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A post install uninstallation of Automatic Updates using a batch file is problematic because wuapi.dll, Wuauserv.dll and wups2.dll are locked by winlogon.exe and cannot be easily deleted in a batch file, although it may be possible using the Sysinternals handle.exe utility. That leaves the only other option of deleting them during a reboot by adding entries in the PendingFileRenameOperations value under thew Session Manager key. This cannot be done with reg.exe because the entries need to be modified as binary data. My first attempt at a resolution of this problem involved importing a .reg file into the registry, but this ,reg file is specific to a drive letter, so my dual boot system would require two versions of the update for the C: and D: drive. Since then I have been able to include Sysinternal movefile.exe to make the required registry entries. All that is required is to specify the path of the source file and make the destination path "" to delete the source. Here is my new Automatic Updates addon including movefile. File: AutomaticUpdates_DeleteAddon.7z (Dropbox) File: AutomaticUpdates_DeleteAddon.7z (Google Drive) File: AutomaticUpdates_DeleteAddon.7z (4Shared) MD5: F8B000B410F2BB9486B4743611780693 SHA-1: C1C1BAF8F85F3E8BF0B459A61C6DBF80F4992195 Size: 60 KB Build date: 26/08/2026

It seems to me that you have added items from Automatic Updates in the preset Last Session (2025.05.14).ini so that they are deleted from the source the same as the ObsoleteFiles directive does in the integrator. I note that wuapi.dll, wups.dll, wuaueng1.dll and wuauser.dll have not been added, and thus the Automatic Updates service will still be present in the final install. Also if wuweb.dll is removed from the source it means that it cannot be registered by syssetup.dll thus leading to an error message in setuperr.log and setuplog.txt. The batch file in my addon on the other hand does a thorough job of eliminating Automatic updates leaving no entries in setuperr.log. There must be a good reason why the removal of Automatic Updates is not an option in nLite. As far as I can tell the Automatic Updates files are not dependencies of a module that needs to be registered, so I assume that Automatic Updates must be required during Windows installation. It is a long time since I did an attended install, but I seem to remember that you are given the option of updating the setup files which might require automatic updates. Also the are no instructions for installing the Automatic Updates service in the inf files in the source that could be deleted, meaning that only a post install uninstallation of the service is possible.

Hello kuja killer, You asked: "but why can i NEVER get past this horrible "slide the mouse" You may have answered your question yourself: " i've always done the email option every time for years and years" Internet security is very dynamic - what worked for years in the past must not necessarily work in the here and now. E-mail as a sort of 2-factor authentication is dubious. Consequently PayPal may have ditched it. Though it is pure speculation - you may have confused the PayPal security system with your stubborn insistence on the e-mail option. Since e-mail is insecure try the phone option - after tabula rasa installation of the latest NM28 (maybe with a different user agent).

For the Vista lovers 😽 : yt-dlp_Py3.11_Vista.7z (password: 987123). Updated today. (the XP version does not work on Vista)

Yes. My XP release is now based on Python 3.11.4 yt-dlp -v [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version local@2025.08.28 [1e28f6bf7] (win_x86_exe) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.1.0-dev ) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-116828-g6aafe61-Reino, phantomjs 1.9.8 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.08.03, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1840 extractors

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband, Value type is DWORD, Value name is NumThumbnails, Data can be set to 0 If Google doesn't help

yea i get all that... but why can i NEVER get past this horrible "slide the mouse" screen... it's seriously making me so mad. there's got to be some possible way to bypass this stupid piece of garbage screen. I'm not keeping track but i must of tried over 30 times total now across all these browsers.

As a side note, the standalone Windows XP version doesn't work on Windows 7 x64 with the error pointing to GetCPFileNameFromRegistry on kernell32.dll, but no problem with the native. I used to run this version on Windows 7 x64 (as I switched from OS to OS and avoid two installs (aside this I can confirm that the Windows 7 version is slightly faster on its native platform, as you pointed out nicola)). I read quick, but would your release have support/be released after september? Thanks for your efforts nicolaasjan :)

Hello kuja killer, It is about 2-factor authentication with two different devices. When you receive an e-mail it can be hacked or faked. In most cases e-mails are insecure,especially when you get the PayPal e-mail on the same PC you are signing in your PayPal account. You said: " i've never once in my life done the phone option because i dont have a cell phone with text messaging" I neither use a cell phone with text messaging, just a simple tried and trusted landline. A portable phone should work in the same way. After passing the hCaptcha challenge PayPal sends as the next step the 4-digit number to my PC and then I get the phone call from PayPal and then I type the 4-digit number into my phone like when typing a phone number. And that's it and it works.

How do I use this? There are no such settings in the mode, and I was unable to get SAB to work with Windhawk.

as i said, i've always done the email option every time for years and years with no trouble at all... i've never once in my life done the phone option because i dont have a cell phone with text messaging. that attempt i didnt get the email...just that stupid horrible "slide your mouse or listen to numbers" screen yet again.

Ah, I see, so it's a purely local issue. I'll investigate the cause. Thank you.

