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Next extended kernel update. It will be added TLS 1.1/1.2 on WININET (IE6SP1) and WINHTTPS support. :3

On the subject of performance, it's funny... At this point I have two Dell Precision workstations I switch back and forth between to do development work: My personal workstation, a circa 2012 Precision T5500 dual Xeon system with 12 total cores, 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM, an SSD array capable of 1.6 GB/second throughput, and a modest 3 year old nVidia Quadro P2000 graphics card. This one runs Win 8.1, updated to December 2017 (i.e., pre-Spectre/Meltdown hooey). My office workstation, a new circa 2019 Precision T7820 single Xeon system with 6 cores, 2666 MHz DDR3 RAM, an M.2 flash array capable of 4 GB/second throughput, and a rompin' stompin' new nVidia Quadro RTX 5000 graphics card. This system runs Win 10 v1809, fully updated. Both systems are tweaked and trimmed as best I can to do engineering work - within the constraints of what each OS will stand for maximum leanness and performance. Windows 8.1 stands up to FAR MORE such tweaking than Windows 10. For example, when quiet my Win 8.1 setup has about 42 processes running to support an empty desktop. My Win 10 setup has to rock 100 processes just to sit there idle (and that's down from some 130+ out of the box)! Friggin' bloatware. Since most software is still single-threaded and dependent on I/O speed and RAM speed, you'd think the MUCH newer system, even with fewer cores, should really run rings around the 6 year older system, right? It is not so. Using them interactively, frankly - and surprisingly - the two systems actually feel about the same to use. While neither is a slouch, for the things that benefit from more cores the older system even feels smoother and more responsive. It doesn't "load up" as easily nor feel as sluggish when I fill up the Task Bar with work. Conclusion: Windows 10 and all this Windows redesign by patching BS done in the name of "Security" has soaked up and erased 6 years of computer performance advancement. Seriously. -Noel

Yesssssssssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa all USB3 on XP SP3 on Intel chipset on full ACPI Multiprocessor https://www.win-raid.com/t4035f45-Windows-XP-SP-bit-and-modern-PC-parts-86.html#msg84052 Dietmar

I've attached RAR5 compressed files with lists of download links for all official updates for Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Post SP2 up to April 2017. Includes all language packs for Vista, IE9 and local Help update. Also included are Ultimate Extras, Optionals and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 / 4.52 with updates. Superseded updates are not included except for a few ones just to satisfy Windows Update. Hotfixes are not included, unless available through Windows Update. Someone please mirror them on Web Archive. ASAP. EDIT: Updated files with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Language Packs. Installing System Updates: If you want to install a language pack, you must do it first, by downloading and running the language pack executable. 1) Download all files from Main_URLs.txt to the same folder. 2) Using WinRAR, sort files by type and unpack all .MSU files to the same folder, overwriting existing files. Then you may delete the .MSU files to save space. 3) Unpack the WindowsVistaSP2_x86_Installer.rar or WindowsVistaSP2_x64_Installer.rar (just batch files) to the same folder where you extracted the files. 4) Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and switch to the folder where the update files are. 5) Run Main_Part1.bat, Main_Part2.bat and Main_Part3.bat. At the end of execution of every batch file, Windows will restart automatically. 6) Optionally you may install local copy of Help update (LangPacks_Help_URLs.txt) and the IE9 language pack (LangPacks_IE9_URLs.txt). PS: It'll take a while to install all 210+ updates. Installing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 / 4.52 with updates: 1) Download all files from NDP35_45_URLs.txt to the same folder. 2) Unpack the WindowsVistaSP2_x86_Installer.rar or WindowsVistaSP2_x64_Installer.rar (just batch files) to the same folder where you extracted the files. 3) Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and switch to the folder where the update files are. 4) Run NDP35_45_Install.bat, if needed Windows will restart automatically. 5) Optionally you may install a language pack (LangPacks_NDP35SP1_URLs.txt and LangPacks_NDP452_URLs.txt). Installing updates for optional features (only if you have installed IIS, IIS ASP, IIS FTP or Telnet from Program and Features Control Panel extension) Download all files from Features_URLs.txt and run the following .MSU packages if you have installed: IIS: KB4012373 IIS ASP: KB2124261 IIS FTP: KB975254 Telnet: KB960859 and KB3020393

