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i will say this... they can polish it to look like Bender's shiny a** but i will NEVER go to any post 7 version, ever ever, because of their disgusting anti-privacy embedded in system and i still dont understand why people keep using this piece of s*** NT OS ? games ? ok, stiff it VM and youre ok anything else makes no sense ... at least for home use...

GitLab have started implementing the Google-devised Web Components JS framework, en route to their annual, major, software upgrade... So, "monkey see, monkey do" , i.e. following close in the footsteps of major competitor, GitHub... Application platforms with non-existent or half-baked WC support (UXP in "our" case) will fail to load GitLab pages correctly, hence https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/issues/25 was filed... If you care to read, JustOff initially declined to indulge us (I suppose his ousting from the core of the UXP devs doesn't help in such cases ), but further input from users affected (me included) has, fortunately, caused him to rethink things... FWIW, this is the original issue opened in the GitLab tracker: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/333598 As you'd imagine, this is still OPEN, with no official response from any GL representative; probably another "WON'TFIX"...

XPerceniol, the mobile version of youtube is still light, but there you need to create rules for ublock for example m.youtube.com##lazy-list > .spinner

Naah , I believe that the good MS guys think in dec but write in hex , they have a single nibble available for version but reserved B,C,D,E,F for future use, of course NOT documenting it, but rather half-@§§edly marking those values as "RESERVED, DO NOT USE", the project manager quickly realized that he couldn't go further than A, so in order to keep compatibility with older versions added a field for subversion and the good marketing guys came out with clear, logical, consistent version naming, like, you know: Version 1507 Version 1511 (November Update) Version 1607 (Anniversary Update) Version 1703 (Creators Update) Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) Version 1803 (April 2018 Update) Version 1809 (October 2018 Update) Version 1903 (May 2019 Update) Version 1909 (November 2019 Update) Version 2004 (May 2020 Update) Version 20H2 (October 2020 Update) (you remember the good ol' times when we had SP1, SP2, etc.?) and since they (the marketing guys) have no idea of what a version is, nor what names are for, or more generally no ideas at all, they promoted the "fixed" Windows 10 is and will be the last one. Recently they put a couple interns in a disused lavatory (with a sign on the door "beware of the leopard") where they had archived some old documents, and the yutes[1] found a post-it with scribbled on it "values B,C,D,E,F can be used for Windows versions 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, need to add this to the official documentation", and the Windows project started a new life. Mind you, not that this is what has happened, but it is what may have happened (and still is much more logical than Windows 10 versioning ). jaclaz [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes/qt0404568

is there any way to make a "localized" version of firefox with the required dlls? I tried this and it works! no need to install mfplat and break other windows components like wmp, dreamscene and experience index you just need to make a folder called "firefox.exe.local" in the folder where you extracted the installer so you can run it as "portable" and then throw in there the 4 mfplat DLLs

WinNTSetup - a simple but powerful universal Windows Installer Features: Install (unattend) Windows 2k/XP/20??/Vista/7/8.x/10/11 x86/x64/arm64 Practically runs even on the most minimalistic WinPE selectable drive letter for the new Windows installation Fully automated with save/load setting in ini file and various command line options Install Windows also if nlite/vlite has remove winnt32.exe/setup.exe Integrate Drivers: normal PNP and Textmode Drivers Patch uxtheme to allow unsigned Themes Some common registry tweaks and *.reg file import DISM APPX removal, feature enable/disable Simple VHD creation and Installation Support "Windows to Go" for Windows 7 and later installs Supports WimBoot and CompactOS option for Windows 7 and later Supports all current WIM files: WIM/SWM/ESD and ISO files WinCapture - capture a Windows installation to WIM or ESD file MinWin - simple trimming WIM in memory before apply WinCopy - copy an existing Windows installation to another partition Offline Hotfix uninstall Offline password reset Not Supported: - No Windows embedded version (this includes WinFLP) - No upgrades of existing installations About driver installation: Every driver added in NT6.x windows will be added to the driver store. So it's not recommended to add countless driver, but rather more really required ones. NT5.x massstorage driver integration is possible thanks to Mr dUSHA powerful MSSTMake.exe tool To the Unattend option: It's possible to use an unattend.xml to run the Setup unattended. But as the actual WinPE Setup Phase isn't effective in that way of install, all Winpe related settings inside the unattend.xml won't be applied. Ini config file It's possible to save all GUI-settings to a ini file: push Ctrl + S to save all settings to an ini. push Ctrl + L to load all settings from an ini. A WinNTSetup.ini file in the same dir as the app itself will be loaded automatically at startup. It also can be selected via command line: WinNTSetup.exe /cfg:"C:\mysettings.ini" If you want to modify ini settings yourself, click-click has made a nice PDF for it. For advanced users there are also hidden settings described in the included WinNTSetup.ini.txt Command line: - Press F1 to get list of all options To install Windows in a VHD file: - requires Windows 7 as OS and Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise or Server 2008 R2 as Source - create a partitioned VHD and assign a drive letter (push Ctrl + Shift + V to use build in diskpart wrapper for this) - select the VHD drive as installation drive (make sure you boot drive ist a active primary partition on a physical disk) If you get an Antivirus warning from your AV software, please report it to them as a false positive and let them check it. Current Version: 5.4.1 Download: Mega - MediaFire

