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That's *NOT* the right attitude at all: when one posts something one deems useful, but then nobody else seems to notice it nor react to it, that content ought to be let stand, nonetheless. We here post to help others, even if we never get any feedback on it, let alone any kudos. To delete the content out of spite for being ignored is very much frowned upon here (even if it's quite typical of the worst the 21st century has brought us: an oversensitive generation).

It will work, and I'm pretty sure that BWC's .NET 3.5 needs the extended kernel (only earlier beta releases don't).

Ah-ha! Seems like I have found the cause of the issue! I had installed the meltdown and spectre patches, not bothering about their many disadvantages. Silly me!! I'm uninstalling them now

Hello all, this topic has been created by me for fellow MSFN users to post their Vista computer's specs and share their experience of using Windows Vista. My specs: Dell Latitude e5420 Laptop Intel Core i5-2520m 8 GB DDR3-1333 MHz RAM 480 GB Kingston A400 SSD Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 x64 build 6003 My experience with Vista: I started using Vista only about 6 months ago and before that, I knew nothing about Vista, but I immediately fell in love with it. Now I use Vista on 2 of my computers, one being the Latitude and another desktop with: Intel D945GCPE mobo Intel Pentium D 915 3 GB DDR2-800 MHz RAM Windows Vista Business SP2 x64 build 6003 160GB Seagate HDD . It ran Windows 7 and 10 slooooowly, so I put Vista on it and it runs superfast! XP was not an option since there is no extended kernel, which is there for Vista.

By equal, I mean finding a function of equal character length (11 characters for GetThreadId) or shorter and typing it into CFF in its place. If you want a longer one, you will have to break out of CFF and use a hex editor and use jumper's tips. I don't think this is a previously banned user; the image seems to have been a copy of the one farther up the thread.

@Koishi Komeiji Should pack the bags and make it happen XD. Cool story is the small US town I moved to had a pretty legendary punk/metal scene back in the 90s and early 2000s. Maybe there was a Saga? They should have, would've been a hit not biased haha. About mega GUI The GUI’s like mega is a pretty common GUI it seems, that companies target these days. Have some vague memory of the way programmers would design back in 2012 and before, its changed a lot, more heavy. Maybe just because I used opera on the presto engine for a long time, I remember GUI being lighter.

On my older Netvista P4 2.6 that's probably true. Some javascript-intense sites like Twitter barely move when scrolling with the keyboard. On Windows 7 I'm forced to use Quantum. Maybe toggling javascript.options.ion.inlining to true will make a difference. With this newer quad-core i5-3470 Serpent is blazing fast, no matter the site. Compared to what I was using, it's impossible to see how any browser could be much faster.

https://www.jumpjet.info/Application-Software/Windows/Programming/1/dotNET/NetFX35W2KRC3a.zip This is for vanilla 2000, no KernelEx. Found it by searching the executable's name and it returned a backup link, just tried it and it seems to work here

I was born some months before XP was released. My mother bought a computer with XP around 2003 (I don't know the spex). When I was 7, I started to go to a school with another blind people like me. I started to learn how to write on a computer and another things with their XP computer. My first computer had Windows 7, and I was surprised by the changes between both OSes. When I came back to my home, my mother bought me a computer with Windows 8. That's the computer which I'm using currently and it works fine. It's a Toshiba Satellite C855 with 4 cores and an I5. A year before that, the school gave me a computer with Windows XP. It had 1gb of ram and it became unstable some months before I installed the SP3 (it had SP2 apparently). In 2018, something happened with the computer and I couldn't start it up. Consequently, they upgraded it to Windows 7 and it started to be more unstable and buggy. That Windows 7 had some problem with Windows Update. I won't forget the day when the computer shutted down during an exam! Before that, I started to investigate and try old OSes. I tried all Windows 9x, Windows 2000, NT4 and Vista and this would be my rankin of my preferred Windows versions: 1. Windows XP/2000 because I love that interface and in my opinion is very easy to use. 2. Windows Vista. It could be customised to be like XP because it has the classic start menu and other things. It would run on all modern PCS and the performance would be good if you install all updates. 3. Windows 10. I really don't like it, but it has this place because I need to live with it because it support correctly todays programs. 4. Windows 8.x. I don't remember that Windows but it's like 10. 5. Windows 7. If you read all my post, you could understand why it has the last place. I don't include Windows 9x because you would need a lot of tweaks to run it and can't offer the necessary accessibility features for me.

