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Depends on VM, if you have 86Box or KVM machine with working 3D - OpenGL, Direct3D, we are working om modern Direct3D and other DirectX functions and some kernel stuff etc and need some testers. I will write some annoucemenet once i fix my main machine after some Windows 10 update crash.

Using a 2.2.1 backport. It's not working. :thinking:

Like this ? https://www.anoopcnair.com/disable-taskbar-thumbnail-preview-on-windows-11/ EDIT: Bug with link

Has anyone here actually got Dibya's patch to work? I've found a couple of supposed sources for it, but they all seem to contain just original system files, with no apparent modifications made to them. The instructions that came with one of them seem very strange indeed - "1. Place contents of the "For System32 folder into C:\WINDOWS\system32; Replace .exe and .dll files in System32 2. Enter "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers", copy contents of "For Drivers" folder (all .sys files) to the dictionary 3. Enabling PAE Click the start menu, then run (alternatively pressing win + r). Type "C:\boot.ini" then add "\PAE" at the very end of the last line of text. SAVE the file! 4. Reboot and enjoy up to 128gb of ram on your Windows XP installation" The "For System32" folder contains all the HAL and NTKRNL dll and exe files used for various types of system. They all seem to be unmodified originals. Quite how putting all of them in your System32 folder (when only one pair is needed) will do anything other than produce an error message is puzzling!

Windows 2000 with extended kernel and all new improvement are great user experience, well expect web browsing - we need Windows 2000 Superium port, i only missing a few other features. Most Windows XP, restore point and system restore, it saved my skin countless times and it would be really nice feature to add to Extended kernel, im really sure how much work would be needed and it could be somehow backported from Windows XP.. Or if there is 3rd party software which could do the same - track files chances on selected volume.. and use for it max give disk space, be able to rollback changes / snapshots from some boot cd. Im not sure if Microsoft was first company with this idea, probably not.

I have Win10 18h03 installed on USB-NVME, its much faster than any USB3 flashdisk which i have tried, even speedy ones, but they still keep have quite slow small files operations and probably problem with parallel file access.. System responsiveness its and operations are much faster. Problem is that, that i cant ugprade from 1803 version to 22h2.. by any ways, all checks seems ok, all logs setup longs no error, CBS.log ok, sfc fine.. and Windows update keep it pushing with every boot, redownloading and trying to install. I have tried also Media creating tool, but at the end of blue full screen installing mode, i get install failed messege (Small white message box - Instalation failed in case of using ISO) before reboot after 99% or.. machine is rebooting to continue with upgrade initialize to blue or violet screen, but its never happening.. like upgrade is was not scheduled.. Even Windows update is keeping asking for restart to finish upgrade - but again no upgrade is inicialized.. I have tried Minitool Windows update tool, but it seems to be only some new Frontend over Windows update.. and i did not found any other alternative tool to do the same.. I suspect, that problem is USB- or USB-install.. im not sure how upgrad works, if something has to be added in BCD file, or some preboot mode is incialized by other way.. to check it or force manually. I found that in Pather directory (C:\$WINDOWS.~BT) always full new full ~30 GB install ready to go, prepared.. no errors there, but its not applied.. I have tried to add "PatherDirectory"\ system32\winloadx.exe into BCD, its starting to boot, but after 21c error, so this probably not the right way how to start the ugprade.. I wonder if just rewrite all new install created by Windows update - files over original install would not be a solution, i have backups, im not exact process how upgrade is made, but its probably install to new directory and if install its successfull it rename old Windows directory to Windows.old and new one to Windows , os maybe i can do it manually. This upgrading process at least on my machines is allways nightmare, some MS scripts seems really not clever, hardcoded parsers with poor exception handling and messeging. I hope is not typical sniffing other disk problem.. because i have on machine physical M.2 - with Win10 + Linux - which is hassle to remove and could not be disabled in bios..and some data ntfs HDD. I event log system i see this, im not sure if its related: The WinRM service cannot migrate the listener with Address * and Transport HTTP. A listener that has the same Address and Transport configuration already exists. And this: SearchIndexer (11816,D,23) Windows: The version store for this instance (0) has reached its maximum size of 128Mb. It is likely that a long-running transaction is preventing cleanup of the version store and causing it to build up in size. Updates will be rejected until the long-running transaction has been completely committed or rolled back. Possible long-running transaction: SessionId: 0x00000253293910C0:2b3968fffffffc Update: I have tried Media creation method after while again and there is indeed some BCD hell error: BCD: BcdCopyObjectEx: Failed to enumerate source elements. Target: {5189b25c-5558-4bf2-bca4-289b11bd29e2} Flags: 0x4 Status: c0000034[gle=0x00000002] 2025-07-12 00:11:32, Error IBSLIB BCD: Failed to clone store. Status: c0000034[gle=0x00000002] 2025-07-12 00:11:32, Error IBSLIB BCD: BcdExportStore: Failed clone BCD to \??\C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Rollback\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD. Status: c0000034[gle=0x00000002] MSconfig cant edit BCD entry just 1 line, BootICE could. It wasnt easy forme make booting installation from normal flashdisk to NVME and start boot loader, so i used multiple tools to try to generate bootable EFI entry and BCD, there is probably something non standard.