Hello, I'm wondering if there's an all-in-one update pack for Windows Vista (SP1 + SP2 + Platform Update + Supplement Update? + Frameworks + DirectX) If not, I was thinking maybe I could compile one myself (assuming the files are re-distributable). In theory, would it be difficult to simply compress the files into a smaller size, then find some program that will give an option list like PROBLEMCHYLD's unofficial Windows 98SE service pack, and have it automatically install from there? Windows Vista's lack of popularity makes it harder to find patches... https://msfn.org/board/topic/175262-last-versions-of-software-for-windows-vista-and-windows-server-2008/#comments https://msfn.org/board/topic/179810-download-links-for-all-vista-sp2-32-bit-and-64-bit-updates-from-windows-update/

Couple of things: If ABP is too resource-intensive have a look at uBlock Origin. It's purported to be much less resource-intensive. As posted elsewhere I prefer the "legacy" version (currently 1.16.4.11) to the WE version because some privacy features don't work on FF 52 with the WE version. The companion add-on "uBlock Origin Updater" will keep you up-to-date on the latest legacy version of uBO. Feel free to experiment with dom.ipc.processCount. The best setting probably depends not only on available RAM but also on your browsing habits, so the "best" setting will likely vary quite a bit from person to person.

I'm pretty sure that's a given with Windows 10 - i.e., it's built in to the window compositing softare and you can't get around it. I've just decided to get used to the buttons being the same size. I'm very pleased to say I'm able to get Aero Glass to work now with v1903, and the same theme atlas I had put together a long time ago still works pretty darned well. -Noel

it may be ISP related. for UK connectivity, CF support staff contacted me from support ticket and giving me I list of CF UK IPs so I can trace back from my side, and I found that my upstream uses TATA Communications network (AS 6453) for intermediate route and it seems having a bad route to UK. I created a support ticket to my upstream ISP. for Italy IPs, I'm asking CF support staff if (s)he can test and give out IPs for me to trace back.

They made a very bad failed version (1.7.19955), i can speak for XP, cause if you download their opencodec suggested - PotPlayer codec (upd: 06/20/2019): OpenCodecSetup - the issue isn't go away. Luckily the previuos working version (1.7.18958) can be found here

Thread Pinned I have no idea why this wasn't done before. Quite honestly, it's one of the most helpful things that I've set up on my Windows 2000 machine. Firefox seems to get wonky after the memory limit hits around 1.3GBs, which really doesn't take long to do on the modern web, especially watching YouTube videos. Doing this fixes those issues. For dom.ipc.processCount, I set it to 8. I have 24GBs of RAM in my new computer with Physical Address Extension enabled so I prefer a much smoother browsing experience. I will list the benefits I have found by enabling multiprocess mode. -Facebook loads much smoother and quicker. The newsfeed is no longer a nightmare to go through and loads up a lot quicker than out of the box Firefox 52. -YouTube works better. Once Firefox hit that 1.3GB wall, video playback would start flickering black and sometimes just go all black depending on how long the browser has been open. Completely closing Firefox and relaunching it was the workaround for me when this happened. Now it doesn't seem to happen anymore. -Firefox doesn't lag as much when the browser was first opened. I noticed there was a considerable amount of lag when you opened the browser and started browsing the web, it's like it would become non-responsive for about a minute or so. Now if it does that, it's only about a few seconds. I'm thinking it's because it has its own processes now. -Tabs don't crash as often as they used to. Again, I'm thinking it is because it has more memory to play around with. If you've got 4+GBs of RAM, there's no reason not to use it to your advantage. The reason I set dom.ipc.processCount to 8 is that is what it is set to on my work computer which is running Windows 7 x64 and you can totally notice how snappy it is compared to the garbage IE11 that most of our applications only work on. As far as both Windows 2000 and Windows XP are concerned, if you have a multi-core/multi-thread processor and 4 or more gigabytes of RAM, I'd totally recommend enabling multiprocess mode.

