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A working browser, reliable virus-checking and the ability to work with 4TB+ HDDs make a computer/operating system useful in 2025 and later, at least for me. WinXP without these three capabilities is of limited use. Two of my computers work already fine with 4TB GPT HDDs under WinXP/2003 (read/write, partitioning. virus-checking, watching movies, Beyond Compare. Sandboxie, etc) WinXP on these 2 computers is "SP3-only", and does not contain "all updates until end of support" nor "all of the extended support updates". My first set of two 4TB GPT HDDs (Master+Backup) was created under WinXP and Win2003, with both 4TB HDDs partitioned unaligned, i.e. by setting "Legacy" mode in Paragon HDM12 before creating the partitions. The first set of 4TB HDDs has worked mostly fine under WinXP/2003/Win10. I will now create more sets of 4TB+ GPT HDDs, containing different accumulations of stuff, mainly for use under WinXP/2003. Before starting to partition the 4TB+ HDDs under WinXP/2003, however, I will have to decide on the setting: Legacy [=unaligned] or Vista [=aligned]. The wrong choice may mean that eventually 100TB+ of stuff may have to be copied again Working under WinXP with GPT HDDs <=2TBs is easy, maybe a good exercise for getting acquainted with GPT under WinXP. Working under WinXP with GPT HDDs >2TB, however, is the tricky part. MiniTool Partition Wizard v11.4 (last version for WinXP), for example, doesNOT work under WinXP with GPT HDDs of any size (<=2TB and >2TB): an OK partitioned 4TB GPT HDD gets displayed as having a single partition and nothing happens when you right-click on it. My currently preferred software for creating partitions on 4TB GPT HDDs under WinXP/2003 is Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 v10.1.19.16240 (Server, 25Nov2012). In PHDM12 the blue screen installer bug of GPT Loader of PHDM11 was fixed, it contains the last version of their old [=well-tested] partitioning engine, no .NET Framework. Paragon removed from PHDM12 the huge Total Defrag component, maybe issues defragging with PHDM11 under WinXP a 4TB GPT HDD?

And I have at least 2 that do not; that's not helpful.

I have at least 2 PCs of Ryzen 5000 generation, that do it. That are running 24H2 11 IoT/LTSC.

I can't reproduce that or explorer position not saving. It's clearly dependant on one of the myriad A/B feature switches, maybe vivetool output showing enabled features would help

I've also been having this problem on the latest cumulative update and 3.9.16 doesn't seem to fix it fully unfortunately. I have a 2 monitor setup and it usually manifests on either one at random after each reboot where the taskbar will be stuck stuck as a fully transparent one with icons/items/time visible, but still acting like it is hidden so windows can fill the space and get overlaid with the icons/etc. In my case, it seems to more often than not be my non-primary monitor upon reboot/login and I can usually fix it by manually flipping auto-hide on and off again, but sometimes that doesn't work either or it will be on my primary instead and not be fixable with flipping auto-hide, it's very random. Would love to add any logs/dumps or test possible fixes! Autohide off (both in Settings -> Taskbar and SAB 'Automatic hiding/shyness' settings off): Autohide on: Settings (enhanced classic start menu on):

Were you able to address the issue of the Menu bar in File Explorer not continuing to display even if the check is marked for it to display? To display the Menu Bar in File Explorer, each time you open it, you have to uncheck to display the Menu Bar, then recheck it to display it. But the next time you open File Explorer the Menu Bar doesn't display even though it is check marked to display.

I have feeling that world is going crazy slowly...

