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Does anyone know if it is possible to force Windows XP (x86/x64) to treat signed and unsigned drivers equally, and not prefer a signed driver over an unsigned one? I know it is possible to disable signature enforcement and stop the warning popups and such, this is not what I need. I need Windows to stop automatically preferring a signed "generic" (device ClassCode [CC] INF entry) driver over an unsigned "specific" (device [VEN&DEV] INF entry) driver. I'm trying to manually slipstream motherboard chipset drivers into XP setup.. and the 250+ tiny INF and associated CAT files supplied by the OEM drive me nuts. So I decided to build a single compiled INF file, similar to what I did for my Windows 9x Chipset INFs. Which is fine, except that it is unsigned, while XP's MACHINE.INF is signed. So Setup refuses to use my INF for, say, the PCI-E Root Ports, because it has a generic Class Code entry for these in MACHINE.INF, and uses it with generic names. But it does pick up my INF for the SMBus controller and gives it its proper name, because no other driver matches it. This is maddening... Yes, I can manually force the use of the specific unsigned driver on the other devices through the device manager after the desktop is reached, but this defeats the purpose of having the driver slipstreamed to begin with. I can also edit MACHINE.INF with the new data and break its signature in the process.. but this leads to other dumb behavior, such as popups about "Terminal Server" device drivers during SETUP that require user interaction and break the unattended process.

So an issue I am having is I am trying to run 2000 on my 9900k and asus maximus xi hero and obviously acpi wont work so I had to use mps mode. The issue I am having is that in mps multiprocessor mode my pcie ethernet adapter is not detected, while in standard pc mode it is. I even tested it by installing my network card in standard pc mode, and I had an internet connection. But when I switched to MPS Multiprocessor, I lost my internet connection and would not detect my ethernet card (or my nec usb card) again. I really dont want standard pc mode because then I can only use 1 core, I am not sure if there is a bios setting I need to change, my i3 9100f and gigabyte b365m-ds3h rig works fine with mps the ethernet is detected properly https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B1tRlFablK6ZV-LIjLXKpHqpKG-rBAq1/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B4ajPzP_BS95mZjxF5TF32zW99nfKZ78/view?usp=drivesdk

Thank you very much for the diligent support, @IDA-RE-things, I have not properly tried your build. I will do so (hopefully shortly) and report back. Cheers!

Yeah. REF mpv. Have you had any luck with Marroc's custom build?

Those are different taskbars. If you want dark classic not acrylic I don't think those are coming back.

Hello @Tihiy I come back with this "little problem" What would need to be changed in SAB to have the default Windows behavior for tooltips (explorer and systray) ? As a reminder With SAB (without NoDarkTooltips key) : => Explorer tooltip is not OK but Systray tooltip is OK With SAB (NoDarkTooltips at 1) : =>Explorer tooltip is OK but Systray tooltip is not OK Without SAB : => All is ok I retested and it was impossible to have the default font and size of the explorer tooltips AND the default design of the systray tooltips with SAB It's one OR the other with NoDarkTooltips registry key and setting to 0 or 1 If possible add a new "option" to the NoDarktooltip key to have the default behavior, maybe ? Or what to modify in SAB files to have the default Windows behavior ? Thanks for the help

Oh, one more thing, the method with which I was somehow successful with that one hole was melting solder on it and using solder pump. But just couldn't reproduce the success on other holes.

I think if I could have just skipped desoldering part, I might have got somewhere already. You think those smears could look worse than they really are? I'm ashamed to photograph it, it does look horrible. There is actually a bigger one below where antenna connector is mounted from the factory, just much less dark. BTW, last year I still saw this model of router on sale directly from Linksys, sure pricey for the capabilities, but this year, they might have actually stopped producing it.

I still have mine around here somewhere! But no, I no longer use it as my Roku wireless devices would not connect to it.

25-40W is fine for hobbyist 60-40 / 63-37 tin-lead solder. But 60W works better on today's lead-free solder. My tin-lead equipment at work runs at 330 deg-C to 350 deg-C [626 deg-F to 662 deg-F]. My lead-free equipment can be set as high as 850 deg-F [454 deg-C]. But generally runs at only 370 deg-C to 400 deg-C. Some of our boards are "cured" in ovens and those boards take some HEAT to undo that lead-free stuff.

I got even less far with 40W one. I got almost nowhere in hours. What chances are there that I haven't destroyed it now if it wasn't destroyed by that voltage shock after the power outage already? Sad to say, but some of us are clumsy beyond help. Should I have used a chisel tip? That looked even more difficult use due to it being bigger and those holes are so small.

