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Lots to catch up on here! Firstly, I don't know what was up with Dixel's, um, fervent fixation on the intertwining of KGB-type things in almost every aspect of the modern Internet, but I'm glad it's over. For now, anyway; it was getting pretty close to violating the no-politics rules, I think. I wasn't really following any of it, so I can't say for sure. Secondly, I'm really glad these browsers are still being released regularly, despite repeated attempts by MAT, et. al. to thwart @roytam1's efforts via FUD and other underhanded methods. It's my go-to browser for XP, 2000 (with the Extended Core), and, before win32's marvelous Extended Kernel project came into being, Vista. It would be nice to eventually see it cleaned up a bit, maybe like have a milestone release every 4-6 weeks like Mozilla (or, better yet, proper branding!) Of course, things as they are are perfectly fine for most of the few people left using XP (most of whom are likely to be power users who know their way around this stuff), but I've observed that the frequent release of many different developmental versions can be pretty confusing for those who simply want a browser that works, as they can't decide which one they want, nor do they fully understand how to "install" them. This has been discussed at length off-and-on, so I'm not saying anything new, I don't think. Be that as it may, I'm simply glad this project exists! Keep up the good work! c

For starters you will need Windows 98 Second edition install cd, Not Windows 98 GOLD/RTM. 98 and 98SE got some changes under the hood and some drivers works best on Windows 98SE. Visually you can see it by looking whatever install cd you got next to "for pc without windows" or "shipped with new pc" or similar text it should say Second Edition. Second way is insert cd and look readme. It should say Windows 98 Second edition. I got both and for newer hw 98SE worked best To make it run windows 98 natively you need do lot of tweaks and give up on features. First of all you cannot have direct 3d support since intel never provided offical drivers. Best free one I know is VBE9X. Second good one is Scitech display doctor. Also take note you will have very buggy audio using this hd audio driver. To have better audio I recommend buying cheap generic usb audio. Even my brand new sound blaster rage 2.0 wireless headset works oobe on win98SE using hid usb audio driver. For network no driver for your nic, you need look usb network adapter that got win98 drivers Then you will need RLoew ram patch to have windows 98 booting properly with over 1gb of ram, then you will need sata patch for sata hdd support. On some newer boards windows 98 will hang on blank screen even on emulated ide mode. If you want use achi mode you can use achi driver. You will also need lba48 patch and possibly 1tb patch to handle hdd on laptop. Those needs to be installed before booting from hdd for first time. Also set sata mode to ide/legacy during setup, copy files from cd to hdd to c:\windows\system\precopy (where atleast 98SE looks files first). Use md command to create that dir then run setup.exe /p i /im /is (skip memory check, scandisk and disable achi that is buggy on newer boards). Then apply patches, reboot to bios, change mode back to achi and hopefully it will boot. I have done it to newer hw just because I can and to prove it to be possible but user experience was horrible and lack of proper 3d and audio was deal breaker to me. For win98 laptop like dell d600 or d620 (If ati x300) would work better If you want go trough all that hassle and install Windows 98 because you can go ahead and do it. If you do not want I recommend listen @Gansangriffand use virtual machine. Vmware got decent win98 performance and audio, I run test vm on vmware to win98 stuff.

Thanks for the info VistaLover and Dave-H. I posted that comment because I noticed that in February I was able to access it under HTTP in Internet Explorer 8. Probably Microsoft put HSTS onto the site.

Minimum Requirements: Windows 7 and up. Recommended Requirements: Windows 10. https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360035131371-Minecraft-Java-Edition-system-requirements- This was already discussed in a December 2020 thread, End of support for Minecraft on Vista. Edit: Also some discussion on page 70 of the lengthy extended kernel thread in January.

... Below is the test for "www.catalog.update.microsoft.com" on SSL Labs/Server: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.catalog.update.microsoft.com As one can see, it also offers connection over TLS 1.0+1.1, with weaker cipher suites (e.g. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (0x2f)); however, as you posted, IE8/XP isn't able to connect, and this is indicated further down below, in the "Handshake Simulation" section; the deal breaker in that case might also be the lack of SNI support in IE8 under XP, as well as lack of available cipher suites... It's a good thing, of course, that the catalog is no more an ActiveX-exclusive (read IE-only) site, so it can be accessed on XP via alternate browsers (SSL Labs claim that even Chrome 49/XP SP3 works...). Best regards , welcome to MSFN!

