Re: Customize Windows XP to look like 95

Posted on 2020-02-05, 07:55

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by looking4awayout

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I stick with Windows 2000 instead of XP because of these things and the icons... ohh the 3d XP icons... are terrible. I prefer the classic ones. Just use the Inexperience Patcher by Vertigosity. You can easily find it on Deviantart. It replaces the XP icons with the ones from 2000. Then, you can …

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Re: Possible new build (Dual Tually) questions

Posted on 2020-02-03, 08:04

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by looking4awayout

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Use HDD Expert and check out the SMART status of your hard drive.

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Re: PC randomly shuts off with scary rattle (like Geiger counter from Half-Life) coming from PC speaker

Posted on 2020-02-02, 14:58

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by looking4awayout

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Try another PSU if you can. The "rattling" sounds you hear might be the noise the PC speaker makes when it reboots. My RDD does the same too before it POSTs. It's a sort of soft "click" noise coming from the speaker, mine does it two or three times before POSTing. Maybe one of the rails of your PSU …

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Re: PC randomly shuts off with scary rattle (like Geiger counter from Half-Life) coming from PC speaker

Posted on 2020-02-02, 14:54

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by looking4awayout

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Sounds like a bad PSU to me. What's the manufacturer?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-02, 13:05

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by looking4awayout

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Warning, picture heavy post, for dial-up users out there. Click on the thumbnails to watch the pictures in full size glory. Some days ago, this little creature followed me. Couldn't do anything else other than taking it home with me. https://i.postimg.cc/JtbKbPs4/photo-2020-02-02-13-32-55.jpg It's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-27, 08:01

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by looking4awayout

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After three years of search, it is finally mine. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/B0gAAOSwSK9d-pkn/s-l1600.jpg 6800 Ultra (AGP)? I have a BFG Ultra 6800 OC (AGP) that is likely not functional. I bought it several years ago, after thinking (incorrectly) that the 6800 Ultra was the fastest card with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-26, 20:16

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by looking4awayout

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After three years of search, it is finally mine. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/B0gAAOSwSK9d-pkn/s-l1600.jpg This is most likely going to be the last purchase I make for the RDD for a long time. I need to recover the amount of money I spent for the latest purchases, including two 1GB DDRAM 400 …

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Re: Customize Windows XP to look like 95

Posted on 2020-01-23, 19:58

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by looking4awayout

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Why not sharing the AHK scripts you are making? I use AHK as I have an 84 keys AT keyboard and some games don't detect the numpad as arrow keys. As I am absolutely ignorant about how AHK scripts work, I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to share them here. By the way: how in the world did you remove …

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Re: Connecting old machines to the internet: dispelling the superstition

Posted on 2020-01-22, 13:26

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by looking4awayout

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The RDD, my main computer, uses Windows XP. I have been using it since 2017 (three years) connected to the internet regularly, no antivirus. I never, ever got infected. It's also true that my web browsing is limited to a few sites, and it only has like five services running, but for general use, it …

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Re: Customize Windows XP to look like 95

Posted on 2020-01-22, 13:15

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by looking4awayout

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Interesting to see that you are customizing the XP shell in order to look like the one from 95. A question though: how did you manage to remove the "Links" option in the main menu bar in windows? I am using Stardock Windowblinds on my system in order to give it a sort of mix between the Windows 3.x …

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Re: Customize Windows XP to look like 95

Posted on 2020-01-22, 11:57

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by looking4awayout

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Interesting to see that you are customizing the XP shell in order to look like the one from 95. A question though: how did you manage to remove the "Links" option in the main menu bar in windows? I am using Stardock Windowblinds on my system in order to give it a sort of mix between the Windows 3.x …

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Re: Possible new build (Dual Tually) questions

Posted on 2020-01-13, 13:20

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by looking4awayout

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Whops, that sucks. You'll have to find a Coppermine CPU then. I do have some, but I don't have enough time to ship them, as my job keeps me busy.

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Re: Possible new build (Dual Tually) questions

Posted on 2020-01-13, 10:04

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by looking4awayout

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You will need a modded BIOS that supports the pin modded Tuallies. Did you buy the CPUs from the South Korean seller?

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Re: Possible new build (Dual Tually) questions

Posted on 2020-01-12, 14:41

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by looking4awayout

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Hello, not sure which pci slot is shared and which not. I see sharing possibilities with every single one. Maybe I am misunderstanding something? Slot 3 and 4 are not slaved. Put the SATA controller and the NIC in those. By the way, I'm Italian as well. I have two of those 1GB PC133 "Google" sticks …

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Re: Possible new build (Dual Tually) questions

Posted on 2020-01-03, 13:36

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by looking4awayout

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As VIA chipsets come in cause, due to my experience, I have to post. I had experiences with two different motherboards using a VIA chipset: a QDI Advance 10T and an Asus TUV4X. While the A10T had no issue whatsoever at running in AGP 4X mode, the TUV4X has instabilities and BSOD issues if 4X mode is …

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Re: The UOC Patch - An attempt at optimizing Mozilla based browsers for old machines

Posted on 2020-01-02, 22:59

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by looking4awayout

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UPDATE! The 38 ESR and 52 ESR versions of the UOC Patch have been updated with the new scrolling routines that have been previously implemented in the 45 ESR version. This improved the scrolling speed and smoothness even on those codebases. Please update to the latest version!

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Re: Error 0xc000001d in WinXp sp3 after installation of programs

Posted on 2019-12-29, 11:26

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by looking4awayout

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Discard anything Chrome-based if your hardware is old. I don't know the rest of your specs (video card? HDD or SSD? onboard or PCI controller?), but in the link below you can find way better browsers for XP, developed by the MSFN user Roytam1, which support the modern web and security protocols: …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-12-25, 20:01

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by looking4awayout

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Been working on setting up the interim TUV4X, so when the replacement arrives I'll have everything up and running once again. In the meantime, I had some fun at overclocking the new RDD motherboard. First, I begun by increasing the FSB in the BIOS, and managed to reach a stable overclock at 154MHz …

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Re: The UOC Patch - An attempt at optimizing Mozilla based browsers for old machines

Posted on 2019-12-15, 16:07

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by looking4awayout

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UPDATE! All the versions of the UOC Patch, including the Enforcer, have been rewritten from scratch. This time, I have extensively reworked the tweaks used for the rendering engine, which allowed me to double the scrolling speed of the patched browsers, increasing the general responsiveness. …

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Re: The UOC Patch - An attempt at optimizing Mozilla based browsers for old machines

Posted on 2019-12-15, 07:56

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by looking4awayout

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Thank you for your hard work! Just to report that I tried the latest version of your patch on Debian wheezy (7.11) with Iceweasel 38.8 and it's working extremely well. Cheers! Thank you for testing it! I am developing a new, fully rewritten from scratch version, which speeds things up even further. …

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