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I don't like the "hamburger" menu with all functions under one button. I decided to add a couple bookmarks because using New Moon became too much pain. To access them I need to through these levels Three-Dots > Bookmarks and Lists > Other Bookmarks > here they are. That is too many steps. If the mouse slips, I have to start over. If I expect the menu to unfold to the left, but it unfolds to the right, I have to go back. The functions directly under Bookmarks and Lists is rarely needed. The bookmarks should at least be there. On the empty start page I have a bar with a bookmarks button. But it disappears when I open any page. Today's monitors are giant. Surely there is a room to place menu items such as Bookmarks, History, Tools and more on a toolbar.

I am still here. Regarding which version of the Extended Kernel to use: https://github.com/i486/VxKex This is an archive of the original https://github.com/dotexe1337/VxKex This one is being actively improved as of Q1 2025 Both are made by members of the Windows XP Vista 7 Fans Discord forum, which is connected to the Eclipse.cx forum. Use dotexe's builds.

Forgot to quote you so you can get a notification as it's been a while Also commenting on the discussion from reddit The 7z contents from "this one" is the same as the originally posted one, I've binary compared them with winmerge And they are discussing nvme, but this pack contains also Generic_USB3x_6.2.9200.21180

Usually, the best universal USB3 drivers are pored 8.0 ones by @George King Someone links to that on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/WindowsVista/comments/19e1bxn/finally_got_vista_to_run_on_nvme_look_on_my_works/ Right now the working link is the one under "this one" However on AMD systems that are 2015 or earlier it's better to use AMD drivers meant for Windows 7, they work for Vista too.

... Probably not, so let me summarise the gist of what @j7n was talking about in his recent posts: 1. The H.264 codec is probably the best choice when you're about to playback video on a system with low H/W resources (weak CPU, low-end GPU) and a legacy OS like Win7 SP1; the decoder is natively supported by the OS (not the case in XP SP3) and via implementations like WMF/MSE, an MP4 video can be played back within a compatible browser with hardware acceleration and hardware decoding (not the same things); most Win7-era graphics cards have H.264 decoding support built-in, so even when the MP4 video is being played back in a standalone media player, video decoding is performed by the GPU, not CPU... 2. Google have recently started producing their h.264 (aka avc1) youtube encodes at very low video bitrates, even for "high" resolutions, such as 720p/1080p; thus, while the h.264 YT encodes should be preferred for downloading (because they need less computer resources to be played back once downloaded), the stingy bitrate results in sub-optimal visual experiences (blurry moving images, video artifacts of various sorts, etc.). 3. OTOH, Google continue to produce their VP9 YT encodes at exceptional bitrates, especially for the FHD/UHD resolutions (>=720p); these are large files to download, to begin with, but, once downloaded, playback on low-end machines puts a heavy toll on the CPU, because VP9 is being software-decoded; I've not researched this properly, but graphics cards with integrated, native, VP9 decoding support (aka VP9 hardware decoding) only came in the later 2010s, as part of mostly Win10 machines... TL;DR: To have the best visual experience, j7n has to fetch the VP9 YT encodes, but these are detrimental to his under-resourced machine (mostly the CPU is being utilised for video playback, resulting in excess heat and energy consumption, etc.).

So did I now: https://developer.paypal.com/tools/sandbox/ so probably NOT what you're after ; if you're limited to using UXP-based browsers (on Windows XP SP3?), then am afraid they're now dead in the water with regards to PayPal; the issue needs to be escalated upstream by users of the "official" UXP browsers (Pale Moon and Basilisk, on Win7SP1+), in the hope upstream can come up with a solution, but the relevant PMForum thread hasn't seen any further activity since July 30th... OT for this thread, but you may also appeal for help to Feodor2 in MyPal's GitHub issue tracker ; if still on XP, you might try how the Supermium browser fares on PayPal these days; might prove your only recourse...

