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I created a script to check if binary contains any SSE2 instructions: http://o.rths.cf/gpc/files1.rt/asm-sse2check.7z which contains objdump(from strawberry Perl, 2012) and gawk(3.1.5 MBCS edition) and there is some results(it can't check if code is used conditionally or not, it checks existence only) browseui.dll :: 75eff021: 0f f4 75 6d pmuludq 0x6d(%ebp),%mm6 75eff025: 0f f4 75 8a pmuludq -0x76(%ebp),%mm6 dxtmsft.dll :: 41466697: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 41468917: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax dxtrans.dll :: 41539043: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 41557542: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax ieframe.dll :: 3ed59fde: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 3ee521a0: 0f d4 d6 paddq %mm6,%mm2 3ee5714e: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax iertutil.dll :: 3ec5fb91: 26 0f 5b b7 54 2c 2b cvtdq2ps %es:-0x37d4d3ac(%edi),%xmm6 3ec61265: 0f d4 e2 paddq %mm2,%mm4 jscript.dll :: 3e402aef: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 3e42212e: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax msexcl40.dll :: 1000a296: f2 0f 10 05 a0 10 00 movsd 0x100010a0,%xmm0 {snip} msfeeds.dll :: 43cb2ee4: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 43cefad7: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax msfeedsbs.dll :: mshtml.dll :: 3d1aca7d: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 3d273d80: 0f d4 60 3d paddq 0x3d(%eax),%mm4 3d2920bb: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax msihnd.dll :: 4012a0f3: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax 4012a5ec: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 msjet40.dll :: 1001c688: f3 0f 6f 04 85 00 9e movdqu 0x10179e00(,%eax,4),%xmm0 {snip} msjetoledb40.dll :: 10001519: f3 0f 6f 00 movdqu (%eax),%xmm0 {snip} msjter40.dll :: 1000813b: f2 0f 70 c0 00 pshuflw $0x0,%xmm0,%xmm0 {snip} msjtes40.dll :: 100160ee: f2 0f 10 40 08 movsd 0x8(%eax),%xmm0 {snip} msltus40.dll :: 100068e5: 66 0f 13 44 24 0c movlpd %xmm0,0xc(%esp) {snip} mspbde40.dll :: 10006f05: 66 0f 13 44 24 0c movlpd %xmm0,0xc(%esp) {snip} msrd2x40.dll :: 10009dca: f3 0f 7f 02 movdqu %xmm0,(%edx) {snip} msrd3x40.dll :: 1000c402: f3 0f 6f 41 f0 movdqu -0x10(%ecx),%xmm0 {snip} msrepl40.dll :: 1000df27: f3 0f 6f 46 04 movdqu 0x4(%esi),%xmm0 {snip} mstext40.dll :: 10009285: 66 0f 13 44 24 0c movlpd %xmm0,0xc(%esp) {snip} mstime.dll :: 41e61c93: 66 0f 28 c1 movapd %xmm1,%xmm0 41ecc75e: f2 0f 2c 04 24 cvttsd2si (%esp),%eax msvidctl.dll :: 5fb60aba: 0f fb a8 f2 4f bd 00 psubq 0xbd4ff2(%eax),%mm5 {snip} mswdat10.dll :: 10005258: 66 0f 6f 4e f4 movdqa -0xc(%esi),%xmm1 {snip} msxbde40.dll :: 1000453a: 0f fb a8 f2 4f bd 00 psubq 0xbd4ff2(%eax),%mm5 {snip} ntdll.dll :: 7c9219ed: 66 0f 28 15 e0 1a 92 movapd 0x7c921ae0,%xmm2 7c9219f5: 66 0f 28 c8 movapd %xmm0,%xmm1 7c9219f9: 66 0f 28 f8 movapd %xmm0,%xmm7 7c921a06: 66 0f 54 05 00 1b 92 andpd 0x7c921b00,%xmm0 7c921a3a: 66 0f 2e ff ucomisd %xmm7,%xmm7 7c921a73: 66 0f 28 d8 movapd %xmm0,%xmm3 7c921a8a: 66 0f 54 05 d0 1a 92 andpd 0x7c921ad0,%xmm0 7c921a92: f2 0f 58 c8 addsd %xmm0,%xmm1 7c921ab1: 66 0f 54 1d d0 1a 92 andpd 0x7c921ad0,%xmm3 7c921b2e: 66 0f 28 15 20 1c 92 movapd 0x7c921c20,%xmm2 7c921b36: 66 0f 28 c8 movapd %xmm0,%xmm1 7c921b3a: 66 0f 28 f8 movapd %xmm0,%xmm7 7c921b47: 66 0f 54 05 50 1c 92 andpd 0x7c921c50,%xmm0 7c921b7b: 66 0f 2e ff ucomisd %xmm7,%xmm7 7c921bb4: 66 0f 28 d8 movapd %xmm0,%xmm3 7c921bcb: 66 0f 54 05 10 1c 92 andpd 0x7c921c10,%xmm0 7c921bd3: f2 0f 5c c8 subsd %xmm0,%xmm1 7c921bee: 66 0f 56 1d 40 1c 92 orpd 0x7c921c40,%xmm3 7c921bf6: 66 0f 54 1d 30 1c 92 andpd 0x7c921c30,%xmm3 rsaenh.dll :: 68029460: 0f d4 ca paddq %mm2,%mm1 {snip} win32k.sys :: bf865b39: 0f 5a 86 bf 27 5d 86 cvtps2pd -0x79a2d841(%esi),%xmm0 wininet.dll :: 3e55f2a7: 3e 0f f4 55 3e pmuludq %ds:0x3e(%ebp),%mm2