Ok. Thanks for the reply. Love your work. Keep it up and thank you

No plans atm

Hi. I haven't used StartAllBack in a while as I have explored Start11 They are lacking support for the phone link. Is that anything that works or plans to make it work in the future with the start menu?

a alignment is made for a "piece of area" if you have a "align area" for 1 MB (aka 1´048´576) then 2048 sectors of 512 bits would fit in there (or 256 sectors of 4k (4096)) if you dont have a "align area" that rounds up correctly it might lead into a sector, cluster, track, cylinder, whatever in between a other the 512 bit and 4096 bit sector question been around for a while now, the hardware/firmware can also handle this - in this case this in then made in the harddrive not the operation system anymore if the firmware handles that right it can emulate logical and physical sectors - a drive is made at least of 3 maybe more parts (cluster, cylinder, sector) - its a combination not a single piece like "i want this specific sector" this is very common for other electronic parts to translate for example a "logical address" to a "physical address", or segmentation (thus 32 bit can write past 4 GB) whereehere the electric signals in the ram apear is then part of that -hardware piece- or in case of a harddrive in hand´s of that firmware this also make the -32 wires question- come out again - a USB only has 4 wires - and a usb cable can write to a "terabyte + harddrive" - you dont need always 32 or 64 wires to do this i wonder why noone has made the related change in the windows xp operating system yet - basicly it sounds simple to ask the harddrive what sectors it uses (sometimes called the AF (advanced format)) but its just 4 k sectors the term AF sounds a bit to high for opinion after that the right controlment for the 4 k sector has to be written - if it reads out a different sector size it handles for that size https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/backup-and-storage/support-policy-4k-sector-hard-drives the x-box solution maybe ? if not it was like everything is a paragon driver problem

It also works, but after launching it sets the timer to 2 ms, after launching the browser it switches to 1 ms, and after closing the program it remains at 1 ms.

Sure, what version do you want to link it to? yt-dlp_x86_win7.exe, yt-dlp_win7.exe or yt-dlp_win7.zip Note, that you can update the .exe files with -U.

How updated is your Windows XP? Only SP3 or all updates till end of support (april 2014) or maybe also all of the extended support updates (2019)? I haven't tried GPT on XP yet, but what new disks I have with normal partitions, I can tell you that disk access is faster if partitions are aligned with disk's layout. I don't really worry about how BIOS recognises the disks, I have all of them on "Auto" and then I just align partitions (to cylinder for XP) with Minitool Partition Wizard.

Since there now a separate, required build for Windows 7, can you please add a small link in the signature? So far no problems.

Thanks, but firefox/128.0 it's a very heavy for wnxp-compatibile computers. I set compatibility to native and add override

I pay with smartphone payment application since it is modern and cash is old...ok that was awful joke. I never used those and never will. Of course I do. Cash does not require server check to function and checking balance is as easy as opening wallet.

Sorry, I mistyped — it’s Win+Shift+T. I’m on version 25H2, and my Snipping Tool version is 11.2507.15.0.

change user agent compatibility to firefox compatibility in preferences dialog.

I use this https://github.com/temerkhanov/SetTimerService on XP guests in VMware that has distorted audio on modern CPUs. Noticed it when i upgraded to Ryzen (Zen2). Host XP was fine, but got audio distortion when running XP as guest VM. I for sure was not using the "frequency divider fix" at the time. I can't remember if "HAL_acpitimer_fix" was being used. My XP ISO that i use for VMs has SetTimerService set up to run by default now, so I never did do a proper test. If someone wants to try it: XP host + VM Workstation 10 + XP guest on Ryzen using pure XP ISO should get the audio distortion issue. Then try the hal with timer+frequency fix and see if it stops distortion by itself. If it doesn't, then SetTimerService is still needed for XP VMs.

I had the same "unsupported browser" issue for CAPTCHAs as @raddy for NewMoon. Noticed it a couple of days ago, i think Oct 1 or 2 is when it stopped working. Both on an older build and on the latest build of NM. Works fine on basilisk. Changing the useragent also fixed the issue for me. I ended up using one of the other overrides strings that was already in NewMoon.

I pay in cash, I make a difference. I read D.Draker also pays in cash. Do you pay in cash?

@jumper Thanks! I'd downloaded that but I thought I'd ask for D00748-001-002.exe or 5.1.0.2800/2700/2100, since these later drivers may offer some functionality improvement. Just in case you or anyone else downloaded any of these files back in the day and still has them, it'd be awesome if you could share here. But if not, it can't be helped

Thank you so much for this solution. As soon as I deleted the EnShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode key from Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds, the Start menu delay disappeared straight away without having to restart.

now it works, added override to New Moon