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Access to the Second System download is available only to paid subscribers of the Supermium support on patreon, however the Second System itself contains no DRM-like elements (this is now not only about Supermium browser but it's still called this way)

Hi. I just got StartAllBack. Now I can set my desktop to be just the way I want it. Thanks for making it! I have a feature request: could you add separate flyouts for audio and date? I'd like to have W10 audio devices (because I can quickly switch between headphones and speakers) and W7 date and time (because analog clock is more convenient for time calculation). Other than that it would be nice to have tooltips/screenshots for options such as "Display modern apps in a folder", "Mica effect on top", "Classic drive grouping", "Classic context menus", "Restore control panel applets", "Colorize everything with accent color", "Numer of jumplist items to display" because I'm not sure what do they do. Also I don't see anything happening when I switch Custom Coloring from Clear to Blur/Acrylic and then move the sliders.

There is tray icon not response issue from v3.9.15 on 24H2 beta (build 26120.6772), restarting explorer.exe temporarily resolves, it's the same if shut down the hooking apps. v3.9.14 is work fine.

certain applications don't open on Windows XP on a Lenovo Thinkpad x220t (like Command Prompt, mypal68, mailnews, voidtools everything, etc.) idk if anybody else is having this issue?

Where to download it? No mention about it in win32.subsystem.live I've been using WinVista Extended Kernel for years, so I'm a bit impatient on trying it.

My taskbars are set to always show. However when an application is in fullscreen, the taskbar on that display is hidden (as expected). I am used to press Windows key on my keyboard to make the taskbar hidden behind the fullscreen app show on top of the app. This is working fine on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 without the StartAllBack enhanced taskbar. However, with StartAllBack taskbar it just does not work at all. The taskbar stays hidden behind the fullscreen app, when I press the Windows key. I was giving a training via webmeeting yesterday and showed a Powerpoint presentation. I was trying to start an application from a button pinned to my taskbar and was really thrown off-track when that did not work. Had to stop the presentation to be able use the taskbar, then when I started the presentation again, I accidentally started it from the first slide. Yrks. Can you please bring the taskbar to the front of fullscreen apps, when the user presses Windows key? (Hope that it's possible with Windows 11 API.) To try you can just make Firefox Or Chrome fullscreen (press F11), then press the windows key .

On rereading my initial post, I probably have not made my point clear enough. I have three display, using vertical toolbars on each one. Middle display is the main one. StartAllBack is configured to show Tray Icons on main toolbar only: However, even though the middle one is the main display, StartAllBack shows the Tray Icons (and Custom Toolbar) on the right display:

Hello. Anyone experiencing the not being able to change styles/start menu issue after 25H2? I deleted multiple times with regs but I can't able to fix it. Sorry If this is known. I use the Windows Store Installation Edit: use 3.9.16 . Win Store version is 3.9.9 .

You just need to install the Microsoft GDI+ redistributable or Windows 2000 Security Software Prerequisite Pack, which includes GDI+. Download and install GDI+ (gdiplus.dll) from Microsoft’s site or update Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4—that will fix the issue.

I used this: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw The 32bit build was compiled with Python 3.14.0 (x86) from adang1345 on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC. The 64bit build was compiled with Python 3.14.0 (x86-64) from adang1345 on Windows 7. To let Python use this compiler, place a file named `distutils.cfg` (see below) in `.\Lib\distutils` in Python install directory (create folder `distutils`). [build] compiler = mingw32 Build Brotli: Download source tarball and extract. In source directory run: python setup.py build_ext --compiler=mingw32 install Build wheel: python setup.py build_ext --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wheel In the directory where the built wheel is, run: pip install --force-reinstall brotli-1.1.0-cp314-cp314-win32.whl Huh??? .\yt-dlp_win7.exe -v [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.10.05.061237 (win7_exe*) [debug] Python 3.13.7 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 3.0.16 11 Feb 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2025-10-04-e05f8ac-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers (fdk,setts), ffprobe git-2025-10-04-e05f8ac-ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers, phantomjs 2.5.0 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.08.03, curl_cffi-0.13.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Extractor Plugins: NSigDeno (YoutubeIE) [debug] Plugin directories: C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\plugins\bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider\yt_dlp_plugins, C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\plugins\yt-dlp-YTNSigDeno\yt_dlp_plugins [debug] Loaded 1833 extractors And the next Win7 builds will be Py3.14 based.

