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but how can i do this, maybe put instructions

Yes, well, @AstroSkipper likes UXP browsers very much and they don't encrypt their databases.

If you want to check whether DEP protection is up and running for browsers, you can also use the old HPA test tool: http://dl.surfright.nl/hmpalert-test.exe obviously only DEP would be (from my point of view) just enough for the security of browsers: https://sendvid.com/wp52v128 in the video above my old anti-exploit protections in Windows XP applied to browsers. But I am digressing,have a good evening.

Wasn't trying to inform, simply to put "--disable-encryption ... is unsecure" in due perspective.

@Mov AX, 0xDEAD I see at the nuked Fernando forum, that in October 2018 you have a talk with Lost_N_BIOS: " Mov_AX_0xDEAD October 23, 2018, 5:56pm 227 That’s cool @Mov AX, 0xDEAD was it that easy, just re-arrange in AmitSESteupData? that was no easy, AMITSESetupData is binary file, i manually found offsets to menus (pages) and offsets to each element. page contains pageid and parentid, i’ve replaced parentid to pageid of "Peripherals". element contains link to sub-pageid, textreference and texthelpreference, i’ve replaced all three fields. then need to modify IFR like i did in post Accessing Locked BIOS Menu Settings (14) because IFR works in real bios, amibcp fully ignore ifr. i specialy did not use amibcp v.5 to save edited bios because this program is overkill, it change/rebase/increase size of many modules, i dont accept this behavior " Can you help me with this Bios for to overcome any problems with switching between CSM and UEFI? Dietmar Original Bios from the ASRock N100DC-ITX board https://ufile.io/pi4xs90q

@D.Draker Sure, but it gets kinda old since MS in the forum name (Microsoft) is much larger term. OK, this might actually be more important on XP x64, I bet Chromium calls infamous SetProcessDEPPolicy on XP x86, which doesn't exist on x64 XP (different branch). But if it does not call it appropriately on XP x86, does the OS get out of the way and enable it with the right flag in the .exe? What you see below isn't the default state on XP x64: I made a jump to the data section where I put a NOP instruction and tried to execute it. Prerequisite: Otherwise, no access violation.

Of course not! But the amount of times we read it, oh boy... Besides, telling it simply makes no sense since it's already publicly known we're on old "insecure" OS. P.S. I want, and always preferred, strictly about the subject posts.

Certainly It can be. Has anyone checked whether DEP is enabled -permanent with Process Explorer? P.S. Enabling DEP for all programs (EXE) and not just system processes if I remember correctly is an easy thing to do.

Isn't this enabled by default unless you go out of the way to turn it off? Every program these days is compiled with NX Compat flag. This particular feature of the CPUs is ANCIENT at this point. The only people that turn it off have issues in their head (IMHO).

Maybe I'm the only one doing regular things (web, videos, music, occasional (re)programming, games). Seeing IT from different perspectives has taught me worrying about software bells and whistles too much is unhealthy and in the end you die anyway.

Vista Aero needs DX9, and Vista's DX9 cannot work with the newer drivers of Intel HD Graphics (with the blue-white control panel) as it always crashes with BEX or BEX64 signature. However, at least you still can enjoy DX10/11, OpenGL, and Vulkan rendering APIs because they're completely unaffected. And if you want to load the control panel without crashing, you have to rename or move out igdumdim64.dll file from System32 folder and igdumdim32.dll file from SysWOW64 folder. NTOSKRNL Emu_Extender and always disabling the driver signature enforcement from the boot menu are required to install the newer driver on Windows Vista. And if the installer doesn't work, try installing manually by updating the display adapter through Device Manager. You will cannot play videos using Windows Media Player. Solution: Use 3rd-party media players like VLC or MPC-HC to play video files. You also will cannot run video games which use DX9 rendering API for the game engine. Solution: Try updating the game's version, change the renderer to DX10/11/OGL/Vulkan from the game's settings if available, or just mod the game to be rendered using non-DX9 API.

Hi to all. In my opinion guys,you are giving too much importance to flags. Those who seek security should also look elsewhere. For example, has anyone using XP enabled DEP (Data Execution Prevention) for Thorium?

And you want a medal for it? You think that makes you special?

So do i, daily, which says nothing about "XP is insecure and not recommended." being factually incorrect. Apologies if feelings were hurt.