I consider this good enough. Please notice it's the last version that works OK to this day, and updates correctly, too. there's also a great thread about MSE on the main XP forum, in case you need help (it's fallen out of the 1st page, though).

You have to wait for the stable build but yeah Aero Glass is great like that

Thanks for the tip! It seems that they have just changed the domain where the hotfixes are hosted. Old: http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows XP/sp4/Fix499402/2600/free/473489_ENU_i386_zip.exe New: https://hotfixv4.trafficmanager.net/Windows XP/sp4/Fix499402/2600/free/473489_ENU_i386_zip.exe This means that I will just have to fix the URLs .

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I don't want to appear picky....but where did incompetence get called a bug.... Had the same from Bitdefender support....I installed the latest release and all of a sudden I couldn't access my "Home Network"...?! Turned off Bitdefender and had access again...got in contact with support and they said they have a bug in the fire wall that will be fixed soon with an update.... I then contacted sales and demanded my money back.....Releasing a version with a firewall bug?! But I see the same with Windows 10....instead of improving they get worse....why the desperate hurry to release a new verison all the time....concentrate on fixing the original before pushing new crap on us....because of the amount of computers that I am getting with Windows 10 and serious problems with hardware etc....I have warned all my customers about Microsoft and their insistance to update hardware drivers...Yes, we can turn it off but as you all know Microsoft activate it again with a new update....So, my customeres are left with "grin and bear it" Look at this crap... Windows Insider Program Explore the future of Windows You’ll be amazed at just how many highlights our engineers have already packed into this early Windows 10 Insider Preview build (19H1), including a more powerful Windows Search, a beautiful new design update, and more.1 PREVIEW FEATURES > Link now working... What bloody engineers?! They couldn't punch their way out of a paper bag!!!!! bookie32

Fresh of today: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-bug-is-deactivating-windows-10-pro-licenses-and-downgrading-to-home/ No comment needed I believe. jaclaz

Guitar Pro 6.2.0 R11686 (April 01, 2016) can be downloaded from the official home page: https://www.guitar-pro.com/download.php?idfile=gp6_win https://i.imgur.com/2Yxv4uF.png

