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Here’s an old post at MSFN. I have not done this, but I trust WinClient5270: https://msfn.org/board/topic/179952-windows-7-transformed-into-vista-really-nice/

Definitely download, install and configure Classic Shell. This will give you a good experience of Windows Explorer on 7 that has strong similarities to WinXP. I'm on Windows 7 myself but only because Classic Shell makes Explorer and the Start Menu tolerable for me - if Classic Shell wasn't available then I would think I'd just go over to Linux Mint. In point of comparison I have to say that I do find Win7 to be a pretty good system and am overall well pleased with it.

@VistaLover My Macromed/Flash folder contents look slightly different to yours: ...you have an extra exe, and an extra folder. For the Adobe thing I need this: AllowListUrlPattern=https://wwwimages.adobe.com/ ,,,direct link: https://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/swf/software/flash/about/flashAbout_info_small.swf @RainyShadow is spot on, http://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0009/4075/live/myth_rider_cs3.swf is a better link than going anywhere near Kongregate's site proper. That one still works for me using: AllowListUrlPattern=https://chat.kongregate.com/ I'm really not doing anything clever! This is my mms.cfg: SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0 AutoUpdateDisable=1 DisableAnalytics=1 EOLUninstallDisable=1 EnableAllowList=0 AllowListUrlPattern=file:* AllowListUrlPattern=https://wwwimages.adobe.com/ AllowListUrlPattern=https://chat.kongregate.com/ The file:* thing is to allow local .swf files to run. Since yesterday EnableAllowList=0 is depreciated and now defaults to '1'. Ben.

From Belgium, hello @CRT and welcome to MSFN! I wish you enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

Sadly, this came too late, but please try it. It's based on the same AMDXHC driver for Windows XP, but this required just a device check patch. Included are both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) drivers, plus the "switch" driver. - The AMDXHC driver is safe to use and easily installed. - Supports all Intel USB 3.1 XHCI controllers (7, 8, 9, 100, 200 and 300 series, maybe even HEDT chipsets). - "Switch" driver may be needed if you don't get USB3 speeds on Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell (*) systems (7, 8 and 9 series chipsets). To use this, I'd recommend a backup. Open Device Manager -> System Devices -> PCI Bus Update driver -> Browse my computer for driver software -> Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer Have Disk -> open the folder containing the HCSwitch driver files PCI Bus will be displayed, continue the installation. When finished, just restart Vista. (*) Haswell should work with Vista 32-bit (x86) only. http://www.mediafire.com/file/1kjhhl0fq1ofc2m The original Intel XHCI driver can be modded to work on Vista, but as this one works so fine, I don't have any plans to do it.

Maybe it is caused by booting another OS that records additional attributes for the files? Do you multiboot on that PC? With one of my testing HDDs at work Win7 was doing some extensive repairs every time i had booted Win10 previously. I think turning off hybrid sleep fixed it.

Everybody can check this in the event viewer (winlogon 1001 event in the application category). If you want, you can install the pstools and at the command line : PSLOGLIST -i 1001 -o Winlogon Application

don't fear this! The result you get is normal! I have the same thing on all my computers.

I do not use extended kernel, but I have followed those threads and can tell you that very little has been written on the subject of antivirus compatibility, so perhaps there is a real need for this thread. Dixel once suggested Malwarebytes 3.5.1 here, but did not specify free or premium. Only Malwarebytes Premium (i.e. the “trial”) has real-time protection, and btw their protection scores are not very good in independent tests, and 3.5.1 is a very old version now. If you wanted to use Malwarebytes only as a free on-demand scanner and use a real antivirus product as your main AV, then I would suggest version 2.2.1. It included an option to deselect the trial of premium during installation, and did not include the ransomware protection that did not work on Vista or XP. Edit: Definition updates for 2.2.1 were cut off in 2022, so stick with 3.5.1. If the idea of the extended kernel is to allow one to use any software that supports Windows 7, then in theory you could try current versions of any antivirus, since they all support Win7. (Avira plans to end support for Win7 and 8.1 at the end of 2021.) Of course in actual practice, an AV that does not properly support your OS can cause serious issues, so you should back up your system before installing an AV.

There is Explorer++ that can be used on Vista/7/8 that will give you an "XP-esque" experience, including the "up" button.

Hello and thank you , sadly didn't work for me. Chipset H110 and Asrock mobo...

