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@JFX Please can you make available (as a separate download) last version supporting 32 bit? jaclaz

Difficult topic! I support some users which simply aren't able to use a simple addon like NoScript. Making them understand, which servers they have to block (but only sometimes) is beyond their capabilities. These people are some crazy artists with fantastic ideas, but they would have been better off without computers at all to be honest! And you have to block scripts, because even on the most generic websites that millions of people visit, a hacked advert can compromise your computer all of a sudden! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising Not only through that, but these sunday drivers would destroy their online Windows 7 quickly. They use terrible webmail clients, loading spam mails full of adverts, code execution right away and they are screwed then. They need a user-friendly Linux instead (if it's just for browsing the web and no super-special software is needed). A lot less malware is possible then... I'm sorry, but I can't make any appropriate statements about Windows Vista! I haven't used it since 9 years. But it looks like, that there are a lot of current Vista users here. The question is: What did they do right to not get their old systems attacked? And what did they upgrade hardwarewise? Probably the hard drive, which has made big speed improvements in the last 15 years. Best luck with your computer setup for the next 10 years!

A workaround equivalent to downgrading to older version of VLC as far as control styling and DLL hijacking exploits are concerned would be to to search vlc.exe with a hex editor for "SetDefaultDllDirectories" and replace a single letter in that word with something else, just don't insert or delete anything, only replace. At least that works if program doesn't check itself for integrity, I've yet to try it with VLC specifically, though I guess there are good chances that it works.

To install drivers on unknown devices, if I'm quite certain of the brands, I'd just put a set of drivers and INFs in a directory, and let Windows perform a search for best in that location from Device Manager. It will only install matching drivers. The vendor of the bus controller is that of the motherboard, in my case Intel 8086. I found that on Server 2003 I had to extract and install this component (hdaudbus.inf) by hand, because there was no update package for that platform. https://i.imgur.com/KG3sIgG.png A dual-booting configuration with another OS is useful with XP. It is missing the safe mode options that Win9x had. I had that for some time for recovery and tweaking and backup of locked system files. If the audio hardware was physically out of order, I guess it depends on the kind of malfuction it has. I've only had it happen once; the card was shown with an exclamation point. Just pull the card out or disable the on-board device to stop Windows from interacting with it if it comes to that. It is somewhat unlikely if the motherboard doesn't exhibit other problems. HD_Audio_Bus.rar

Perfectly working for me with aero interface on Vista Sp1 and Sp2 too.

Thanks. I'll go ahead and do that. There are about 5 devices with the exclamation point in the yellow triangle in Device Manager and I know one is the LAN card and one is the TV Tuner card. I thought the others might be the card reader but now I think not because there are 4 extra removeable drives listed in My Computer and that's the number of slots the card reader has. So I think the install handled them. BTW, I'm learning some knew stuff here as my other system (daily driver) was an overlay (upgrade) over WinME and this one is a clean install. I see now that the install handles those situations differently. That was unexpected. Also see that you have a triple boot system. So do I. The daily driver has Win98SE on one drive,WinME on another drive and WinXP on another drive. One of the nice things about that is when XP won't let me do something in it, I just boot over to ME and operate on the XP drive from there. Bet you do the same thing. Plus there's the advantage of playing older games that don't run well or at all on the newer systems. I'll let you know what happens about the VEN_10EC id if it's one of the instances listed in Device Manager under Problem Devices.

I agree with the person who said this was one of the best posts on the forum in a long time. I have used Windows for a long time and have NEVER gotten a virus except for the one time I actually tried, too, in a dev environment. If anyone else "accidentally" just rolls through a bunch of UAC prompts for unverified software from sketchy publishers, I guess they don't have brain.exe Eh, not really. Just FUD. I recommend people stay on Windows 7, the technically inclined and very-much-not-so alike. This actually speeds up web browsing a fair bit! Pro tip: if you see a sketchy email, and you don't already, switch to plain text mode for reading it. Sometimes it's obvious mail is phishing mail, but sometimes I like reading it in PT mode just to see what's up. And since it's PT mode, they can't exploit any security vulnerabilities, execute anything, load anything, or track anything. I wouldn't say XP is more secure... just less likely and less worthy of being exploited. Windows 7 gets security updates for 3 or 4 more years, anyways.

Windows Vista SP1 is very fast too , at least for me.