I saw some comments on amazon from other people also having issues with XP and IDE on patriot SSDs and led me to this post among others. I'm curious what model/chipset yours was running. I bought a Patriot Burst Elite 120GB and an ADATA SU655 120GB for an older retro PC and both worked for me either as fresh install or as secondary drive. I used XP with the latest 2019 updates. Tested on a FM2 motherboard with SATA port, 939 motherboard with ATA133, and socket7 motherboard with ATA33. ADATA was a MAS0902 controller based on the info from JMicron tool from: http://vlo.name:3000/ssdtool/ Patriot was some type of Phison based on a similar firmware version from different a model: https://smarthdd.com/database/Patriot-P210-128GB/HDFED3.2/ Patriot Burst Elite 120GB (Phison ??): PRO Can use HPA (host protected area) PRO Detailed attributes CON works with SATA-IDE, ATA133 and ATA33 with adapter, but massive slowdown! ADATA SU655 120GB (MAS0902): CON Can not set HPA! CON Minimal attributes, temp reading also fluctuated to below room temp! PRO works with SATA-IDE, ATA133 and ATA33 with adapter, normal slowdown

Just incase someone else might be interested in patching tcpip for the latest versions. Run PEchecksum.exe after patching below. XP tcpip.sys 5.1.2600.7510 @4fbc6 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF XP tcpip6.sys 5.1.2600.7510 @33EB3 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF XP64 tcpip.sys 5.2.3790.6527 @c00cc 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF XP64 tcpip6.sys 5.2.3790.6527 @5e9a0 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF where 0x0A = 10 is the default, and 0xFFFFFF = 16777215 is the maximum

Irrelevant but Do you even plan to merge the NSS and the retrozilla 2.3 changes?

... Same is true (new bugfix release) for his py3.13.x builds: https://github.com/adang1345/PythonVista/tree/master/3.13.8 (seeing that your GitHub "Win7" release assets are compiled with adang1345's py3.11 implementation )

Pardon my asking , but which type of C compiler was used there? MS Visual Studio 2022 on Win10?

@roytam1https://github.com/ClassicNick/Arctic-Fox/releases/tag/2024-10-18 I now have a slightly updated source code release of Arctic-Fox winbuild available. I also set up a Linux Mint 19.3 build machine, so hopefully I'll be able to learn how to push git commits.

True. One of the biggest reasons I started using PROXOMITRON way back in the day (though I admittedly rely solely on userscripts/userstyles nowadays). Again, PROXOMITRON to the rescue. At least for back in the day. Nowadays, I use this for those stupid animated GIFS -- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/animation-policy/ncigbofjfbodhkaffojakplpmnleeoee There are uBO lists that also block those "cookie notices". I prefer the userscript route but "tomaytoe, tomahtah".

Oh, I don't mind building myself. That said, there is a new Python stable release (3.14.0) from adang1345. Test build for Vista/Win7 (32bit): yt-dlp_Py3.14.0_x86_Vista.7z As usual, the Brotli dependency is not yet available for Python 3.14... So, I had to build a wheel myself from source (not easy...). Here is the 32bit variant, if you want to compile yt-dlp yourself: brotli-1.1.0-cp314-cp314-win32.whl

I managed to hack around to get it starting and I could send messages and file but for some reason I was unable to see messages other person was sending. They would not even be received by the client since I would get them only after I logged in on other client. Other user got all fine though. Also trying access font settings resulted illegal process. It is better than nothing working at all. Need to continue testing I guess. Or it might be way I hacked around calls that broke it all. What are rules on redirecting missing calls? How you find alternative. Sorry if that sounds dumb but I was never programmer aside from industrial.

