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By the way, do you know if there is any documentation or tutorial about how writing these "personal filters" ? ... I'm thinking that they can be helpful also for eliminate lots of bull**it fom other sites, like as example all the "google data thieves" scripts (googleadsense, googlesyndication, and basically every other googlecraps, just for made an example) Admitting that i can do that, my programming knowledge is very low.

Hey, for whatever reason I can't seem to install XP on this Dell XPS M1710 Laptop, I have a SSD inside and made sure to put in the correct SATA driver so it would detect it but no luck. Vista install fine and detected the SSD but not XP, is there an ISO that has pretty much all the drivers so it's guaranteed to work? TY

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List of software that needs Second System disabled to run To disable Second System right click on the program's exe and select Disable Second System Feel free to report other programs. Don't work at all PowerShell 7 - Tries to use some nonexistent features of a dummy.dll renamed to an api-ms-win-core file and crashes on launch - Tested by @TSNH on Windows Vista Oct.2022 x64 ExK Windows Installer - there are issues running the service through Second System, which means that it is currently set to bypass Second System. Therefore, it is presently incapable of running modules that are incompatible with Windows 7, specifically the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Enterprise MSI installers. - Tested by @win32 Notepad++ - disable Second System on Windows 7 due to DirectWrite incompatibility - Tested by @win32 There are some issues Firefox - Window buttons also do not render properly by default; this can be corrected by selecting the titlebar to appear separately from the tab strip, or downloading and installing the Segoe Fluent Icons font here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/downloads/#fonts. - Tested by @win32 Pale Moon - Wrong size Windows 10 close button animations instead of Aero Glass ones - Tested by @TSNH on Windows Vista Oct.2022 x64 ExK Winmerge - Ugly Windows 10 non-aero titlebar - Tested by @TSNH on Windows Vista Oct.2022 x64 ExK

List of new software that Second System by @win32 allows to run. Second System on win32's Patreon site | https://www.patreon.com/win32 | Please consider supporting his amazing work The list uses the following format: ProgramName version : Originally works on -> Second System unlocks it for Current version - At the time of testing the aforementioned version was the latest, so newer ones are likely to work too. Feel free to report other programs. Internet: Firefox Current version : Win10+ -> Vista+ Chromium Current version : Win10+ -> Vista+ Multimedia: WACUP 1.99 Office tools: LibreOffice 25.2.5.2 : Win7+ -> Vista+ Gaming: Steam Current version All the credits for the Second System go to @win32, not me. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used here for identification purposes only.

> VistaLover: your ublock filter work An thinking that the only unsupported thing that discourse added to their "failure-update" is something called "Relative Color Syntax", that is , as far as i found on the net, just something for derive a relative color from a standard color ... basically, something that none want, none use, none care, and appear is added just for cause problems to the users that don't want (or that cannot, for various reasons) switch to a different browser (that in almost all the cases means change also OS, and in most of these cases also change their machines) Times ago, i posted on their main site remarking this, and the reply was "just buy a new PC" ... after a similar idiotic reply, i just closed with discourse site. Anyway, your filter works, so thanks for the help

Yeah, it was a good read. Currently available in webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250401024102/https://www.geocities.ws/siliconvalley/2072/whyxpbad.htm I remember those days. I was a very late adopter of XP (2003 or so), because 98 had at the time most of what I needed except (towards the end) stability. I gave up on 98 when I got to this forum. XP vanilla was indeed bad, but nlited and properly tweaked it was/is like the old 98, only more stable with and capable of running more "modern" apps (software at the time).

Been that way for a LONG time. I haven't wasted time altering a UA string for almost TWO YEARS. Sure, they often times still work, but that is OLD SCHOOL and we (all) should be learning the NEW SCHOOL methods and not hold ourselves back by not looking outside that old-school-box.

