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WinNTSetup 5.1.0 - fixed global disabling of combobox animation - fixed vertical alignment of edit controls - fixed now using rounded button in Win11 Darkmode - fixed vhd-create commandline option only accepts - not / - fixed combo could add empty strings and accepts them as valid input - removed subframe from Darkmode Messagebox in Win11 - added format option to ini and GUI (right click on F button) - added /help command line option - added option 'VHD creation, FAT32 Part' boot file creation - added option 'VHD creation, FAT32 Part' select as boot drive - added option 'VHD creation, FAT32 Part' assign drive letter - updated BootICE Darkmode

We kinda drifted OT a bit, didn't we? Trying (perhaps in vain) to bring things back around to browsers, I think the Web browser is the one app Google, M$, et al. use to force us to quit using our favorite OS and "upgrade." After all, that's the main reason I no longer use Win 98SE: can't browse the modern Web, even slowly, with anything that runs on it. We've all done a remarkable job here keeping XP alive with @roytam1's builds of Firefox-based browsers and @Humming Owl's and @NotHereToPlayGames's builds of 360EE. All are useful and the latter two are compatible with pretty much anything the modern Web can throw at us. But UXP has taken us about as far as it can, and even 360EE is about to reach the end of the line for XP. And you all know full well that the powers that be will keep changing things, so we'll all be forced to "upgrade" to a new browser (probably based on Chromium 95 or "modern" Firefox) that has no hope of running on XP or Vista. Luckily we do have Win 7, which isn't a huge adjustment for XP/Vista users, but the writing is on the wall for Win 7 too. Maybe China will once again buy us a few more years, but eventually even Win 7 will succumb to the shifting sands of the Web, and browsing will become impractical even on Win 7. At that point, I think Win 8.1 (with Classic Start Menu) is at least tolerable, but Linux is looking better & better....

The route I am considering is a "Build Your Own All-in-One" where ALL versions are contained within ONE download. What this would enable folks to do is run the "standard" to install their extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store but then they could switch over to the "ungoogled" to prevent the Google telemetry. Whenever they need to visit the Chrome Web Store, they'd just have to run the "Builder" to switch back to "standard", install their extension, then run the "Builder" again to switch back to "ungoogled".

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

Hope for the future! "This extension also changes the javascript based "navigator userAgent" ": User-Agent Switcher (Offered by: eSolutions Nordic AB): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher/aedikcfpfonanffanecfolneiaoakmlc/related?hl=en-US -so "User-Agent Smart Switcher" is NOT so smart... EDIT: I see that jeffersonscher.com is wrong... this extension linked above does NOT change "navigator userAgent", sadly ... Rely only on two other test links: speed-battle.com and w3schools.com. - No extensions work...so last possibility: change user agent manually...

Sadly it's not true, it's always possible to detect your TRUE OS... with your TRUE user Agent. - with navigator.userAgent: look here: https://jeffersonscher.com/res/jstest.php "JavaScript Browser Tests navigator object properties Scripts in web pages can check various properties of the navigator object. This information can be blocked or overridden by the user. navigator.userAgent =" ... uh oh! NT 5.1 are Windows XP...in your TRUE user-agent. Look here too, for your TRUE userAgent: http://www.speed-battle.com/speedtest_e.php Navigator userAgent Property, example of the user-agent header sent by your browser is: var x = "User-agent header sent: " + navigator.userAgent; Try it Yourself here: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_nav_useragent.asp - so click Run, then Try it here: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_nav_useragent - and have a good evening as well!

OMG, NO! I tried so many times since the release of Win7...I don't like it much, tried everything with classic look and ClassicShell, but there are so many things more driving me crazy on Win7. If the point of no return is reached, I will move to ReactOS and/or some BSD and/or macOS. Why you don't use the POSReady updates? I had and have no serious problems with them and can really recommend them. As said above Win7 is no solution for me...for me it would be a huge adjustment - unlike ReactOS which feels like 2k/XP. I also knew MSFN long before (~2005!?) when I was searching for Win98SE stuff, because I don't wanted to switch to XP for several reasons - this was before XP became what it was later (after the release of SP3). I also joined MSFN because Pale Moon dropped XP support to get support for @roytam1's New Moon and I think we both are not the only ones...OK there won't be thousands - but I think more then ten - of new members. kind regards soggi

Agreed. The MSFN crowd really is very unique. And extremely rare. We really are very tiny in the grand scheme of things. I knew of MSFN long before becoming a member. And it was official Pale Moon dropping support for XP that landed me here as a member. But I feel like I was the ONLY person that landed here when official Pale Moon dropped XP. Fast forward and we saw what offical Pale Moon continued to do for XP. But did people flock to MSFN? Nope, we had two new members, maybe three. But for a day or two and they're not here anymore. I may be overexaggerating but you can follow that logic. 25 million or so XP users worldwide and you only need to take one shoe off to count all of the XP users active here at MSFN.

Were you in the process of downloading something at the time? If so, there may be a hidden API "download manager" being used by DcBrowser.

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The mirror of latest BNavigator, Firefox 45ESR, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28 and Serpent 52/55 builds has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. That's great and it corresponds with the intent of my website! kind regards soggi

Link for convenience to the discussions about maintaining browsers on Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes