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> There's probably a way to do it under QEMU/Proxmox. But I haven't dug deep enough to figure it out myself

Maybe one of the same utilities commonly used to work around this same issue on Windows 95?

Amn Refrigerator (formerly AmnHLT) — not relevant for NT because it uses a VxD driver, but it's my favorite for Windows 95 so I'm linking it here for completeness: https://web.archive.org/web/20010331184312/http://www.amn.ru...

KCPUCooler: https://web.archive.org/web/20010607173439/http://www.kt2k.c...

CpuIdle: https://web.archive.org/web/20030925110541/http://www.cpuidl...

Waterfall and/or Rain from Leading Wintech (can't find the original URL): https://vetusware.com/manufacturer/Leading%20Wintech/?author...

VCool or CPUCooL might be the ones to try because they're the only ones that seem to explicitly mention supporting NT:

“VCool now utilizes its own driver on NT, W2K, XP: vcool.sys” https://web.archive.org/web/20041205132318/http://vcool.occl...

“CPU Cooling under Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 (Watch Wintop !)” https://web.archive.org/web/20041211214000/http://www.cpufsb...



Which, by the way, for background of why this issue exists (Old New Thing of course): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030828-00/?p=42...

If anyone can find the archive link to the original, I believe there was discussion in the comments about "why not exclude it for specific hardware only" and the risk of false negatives was deemed too high


> If anyone can find the archive link to the original

Here's the full list: https://web.archive.org/web/20220712161524/https://bytepoint...

Here's this particular entry: https://web.archive.org/web/20220712161524/https://bytepoint... (11 comments)


Sadly none of those worked in my testing :(




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