97I decide to give a shot GPT Loader with Windows 2000..- fully patched - Extended Kernel 3.1 but even without any GPT disk connected, reboot with and withou PAE always end with infamous 000*00x7B boot error.. Its on the Ivy Bridge machine with Intel 7x chipset in AHCI mode. Im using just Small 60 SSD with MBR, without loader its booting fine. I can confirm that Paragon GPT Loader Worked fine with Marwell chip controller in XP as normal data drive for Dropbox, Developement, Work, Games etc, on drive bigger than 2 TB (because otherwise i had no any other reason to use it, im not big fan of EFI) - 3 TB or 4 TB one big NTFS. Yeah i never worked with Intel chipsets im not sure about Asmedias. I also can say that i used nore than 2 TB of data, because im usually out of disk scane.. I had 3TB+ unlock software from Gigabyte installed too, maybe it matters.. At the time there were such programs for reason, maybe some bug in Windows XP etc. https://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/us/microsite/276/3tb.html on this list are only some chipsets, but when will search utilities for more modern MBs / chipset perphas you will find it too, i dont remember which chipset i had at the time maybe Z97 or some AMD Strange Triple core CPU supporting one.. It claims this: Enables 32bit Systems without Hybrid EFI Technology to Utilize Unallocated Space on New 3TB+ HDDs. maybe that that mumbo / jumbo that you need. im not sure what EFI hybrid technology - non EFI / MBR? If its MBR it will not help with GPT disks just with bigger MBR ones, but only reason why i needed GPT was bigger than 2 TB disks support.. Win10 / Linux are still fine with no EFI, im not sure about Hackinstosh, but Clover bootloader claims to be tool to run EFI on non EFI systems, seems to be still active (some file was yesterday updated) it should be also ok: https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader But a ew years ago Tonymac moved to different bootloader OpenCore.. Marwell controller where integrated on some mainboards, but also had PCI-E varaints, i was allways quite happy with them, that i can say about Asmedia, SIL and others, i only vaguely remember that there was some hassle with them and Linux. I bought Paragon long time ago, im not sure if was using older version than probably -Paragon-197-PEE_WinInstallSNU_10.0.16.12944_000, its really shame that they integrated newer version in HDD Manager 15 and their support or online account not even anounced it I paid small fortune for their products and contacted support about GPT loader issues, multiple times.. Version number seems really strange if.. 8 > 10.. is newer / better. Check this is seems to be alternative solution, its linked in links posted in this thread, but it seems that nobody dug into it:, its long and no pictures or video https://article-pchome-net.translate.goog/content-1324506-all.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=wapp

and..., yet another caveat: I still use g4d 4.5c with ahci/nvme memory-mapping-based ramboot patch, the fastest ramloading implement I have found so far, altough it leaves us at least one version behind. unfortunately good old Kai Schtrom, the inventor of svbus, has not made the remapping kinda thing compatible with g4d 4.6a. this possibility is apparently even more remote if we consider the invasion of uefi-based mobos that, albeit probably wrongly, convinced many people to go along for the innovation ride in order to feel on the safe side (lest it should not work as it used to during the bios-based-mobo era. I say probably wrongly because the find line in the menu.lst file can be successfully adjusted to a full UEFI scenario. to cut a long story short, at least with new mobos, which still have a csm facility, the problem that might arise is the system's failure to boot even after mapping ok. I solved it with disktuna, a very effective disk and vhd analyzer, defragger, optimizer and converter. I suggest u should run it both on the host disk (for outer vhd contiguity) and each of the vhds u use after mounting them, one by one. it will spare u various headaches if u use this ahci/nvme patch.