... No, they don't ; Discourse are serving a browser-feature detection script (believe it or not, this is actually the recommended way to probe a browser engine, rather than blindly block it based on its UA string) and they're looking for these features: https://arkshine.github.io/discourse-features-test/ (NB: Their announcement was recently edited to also cover "import maps" (Cr89+, Fx108+)) In a nutshell, they're dropping support for Win7/8.1 , where the last Cr and Fx supported versions are 109 and 115esr, respectively... ... Please do ; the posted custom filter blocks Discourse's browser-checking script, so your browser (FxESR-115) will be served the full-blown variant of the Discourse-based forum of interest; please be aware that while this hack currently works, it's not future proof; in, say, 6 months' time, one of the browser features they're checking for might end up in production, hence one (or more) forum function might break, to some extent ... That's the way to go , though it doesn't offer any additional clue as to why all but one of your existing logins were mysteriously removed ... Glad to know and... you're welcome ... Saluti !

There's also an article <LINK> that talks about XP being a mess(not by David Cutler). Of course, it's NOTHING compared 'modern' Windows...

First, thanks for all the replies. > VistaLover: firefox 115.27.0ESR (it say it's updated) Yes, i have ublock origin, will try also this system, but already tried agent spoofers and they don't work. r3dfox 140.0.4 (64bit) No, i have not transplanted or migrated the user profile from firefox to r3dfox, just started r3dfox "as new" And yes, that procedure worked and now the passwords are back, thanks.

You only use the /s or /f option on GPT disk partition layout. You cannot make a partition active on a GPT disk.

So, Firefox 115 got extended again. The EOL is set to be February 2026 (when NT 6.0 and 6.1 are really dead) https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/ Interestingly, FF115 outlived FF128. Mozilla could have supported Windows 7 and 8.1 up to 128 from the start.

ok next besides assembly would be c++, windows drivers, physical harddrive knowledge and how its programmed to (not engine/api like createfile and writefile or script like "copyfile c:\a.txt c:\b.txt) to write this to a windows xp driver you also have to have knowledge about pe headers sections, relocs ect.

The mu v6 web page got into a click infinite loop and can't get updates in the end.

You are right my friend, I have a lot to learn, I wanted to highlight this because it will fix the problem with the 2 To limit with GPT . @Dietmar@dotexe1337@Damnationare you interested ?

It's still not consistently rolled out with latest Win11 updates afaik.

Works like a charm. I had to reinstall KB5064081 first, which brought the problem back. After installing this version the problem is gone. Thanks for the blazing fast support!

I have two laptops, one with Windows 11 Pro and the other with Windows 11 Home. StartAllBack. On the one with Windows 11 Home, the battery percentage display (new icons) does not work. How can I fix this?

Unfortunately, yes. Please test https://startisback.com/StartAllBack_setup.exe

After installing KB5064081 my taskbar toolbars are not working any more. This happens on two PCs running Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.5074 with StartAllback 3.9.14. When clicking the two arrows they simple do not unfold anymore: Adding any folders as toolbars will crash the taskbar completely. Any chance to get them back?

I have two laptops, one with Windows 11 Pro and the other with Windows 11 Home. StartAllBack. On the one with Windows 11 Home, the battery percentage display (new icons) does not work. How can I fix this?

While I was on the web trying to get a piece of code to work for %%i in (A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do ( if exist "%%i:\fartyname.txt" set usbletter=%%i ) Dism /apply-image /imagefile:%usbletter%:\sources\install.wim /index:6 /ApplyDir:C:\ bcdboot c:\windows /s S: /f all I keep getting an error that seems to point to the [S:] https://commandmasters.com/commands/bcdboot-windows/: /s S:: Denotes the system partition where the boot files should be installed. Is this where the boot file are copied or where they are Originated? /f all: This argument instructs bcdboot to prepare the boot files to support UEFI firmware type. C:\Windows: Again, this specifies the Windows directory from which to copy the required boot files. Should this be where they are originally [C:\Windows]? Should the S: Partition be active?? John