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Why don't you do you install with everything and make a clone?..That way you don't have to reinstall everything every time.... bookie32

I am feeling: Grateful (MSFN is back)

Firefox 78 https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20210623T030849Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_78.11.0esr-1~deb10u1_i386.deb https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20210623T030849Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_78.11.0esr-1_i386.deb Fastest Firefox 68 https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20201015T150652Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_68.10.0esr-1~deb9u1_i386.deb https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20201015T150652Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_68.12.0esr-1~deb10u1_i386.deb It is advisable to do the following for better responsiveness layers.omtp.enabled - false media.av1.enabled - false media.cubeb.sandbox - false media.rdd-process.enabled - false security.sandbox.content.level for Firefox 68 - 0 dom.ipc.processCount - 1 extensions.webextensions.remote - false browser.tabs.remote.warmup.enabled - false browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory - true layers.async-pan-zoom.enabled - false toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled - false browser.stopReloadAnimation.enabled - false browser.suppress_first_window_animation - false

YOU should make it (the PE) from YOUR Windows files, THEN you add to the build the winntsetup. Windows PE .iso's are NOT redistributable. jaclaz

No!!! I'm not paying for Windows 10! I have to be paid to use it. A lot of money to be honest. Else Linux for new computers.

that's not how it works install.wim from vista contains most of the os (vista) inside it, like system files (eg. system32) if you replace that with windows 10's that basically means that you are trying to install windows 10 but with a vista installer

My full opinions of Windows 11 are now confirmed at the moment. Subject to change on announcement day, but right now: Windows 11 is the same if not worse than Windows 10. All this "Windows is back!!" stuff is all a bunch of hype gain. Many factors have changed in 11 that will definitely make me come to say I will not be upgrading to it at any point in time right now. Loss of taskbar context menu (Win+X still exists, though) Taskbar size has increased, causing it to have less screen real estate and also caused the clock to be crammed. Windows 11 on my systems are less performant than a bloated 10 install The TPM 2.0 requirement may destroy easy-installation on my systems if it's not just a internal feature Nothing much changed under the hood meaning its like the difference of 8.0 to 8.1 or Vista to 7 Start menu is even worse with all the bullsht removed (Recommended sucks, the start menu tiles suck too) meaning that I will use Open Shell more often now. The 10 start menu was somewhat usable with all the bs removed WDDM 3.0 is now introduced in this meaning that staying back on 10 will slowly become hell because of a possible DirectX 13 release? Future update system may have changed to an Apple style one, meaning in 2022 we may get Windows 12, so on in 2023.. Knowing Microsoft we will be forced on Windows 11 just like GWX in 2015 Because so many people are Windows 10 shills, Windows 11 is getting massive amounts of love and affection even before its official announcement Welp, another forced upgrade and depreciation of what makes Windows decent is upon us. This time, less people support legacy Windows so I expect this one to be more of a hell for people who don't like 10 or 11.