... Whatever I posted located inside %windir%\system32\macromed\Flash was from a fresh NPAPI install here, minus the FlashPlayerTrust dir, which was inherited from years of Flash usage... Update on my issues... I had to use the latest Flash Uninstaller (v32.0.0.468) as admin, followed by a system restart to have a clean slate wrt Flash... After system booted, I installed anew latest (v32.0.0.465) Flash NPAPI, and modified the newly created mms.cfg file, as per your instructions: SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0 AutoUpdateDisable=1 DisableAnalytics=1 EOLUninstallDisable=1 EnableAllowList=0 AllowListUrlPattern=file:* AllowListUrlPattern=https://wwwimages.adobe.com/ AllowListUrlPattern=*://chat.kongregate.com/ Then, at long last, my "portable" Serpent 52 was able to load http://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0009/4075/live/myth_rider_cs3.swf That test was performed without "portable" Flash DLLs in Serpent! However, as I've written already, I prefer to have portable Flash installations, NOT system-wide ones, and, sadly, my testing today proved that the mms.cfg file is only being read/honoured by a Flash DLL/OCX when placed (the mms.cfg file) in its (proper) location of "%windir%\system32\macromed\Flash\" In my own setup, Serpent 52 portable loads the Flash DLL from G:\PortableApps\Basilisk52Portable\Data\plugins\NPSWF32_32_0_0_465.dll ... but for the @Ben Markson method to work in my case, I still have to place modified file mms.cfg inside "C:\Windows\system32\macromed\Flash\" I can live with that as long as the portable browser installation(s) stays in the same machine, but Flash "portability" will be broken when I load my portable Serpent installation on another host... So, for truly portable and working Flash 32.0.0.465, I have to resort to using the patched (@UCyborg method) Flash DLLs ... @Ben Markson , your dedication and assistance on getting this troubleshot here has been loudly applauded ; many thanks indeed

Welcome.. see ya round the forum(s)

My best guess is you used a third party dark theme that changes some settings in chrome://flags to make everything look dark? Also, uBO does not install even thru dev mode from an unpacked extension folder on Chrome/Chromium. It says "could not load manifest".

As you all will see I have changed my profile to show Windows 10 x64. And yes...most of you know why I started this thread...but because of restrictions för bank tasks via older versions of Windows I was forced to update.... But it is still CRAP!

Only to confirm your impression, but on the very opposite side of the spectrum (low power machines, where a comparison is more likely to show noticeable differences). I just got two extremely el-cheapo (and old but in themselves "good enough") netbooks, identical, Asus EEE PC 12.1" 1201T (a not-so-common model sporting an AMD MV-40 processor). These machines are (were) intended as "pure" netbooks, i.e. minimal browsing and "normal" everyday activities in a rather light and portable format with a several hours lasting battery. Put on them both the max RAM (2 GB) and new 240 GB SSD drives. On the first I restored (from recovery partition) the original OS (Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit), which I then updated to SP1 and via Windows Update to an as much "current" situation as possible. On the second I experimented an install of Windows 10 home (last release 2020, directly from MS original iso). I won't detail the amount of troubles I had to actually install the stupid Windows 10, as it would become a rant, but trust me it wasn't easy (on the other hand in the Windows 7 one having to deal with Windows Update (non)response times has been as well really trying) Anyway, after having run them both a few hours and having let them "settle", I briefly tested the two PC's side by side (literally). Quick sum up: 1) booting times: Windows 7 is seemingly a tadbit slower to get to the desktop, but Windows 10 is "faking", if I count the time until the Start button responds, W7 is faster 2) CPU usage: Windows 7 uses far less CPU at rest (including running in the background some of the built-in ASUS tools), W10 has a sh**tload of processes eating CPU time 3) RAM usage; Windows 7 at rest is around 532 MB, W10 at rest is around 1.1 GB (more than double) Right now I am re-setting/re-installing the second netbook to Windows 7, and make it identical to the first one. jaclaz

Welcome to MSFN; Ricardo95.. Yeah, it is fun - isn't it to tinker. By far.. the very best investment in software was when I purchased acronis true image, so matter how many (countless) times I've botched my system (tinkering), I'm back in business in about 8 minutes with my 1 of several images I've created on removable storage - backups are soo important! See ya around the forum :)

I tried adding those functions, which are actually forwarded from secur32 to sspicli.dll, the latter of which is a completely new DLL from Windows 7. Not much success thus far with launching Edge.

Use older versions , like 80 or 81 , maybe even 82 (not sure about this one though) , they don't disable extensions by default . I'm wondering what changed between those and the newer ones. By the way , any luck on adding ResolveLocaleName ? If you remember about that weird bug with locales (Streets of Rage 4) , well I've found out that the game calls for it too.

Sure thing, mate.

What are you talking about? For the 3060 Ti, it clearly lists both 7 and 8 versions. EDIT: Oh wait... Search returned no results. But there's drivers for... Windows 7... What the f***, NVidia? Why... What????

Exactly. The proper Vista era only began in around 2008 AFAIK as proper drivers were not available for Vista and OEMs put XP drivers on Vista installs.

I'm not trying to prove, that it is unusable, just trying to help win32 locate when the problem started. Also my cpu is intel core i5-5300U since it is laptop, 16 missing drivers for vista sp2 makes this unusable.

Whoops, I never knew that. Also BTW, @WinFX's bypass method to install 4.7.2 requires 4.6.1 as a prerequisite. That's why I installed it.

No, I meant that on my laptop display, only 1366*768 resolution can be displayed (no 800 by 600, 1024 by 768 etc.), but that's the maximum supported resolution on my laptop. This could also happen with you and only 1080p resolution could be accessed by Windows 8.1, being the maximum supported resolution, so that's not a very noticable issue. You can proceed with trying to install Windows 8.1. Green signal given by me 🚦

Wanted to addon: The graphics driver successfully installed but there is an issue that prevents the changing of screen resolutions, so on my Macbook Air clone the display can only show content on it in 1366*768 resolution {max. supported resolution}, so this is not a really big issue.