I see you've decided to come trolling again Jody... because what else is this really? If you no longer use XP, you no longer care about XP, and you think XP users are somehow backward, then why do you bother to come here to read the XP forum or even attempt to engage the XP users? You say you come here for "discussion" - but most of the time you're only interested in pushing the "accept change and move on" argument. You will agree or semi-agree with some minor point here and there to maintain the impression that you're having a fair discussion or that you're open-minded, but in the end your opinion never really changes. So why do you keep expecting other users minds to change? Do you just like to keep the disagreement stirred up to waste everyone's time? Why do you have such an intense interest in what operating system others choose to use if your mind is already made up about it? Why does it seem to bother you so much when other people don't just "go with the flow?" Who are you to question anyone else for their choices, or to seek "justifications" for those choices? (even if, as you claim, you mean nothing ill by it) If you really believe that something newer is always better, then you're welcome to your opinion. But that's nothing more than "chronological snobbery." The fact that something is newer does not make it better than something older. In fact, the reverse is frequently true. This attitude (prevalent most everywhere I look online these days) that it's OK to force, browbeat, insult the intelligence of, shame, chide, or in any other manner "push" users of any product to give it up for something newer just because someone else says it's better is a cancer, pure and simple. I'll bet that most people pushing this drivel would be deeply offended if say, someone told them their political views were wrong and that they should change because someone else says so. Too many people today are willing to sing the praises of freedom until that freedom applies to something they don't like. Yes, Microsoft has a right to change their products and/or change their business philosophy or whatever. But as far as I am concerned they have a moral obligation to NOT WILLFULLY make it more difficult for users of previous products to keep those products operating. Said users paid for those products, and the fact that some time has passed does not make those users somehow obligated to give up something that works perfectly well and buy something else because Microsoft says so. Don't want to support it any longer? Fine. But don't start putting roadblocks out for those older systems intentionally. This is the main root of the problem that many of us have with Microsoft and many other software/tech companies. It's not what they choose to do, but how they go about doing it. So they want to release a new operating system? Fine. Release it, and if it's really better than what users already have then people will begin to move to it of their own accord. Where the problem arises is 1)when they start pushing FUD garbage about how suddenly you will become vulnerable to this or that catastrophe simply because you haven't chosen to move on; 2)when they use their "influence" to push other companies and products to no longer support an older system; and 3)when they start "manipulating history" to remove information or files relevant to older products, thereby making it more difficult to keep the older systems running (which once again were paid for, and the fact that time has passed does not invalidate this). Very few things make me angrier than when I follow a link to Microsoft's site that is supposed to lead me to some documentation or update for an older system and instead I get some garbage like "We're sorry. This page/update is no longer available. Update to Windows 10 today! It's up to date, fast and secure!" My response? Sure. When .... freezes over. +1 Amen. +1

Ok I went for it - everything up to present with the following excluded: KB4340937 KB4343674 KB4458000 KB4462987 KB4034775 KB4458006 KB4042007 KB4050795 KB4093257 KB4463573 KB4074852 KB4134651 (both versions offered) Seems like I'm good, everything's working!

And here it is! The most awaited Vista repository with Server 2008 updates (atleast for the few people who care about the OS). Included in here are updates for both x86 and x64 architectures, and all versions of .NET available for Vista, from 2.0 to 4.6.1. If there's anything missing, do let me know. https://mega.nz/#F!txxRyLzC!1vBMGzMHiL864f3bl1Rj1w I would like to direct a huge thank you to @VistaLover and @2008WindowsVista, for testing out the updates, and listing them in an easy to copy way

Many times FileHippo will redirect you to the current version, even though it says it's the previous one. I archived the 32-bit and 64-bit installers for MSE 4.4.304 in 2014. You can find them here: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/mse/x86/MSEInstall.exe They are also always available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, just pick the date you want: 32-bit: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/ENUS/x86/MSEInstall.exe 64-bit: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/ENUS/amd64/MSEInstall.exe