Leaderboard

RAUE is an initialism for Reset Antivirus Update Engine.

I quote myself to give you a little update. It may look like as if we are doing nothing, but we're not. @someguy25 asked me about Chromium 74 and since I really love Chromium, we re-forked it once again and I tried to backport for the 5th time. Compiling it using v141_xp and targeting XP leads to nowhere as the new SDK does not compile, however commenting out the sandbox and some other parts of the code made it compile, however the code was unusable as 27 calls were missing (including - but not limited to - the kernel). By removing many unnecessary components and taking it to its very bone, I managed to lower the number down and by linking it to the @Dibya modified kernel we managed to get this number even lower. Right now, the only missing calls are QueryThreadCycleTime, SymGetSearchPathW, SymSetSearchPathW, SHGetKnownFolderPath, SetProcessDPIAware, however the SymGetSearch can be delayed and not loaded at start-time and SetProcessDPIAware can be faked to equal true all the time, so the only really meaningful kernel call that has to be implemented and backported is QueryThreadCycleTime, 'cause once we get that and we fake SetProcessDPIAware, we're gonna get Chromium74 open and display the UI, which would be totally positive sign. BOOL QueryThreadCycleTime( HANDLE ThreadHandle, PULONG64 CycleTime ); It refers to the realtimeapiset.h which works on Windows7 and greater only and it has two parameters: ThreadHandle, which has either the PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION or PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION access right and CycleTime which is the number of CPU clock cycles used by the thread and it includes cycles spent in both user mode and kernel mode. In order to avoid to try to use it, I tried to convert the Thread32 function and use the elapsed time, however I didn't manage to get positive results as it's important to know the exact clock cycles as it varies between CPUs, for instance some CPUs will vary the frequency of the timer when changing the frequency at which the CPU runs and others will leave it at a fixed rate, so asserting it will almost certainly lead to wrong results (which is what happened in my case). Unfortunately I don't have much time to dedicate at this, nor my "virtual XP colleagues" like Dibya, Samuel and Peter do as we're all very busy for a reason or another and we don't also wanna become blind by staring at "apparently meaningless" lines of code... I'm sorry that my fifth attempt to backport Chromium led to nowhere once again... Good night, Frank...

Apparently my assumptions were incorrect, and so is this thread's title. I searched through Chromium's commit history and found out only the option in chrome://flags was removed, the functionality is still intact and can be invoked using a command line parameter, see here. So one must add --disable-features=Windows10CustomTitlebar parameter to Chrome's shortcut properties, at the end of the Target field on the Shortcut tab. This method doesn't have any undesired side effects like running in compatibility mode has.

Between version 1.5 - 1.7 there is no difference in the parameters or functionality. You do not have to worry about it, especially since I create versions for experimental purposes in between. At the moment I hope with the MSE Updater Version 1.7 still a long time MSE on Windows XP x86 with definition updates can be supplied.

To create a SSUAO, just create a new string pref with the name: general.useragent.override.<site name> ... and then make the value the user agent string you want to send to that site. For example: general.useragent.override.instagram.com = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.9 This will send FF version 52.9 (on Win 7) to instagram.com, even if your default user agent is something different, such as FF version 60.9. Now you can fool whatismybrowser.com into thinking your browser is the latest, without breaking instagram.com!

Great! I was just looking into it. It's like this; you don't normally need admin rights to choose a default email client for your own account, but a prerequisite is that the email client has been registered on the system (which does require admin rights). Usually, that's the installer's job. After that, anyone can pick their favorite. So in your case, the client had to register itself on the system first (which failed due to lack of permissions) since the installer wasn't involved to do it.