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Please add this feature https://windhawk.net/mods/taskbar-thumbnails if possible, as both programs do not work together.

Well. The whole script is run multiple times by the Windows schedule. I did modify the script to save previous WGET output file. But, both the new and the previous one are exactly the same. The task definition uses the same credentials, as the user running the script from Explorer. Also, manually running task from schedule list ends with just one connection. The amount of connections from schedule task is random. But all connections are made in just 2 s time period. As Holmes said. After eliminating all the other possibilities, the one remaining must be the truth. Windows schedule runs the same task multiple times during 2 s time period. To prove that I did modify the script by adding a PING 127.0.0.1 command in it. The script execution takes more than 2 seconds now. So far the result is just one connection, every time.

Hallo defuser, I did some speedometer 2.0 tests on different ME machines with Serpent, Newmoon and Iceape (Hardware acceleration enabled). All tests had successfully completed. The results are speeds in the lower range. The cpu's are Intel Nortwood, ConroeL - Celereon 450, Conroe - E6420 and Wolfsdale - E8400. As expected brought the Northwood and the Cerleron machines the lower and the E8400 the highest result. Speedometer 3.1 could hang at 6 of 580. There were no browser freezes and hangs, also not with speedometer 3.

Hello kuja killer, You said: "THIS time it made a "call you or email you code to finish logging in" - i selected email" A few minutes ago I visited my PayPal account. To get there I had to prove I'm human and not a bot by solving a hCaptcha challenge (had to click on animals like cats). Next I got a phone call and had to type the 4-digit number they had send me into my phone - and finally had access to my PayPal account. May I ask you why you did not select the phone call ? Perhaps the phone call works ?

to anton12 - im not making it up i did fully remove every trace of it, on several occasions. i tried both the "sse" version you did, the non sse and the ia32 - although i have no idea what the difference is between them all. But it's not ever making any difference. :'( 1 more thing i just now tried.. i tried a latest "windows 11 chrome user agent" with the "general.useragent.override" thing ...only a slight change but still not working. - the email/password form showed up. i login...see that stupid spinning circle animation "wait for security challenge" for about 5 seconds like i mentioned before... then THIS time it made a "call you or email you code to finish logging in" - i selected email cause thats what i've always picked every time in the past with no problem... i click that, and instead of the "type the code we emailed you" ...the damn "slide your mouse" prompt came up again like always...and "cant load, blocked" after the green checkmark. im getting so freaking sick and tired of this crap.

First the main difference is that you are actually executing the script in two different ways. Your manual methods are being run as an interactive user, likely in Session 1. Scheduler is likely running the script via a security context and also could be running in Session 0. If the presumption is that scheduler is running the script under a security context, I am not able to find out definitively why this type of behaviour may occur other than the obvious reason that a security context has different privileges than an interactive user. Wget may operate differently. There is a debug option you can try adding to your script like so: wget -t1 --debug http://localhost Also you can see about setting the scheduler to run it as a specific user. You can also try using a different tool to see if it behaves differently such as curl: curl --max-time 10 --retry 0 http://localhost

Why does Serpent 52.9 show me small save-file windows when I visit tomshardware.com ?

I encountered strange result when runnig batch script from Windows 10 schedule. The script uses WGET.EXE to connect to check if a HTTP service is running on the same computer (127.0.0.1). If thre is a problem an Email is sent and the service gets restarted. The WGET output is redirected to a file, so all operations are visible there. When running from command line or explorer there is just one connection in the HTTP service log, as it should be. But if the same script was executed from Windows 10 schedule, there are multiple connections visible in the log, from the same source at the same time. All connections are done in 1 to 2 s time frame. I did test the idea with using a reverse proxy server co connect to the same service. The proxy log shows the same multiple connections effect. So, it is not a problem of the HTTP service. There are multiple connections from the same address, because the proxy logged them, as well. The output file from WGET shows just one connection. The command line has a -t1 switch to limit the attempted connections to just one. The -o switch redirects output to a text file, and there is just one connection attempt in the output file. I'm stuck. I do not know how to crack this behavior. I wish to know what is going on here.

Hello kuja killer, You said: "I did already is what im saying, my only guess why it would work for you apparently is it's probably looking at our IP addresses... germany for you... united states for me.. and that it's not being as strict for other countries." May I quote myself from a previous post: " I had exactly the same problems you described with the versions of St52 and NM28 when trying to sign in my PayPal account - it did not work anymore. After completely erasing NM28 (git-20250809) and replacing it with the latest NM28 version (see above) with a new profile without personal settings, add-ons and extensions or any other modifications, the access to my PayPal account finally worked again." You see, NM28 (https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20250809-d849524bd-uxp-48ebf49357-xpmod-sse.7z) did not work for me and it was not an IP address problem. Tabula rasa plus the latest NM28 did the trick.