Oh yea i saw that message too when i looked briefly at the Web Console, where the main homepage and login page had large font saying "close dev tools now!" or whatever. :| And yea i did notice that "geo ddc" on the URL for a second too right before the "cant load" message appears. - so you gotten it now too. dang. I've never heard of a "sandbox" version of paypal ever before, or ever knew such a thing existed for paypal. So im a bit too nervous to try to login through that, but the actual email/password form at least showed up, so thats the only thing i know so far. i google'd about it for a minute, and seems it's just for only testing, and doesnt store any money/info whatever. but.. I do have money in my real paypal account though, thats why im hesitant to try this sandbox version if that's understandable. :|

@kuja killer , follow up: Some 2 hours after my previous post, my modem-router had to be restarted (details that necessitated that are OT here), so my ISP assigned a new IP address to my internet connection; whether this is somehow relevant or a sheer coincidence, I have no idea ... Today, after reading your latest reply, I tried to re-access https://www.paypal.com/signin (as I had done yesterday) with the same NM28 copy as before; and guess what? I was hit by the same breakage you reported: I additionally have a page header instructing me to: "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker" but JS is enabled and uBlock Origin (legacy) completely disabled; as you detailed in your post, sliding the blue button to the right (to "prove you're a human") turns it for half a second into green (with a white tick), but then the "you've been blocked" (in Greek, in my case) page appears... It is then impossible to access the proper sign-in page ... I opened Dev Console (which PayPal detected and did NOT like ) : but nothing stands out there for me... On the same machine (with the same IP address), browsers like r3dfoxESR-115.13.0 (or even the most current, r3dfox-140.0.4) will also be presented with the human verification challenge, but is then successfully passed, after which a redirection takes place to the sought-after sign-in page... So, PayPal have started requiring "a feature" (JS, CSS, both) that is to be found on relatively (more) recent Firefox incarnations, but isn't found currently in UXP browsers (and MyPal); this is based on feature detection, so a SSUAO won't work, as noted... And yes, PayPal are using their "own" captcha: https://geo.ddc.paypal.com/captcha?..... Further researching this, Google have provided an alternative sign-in page, https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/us/home => https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/signin which loads for me straight away in both NM28 and St52; as said already, I don't have valid credentials to test whether one can successfully log-in, hopefully it'll work for you (assuming that signing-in to "www.sandbox.paypal,com" logs you, too, to "www.paypal,com") ... Regards ...

Sorry for the very late reply, I haven't checked back in a while! Yeah I got that message with the Chasys install too, but it still worked for me since I have "K-Lite Codec Pack" installed on XP. It just used the LAV codec to generate the thumbnails. A new version has just been released though that has fixed that issue, but just make sure to reboot for the thumbnails to work. I thought it was broken until I went back to the old version and noticed the "Thumbnail Handler" reboot message on install. The new installer missed that notice. It's working much faster now with the internal codec and I don't get a ton of LAV icons popping up in the tray, lol.

Hmm i see... man this is extremely fustrating. Well i dont ever use any other browsers except the serpent, so i dont have any add-ons or anything at all with those other ones, i just downloaded them and immediately tried to go straight to the paypal homepage, and login... sometimes it automatically attaches a "local US EN" to the link by itself, sometimes not. probably because it knows i live in Arizona United States which is fine. I did also make sure to disable all add-ons and so on with Serpent too ...tried the icognito/private window too and no luck. I took some screenshots from all 3 browsers serpent - https://i.ibb.co/p6QhdLnF/challenge1.png - i got a screenshot when it shows the green "success" checkmark for a split second when doing the "slide your mouse left to right" or the audio one, before then immediately saying "could not load" mypal - https://i.ibb.co/gN02BHJ/mypal-challenge.png new moon/pale moon 28 (latest august 8 2025 from roytam1's links) - https://i.ibb.co/bRRMfGW6/challenge-pale-newmoon.png - this one somehow managed to show the email/password form at least once (when deleting all cookies and trying again) ...then it had a "hcaptcha" thing ..that succeeded fine... THEN it showed the stupid mouse sliding/audio one immediately after that....and then the stupid "we couldnt load" I also tried like using a "latest edge" user agent just in case that might of mattered or not (on serpent) - the first one from the top of this website: https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent/edge ...that got the email/password form to show up...but it did the same thing as new moon/pale moon... started with hcaptcha prompt which goes through...followed by the damn mouse sliding one and "couldnt load, blocked"