The HP Solutions Center software for HP Printers was built using Flash. I have run into a situation where that software will generate an error in Event Viewer saying that you need to reinstall the software after upgrading the OS! This gets written when that software is set to load at boot. If you try to open the software, it will just show the Flash killswitch image. HP has not released any other version that doesn't have Flash in it, so it basically has ended support for this. In the situation I had to deal with yesterday, it was on Windows 8.1 and it was actually not possible to print until the software was uninstalled. https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-Knowledge-Base/HP-Solution-Center-not-working-Adobe-Flash-Player-Error-and/ta-p/7946145

Well, I lost my sleep but I think I did solve this mystery! Of the versions currently present in the GitHub repo, https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/releases only the very latest at the time (now @v1.1.8) is able to be successfully installed in St52 by directly clicking on its .xpi link Attention: this is a left click, not "Save As" context menu (right) click! The browser will then ask you to grant github.com permission to install "software", click "Allow" and then will come the prompt to install! I don't have a full explanation based on documented literature for the above behaviour, but it appears that what takes precedence, in the above scenario, over the <em:minVersion>52.9.2020.10.05</em:minVersion> requirement inside the add-on's install.rdf file is the content of line: <em:updateURL>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/master/update.xml</em:updateURL> inside that same file, which always points to the latest version, but with a different <em:minVersion> of just 52.9: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <RDF:RDF xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> <RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:extension:github-wc-polyfill@Off.JustOff"> <em:updates> <RDF:Seq> <RDF:li> <RDF:Description> <em:version>1.1.8</em:version> <em:targetApplication> <RDF:Description> <em:id>{8de7fcbb-c55c-4fbe-bfc5-fc555c87dbc4}</em:id> <em:minVersion>28.14.0</em:minVersion> <em:maxVersion>29.*</em:maxVersion> <em:updateLink>https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/releases/download/1.1.8/github-wc-polyfill-1.1.8.xpi</em:updateLink> </RDF:Description> </em:targetApplication> <em:targetApplication> <RDF:Description> <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id> <em:minVersion>52.9</em:minVersion> <em:maxVersion>52.*</em:maxVersion> <em:updateLink>https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/releases/download/1.1.8/github-wc-polyfill-1.1.8.xpi</em:updateLink> </RDF:Description> </em:targetApplication> <em:targetApplication> <RDF:Description> <em:id>{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}</em:id> <em:minVersion>2.53.4</em:minVersion> <em:maxVersion>2.53.*</em:maxVersion> <em:updateLink>https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/releases/download/1.1.8/github-wc-polyfill-1.1.8.xpi</em:updateLink> </RDF:Description> </em:targetApplication> </RDF:Description> </RDF:li> </RDF:Seq> </em:updates> </RDF:Description> </RDF:RDF> So, the latest version will ALWAYS install , but previous versions, for which the "update.xml" URI is non-relevant, WON'T install (directly from GitHub or via drag-n-drop as downloaded files beforehand), because in that case the <em:minVersion>52.9.2020.10.05</em:minVersion> condition is in effect, not the <em:minVersion>52.9</em:minVersion> one, exclusive to the latest version at the time... Hope all this makes sense to the rest of you now...

Ok I narrowed down the problem with the sticking mouse wheel. I thought it was google voice at first but usually I'll check both google and hotmail together. It turns out that it's hotmail seemingly causing the problem. After each visit page scrolling begins sticking and I'm forced to reboot the browser. This started recently after microsoft began messing around with the website.

