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I tried downloading manually... It gave me 7.36 as expected and it works!

MKVToolnix announced that they were going to officially drop XP with version 9.x in 2015. Luckily, the next version v.10.0 was working on XP anyway. Today I decided to update it after a while and I found out that it wasn't working anymore. I took a look at the source code and luckily it didn't use anything weird and it was possible to compile every component targeting XP. As to the UI, this one was tricky. The mkvextractgui hasn't really been modified during the latest commits and relies on old calls, so it was easy to compile. As to to the mkvmergegui (mkvtoolnixgui), in the main branch it has been update to use functions available on Windows 7 only (not even Vista!). I was kinda curious to see what they did and they basically broke Vista and XP compatibility with the GUI to implement some "fancy" W7 loading bars and a few totally useless stuff. Anyway, I re-used the code from version 10.0 for the mkvmergegui ('cause it was XP compatible) and made it work with the new components and... guess what? It works. It's gonna complain about a "mismatch" between the GUI version and the components version as soon as you launch mkvtoolnixgui, but just ignore it and use the program 'cause it's working flawlessly. I just muxed a few .ts and .mp4 files into .mkv and it worked. I even extracted subtitles from a few .mkv files and it worked. Let me know if you find bugs and please note that this is an unofficial version, so DO NOT update via the GUI and DO NOT report bugs on the official MKVToolnix site, but only here. v25.0: REMOVED v26.0: REMOVED V27.0: REMOVED V28.0: REMOVED V29.0: https://mega.nz/#!GJcmUS6R!FvWCCGWxStx5_23MSSJ8l_PC0eJOPaGFaMRtN2XTZFM

Can anyone test that if it is real.

Rufus can still be made to run on Vista without much effort. I've put the binary on GitHub.

Sage words.

AVG and Avast share the same core, but they have a different front-end ever since Avast bought AVG. I'm speechless, 'cause the UI used by Avast is just a C++ front-end compiled with SSE2 assembly optimisations targeting XP as well and it shouldn't have anything fancy inside. It should be slow-ish (on some systems) and not scalable (which makes it difficult to use on low res systems) but it shouldn't break. Besides, even if the UI doesn't work for whatever reason, the core and the protection engine should as they take the configuration from the configuration files and only the final integrity check should misbehave. In other words, the worst case scenario I was thinking about is the UI process using up all your resources trying to load itself up. The worst thing is that I can't reproduce it neither on my computer nor on a VM. Do you have Skype? Can you add me? (francebb1 - franceopf@gmail.com). On one hand, I'd like to find out more about the issue in order to solve it once and for all, on the other, since I no longer have any affiliation with Avast and AVG shares its protection engine, I would tell you: "if it works, leave it as it is". It's up to you; if you are willing to test a few other things (unofficially), add me on Skype and I'll add you to our group chat. (Dibya, Peter, Samuel... we are all there).

what you absolutely can be sure if you are educated enough to know the difference, and your practices are not that of rando downloading cracks, sharware, and shady programs all the time and installing them like that's some kinda game. The only way something can get on a PC is through the actions of the person controlling it. Ran no virus protection for 30+ years never got anything that i didn't cause and the number of times it happened i can count on 1 hand. Each and every time i knew exactly how it happened and why and fixed it myself.

max isn't that great, you will still get viruses and spyware if you try to put them on your computer as a test. I read lots of bechmarks where MSE doesn't really catch everything. Best defense to malware is the person using it. OS you just gotta not do things that a educated person would know not to do and you never will get a virus even without protection.

I'll take a look at the source code for the next version in a few days. Right now, I'm just gonna lay on my couch (and then on my bed), trying to digest the turkey. Merry Christmas. ^^