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Change system theme to dark, why not. You can change it separately from apps theme

Yes, same, until I use the address bar

I have 5 Windows computers with 2 being in my home office. In November 2024 I built a new office computer (CompA - dual boot Win10/Win11). The computer it replaced is now my "second" computer (CompB). The one it replaced (CompC) is dismantled and the parts recycled. My Microsoft account is not adding my newest computer (CompA) to the list of devices. While trying find out why I discovered a licensing error might be the cause. I have paid for the "10 device" ESU program and need this new computer to be included. Only 4 of my 5 computers are currently being recognized. My licensing ERROR I used the (non OEM) Win10 Pro license key previously used on CompC for the new system (A). But I MADE A MISTAKE and it seems I entered the Windows activation key from one of my other 3 PCs that are elsewhere in my home (oops). Windows accepted it (8 months ago) and I only noticed yesterday (in Activation) that "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account", while at the bottom of the screen appears "The last product key (ID: .....) you entered can't be used on this copy of Windows (0x803FA67)". But the system activated ... why?? I then chose to "Change product key" and entered the Win10pro Key from the discarded PC (which is unique and not used on any other system) and it was accepted. The "The last product key ... can't be used" message no longer appears. What concerns me is that when I run Belarc Advisor to report the current Win10 key in the Registry it reports the same key as what was there before and is a key used on one of my other three systems. (I re-ran Belarc on that computer to conform). Does anyone have any explanation of what's going on here??? Should I use slmgr /upk (deactivate) and slmgr /cpky (remove the product key from the registry) to deactivate the system and reactivate using the appropriate key? I'm reluctant to do that as "if it ain't broke" ... yet I need my main computer to be included on the devices support by the ESU program. Thanks for any advice. R

Thanks for this clever tip that I have never read anywhere else. I tried it and it works! Here is my solution using the integrator. I have discovered that setup reads the paths in the DestinationDirs section of the installation INFs of Windows components and registers these folders somewhere as protected. It is not possible to remove these INFs from the source because they are signed by nt5inf.cat, and their absence would cause setup to be aborted half way through. My solution is to over-write these INFs with a dummy INF that contains a few lines in the Version section like this example [Version] Signature= "$Windows NT$" LayoutFile=layout.inf [DefaultInstall] and delete the INF late in the setup. I have tried this with Speech Support, Movie Maker, and internet Connection Wizard and it seems to work. Here is the latest addon that incorporates this technique. File: SpeechSupport_DeleteAddon.7z (Dropbox) File: SpeechSupport_DeleteAddon.7z (Google Drive) File: SpeechSupport_DeleteAddon.7z (4Shared) MD5: 86FF6CEE0B6E50FF0DE292B9CC9E6908 SHA1: 995DC283DCC585AB1F175933544AB621CCED46C4 Size: 339 KB Build date: 13/09/2025

His report is that he needs to go the other way. That he can NOT paypal in your browsers but CAN in Supermium.

you can open paypal in my browser, check and export certs in crt format, then import them in IE settings dialog (contents).

Wow!!!!!!!!!!! This worked I can use dreamscene now. Thank you.

I didn't notice it until you pointed it out but yes I have the same issue.

You should only need to SORT them by EXPIRATION DATE and isolate which have been updated most recently. HOWEVER, this is NOT a guarantee that you will end up getting paypal to work in non-chrome. IT IS ONLY THE *FIRST* HURDLE and there could be a DOZEN hurdles in front of you. It doesn't even mean that you will find a cert! Again, there are going to be a DOZEN hurdles, certficates should always be the FIRST (in my opinion) to clear. Nowadays, CSS is next. Then JS. And DON'T EVEN BOTHER changing your user agent! The sooner you break that "old school" thinking, the better. (again, just my opinion)

So it worked initially?, what was it set to? DXVA2(native) or none ? LAV settings can also be accessed from the start menu, K-Lite Codec Pack\Configuration There will likely be 2 one for mpchc and one system-wide, set both to whatever worked, if settings crash, redo k-lite codec pack setup and configure those options during setup Test dreamscene Some applications may not respect LAV configuration settings, in that situation you will usually have to remove DXVA2-related dlls installed by the graphics driver so they will have no chance to use something broken, I'd done this once with AMD drivers The fact that symptoms are the same between AMD and NVIDIA gpus however makes me think that you have a conflicting other application/driver installed as these are all old vista-supported gpus not something that needs custom drivers EDIT: And did you uninstall AMD drivers with DDU before installing nvidia? (latest for vista - DDU v18.0.4.6.exe)