I confirming that - on my machine Version 3.1.4.2 it is not working with same message. This means that LS-Tecnology forgot to update system requirements for last version because this message appears when minimal requirements is Vista. However, i also can confirm that Version v3.0.3.2 definitely can work in XP SP3:

The difficulty about Windows PCs of all versions is, that you can't really trust them. They have a broken security by default (since years!). Backdoors open for the intelligence agencies can be used by the intelligent hackers, too. Therefore I wouldn't use a firewall running on my Windows PC. Please correct me, if this sounds irrational! However routers can have backdoors too... search for it online, there are plenty of cases. Even OpenWRT can't be trusted blindly, because they are dependant on the hardware manufacturers too: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/what-are-the-chances-theres-a-hardware-backdoor-exploit-in-many-of-these-routers/22909 I prefer the "hardware" firewall, because it saves RAM on my old machines and it's convenient to configure for all computers. But you are right, it's basically just another computer running vulnerable software. Not 100 % perfect.

Well, for one, you can easily change the firewall rules from the OS. For example, in Windows you can create/modify/delete rules in the Windows Adv Firewall with netsh, or using an API call. Certainly a hardware firewall isn't some magic foolproof thing, but a virus or malicious actor is less likely to be able to change rules on a dedicated firewall vs the one that is just a program on your computer.

Stay on topic or fare thee well.

guys please stop tagging win32(or anyone) unless necessary, his notifications must be getting spammed hard

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.

on windows xp one can enable IPV6 support and generally I recommend using an ISP supporting IPV6 IPV4 is so crowded its easy for it to be exploited by fly by hackers. Vista and seven I got hacked over IPV4 and ISP's aren't angels they use tracking 3rd party corporations for revenue on their customers account portals they're sometimes abused by corporations and authorities but where do people think news comes from about celebrity hacks? theres one of several answers. Using browser extensions such as script filtering and ad blocking: surf facebook and others long enough they have scripts to inject that screw 'em up. Facebooks partners can get dirty and will script you a comma into your peerblock app's blocklist as well effectively voiding your blocklists ability to filter anything even when read only access. Peerblock has a backdoor too sends statistics and leaves a closed port on your firewall effectively making your stealth status ruined. Ever since XP Microsoft's share holders have been served revenue from its app store and yuou get video ads over your ad funded apps now. Through these ad serving corporations hackers are found and even rogue government employed hackers but china's hackers are ugly as hell just block china if your not Chinese. same as Russians. They use methods such as tricking kernels with simulated hardware errors to pry into the system security layers. Such crap causes hardware failures sometimes fatal and expensive. Don't go thinking meltdown and Spectre are anything new age. Older less depth style hacks have been emerging from government agencies since Cavalari core was invented only governments can craft that level of hack intelligence.

I do have a game that uses MonoBleedingEdge, Crisis in the Kremlin. Steam page said it ran on XP x64, except it didn't. Mono (which is .NET) was the problem. And it got to the point where it stopped working on Vista as well. Indeed, I have a copy of the file mono-2.0-bdwgc.dll with a digital signature dated January 15, 2020. The Windows 7 function TryAcquireSRWLockExclusive is called by that file. Because I added it, that game is working again. What about your mono files?

I used a theme editor to modify the background buttons and colours. I can send it to you. I use a few home-made modified themes. I hate when background windows have no colour.

Welcome to MSFN, Tony! I wish it were under better circumstances, but we're glad to see you here. Thank you for the picture of your dad.. I know I probably speak for several others here as well when I say I wish I had known more about Rudy and been able to get to know him better personally. I exchanged many, many emails with him, and always enjoyed hearing about whatever he was experimenting with at the time. We once discussed meeting up if I were ever in New York, but unfortunately I never got the opportunity... One never knows the future, but if I had had any idea he would be gone so soon I would have MADE the opportunity. I haven't been able to work much lately on the page that I was making that is dedicated to Rudy's work, but I will add this picture to it, and I would be glad to add any other such things as might be interesting.. I thought about making a short biography type page, but it's hard to know where to begin, and it's depressing to realize just how few details you know about someone else's life and interests outside of whatever subjects you've discussed, even when you considered them a close friend...

Even in 2018 it was crazy; less than three years after Windows 10 was released, yet that's all my new HP laptop officially supported (what a mess that thing is). But if I bought a laptop in 2004, three years after Windows XP came out, I would have official support for not just XP, but 2000, 98 FE/SE and even NT 4 (ThinkPad T41)! And that laptop has sleep-related bugs with Windows 10 that the officially-unsupported 8.1/2012R2 doesn't have! Even with all of the MS lock-in, relatively few new win32 API functions have been added after Windows 8 so it looks like forcing software incompatibility with Vista exkernel/7/8.x will be difficult for years to come.