As long as the VPN connection is good, then yeah. Google added a VPN to Android and it's always on. (You can toggle it off if needed) I leave it on and have no issues. Pixel 8 Pro

It's an overkill, I'd stick with 25-40W max. 60w is usually used only when it's hard to melt, like PSU board or smth like that. And don't forget to ground it!

jaclaz, you're absolutely right, no doubt. The problem is - that person originally wrote about external HDD in boxes, which are (and you know it perfectly fine) absolutely different matter due to the onboard chip that emulates sectors for XP, just like again we explained. We probably need to pin it up to avoid further confusing posts like from that person. Related matter is, starting somewhere in 2017(?) they ceased to make such external boxes, the disk and its contents is fully visible when connected via SATA directly to a Vista machine, but not visible in XP anymore, of course. XP suggests to format it.

I officially gave up on this. I'm simply incapable of using these tools, no amount of YouTube videos and reading about techniques help me, not 60W iron, not desoldering wig, not the pump, nothing. All I managed to do this evening was free one hole and left a bunch of smears on the board. Well the other day I got one capacitor out (with legs still stuck in the holes). When I measured them in circuit (capacitance - I know it's not accurate that way), all but one showed 0L on meter, which is overload. The other one showed 100 higher value than should be (but again, in-circuit, sooo...). I think it's best if I just forget about it and throw the router in the trash. I guess some of us just weren't meant to be able to do self-repairs. Some may say recapping is not that hard, but for some of us, it is very hard, downright impossible.

I thought driver security updates resulted in drastic FPS drop in P3R. But the true answer is UE4's shader compilation issue is the main reason. So I think I have to edit engine.ini carefully to deal with it.

Anyway, I don't think 1607 has any chance to run latest Blackwell GPUs, but only time can prove it.

My FurMark2 benchmark score using 545.84. https://www.gpumagick.com/scores/show.php?id=177195 NVIDIA added new codes to check Windows version during loading driver, so I modified the original requirement then 1607 can use R545 drivers, which means Quadro and Geforce Turing GPUs with NGX may use super resolution in latest VLC media player. For Quadro Turing users, the modification required for nvlddmkm.sys is quite simple. But R545 drivers no longer have security updates, so using R535 drivers should be better.

Taskbar sticked to left side Toolbar names not complete Any Idea? Windows 11 23H2 Startallback 3.7.10

I always heard that there was some sort of emulation going on if you partition a native 4K hard drive in XP. And that it would work but at lower performance if it was not correctly aligned. Obviously if you buy an external HDD today it will come correctly aligned and work fine on XP. But if for whatever reason you need to partition the hard drive again you should do it on Windows 7 and then use the drive on XP normally. At first when 4k native alignment was new there were all sorts of software that would check if the drive was correctly aligned. Even HDD manufacturers provided free software for that. All that was done for using the drive on XP. I remember using Acronis from WD just to check if they were correctly aligned. If you partition a 4k drive on XP it won't be correctly aligned and you would lose performance. I just remember reading about that constantly when 4K alignment was new.

Only to (hopefully) clear the matter. The 2.2 Tb original limit depends on the 32-bit size of the MBR partition table that sets at 2^32-1=4,294,967,295 the max number of sectors accessible.[1] If the disk exposes 512 bytes/sector the limit is then 2.2 Tb. If the disk exposes 4Kb/sector size (so-called "Native 4k" disks) the limit is 8 times that much. What a number of USB external enclosures (the controllers in them) do is to expose on the USB connection the disk as if it was a Native 4k one, i.e. it makes the XP believe that the disk has 4 kb/sector, thus allowing to use "normal" 512 bytes/sector disks of much larger sizes than 2.2. Tb. The chosen method of alignment (to the cylinder up to XP, to the Mb on Vista and later) is unrelated. jaclaz [1] only for the record, at the time I devised a partitioning schema with two (or more) partitions that allowed to use MBR disks up to (almost) 4.4 Tb, but (a few) actual tests led to the conclusion that while the schema did work on later OS (7 at least) it did not work on XP due to some other limitation (still 32 bit related) in system files.

Select Monitor Scaling and Exit to DOS. This should retain the setting. Then use a DOS Vesa 3 app to set the mode and refresh rate. If it still doesn't work, the problem is definitely the video card not correctly supporting Vesa 3 on the DVI port. What DOS app are you using for your tests? BTW, both are 16:9 so there should be no black side bars. If the preview is like what you get, then it is correctly previewing incorrect behavior.

Ok, thanks, @ED_Sln. Now we will wait for any other user with such problem.

Microsoft VPN will surely work with Bing.

It's only when you connect the HDD via SATA directly to the Mobo, but it would mean it's NOT external anymore. It's internal.