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i've made Java 8 update 291 (the latest one available, April 2021) run under Windows XP after tweaking the binaries with XomPie 0.6. The procedure consists in installing Java 8 update 152, then copying the 291 files to the program files java folder, replacing the old ones, and then applying PE flags and kernel32.dll to each and ever .exe file, as well as to management.dll. Java 8 update 241 is more easy to install as the binaries are right away compatible with Windows XP, but as the installer doesn't work you have to install another one and replace again. Both seem to work fine after testing a few applications as well as minecraft. this is further explained on my website: http://neonfloppy.sytes.net/docs/software-winxp/java/

So it seems like people do still use 8.1, and I decided to go about finding rough estimates. As of January 2020, there are 1.2 billion Windows PCs on the internet. We will use that data for our estimates. As of today, the current marketshare of each Windows version is: Win10: 66.64% Win7: 18.49% Win81: 2.57% Win8: 0.5% WinXP: 0.48% WinVista: 0.07% 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000 are all at 0.00% marketshare, meaning it is probably a very small number. If we use our percentages with our total # of Windows PCs, we get: Win10: 1.3 billion (as of Mar 2021), not calculated with the total becuase our latest data for that was before 10 hit 1 billion Win7: 221.8 million Win81: 30.8 million Win8: 6.0 million WinXP: 5.7 million WinVista: 840,000 (Assuming marketshare of 0.01%) Legacy: <120,000 Meaning that around 30.8 million use 8.1, and 6 million use 8.0. This is not exact numbers, these are rough estimates. Lets go deep into the specific Win10 versions. We have 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909, 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and Insiders to find. According to AdDuplex, per 70K computers it is: Insider: 0.7% 21H1: N/A 20H2: 40.1% 20H1: 40.6% 1909: 11.1% 1903: 3.3% 1809: 1% 1803: 1.4% 1709: 1.0% 1703: <1% 1607: <1% 1511: <1% 1507: <1% If 1.3 billion devices run 10, we get: Insider: 9.1 million 20H2: 521 million 20H1: 527 million 1909: 144 million 1903: 42.9 million 1809: 13.0 million 1803: 18.2 million 1709: 13.0 million >1703: <13 million Why get this data? Just to see actually how many computers you are in a pool with on the internet.

You gave that workaround two months ago on page 28 of this thread, so don’t be offended if I don’t “like” it a second time. As for myself, I think I can manage to avoid visiting a “specially crafted website” with IE9, since I never use it at all anymore. Edit: I almost forgot to ask, Have you had any success installing .NET Framework updates for Server 2008 SP2 that have been released in the last year or so?

@dmiranda i've done some quick benchmaks with this tool: https://github.com/renaissance-benchmarks/renaissance using java 8 update 20 (i couldn't find update 17), update 152 and update 291. test were run with the following commands, picking the best result for each iteration: rx-scrabble -r 16, akka-uct -r 4, fj-kmeans -r 4 i couldn't find any significant performance difference. everything seems within the margin of error. maybe with other applications or tasks there is difference, but for general data processing and I/O seems the same. results are as follows (respectively: rx-scrabble, akka-uct, fj-kmeans): update 291: 485.814 ms, 49395.213 ms, 7072.282 ms update 152: 486.348 ms, 48090.700 ms. 7086.101 ms update 21: 488.517 ms, 51775.709 ms, 6663.593 ms i guess the advantage of using newer updates is security enhancements and running modern applications that do require newer updates to run at all.

32bit: http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2021/04/windows6.0-kb5003165-x86_6934e71bbdd55abf9d13b4c1799463e7c8e66f49.msu 64bit: http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2021/04/windows6.0-kb5003165-x64_f1d972f3a9fbdc5fbfefbfdb0a67e86e5d8dde6e.msu For the x64 update, you can install the IE part of it with a workaround: - start cmd as administrator - change location to the folder that contains the msu file, example cd /d C:\updates - copy/paste and execute these commands (preferably one by one) mkdir .\tmp expand.exe -f:*Windows*.cab *kb5003165-x64*.msu . >nul expand.exe -f:* *kb5003165-x64*.cab .\tmp >nul start /w PkgMgr.exe /ip /m:"%cd%\tmp\package_2_for_kb5003165~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.0.1.1.mum" /quiet /norestart start /w PkgMgr.exe /ip /m:"%cd%\tmp\package_3_for_kb5003165~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.0.1.1.mum" /quiet /norestart del /f /q *kb5003165-x64*.cab rd /s /q tmp

I downloaded the 2021.3 version from their website, but its just downloading a incompatible latest version (2021.4) instead for some reason, However, as of May 20, G Hub got a update and 2021.4 was compatible with Windows 7, and 8.1, and they marked a note that 2021.4 would be latest version for 7, 8 and 8.1 (aswell macOS 10.13). and for some reason, they mistakenly put Windows 7, 8.1 as the last to support version 2021.4 but only mark it on Windows 10 for some reason.

I do not use this 360 browser, but I may, so I follow (which helps in other areas too, given the input provided from users like yourself) this thread. Going to your point, you may want to try Firemin (which despite what the page says, seems to work in XP -but I have not yet found any need for it, so I don't know if it really does) https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/firemin/. Cheers

no clue what/how is Feodor2 doing in his repo, it is hard to trace specified change since he always rebasing/recommiting changes.

The Browser Extension "they" provide for "Firefox" is of the WebExtension format, so will only install in FxESR 52.9.x and Serpent 52.9.0/55.0.0; it doesn't run in KM and it won't install/run in New Moon 27/28, because these browsers do NOT support WEs...

The repack is at version 13.0.2250.0. But like the last five or six releases, the Dev Tools is still in Chinese. Looks like I may be forever stuck at build 2206 when the Dev Tools was last released in English.

To answer all of these, it comes down to the theme you use in Curtains. I am using the "New Acrylic" theme from wincustomize. It is very basic, nothing fancy, no fancy buttons, etc so stock Window Caption buttons. It also has its own level of "blur" to be as close to Acrylic as it can. I also went and added the reflections image that was shared in this thread on top of that to have the reflective look to it. Really, any theme can have blurred title bars if you know how to go into photoshop and manually create a gaussian blur to your liking. Here's an example of what my titlebar looks like. It's not entirely blurred but also not completely transparent either to where it's a distraction to have multiple windows open showing everything straight through. If you're having trouble making the gaussian blur in photoshop then it might be how you're making it or something. I havent had any issues, just came down to getting the kinda blur I wanted.

Well ethernet driver cannot be installed or modified yet. Better grab some cheap ethernet controller. I prefer ryzen though and amd motherboards including x570 works with all drivers installed just fine. Heck I even saw someone running vista on amd ryzen platform, so for older oses I recommend going ryzen.

There are instructions for patching the XP files if you have access to a Windows 7-10 machine. Basically, patch the files on that machine and then copy the patched versions back to the XP machine!

I looked up that "Flash killswitch image" since i can't run the latest Flash versions and haven't seen it... and stumbled upon this patcher. Thought it could be useful for someone. Unfortunately, it's made for .NET 4.5 and won't run on XP...