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i use CPU-Z -> also a little free tool here the portable version to download CPU-Z v1.96 zip (3,2 MB Size) the downloadpage: https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.96-en.zip unzipp the file -> go into the unzipped folder and start the file "cpuz_x64.exe" click on the tab "Memory" -> under there you see if your RAM is dual channel or not

ff v78.12.0 esr 13. july 2021 Fixed Various stability, functionality, and security fixes

ff v90.0 13. july 2021 New On Windows, updates can now be applied in the background while Firefox is not running. Firefox for Windows now offers a new page about:third-party to help identify compatibility issues caused by third-party applications Exceptions to HTTPS-Only mode can be managed in about:preferences#privacy Print to PDF now produces working hyperlinks Version 2 of Firefox’s SmartBlock feature further improves private browsing. Third-party Facebook scripts are blocked to prevent you from being tracked, but are now automatically loaded “just in time” if you decide to “Log in with Facebook” on any website. Fixed Various security fixes Changed The "Open Image in New Tab" context menu item now opens images and media in a background tab by default. Learn more Most users without hardware accelerated WebRender will now be using software WebRender. Improved software WebRender performance FTP support has been removed Enterprise Various bug fixes and new policies have been implemented in the latest version of Firefox. See more details in the Firefox for Enterprise 90 Release Notes. Developer Developer Information Support for Private Fields (TC39 proposal, stage 3) is available in DevTools. The support includes: object inspection, autocompletion, expression evaluation, variable tooltips, and pretty printing (bug) The Network panel shows a preview of HTTP requests for fonts in the Response tab (bug) Web Platform Support for Fetch Metadata Request Headers, which allows web applications to better protect themselves and their users against various cross-origin threats. Added the ability to use client authentication certificates stored in hardware tokens or in Operating System storage.

mmmh. are you sure that at the 8GB stick is "dual channel" to read? perhaps there is on the label "double sided"? there are two completely different things meant.

its possible, that "dual-channel" will be deactivated if you have installed 3 sticks of RAM in your MB. but i dont know exactly, i dont have tried it

yes, a 3. RAM-Stick for "dual channel" is not fine. but a 4. RAM-Stick (if your motherboard have 4 slots) is nice.

yes. if your motherboard supports dual-channel. you must put the 2 sticks on the right slots... to activate "dual-channel" for example: RAM-Slot 1 + 3 RAM-Slot 2 + 4 you must read it in your manuall for your motherboard how its managed. or simply tried it.

I have also deactivated the hdd-write-cache for data-security against faster performance. Safer is safer :-) on my laptop it seems i have perhaps also a hdd connection via usb3 and not via sata, because i tried deactivate/activate at bios and after reactivate usb3, w8 starts faster as without usb3.

Have you tried a restart? On all your pc' from time to time. Since w8 and newer there is a kind of "softstart" enabled as default. This can solve such a problem as by you. (Also by me from time to time)

11 gb is a lot. Have you tryed the "file-list-defrag" ? Its faster Can you make a pic to see, what files are the biggest one? Perhaps such files as hiberfil.sys and pagefile or so with the size of your installed RAM. There is shortly a great among of hdd-space in useage with this With 8 gb of ram there are minimum 16 gb only for this files on your hdd. This 2 files alone fragmented can be 3% or more with 380 gb used hdd ...

With this you can defraggler prevent to replace windows defrag with defraggler... Defraggler -> uncheck "replace windows disk defragmenter"

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i mean i skip w10 and leave it behind me without no touch. w11... i will wait

Changes between 3.0.15 and 3.0.16: ---------------------------------- Video Output: * Fix a D3D11 crash on Windows 8/8.1 Access: * Fix RTSP server timeout handling Interfaces: * macOS: Add touchbar support Misc * Multiple settings improvements

Changes between 3.0.14 and 3.0.15: ---------------------------------- Core: * Add Opus & Alac wave format mappings Access: * Fix opening DVD folders with non-ascii characters Demux: * Fix asf regression with broadcast streams * MP4: Fix audio drop on seek Video Output: * Fix seek & volume sliders overlapping with subtitles * Fix delays when seeking with D3D11 Text renderer: * Improve freetype fonts outlining Misc: * Fix GnuTLS support for Windows XP <---- for xp-fans