I totally get your frustration—having to dig through 'More options' just to print is incredibly inefficient, especially in a production environment. StartAllBack’s classic menu definitely helps, but it’s not ideal if you want a streamlined workflow. You might want to keep an eye on PowerToys; they’ve been slowly adding features that improve context menu customization, and it may eventually let you add ‘Print’ directly.

You write many thoughts that are only tangentially connected. What formats YT gives differ from title to title. I ask it to give me h.264 video for ease of decoding (I surprise myself to say this) with fallback to other best video. For an example of 25 vs 50 frames, open a DVD that has a feature as well as behind the scenes extras. When a person speaks waving his arms around at 50 or 60 fps, I feel like I could reach into the computer screen as if it was a window. I only uploaded the literal video to demonstrate its quality. The audio is rather poor coming from a musician who seems to have a stuffed throad but I don't know what to blame for that. It's 128 kbit/s. When I download from YT, I get separater video and audiio files.

The video plays smoothly in Chrome 103 on my older Chromebook, but without audio. Where is the audio?

Can you please use some punctuation marks? This is unreadable!

do i understand this right ? the youtube downloader for xp (aka yt-dlp) only could get the h.264 format in windows xp ? but the chrome-player (thats the thing what plays the video from youtube ect.) seems very capable to do the "h.265 codec" one of the h.265 decendent´s is called VP9 - in xp the browser (like supermium) it also could not handle VP9 ? when i tryed the "KI" the KI did the same thing to nicolaasjan what the KI did to me, it pretended like to know the problem but everybody could say something like the KI say like "it is because the fluctuation in the internal functions" -> but basicly that says nothing, rather to write something like this describe "he/KI dont know either" the KI did the same to me i asked it up what REG_MULTI_SZ_APPENDED is and why these can have 2 constand´s then it firstly say "that is right" - but the correct answers would be that it is not - the inf installer has a own set of constand´s that´s why it has 2 constands - it has nothing to do with a c++ compiler or the registry constand´s nor the registry functions so the KI told me some bullcr.. and i was more confused then before (but we get the point the KI´s answer said it like it knows that, but actually the KI dont) VP9 would be doable it is open source, openssl if it has a age-problem would also be doable - there would be the possiblity to write the cryptografic instructions if they are in SSE - then you still could translate them to normal instruction, that also would be possible in sence of vista-10 function - we would have some on our list - one example would be the SRW-locks, those dont exits in XP but there implementations that works (they are function tested) it would depent on how many functions python would be asking from what i understand it was going like "hmm python 9.11 + didnt compile up anymore" now we done !? so do we know the problem more precisely ? openssl ? vista functions (in this case what ones) ? vp9 ? the thing with the frames should be mentioned, a video is not a game in a game i could not even play with 60 frames even with 80 frames i could reconize that framerate with 100 frames it was ok but a video this is however not the case often 24-30 are enough - the motion blur rather depents on the shutter-speed a shutter speed is not a framerate a shutter speed is how many pictures are taken in a certain speed like 1/60 thats 0,016 seconds to take 1 frame you dont need 60 frames to make this happen you can take 24-30 frames of 1/60 frames either (in 1 second intervals = 24 frames with 1/60 taken pictures) if you dont want the motion blur at all you take at least 1/500 for barly motion blur, 1/1000 for close to none , 1/2000 for no motion blur at all for fight scenes that look well (then you just take 24 frames that was taken in 1/2000 speed) 1 thing to tell here is that often for 24 frames also 1/24 shots are used 1/24 can make the picture to wash (not only motion blur) - higher speeds here dont have that problem so much or not at all if very fast - but they do not depend having 60 frames - in this case you can also have lets say 24 pictures/frames taken with 1/1000 speed what you can say about a faster shutter speed is : it tends to sharpen the picture (if the iso dont has to be increased) sharpen the picture also means the video looks sharper or better - a video is just a picture repeated 24 times (sometimes 50 or 60) but in a video that is often not as reconizeable as with a game - that would remind a 3d-object discussion and a 2d video discussion - while 2d would do just fine for a video more frames are not bad ... but the benefits are mostly (at least for video) are not that high anymore - and not to compare with the frame discussion from a game however for shutter speeds of that level you need a fast lens the so called t-stop or f-stop, an alternativ would be to be in a good light (like sunlight) (in older movie´s you often see that they used outdoor lights to have a better iso, that was when FILM was still around - i saw them and even in a shadow scene the video looked very bright - that was because a outdoor light was used) if either you have a slow lens or a bad light you have to increase the iso - and increasing the iso means less pixels and less dynamic range! (dynamic range means that the texture in bright and dark parts have more detail - a problem special small sensors have - thats why they use tricks - one trick is to take multiple pictures at different shutter speeds - and overlap them) so far i have not seen what is really missing, so more information would be very welcome