Well now 12 years later, virtually every machine has more than 8 GB of Ram.. and to use it, you would need DataCenter OP version which has its own sort of the problems or increase hack to support memory. There hack for WinXP to Win10 32 bit to use 128 GB, but it seems that nobody bother to port it for Win2000, when i tried 128 GB universal how its for WIndows XP/2003 and above.

Now that i got my NT 4.0 VM back,i have tested ScummVM and DosBox-X and these work. So if there's any app you want me to test,tell me about it.

I wonder its possible to add project on GIthub more people be able to learn and contribute?

I just started using StartAllBack and get this strange disaplay error (see enclosed picture). Seems like the taskbar is shifted to far to the left. Anyone one now why this is happening. Usually it look OK, then suddenly this error happends...

Is it possible to add a feature to hide taskbar thumbnail previews, as ExplorerPatcher used to do on Windows 10?

The trouble I have is with the start menu icon. I have a flag icon PNG file in three different sizes. But all shows to big when I try to use them. And they are not scaled to the height of the taskbar. Is there any place I can fix this? I also use OpenShell for a classic Win98 style start menu. But that start menu icon is "overwritten" by the one in StartAllBack 🙂 Tried using a transparent icon in StartAllBack, and that kind of half works. But sometime then the start menu button disappear 🙂

@Zorba the Geek Not sure if you should update VC++ 2019 found the final version of Windows XP that installed all dll api correctly Link x86 https://archive.org/download/msdn-compilations-p2/Microsoft Visual C%2B%2B Redistributable/2015-2019/Microsoft Visual C%2B%2B 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) - 14.29.30024.exe x64 https://archive.org/download/msdn-compilations-p2/Microsoft Visual C%2B%2B Redistributable/2015-2019/Microsoft Visual C%2B%2B 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64) - 14.29.30024.exe

Strange, but it appears that the issue has completely resolved itself.

Update: So i was able to get rid of the outdated driver related error that would happen when a usb drive was plugged in by doing the following - rename "wmdmps.dll" and "wmpnssci.dll" to "wmdmps.dll.bak" and "wmpnssci.dll.bak", and the driver error went away. the suggestion was given by chatgpt. for the two files, one of them resides in the program folder and the other one is in system32. Additionally i was able to get "0.65.0.47-git" version of lavfilters to work in replacement of the lavfilters.ax file that is used in combined community codec package 2015-10-18, which uses 0.65.0.05. Simply copy the newer "lavsplitter.ax" from the "0.65.0.47-git" package (which you can get online) into the "Filters" folder of the installed cccP program files folder, as well as into the "LAVFilters" folder, but the "lavsplitter.ax" file that resides in this folder is case sensitive and must read exactly "LAVSplitter.ax", otherwise, it will not work. 0.66 version of lavfilters were not able to work on my system that has "Windows2000-UURollup-v11-d20141130-x86-ENU" installed.

Check out here. While it is still up, anyway :)

Well, this would be a solution for many retro systems. A person could probably make a small Linux router for the task. Maybe a RPI-zero or something. For virtual machines, one might also be able to modify Qemu, or intercept it's traffic. Something on a bare metal install, without a router, might still be nice. @FranceBB, thanks for commenting. Glad people are thinking about it.

So I updated my Vista SP2 x64 to 2016, still no joy. Chromium for Windows 7 by e3kskoy7wqk starts with the same method! Ideas? I don't understand what else CatsXP wants, aren't those both made for win 7?

What for? It's obsolete, no matter how good it was 2 years ago. D.Draker no longer recommends this browser due to the age. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186346-i-moved-to-centbrowser-im-not-happy-about-it/page/5/#findComment-1275874

they did this because they want jemalloc to be integrated into C runtime, which is un-recommended by MS later.

At least the acronym (BSoD) will still be valid, since both black and blue begin with the letter 'b' c

If you can install Visual C++ 2008, it will produce Windows 2000 and XP compatible software (but with manifest errors affecting both Visual C++ 2005 and 2008). Mozilla got around that by building "mozcrt19.dll" somehow, but I have not been able to build it. Should I upload the source code and resulting executable?

Okay, is there a modded version of this browser?