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I have installed KB5054156 Enablement Package for 25H2. After Restart SAB told me there is no Support for this Windows Version and provide the choice to activate or deactivate. I have activate it and for now it works. Is there an update needed to get SAB working without any problems in 25H2?

Does anybody know if Server 2012/2012 R2 are eligible of Grandfathered ESU like 2008 SP2/2008 R2? I remember that somewhere it said support is stretched till 2029 but I am not quite sure. It would be nice to know which products are covered by that clause. I think it was like 3-5 years more support after the end of Extended Support, right? Fun Fact: In fact, Internet Explorer 9 and 11 are the longest-supported Browsers under Windows Vista, 7, and 8, including ESU updates. What an irony, since IE was already "officially" declared dead in 2022.

New release 74.1.2 "A step aside from the javascript to fix the facebook, some other sites may be fixed too. If you had set useragent for the facebook then it may necessary to remove it." https://codeberg.org/Theodor2/Mypal68/releases

I have a similar problem and downgraded to SAB 3.9.12 in the meantime. My OS is Windows 11 24H2 26100.4652. For me Compact Mode is enabled in File Explorer Options and I use the Windows 7 Explorer mode with this theme: https://www.deviantart.com/niivu/art/pi11z-for-Windows-11-1084568949

The Microsoft update in xp got error,only got with a here dialog box. Could you fix the problem @WULover.

I mention this since it's been a while and I don't recall if it's relevant, but I noticed that (sort of) early 25H2 build 26220.5770 causes 3.9.14 to put up its message of not being intended for the build, followed by disabling itself. This happens upon completion of the Feature Update to get to the above build. You can enable it though, and all is well that I can see.

28.08.2025 it says for me. Thanks!

Whew! ESR v140.20 has been released. Yay! And the latest release for the mainstream versions is v141.0.3 https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases

New root certificates (4) from 28. 08. 2025. Edit: Corrected the date from 25. to 28. aug.

Any updates?

I conducted an investigation, interrogated the hotkeys, put Snipping Tool under surveillance... Everything points to one thing: Win+Shift+T is a myth, created to distract insiders from the real bugs.

It should extract text unless you're focusing taskbar

Win+Shift+T still doesn’t work for insiders. Instead of quickly extracting text in Snipping Tool, it just highlights the shortcut on the taskbar.

Thanks for the info, no need to test

Thank you for reply. I use the latest Serpent 52.9 (my main browser) and today it works fine. I guess it had nothing to do with Serpent now because I often run experiments with FSFilters on my machine to find the most optimum configuration and it must have been the filter cascade that triggered that or maybe not - root certificates might also have contributed: 28.8. are the newest and I did have the latest when I experienced this.

Hello kuja killer, I did not mean to offend you by describing your PayPal-fight as stubborn. There simply was little sense in repeatedly - like Sisyphus - rolling a huge stone (e-mail option) up a hill only to have it roll back down again ("slide the mouse"). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You asked: What is "tabula rasa" ? Tabula rasa is Latin for “blank slate" This means: 1. A mind not yet affected by experiences, impressions, etc. the mind in its uninformed original state (in the philosophy of Locke) 2. Something new, fresh, unmarked or uninfluenced. Clean slate: anything existing undisturbed in its original pure state,an opportunity for a fresh start. "Tabula Rasa Installation" of NM28: A new,fresh,unmarked or uninfluenced “blank slate" installation of NM28, i.e. no modifications, personal settings,add-ons,extensions,host file,DNS filtering etc. or anything else that could interfere with PayPal.

@Tihiy This problem still occurs in 3.9.14, I use compact mode and Rectify11 msstyles.

BTW, I do think PayPal is going a bit overboard here. Think about it: you (eventually) have to provide a correct user ID and password, then pass the 2FA challenge - so what's the point of a captcha? To make sure that, if anyone hacks into your account, at least it's a human? "Oh, thank goodness! All my money was stolen by a real person, and not a bot! What a relief!" And in my case, the captcha came up first, so all a hacker would have to do is solve the captcha and then turn on the bot! To be fair, perhaps the captcha comes up again after each unsuccessful login attempt, so that wouldn't work. But if so, you still don't need a captcha on the first login attempt! And it's not even one of Google's reCaptchas. If it were, I'd just guess that PayPal was getting paid by Google to put the reCaptcha up and help Google train their AI. I think some of these sites think that the more "security-adjacent" hurdles they throw in your path, the more "secure" they are - or at least, the more secure you'll think they are (security theater) - when in fact all it does is make them more inconvenient to use.

