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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Windows 98 SE, which was on May 5th, 1999! The OS that changed my life forever! Share your birthday wishes and OS experiences here! Many great things awaits...

My first PC ran 98SE about 13 years ago and I also still use it today on a ThinkPad T41 with USP3. It reminds of a simpler time when everything had (literally) more depth.

I just installed it on my main Windows 2000 workstation (extended kernel v3.0a) and I had many issues. I manually installed uBlock Origin v1.18.6 and it didn't work I noticed that it made connections to servers under these domains: -cloudflare.com -tencent.com -e10.net (eNom, LLC; maybe that one shouldn't be blocked) -163data.com.cn (China Telecom Group Corporation; state-owned) -akamaitechnologies.com (they also host some of M$' win10 telemetry servers if I remember correctly) Once I put them all in my hosts file the browser would crash on bootup and removing them had no effect. New Moon is still the best browser.

Still using it! Many happy returns to it! Thanks of course due to @Xeno86 and @jumper for doing so much to keep it alive!

For me, the past behavior is the same as the current behavior. That is that clicking on the thread title takes you to the first post. [The thread title will be bold if there are posts you haven't read.] Hovering over the thread title allows you to see at least part of the first or last post in the thread, you can choose. If there are posts you haven't read, there will be a "quote balloon" marker to the left of the thread title, which will be filled in if you have participated in the thread and open if you haven't. Clicking that marker will take you to the first post that you have not read, with the "New content begins here" marker directly above that. That is the behavior I see when going through the various forum index pages. The look is a little different when using the Activity or Unread Content pages, it also includes avatars of the posters, but the effect is the same. At least the above is what I see using Win 7 and a Chrome variant browser. I don't know if that helps you or not. Cheers and Regards

Thanks. My FF 52.9.1 ESR's add-ons are working fine, but still have the verification warnings on most of them on the add-ons page list. I'll wait awhile to see if this corrects itself automatically, as there seems to be no actual loss of functionality.

seems to be working now althogh sketchy at times

@Dave-H It seems to be fixed now. A certificate had expired apparently, which presumably nobody at Mozilla had anticipated! I didn't have the problem with FF 52.9.1 ESR on Windows XP, but I did have it on FF 66.0.3 on Windows 10. It was very annoying while it lasted! it hit me on 52.9.0 around 7.30pm is there a fix for ESR thought it was only Nightly at the moment, ESR will be last ===================== Try this, this DOES work I have done it with success, unlike other so called fixes Shut down Firefox Open extensions.json Rreplace all instances of "appDisabled":true to "appDisabled":false Replace all instances of "signedState":-1 to "signedState":2 Save Change extensions.json to readonly or firefox will change everything back. start browser Disable and re-enable all extensions in about:addon some will have Delete icon missing most Will re-install and delete icon comes back Make sure you set yhe json file to read only then any that stil get not verified use the about:debugging and reload the extention

I like those two DEs. They make sense, and also remind me of what it was like when I first dabbled with Linux way back in 2004 when I got a book with a copy of Fedora Core 2. With Trinity, some minor tweaks and choice icon and theme packages, I can make a modern distro look very similar, if not identical, to FC2 since KDE 3 (one of two default choices; the other was GNOME 2) was the latest and greatest for quite some time, and Trinity is basically an updated version of it. c

Unfortunately, Linux Mint 19.1 didn't have a little check that I could find. I went with the procedure in the above link. 1-put the real time clock on the motherboard into local time. Linux will store the time in local time, just like Windows does: timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock 2-To check your current settings, run: timedatectl * If you ever want to undo this change, run the following command: timedatectl set-local-rtc 0 --adjust-system-clock

All of @roytam1's browsers work with the extended kernel, as do most XP-compatible software titles, and a few smaller utilities for Windows 7 and up (Throttlestop, Acrobat Reader DC off the top of my head). The universal Boingo WLAN client supports more EAP methods than the XP SP2 native client. If you don't do DX10+ gaming or need modern MTP support, Windows 2000 still goes very far.

Just to be picky: XP is going to reach EoS (end of service / end of support), which MS can decree unilaterally, this coming April. That won't, however, be EoL (end of life) because users all around the world will keep on running it and it'll still command something more than half the 3.5% market share it does today, at that point, which is more than 2k, 9x/ME and many flavors of PC-unix do, these days. On OS can only die when nobody uses it anymore, so that, in truth, not even OS/360 or CP/M-86 have really reached that point yet. Just my 2¢, but I respectfully ask you to edit the 1st line of your 1st post in this thread to change it to say EoS, instead of EoL. My current slogan is: EoS != EoL. Long live XP!