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@Roffen or anyone You should not have any issues downloading the Firefox installers as long as you have XP SP3. The certificate errors would be due to outdated XP service packs, not outdated Internet Explorer. I have downloaded Firefox on dozens of machines with Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 with SP3. This is successful because SP3 contains updated CRYPT32, RSAENH and other cryptographic files and libraries which are required for SHA2 support, among many other improvements and fixes. For example, if you attempt to open secure websites such as Outlook Webmail on IE 6 with XP SP2, it will fail. But, with SP3 it will succeed. (You should also change IE's settings to TLS instead of SSL because of the POODLE vulnerability). http://sdfox7.com/xp/files/ol365ssl.jpg http://sdfox7.com/xp/files/ol365tls.jpg For future reference, you can download XP SP3 directly from my FTP or the Internet Archive: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe or https://web.archive.org/web/20140119014510/http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/3/0/d30e32d8-418a-469d-b600-f32ce3edf42d/WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe I also have the installers for Internet Explorer here (IE 6 is included in XP so the download link is unnecessary): Internet Explorer 7: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp2/IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe or https://web.archive.org/web/20130509183828/http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/8/38889dc1-848c-4bf2-8335-86c573ad86d9/IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe Internet Explorer 8: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/IE8-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe or https://web.archive.org/web/20130510043925/http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/C/0/CC0BD555-33DD-411E-936B-73AC6F95AE11/IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe

In my case at least, extensions & favorites are stored in my profile folder. To find out where that is, open your old browser and type about:profiles. It will list all your profiles (most folks only have one) along with the paths to each. You can do the same thing in your new browser too. Once you know where both profiles are, you can copy everything from your old browser's profile folder to your new one. (Close both browsers first.) Even after copying everything to your new browser, you may still need to reinstall some add-ons. See post 1 in this thread for instructions on doing that. And of course, if you're changing browser platforms (e.g., from Firefox to NM), some add-ons may not be compatible with your new browser and you'll have to look for alternatives. Note: you don't need to go through all this when updating a browser to a newer version. Just back up the programs folder (e.g., C:\Program Files\basilisk or wherever you put yours) in case you need to revert, then copy everything from the update into the programs folder. No need to touch profiles in this case.

Hi guys! I'm new in this Forum and I really love Windows Vista. I use it since 2007 or 2008 I dont quite remember. I always hated it when people talked bad about Vista. I dont think that I have to explain, why Vista was a huge Milestone in the history of Windows and that Vista's successors all base on Vista. My project is to port Chrome 51 or 52 to Vista. Personally, I dont think that it is impossible. Chrome 50 works very well, 51 opens but doesnt loads pages, 52 crashes completly. It is because there are new API's used that Vista doesnt support. I always wanted to know which exact file it is that blocks Vista. There are several backports that base on Chromium 54 for example, that run with Vista, but what did the developers do? Is it possible to install Windows 7's APIs in Vista or what do I have to change to run the software. Same goes for IE10, Office 2013, Firefox 54 and WMP12. I really want to have Office 2013&IE 10 on Vista because IE10 renders pages wayyy better than IE9. I already have the plan to backport some Windows 7 feauters to Vista.

The progression of sizes of spindle disks should have solved this years ago, right when 1TB became "the" standard size for disks. Then things changed. SSDs came out and they were far superior, but their storage sizes were quite small in comparison. How long have they been around for now? You can get yourself a 500GB SATA SSD for under $100 USD, so still not quite good cost wise vs a 7200rpm disk. Then the situation where desktops stopped being the king of computers and was overtaken by notebooks, and to a greater degree, mobile systems. Microsoft seems to be following a model where Windows is generally the same across all of the platforms. And this makes sense if you consider that they didn't invent a new OS to run on low end mobile devices with low amounts of storage. They ported Windows over to fit into that space. So if cheap computers with small storage sizes make up the majority of the Windows platform, we can expect that any changes made to Windows are for those things. And since they don't seem to actually have a separate product for different devices, you are going to see those "features" show up in the desktop space. That is why your desktop computer running Windows 10 has a tablet mode and an airplane mode. And it is quite interesting that they did not bother to segment those features obviously designed for the low end products so that... say.... Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise wouldn't have the same stuff as whatever they put on the Surface Pro. Especially considering the fact that Microsoft has tons of different SKUs for licensing where you have to use specific OS versions on various different devices. It seems that the licensing department knows more about the differences between computers than whoever is making development decisions.

Just to confirm, I've installed MSE 4.4.304 on each edition of 32-Bit Vista over the past couple of weeks, applied the reg hack and manually updated the defnitions from the MS Website and it seems so far to stop it updating MSE to anything newer than 4.4.304 and keeps t.he definitions updating correctly, if that changes i'll make another post, but if not everyone can assume it's working fine.

"OSVersion"="3.6.1.0.0" shouldn't be present, for the tick boxes to show. Now, "OSVersion"="3.5.1.0.0" is not needed either (it must be the default value). HTH

Try this.

Wa-hoo! I'm impressed, that looks a lot more professional than what I've been throwing up. So I'll sit on my hands once more, thank you! And to backup your cautionary note, it seems Microsoft has already pulled 4 updates for MS Office 2010 this month. and found an error in the Win 7/ Server 2008 R2 monthly security rollup package less than a day after posting. Sad to admit, but 2019 looks unlikely to be The Year Things Went Perfectly For Microsoft. So sorry, people in Redmond.

I recollect posting this before, but for people reading this latest discussion about JRE 8u191 (CPU release) vs JRE 8u192 (PSU release): and from there: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/cpu-psu-explained-2331472.html You are then, of course, free to make your own individual choice...

Those values used to be there - I've seen them - but installing the latest IE8 update may have removed them. If they aren't there (they're gone from mine now too) don't worry about it. They were intended so that IE's registry keys could be configured the same for all OSes, but TLS 1.1 / 1.2 would still show up only on Win 7 and up, so they aren't needed now that TLS 1.1 / 1.2 work on XP.

Yep - it's KB4461614, a "security" update to MSO.dll. Same stupid mistake as the one that started this thread: it "secures" Office 2010 (including even free products like PowerPoint Viewer) by making sure it doesn't run at all on XP. 8-) Edit: Removed KB4461614 and PowerPoint Viewer runs OK again. Guess I'll have to hide it....

Hi, what you want is Download Express by Metaproducts. Also runs with Windows 95.

Hmmm. Let me see. Under Windows everyone uses Chrome or Chorome/Chromium engine based browser. (exception made for those insisting on using Mozilla Firefox, all in all a small amount of people [1]). Noone uses Edge. Whatever undocumented features of Edge (if any ) *somehow* facilitating MS operations is lost. The whole plan on world domination and stuff through the Windows 10 pushing is likely failing (besides the total defeat on phones) because even those that for one reason or the other are using Windows 10 ar not using Edge and nowadays a large part of the time spent on a computer is through its browser. Idea , let's make a new browser similar to or nearly identical to Chrome (possibly while keeping the same *whatever* undocumented features we like to have). Wait, this would mean actually writing lots of code, why not using the actual same engine as Chrome? jaclaz [1] and with the exception of a few old dinosaurs like yours truly that still use good ol' browsers (with some limitations).