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Very much like MSE 4.4.304.0 (manually) installed on Vista SP2, the native anti-spyware implementation, aka Windows Defender, ceased receiving definitions update via Windows Update itself sometime after the July 9th deadline; as posted here, the last def update (v1.297.531.0) I got through WU was on July 6th... Similarly, invoking a manual definitions update via the WD GUI: always results in So, currently, the ONLY way of updating WD def files on Vista SP2 is by manually downloading file mpas-fe.exe and then running it (probably "as administrator", but I wouldn't know differently, as I am already the unique admin of the machine!). The location for fetching the file is again https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions but in WD's case, it's the "Windows Defender in Windows 7 and Windows Vista" entries... Have you noticed the "Windows Vista" mention? Unlike Windows XP, M$ have still kept file mpengine.dll (inside file mpas-fe.exe) Vista compatible, so they kinda "silently" have continued to support Vista even past its Extended Support EoS, so I was genuinely taken aback (and then miffed) they broke automatic updates for Vista's WD... I have Vista SP2 Home Premium x86 (without the very recent ".6003" WS2008 updates) and hovering over the win32 link I see the following URI: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121721&clcid=0x409&arch=x86&eng=0.0.0.0&avdelta=0.0.0.0&asdelta=0.0.0.0&prod=925A3ACA-C353-458A-AC8D-A7E5EB378092 What's really weird is that clicking that link (during the last 2 weeks or so) has not always fetched the version claimed to be the latest in the page; e.g. the page may announce v1.299.301.0 as available, but downloading from the win32 link may get me an older version on disk (usually 3-6 "units" older, e.g. 1.299.296.0 etc.). To mitigate this, I have found the link in article https://www.askvg.com/how-to-update-windows-defender-offline-install-latest-virus-definition-files-manually/ to be very reliable in faultlessly fetching the version advertised as the most current : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=70631 Alternatively, I would manually construct https://definitionupdates.microsoft.com/download/DefinitionUpdates/VersionedSignatures/AM/1.xxx.xxx.0/x86/mpas-fe.exe getting the "1.xxx.xxx.0" string from the downloads page... @dencorso: Many thanks indeed for your .cmd file ; however, be advised you only considered the x86 flavour of the definitions update file; it won't do for MSE 64-bit, the preferred default on Vista x64 installations... I also took the liberty of mimicking it for my own purposes, creating a WDUPD_Vista.cmd variant: @echo off ::pushd %temp% if not exist mpas-fe.exe start /min /wait wget -O mpas-fe.exe http://definitionupdates.microsoft.com/download/DefinitionUpdates/x86/mpas-fe.exe if exist mpas-fe.exe start /min /wait mpas-fe.exe del mpas-fe.exe ::popd I commented out your second line, because that way one doesn't have to place wget.exe in the %PATH% variable, just leave it be adjacent to the .cmd file, both in a user writable directory! Again, this is for the 32-bit architecture only... Thanks a bunch !

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I confirm your finding. And I was logged-in with my Oracle Account, of course... Either they'll still release 222 sometime along this week or there'll be no 222. I have, however, not read anywhere they'd be dropping such builds as a rule henceforward.

I'm really glad to know you found my batch useful! OK. That batch was offered as an example, to be tweaked as needed. However, if you commented out the "pushd %temp%" line, you ought to comment out the "popd" in the last line, too (to avoid a formal underflow, which isn't noticed because the batch ends there...). Then again, if wget.exe and WDUPD_Vista.cmd were put into the %windir% (for instance), then, by letting the 1st and last lines stand would just cause mpas-fe.exe to be executed in the %temp% folder, not in the %windir% folder.

Did you set XP compatible mode ? :3

You can change the opacity settings using AeroGlassGUI. You can find it on the Aero Glass download page http://glass8.eu/download It's the "Testing version of GUI application to modify Aero Glass parameters" link under Others. Run the GUI as administrator. Select "Current User". Change to "Accent" tab. Use the opacity slider.

the /gpc/ directory is the remnants of old good Google Page Creator, only minimal adaption of php code was written when Google Page Creator shut down and moved to my host. for the file list, you may access index.php?sitemap for that.

Really it's mostly a matter of taste. The main difference is the UI: BOC looks very much like SeaMonkey; Serpent looks very much like (pre-Photon) Firefox; NM 28 looks like older (pre-Australis) Firefox. They're all based on UXP though. If you have an older, pre-SSE2 PC, you may want to look at @roytam1's Firefox 45 or NM 27 builds instead.

Welcome back to MSFN crazyal12. (I had never even heard of MSFN the last time you posted.) No, the Update tab in the UI doesn't accomplish anything for me either. Are you running Vista 6.0.6002, or have you "upgraded" to build 6003 by installing recent Server 2008 updates? Downloading manually seems to be the only way to update MSE 4.4 definitions now. Your link should be fine AFAIK, but I have actually been using this page. I always save the file, then right-click and run as administrator. The instructions say "a file extraction dialog box appears" but I haven't seen it. My only other tip is don't hurry to delete file mpam-fe because "disk activity" may take a few minutes. I have updated definitions once more since my previous post: When I first saw your post, I thought you really must be crazy to ask a question about MSE 4.4 after reading my previous post exposing its current shortcomings. However I visited AMTSO again before replying, and MSE performed much better tonight - presumably because of the new definition version, or else some sort of glitch that resolved itself:

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