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Thanks, now I understand on how you are using the phrase "polling". BTW my boards Front Panel is not connected, I always use the green connection at the back.

I'm leaving it at that for now. If the OP doesn't reply, then I shall view this as me wasting my time and will move on. No skin off my back either way.

Guide for Half Baked Phase 1: Only TWO executibles are required. The first executible is found here: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/Defender-Remover.shtml Windows Defender has had a ton of Zero Day vulnerabilities exploited (BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend). It really is a FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY and a MAJOR source of resource WASTE. If you "want" to run some form of anti-virus, that's your call, it is YOUR computer (personally, I am *against* them, ALL OF THEM, but I do take other preventative measures). If you can't bring yourself to AXE IT, then, and no offense, but you aren't being SERIOUS about wanting to debloat (even half-baked). Right-click it and Run as administrator and select the "Y" option (your computer will reboot): The second executible is found here: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_update_blocker.html Download, extract/unzip, and EDIT the Wub.ini file !!! The original Wub.ini section that we are editing will look like this: [Service_List] ; 2=Auto ; 3=Manual ; 4=Disabled wuauserv=2,4 dosvc=2,4 WaaSMedicSvc=3,4 UsoSvc=2,3 BITS=3,3 EDIT/ADD to that section so that it looks like this: [Service_List] ; 2=Auto ; 3=Manual ; 4=Disabled wuauserv=2,4 dosvc=2,4 WaaSMedicSvc=3,4 UsoSvc=2,4 BITS=3,3 mpssvc=2,4 BFE=2,4 WinDefend=2,4 WdNisSvc=3,4 TimeBrokerSvc=3,4 Save the edited Wub.ini then Run as administrator the Wub.exe for 32bit OS or Wub_x64.exe for 64bit OS. Select Disable Updates, check Protect Services Settings, and click Apply Now.

Yep, you're right. I thought he meant av1. Anyway, my youtube.luac is requesting the h264 codec. And my tests were done using yt-dlp from 2026.06.10, so not the recent one.

With no replies whatsoever, the OP has left us all with no other choice but to speculate: he's decided this endeavor is too large to undertake, so he's just going to accept Win10 as a bloated mess and "live with it" or downgrade and miss out on "millions better" in capabilities. I don't want him to "give up" and nobody should ever "live with" the BLOATED MESS that we all know Win10 to be. So here, let's try this a different way. Instead of a full deboat, let's just axe the TOP FIFTEEN "usual suspects" that can bottleneck a Win10 config. Call it "baby steps", a FULL DEBLOAT is HIGHLY recommended, but sure, let's take "baby steps". These "fifteen" alone got my default as-is Win10 VM from OVER ONE HUNDRED processes (did settle to 92 eventually [took 26 minutes!]) per Task Manager down to (in-process). In the past, I've always called my configs that have not been FULLY debloated as Half Baked. 1) Windows Updates 2) Windows Updates 3) Windows Updates 4) Windows Security 5) Windows Security 6) Windows Security 7) Windows Defender 8) Windows Defender 9) Windows Action Center 10) Windows Action Center 11) Windows Firewall 12) Windows Search Indexer 13) Microsoft Edge 14) (in-process) 15) (in-process) Default As-Is (ie, original install, no steps taken yet to debloat): This is only after TWO "baby steps" (ie, two executibles to remove/disable Defender + Updates + Firewall). Low 80s process count after startup, waited same 26 minutes as above, settled down to 77. Technically, the process count was at 77 within a few minutes of startup, but seemed fair to wait the same amount of time for comparison. I'll call this Half Baked Phase 1:

for baytrail and limited systems that don't need a full install.

Make PE 3- creates Win7 PE make_pe3.7z

By KVM I assume you mean Keyboard Video Mouse meant for using multiple computers, not Kernel Virtual machine. First which model of KVM do you use? Second, is it USB or PS/2 KVM? Third what is the problem you are having? Device not detected or cannot find HID driver? If it is USB one have you tried enabling USB pass-trough and connect keyboard and mouse then? By default atleast ATEN USB KVM I used in past emulates keyboard and mouse so there is no device reinsertion event every time you change input. There is key command for setting one of the ports (usually mouse) for USB pass-trough where it acts like USB hub. I have used both ATEN USB KVM (passtrough mode) and ATEN PS/2 KVM succesfully with Windows Millenium. Although I prefer use PS/2 one as USB ones cannot be used with my 486DX2.

Do you mean AV1? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 AVC1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding BTW, my latest version of yt-dlp is 2026.06.14

Turn on CSM in your BIOS and then try to boot.

Anybody ever install a KVM in Millennium. Unsuccessful so far even with AI help with registry entries. Cannot do it the normal PnP way. Millennium's PnP is broken when it comes to this kind of device. Have 2 computers that I would like to share without swapping cables all the time. this one computer has 98se Millennium and xp pro on it. both 98se and xp pro have installed it without a problem but millennium refuses. Any help appreciated.