asking in cf forum: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/error-522-from-europe-but-works-in-asia-and-america/104340

I've done this just about a month ago, but it would probably be helpful if you could provide some screencaps of what is actually going on when you try doing this. It would help give us a visual. If you can get this done, I'd recommend wiping your drive and reinstalling Windows with it. With the convenience rollup, a good portion of the OS is updated and installed at setup, rather than as updates. I'm the biggest believer that Windows updates slow your system down over time. And since this is more of creating new media and not an unattended installation, I'm going to move this thread to the actual Windows 7 forum in hopes that it'll get more attention than it is here. Moved to Windows 7 forum

Tips worthy of being in the 1st post, if l4ao agrees

Alternative solution is to kill ImageImportDescriptor for Bcrypt.dll in ffcodec.dll (with e.g. LordPE) No troubles for now with any media file.

New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release: https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM76.2-Goanna-20190803.7z Changelog: Out-of-tree changes: * update Goanna3 to git e48fcd77f..23551d191: - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1128001 - Workaround ANGLE DEPTH16 being DEPTH24_STENCIL8. (144bc3839) - Bug 1038839 - Use type information for alias analysis. r=jandem (7f562bcc2) - Bug 1141797. r=smaug. (6ac0692bd) - Bug 1143470 - Add BUG_COMPONENT to moz.build files in toolkit and xulrunner. r=gavin (3fee7e2d5) - Bug 1083344 - Add "allow" sandbox rules to fix mochitests on OSX 10.9 and 10.10. r=smichaud (40c3323a5) - Bug 1083344 - Tighten rules for Mac OS content process sandbox on 10.9 and 10.10. r=smichaud (a1102b817) - Bug 1151974 P1 Delay Cache Context start until previous Context has completed. r=ehsan (20598fa6a) - Bug 1130686 - Add test for service worker client.focus. (e4d836af7) - Bug 1151916 - Set worker principalinfo on cache load. r=bkelly (4d55b31fe) - Bug 1139513 - Warn and gather data if ServiceWorker hits max workers per domain limit. r=bent, r=rvitillo (44c59a9cb) - Bug 1148354 - Deprecate the doppler effect from the PannerNode. r=ehsan (6de4e13ca) - Bug 1148942 - Ensure that the registration of empty service workers succeeds; r=bent (edbb09fdf) - Bug 1148496 - Allow to set an interface member as [Deprecated] in WebIDL. r=bz,smaug (43f554139) (23551d191) * Notice: the changelog above may not always applicable to XULRunner code which K-Meleon uses. A goanna3 source tree that has kmeleon adaption patch applied is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27/tree/kmeleon76

New New Moon 27 Build! 32bit https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win32-git-20190803-23551d191-xpmod.7z 32bit SSE https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win32-git-20190803-23551d191-xpmod-sse.7z 32bit noSSE https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win32-git-20190803-23551d191-xpmod-ia32.7z 64bit https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.6.win64-git-20190803-23551d191-xpmod.7z source repo: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27 repo changes since my last build: - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1128001 - Workaround ANGLE DEPTH16 being DEPTH24_STENCIL8. (144bc3839) - Bug 1038839 - Use type information for alias analysis. r=jandem (7f562bcc2) - Bug 1141797. r=smaug. (6ac0692bd) - Bug 1143470 - Add BUG_COMPONENT to moz.build files in toolkit and xulrunner. r=gavin (3fee7e2d5) - Bug 1083344 - Add "allow" sandbox rules to fix mochitests on OSX 10.9 and 10.10. r=smichaud (40c3323a5) - Bug 1083344 - Tighten rules for Mac OS content process sandbox on 10.9 and 10.10. r=smichaud (a1102b817) - Bug 1151974 P1 Delay Cache Context start until previous Context has completed. r=ehsan (20598fa6a) - Bug 1130686 - Add test for service worker client.focus. (e4d836af7) - Bug 1151916 - Set worker principalinfo on cache load. r=bkelly (4d55b31fe) - Bug 1139513 - Warn and gather data if ServiceWorker hits max workers per domain limit. r=bent, r=rvitillo (44c59a9cb) - Bug 1148354 - Deprecate the doppler effect from the PannerNode. r=ehsan (6de4e13ca) - Bug 1148942 - Ensure that the registration of empty service workers succeeds; r=bent (edbb09fdf) - Bug 1148496 - Allow to set an interface member as [Deprecated] in WebIDL. r=bz,smaug (43f554139) (23551d191)