Is ChromeOS powerful enough or has GPU to decode VP9? It gives basically the highest possible resolution, sometimes 60fps. Example of current quality: http://j7n.sytes.net/temp/ytqual/ Video 10 MB, audio 5 MB.

I've also observed this myself; the other day I DLed a BBC-made 30min documentary off their official YT account (videoID=Pxozxj03l18) and though I initially wanted the 720p25 variant (in h264), I went, in the end, for the 1080p25 one (h264, ca. 1600kbps), because 720p25 was a measly 500kbps ... ... They're probably targeting ChromeOS laptops and/or Android-based UHD SmartTVs; little do they care for "legacy" OS/HW setups; and h264 still costs them patent fees, whereas their own VP9 codec (and av01) is royalty-free...

@kuja killer Paypal-related issues have also appeared in the upstream forum: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=32581 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=264391#p264391 Mixed reports from various users there, probably depending on their physical location; PayPal are conducting various A/B tests, it seems (read e.g. this PMForum thread ); user at the second link I posted thinks that it's NOT CloudFlare, but a PayPal-specific recaptcha (security check) that is NOT compatible with UXP-based browsers ... Can you try again with a fresh NM28 profile, where you block nothing? FWIW, with my ISP's Greek IP, I can access https://www.paypal.com/signin in NM28 at this very time without issue, but, as I don't have an account with them, can't proceed any further...

About the DirectX files on Server 2012 (R2) , I should have added that even if you install the DirectX redist package from Microsoft, they will not be added. These 3 files are considered part of the OS and Microsoft removed them from the Server installation completely. This is not a problem on the Client version and why they can be copied from there.

YouTube has something new on their end again. No mention of SABR at all anymore. There is new line in the app that says "Sleeping for 5 seconds as required by the site." No big deal about that. Requesting 720p or 1080p h.264 video gives extremely poor quality compared to how it was before. The bitrates for a talking head segment are 240 kbit/s and 860 kbit/s respectively. Requesting no/default format gives VP9 in extremely large size and demand for the computer. Best that they have 3840*2160 @ 30 fps, 9500 kbit/s. Google really wants to push their VP9. When nothing works, this still does.

Hello, i need to ask about something again. Does the paypal website not work in these browsers anymore ?? I've tried your Seperent, New Moon/Pale Moon, and Mypal 74.1.1 I've had a paypal account since the early 2010's and never had any issues with it before. But suddenly i cant seem to even get to the actual login page on any browser whatsoever. What i mean is, i click the login on top right side of the main homepage, and get this "security check" before even seeing the email/password form, where you slide your mouse from left to right ...or do an "audio" thing where you type 6 numbers you hear. And when i click it, i get the green checkmark ...but it says "You are blocked. we couldnt load the security challenge" And the only way i can ever try again is to delete any/all "paypal" cookies from the browser. I've tried tons of times and it always keeps saying "we couldnt load the security challenge" after doing it successfully. I dont know what's going on, but this is the first time in my life i seen this happen. Does this have anything to do with the annoying Cloudflare crap that plagued all the browsers in recent months ?? Or is something serpent/new moon/mypal doesnt support all of a sudden now? - The last time i was able to login to my account was about a month ago or so, and never saw this happen before until now.

