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@reboot12 @Dietmar not sure if can be helpful here but you can try with "setup_var" which can be used to change hidden UEFI values by using a modded Grub EFI shell (rename it as bootia32.efi / bootx64.efi) Well, it's used to boot legacy mode, on systems that do not have exit to EFI shell on BIOS exit page example here https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12774&pid=59489#pid59489 and about CFG Lock, you can try... https://github.com/QuanTrieuPCYT/Dell-Latitude-5480_Hackintosh/blob/main/Disable_CFG_Lock.md anyway, sure you both know more than me about this and, perhaps, AmiSetupWriter.efi can do the same. [...] what `setup_var` does is access an EFI variable called "Setup". The variable contains a binary blob, and the command sets a particular binary value at a given offset inside that blob. What IFRextract calls "VarStore" is mapped onto an EFI variable, via the GUID and "name" field that IFRextract reports for each varstore. You can use the `dmpstore` command builtin to UEFI Shell to inspect EFI vars, including the "Setup" var. See [2] for an EFI application which provides similar functionality to the `setup_var` command. To use it, save the `setup_var.efi` EFI application on any file system accessible by UEFI Shell, then boot into UEFI Shell and run `setup_var.efi` to do what you need. I've also seen references that imply `setup_var` is UEFI shell builtin command, but that doesn't seem to be the case. from what I can tell that command was (at least once) available via patches to either UEFI shell, or grub. But never in upstream "UEFI shell" [1] https://github.com/datasone/setup_var.efi [2] https://github.com/LongSoft/Universal-IFR-Extractor credits: user JamesKen @ archlinux org

trying to import NSS 3.42 Beta in this, it builds but CORS seems to be broken and it refuses to load many https sites like ddg.

I guess my definition differs slightly. All of my Dell computers (desktops and laptops) didn't come with physical media. HATE THAT! I want a disc! (Or a Rufus USB created from that disc.) They do come with a STICKER with my "license code" (or whatever it's technically called). Legal downloads are readily available (you cannot install without typing in the "license code"). I create my own physical media stemming from that sticker plus that download (where my installation is completely unattended). But I guess I still refer to that physical media as "RTM". Semantics. It's not "OEM" because I didn't download from DELL.

Like this one? "Windows Vista Ultimate RTM Unboxing/Installation 2019" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4eC9NwwoQk

While my solution to the update issue is different, since I am using a network segment, the same can be applied to a single system. I block all Microsoft domains and IPs, and thus the systems cannot update. Then I can use any OS I want. RTM = Release to Manufacturing and to be clear, the RTM versions were only made available in the OEM channel as either a download or physical media, and I've never once seen an RTM disc for sale in the secondary market. The closest you can legally get to using RTM would be to use a System Builder Kit. And RTM should not be used to mean "no service pack" because Windows 7 SP1 has an RTM version also.

Ok, worked great. Thank you

If anyone is interested, I have found a way to get the padlock back to green on most pages in 360Chrome. This involves limiting the TLS to a maximum of 1.2 and blocking certain ciphers. However, it happens that some websites no longer work, such as msfn. Simply add the following to the start parameters: --ssl-version-max=tls1.2 --cipher-suite-blacklist=0xcca9,0xc02b,0xc02c

Are these issues only in 5015 and not in 5012? In 5015 I made changes to the SRW locks, enabling them in shared mode.

do you use W10 or XP as your primary system ?

I wonder if you can just replacing NSPR with retrozilla's. NSPR 4.7.6(4.7.7) is good enough for them.

No, <ProductKey> is not supported with WinNTSetup's direct WIM apply. Maybe you can use FirstLogonCommands to run: slmgr /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D

Thanks! TBH, I know all of that. I have installed uBlock Origin in Firefox and Kiwi. Additionally, the Adguard app to block ads in my system. But very often I use Opera, and Adguard is not permanently enabled. At such moments, Google strikes.