is Primetime Decryption different to Widevine ?? yet I've the Primetime decription activated and widevine in the folder yet it is a no go how do i get the widevine to appear in firefox addons and activated the version I have of widevine is 1.4..8.903 and 1.4.8.1008 Amazon Prime videos use DRM (Digital Rights Management), that is full encryption of streams. Adobe Primetime was/is a deprecated (not valid anymore) CDM (Content Decryption Module), whose only current use is by Windows XP users to enable h264/aac (patented video+audio codecs) decoding for HTML5 media playback inside Firefox web browser. No media delivery service uses Adobe Primetime for the purposes it was originally made, that is to decrypt DRM'ed content! 99% of services that offer encrypted audiovisual content (Netflix, Amazon, Spotify and many other media portals like national TV sites all around the world) rely on the Widevine CDM (currently owned by Google) ; Widevine module is closed-source and connects in real-time (during media playback) to specialised licence servers (equally owned by Google) to acquire decryption keys. Google updates the Widevine modules and lic servers very often and the browser vendors have to follow close; unlike Adobe Flash player plugin, which can be updated independently from the browser, a certain browser version (be it Firefox or Chrome) can only support a certain type (called "interface") of the WV CDM; this is because support for a specific "version" of widevine is coded inside the browser's own code; updated versions of the CDM can't/won't work with older browser versions. Widevine in Firefox is being updated as the browser itself is (i.e. newer versions come with updated Firefox builds); in recent Chrome versions, one can manually update the module to the latest - but still supported - version via "chrome://components" internal page... In what concerns Widevine CDM and Windows XP, these two are indeed incompatible in the case of Mozilla-type browsers, because the CDM is coded in such a way that it only looks for (patented) decoders in the OS via Windows Media Foundation framework (WMF), a Windows feature that first appears in Windows Vista SP2; this is why the Mozilla devs have hidden the Widevine CDM from appearing inside about:plugins when the OS used is Windows XP! Even if you made it appear back (which would've required modifying the browser's code and recompiling), it would be totally useless under XP! (if Widevine were open-source, it could have been patched to look for decoders elsewhere, but, sadly for XP users, that's NOT the case!). In the case of Widevine CDM PPAPI in Google Chrome, there the module uses the patented codecs bundled with the browser, but the versions of Widevine (1.4.6.xxxx to 1.4.8.xxxx) supported in Chrome 49 (last WinXP compatible) are now severely outdated and will be denied access by licence servers; as such, they are simply not working anymore! As of this writing, minimum supported "version" of Widevine CDM, of any type (NPAPI/PPAPI), is 1.4.9.xxxx (version 1.4.9.1088 to be revoked at the end of May) - to my knowledge, no browser under XP has support for current valid Widevine versions! (Under Vista, the only browser that I know of that supports WidevineCDM is @roytam1's Serpent 52.9.0 (very recent builds), thanks to a gallant effort by the Moonchild team to restore partial support for WV v1.4.9.xxxx in official Basilisk; support for the next generation of WV ("interface" 10, versions 4.10.xxxx), currently in place in Firefox Quantum, is not there yet, so at the end of May Serpent's WV support under Vista+ may become broken, too...) For those that may want to read more on the WV subject: https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal/issues/26#issuecomment-456969027 https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/962

I tried Roy's MailNews fork on my XP SP3 install and registered it as default by checking all checkboxes in its System Integration dialog and it did appear under E-mail in Start Menu afterwards.

Of course. But only the Chinese are so hardworking to port the chrome engine to XP and Vista. I haven’t had a cases that website is closed... It’s possible that this restricting functionality doesn’t work outside of China. Yes, it is a Chinese product. To use it or not is a personal matter. For me, this is a great program, bringing a modern engine to Vista :)

Just quick links for roytam's retrozilla-versions, but that's a confusing mix of 2 authors and browsers with partly same version numbers for different builds. Just hope am getting that right: Retrozilla is actually the project of another dev, rn10950, hosted at github and here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/174987-retrozilla-an-updated-version-of-mozilla-for-windows-95-and-nt4-22-released/ It's an old Seamonkey (FF2) version, but with special updates, aimed for Win95/NT4 in modern web Roy RZ 2.1 = rzbrowser = fork of retrozilla browser Firefox2 + TLS updates http or https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/rzbrowser-tls12-20180504.7z "About" says Firefox Community Edition 2.0.0.2, with a girl cartoon (Hmm, thinking about, neither the filename nor about page call this retrozilla...) Roy RZ 2.2 = rz-SUITE = an old Seamonkey with TLS1.2: http or https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/rz-suite-v2.2-bin-20180708.7z "About" says Retrozilla 2.2, Seamonkey 1.1.19, Firefox 2.0.20, with a big red star But meanwhile exists a second retrozilla 2.2, by the original retrozilla dev rn10950 again. This Seamonkey includes his own updates plus Roy's pull requests from github (if I got that right, no clue of such stuff) Not retrozilla, but the same RZ topic contains somewhere also roytam's special Fx36 build, custom Firefox 3.6 with TLS1.2 http or https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/fx36vc71-20171108.7z "About" says Firefox Community Edition 3.6.28, with a girl cartoon (same as RZ 2.1 above) (There are more special builds in that folder, see last link in previous post)