Biggest problem I had with cash was with self service stations which unfortunately happens to be popular when you live in middle of nowhere. I prefer to fuel up when on more populated areas but I got thirsty SAAB B201 (8l/100km highway 12l/100km town due automatic) engine on my 900 and when doing very very long trips I do need refuel on self service. I keep debit card with me for that reason. Maybe I am not doing too much buying aside from groceries and other basic necessities and it is not problem to me. Car parts well aside from ignition parts, fresh oil yearly and every 5 year or so new ball joint/cv shaft/etc due roads being in wonderful condition I don't need. Stuff I ever done in car workshop I had one ex saab mechanic taking care of it and he accepts cash. Only thing I order online are spare parts for car, computers etc, since when living in middle of nowhere there are zero stores to get them but for reason I cant explain multiple fashion stores... Also you cant pay with cash on most of public transport but I rarely use them. Over the years I only had few train trips some of which I did not even pay myself. Trains are very expensive here and unreliable anyway they buy fancy locos then don't maintain them and then you are left stuck in middle of nowhere. Or even worse they catch fire like DM12 been doing quite lot due poor maintenance and design flaws. I think most are not in lucky situation as I do to avoid those options and it kinda sucks. Bigger the town is less choice you have for anything. How about embedded midis? Or even worse embedded wav file. Those freaked me out when some random midi began blast out out of silence. To add insult to injury some wannabe 90s website guys added those midis to their sites. Also don't get me started on animated GIFS Funny I never seen them either despite not having that script. Well my browser is hardened to max so that might be why. That is useful script though for those sites that embed them differently. Thanks for linking it.

What version 7-Zip? After delete META_INF 7-Zip not ask to save. When trying to install the edited .xpi, a message appears that the installation script was not found

Hi Tihiy! Thanks for looking into this! This time I decided to dig a little deeper. I applied "Win10 Ribbon UI" Explorer style and deleted HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders Of course the File Explorer window reverted to its default size and position. I moved, resized, opened, closed and Shift+closed the window several times. It didn't save its new size and position. I looked into the registry and noticed that HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders was not recreated. Then I applied "Win11 Command Bar" Explorer style and moved and resized the File Explorer window. It saved its new size and position without any problems. I looked into the registry again and noticed that HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders was successfully recreated along with the Shell subkey and all values. I'm not sure what to think about this. Is it a question of specific permissions? I've installed StartAllBack in "C:\Program Files\StartAllBack" and I'm running Windows as an admin (if that matters).

DXVK 2.7 or later requires VK_KHR_maintenance5, which is not supported by R535. Combining Vulkan beta driver 538.42 with latest PB driver 539.56 is a workaround, but it is not a perfect solution because graphics driver may crash at specific scene during gameplay. When I played RE:2, graphics driver kept crashing if Claire entered interrogation room. Another bad news is NVIDIA uses driver version instead of release date to show RTX driver search result. So the search result will not show old production branch anymore. I don't understand why NVIDIA made the mistake, because NVIDIA should know GRD and PB have different support policy.

Hi ; well, cmalex's py3.11.4 assemblies (one compatible with just XP and one with Vista+) aren't currently being hosted on GitHub (AFAIAA), but they can be ; OTOH, adang1345's py3.13.7 assembly is already hosted on GitHub, and so is 3dyd's custom PyInstaller build used to make the Win7/Vista yt-dlp distributions; it may be possible, at least in theory, to author a modded GA workflow file to point to the custom implementations of CPython+PyInst necessary to package the Win7/Vista builds; e.g., upstream are using their own, custom, build of PyInstaller to create the "official" yt-dlp releases; perhaps a consultation with your "AI friend(s)" (or a question on SO, etc.) could prove beneficial in fully automating even the (currently) manually created release assets ; just a thought from a dedicated (hardly intelligent ) friend of yours... Best wishes !

Agreed. I remember when "annoying" used to be (depracated) MARQUEE to scroll text. EVERY web site you went to had these d@mn things. Way back then, the "not old people" learned how to combat the annoyance. And it's still us that do that combat nowadays. ie, I didn't even realize the web site had a "blue privacy/cookie notification". This is all I've ever needed for those -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432050-anti-cookies-consent