Wow! Then in just 3 days they've pushed some pretty significant changes. One of which is "[ie/youtube] Replace ios with tv_simply in default clients (#14123)", which is a real pity, because I prefer the ios HLS formats. They've now flagged these formats as requiring a PO token, which (as far as I can tell) isn't true, because the 2025.08.20.232911 version I was using still works just fine for these formats. Now I have to snatch a PO token for these to work.

yt-dlp also compiles on Windows XP with the Python 3.11.4 kindly provided by @cmalex. 😀️ yt-dlp_Py3.11_XP.7z (password: 987123)

With my latest version of yt-dlp (2025.08.23.181722), I get: [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4 [youtube] zBq_krhKbW4: Downloading webpage [youtube] zBq_krhKbW4: Downloading tv client config [youtube] zBq_krhKbW4: Downloading player 5ec65609-main [youtube] zBq_krhKbW4: Downloading tv player API JSON [youtube] zBq_krhKbW4: Downloading tv simply player API JSON [SponsorBlock] Fetching SponsorBlock segments [SponsorBlock] Found 1 segments in the SponsorBlock database [info] Available formats for zBq_krhKbW4: ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH | FILESIZE TBR PROTO | VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ sb3 mhtml 48x27 0 | mhtml | images storyboard sb2 mhtml 80x45 0 | mhtml | images storyboard sb1 mhtml 160x90 0 | mhtml | images storyboard sb0 mhtml 320x180 0 | mhtml | images storyboard 249-drc webm audio only 2 | 2.09MiB 50k https | audio only opus 50k 48k [en] low, DRC, webm_dash 250-drc webm audio only 2 | 2.83MiB 68k https | audio only opus 68k 48k [en] low, DRC, webm_dash 249 webm audio only 2 | 2.09MiB 50k https | audio only opus 50k 48k [en] low, webm_dash 250 webm audio only 2 | 2.83MiB 68k https | audio only opus 68k 48k [en] low, webm_dash 140-drc m4a audio only 2 | 5.37MiB 129k https | audio only mp4a.40.2 129k 44k [en] medium, DRC, m4a_dash 251-drc webm audio only 2 | 5.57MiB 134k https | audio only opus 134k 48k [en] medium, DRC, webm_dash 140 m4a audio only 2 | 5.37MiB 129k https | audio only mp4a.40.2 129k 44k [en] medium, m4a_dash 251 webm audio only 2 | 5.56MiB 134k https | audio only opus 134k 48k [en] medium, webm_dash 160 mp4 256x144 30 | 1.34MiB 32k https | avc1.4d400c 32k video only 144p, mp4_dash 278 webm 256x144 30 | 2.74MiB 66k https | vp9 66k video only 144p, webm_dash 394 mp4 256x144 30 | 2.11MiB 51k https | av01.0.00M.08 51k video only 144p, mp4_dash 133 mp4 426x240 30 | 2.58MiB 62k https | avc1.4d4015 62k video only 240p, mp4_dash 242 webm 426x240 30 | 3.40MiB 82k https | vp9 82k video only 240p, webm_dash 395 mp4 426x240 30 | 3.04MiB 73k https | av01.0.00M.08 73k video only 240p, mp4_dash 134 mp4 640x360 30 | 4.54MiB 109k https | avc1.4d401e 109k video only 360p, mp4_dash 18 mp4 640x360 30 2 | 15.60MiB 376k https | avc1.42001E mp4a.40.2 44k [en] 360p 243 webm 640x360 30 | 7.40MiB 178k https | vp9 178k video only 360p, webm_dash 396 mp4 640x360 30 | 5.31MiB 128k https | av01.0.01M.08 128k video only 360p, mp4_dash 135 mp4 854x480 30 | 6.79MiB 164k https | avc1.4d401f 164k video only 480p, mp4_dash 244 webm 854x480 30 | 11.17MiB 269k https | vp9 269k video only 480p, webm_dash 397 mp4 854x480 30 | 8.73MiB 210k https | av01.0.04M.08 210k video only 480p, mp4_dash 136 mp4 1280x720 30 | 10.14MiB 244k https | avc1.4d401f 244k video only 720p, mp4_dash 247 webm 1280x720 30 | 20.35MiB 491k https | vp9 491k video only 720p, webm_dash 398 mp4 1280x720 30 | 15.27MiB 368k https | av01.0.05M.08 368k video only 720p, mp4_dash 137 mp4 1920x1080 30 | 35.75MiB 862k https | avc1.640028 862k video only 1080p, mp4_dash 248 webm 1920x1080 30 | 37.23MiB 897k https | vp9 897k video only 1080p, webm_dash 399 mp4 1920x1080 30 | 26.49MiB 639k https | av01.0.08M.08 639k video only 1080p, mp4_dash 271 webm 2560x1440 30 | 110.21MiB 2657k https | vp9 2657k video only 1440p, webm_dash 400 mp4 2560x1440 30 | 90.71MiB 2186k https | av01.0.12M.08 2186k video only 1440p, mp4_dash 313 webm 3840x2160 30 | 396.68MiB 9562k https | vp9 9562k video only 2160p, webm_dash 401 mp4 3840x2160 30 | 204.96MiB 4940k https | av01.0.12M.08 4940k video only 2160p, mp4_dash