Much appreciated, @VistaLover NONE of your suggestions worked - BUT they were enough to get me moving in the right direction with a little over two hours of trial-and-error, so many thanks! And I may have inadvertently mislead (apologies) - I cited two about:config settings from my MyPal / New Moon profiles (one for autorefresh, one for onbeforeunload). I couldn't post a test URL because I only allow javascript on a whitelist basis so I actually only encounter this "nuisance" on one of my requires-login web sites. And the "nuisance" is only after I log out. Admittedly, I tried over a dozen extensions from the Chrome Web Store before posting my enquiry - I couldn't get any of them to work and in frustration I gave up and posted my enquiry. I have been using Stylem/Stylus for years and it's one of my biggest must-have add-ons. I've never bothered with Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey and therein was the FIX for this nuisance - again, many thanks! The cited archived userscript did not do the trick because unbeknownst to me at the time, the nuisance was a META refresh. And I was able to find a UserScript at Greasy Fork to disable it -- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/16079-disable-autorefresh/code

Lots of help in the stickies.

Yes Vista is mentioned in the thread title, because it's a thread about the cessation of the Windows Update services, which happens to apply to both XP and Vista, which is why it's mentioned. However posts about problems which are specific to Vista alone should of course be in the Vista section.

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Well posts about Windows Vista should not be in this section of the forum anyway! You contribution was obviously valuable @Dixel, and if you want to please make a new thread in the Vista section of the forum outlining your fix and stating what problems it should resolve. We will look at pinning it, and moving the relevant posts from this thread to it. AFAIK liking or upvoting posts does not give them any more prominence here, and while you are quite free to ask people to upvote your posts, others are quite entitled to disapprove of this! Cheers, Dave.

But Sombady Can Get Mad At You For Spamming The Forums With Useless Topics This Here Is Just Bragging Unless You Provide Details On The Process

Where do you want to go today? - Windows 95 marketing Spent yesterday evening enjoying my 'Windows 95 with USB Support' CD, which 'INCLUDES CD Sampler with FREE GAMES!'. Holy crap there's a lot of fluff on it. IMHO the world was already too busy by 1997. Can see why DOS purists resisted Windows 3.1, Windows 95 users never wanted Windows 98, Windows 98 fans thought DOS-based should never die, Windows XP lovers trash Windows 7 through 10. Been a long time since Microsoft was just about an OS. Reviewed the seemingly endless demos, extras, trials and marketing on the CD. This is, of course, in addition to bloat already built into the OS itself. The entire CD contains 588 MB of data, the D:\win95 directory is 148 MB. Scattered list below: 3D Movie Maker, Automap Trip Planner, Cinemania, Dogs, Oceans, PJ's Reading Adventures, Wine Guide, World of Flight, Streets Plus, NBA Full Court Press, Close Combat, Dreamworks The Neverhood, Gex, Arcade, Entertainment Pack, Flight Simulator, Golf, Sidewinder, Sidewinder 3D Pro, Soccer, Space Simulator, Cooper McQue Breaks Through, Dreamworks Goosebumps Escape from Horrorland, Dreamworks Someone's in the Kitchen, Explorapedia, Bookshelf, CarPoint, Encarta Encyclopedia, Encarta World Atlas, Complete Gardening, Mouse, Home Mouse, Natural Keyboard, Julia Child Home Cooking, Money, Reader's Digest Do-It-Yourself Guide, Hallmark Greetings Workshop, Kids Easy Ball mouse, Hellbender, Magic School Bus, Pac-Man, Picture It, Publisher, Deadly Tide, Monster Truck Madness, Hover, Edie Brickell's Good Times, Creative Writer, Works, ClipBook Viewer, Microsoft Diagnostics, Word View. In addition, the 'content' subdirectory in D:\win95 contains content for: aol, audionet, cmpnet, cnet, cnn, cnnsi, comics, conline, discover, disney, epicur, espn, expedia, forbes, fortune, hwood, investor, ivill, msn, msnbc, mtv, nbc, ngc, nyt, pcn, people, quicken, snap, sptline, time, wbros, wired, wsj, zdnet. Will stop now before i make myself crazy, too late! Next install will definitely be minimized in some way. Thinking multi-boot with DOS only, Windows 3.1, a minimized Windows 95 or 98 with RetroZilla and K-Meleon, one modern GNU/Linux for modern browsing, OpenBSD for banking. Scary: Microsoft Remote Registry service was already available in Windows 95. Fun fact: Pac-Man trial allows playing the first two levels :)