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The DirectX DLLs are an issue on every Windows. You're supposed to install a DX redistributable or get them bundled with a game. At one point I heard there was a license pushback from Microsoft when software included those DLLs, but now it just happens. Unlike other DLLs, XAudio2_6.dll and its siblings need to be registered and therefore also put into the system folder so that all applications have access to them. Not having XAudio results in a hard to troubleshoot situation of no sound in games from Bethesda. They don't say that the DLL wasn't found. I strongly dislike Microsoft's media stuff. It's big, slow and unncessary given free alternatives. Games that include everything they need work more reliably on all versions of Windows. A game is a gig or bigger and can afford to bundle a video codec. The new XnView MP (not lean, built on a framework) refuses to start because it is linked to mfplat.dll. I got a couple audio editors, I think one of them was from Acoustica, also refusing to start. The fault as I see it is with them because we have other graphics and audio editors that work great. They usually work way faster being older. In Server 2022 the desktop pack is mandatory. Not having it results in all GUI being inaccessible.

framedyn.dll has a staggering 630 export functions and its name is "WMI SDK Provider Framework", srclient is system restore. Neither is ms update. Look in my nlite preset. There it has an entry "Automatic Updates" which do the job but not tottaly. That's why you see at RemoveFiles section all these mu*.* and wu*.* stuff. But not even that clean the remaining microsoft \ windows update items so next you see inside entries_del_shortcuts.ini stuff like del_ qfeUpPck.inf|,MU.AddReg||1 etc. or qfeUpPck.inf|ProfileItems =MU.Shortcut,MUC.Shortcut,KB976002.Shortcut<NEXT>||1 The qfeUpPck.inf and 5erPOSUp.inf aren't known to nlite even they are integrated before by RVM_Integrator. msagent is not automatic updates. If you don't load my nlite preset which has "MS Agent" entry then you have to duplicate what nlite was doing to remove stuff by hand. I guess you use ms notepad or wordpad which is only good for a couple of lines and after that it will increase mental fog. Notepad4 is a good alternative. And something I forgot to tell at the 3-Aug-2025 post. When you load my nlite preset and hit next couple of times it will ask for BITS incompatibility. You have to press "No" instead. On whatever *_u.ini you need to fill the CDKey without the dashes. After you have a succesfull setup you can go back to your untouched but updated i386 source by XPSP3_QFE_POSReady_Addon_20200820_Pro.7z and XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack_20210829_Pro.7z and then load again my nlite (nlite load button at lower right corner) preset, but this time you could uncheck a component or a setting/tweak and if you end up again with a succesfull installation, you can keep your new preset. Also nlite if is run more than one time on the same i386 source it may produce duplicate or similar entries on some .INF files. On the same updated source, after only one nlite pass with my nlite preset, I integrate my del_addon. Then I don't have those folders right from the begining of setup because the setup engine does not create folders which aren't needed, so I can't test them with Unlocker. But I need more time to create a new nlite preset that could not have all those nhelper.exe lines right from the start (if it is possible). That's why I remove stuff from nlite.inf too. I have place a lot of commnents about various issues on my entries_del_shortcuts.ini v2 addons which both are also more up to date. If you use some VM environment eg. vmware etc. and you need to make a ISO you have to delete SetupSourcePath and BootPath lines from TXTSETUP.SIF just before make the iso. del_addon_full_v2.7zStep 1 nlite reducer.7z

I am using windows 11 pro 26200.5647, I would like to rollback to screens like below : Now I was told to use this in a batch file : DISM /Mount-Wim /wimfile:W:\WimFile\customBoot\boot.wim /index:2 /mountdir:M:\Mount reg load HKLM\TEMP M:\Mount\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM reg add HKLM\TEMP\Setup /v "CmdLine" /t REG_SZ /d "X:\\sources\\setup.exe" /f reg unload HKLM\TEMP DISM /Unmount-Wim /mountdir:M:\Mount /commit I did and it didn't go back to the old Setup. Does anyone have other ideas??

thank you for your help

Thanks, both of you. As I don't use Supermium myself, I'd forgotten that it isn't "unGoogled" and, therefore, Google Sync is available to back up one's passwords with a somewhat reasonable level of security.