Thank you very much, that's all we wanted to hear! Please understand, most of us neither have gihub nor gitlub, thus don't possess access to such official reassurances. Next time I'll simply ignore malware warnings regarding Supermium.

this might be a good time to point out the 4 GB mem limit with a different example harddrives passed the 4 GB limit far earlier then the ram did (this one almost passed it in 1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#1980s,_the_transition_to_the_PC_era so when the common assumtion is "32 wires / 32 bit" are just 4 GB limit that is not fully correct https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinbase/ns-minwinbase-overlapped this structure has 2 , 32 bit (high and low) offset addresses that are combined to a 64 bit address so going with the logic "32 wires are the 32 bit 4 GB limit" -> according to this a 32 bit/wire bus can only address 4 GB - and therefore cant address more then 4 GB is also not correct i think everybody gets the point here, there was harddrives bigger then 4 GB before XP even existed - even a IDE bus with 32 wires+ is not limited to that 1 core of 4 ghz speed (with 1 clock/cycle/1s tick) already would be: 4000000000 * 32 bit bus - that would be 14 GigaByte/s a other good thing with 32 bit is that it is also a PDE question (a page directory entry base register) points to a list of "memory entrys" this PDE is changed every app/process/executable so what this can do is that these entrys point to a different location in the physical memory (and therefore we have 4 GB per each app) these dont use the same memory and can point into other memory - to point other the 2 (pse physical size extension, pae physical address extension) (these also can be combined) but the hardware can have limits or the software is not able to do so so you need both the software performing the code and the hardware having the needs paging and segments where some words in the past

Yes. I had some Dolby drivers that worked fine until the "upgrade"

I believe uBlock Origin is a supported add-on on Firefox for Android. Then you can enable "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" and optionally "Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool" (link).

Yep, this one was also displaying a 404 for several days (from May 28/29 at the earliest). By the way, it seems that the two repos are back.

this one ? https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

Tell me, does Win7-11-Select.xml support the <ProductKey> parameter? How to correctly write <ProductKey> in Win7-11-Select.xml? For example, this M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D for switching to LTSC 1809. Thank you.

Supermium isn't the only Chromium fork that has been seemingly shadow-banned by Github. Chromium-Legacy, another fork targeting legacy systems (older macOS releases to be specific) has met the same "publicly hidden" fate a few days ago. I wonder why GitHub has decided to target these two similar projects...

@win32 I just noticed your repo return 404. Hope this issue is temporary. But I quess progwrp.dll should looks like virus container without published source (I understand why you have not published source) Btw, I have noticed various issues on my machine when upgraded to latest progwrp.dll and R6 Supermium. I need to check what caused it, But I think using 5002 on XP x64 was fine with R3 without freezing on basic search on Google. My XP machine is powerful enough and nothing else was changed.

I know youtube monstrosity, and run browser against it for days and fix bugs then, though I never tried private windows, also I do not have an account, If this about it then I wont catch the bug, let to be sure the account matters.

De-googled link without tracking. Can't you just play the video through MPC-HC with hardware acceleration (use Open With extension). From the release notes of v1.7.0: Thanks for your information! I have installed MPC-HC 2.1.2.18 on my Windows XP machine for months, and hardware acceleration is generally available in my system. Additionally, I have configured the 3D Settings via the NVIDIA Control Panel. Furthermore, I have enabled LAV Filters’Nvidia CUVID decoder for using hardware acceleration in MPC, and it works fine. However, more problematic is the video hardware acceleration inside browsers under Windows XP. It is running much better in New Moon 28 than in the others. PS: Thanks for un-googling the link! I posted it from my Android tablet, and there is everything googled as you surely know.

Not directly, the web server decides which cert chain to present. At some sites it depends on what device, OS or browser it thinks you are using, or what location it thinks your IP is at. You can try experimenting with different user agent strings, but some web sites use additional javascript libraries or other fingerprinting methods to get past a simple UA string spoof. Or you can try different VPNs to get IP addresses from different locations.

Brave Url's tracking test is working again: https://fmarier.github.io/brave-testing/query-filter.html Although the test website (old) reports that you need to use private browsing it is recommended to use normal browsing. It is possible to verify that r3dfox passes some tests (without the need to use uBlock Origin or uBlock Origin lite),because it has partial blocking functionality of urls tracking parameters. In Chromium-based browsers (excluding Brave), however, the tests passed by r3dfox fail if only the browser is used.