Come on guys, don't be naive. BM just doesn't want to come here and say something because he probably hasn't been working on the project anymore. Stop with the bs about that he has no time and all. How much time do you need to log-in here and post something like "I'm working on it" or "I'm not working on it"? 2 minutes top! BM will come back when/if ever he has worked on the project and has something relevant to say. As for now just assume he is not working on Glass8 anymore. I know we have no real alternatives here and it sucks but there is nothing we can do about it.

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It allows Firefox to use Windows 7 Media Foundation codecs, enabling playback of videos like Twitch and YouTube livestreams.

Those secur32 functions are forwarded from sspicli.dll, a file introduced in Windows 7. So on paper, only a few export entries need to be added to secur32 which is really easy to do. sspicli in turn delay-loads some functions from sechost.dll, which is also a semi-new file (since there are many existing functions as well as new ones). I tried something like this, and so far the latest version of Edge crashes silently. I'm trying to figure it out. And also, I compared Opera 47 (last to load all extensions) and 48 (first with problems) myself. A new locale-related function is called by 48: EnumSystemLocalesEx. ResolveLocaleName is imported by both. EnumSystemLocalesEx is in Vista, but it calls an underlying function that changed considerably between Vista and 7; one of which is that it calls a function that ResolveLocaleName relies heavily on (and was not in Vista until recently). That will have to be looked at.

It's just the older style that I prefer. The preferences open up in a separate user interface (much easier to work with), the icons are better and the program itself is faster at opening up and retrieving messages. It seems like the newer the version the more sluggish and bloated it gets. As far as the x64 build: wouldn't know whether there's plans to offer that version.

Curious, why are you moving from MN to Interlink? They seem to be virtually identical, except MN has wider software compatibility, so it seems objectively superior. I had to use IL MN for a few days while I had a script error downloading MN, but all the idiosyncrasies of the programs seem to be identical.

From what I understand New Moon 27 is based on the Firefox 38 codebase while New Moon 28 is Firefox 52. Personally I don't see the benefit of using Pale Moon over the Serpent/UXP version that is offered here for download, for me Serpent does everything I need addon-wise and speed but they both probably have their advantages depending on what the user is using it for.

Providing you're actually able to execute the download without having to go through a bunch of hurdles to get there (trying multiple different browsers/configurations and whatnot), which was essentially my point when it came to MEGA - you can't simply wget your way to victory like you can most other places even if you had another device and hand-copied the URL, for instance. (Which is something I've had to do quite a few times lol.) I was more getting at the fact that interacting with MEGA basically requires you to interact with its horrendous web UI or use megatools on the command line. Posting a torrent link would be a lot easier to share a pirated file as a matter of fact, at least I can use whatever client I damn well want lol and it won't throttle me... The latter of which wasn't obvious to me initially and that basically annoyed me enough to warrant creating this thread. In regards to the whole piracy thing? Yeah lots of providers host pirated content, but for some reason (and going by people I've spoke to in warez circles, one in particular) MEGA is the most popular followed by either Google Drive or those weird RapidShare/MegaUpload-esque ones that throttle your download speed unless you have a premium account yourself. There's clearly a reason why this is the case tbh, probably where it's hosted and the fact the connection is 'further encrypted' than most of the others, but what does it matter when the government (and several big mostly US-based companies and govt funded organisations) log all your requests in the first place no matter what - unless you happen to be the likes of Dominic Cummings and want to get your eyes tested at Barnard Castle? "Compatibility with older clients is not an issue, so I don't really see what the fuss is about anyways." I guess this depends on what you're supposed to be serving to audience-wise. An interesting take for a 'general audience' (say, for a small business) could be to redirect requests that aren't taken <=TLS1.2 to a security reminder page or something instead, I don't know - just to essentially help less technically inclined users. This could also be interesting of a way to stop some spam requests from being successful since they'd attempt connecting from older clients (without country blocking too so it would be friendlier in this case). Just a thought I guess. "I don't have any opinion on this, but a little side note. I own a little intel compute stick with intel Atom and 2gb of ram. I once was downloading 12gb file from mega with chrome and it was just fine. I don't think that it is really that resource heavy, but I could be wrong." @Jaguarek62 I did something like this in 2016 or so with Firefox and couldn't actually touch the PC for about twenty minutes, I thought it was gonna bloody explode or something - it just literally froze and the fan was spinning so much I... dijsgbsnsdjkkn "Personally like yandex disk" @TheSaga Yeah, Yandex overall seems to generally have decent to good 'legacy browser' support - they're the only email account provider I can actually think of who have a lite version that actually fully works on Opera Mini (J2ME) and given I use that myself as well as XP x64... Offtopic but Is it weird I feel like your username would just sound great as a British post-punk / glam-metal rock band name? Thanks for the support on the thread either way

