin with these that the site mentions but doesn't show is that the power cord then used is the typical bulky notebook power adapter type, with the large brick in which you can then plug in a standard ATX or mickey mouse cable. Then there are other options where the power connector onto the board is just like a notebook would have, without having to use that type of adapter. Such as the Asus H410T/CSM: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/Business/Pro-H410T-CSM/