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Thanks for reporting! At last, another Windows XP user who’s also reporting problems with Panda Dome here. Which version have you installed? -
I don't have blurry fonts on that page. First try Options>Fonts and Colors>Advanced>"Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" If that doesn't help try: Font Contrast https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-contrast-fix/
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Regarding panda forum reporting, to be able to uninstall panda you have to be able to stop the antivirus running. right clicking task bar icon does not always respond. after a few reboots my task bar icon informed me that my computer was not protected, a tiny red circle with the x. then it was easy to uninstall from add/remove. I also used their generic uninstaller which removed everything from my pc. I did a clean install but unfortunately the song remained the same. 5 minutes later it crashed. I have not got the foggiest how to go about it. -
That’s a very diplomatic answer. I see it a little differently, though.
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That’s a great pity, of course, and not really what I was hoping to hear. I haven’t yet managed to make the PSANHost process of my Panda Dome 21.01.00 crashing again after resetting the cache folder. I probably need to be a bit more patient.
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Well, I guess of those here still using XP, very few use Panda Dome, even though it's one of the vanishingly few security programs which is still supposed to work on XP. I found one instance on the virtually dead Panda forum reporting the same problem (with no response). https://support.pandasecurity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12151&sid=a73549f228b82be2dde1657a770a28e4 My installation is still crashing all the time. It stops if I clear the recent files in the cache folder but starts again as soon as the folder repopulates. -
@Dave-H Don’t you find it a bit odd that the three of us – you, @modnar and of course me – are the only ones reporting problems with Panda here in this forum and looking for solutions? Apparently there are 68,145 members here on MSFN, and allegedly 23,865 of them are most online . Where on earth are they all? Doesn’t any of them use Windows XP anymore? Or have passivity and apathy completely taken hold, and are people just waiting for others to have wasted their time on it but certainly not their own?
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Hello again. Sorry for the late reply. I have also managed to run the latest version of Java on Windows 7 some time ago after being told it worked by someone I know who had tested it. On their Java support pages, Oracle states they would only support operating systems supported by their providers. (So in our case, Microsoft supporting Windows 7.) For example, in the state of Windows XP, they stated "As of April 8, 2014 Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP and therefore it is no longer a supported platform." (Source: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/system-configurations.html) I'd guess what they likely mean is: "We will not test the functionality of the latest versions of Java on operating systems no longer supported by their providers." Anyhow, this is pretty good news for us Windows 7 users for now, but we'll have to see for how long this will be the case...
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RogueKiller Anti-Malware from Adlice has also dropped programme compatibility for Windows XP in their portable release (the installer version was already discontinued some time ago). The last working one is the version 16.5.6.0 from 24.02.2026. However, it can still download its current definition file. So. it is the next one that turned its back on Windows XP in terms of programme compatibility.
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@Dave-H and/or @Tripredacus and/or @xper -- please note that screencaps can no longer be "pasted" into the reply editor. The screencap appears "during" the reply typing, but is not posted/submitted when the Submit Reply button is clicked. -
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@reboot12 BAR0 is detected I see, unlike in my case. That means that the detection code on my i2cctrl.sys driver is not broken, the firmware maybe enables and disables controllers (power state of the controllers) based on OSI! If you want to get this to work, we are gonna need help improving the ACPI 2.0 from Mov0xDead to add support, because even if OSI would be correct, our current XP's ACPI 2.0 still doesn't understand this at all! @Dietmar This is where you come in, do you want to help me adding I2C/GPIO/UART support in XP's ACPI 2.0 from mov0xdead? Even making sure that it reports as Windows 2015 (Windows 10) and above in the OSI if necessary. My driver has a lot of XP-friendly implementations (this means that no KMDF, no acpiex and no spbcx), it tries to use I2C in XP's language, it also has a lot of unused garbage code that it's just sitting there tbh. -
1. Replace the `input.dll` and `mutb.dll` files from Windows 11 (23H2) with those from Windows 10 (19045). 2. This allows the language bar (using the desktop language bar) to be perfectly locked to the taskbar on Windows 11 (23H2); however, later versions of StartAllBack also support this. 3. The workaround from step 1 remains effective up to version 26H1, but StartAllBack version 3.7.11.4917 does not support Windows 11 (24H2). I hope the feature allowing the language bar to be pinned to the taskbar is preserved! -
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That was definitely a clever move. And has the PSANHost process crashed again since the cache folder was reset?