I never thought I would get Windows 8.1 up and running without noticable bugs on that laptop and was actually astonished when it was successfully installed with all the very essential drivers. I got through the install (using a USB 2.0 flash drive and a USB 2.0 port) somehow without BSOD and later installed GPU, audio, wifi etc. Drivers through driver booster (I know it caused issues for you but not for me in this case). I was surprised at how a Windows 10 Intel HD graphics 505 driver successfully installed on Windows 8.1!! Also, that laptop has only 32GB of internal storage, so no updates.

Welcome to this wonderful forum sir and hello from India . Hope you enjoy the forums.

No, VM, though I can share pictures. Btw, I'm away from my computer now, so it will take some time to upload

I have the same result on Win 7 N SP1 (European version , for those who are wondering) . And this is on a clean install without patches and with kb3125574-v4 installed , the result is the same , I'm sorry , I can't make that high quality pictures , like @Dixel made . I'm maybe mistaken , but you wrote that too about Win 7.

I've started writing to them now. I'll have finished by the next 10 minutes EDIT: Done!

Yeah, now I understand. My LCD is the culprit

Now that you said that, I remember running 8.1 on some old 1.9GHz Dual Core AMD laptop, think it was like the TK-57 or something

But who uses pentium 4 as their daily machine anyways? I don't want to wait 5 minutes just for the browser to load.

Actually sometimes they are not only security fixes. Windows 8.1 received nvme updates and usb-c reliability updates. They are important for new systems.

Hi i430VX. When something goes glitchy in Windows 98 and you can't remember installing or changing anything it's likely registry corruption. If SCANREG /RESTORE command fails, you have more than a sound issue. Default C:\WINDOWS\SCANREG.INI settings back up and optimize the registry at every boot, not every day, with max backup copies of five. Recommend either increasing max backup copies to 10 or more or regularly making a quick backup of your C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP\RB00*.CAB files, especially when the system is running well, on other media into a date-stamped directory. Note the backup count is the number of boots, not days. So the issue may be that before a problem is discovered, or while troubleshooting, the system has already re-booted several times, negating a good registry backup.

I had hooked up a Dell external monitor to my secondary Vista desktop which does not have Vista drivers but SDI installed a driver, which I don't know whether to trust. But no major issues were caused.

I applied that patch but WU still does not work, probably because I have .net framework 4.6.2 installed. Any way to solve? If this can be solved, I will add it to the list As for dism++, thanks a lot for suggesting. I totally forgot about it.

Ouch that is really slow for that poor ryzen.

Hello everyone, I've been using XP for over 12 years and have not had to fiddle with it much all that time, ... Until now. It has finally decided that some software that it has aquired doesn't agree with it. It has been so long since I had to play with OS's that I have forgotten all the techniques and tricks to re-install it successfully. But thats what I think I'm going to have to do. So I've come here to get some advice on how to proceed.

I have october updates, and printing seems to work okay with office 2019, printing from web etc..

I seriously do not understand why they f****** did this. Just why?? I hate modern software companies nowadays. Everything is a f****** expensive subscription, new operating systems are pieces of junk trying to spy on you whilst looking ugly. Back to my point, why would virtualization software check if I had patched my uxtheme to sideload a new theme for example? Unbelievable! Their explanation:

The best I can come up with is going to application verifier x86 and adding these files from the steam folders in program files and program files (x86): steam.exe steam_monitor.exe steamservice.exe steamwebhelper.exe then going to application verifier x64 and adding these: steamwebhelper.exe html5app_steam.exe x64launcher.exe For each one, go to Compatibility on the tree to the right of the file lists and check HighVersionLie. Then click on it and type 6 in major version, 1 in minor version, 7601 in build number and 1 in service pack major. Then "OK" and then save on the main window. A hex edit may also be needed for steam.exe, steam.dll and steamservice.dll if Steam starts complaining about the OS version: And use this so it doesn't react to the files being modified: And someday, I'll find a way to make Vista NT 6.1 so none of this will be needed.

Windows Update no longer functions in NON-SHA2 operating systems. You need to manually obtain these updates from repository. I'm pretty sure that someone on MSFN did archive them.

Okay so I tried installing it again and the screen was still throwing that error at me and anyway, I got my old desktop back after sending it to a repairman and it works very well, so now I'll keep 7 on the laptop for now. Anyways, thanks for all your replies.

Always remember Dibya that those criticising your work, usually unjustifiably as the issues have been caused by them, almost certainly wouldn't have been able in their wildest dreams to do what you've done. Please don't let a few id*** stop you sharing your work, the vast majority really appreciate your efforts I promise!

Well, all you will obtain will be an updated definition , something like "some selfish teenage indian dude who watches anime". The "teenage" becoming (already or soon) inaccurate, time passes faster than one would expect ... Haters are gonna hate anyway. jaclaz

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