We are reaching point where monopoly I have been warning long time starts happen. When Windows 98 came out ms paid vendors to make many usb devices only run on win98 offically since windows 98 had Internet exploiter forced in. I was able force many windows 98 exclusive usb devices run under Windows 95 with little or no tweaking and usb was not so big deal. Many pda devices (ibm workpads as good example) and phones (example nokia 9000 communicator) had serial port, so did cameras and printers until 2002 or so. Plus there NT4 as other option that still was very good to workstation use. Atleast gpu and mainboard supported Win95 until nivdia fx 5xxx. On that point there was luckily 98lite that allowed run win95 shell on windows 98 and remove ie plus there was Windows XP and Windows 2000 which even I hate IE intergration are pretty solid and mature operating systems and run xp as daily drive. There has always been two or three options to windows that been offically supported. Not talking about ability to buy it from ms since many retailers had unsold copies and internet had unused copies sold too to get it. When Windows 8 came out I knew things were going to be bad. It was impossible trying power use it on my works. Touchscreen UI got no place on desktop. Knew would be some point left with only Windows 8 as offically supported. Then Windows 10 came which was utter piece of junk and worse than Windows 98 FE with ie4. I only got Windows 10 at work laptop since all domain systems must run it and whatever ms software. On home windows 10 is banned permanently, I would rather go fully linux than win10. My issue is with win10 is constant updates, messy ui (two intergrated browsers, two control panels etc). Now Windows 11 is rolling out and seems we are slowly going Windows RT line of locked down computing devices in name of security. Actually peoples who know exploit can damage locked down system while user who is accepting fact it is locked down cannot stop it. There is no more good options on Windows. I warned long time what ms will eventually do but nobody listened since "microsoft is my friend and they care from me". We need hope community will stay strong. Do not give up using OS you like just because you are told to. Fighting back is worth it even if hard sometimes.

Yes, while i do have UEFI-CSM as an alternative i did try native uefi for Vista and 7, one would need a VGA emulator like UefiSeven for UEFI class 3 or something like that or you could replace the bootmgr.efi file and maybe even bootmgfw.efi and replace it with windows 10's, anyhow while it works on 7 vista just gets stuck on a black screen, it just doesnt boot at all, i even tried with windows 8.0's files and it still didnt work.

Yes, I'm tooo!

I'm feeling: Delightful (due to MSFN being online again)

I cannot see anything on mixed contect. Does it need js on that test? Windows build lacks it for now

It appears not, thank goodness!

wwweekendly ;o)

I'm feeling: Cool I feel hopeful too

Sounds like Windoze 8.1 won the duel. But, I suspect somehow your vista system files have become corrupted. Did you install 8.1 to the same partition as vista, or something?

A Haswell-based system running Win 7 and serving as a small server is working perfectly. And when I say perfectly, I mean it doesn't even log anything more than an informational message in the System Event Log for months at a time. It runs forever without fault, does its job with aplomb, has plenty of free storage, and will not likely be asked to do any more in the next few years than it already does. It's layered with much more (and smarter) than typical security and its usage is such that it's not at risk from typical things like web pages loaded into a browser and downloads by a user. Likely it won't need updating until the hardware actually fails. Since it's high quality server hardware, that won't be for years. So... To update it or not? I'm seriously leaning toward not. Ever again. My father tried to teach me, "If it works, don't fix it". I'm knowledgeable enough about networking and OS operations that I'm not affected by FUD and hype such as "OMG, if you don't update you'll be infected for sure". I know how it could be attacked, and it's just very, very well protected. I always try to keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't fixed anything since Win 7 went off mainstream support, and the only thing they've done lately is to slow the OS down... Even if the heaviest patches are disabled (GRC InSpectre, anyone?) it's still slower than it was in 2017. I can't believe I'm even considering whether to run another Windows Update on it. The social engineering that has brought us to this point and made us feel dependent on Mother Microsoft to keep trickling out fixes for vulnerabilities they originally built in is mind boggling. What price, (a false sense of) security? -Noel

I stopped updating at the end of the last year, despite all the Spectre & Meltdown issues. ¯\_(O_o)_/¯ I've read too many problems about the new Microsoft patches (various still not fixed). At this point I don't trust very much both MS's honesty (=not sabotaging Win7) and competence (they're constantly breaking Win10 too).