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Just publishing a short comprehensive guide I made on how to run Steam on Windows XP/Vista after 1 January 2019... (as opposed to reading the relevant chunks of the steam thread) It's not very hard, as you only need to download THIS archive, and then extract it, and you will have a working steam. On Windows XP at least you'll need to use ProxHTTPSProxy or a similar solution if you want to get game pictures/icons to load. ( Such as the version Heinoganda complied) Note: With using ProxHTTPSProxy I've noticed that sometimes I need to click 'retry' a few times when logging in. (Video version I made on YouTube)

We don't know about decommissioning the update servers as of yet. But if you want to post a dedicated topic just incase, that would be god. :)

thats how build system works, things are done automatically once the command is issued. mozilla's build system can't handle different exe name when --enable-official compile time option is specified or not. not to mention keeping same exe name and same profile prefix for compatibility. no thats not. rn10950 changed version number in repo for a long time before I create a build. and the reason of delaying official retrozilla build from rn10950 is that, he changed the program's name, but not everything in the source, that makes program not fully functional and makes TLS connection fails.

I use New Moon 28, and I'll probably give the others a try to see how they compare to Firefox 52. Just a quick mention of the other thread, which I follow (I'd have said this there, but it was locked for 24 hours): I think that certain developers, one of whom has been trying to incite some sort of flame war for some time now, are just selfish, mean-spirited trolls who need to lighten up and be more generous with their code (it is open source, after all!). Roytam1 has done a fantastic job keeping these browsers alive for XP, and hopefully can continue to do so for some time. c

The link doesn't say anything about XP and Vista, by "legacy Windows versions" they only mean Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP2. Which means MS does not tell you anything about WU status for 2000/XP/Vista.

I did the same but with the difference I recommend MacOS to people in my age, for a hazel free computing... btw, Linux Mint is a very good substitute for windows...

Appears you saw me over at the MDL forum ...lol. Good to see you

I wrote a little COM helper you run it like this (from cmd): getwu -v "IsInstalled=0" >list.txt No need to enable Windows Update (you could disable it), it will only download the database (%WINDIR%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb) from Microsoft and filter it as you want. getwu.zip https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/wuapi/nf-wuapi-iupdatesearcher-search

Oops, missed a few Aliases! Try appending the following to CORE.INI: --- Aliases to support legacy (old) registry settings --- [DCFG1] inherit=BASE contents=std,kexbasen,kexbases desc=Alias for Base enhancements [WIN98] inherit=WIN98SE desc=Alias for Windows 98 SE [NT2K] inherit=WIN2000D desc=Alias for Windows 2000 SP4 [NOHEAP] inherit=WIN2Kstd desc=Alias for Windows 2000 SP4 (standard heap) [WINXP] inherit=WINXP2 desc=Alias for Windows XP SP2 Also (optionally) delete the DCFG1, WIN98, and WINXP sections from higher up . Thanks!!!

Also, please keep in mind that profanity here is not tolerated. Once Dencorso decides to reopen this thread for debate, let's keep it clean and respectful towards each other. We can have discussions on here without swearing or bashing each other to bits.

@jumper Just an addition to what I said yesterday, I did notice later in the day, quite a few days after I copied the 4.5.2016.20 kexbases.dll and core.ini files across, that Opera 12.02, although apparently working fine, was not showing all of its menus. This turned out to be because the KernelEx mode on opera.exe had for some reason reverted to "Base Enhancements (api fixes + extensions)". When I returned it to "Windows 2000 SP4" which is what it had been, everything came good again. I just thought I'd mention that in case anyone else hits the same problem. I'm not sure why the mode should have changed.