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rths.cf/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20190803-211bb28-uxp-3170ee769-xpmod.7z Browser-only Suite Win32 https://o.rths.cf/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20190803-211bb28-uxp-3170ee769-xpmod.7z source patch (excluding UXP): https://o.rths.cf/boc-uxp/boc-uxp-src-xpmod-20190720.7z No Official repo changes since my last build. For UXP changes please see above.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.4.win32-git-20190803-3170ee769-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.4.win64-git-20190803-3170ee769-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-28.7.0a1.win32-git-20190803-3170ee769-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.7.0a1.win64-git-20190803-3170ee769-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Issue #1156 - Location Bar Preferences Checkboxes (93ceb8281) - Merge pull request #1200 from flewkey/master (a4584c732) - Update SQLite to 3.29.0 (154532072) - Hide and disable open_all/cut/copy/delete/properties when opening bookmarks/history context menu with no selection (3170ee769)

Windows Vista is literally the in between of Windows XP and 7; there are more modern features at the cost of less native backwards compatibility and higher system requirements. A couple examples are... -DirectX: Windows XP only supports 9 (unofficially a buggy 10), Vista officially supports 11. If your system needs newer things, use Vista over XP. -Web browsers: Windows Vista has a tendency to work with unsupported web browsers meant with 7 a bit more than XP. Although not much in practice. Qutebrowser is a notable example of working on Windows Vista 64-bit but not XP (forget which version, latest version doesn't seem to work...but I didn't install all Vista updates) There are a couple more conveniences Vista has that XP doesn't: -Built-in screen brightness adjuster -Sound mixer for individual programs Another random example of Vista working w/ Win 7 or later stuff that XP cannot do: -Resident Evil Remake works on Vista -Newer versions of Netframework work fine on Vista with some modifications Would I choose Vista over XP? Only if Windows XP is not stable with system drivers. Windows Vista has a tendency to more or less work with newer drivers than XP because its kernel is more similar to modern windows. I would advise Vista, if your system isn't super low-end.

you can just paste the link http://www.glass8.eu/files/setup-wrs-1.5.12.exe http://www.mediafire.com/file/kp1gvrb8emtdr98/setup-wrs-1.5.12.exe/file

Yeeee finally we have Glass on 1903 I couldn't believe my eyes when I read there was an updated version😍 Can I ask if anyone know how to use Glass AND a custom windows Theme ? Maybe it's better if I open a new thread? I've tried a few themes (obviously with theme patcher) but I'm not able to have glass on them Thanks in advance and again a very big thanks for Bigmuscle 🔥

Me too... I've even opened a topic about it.

Have you updated to Aero Glass 1.5.12 yet? Regarding symbols, see: I guess they're not needed right now with the latest AG version, though they'll likely be needed after some future Windows update.

Here's a solution for one remaining issue with the new command-line fix... @UCyborg If your Chrome browser is set to start in the background automatically with Windows (for certain extensions like Hangouts, etc.), Here's how one can edit the Chrome AutoLaunch command line in the registry: Open Regedit.exe and navigate to the following key : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Find the string named: "GoogleChromeAutoLaunch_......" and right-click to modify the text/command line to add the new parameter: (Here's what mine looked like when finished:) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --no-startup-window --disable-features=Windows10CustomTitlebar /prefetch:5 Now Chrome will autostart in the background with the AeroGlass compatible title bars. -JT