Isn't this encryption thing Windows only? I'm almost sure you can move Chromium based browser profiles around on Linux by default. Almost because last time I tried it was with Edge around version 94 era and I just replaced the distro (Arch-based -> Debian-based) on the same machine and kept Edge's profile folder from somewhere under .config folder. Likewise, there's no registry on Linux, so how do extensions' settings survive there? No Thorium at hand at the moment, but I tried getting rid of Supermium's registry key, launched the browser, extensions and their settings survived. Just the picture showing the extensions so I don't have to write them down.

Tihiy: not sure if this is something you can fix, but I noticed that the classic Alt+Tab dialog box (shown if you hold down Alt, tap the other Alt key, and then press Tab, or if you set HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer→AltTabSettings to 1) doesn't work any more on 24H2 (Windows 11 Pro 26100.268, Windows Server 2025 26100.560) – the dialog box doesn't appear at all, and Windows instead behaves as if Alt+Esc was pressed. Is this something that could be fixed by StartAllBack?

Ethics on this forum doesn't allow to use such references in regards of old OS, MSFN is a home for old OS fans. Probably, you still don't know that? For example DAVE, our respected moderator, uses XP on his daily basis, I use Vista.

I always advertise WinNTSetup to as many people as possible, among others on the MDL forum. One of the users there tried it, with the "No Defender" tweak, and left the comment below. I have to say I haven't had any problems like that, but then again I haven't tested W11-24h2 that much yet (only tested it to see if I could live with it if I ever have no other options). But I wanted to leave his comment here, to see what you guys think of this. Here it comes: (About the "No Defender" tweak): "When I tried this on IoT LTSC 2024 I noticed that reputation based protection in settings was enabled and I could not disable it so I had to re install and disable defender in other way. On my 26100 Enterprise G it is showing as disabled. So maybe it's better to not disable WD this way on IoT or perhaps both versions of LTSC 2024."

First what i wanted to say than i WAS booting from a USB disk using grub4dos with patched Windows Whistler build 2419 in nLite. But when the setup started, it said "TXTSETUP.SIF is corrupted at line 36" Unpatched one loaded fine, patched one didnt. (I KNOW that nLite breaks betas of 2000/XP.) I was integrating a SATA driver.) Also, any way how to unlift timebomb or even cut it off?)

XP is insecure and not recommended. If not this batch file (Thorium portable), what where you talking about?

i know i made two topics about haswell drivers, but i want to run aero on vista (on my old pc), since my new pc does have very new drivers, also radeon drivers are patched for vista, but i never saw anyone patch haswell drivers for vista, also im not good at patching, im not sure if aero would even work with xpdm drivers, can someone at least patch haswell xp drivers to run aero.

Unless you're suggesting that all this is an elaborate ruse, all you need do is watch the vid or ask me. The only loader i'm using is the batch file included with Thorium, the one I'm clicking in the screencap (THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat). It simply starts Thorium with the following flags, thusly: START "" "thorium.exe" --user-data-dir="%~dp0%\USER_DATA" --allow-outdated-plugins --disable-breakpad --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id. Now, I know what you did. You are using the flag --disable-encryption which is unsecure and not recommended. This is a flag which makes Thorium more portable, though. I do not use it.

Unless you're suggesting that all this is an elaborate ruse, all you need do is watch the vid or ask me. The only loader i'm using is the batch file included with Thorium, the one I'm clicking in the screencap (THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat). It simply starts Thorium with the following flags, thusly: START "" "thorium.exe" --user-data-dir="%~dp0%\USER_DATA" --allow-outdated-plugins --disable-breakpad --disable-encryption --disable-machine-id. As suggested in my previous posts, you have a trivially simple way to verify it works in *your* case: 1. Run THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat & close Thorium, taking note of installed extensions, configuration, and open tabs 2. Delete the Thorium key i delete in the screencap vid 3. Run THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat 4. Observe the key mysteriously restored to the registry & thorium open to its last state.

I experience that too. Additionally, there's a similar issue with the sound icon where it occasionally opens up at the bottom rather than the top. It's quite annoying...

Due to the regular maintainence of my Windows XP, there is no need to reinstall the OS. It is even faster than in its early days. I did so much to it that even Thorium runs well under Windows XP. I also have a well thought-out image system and can return to a previous state at any time. Even to the very first one.