Thanks UCyborg, works fine but if you pin Chrome to the Classic Shell task bar once started and then use use the pinned Chrome, the transparency doesn't work (it did using the previous method) ! Managed to fix this by right clicking on the taskbar pinned Chrome and then right clicking on Google Chrome on the pop up menu. Select "properties" on the new pop up menu and reedit the "Target" to append "--disable-features=Windows10CustomTitlebar"

if you have 7zip something like this: 7z e jre-8u211-windows-i586.exe Data1.cab 7z e Data1.cab installerexe 7z e installerexe .rsrc\1033\RCDATA\* && ren 5 new.patch && ren 6 old.zip && ren 7 bspatch.exe bspatch.exe old.zip core.zip new.patch 7z x -ojre core.zip del Data1.cab installerexe bspatch.exe old.zip core.zip new.patch for /r %f in (*.pack) do jre\bin\unpack200.exe "%~f" "%~dpnf.jar" && del "%~f" jre\bin\java.exe -Xshare:dump EDIT: no errorlevel check there oops

It's indeed possible After two days ^o^ You will need the latest bios, these SATA drivers, CABARC or cabpack 1.4, NTLite, WinSetupFromUsb 1.8, Dietmar's ACPI.sys, and a flash drive https://www.win-raid.com/t22f45-Guide-Integration-of-Intels-AHCI-RAID-drivers-into-a-Windows-XP-W-k-W-k-CD.html (site where SATA drivers were found) 1. Press f2 while PC is booting and enable legacy mode, disable any other mode(s). Make USB the first to boot. 2. Get a Windows XP disc, copy out all files except for one that says "boot". 3. Obtain the ACPI.sys file, use cabpack 1.4 to convert the file into a LZX format archive. Then rename it to "ACPI.SY_" and replace original ACPI.SY found in the i386 folder. 4. Setup an NTLite installation for Windows XP, bundle the SATA drivers (Go to drivers folder, NOT the 64 one and click the inf file). Include all drivers 5. Once NTLite is done, use WinSetupFromUsb to create a bootable flash drive. 6. Auto format with FBinst, check add XP to disk, include the folder changed by NTLite. 7. Set pendrive, use in computer, but make sure to press f7 quickly after selecting XP installation. You will have to manually turn off the computer after the partition is set. It may freeze the first time booting afterward, but it's all good. Warning: eye-candy ahead No poor PC should be forced to run a bloated Vista/7/8/10 when there's a perfectly speedy XP Unfortunately, I don't think this will work with Windows 2000 because the drivers work on XP, but 2000.

I use cabpack 1.4 - https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7104-cabpack.html

http://www.pixelsplasher.com/_downloads/software/Microsoft-Cabinet-SDK/

I use CABARC, not MAKECAB. What I posted is a CLI command. If the file is on the Desktop, you either have to place a copy in your current directory, or set the Desktop folder as your current directory.

CABARC -m LZX:21 N ACPI.SY_ ACPI.SYS

It has been a long time since I did it but creating .cab files in the LZX:21 format uses makecab.exe. There is a GUI to make things easier called IExpress.exe. Both files come with XP and can be found in the \WINDOWS\system32\ folder. Making a CAB file in the LZX:21 format may require using makecab.exe with the commandline. Someone here is bound to know.

Well, I tried taking a poke with wireshark... all I really can tell you is that XP checkers tries to connect to freegames.zone.com which no longer exists. on windoze 7 it connects to mpgame5.games.msn.com, which still indeed exists. I suppose one could redirect the old checkers to the new server, maybe. I have no clue how to do that though.

Perhaps they're checking whether the browser is WebRTC enabled? Serpent does support it, whereas New Moon doesn't... WebRTC is, of course, required for audio/video calls, it shouldn't be required for simple messaging, but what do I know...???

some kinda modded ACPI sys file here wonder if it helps. Original thread https://www.win-raid.com/t4035f45-Windows-XP-SP-bit-and-modern-PC-parts-22.html

It should run on normal win 8 if it was possible to get it to install.

If you head over to about:support, you'll be able to see the global user-agent string of your Firefox browser: I can't tell whether it's a typo on your part, but override has 2 "r"s ! So, in order to spoof as Fx 53.0 on Win7, the name of the about:config "string" pref should read: general.useragent.override and its value: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0 Setting that pref and restarting the browser, you'll be able to see the modified global UA string in about:support. Global UA means the same one is sent in the headers of all web requests; SSUAO (Site-Specific-User-Agent-Override) means a different to the global one is being sent when a web request is being made to the domain specified in the pref's name... If you followed my guide and enabled SSUAOs in FxESR 52.9.1, then to spoof as Fx 66.0 on Win7 to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/ you need create a "string" about:config pref with name general.useragent.override.whatismybrowser.com and value: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0 For good measure, restart the browser after setting the above SSUAO (normally, it should work right-away...). I hope it's more clear now...

you mean KB4474419? see if these links help https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-7-updade-kb4474419-fail-repeatedly-with/9e2dc4ca-5adc-479f-9521-8838077b1e82 https://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/418834-unable-install-kb4474419-win7-x64-ultimate.html

updated bnavigator extension hacking guide.

