Subj : Re: Dell 780 Problem: To : All From : nospam@needed.invalid Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:25 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Dell 780 Problem: Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 04:07:11 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 96 Message-ID: References: <7f18b466-63df-408a-bab7-4c3213a16544@googlegroups.com> <8345d835-0287-455c-97b6-6237156b2d5b@googlegroups.com> <6aefd384-fdc4-4307-9162-6ac9652ff82e@googlegroups.com> <52a963b5-0fd8-4fc6-a06d-6c794f9f9d34@googlegroups.com> <5adc8f35-d3ba-40e2-afb6-75eee5281637@googlegroups.com> <18183a02-24d7-4fa2-ab77-fac986c26fec@googlegroups.com> <235c4733-0fdc-4e34-8f87-ea020adb1fd5@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:07:11 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fd281ca0ea3817091543355cbc8158c2"; logging-data="976"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19SYQWP8JBKLea+/42kwJy7CcjqBrgu604=" User-Agent: Ratcatcher/2.0.0.25 (Windows/20130802) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:n6wrrzsvUdY7d8lnoJAnc7RFQCg= Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134621 Mark Twain wrote: > The Mem test sounds iffy,. am I making a bootable CD? > If so, I don't have any CD's left. Also there are so many > Mem tests how am I to know which one? > > https://s17.postimg.org/62zp32mbj/Mem_test.jpg > > In passing, have you noticed FF has changed with black tabs? > I know it doesn't make sense but it seems the 8500 is a tad > slower since. > > > Robert If you have a floppy drive and at least one blank floppy diskette, memtest fits quite nicely on it. Some users complain if I mention "floppy", because they don't have one, or "it's too archaic". Most of the capacity of a CD would be wasted. But, it's convenient if you have discs handy. I use floppies for my copies, and for the machine that doesn't have a floppy drive cable, I use a USB floppy drive instead (an external device). So I don't have a problem with floppies. Once the boot process is complete and the screen is 640x480, you can pop the floppy out. ** Memtest86+ V5.01 (27/09/2013)** Download - Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win) ******* You might have Firefox 57, since WinXP stops at Firefox 53, and lucky Windows 7 users get to continue receiving updates. Firefox 57 is called "Quantum" for some reason, and it is a multi-process version. If you look in Task Manager, you might see four instances of the word "Firefox" in there. That's not supposed to slow the machine down. You might use Task Manager to see if anything in the machine is mis-behaving (using a lot of CPU). Firefox will use something like 20% more memory than the previous version. The new Firefox is modeled after Google Chrome, and that's why it has four processes running minimum. Because Chrome does the same thing. Firefox already used a Container concept for the Flash plugin (plugincontainer.exe?), so that if Flash crashed, the browser remained running. The multiple processes could be used for Process Isolation, but I suspect that's not really all that practical when the processes also have to talk to one another. There's still a possibility the set of processes could freeze or deadlock, depending on what flaky thing happens. You can turn off that new feature if you want. In the URL bar, enter "about:config". In my copy of Firefox 57, I can see browser.tabs.remote.autostart False browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 True <--- change to False, to make Firefox run a single process You can double-click the entry in the table, to "flip" the state of a boolean variable like that one. Once that's done, the next time you start Firefox, it should behave a little more like the old version. But the ugly icons (you know, the issue with the folder icons in bookmarks), those icons are now there to stay. The only way to revert the appearance of the browser, quickly, is to use an older version. It's not clear to me whether any "themes" are available as WebExtensions or not, to go back to the old icons. And by all means, use the Task Manager to survey the state of the machine, when it feels "a little slow". There might be a reason - something that needs to be fixed. It might not be Firefox at all. Paul --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .