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Hi all, I've followed MSFN on and off for a few years as a lurker, but finally decided to join as I'm building my first bare-bones old-school Windows/DOS system and wanted to share the experience and get some tips too I'm hoping to build a dual-boot DOS/Win3.11 and Windows 98SE system. Let's see how it goes! Stay safe everyone Jasmin

Welcome to MSFN :) Oh.. the memories of DOS/Win3.1 and my IBM Thinkpads. Have fun !

E.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-85-removes-flash-and-adds-protection-against-supercookies/

@Dixel Excuse me, but I would like to ask who D.Draker is.

@ArcticFoxie and @VistaLover Thanks you very much for your help! Regards

Welcome to this wonderful forum @Jasmin and hello from India

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

I don't THINK that they lock threads here so much. I know on a lot of places that necro-posting is frowned upon, but not so much here.

If you use Bitdefender TrafficLight extension in your browser... After recent update of TrafficLight, you're NOT able to download from rthost.win - so add rthost.win to the EXCEPTIONS list in the Bitdefender TrafficLight pop-up window (click first on the gear button...) - like me. Thanks... EDIT: This download problem only occurs with the newest Bitdefender TrafficLight versions from addons.mozilla.org (I had the latest version 3.1.4), on Moebius browser (Serpent 55). With legacy version (Bitdefender TrafficLight for Firefox v. 0.2.4.1-signed.1-signed.xpi) from web.archive.org, I've NO problem.

If one installs the ImTranslator Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imtranslator-translator-d/noaijdpnepcgjemiklgfkcfbkokogabh then one can translate the inline Chinese (left-over) strings, so one can at least get an idea of what the settings are about: Not a permanent solution like the one detailed by @ArcticFoxie , but still, if you only want to , I guess it could be of great help...

I don’t know of any Norton users here anyway (I use Avast Free 18.8), but it sounds like definition updates for the XP/Vista version (final revision 22.15.5.40) will end February 28 according to a recent thread at Norton Forums. Edit: Norton changed its mind?? I don’t know of any ESET users here either, but their support article Do you run ESET on Windows Vista or Windows 7? indicates that SHA-2 support will be mandatory by April 15, 2021. That is bad news for Windows XP, but of course it is well known here that SHA-2 support can be installed on Vista - but does ESET know that? Earlier today I posted a question at ESET Forums, ESET 12.x on Vista after April 15, 2021? which has received a couple of answers. ESET has no free version, but might still be an option for vanilla Vista with SHA-2 support.

new ArcticFox win32 test build is uploaded: http://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/arcticfox-27.11.0.win32-git-20210130.7z too many commits to be listed. https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox/compare/87fe13c8df953510e1a3382e5237be1bd45dd9e7...db3c2551f0a2185d344329e394d60b56401fa080

New build of Firefox 45ESR: Test binary: SSE https://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/firefox-45.9.31-20210130-dc23e55b2-win32-sse.7z IA32 https://o.rthost.win/gpc/files1.rt/firefox-45.9.31-20210130-dc23e55b2-win32-ia32.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/mozilla45esr Changes since my last build: - nss: mozpkix: sync with UXP changes (removing vim line) (78cb4f030) - import changes from mozilla nss repo: - Bug 1641480, TLS 1.3: tighten CCS handling in compatibility mode, r=mt - Bug 1672703, always tolerate the first CCS in TLS 1.3, r=mt - Bug 1663661 - Guard against NULL token in nssSlot_IsTokenPresent. r=jcj - Bug 1607449 - Lock cert->nssCertificate to prevent data race. r=jcj,keeler - Bug 1679290 - Don't hold slot lock when taking session lock r=bbeurdouche - Bug 1670769 - Remove 10 GeoTrust, thawte, and VeriSign root certs from NSS. r=kjacobs,KathleenWilson - Bug 1678166 - Add NAVER Global Root Certification Authority root cert to NSS. r=bbeurdouche,KathleenWilson - Bug 1678189 - December 2020 batch of root changes, NSS_BUILTINS_LIBRARY_VERSION 2.46. r=bbeurdouche (1dcd00026) - import changes from tenfourfox: - #621: communities.apple.com (c32eff9f8) - #633: update pins, TLDs, HSTS, timezone data (7b437c98d) - #633: M1666072 M1556259 M1558023 M1578633 bad ports update M1678413 (0bb76284c) - #633: M1683964 M1683940 M1677590 (ef55596e7) (d1e8fb2d0) - nss: sync with UXP changes (i.e. removing vim line) (ff5395449) - import changes from mozilla nss repo: - Bug 1682863 - Revert nssSlot_IsTokenPresent to 3.58 after ongoing Fx hangs with slow PKCS11 devices. r=bbeurdouche - Bug 1680400 - Fix memory leak in PK11_UnwrapPrivKey. r=bbeurdouche (dc23e55b2)