I've just upgraded from Win10 and Win100 and I found SetAllBack - a genius app! There's one thing I don't know how to do: I'd like to set my taskbar black (which I can), but the problem is that the system icons on the right (Audio, Battery, the ^ caret you click to see more icons, etc) are in black, too, so they're no longer visible on a black taskbar. Can I change their colors to white WITHOUT changing the whole Win theme? If it's not currently possible in SetAllBack, I'd like to submit this is a feature request. Current, I set the taskbar mid-gray to still see the system icons.

sorry it's not cause i hate it, i just was only concerned about getting bsod's with chrome(s) again like in the past.. i didnt know if it would happen again or not. but let me try one more time... i found this certificate manager mmc snap-in thing.. but when i right click on any of the columns, there's only just "import" ..no export except a .txt file, but that doesnt seem to be any good cause it just only lists the names of each one. it seems like i can only export 1 single one at a time when manually clicking on these, on the right...but not "everything all at once" ...how would i even find which one is the correct file that the serpmium did earlier ?? - im not willing to spend 10... 15 hours trying to do these all 1 at a time - well it'd take longer than that especially testing every single one individually in serpent browser hundreds of times for days... there's 460 of these in this one... then another 450 in the "third party root" section

Well... Um... When I was a know-it-all college kid, I was a "death to IE, Firefox ONLY" punk! My bias to use Firefox and NOTHING ELSE ended up nearly getting my fired! FIREFOX let a virus in and three production facilities were shut down completely for several hours. All because I would never touch anything but Firefox. My answer to you, and you're not going to like it, is that you just may have to learn to know when to use CHROME and when you can stick with your already-stated bias against anything Chrome.

switching to dxva2 copy back crashes mpc-hc and trying to open lav splitter it crashes

Hmm i see... umm where would i find this specific certificate(s) at ? Since clicking the import button on the tabs in serpent ask for "certificate file" or "PKCS12 file" - umm i dont have a clue where that would be located. or what the name of this file is even called Im sorry for my newbie-ness here.

Yes! Because Supermium uses the OPERATING SYSTEM'S "certificate store" and the firewall flagged that the "cert store" was being updated. Now that the OS's cert store is getting your paypal working, you could try importing the OS certs into the non-chrome browsers.

Hey there i decided to just give this supermium a try for a minute even though i swore to myself i'd never touch anything chrome related again after my bad experiences from many years ago... first of all.. i did not get a BSOD when closing the program luckily (which happened about 50/50 every time on the original chrome ages ago (not a fork)... so i hope this will be okay, first time trying the supermium today. so i went to paypal first thing... and something strange did happen... the second i clicked on the "login" link at the top of page...and the email/pass screen appearing - i got a popup from Windows Firewall about "win32" or something...which i assume was the supermium ...so i clicked unblock -- i didn't seem to get any "hcaptcha" or "please wait for security challenge" and no "slide your mouse" screen either... so your right it actually did work to my surprise. Still doesnt at all on anything else like Serpent here, the mypal, or the palemoon (the stupid slide mouse, your blocked -- on all of them) - but wow it worked for now at least in the superium... i also checked the Windows Firewall stuff right after and found an entry from superium "chrome.exe" - so i assume thats what that popup was about....is that somehow related to this whole paypal issue not working in all the other's ?

from my testing, I can open main page but when I really try to search it gives a blank screen with javascript errors.

So now that you have the codec pack, launch MPC-HC that got installed with it and try to play a h264 test video https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h264 launch LAV splitter video settings - the red icon in the system tray, there is a "Hardware Decoder to use:" in the top middle, test various hardware decoders and check which do and don't work, make sure H.264 is checked under codecs for HW

i uninstalled camtasia and installed the codec pack but explorer is still crashing when i try to set a dreamscene

Hi, Microsoft Update Restored is currently known for looping on the muoptdefault.aspx page. We're looking into this issue. Please note that those message boxes you are encountering are debug information popups we use to troubleshoot what's wrong.

For dreamscene try installing K-Lite Codec Pack 16.6.5 (I believe someone reported some issues with a later version) Edit, this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/175262-last-versions-of-software-for-windows-vista-and-windows-server-2008/page/66/#comment-1214028 Is explorer.exe still crashing, if not I think it's Camtasia's own problems at this point

No

Is any of the extended kernel-like stuff installed?

Camtasia Studio works fine now but only after closing it does it crash