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The main reason why preloaders are rare these days is that they're a trade-off. They slow down Windows startup in order to speed up application startup. See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewth ... 0/?p=36223

Further good news: while manually updating my (so-called ' portable ') copy, I noticed that Uniextractor2 now recognizes the installer and easily unpacks it to a ' vivaldi.7z ' archive, which can then be further extracted to yield the relevant files for updating (as detailed above ), circumventing ...

Andrew Lee wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:05 pm

- Assuming vevy wishes to reduct all his current entries, do we still want a live CLI site? Is there enough interest to make it viable?

IMO, without vevy's entries the CLI site would be so tiny that it wouldn't be very useful either and it would make the most sense to just pull the plug.

<r><QUOTE author="vevy" post_id="98927" time="1603188181" user_id="45678"><s>[quote=vevy post_id=98927 time=1603188181 user_id=45678]</s> There is also <URL url="https://ss64.com/nt/certutil.html"><s>[url=https://ss64.com/nt/certutil.html]</s>Certutil<e>[/url]</e></URL> since Vista. <e>[/quote]</e><...

But let's try situations with more results. For example "hash" will probably have dozens of results. Your example is pushing it... I'd start by excluding old/ discontinued tools, because I want good coverage of algorithms. Do you? Chances are that you'll either want something that uses an already p...

vevy wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:19 pm

Or like Reddit search.

Umm, Reddit search is notoriously unreliable. It's a long-standing meme to make jokes about how terrible it is. Example.

Incidentally, I'm in the process of trying to replace my aging Axon 7 with a mint new Poco X3 , while struggling to decouple vanilla Android from the overbearing GApps framework -- something that could take me months... :confused: Are you aware of microG , an independent open source reimplementatio...

What I mean about filters : Something like this . The ability to filter (only show) tools with (for example) size below 5M, open-source license that allow you to convert csv or compress pdf, etc. The idea is to also be able to filter by any other criteria like release date, current/discontinued, po...

There is a website that shows screenshots of tens of thousands of old Winamp skins. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/10/08/the-winamp-skin-museum-really-whips-the-llamas-ass/ The skins are a remnant from an era where tons of people created skins according to their tastes. There is a lot of rang...

Issues like this are usually caused by a corrupted install. Have you tried sfc /scannow ? It's a well-known tool to fix file corruption: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929833/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system Also, what happened when you tried the Media...

More noting that the cat is out of the bag in terms of the code -- I just linked to engadget topically because they're (usually) good tech info. In that case, I disagree with your claim that the topic of open sourcing Windows "isn't relevant anymore" after the code leak. The code out there can't le...

Here's why that's not really relevant anymore: Windows XP source code leak sheds light on Microsoft's OS history - https://www.engadget.com/windows-xp-source-code-leak-170715593.html I don't follow how that's really relevant for anything. The biggest thing the article mentions is that Windows XP ha...

lwc wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:40 pm

What is Procmon64a.exe supposed to do? If I try to run it in Windows 10 64-bit, then I get an error.

I think it's an ARM version for computers which have an ARM processor, such as Microsoft Surface Pro X.

Where are ooo-build, Go-oo and Oracle? I've seen no references to those programs anywhere other than on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice Archived Go-oo homepage The Document Foundation merged all Go-oo patches into LibreOffice, making Go-oo and OxygenOffice Professional...

I agree that line between OS and platform is getting a bit blurrier, but out-of-the-box cross-platform works because the underlying platform (e.g. Java) has been developed for multiple OSes and its integration with theses systems under the hood differs. Their point is to abstract the interaction be...