WTF is "Photon?" These physics-inspired trademarks - Quantum, Photon, etc. - are really getting out of hand. Next thing you know, someone will have a "Higgs Boson" browser

... It was detailed in the official Pale Moon forums that UXP (off of Mozilla ESR 52.6.0) is the final Mozilla code fork-point for Moonchild Productions' applications, as they concluded that any more up-to-date Mozilla code is, in fact, incompatible with XUL apps and their own vision of how apps should be: To this day, they claim they'll stay clear of the Quantum platform (which includes Rust, Servo and other XP+Vista incompatible code/libs), so my gut feeling is if/when official Pale Moon 29.x.x is released, it'll be built on a UXP evolutionary off-spring (thus, still being susceptible to the XP+Vista restoration "treatment" ); of course, time will only tell

It's ironic how people decry the older operating systems like W2k Pro as outdated, yet can't even trust newer Windows 7 or Windows 10 systems far enough to let them update. These days, generally speaking, lots of new stuff sucks--because people take it for granted that new stuff is better. From that presumption, lazy thinking ensues, and movement replaces progress. So, although we still "go," we go backwards instead of forward. Windows illustrates the regression.

I agree Windows 2000 is and always will be the best MS system! I have Windows 2000 installed on my PC with the unofficial updates of BWC and writing from there. BWC says that it will work only until 2099 but without any problem it passes to 2100 but others will think how it is only in x86 will be until 2038 due to the bug Y2K38 but in Windows based on NT the operating system is x86 or x64 the maximum year is 9999.

LOL. 2099 is good enough for me. By using the hardware it was designed for... like a Pentium III 866 MHz, 512 MB Ram or less computer. That way. Oh and, turning off "system restore" goes a long way to improving stability. "System restore" is not be confused with "system file protection," those are two seperate things. I've just never had any problems at all with Windows ME. I had tons of problems with 98 first edition though. A lot of people didn't like Windows ME because there was no autoexec.bat startup features, and no booting to dos. But I believe without those features, it makes it harder for installation programs to muck up your configuration and corrupt your files. The ability to run DOS programs is still there. It just doesnt' have the drawbacks in my opinion of allowing so many old school programs to ruin overwrite your most critical files.I keep it viable several ways... for photo editing resizing i get by using PhotoFiltre 6.5.3 for photo viewing I get by using IrfanView 2.98, Xnview 1.66, FastStone 2.30, CompuPic Pro 6.23, or about a zillion other good programs for audio playing I get by using XmPLay 3.8, 1by1 Directory Player, Trout, etc for multimedia I get by using VLC 0.8.6f for writing a paper I can get by using Wordpad, Abiword, or even some 15 Kb DOS word processors that print words on a pice of white paper... it's not that complicated, they just lack all of the fluffy foo foo junk. For internet I mainly use Opera 10.63 and SeaMonkey 1.1.19 (both from 2010) and turning off javascript goes along way to improving the speed and security of internet browsing. For email I use Gmail's basic HTML only option. It's very retro. Looks very 90's. I'm on dial up too. For antivirus I use the latest version of ClamWin. Plus I have the last copy of F-Prot for DOS (from 2009), and a copy of AntiVir which I use as a scanner only. And a firewall. Seems to work all in all. I bet a large percentage of those increasing Windows 2000 users are IN FACT Windows 98/ME users with KernelEx installed. Because in order to get newer browsers working, you must set the compatibility mode to either XP or 2000. Therefore, the user agent is totally wrong. Every time I turn on KernelEx and browse with it, my user agent is reported as Windows 2000. I'm sure I'm not the only one that happens too. I'm positive that a lot of those people are Windows ME and 98 users :-)I used to have a Windows 2000 computer, I liked it. But I like Windows ME better. If I had to chose an NTFS version of Windows, it would definitely be 2000 :-) But a lot of web browsers dropped support (I belive) for Windows 2000, there it isn't a whole lot better than Windows ME in that regard. Now if you install KernelEx for Win9x, and whatever type "KernelEx" program for Windows 2000, then you'll probably get more life out of each system. I just haven't bothered with the 2000 version of KernelEx... if there is such a thing.