If you don't need Microsoft explorer gui trash, there are other stuff that will work just fine, I have gotten everything but bluetooth and audio to work without the desktop experience. https://gist.github.com/bp2008/922b326bf30222b51da08146746c7c27

The DirectX DLLs are an issue on every Windows. You're supposed to install a DX redistributable or get them bundled with a game. At one point I heard there was a license pushback from Microsoft when software included those DLLs, but now it just happens. Unlike other DLLs, XAudio2_6.dll and its siblings need to be registered and therefore also put into the system folder so that all applications have access to them. Not having XAudio results in a hard to troubleshoot situation of no sound in games from Bethesda. They don't say that the DLL wasn't found. I strongly dislike Microsoft's media stuff. It's big, slow and unncessary given free alternatives. Games that include everything they need work more reliably on all versions of Windows. A game is a gig or bigger and can afford to bundle a video codec. The new XnView MP (not lean, built on a framework) refuses to start because it is linked to mfplat.dll. I got a couple audio editors, I think one of them was from Acoustica, also refusing to start. The fault as I see it is with them because we have other graphics and audio editors that work great. They usually work way faster being older. In Server 2022 the desktop pack is mandatory. Not having it results in all GUI being inaccessible.

framedyn.dll has a staggering 630 export functions and its name is "WMI SDK Provider Framework", srclient is system restore. Neither is ms update. Look in my nlite preset. There it has an entry "Automatic Updates" which do the job but not tottaly. That's why you see at RemoveFiles section all these mu*.* and wu*.* stuff. But not even that clean the remaining microsoft \ windows update items so next you see inside entries_del_shortcuts.ini stuff like del_ qfeUpPck.inf|,MU.AddReg||1 etc. or qfeUpPck.inf|ProfileItems =MU.Shortcut,MUC.Shortcut,KB976002.Shortcut<NEXT>||1 The qfeUpPck.inf and 5erPOSUp.inf aren't known to nlite even they are integrated before by RVM_Integrator. msagent is not automatic updates. If you don't load my nlite preset which has "MS Agent" entry then you have to duplicate what nlite was doing to remove stuff by hand. I guess you use ms notepad or wordpad which is only good for a couple of lines and after that it will increase mental fog. Notepad4 is a good alternative. And something I forgot to tell at the 3-Aug-2025 post. When you load my nlite preset and hit next couple of times it will ask for BITS incompatibility. You have to press "No" instead. On whatever *_u.ini you need to fill the CDKey without the dashes. After you have a succesfull setup you can go back to your untouched but updated i386 source by XPSP3_QFE_POSReady_Addon_20200820_Pro.7z and XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack_20210829_Pro.7z and then load again my nlite (nlite load button at lower right corner) preset, but this time you could uncheck a component or a setting/tweak and if you end up again with a succesfull installation, you can keep your new preset. Also nlite if is run more than one time on the same i386 source it may produce duplicate or similar entries on some .INF files. On the same updated source, after only one nlite pass with my nlite preset, I integrate my del_addon. Then I don't have those folders right from the begining of setup because the setup engine does not create folders which aren't needed, so I can't test them with Unlocker. But I need more time to create a new nlite preset that could not have all those nhelper.exe lines right from the start (if it is possible). That's why I remove stuff from nlite.inf too. I have place a lot of commnents about various issues on my entries_del_shortcuts.ini v2 addons which both are also more up to date. If you use some VM environment eg. vmware etc. and you need to make a ISO you have to delete SetupSourcePath and BootPath lines from TXTSETUP.SIF just before make the iso. del_addon_full_v2.7zStep 1 nlite reducer.7z