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  1. Space Cadet Frame Rate Cap: Lessons from the Windows NT Port

    Dave Plummer’s off‑hand confession that his Windows NT port of the beloved 3D Pinball: Space Cadet rendered “as fast as it could” and eventually spiked into the thousands of frames per second is a compact engineering parable: a tiny timing assumption left unchecked, harmless on 1990s hardware...
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    • busy loop cross architecture dave plummer fixed timestep frame rate legacy code performance pinball power management pragmatic triage raymond chen space cadet telemetry windows nt
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    • Forum: Windows News

  2. Space Cadet Pinball: The Busy-Loop Timing Lesson in Windows NT

    Dave Plummer’s confession — that his Windows NT port of the beloved Space Cadet pinball ran “as fast as it could,” eventually spiking to “like, 5,000 frames per second” on modern hardware — is as entertaining as it is instructive, and it revisits a compact engineering lesson about timing...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  3. The Impact and Legacy of Windows XP: A Landmark in Personal Computing

    The release of Windows XP in 2001 marked a seismic shift in the evolution of personal computing, bridging the awkward past of flaky home operating systems with the robust, business-grade technology that would become ubiquitous across both living rooms and office parks around the world...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  4. Microsoft Warns of CVE-2024-43623: Elevation of Privilege Risk in Windows NT

    On November 12, 2024, the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) disclosed critical information regarding a vulnerability designated as CVE-2024-43623. This vulnerability in the Windows NT operating system kernel presents an opportunity for elevation of privilege, exposing a potential risk...
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    • cve-2024-43623 cybersecurity elevation of privilege vulnerability windows nt
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    • Forum: Security Alerts
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    Windows 11 Windows NT BSOD "C" Variation (occurs on every single version of NT including 11)

    Hello, After playing around in a Windows XP VM, I noticed a very peculiar type of BSOD that I like to call a CBSOD due to it only occuring with bugcheck codes that start with a C. From NT 3.1 all the way to Windows 7, it basically looked like this: Unlike the normal XP-7 BSOD, this one is...
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    • bsod bsod variation bugcheck c errors corruption error codes file issues research system issues technical details troubleshooting user friendly vm issues windows 11 windows 7 windows 8 windows history windows nt windows xp
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 8 Program installation error CLR20r3

    I'm trying to install Cronus PRO on Windows 8.1 I get an almost immediate "CronusMAX software has stopped working" after running, even after the recommended scrubbing and reinstalling. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: CLR20r3 Problem Signature 01: Cronus.exe Problem Signature 02...
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    • bug report clr20r3 cronus pro cronusmax debugging dll errors error logs fileloadexception installation mscorlib operating system problem signature program issues reinstall system crash system restore version 1.12 visual studio windows 8.1 windows nt
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Help! Lost ProfileList reg key. Always logging with default user profile

    I somehow lost the registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. In fact there is only one reg key under CurrentVersion ( WPAEvents ). So that would explain why when I log in as user "ME" the default user profile gets loaded instead of the one for "ME". Also...
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    • hklm profilelist registry registry error restore keys troubleshooting windows issues windows nt
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Help to recover passwords to accounts in Outlook 2010

    The disk C was formatted. By means of R-Studio pulled out from it the ntuser.dat and Outlook.pst files. Through regedit I exported from ntuser.dat all branch [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem] to the .reg the file. I placed in the...
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    • data recovery disk formatting email client email service mail passview messaging subsystem ntuser.dat outlook outlook pst support password reset pop3 password r-studio regedit registry troubleshooting virtual drive windows nt
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    • Forum: General Computing
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    Windows 7 How to fix NGINX error?

    Welcome to nginx! error on SOME webpages Welcome to nginx! Occassionally getting the above error to sites like Yahoo Mail, Trendsource.com, a few other sites. Seems to be an intermittent problem. Occurred shortly after downloaded some programs from cnet.com/download.com which I later...
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    • avg browser cnet configuration download error hijackthis internet explorer malware nginx process protection security startup toolbar trendsource virus windows windows nt yahoo mail
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    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Error Message and Desktop/Start Menu Problems

    When I restarted my computer after running a check of the hard drive, I got a message that read "C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable." The desktop had reverted to a default appearance and all the icons on it except for the recycle bin were...
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    • default appearance desktop issues disk check error message hkey_local_machine profile issues program list recycle bin registry repair guide run command search bar start menu system profile system restore troubleshooting windows issues windows nt windows recovery
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  11. Description of the Windows NT Backup Restore Utility for Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2

    Describes the restore-only version of Windows NT Backup Restore Utility for Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2. More...
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    • Forum: Knowledge Base (KB)
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    Old Neglected Computers

    Most of us try and keep our machines cleaned periodically from dust and all that. I just retired last year as a heavy machinist where a lot of the work is cast iron. They used a lot of low end Windows NT and 95 desktops and some lasted for 10-15 years with no maintenance. They were always on and...
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    • cnc machines dust removal filthy environment heavy machinist historical software industrial computing legacy systems longevity maintenance old computer performance retirement software compatibility upgrade windows 2000 windows 95 windows nt windows xp workplace technology
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    • Forum: General Computing

  13. Windows the next frontier

    I want to blog on the site, and want to know if my writing is any good or if I will embarrass myself. Pleas let me know what you think. I also have one or two more. If this one is any good, I can post them as well and see what you think. These are a few years old, please excuse the out of date...
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
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    Windows 7 How to hide some users in the logon screen and add a textbox for logon?

    You can hide users from HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList But I am not able to login that account again. I know you can set dontdisplaylastusername to show two textboxes for login, but I would like to show SOME of the other users in a list, and I can type...
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    • customization logon registry security special accounts text box user management windows nt
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 User account pics not showing, cant pick for the different accounts.

    my login screen user account pics are not showing and it is acting like windowsnt with a login of user name and password and I cant pick for the different accounts.
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    • authentication display issues profile selection windows issues windows nt windows settings
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 can't join windows 7 to winNT4 domain

    have installed the Win7 RC. The Network Connection is working fine an via nslookup i can resolve my winNT 4 Domain controller and the domain name. When I want to join the Domain I get the Message "A Connection to the Domaincontroller (AC DC) for Domain "domain" could not be established" The...
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    • connectivity domain controller domain issues domain join error message network connection rc installation troubleshooting windows 7 windows nt
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Networking
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    Windows 7 Problem wih sound

    I got Windows 7 build 7100 and everything works flawlessly except the sound. When I installed windows 7 everything worked fine I only installed video card drivers but sometimes when I play music it sounds a bit distorted and fuzzy at times. I tried this with multiple speakers and It never...
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    • audio drivers audio issues chipset drivers compatibility mode distorted sound driver compatibility driver installation dual core fuzzy audio headphone issues microphone nvidia 8800gs p5kpl-c ram system specs tech support video playback windows 7 windows nt windows vista
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows Vista snmp extension agents

    Windows NT through Windows 2003 provided an SNMP agent and several extension agents for things like mib-2 and host resources MIB. Vista does not seem to install any extension agents by default, yet the MIB information is still availavble. Have they moved the location of the extension agents or...
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    • agent extensions management mib network resources snmp windows 2003 windows nt windows vista
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Networking