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Guys, I just wanna confess that the latest version of TeamViewer works perfectly on Windows Vista. Connected it to my main PC (which is modernly better haha) with Hackintosh macOS Mojave. Also I'd like to point out that the latest version of f.lux is working, but you just need to Unblock the installer or else it will not work. I don't know when will TeamViewer, f.lux or anything will announce their end-of-service for Vista yet. I also done a Geekbench 4 test (which required Windows 7 as the minimum OS but it ran without problems on Vista!), and I did remember some service I signed in to on Windows Vista, and then I checked my E-mail, it showed the info of my system and thinks my OS was Windows 7 (no I didn't spoof anything haha)

Thank you both for the information about FileZilla in Windows Vista, hate to hear it no longer works Updated the list to reflect this: Thank you for the information! TeamViewer shall remain on the list as ONG, and f.lux and Geekbench have been added also:

Macromedia certainly originally developed Flash, I don't know about Shockwave. They were taken over by Adobe after Flash became hugely successful and pretty ubiquitous on the web. Sites like YouTube completely relied on it in their early days. Things have moved on now finally though, and even Flash's days as a supported technology are numbered. Its downfall was that it was too easily exploited by the bad guys, hence the need for its constant security updates. HTML5 has made it obsolescent anyway, but it will be decades I suspect before Flash disappears from the web completely, if it ever does! What will kill it for practical purposes is when all the current browsers refuse to use it.

I used Office XP (2002) for many years before finally updating to Office 2010. Office XP won't open the newer .docx Word documents generated by more recent versions of Word unless the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack is installed. I still use that configuration on my netbook, and on Windows 98 on my main machine (Office XP, despite its name, is the last version that works on Windows 98!) The Compatibility Pack is out of support now. Office 2010 is very good on XP, at least it was until recent security updates broke it! It's the last version to work on XP, and the first version to have a 64 bit version, which I use on Windows 10.

I wouldn't dream of using Facebook without it!

The Full list for Office 2007 Compatibility Pack: FileFormatConverters.exe compatibilitypacksp3-kb2526297-fullfile-en-us.exe ConverterAdminTemplates.exe (optional) Final Updates 1. msxml52007-kb2825645-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 2. msptls2007-kb3085549-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 3. oartconv2007-kb2984938-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 4. riched202007-kb2596904-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 5. pptconv2007-kb3213644-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 6. ogl2007-kb3213641-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 7. mso2007-kb4011715-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 8. xlconv2007-kb4011717-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 9. wordconv2007-kb4018354-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 10. ogl2007-kb4092444-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 11. pptconv2007-kb4011207-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 12. mso2007-kb4092465-fullfile-x86-glb.exe 13. xlconv2007-kb4461607-fullfile-x86-glb.exe In WinXP I get 1-13 updates, while on Win7/Win10 1-9. Here are the links for cab files and here the cab pack. 01. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2825645) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2015/07/msxml5-x-none_bde91082d8c630f1365f2d6460d0743a8492c109.cab 02. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB3085549) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2015/11/msptls-x-none_a5d776f93ef02716fd846433094b66f5c3587a94.cab 03. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2984938) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2016/04/oartconv-x-none_c6cc3b553f9bba7f830565688db0f974ae27b8a0.cab 04. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB2596904) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2017/04/riched20-x-none_c0165062fec4927687dca3ad073d75982ede9408.cab 05.[ Security Update for Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 (KB3213644) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2017/09/pptconv-x-none_cb3f70241f970ec4dfd98cd51b7b4270b526b51c.cab 06.[ Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB3213641) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2017/09/ogl-x-none_9b640a924822e09f91d2952cd118f29d4218d512.cab 07. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites (KB4011715) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/01/mso-x-none_e69b615fc31567fb1972eb611fc31fb6d66f1cc3.cab 08.[ Security Update for Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 (KB4011717) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/03/xlconv-x-none_6d99ae24afeef436825c79b078da510ed17ac657.cab 09. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 (KB4018354) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/03/wordconv-x-none_e43ba3d79fecdcfc51977caef2ce7a65340ed5cf.cab 10. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office Viewers Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack (KB4092444) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/09/ogl-x-none_d033046d584664432e3432e446b90523263a3612.cab 11. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 (KB4011207) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/11/pptconv-x-none_fc9c493f65da4a71acf7f6218770fdcb7a134bf4.cab 12. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office Viewers Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack (KB4092465) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2019/02/mso-x-none_2691005d80512c451fabd2ba8f749718663917f4.cab 13. [ Security Update for Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 (KB4461607) ] http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2019/01/xlconv-x-none_b6e95623c283d720c11369d14b9c2d95890f832c.cab

