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Changes in the latest Vista Extended Kernel release: A new function has been added to user32 in x64. This should help with newer Adobe applications. Two new functions have been added to ntdll. This will allow Windows 7 WordPad to run. That function was contributed by Ximonite. Most of the K32* series of functions have been implemented to kernel32 x86. The SetDefaultDllDirectories bug is now fixed for x86 applications. Run x86 VLC and you will see the difference. GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx is also implemented on x86, without issue. Version spoofing is now implemented. Make a file in your Windows directory named osver.ini. If you have Firefox/Thunderbird 91 or above installed, or Waterfox G4 installed, copy the path of the executable to the file and place it in brackets. Write "Enabled=1" below. Then write "FirefoxFix=1" below. Then run Firefox/Thunderbird/Waterfox. Font rendering also differs slightly with this option set on older versions of those browsers.

If I download this October’s updates from the Microsoft Catalog for Windows Server 2012 or for Windows 8.1, do they still remove the built in Adobe Flash component? There has to be someone that can answer this. I last installed updates on Windows 8 back in June. I'm hoping I can skip the last three months (which include the Flash removal tool), and resume installing updates in October and November (that is provided the Flash removal tool is no longer part of the updates),

Another change has come. The contents of the updroots.sst file have been changed; the contents of the other * .sst files are unchanged.

@DaveH Technically, the zip archive is a container. Some of its contents are encrypted/password protected, some (the mentioned .txt file) are just stored inside the container in plain text. If you open the System_Info-48-E.zip in 7-zip and check all the columns, you will see how it contains two items: 1) the System_Info-E.txt file with method "store" Encrypted "-" 2) the inner System_Info-48.zip file with method "AES-256 deflate" Encrypted "+" The outer (or External).zip can be opened normally (without password) and the .txt file can be read/extracted as well without password. 3/4 to 7/8 of the internet uses password protected archives with the password published on the forum or blog post where the link to the archive is posted. So the user downloads the archive and opens it with the provided password or - exceptionally - creates *somewhere* a *randomly named* .txt file. The some time later he/she wants to re-use the archive but cannot find anymore the post where the password is nor the .txt file on which the password was copied. You'll have to convene that Wimb's approach is better. To nitpick, the .txt file should be named System_Info-pw.txt (as opposed to System_Info-E-pw.txt) or - better - System_Info-48-pw.txtand contain as opposed to: jaclaz

d.exe might well have been a piece of malware. Anyway, it isn't part of any normal install, and since the .exe does not exist it cannot autostart/autorun, so you can well remove those entries safely. jaclaz

If you have forgotten the password, then you can with 7-zip installed double-click on the archive and can peek inside the archive and read the password that is needed to unlock the Encrypted part. So that makes it very handy and at the same time it is protected against download failure due to false-positive warning of AntiVirus and Defender Software

Like you had not inside your safe at home a scrap of paper with the combination of that same safe ...

perhaps I worded it bit too roughly. My issue with javascript is that atleast newer one does not have so strict limits what it can do to please developers and that is making it unauthorised code executed on cpu in my point of view. Webassembly which is javascript makes it even worse and upcoming webgpu well time will tell. Also javascript is not standard at all. Google and Microsoft keep creating their own code with it causing major headache to someone who does not want bleeding edge browser all the time rather prefer long term support. Atleast flash and java had standardised plugins and dynamic contect was able to work on firefox or opera and not just internet exploiter back in day. Sure those had vurneabilities, but so does webassembly and js. Anytime web browser runs unauthorised code you risk machine to those vurneabilities One of js abuse is ability to read your nic mac address which can be used for fingerprinting in future or deanonymise TOR users unless they use mac address randomisation. Question is one point activex fell out of use in favor of Javascript and everyone look how stupid idea it was to give web browser that much power. And even today some suffer from it consuquences. Enterprise environments still got tools made with active x that cannot be dropped out of use since nobody full knows how it works since person who coded it left place long ago. Vendor lock in. So how bad side effect will be once JS issues gets addressed? Yes if coders would be required use something actually optimised and not just wrap js bloated webpage to electron and call it program. I have been studying C for last few years. It is very complex, but can write very efficent code. I am tired of Microsoft teams used to communicate with workmates sucking 2gb of ram, when basic function is exactly same as older messaging softwares with too much fluff

Well, yeah, technically you're right. Problem is, JavaScript is like a drug to a lot of these "modern web devs". Once they start, they pump the page so full of JS that it seems like it's going to crash (or does). I use JavaScript on my pages when it's necessary or highly, highly useful (for example, I do NOT even use it for form validation, I use HTML5 + server side). And most people would never notice it, because it's maybe a few lines, not a book chapter's worth. I think I saw that a lot of sites are now more JavaScript than HTML, I still cannot literally fathom that, considering most of my pages (and I run *DYNAMIC WEBSITES*, mind you), have ZERO JS. Would the world technically be a better place without JS? In theory, no, but in practice, I wonder... maybe...

