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I am on it. I should have it done by the end of the week

It's in Portuguese On the weekend I'll post a tutorial on how to create an up to date image.

So you just have SP2 with no further updates? I recommend having at least Platform Update and Platform Update Supplement. If not that, then try updating to Vista's EOL (my level of updating) or even use the later Server 2008 updates.

Hey, @loblo! For the record: you do rock! I installed it by hand from the .zip on XP SP3, while keeping the files from JRE 1.8.0_251 that do not exist in the Azul release, including those older ones listed some posts above (and replacing sunmscapi.dll by the one from JRE 1.8.0_241). The result is the one shown below:

Just found out that the latest Google Earth Pro works on Vista with the new Kernel. Im not sure if it supported Vista but Google says that the min OS was Windows 7. Great news! BUT.. you need to install the latest IE9 patches, otherwise you will receive Certificate errors in GEP

No rocket league stopped working on november 2019. You can try yourself without kernel extension the game wont simply launch throwing missing functions in kernel32.dll

Aero is a design language. What Windows 10 still runs is a compositing window manager, which they called Desktop Window Manager. DWM of 7/Vista implements glass effect, but it's not as configurable as Big Muscle's implementation. The file containing graphical resources and some other parameters is still called aero.msstyles, even though look and feel of Aero is gone.

This script helps a bit. I edited it to set the cookie to 9 instead of 8 though.

Still works fine for me. Make sure you reapply the pref cookie trick (f6=8 or f6=9) if you didn't. Using this variant of GoogleBot Desktop UA tho: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36 So you might want to replace the latter Google Chrome part with Firefox's

Other googlebot UAs to try (and how YouTube violates Google anti-sniffing recommendations): https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/updating-user-agent-of-googlebot.html

No idea who discovered those great youtube tricks as first person in the world, but never mind in this case. For such well-known old tricks which were only forgotten for awhile until someone, or many, remembered to try them again, all attempts to identify Who-dunnit-first will go in circles anyway. Like UA-googlebot in general, or anti-polymer key in youtube-URL. In that mentioned long REDDIT topic the earliest UA discoverer seems to be one of the addon-authors, Mirza, a few weeks ago. But whatever, such great tricks should be spread, and the tinkerers among us will surely remember sooner next time to try pesky sites with UA googlebot :-) What a disaster that such useragent tricks will probably fail soon on many main sites, since all big browser makers last year happily announced to transfer those same data -plus more- in future builds only in stealth and unfakeable ways. Much deeper under the hood, requiring modern browsers and new server request methods, so finally all older engines can be identified 100% and get blocked much easier, grrr. But origin or not, since you like to spread such user tricks, here's a tiny, crucial yt-fix which could use more spreading too (while it still works...) Figured it out myself last year after long struggling due to old browser probs, where that pesky "Show more" button for video description is broken since years. It's so basic that probably a bunch of other people found it on their own too, no big feat. Nevertheless haven't seen it posted elsewhere yet, and it's not mentioned in that long reddit-topic either although the prob was discussed there. Looks like semi-modern browsers now suddenly have the same prob, video description cropped and button broken, description remains hidden. But installing a whole addon or a javascript file user.js just to fix this button seems overkill to me. So this fix could please be spread a bit more too... This is just a tiny userCSS for youtube CLASSIC view, which makes the complete youtube description text visible at page load. No need to click that "Show more" button anymore. Minor catch: this useless button still remains visible too, looks confusing, but can live with it ;-P Can be added to slightly older Mozilla browers e.g. in current profile, in file /chrome/userContent.css @-moz-document domain(youtube.com) { #watch-description-text {height: auto !important; max-height: none !important;} } While at it, a reminder of yet another crucial UA trick: to get .3gp movies with TINY file size. Posted by a kind soul (thanks!) awhile back. Only useful for people desperate for extremely tiny filesize, due to bandwith probs or limited disk size, no matter how horrible the quality. Even if those videos have almost stamp size: UA Mobile IPAD still gets those offered, and the page source still contains direct download links too (itag ":36,") example Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A403 Safari/8536.25

Another option is to use the built-in WinXP VPN client. Create a new connection using free PPTP or L2TP servers. For example - http://www.nlfreevpn.com/ https://freevpn.me/accounts/ https://www.vpnbook.com/#pptpvpn

1) Windscribe VPN - https://windscribe.com/ Need registration on any email. 10Gb monthly limit on a free account. Add-on v.0.1.61 for FF52 - https://www.upload.ee/files/11196640/windscribe-0.1.61-fx.xpi.html (versions newer 0.1.61 do not work in FF52). Note: in about:config parameter "network.cookie.cookieBehavior" should be set to 0, 1 or 3. Also available client for WinXP - https://assets.windscribe.com/desktop/win/Windscribe_1.80.exe 2) Browsec VPN. Add-on v.3.16.16.2 for FF52 - https://www.upload.ee/files/11196624/browsec-3.16.16.2_unofficial.xpi.html No registration required. Four countries are available. Unoficial build - no banner, no google-analytics. Note: in about:config parameter "network.cookie.cookieBehavior" should be set to 0, 1 or 3.

Now Install .NET Framework 4.8 is possible to install without ordinals problem

4.7.2 belongs to the 4.7 family of .NET FW versions, comprising 4.7.0, 4.7.1 and 4.7.2; of course, 4.7 family isn't supported on WS2008SP2 (NT 6.0) , so, presumably, Microsoft don't test produced patch files on 4.7.x installed on WS2008SP2... However, Win7 SP1 is supported; it just so happens that the update mechanism of 4.7.x on Win7SP1 is similar to the one of patching 4.6.x under WS2008SP2, so that is why what @WinClient5270 stated above is correct To illustrate: By visiting Microsoft Update Catalog, latest updates for 4.7.2 on Win7 SP1 include, e.g. 2019-05 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, and 4.7.2 for Windows 7 (KB 4495588) When you proceed to download, you are presented with file ndp46-kb4495588-x86_057aa7f4c87dcd7fbb4225e170a901a622b72ad7.exe Notice the ndp46-* prefix? This is exactly the same file you'd end up with if you wanted to fetch latest patch for 4.6 on WS2008SP2: 2019-05 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 4.6 for Windows Server 2008 SP2 (KB4495588) (Please also load and inspect https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4495588 ) On Win8+, the update mechanism of 4.7.x is different to both WS2008/Win7; there, the patches are being delivered in the form of "Windows" updates, i.e. .msu packages... 2019-05 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2 for Windows 8.1 (KB4495585) => windows8.1-kb4495585-x86_14b43821fa547611902f85baac67e8f013c40613.msu So, we should really thank Windows 7 in this case!