At present it's only polling the first output pin which is listed as a Headphone Out in the BIOS pin configuration verbs. If you look at the log it shows that Node 1Ch is a Line Out pin complex and so the jack detection is not used. In your log Node 1Dh is the headphone out, this probably goes to the front panel audio header which may or may not be connected anywhere. If jack detection were working the log would show *WDMHDA: SwitchOutput -> SPEAKERS or *WDMHDA: SwitchOutput -> HEADPHONES. when the jack was disconnected/connected. For a desktop PC this seems to be the correct expected behavior but if there is more than one headphone out on a codec all of them should be polled, not just the first one. (There is a legacy assumption in the code that each codec can only have one headphone or speaker output.) Also need to add overrides to cover cases where the BIOS pin config verbs don't match the system's actual configuration.

Congratulations, your WDMHDA v21.a is working now on my N68-board with codec VT1705. Also Master Volume is working. I made two set's of log's, one without Jack inserted (Fallback Playback-path is okay) and one with Jack inserted. I can not find a meaningfull difference in the log's in this respect. Is this logged somewhere? WDMHDA.21a.N68_VT1705.WIN982.zip BTW I added a log from a tool Isolar is working on currently, so you can see the Jack is really inserted in PIN-widget 1Ch.

The tab issue has been solved, thanks @roytam1! The latest New Moon 28 is still slower than the 0516 release, but I found out that the problem is a lot smaller with less tabs. So I uploaded the latest builds to the mirror! :) Do you have a plan to update the other builds like f.e. Retrozilla/RZ browser to version 2.3? ------------------------------------------- The mirror of latest ArcticFox 44, BNavigator 0.9, Firefox 28/45ESR, IceApe 52, IceDove 52, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28, RetroZilla, RZ browser and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog (since last such post in 2023): - added latest ArcticFox 44 20240330 build - added latest BNavigator 0.9 20260613 build - added latest Firefox 45ESR 20241221 builds - added latest IceApe 52 20260613 build - added latest IceDove 52 20260613 build - added latest K-Meleon 1.5.4 20240601 build - added latest K-Meleon 74 20241221 build - added latest K-Meleon 76 20241221 build - added latest MailNews 52 20260613 build - added latest New Moon 26.5 20241221 build - added latest New Moon 27 20241221 builds - added latest New Moon 28 20260613 builds - added latest RetroZilla 20241221 build - added latest RZ browser 20241221 build - added latest Serpent 52 20260613 builds - added latest Serpent 55 20260613 builds To don't lose track of things I want to update too someday... todo: - add various flash player versions - add FlashFix for WinXP - add VLC 2.2.8 (WinXP non-SSE2) done! - add polyfill addons Kind regards soggi

@reboot12 Now I disabled ME, but this does not help. Now, after opening the Hidden Entries in Bios V92 of the Evga Dark z390 board, I can change such a lot of entries for the 9560 Wlan card. But nothing helps, the symptoms are to 100% the same as before. So now I think, that for sure the scan is not ok. I think about to build a brandnew driver for the 9560 on gemini chipset with j4105 and Cannon Lake on the really nice Dark board. But in first place I make a try to keep everything from the Windows site, for example the scan, from the working m135 driver. Just change Firmware 77 ==> 46 and some more. But I doubt, that this will work. Only brandnew driver gives a real new chance Dietmar

Well that tells me that your HDA controller is like Vmware in that even with a longer timeout it will never set the bit to acknowledge CORB reset so always falls back to PIO. I have improved the PIO path to stop probing blindly if there were any codecs detected at reset, and have also added working jack detection polling in the latest version here (with some debugging help from LLMs unfortunately). I haven't tested this fully yet but it does work on at least 2 old laptops. WDMHDA-main-21a.zip

I have even tested my youtube.luac file in the last XP-compatible VLC beta 3.0.24 (the very last recent versions are no longer compatible with Windows XP 😟) and @nicolaasjan's yt-dlp version from 10.06.2026.

@reboot12 Hi, I get some news: I notice, that on my EVGA Dark z390 with 9900k cpu there is also a Wlan 9560, which uses the same(!) IF_IWM driver as the j4105 on the Dell Wyse 5070 board. But it has other device ID here on the Dark, Dev_A370. And the 9560 shows there exact the same symptoms as on the Gemini Chipset with j4105. But now comes a BIG difference. I can put out the Bios chip there (it is on socket) and flash it with EEpromer as much as I want. I just see, that it has ME and CSME enabled in Bios and with the normal Bios menu I cant change them. But soon comes Bio hack and soon we will know what is going on with this crazy driver. I use Windbg via Intel Lan there, because of no COM port. I think in our IF_IWM driver happens 1.) scan is not ok 2.) ME kills all traffic Dietmar

Keeps nagging onw11 pro 26h1 release, stays disabled and ask during every boot if I want to enable SAB

someone did something like that from what i know it use a proxy where the proxy then handles tls1.3 https://msfn.org/board/topic/183352-proxhttpsproxy-and-httpsproxy-in-windows-xp-for-future-use/ it is build from openssl i think but he rather tell you the story