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210130-5fdeb2a-uxp-e1daeef18-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20210130-5fdeb2a-uxp-e1daeef18-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210130-5fdeb2a-uxp-e1daeef18-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20210130-0fe3d520e-uxp-e1daeef18-xpmod.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20210130-0fe3d520e-uxp-e1daeef18-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20210130-0fe3d520e-uxp-e1daeef18-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #1319 - Resolve RELEASE_OR_BETA questions in all.js (1126548de) - Issue #1390 - Clean up presentation api leftovers (7702d1f3f) - Issue #1719 - Make <menuitem> pref-controlled and disable by default. (874330d45) - Merge branch 'presentation-cleanup' (dd932e001) - [layout, XUL] Avoid accessing invalidated frame. (c1dd23bd8) - Fix rooting hazard in ImageBitmap::CreateInternal by avoiding movable data. (3a8b4ad00) - [js] Add AutoEnterOOMUnsafeRegion to JS_TransplantObject. (2f9e27a30) - [WebRTC] Improve SDP parser error handling. (3661ecee1) - [webaudio] Fix up ReverbInputBuffer's writeIndex. (2836e5146) - [DOM] Try to avoid slow shrinking GC during sync calls (8fd57ace2) - [DOM] Store weak pointer to next parents. (f77c7a36b) - [network] Hold mutex when accessing mSecurityInfo. (e1daeef18) Official Basilisk changes since my last build: - [pdf.js] Don't follow redirects on range requests for PDFs. (5fdeb2a) No official Pale-Moon changes since my last build. My changes since my last build: - import change from tenfourfox: #633: update TLDs, timezone data (7b437c98d) (2e836f2b3)

IMO games, not bloat, have driven the need for more powerful hardware, For a long time bigger software came with actual benefits. We didn't need giga- or tera- sized disk drives at one time, but then we didn't keep thousands of music tracks or videos or digital camera images with tens of megapixels. Now as of e.g., 2010 we can store those and play them in high fidelity. Ask yourself: What MORE can we do in 2020? We were told things like Virtual/Augmented Reality would become commonplace. Newsflash: It didn't happen. I'm observing specifically this in the last 10 years: With the hardware now twice as big, the OS has expanded to be even more than twice as bloated. Perhaps as much as four times. To the point where current hardware doesn't run the same software as well as the last generation. I was looking over some old data I had accumulated... I had made a spreadsheet from some testing. Back in 2015, Photoshop CC 2015 would start in 3.5 seconds on my WIndows 8.1 workstation. Now the latest Photoshop starts in 6 seconds on my much more powerful Windows 10 workstation. I thought that some of that may be the latest Photoshop getting less efficient, but even the older versions don't start as quickly as they did on lesser hardware. There is no excuse for this. We are not getting more reliable disk storage, nor better integration, nor a better computing experience. If anything, all of that has gotten worse. It's no wonder people pine for Windows 7. It got things done, even if less efficiently than XP. Earlier today I was trying to open a number of VNC windows to servers I need to manage, so that I could monitor them. The OS didn't provide features - and I haven't found a 3rd party add-on, so far - that would just allow me to open a group of VNC windows in the exact same locations and sizes they were in before. I have to write a custom script to do it, using an old tool that's been around since the 1990s. Where is the advancement? Even station-keeping would be fine; not regression! -Noel

Well I randomly ran into this thread so why not to share my desktop too https://prnt.sc/w4n5am

The old pre-CSS 3 internet looked good as it was is. It wasn't bloated, it loaded fast most of the time, it looked better than most sites do today, and CSS 2 was universal. Even some really old sites still look good to this day. Take a guess as to how old this is Here are some other archived websites that look better than their current versions https://web.archive.org/web/20120815002314/http://www.google.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20131021165347/https://www.imdb.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120315092009/http://www.newegg.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20131020212801/http://reviews.cnet.com/android-kitkat/

This mod takes the start button from the early Longhorn builds and puts it into Windows XP's explorer. The start button shown below is the only modification to explorer. Installation Instructions: 1. extract the archive containing replacer.cmd and the modded explorer 2. Locate the original explorer.exe in x:\Windows 3. Open replacer.cmd, drag said original explorer.exe into replacer.cmd, press enter 4. Drag the new explorer.exe file from the archive in (_XPmodded for x86 and XP_x64_modded for x64), press enter 5. Reboot and enjoy NOTE: Installing service packs (including uSP4) will probably undo this, take this into consideration when installing. Credits: Most go to DeviantArt user Rafax64, I used the bitmap from his modded explorer. This is also where replacer.exe came from. Rafax64 modded explorer: https://www.deviantart.com/rafax64/art/Longhorn-Explorer-Mod-for-XP-132097072 Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I0mLHemUrzbPZO01QxIm8oGvz4QAXiG0/view?usp=sharing