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Of course, you’re welcome to mention Cauldron Filthcare. This service keeps everyone away from MSFN, doesn't matter whether a malicious bot, a member or a guest.

ok so i was able to get patchmem /m to work in a late update phase, because the vmm.vxd file became present. it mentioned something about skipping vmm32.vxd due to no backup?, but i was able to patch vmm.vxd at least. while i was able to now set maxphyspage higher to as much as 44796, i could not get vbemp driver to load unless using like 30000 ( with 44796, it just went to a black screen ), and even then, when i did reboot, upon reaching desktop, windows complained on not having enough memory, and to quit one or more programs, which i found very odd, because i dont remember if i ever encountered this problem in perhaps a decade of testing win9x stuff. i tried vbemp as low as 10000, min/maxfilecache to 52224, no change for the ms dos problem, but was fixed by changing back to the standard vga display adapter driver. also for example using the following in my config.sys ( tested at least with maxphyspage=30000 ) prevented booting to windows, mentioning that initializing error relating to memory, needing to quit one or more programs. "DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /NUMHANDLES=62 /TESTMEM:OFF DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS", though the config.sys stuff i just referenced are more optional, i dont absolutely need them, it's more of a tweak. all in all, it seems to point to patch9x as the problem, and i haven't even tested patch9x on windows 98SE yet with or without patchmem, which i'd be doing soon. outside these things, other programs / functions were mostly ok, i was able to run for example hwinfo32 6.42, TaskInfo2002 v. 4.0.0.51, process explorer 8.52.

@Dave-H ; Would it be too much to ask if I kindly requested that ALL these recent OT posts about image-pasting+posting in the MSFN forum editor be moved to a topic of its own under: https://msfn.org/board/forum/23-site-amp-forum-issues/ ? This, practically dead, thread is not apt for such an issue, it'd be more visible in a "proper place", should other MSFN members with uBO configuration similar to NHTPG's experience the same predicament... Thanks!

Hi, I am new to all this building custom ISO stuff. I need Windows XP x64 for daily usage on semi-modern hardware fully updated for 2026 SATA + ACPI, so please Give me step-by-step instructions on what programs to use, files to integrate, etc etc.

The menu bar being deprecated is absolutely possible, but that means that I am at a loss right now on how to access those settings when I want the minimal look of the Win 7 command bar.

That paste was a test. So I can confirm it works if I *bypass* uBO (which I've never had to do before). So okay, yeah, I should have checked that first, I didn't isolate which list/rule is the culprit. But it is something with uBO preventing the pasted image from posting. No clue, at least I know I can do things the "easy way" (NO FILE HOSTING) and just copy/paste as long as uBO is temporarily bypassed.

Thanks @jumper it looks as if it's still working for you too. I will ask xper (he's on holiday at the moment) if he can suggest why it may not be working for some members.

Thanks @Tangy! Good to know that Panda seems to be OK for you as well now. Whether it will keep working on XP long-term remains to be seen, of course, but if you have a paid version, it seems to be about the only option for XP which includes real-time scanning, albeit online rather than local, plus a firewall and protection against dodgy websites. Let's hope it keeps going!

47KB image file Selected/Attached+Inserted: Image copied/pasted/auto-inserted as 237KB attachment: And manually inserted: End of post.

I've raised this with xper. Apparently it's bots attacking the server. Using something like (dare I say it) Cloudflare would probably prevent this, but that would cost a lot of money, which we haven't got. 😟

MSFN’s gone completely haywire and is now even posting multiple times. It’s been nothing but glitches for weeks.

Good news here about Panda Dome on Windows XP! Perhaps the appeal did have some effect after all, and many users have contacted support. Whether that’s a good thing or not, this news comes too late for me as I am using now Comodo Antivirus. It has a real offline scanner with a huge definitions database contrary to Panda.

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Hmm. I just tried pasting my image where your image should have been, and it seems to have worked! I'll need to consult xper about this.