Hello folks! Hope you're doing well. I was wondering how I could get (secure) TLS 1.2/1.3 working in an app that targets Windows XP, as most modern servers no longer accept HTTP requests. From what I could find online, I'd need OpenSSL 1.1.1 and libcURL 7.73.0 (although I'm not 100% sure), which have support for TLS 1.2/1.3 and modern networking while also staying compatible with Windows XP. My only issue with the two is that despite me having searched for multiple downloads from multiple different repositories, I've only been able to find the executables and source code for them. Perhaps it's a mistake and stupidity on my behalf, but is it possible to directly get the SDK files directly? (Such as the "/include" and "/lib" directories) And if so, would I be obliged to use outdated and non-updated versions of OpenSSL and libcURL, or are there any modern-ish and stable backports? For reference, I'm compiling the app using Code::Blocks 17.12 alongside its bundled MinGW compiler (GCC 5.1.0), targeting 32-bit (x86) Windows XP. Any help would be appreciated. Have a nice day.

Today, I have tested my youtube.lua script again. And it is working in VLC v3.0.23 without any problems. No errors, no loops and no need to click the Play button more times. On older hardware, the video format h264 is the best option. That's why my script uses this codec. Here is my last code again with the bracket correction mentioned by @Ben Markson: -- YouTube Link Resolver for VLC with Separate Video and Audio URLs -- Place this script in VLC's lua/playlist directory local yt_dlp_path = 'yt-dlp.exe' local yt_dlp_silent_path = 'hidecon.exe' function sleep(s) local ntime = os.time() + s repeat until os.time() > ntime end function probe() -- Check if the input is a YouTube link return (vlc.access == "http" or vlc.access == "https") and (string.match(vlc.path, "youtube%.com") or string.match(vlc.path, "youtu%.be")) end function parse() -- Construct the full YouTube URL local youtube_url = vlc.access .. "://" .. vlc.path -- Extract "quality" query parameter if present local quality = youtube_url:match("[&?]quality=(%d+)[pP]?") youtube_url = youtube_url:gsub("[&?]quality=%d+[pP]?", ""):gsub("[&?]$", "") -- Remove trailing ? or & -- Get the preferred resolution preset by the user in VLC local prefres = vlc.var.inherit(nil, "preferred-resolution") if prefres < 0 then prefres = 2160 -- Best quality set to 2160p to overwrite VLC's native value of -1 end local allowed_qualities = { ["240"] = true, ["360"] = true, ["480"] = true, ["720"] = true, ["1080"] = true, ["2160"] = true } -- Default quality limited to the preferred resolution taken from VLC's settings local format_string = string.format("bestvideo[height<=%i]+bestaudio", prefres) if quality and allowed_qualities[quality] then format_string = string.format("bestvideo[height<=%i]+bestaudio", quality) vlc.msg.info("Using requested quality: " .. quality .. "p") else vlc.msg.info("No valid quality specified. Defaulting to best available.") end local cmd_hidden = 'hidecon &' -- Start cmd hidden and ... -- No better codec than h264 (an important switch for older hardware). This can of course be changed by the users according to their needs. local codec_limit = '-S "codec:h264"' local video_url = '' local audio_url = '' local yt_dlp_silent_exists = io.open(yt_dlp_silent_path, "r") ~= nil if not yt_dlp_silent_exists then vlc.msg.info(yt_dlp_silent_path .. " not found. Falling back to " .. yt_dlp_path) cmd_hidden = 'PowerShell.exe -windowstyle hidden cmd /c &' -- Start cmd hidden and ... local cmd = string.format( '%s "%s" %s -f \"%s\" -g "%s"', cmd_hidden, yt_dlp_path, codec_limit, format_string, youtube_url ) local handle = io.popen(cmd) video_url = handle:read("*l") audio_url = handle:read("*l") handle:close() else vlc.msg.info(yt_dlp_silent_path .. " found. Running program") local cmd = string.format( '%s "%s" %s -f \"%s\" -g "%s"', cmd_hidden, yt_dlp_path, codec_limit, format_string, youtube_url ) local handle = io.popen(cmd) video_url = handle:read("*l") audio_url = handle:read("*l") handle:close() end video_url = video_url and video_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" audio_url = audio_url and audio_url:gsub("^%s+", ""):gsub("%s+$", "") or "" vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Original URL: " .. youtube_url) vlc.msg.info("[YouTube Resolver] Video URL: " .. video_url) if audio_url and audio_url ~= "" then return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video)", options = { ":input-slave=" .. audio_url } } } else return { { path = video_url, name = vlc.path .. " (Video + Audio)" } } end end And today I reduced and optimised my code again and compiled it to a LUAC file. Here is my most recent version for old, weak computers (using h264): https://www.mediafire.com/file/olbadgp55gzn6aj/youtube.luac/file Cheers, AstroSkipper

Tested on Windows 98 SE (DirectX 9.0c), no difference in performance, everything as reported earlier. To me the two logs produced seems to be almost equal as with version WDMHDA.020. WDMHDA.20a.N68_VT1705.zip

That should be MORE than enough FOR NOW, and only to GET YOU STARTED. There's MORE if you really truly want an OPTIMIZED bloat-free Win10.

And if you dislike things like "Indexer" (of which I am in that crowd), then you should also dislike and disable C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache.