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Sorry that I have been gone so long, I have been out of state for the past week. Anyway, when I got home I tried multiple ways to install windows NT 4.0, but all of them failed. I have a CD (sp6a preinstalled from internet archive), DVD (same as before), DVD (last MS official release), and a USB with the installer. All fail with "innaccessible boot device". I am completely lost at this point. As for your concerns about the boot loader, this is not an issue. If NT 4.0 can boot, getting it to do so from the BCD store of modern windows is trivial. The only thing that needs to be true is that NT 4.0 run ntdetect.com and load NTLDR with no issues, which I do through a real mode boot sector with grub, made easy by Easy BCD from neosmart. I really just wish that I could get the NT 4.0 installer to run, but it seems that me from 2023 knew what she was doing to download the internet archive WinWorld emulator VHD and image it to a physical partition. I cannot find any mention of a Fat16 formatted NT 4.0 install annywhere on the internet, which is dissapointing. I'm stumped. I don't want to give up, though. I was going to try 2 things: 1: convert the partition to fat 16 and see what happens. I have a program called macrium reflect that would likely be able to rebuild the broken boot table, so it's worth a shot. 2: install NT 4.0 to a VM as fat16 and then copy it to my machine. I will be going with #1 first as getting USB drivers on this thing was a nightmare, and I have my doubts a clean install would even boot since the installer doesn't. Curse the specificity of old NT operating systems! (Still love them though, even with me being born in the late 2000s)
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Just imagine if Windows 2000 were a rational human being. After reading this, it would probably get furious and reclaim every line of code it gave to Windows XP. XP would be left like a book with all its pages ripped out ,nothing but the cover and a handful of rough drafts . -
Hello guys Thanks for all your hard work on this fantastic project. Is there a Windows XP ISO available with all of the modified drivers already integrated?
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But if anyone now thinks that Comodo actively supports Windows XP, they are very much mistaken. This company is still advertising Windows XP compatibility, specifically here https://antivirus.comodo.com/security/windows-xp-free-antivirus.php, but for years now, the installer provided has no longer been compatible with XP. It’s completely misleading and simply sloppy. Now it’s down entirely to the creativity of Windows XP users to breathe new life into old, discontinued versions. And exactly that was what I did. -
Win10 LTSC IoT lag issues. How to resolve?
NotHereToPlayGames replied to DeathAdderSF's topic in Windows 10
Strictly my opinion, but I kind of *fail* to understand why "upgrade path" is even a topic of discussion. To ME, if "upgrade path" is that vital here at MSFN, then any-and-all XP users that are running POSReady2009 would be *banned* for publicly admitting violation of terms on their XP. Sorry, it really all boils down to that as far as *I* am concerned. -
At the moment, I am very satisfied with CAV and Vir.IT as both use offline definition files. Comodo's definition file base.cav is nearly 640 MB in size and therefore much pattern inside.
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Yes indeed, but if you remember, Malwarebytes did pretty much the same thing. They maintained version 3.5.1 for several years 'as is' for XP users and still provided pattern updates for it. Then they pulled the plug, without any warning, and no longer provided pattern updates, although the program still worked OK. Likewise, Panda keep 22.03.05 as their legacy version for XP users, which can still be downloaded and installed. As long as it still works, I'm not that worried if the program files are old. This is not quite the same scenario, of course, as Panda doesn't use local pattern files for scanning, which makes it even stranger that they would suddenly break XP compatibility. Whatever they do with the daily 'synchronisation' mechanism, it seems that has broken things. No program files have been changed as far as I can see. -
Of course, only there is a limit of RAM memory size.
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Long story short, I have revived Comodo Antivirus 12.0.0.6818 (CAV) as part of the Comodo Internet Security suite (CIS) since it was no longer wirking out of the box. It's one of the last working antimalware programmes with real-time protection, HIPS, VirusScope, secure containmenr, online definition updates, even incremental definition updates, and the possibility of offline updating. This is now my new antimalware programme. And Vir.IT of course. All free of charge.
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It’s clear and obvious that Panda stopped supporting Windows XP for programme updates quite some time ago. The latest version is 22.03.05, nearly one year ago, and that was a long time ago. But to then go and break even that version via the automatic update – that’s a no-go. And in doing so put the user’s partition at risk.
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@AstroSkipper I mean RAM. I got 8 GBs. MY xp reads around 3 GBs. There is something that my system does not like about it. I have not put any effort to find out what is causing that. Could it be that my xp is 32bits ? -
Thanks @Tangy. I would be interested to know your results. Just an update, I spoke again today to Panda's technical support people at AnyTech365. Again, really friendly and helpful people, who knew exactly what I was talking about. They are thinking, as many here do, that Panda have actually withdrawn support for XP. They agree that doing this by just breaking the legacy version of Panda Dome, is not a good way of doing this, especially for paying customers, and they are trying to find out whether this really is the case or whether this has been done accidentally and will be fixed, if indeed it's possible to do that. There has certainly been no change made to the system requirements on Panda's website, and the article trumpeting its XP compatibility claims to have been updated on July 1st. They have given me a number to ring for Watchguard, Panda's parent company, so I will try giving them a ring tomorrow to see what they say about this.