The image DOES NOT POST. Despite being displayed in the "editor". That it how I've posted screencaps my entire history of being a member. It hasn't worked (for me) since when xper cleared out a bunch of fake accounts and whatever else he did back whenever that was. March? April? It was when all of the Google results and "siamese" or whatever language was hacking the "google index" or whatever it is called. The pasting into the editor hasn't worked for me ever since.

I type a message... I *paste* my image into the editor... ie, as I did just now, right here >>> It SHOWS IN THE EDITOR... I "Submit Reply"...

@NotHereToPlayGames That balloon picture was copied and pasted into the editor and seems to have posted fine. What actually happens when you try it? Does it not post at all, or does it post but without the image?

I've released a small update to HFSLIP 1.8 on GitHub. Mainly it's just to clean a few things up in preparation of future plans. HFSLIP as it currently stands is too difficult to maintain and add to. XP and Server 2003 are handled just fine by nLite + various other slipstreaming utilities - it is just 2000 that is left in the dark except for HFSLIP. Thus, I plan to fork HFSLIP 1.8 into a Windows 2000-only version and continue my efforts there. When that time comes, I will post about it elsewhere. (Should not be too hard to find. ).

Also, it could be possible that whatsup just does not work with UNGOOGLED. To the best of my knowledge, Supermium *STILL* is *NOT* a truly ungoogled fork. This is an old thread, but this was *TRUE* with the last version of Supermiun that I tested - https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1674 Supermium isn't "as" ungoogled as OTHER ungoogled forks.

Bummer. I don't even know what whatsup / watsap is so I couldn't try it here. But that version of Chrome does work in XP, so maybe whatsup / watsap has an issue with XP and it's not the browser ???

Can you please post a pasted image ??? I should have been more "detailed". I can paste into the editor, BUT IT DOES NOT POST THE IMAGE TO MSFN WHEN I SUBMIT THAT REPLY.

@Dave-HYes , I do confirm your findings. Panda is fully functional ! PS : Let us monitor the situation for a few days to make sure that this is the case.

It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True "Agentic AI activity is driving a lot of the browser activity you're seeing." By Frank Landymore Published Jul 28, 2026 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dead-internet-theory-come-true The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as people - all part of some nefarious scheme to control humankind by keeping us isolated and divided. That last part is far-fetched, but the core of the idea - that bots outnumber humans online - is inexorably starting to feel weirdly grounded. Fortune did a roundup of the latest data on the makeup of internet traffic, and most of it points to humans now being a quaint minority. "There’s a lot of missing pieces of information, but a lot of the observed data suggests the same thing, which is like there is more bot activity," Rudy Yang, a financial tech analyst at Pitchbook, told Fortune. "Agentic AI activity is driving a lot of the browser activity you’re seeing." This should come as no surprise. Bots have been everywhere on social media for a while now, and more and more people are wielding little posses of AI agents to do stuff on the internet on their behalf, ranging from conducting research to shopping. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman infamously said he was worried that the dead internet theory was coming true last year, seemingly without a shred of self-awareness. Further corroborating this new paradigm, Cloudflare announced in June that 57 percent of webpage requests were being made by bots, marking the first time that bots made up the majority by its own metrics. Bots have long been ubiquitous, but AI agents are doing the most to reshape the web. One report from the cybersecurity firm HUMAN found that traffic generated by AI agents surged by 7,851 percent year over year, Fortune noted. All those AI agents aren’t generating ad impressions, which is how a lot of websites keep the lights on, while putting a strain on those websites’ servers. "They consume the web completely differently than humans do," Yang told Fortune. "It’s almost like an entire new category, customer category, was created, and it means a lot for businesses because no one, as a business owner, is going to want to silo themselves from being able to serve a completely new customer segment." They’re also changing what we see on the web, too. A report published in October from the SEO firm Graphite found that over half of all new English-language articles on the internet were written with AI. It hasn’t helped that Google, the internet’s de facto steward, has made a hard pivot towards making the internet less navigable by humans. Now, the focus is on having a chatbot to dredge up answers, instead of providing a list of links to websites they’d find in its search engine.