Somehow, someone needs to state this, to avoid possible misunderstandings. Javascript in it self is not bad or evil. It is the (terrible) use of it by incompetent or - worse - malicious web designers (and executives over them) that created the mess. Besides (and this is a pet peeve of mine) it is some 15 years that I am told how "we have new technology X (or Y) that allows us to target advertisements, to show you relevant items". Still it is 15 years that all I get is: 1) completely unrelated ads to my search terms 2) completely unrelated items to my navigation history 3) ads related to something I have ALREADY just bought (often on the same platform that processed the order, now, while something like toilet paper or soap may be something one re-buys often or periodically, I doubt that many people - like it happened last week to name an occasion - every day a wheel cart for transporting and lift demijohns (5 days of ads for similar wheel carts, 10 out of 10 at almost double the price I had paid ) or home Wi-Fi Range Extender[1]) jaclaz [1] actually I needed a Access Point, but nowadays they are the same thingy that can be used for both AP and RE, then after I had bought a small piece pertaining to a (home) network, I (obviously) was in need of some related accessories (namely a couple Rj45 wall sockets and some spare RJ45 plugs) but waited before searching for them, just to see ifthe new smart technology was actually worth something, and obviously for 3 (three) days all I had were ads for access points and not a single one about Rj45 plugs and sockets, not for anything else network or Wi-Fi related that was not an access point (I mean this smart technology might have thought I needed a switch or a router or an external antenna).

Update System_Info-48 Download: System_Info from GitHub File is is Encrypted with password = bootwimb - Hard Link List button is working now and allows spaces in FileName and FilePath e.g. files in C:\Progam Files

Interestingly, the profiles are already isolated (I think by accident). 55's are in "%APPDATA%\Moonchild\Basilisk\Profiles", while 52's are in "%APPDATA%\Moonchild Productions\Basilisk\Profiles"! So I think your suggestion about renaming one of the .exe's (for those trying this at home, rename the one that isn't your default browser), is probably the way to pull off the trick. But for non-e10s operations, New Moon 28 suffices, and it gives me the chance to "go retro" with the older UI every so often. BTW, on the topic of FF browser UI's, I think it's mostly a matter of what you've gotten used to. I was a bit annoyed when Mozilla switched FF to the Australis UI, but I'd gotten used to it by the time I got into @roytam1's builds, so I chose Serpent so I could stick with it. Back in the day, I used to use one of Mozilla's very early post-Netscape browsers (I think v1.4!) and that UI lives on in SeaMonkey, BNavigator, etc.

Must be x86 Chrome. I implemented this function a long time ago on x64 and there is a Chromium 97 build somewhere working on Vista.

Here are some more details for usage of osver.ini. You can set settings per-application as above (set Enabled=1 as well), or set them for the entire system by making an entry appended with "[global]". To accommodate every version checking method used by an application, several options are available. Unfortunately I also found that breakage became a significant possibility very quickly, so keep that in mind when using the version spoofers. You can set these values to 1: Win7SuperVerFix Win8SuperVerFix Win10SuperVerFix FirefoxFix (a lighter version of Win7SuperVerFix) You can also set these values: MajorVersion MinorVersion BuildNumber CSDVersion (the service pack string) PlatformId (caution, as the standard value of 2 is used to indicate that the OS is Windows NT. 1 represents 9x and 0 represents Win32s) For example, Firefox installers would need MinorVersion=1. You may have to briefly set it under [global] for installers that copy executables to a temp folder and do the version checks there.

They are the same as the previous version. This should now be fixed in the latest installer. Although it is recommended that users who have already run the installer rename kernel32.dll.bak to kernelol.dll in syswow64.

Hi, yes sorry I've not been on the forum for a little while, you may. Do you know what the problem is so I can fix it?

I did not suggest moving back. Just sticking a permanent shortcut to it. IMHO, the best would be to have this forum cloned/linked to in all revelant OS forums, so it appears as a subforum to them without actually moving it. Would this be possible with the current forum software?