On this PayPal thing, I think everyone is making a lot of unwarranted assumptions here. First, I don't think the captcha is the same thing as the security challenge. From your description, it sounds to me like the captcha works, but then, PayPal tries to load the "security challenge," which fails. Second, I don't think either of those things has anything to do with the 2FA method you choose. In my case, the captcha is the very first thing to come up. Then comes the "security challenge," which, for me, fails on the latest St 55 (even with a clean profile). I never even get to a login screen, so PayPal doesn't even know for sure who I am or what my preferred 2FA method is. It just fails to load the security challenge. That's all that happens. Other people may get these things in a different order. I'm just pointing out that in my case, I can't possibly be getting the security challenge because PayPal thinks I chose an inferior 2FA method. I don't think anyone else is either. If PayPal thought that poorly of email 2FA, they wouldn't offer it in the first place. (BTW, there are ways to hack SMS 2FA too, such as by malware on the phone that forwards the 2FA text to the attacker. And the security of an email account can be anywhere from poor to very good, depending on everything from how good your password is, to whether you also have 2FA on your email account!) Keep in mind there could be other things blocking the security challenge besides the browser or browser add-ons, such as a hosts file, PiHole on the network, etc. So to be sure, you may need to try a more modern browser. In my case, I can log in successfully using r3dfox (Win 7+ only; if you're on XP, try Supermium instead), so I know in my case it's an issue with St 55 (at least, the latest version). And the captcha is still the very first thing to come up, before it even asks for my ID.

There is still the possibility that Mozilla might extend ESR 115 for another 6 months.

These work in 7 so therefore should also work in 8.1 -- https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Chromium-for-windows-7

You have to use the latest preset called "Step 1 nlite reducer.7z" from 2025.08.20 and the "del_addon_full_v2.7z"! A Setup red error in event viewer -> system like this meaning your installation might have issues (usually com+ and ms shadow copy provider etc.) On the other hand errors in setupapi.log like wuweb.dll you have mention, have no real consequences if you have use nlite which somehow patch syssetup.dll. Wuweb (and others) register from inside au.inf, but au.inf and all the rest automatic updates dlls like wuweb was erased by nlite preset which also erased the coresponding entries from inside syssetup.inf. Alas, nlite does not know anything comming from XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack_20210829_Pro.7z which include wuweb.cat as new catalog for the new wuweb.dll. nlite knows wuweb.dll (which erased) but doesn't know anything for its wuweb.cat catalog. nlite also leave entries in DEFLTWK cdm.dll etc. that's why I try to surplus it with del_addon_full_v2. It is a work in progress I guess.. If you only delete a dll after the setup, then registry will continue to reference it. So, it will try to load those keys and others in memory only to find that when it try to load the now deleted dll from the disk, that dll was deleted.

Can anyone suggest a secure browser and email client for an acquaintance who has a "plain vanilla" 64-bit Windows 8.1 machine? I am aware that Mozilla is ending support for the legacy FF ESR v115.x browser for Win 7 / Win 8.x in Sep 2025 and that FF ESR v115.27.0 (rel. 19-Aug-2025) will be the last FF browser released by Mozilla for these older OSs. I recommended they try r3dfox (a fork of modern Firefox) or Supermium (a fork of modern Chrome) but would appreciate knowing if someone has another suggestion for a supported browser that still runs on a Win 8.1 OS. I also recommended Thunderbird ESR for an email client, but I have no idea if Mozilla as made any similar announcements about dropping support for Thunderbird in the near future for Win 7 / Win 8.x OSs, or if there are other email clients that still support Win 8.1. ----------- Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.6218 * Firefox v142.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.25070.5-1.1.25070.4 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.3.6.205-138.0.5346 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * MS Outlook 2019

StartAllBack 3.9.14 StartAllBack 3.9.13

I have not been following the back-and-forth on PayPal "slide mouse". I can only report that it DOES WORK on first attempt in my OLDER version of Serpent.