Not in my opinion. Although the more paranoid may eschew it, I do believe the more browser alternatives we have, the merrier! In fact, to me it's clear that day-to -day use requires just a decently working browser and, preferably, also a not-too-paranoid real-time antivirus. All the rest can be done without any need to use the very latest version of whatever program one must use. So Chrome 360 actually is a welcome gust of much needed fresh air into our already very claustrophobic EoS-is-not-EoL situation. Long Live XP!

since chromium is BSD-licensed, downstreams are not required to release their source codes. and how they create their XP-compatible browser is rather primitive: port every changeset since chromium 49 and excluding/rewriting non XP-compatible to be XP-compatible, by using human resources.

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New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win32-git-20190427-3424afcca-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win64-git-20190427-3424afcca-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.5.0a2.win32-git-20190427-3424afcca-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.5.0a2.win64-git-20190427-3424afcca-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Issue #991 Part 1: Pale Moon (9a37ab727) - Issue #991 Part 2: Basilisk (759132691) - Issue #991 Part 3: Devtools (609a7215e) - Issue #991 Part 4: Network and URILoader (c7796280a) - Issue #991 Part 5: DOM and layout (1d0af8b59) - Issue #991 Part 6: Services (2d3b7717a) - Issue #991 Part 7: Toolkit Components (714e9c907) - Issue #991 Part 8: Toolkit everything else (8757548a3) - Pref try/catch block fixup. Tag #991. (40fc72376) - Merge branch 'master' into default-pref (af7e140d4) - Remove unused try/catch block. Tag #991. (21b4cb27c) - Remove unused parameter from call (b73287811) - Stop building /accessible unified and fix deprot. (32577bdb3) - Merge pull request #1041 from Ascrod/default-pref (e0116ac2b) - Handle URL token in a closer way to the CSS3 spec (d9137b4b7) - Remove geo-specific search engine default preferences. Tag #245. (c78cd6fb9) - Remove geoip lookup for search engine defaults. Tag #245. (60e283715) - Remove browser.search.region usage. Tag #245. (a3a34dad1) - Merge pull request #1047 from JustOff/PR_css3_url_token (550d87388) - Version bump (bccf86a10) - Fix variable used before being declared in UpdateUtils.jsm (bca1943ca) - [PHOENIX] Fix missing default from lastSync in browser-syncui.js in Pale Moon and replace the tryblock in Basilisk (5d02c2207) - Remove SecurityUI telemetry. (b10712de8) - Issue #1049 - Show sync status via label of sync-button (ccd86d8c0) - Merge pull request #1045 from ThosRTanner/patch-1 (864f1cfdb) - Update platform version to reflect major changes in platform. (33ebc885e) - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP (1d7664d3a) - Update Twemoji Mozilla COLR font to 0.4.0 (TweMoji v11.4.0) (7d61305b0) - Merge pull request #1051 from adeshkp/remove-telemetry-security_ui (8bd7da130) - Merge pull request #1048 from Ascrod/geodefaults (228e55129) - Remove tests from search service (0c84220a4) - Sort out search service (63295d008) - Issue #1053 - Drop support Android and remove Fennec - Part 1a: Remove mobile/android (abe80cc31) - Issue #1053 - Drop support Android and remove Fennec - Part 1b: Remove MOZ_FENNEC (325b204d2) - [minor] Fix a variable name in Basilisk error page (2e781c998) - Add application ID and widget toolkit placeholders to UpdateUtils.jsm (cb5d20deb) - Don't use UpdateChannel.jsm in nsBlocklistService.js (a9ae19957) - Use UpdateUtils in GMPInstallManager.jsm (c11a0b276) - Remove UpdateChannel.jsm (9cf2c92c3) - [PALEMOON] Remove errent extensions.blocklist.* from shared branding prefs (e86f0e555) - Remove useless assert. Resolves #1055. (51af3decb) - Merge pull request #1054 from adeshkp/patch-11 (ace7f20fa) - Capture delayed events and cancel as necessary. (3424afcca) My changes since my last build: - nss: go back to 3.43 release (b314cfa40) - a11y: fix build (2faa94fa0) * since MCP deleted lots of files, this might affect Serpent's functionality of updating WE extension. please test and report if there is any irregularities.