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Yes indeed, in fact, the first test I did was to replace that entire folder with one from an ISO image I made a few days before the fault appeared. It made absolutely no difference, it still carried on crashing, so I discounted the contents of that folder as having anything to do with the problem. I next looked for any other recently updated files in the Panda installation, and that led me to the cache folder in the Panda program files folder.
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BTW, the cache folder inside the Panda programme directory is not the only destination folder for the updates. Files are, of course, also stored in various subfolders under Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Panda Security.
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The company AnyTech365 seems to be owned by Panda and is not only a call center. That's good so far. Interestingly, there is also a German hotline number with the prefix 0800 which is generally free of charge here in Germany. I wouldn’t have expected that.
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It's a 020-3xxx-xxxx number, which should be a standard rate London number. There is no indication that it's a premium rate number, which by law in the UK there would have to be if it were. As I'm in London myself, with a 020-8xxx-xxxx home landline number, I would expect it to have been local rate. As such, the call should have been free on my landline phone package as long as it wasn't over 60 minutes long, which it wasn't.
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My Plan C is about trying something new. I’m currently testing solutions that haven’t been tried here before. I’m in uncharted waters, so to speak. I’m deliberately not saying any more, as I don’t want to raise any false hopes.
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For experimenting with Avast, you should avoid the last XP-compatible version. As far as I can remember, is a previous version associated with fewer problems. I have to look in my archive for the exact version number.
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Is there a charge for people living in the UK, or is it covered by your standard phone tariff? In Germany, you have to dial special prefixes for support hotlines like this, which are extremely expensive. A rip-off, so to speak.
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I'm experimenting with Avast again... Good to see things moving. Might be resolved after all. -
OK, an update. I rang the local UK number for Panda's technical support. It's operated by a company called AnyTech365. They took ages to answer the phone, but just as I was thinking about giving up, the call was answered by a very nice and very helpful guy, who sounded completely English! He wasn't aware of the problem, and I had the usual lecture about the risks of still using XP, but when I pointed out that Panda make a big thing of still supporting XP, he was quite conciliatory about it! Amazingly, when I said I'd already reported the problem via a web form, when I gave him the case number, he actually found my report from last Friday on his system! It's open and pending response apparently. I told him that I had, since the report, discovered that the files in the cache folder are apparently related to the problem, and he has added that information to the report. So, a rather better experience than I thought it would be! All I can do now is wait and see what comes back, but if nothing does, at least I now know there's a real person I can talk to if I need to.
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I'm digging up this question, but the fact is no backport is even needed. The latest version (and even the latest snapshot) perfectly works on Windows 7 (see images) The only detail to note is that the Vulkan rendering does not work, falling back to OpenGL. And it seems this is related to drivers (a look in the logs shows that it requires 'VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering' and 'dynamic_rendering'). [15:39:33] [Render thread/INFO]: Backend library: LWJGL version 3.4.1+2 [15:39:33] [Render thread/WARN]: Device [NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] does not support required extensions, missing: [VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering] [15:39:33] [Render thread/WARN]: Device [NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] does not have required feature [dynamicRendering] [15:39:33] [Render thread/ERROR]: Failed to create backend Vulkan com.mojang.blaze3d.systems.BackendCreationException: Device missing capabilities at com.mojang.blaze3d.vulkan.VulkanBackend.throwForMissingRequrements(VulkanBackend.java:298) at com.mojang.blaze3d.vulkan.VulkanBackend.findPhysicalDevice(VulkanBackend.java:190) at com.mojang.blaze3d.vulkan.VulkanBackend.createDevice(VulkanBackend.java:105) at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.<init>(Minecraft.java:487) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Main.java:267) [15:39:34] [Render thread/INFO]: Using graphics backend OpenGL, using drivers: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 475.14 [15:39:34] [Render thread/INFO]: Using graphics device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 (NVIDIA Corporation) So for now the latest version can run thanks to OpenGL, but as they plan to remove it once the Vulkan implementation will be stable enough for their expectations, unless this requirement is fixed, maybe it'll be required to have a wrapper that add the missing Vulkan functions in order to run later versions of the game.