It wouldn't have to open a window to do that! It could just slip the .exe into your Startup folder invisibly, and be done with it. In fact, opening a window would be counterproductive from the malware's point of view: you might notice the rogue .exe in there and delete it. At the very least, having an Explorer window open up unbidden would be a tip-off that something was amiss. I mean, security I dig, but you guys are taking it to an extreme if you think it's a risk to let your browser ever open an Explorer window! But, whatever. As I thought I made clear, it's not that big of a deal, especially since running your browser with limited privileges has other benefits. I just thought I'd point out that side-effect in case someone else tries this trick, then later notices they can't open their download folder from the browser any more. Just trying to save some time troubleshooting why that was happening; didn't realize pointing it out would become so, um, controversial....

Latest FileZilla 3.42.1 32-bit won't launch under Vista SP2 because of only one missing function in Vista's shell32.dll system file: ... and, actually, the very last Vista SP2 compatible version of FileZilla is 3.40.0-rc2, released on Jan 22nd 2019: You can download this Vista EoS version from the official repository at https://download.filezilla-project.org/client/ Final 3.40.0 was released three days later (Jan 25th 2019) but, as you've found out, it would run only on Win7+ FileZilla is open source, so perhaps one could recompile more recent source code to again target at least NT 6.0; here's hoping

I'm not surprised. I would expect MS Update to read the list of Updates in the Registry rather than opening a lot of files, some of which could be locked.

The latest version of FileZilla I was able to run on Vista is 3.39.0. Later versions no longer work. I even tried using PEMaker, but it didn't work. Maybe I did something wrong - check if there are interested ones. Therefore, probably, FileZilla also dropped out of the race.

Ok, few things: 1. I found 8 locales for WMEncoder and fixed link for ENU version (previous one routed to taken down domain): 2. After few iterations and downloading everything from your list + 8 more WMEncoders, I have 5635, not 5695 files. See my list attached: filescont.zip There were some files renames: internet-explorer-7-0 -> msie7.exe applocale-1-0 -> applocale.msi WMEncoder.exe -> WMEncoder_???.exe KB955704 -> WindowsXP-KB955704-x86-???.exe mp10setup_* -> mp10setup_*_???.exe 5695 + 8 - 5635 = 68 updates missing on your list 3. Are we also going for backing up SP2 and SP3? 4. There are some entries that certainly lack some regional variants, f.e. Microsoft XML. Are just links dead and I should try to find them or are there any otehr reasons? 5. Why nearly everything has 24 locales, and SP3 has additional CHH variant? 6. Edit there are no .net packages in your update list, right?

- Install: SP3, IE8, Windows Update Agent. I use 7.4. Install Windows Update Agent 7.4.7600.226 which is the last one with manual installation. The 7.6.7600.256 has automatic installation but needs the previous agent already installed, so if there is no agent installed you have to start with 7.4. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/946928/information-for-network-administrators-about-how-to-obtain-the-latest (Change en-us to your language as pl-pl?) - Switch from Windows Update to Microsoft Update: - Activate Control Panel / automatic updates and it is important to wait about 5 minutes - http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate - Install ActiveX until it says it has been installed. - Close IE8. - Turn off automatic updates. - Reboot. If it fails to repeat again expecting more.

Some months ago I complained about the poor performance of Hotmail after their last update became final. They gave me an URL to access the older version, which works much better with XP compatible browsers. It also solves the problem with Chrome 49. https://outlook.live.com/owa/?path=/fb

I have to say it's a pretty neat browser that is based of chromium 69 and works on XP! Plus with tweaking it's privacy settings it's a great browser!

Done!

I agree that the management of already installed Search Engines can be performed quite fine by New Moon's native functions/tools; using the extension I mentioned comes very handy in the cases one wants to add a rather obscure search engine not to be found on the official PM Search Plugins page that you linked to, or when a page does not provide an easy way to add its search among the browser's Search Engines set... E.g. with "Add to Search Bar" I can easily add our own forum's search utility, or BBC iPlayer's, etc : The extension itself appears to be using minimal resources: (via about:addons-memory, extension to be found on GitHub)

I have been using the linux distro Q4OS to go online with for about three years now. At first I only used it occasionally and XP the rest of the time but now I use Q4OS 75% of the time and XP 25% of the time. In addition to a 11 year old desktop I have Q4OS installed on a 14 year old Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop where it runs fine and is rock solid stable, more stable than XP ever was which is the OS that shipped with the 8600. I will probably always have at least one computer with XP running on it but not use it to go online with. That is a job for linux.