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did some changes in both github settings and in blog settings, hope these help.

You've done a lot of work. But I'm afraid the effort doesn't produce good and lasting results. The site is still broken, slow and they will change it again in a year. And this is just one forum of many. Roytam's Palemoon makes the site browsable. People won't like this, and I will keep it short. The MSFN management appears hypocritical when they complain about Microsoft and other websites, and then do similar updates. Maybe I am misjudging the proportion of content dedicated to legacy software support, because those are the only sections I visit as they are unique to this resource. I think I've made a typo while gathering the style snippets because my colors are all green. But it's so much easier to skim through with shaded Quote boxes. Could you concatenate all the fixes into one block? hxxps://i.imgur.com/XBaW5gw.png Even inserting a link now requires a special dance.

Little niche but for any geographers here, QGIS 3.16.4 works. (last version without extended kernel was 2.18)

AFAICT, the portable distribution in PAF format, https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/sumo-portable embeds the official ZIP edition which, as described previously, uses the XP-incompatible OpenSSL-1.1.1i for secure connections; it is my educated guess that the app runs in "degraded mode" under XP just because of openssl; SUMo can't reach securely the main server (Options->Settings->Get Update->SUMo Server) and produces the error you posted... But all hope is not lost, thanks to MSFN member @Reino ; aside from his XP-compatible FFmpeg builds, he also compiles and hosts XP-compatible versions of openssl-1.1.1, last one he's got available is 1.1.1i: https://rwijnsma.home.xs4all.nl/files/openssl/openssl-1.1.1i-win32-xpmod-sse.7z (i.e. not the very latest, which is 1.1.1j, but it'll do fine for SUMo purposes...). My suggestion thus is to download linked package, extract the two DLLs (libcrypto-1_1.dll+libssl-1_1.dll) and overwrite those provided with the SUMo 5.12 PAF distribution; my gut feeling is you'll be then able to connect successfully with the SUMo servers on XP (I have no way to test my theory on XP, so I'm waiting to hear back from you regarding this ... ) ! Best regards

You don't have to be in a domain nor use MS account to be ale to install Store apps. It gives you a nag to sign-in when you click the button to install it, but you can close it and then the installation begins. Still, no way to tell it nicely that you don't want MS account after you install Windows other than disconnect from the internet...

I use a domain, so I have it so MS accounts aren't required to install store apps. Really nice for those apps that I like. Also, I have figured out how MS accounts work. They do create local usernames, but it is your email used. For example, you signed in with "example@gmail.com". If you were remoting in or needing to find your local user, the user folder is usually the first 5 letters of your email "examp" and the username Windows knows is the full email "example@gmail.com" it makes it seem like its signing into gmail as a domain server, but the times I do it does not. I agree that local accounts are easier to handle with MS accounts used for UWP apps strictly. Local accounts are miles ahead of MS accounts. You can sign in automatically, but there are some registry entries you need to set to specify autologon passwords, and sometimes it doesn't even work.

It works. Times being what they are, I hope that is so for the best :P

@Vistapocalypse YES! The Vista ship is still afloat because of the renewed interest in Vista due to the invention of the extended kernel, and it will remain afloat for at least the next 5 years according to me.

Fix 80072EFF by installing the March 2016 Windows Update Client. Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: March 2016

Man do I miss the pre-Eclipse version of DeviantArt. I know I'm not the only one. So many pointless and irritating changes, and it broke compatibility with a lot of older browsers. There wasn't any reason for them to overhaul the site design, and they blatantly ignored their userbase. Then again, that is par for the course for a lot of these places. They know that their users won't stop using their service no matter how much they dislike the overhauls. Oh the other hand, I'm not sure how much of the bloat and sluggishness can be blamed for CSS3. My personal portfolio page uses both HTML5 and CSS3, but I will admit I made a huge effort to ensure that the site is capable of graceful degradation as far back as IE8. Maybe even earlier. Also, my page doesn't call in a ton of scripts off-site. That might be the major issue; most of the big sites which are clunky and slow seem like they call from many different resources off the page. Often NoScript will say there's a half-dozen or more off-site scripts in play. More than that, I think that a lot of these sites have been deliberately sabotaging usability in order to encourage people to use app versions instead. Many of the worst offenders keep hounding you to download their app when you try to visit their site on a mobile device. One wonders how much that's costing them in terms of hosting and traffic, and how much they could save by focusing on a leaner, faster, more usable design that doesn't require a bunch of off-site services.

My reply is a 2 month old bump... but this, necessarily, is what caused the problem. Laziness, ease of throwing things together, slapping a bunch of ads together, internet becoming more of a profitable means of distribution = easy money for people. The modern internet doesn't seem to stick out individually anymore though, it's all bland, and I guess it's down to ease of just throwing together things that way. I guess that also partly influenced (or vice versa) why a lot of big websites have over the past eight years or so removed many 'custom profiles' (making them more generic), and overall deprecating things that give a sense of community unless it is somehow profitable to do so for businesses as well. My biggest concern is accessibility, which is essentially thrown out of the window for slower-developing countries with lesser access to fast-speed/always-on Internet; oh, and small-screen devices, due to the more-than-useless cookie consent banners the EU imposed on the world in 2012, that can't even dismiss the stupid prompts without messing with the zoom settings.