There actually *IS* a more serious reason to use 8.0 instead of 8.1, for those intending to use the x64 version (most users, nowadays, I'd guess), which cannot be solved by wufuc (because here we aren't talking about any artificial CPU blocks, but of a totally different issue): This summary is provided just to remind people of the described issue, and has been edited (by myself) for clarity and to stress tha some guesses at the time they were originally posted are now known to be facts.

To each his own, I have it installed and depending on how you use it, it does not make the entire window transparent, if you want Windows 7 transparency then install Windows 7 or install Starbloat's Curtains. I honestly do not believe that AeroGlass by Big Muscle is going to be updated anytime soon (if ever again) and honestly the answer is a no, there is no de-facto alternative to AeroGlass, you have Vistaglazz , Black Glass Enhanced etc. but all do the same thing SSM does to some extent. I actually happen to like this , although until a version comes out that actually saves your chosen settings it is kind of pointless to use everyday. I for one, will be keeping an eye on it.

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That theme would be much better on Curtains if the author would fix those god awful caption buttons. They look terrible.

I dunno. I'm kind of neutral on this particular topic of file hosting sites. However, I will agree that there's lots wrong with the modern internet, particularly the (in my opinion) overemphasis on security. I can understand the need for good security for important things like online shopping, banking, and other such things. But why does every single website need to be forced to use protocols and cipher suites that only a few of the newest browsers (namely Chrome and its derivatives) support?! It's not like they're ALL dealing in sensitive info! For example, I don't see the point in Wikipedia using strict TLS1.2 and 1.3 (at least for the public side); for users logging in to create/edit pages, I suppose it's fine. c

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Yes, when v421 exit it did scan for mount points that have no valid target anymore. But this caused trouble with VMWare mounted drives. I have improved that function, but it's still disabled by default. You can set it in the ini file: [Options] RemoveObsoleteDosDevices=1

Features: Current Youtube-dl and Youtube-dlc executables compiled on Python 2.7.17 with py2exe. Almost all Youtube-dl/Youtube-dlc helper applications (only PhantomJS has been omitted). Easy switch between Youtube-dl and Youtube-dlc. Youtube-dl/Youtube-dlc GUI frontend. Special desktop icon. 3DYD YouTube Source and LAVFiltersXP DirectShow filters. Two media players, MPC-HC and PotPlayer, making use of the above filters for streaming YouTube content. Silent VBS/BAT construct making use of Youtube-dl/Youtube-dlc and easy to configure on a per domain-basis to extract stream adresses from web pages. Five (six) media players, GPAC (Osmo4 & MP4Client), MPlayer, MPV, VLC and QMPlay2, making use of the above construct for streaming video from YouTube and many other sites. One audio player, Winamp 2 for streaming audio from Bandcamp. Google-powered and easy to modify search page to find videos on a per-domain basis. Easy integration in Opera 12 and Firefox (as well as other Gecko browsers). Preconfigured portable Opera 12.02 with some extras thrown in. Minimal trimmed-down Python 2.7.17 environment for easily compiling Youtube-dl/Youtube-dlc executables from python source yourself (including optional experimental OpenSSL 3 (TLS 1.3) files for python 2.7.17 courtesy of fellow MSFNer cmalex). Screenies: Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/rem5dmuvbu8m8ob/Youtube-dl_4_98SE-ME_Megapack.7z/file Unpack preferably in C:\Program files and follow instructions in youtube-dl\stuff\setup. Any question, please ask but make sure you've read info.txt in the root folder before. Related topic that might be useful: Have fun!