@roytam1 Okay, 1) I managed going up to Firefox 35.0.1 to work on Windows 2000 without Extended Kernel unofficially by using just kernelxp, advapixp, shellxp, and userxp wrappers from the mp10en2k package by blackwingcat, and additional dlls from windows 2000 extended kernel, and changing the MinorOperatingSystemVersion and MinorSubsystemVersion from 0001 to 0000, and leaving the MajorOperatingSystemVersion and MajorSubsystemVersion as 0000 on firefox.exe and other executables in the firefox folder. 2) I managed getting Firefox 31.8.0 ESR to work on Windows 2000 without Extended Kernel unofficially by using just kernelxp, advapixp, and shellxp wrappers from the mp10en2k package by blackwingcat, and additional dlls from windows 2000 extended kernel, and changing the MinorOperatingSystemVersion and MinorSubsystemVersion from 0001 to 0000, and leaving the MajorOperatingSystemVersion and MajorSubsystemVersion as 0000 on firefox.exe and other executables in the firefox folder. Note: The original kernelxp wrapper for windows 2000 without extended kernel from the mp10en2k package by blackwingcat have the getnumahighestnodenumber function missing for firefox 36 which used microsoft visual c++ 2013 runtime. I even tried 36.0a1 (compiled with vc2010) on Windows 2000 without extended kernel unofficially by using just kernelxp, advapixp, shellxp, and userxp wrappers from the mp10en2k package by blackwingcat, and additional dlls from windows 2000 extended kernel, and changing the MinorOperatingSystemVersion and MinorSubsystemVersion from 0001 to 0000, and leaving the MajorOperatingSystemVersion and MajorSubsystemVersion as 0000 on firefox.exe and other executables in the firefox folder, but it does not start The unofficial guide "How to get Firefox 35.0.1 / 31.8.0 ESR to work on Windows 2000 without Extended Kernel!" is now available. This guide is made by me. https://sites.google.com/view/clara-incorporated/modernization/windows-2000xp-rtmxp-sp1/firefox-35-0-1-firefox-31-8-0-on-windows-2000-without-extended-kernel

After installation on Windows 11 Pro, 26100.4946 returns an error, but all the functions of the program work.

...It wasn't working for him, but now it is : PS: The forum software doesn't send a second (e-mail) notification to thread-subscribed members after one has edited one's original post (for which an initial notification has already been sent) ... Browser profile corruption is always a possibility, so, as others have noted, regular profile back-up and back-up of important info on physical copies is always strongly recommended ... ... Probably NOT ...

Hi, I'd like to suggest an upgrade for links/custom toolbars. I've thought of 2 ideas: 1. Hide icons so the text is shown only: 2. Refresh file selection, as it looks very outdated in comparison to tasks highlight: \ I know that probably barely anyone uses those, but these can be really useful if used with custom context menus. Here's one of the examples I've been working on lately:

Attempting to remove automatic updates by deleting source files caused the framedyn,dll and srclient.dll not found error at the end of the Windows setup. I cannot see entries in entries_del_shortcuts.ini for removing automatic updates. Certain folders of removed Windows components like msagent under the WINDOWS folder seem impossible to remove. I removed it's entry from txtsetup.sif and for good measure removed it with a batch file, but it reappears. When I attempt to remove it from the commandline I receive this output: > rd /s msagent msagent, Are you sure (Y/N)? y msagent\intl - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by an other process. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Unlocker shows that the folder is locked by winlogon.exe, as is the empty Outlook Express folder. I can use Unlocker to remove the lock by winlogon.exe and delete the folder, but it reappears after I reboot. I also tried adding an entry for the msagent folder in the PendingFileRenameOperations value to delete it after a reboot, but that does not work. I might try removing the entry for msagent in the DestinationDirs section of intl.inf in the addon, but I doubt that would make a difference. I see that the msagent section of your addon includes this line which indicates that nhelper,exe is used to permanently remove the msagent folder: If so why are you deleting this line from nlite.inf? NLITE.INF|HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce","nlite_post_11",0x00020000,"nhelper rd /q /s """"%SystemRoot%\msagent"""""<NEXT>||1

What you demonstrate here is the same as the instructions in the Defining Entries document, so what I must have done wrong is omit the leading space of the second line. Here is a typical entry in hivesys.inf HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\MUILanguages\RCV2\guitrn.dll","0",0x00030001,\ 52,04,28,0a,01,00,05,00,00,00,28,0a,01,00,05,00 and here is the correct entry in my entries.ini file; HIVESYS.INF|HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\MUILanguages\RCV2\guitrn.dll","0",0x00030001,\<NEXT> 52,04,28,0a,01,00,05,00,00,00,28,0a,01,00,05,00<NEXT>||1 As you can see there are five spaces before the beginning of the second line. The deletion now works.