Changes between 3.0.13 and 3.0.14: ---------------------------------- Core: * Fix double loading of slave input * Fix an issue causing the auto-updater not to launch the new version

mh, dont run with w8.1.

ff v89.0.2 23. june 2021 Fixed Fix occasional hangs with Software WebRender on Linux (bug 1708224)

firefox legacy v1.16.4.29 JustOff released this 14 days ago Change Update scriptlets from the upstream Fix 'adsbygoogle' neutered script Add any-delay to timeout/interval boosters Add support for "remove all properties" in json-prune scriptlet Ensure getter/setter are called with proper context Fix potential exception when casting to string Add empty array, object to set-constant scriptlet Add ability to linger for remove-class scriptlet Add missing getResponseInformation() method to neutered JS API Use zero-based index for id Make googletagmanager_gtm.js an alias of google-analytics_analytics.js Update filter lists Update Fanboy's filter lists Update URL of HUN filter list Replace "EasyList China" with "AdGuard Chinese" Removing Fanboy Enhanced Tracking Add fallback URLs for "IRN: Adblock-Iran" Update ABPVN List url to uBO specific support Update filter lists not included in the package Use getWindowlessBrowserFrame for all supported applications

ublock v1.36.0 github-actions released this 7 days ago Closed as fixed Chromium uBlock does not load adminSettings at first run Firefox Bizarre perf drain when ajaxing in 90,000 DOM nodes in a react component Core Google Tag Manager eventCallback in a populated dataLayer not called Countering a removeparam filter causes page-redirect problem Asset viewer shows no space between !#endif and a comment line in uBlock's list Text in Manage Extension Shortcuts includes escaped &shy; In popup, the Reload button becomes immediately hidden if re-enabling the large power button too quickly Notable commits without en entry in the issue tracker Add ability to linger for remove-class scriptlet Add empty array, object to set-constant scriptlet Fix potential exception when casting to string Make googletagmanager_gtm.js an alias of google-analytics_analytics.js Ensure getter/setter are called with proper context Allow filter list subscription through context menu Keep reporting last time "out of date" lists were updated Fix improper hashing of rules in classic popup panel

I dont use any driver updater. If your pc or laptop is from a manufacturer, use only drivers from manufacturer in the first line, An old wisdom - dont touch a running system. the only exclude for me is the graphic driver. Also i dont use driver from microsoft. The same thing as above but in green instead of red ;-)

ff v89.0.1 17. june 2021 Fixed Windows: Resolved an issue causing some screen readers to not interact correctly with Firefox anymore (bug 1714212) Updated translations, including full Spanish (Mexico) localization and other improvements (bug 1714946) Fix various font related regressions (bug 1694174) Linux: Fix performance and stability regressions with WebRender (bug 1715895, bug 1715902) macOS: Fix screen flickering when scrolling a page on an external monitor (bug 1715452) Enterprise: Fix for the DisableDeveloperTools policy not having effect anymore (bug 1715777) Linux: Fix broken scrollbars on some GTK themes (bug 1714103) Various stability and security fixes.

so far for me... its a good choice to stay with w8.1 :-) the support ends at 10. january 2023 perhaps is w11 - or whats the name should be - nicer as the "real last windows" but i think this is not for free...

yes, myie2 - i used it too at that time with w98 and ie5/ie6, because it gives the tab-function to "myie-internet-explorer" that the ie dont give. mx5 seems to use the chromium core 61 https://www.maxthon.com/mx5/changelog/

perhaps you can take a look with ccleaner in your startup to save more RAM at XP-Boot: ccleaner -> tools -> windows and ccleaner -> tools -> scheduled tasks for example: i can see there some stuff that not have to be on at startup -> gimp.2.8.exe -> jusched.exe (i mean its java updater) - i think there is also a deactivator in java itself... in the XP-control panel -> java -> settings