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What kind of memory are you referring to? RAM or hard disk/SSD memory? 🤔 On my old P4 machine, Vir.IT eXplorer Lite is the antimalware programme that uses the least RAM of all. Avast, on the other hand, was a monster. 🦖😜
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Unfortunately most of online scanners require 64 bits windows ( Trend micro, Eset . F Secure etc.) #2 bits support has been dropped. I have installed panda cloud cleaner. @modnar You fot a point regarding the Italian one. My system No antivirus ( computer idle desktop) memory usage is 16%. Panda installed memory 19% - 20%, Avast installed memory 21% - 23% . Italian one 29% - 46% . Also PC tools seems to be alergic to it. Had to uninstall it. I am not willing to pay for something that can render my pc almost inoperable. About comodo have not used it for ages and if my memory serves my right it is very hard to get rid of it. @Dave-H I am willing to reinstall panda and do what you have suggested. Keep you posted.
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Win10 LTSC IoT lag issues. How to resolve?
Tripredacus replied to DeathAdderSF's topic in Windows 10
Microsoft has "public" or generally public versions, or Enterprise versions of Embedded SKUs that can be legally obtained. Upgrade paths are technically blocked on any of those, but it is not impossible to do. -
Thanks, no problem! I'm still hoping this will be fixed eventually, especially as I'm a paying customer. I'm still getting messages in my event log that the Panda service has stopped unexpectedly and been restarted, but no actual crash messages. It's usable, but annoying! If nothing has happened soon, I will ring their technical support guys in the UK again and see if they know anything. I won't be wasting my time with any more online forms!
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@Tech Stuff I managed to start a Bridged network connection You need to replace four 64-bit drivers from version VMware 10.0.7 in WINDOWS\system32\drivers vmnet.sys vmnetadapter.sys vmnetbridge.sys vmnetuserif.sys Thank you again for the patched version of VMware Workstation 11.1.4 -
You are writing nonsense opinions you have heard WinXP 64-bit is a stable system - I know what I'm writing because I have been using it for a long time and it works great Besides, before you write something, check if it works. I checked it and it works OK on WinXP 64-bit @Tech Stuff actually did a good job - his patched version works. Thanks for you
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Vista, even Vista SP2 is version NT 6.0 (6002), I don't know where you got 6.1, that's Win "7". Now do that in real XP; WinXP has always been x86 and not that patchwork of so called XP 64-bit. That's server (NT 5.2). With no real software support, so useless. -
In the mean time I have cleaned my system of pandas, so I cannot really be of assistance. As we've all observed their technical support is a joke and now also their program is a joke, even more as it was before, so good riddance. I don't know why they would be promoting themselves as best for WinXP though, when clearly they do not want anything to do with us.
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@Tech Stuff OK, after installing vcredist x86/x64 (Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - 9.0.30729.6161) VMware Workstation 11.1.4 works on WinXP 64-bit Is it possible to activate the network somehow? I can install VMware Bridge Protocol but I cannot add a Bridged connection: Cannot change network to bridged: There are no un-bridged host network adapters Other VMware connections do not appear in the network connections window in the WinXP control panel
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At the end of the installation I get an error: Setup failed to generate the SSL keys necessary to run VMware Server. Click OK to cancel this installation.
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I'm not using OCAPI, I patched a few binaries from VMware to fix the missing APIs. You can get my patched installer here. Do note it needs the Microsoft Internationalized Domain Names Mitigation APIs update, which you can get here. -
@Dave-H If you absolutely want to stick with Panda – presumably because you still have a valid licence – then I’d uninstall it completely, give everything a thorough clean, then reinstall it, but without allowing any connection to the internet. Then set the cache folder to read-only for everyone, especially for the System account, or if that doesn’t work, delete it completely. Then set all your exclusions and only then connect to the internet. No updates must be carried out locally. Perhaps it will then run stably. But to be honest, this isn’t of course a good workaround, as it unfortunately results in a loss of functionality. Personally, I’m done with Panda and would only go back if an official fix has been released or the update server has been corrected.
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This absolutely confirms what I’ve already said here and what many other customers have reported across the web. At first glance, Panda Support seems great, but on closer inspection it’s a joke. For home users, it’s practically non-existent. They probably focus more on enterprise customers. Money makes the world go round.