Supermium's password manager is working fine for me, and always has done. It is backed up to the cloud by Google Sync, so it's synchronised with my other Supermium installations on other machines, (I know, I know, but it works for me, and I don't use it for any really sensitive passwords like online banking!) I back up my whole machine locally regularly as well, of course.

What is a reliable, performant remote desktop software today, which doesn't have any interations with Windows, and can run on a variety of older Windows versions? I would like to be able to access my computer remotely on a guest computer where I may not make any configuration changes. The server would run on Server 2008 R2 x64 that is somewhat weak, and the client would likely run on Windows 10 and 11. The client should be portable. The server should not do heavy-handed security or compression. The available bandwidth is 60-100 Mbit/s. I could open a (secret) port for Windows Remote Desktop which is fast, but I am afraid that it would refuse to run on new Windows for this or that reason, as is often the case. I wouldn't be able to confirm any logins on the server or tweak it.

I have gave up on my main machine for now and restored old backup.. and moved experimenting into Vmware virtual machine, here i connected this machine as MBR disk, its not UEFI / TPM machine, its single partition install, but its failing exactly the same way Only difference is that on such simple setup, automatic start up repair worked right away, i mean that Windows bootloader started, without fidling with bcd files.. and still not ntbtlog.. so its something really ugly, i have tried to run lots of live antivirus and antimalware stuff, it ran for ages, because i have like like 6 millions of files on my disk.. i got some malware / adware reports, but i found say false possitives, because other tools not reported them.. I disabled them anyway, no change. I also found out that i could enable / disable drivers through dism+ .. but without any clue is really hard to find out the root of this problem.. and it seems to be same for a lot of people which encountered it.. I wonder there is msconfig mode to enable MS services Only, im not sure if different from safe mode, but i there wonder some way how to set it on.. i found try it.. i can probably disable services / drivers one by one, its problematic..

The discussion of "whether one should" use Supermium's password manager is sort of irrelevant to @kwisomialbert's question anyway. He "does" want to use it but it's not working for him. So, is password manager broken in the latest version? (I don't have Supermium myself so I can't check.) As for losing your passwords if the HDD crashes, I know; make regular backups, yada yada. But again, the computer is supposed to do some of the work for you, and storage isn't that expensive. So why doesn't the password manager make multiple copies of your passwords, ideally on different drives if you have them? For that matter, why isn't mirroring/RAID more common in PCs today, so if an HDD fails, you just replace it and let the PC take care of rebuilding everything? Two or even three 2.5" drives don't cost that much or take up much space.

Hello, it's not that I like reviving dead threads, but I think that currently in this repository: https://github.com/VxKex/VxKex I've seen that they've been implementing new updates, something similar to what "dotexe1337" does. Several repositories with different changes are being merged into this repository (apparently).

Maybe you are right,but a situation has happened before:the hard drive was broken...

Can what be done there? You want to run something in specialize pass?

LibreOffice 25.8.0.4 works on Windows 8.1 You need to drop the „LaunchCondition“ Table with Orca. After that, the installer will install the suite. All apps seem to work without any issues. So, they could have kept 8.1 support but decided to end both 7 and 8 simultaneously. The suite doesn‘t work on Windows 7 (even with VxKex)

Yep tried that, it makes the SAB re-create, but that is not the same as reinstall it seems, some process stays. I was just stupid, had to leave a pending "update" so I can run it whenever I need to fix that

This was resolved in 3.9.13

One thing you can try as a workaround: open Task Manager, kill explorer.exe process (or run taskkill /im explorer.exe /f), then start Explorer again.

Yeah thats true, however I have tons of programs that run and needs to be launchend and configured again, including several virtual machines and servers operating, basically it is much more to reboot and not only time, but it is annoying too. Windows can survive around month and half - 2 between reboots, I usually reboot it week-2 after patch tuesday when it is clear if the current patches solve or create more issues. Basically the only thing that is now not working okay with a month of uptime is StartAllBack. An before you question how can I run virtual machnines and servers and tons of other stuff AND try to play games on this overloaded computer - I"m a human being and sometimes need a rest, so games that are not too demanding can fit in too

Any news?

Some older games might also require Windows Media Player (+Media Foundation) which can be re-enabled by installing the Desktop Experience Feature. On Server 2016 and higher, this is not required because installing the OS with Desktop Experience automatically installs the Media Foundation Feature as well.