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You should select MSVCRT NT6 Series option. If Windows replaces older msvcrt.dll (2003 or 2005), Plese try to "move WFP Folder" Option or disable WFP.

Yeah I know that title is not best in the world, but could not get better one into my head. And now it may feel bit clickbait too This board has not have yet any topics about Mozilla/Firefox problems and I decided to make one. This topic purpose is not to shill some firefox alternative like brave or say anything based on gecko engine is bad rather address real problems related Mozilla corporation. I used to be huge firefox fan but lot been going wrong since it. lets start with first and biggest one which is false claims. Mozilla is not people first not profit like they claim. Mozilla foundation sure exist but behind it is mozilla corporation that does profit with marketing deals and also they laid off 250 developers around same time when Mozilla ceo took himself nice paycheck (someone look article from that since was not able find it on quick search anymore). Also Mozilla pretends to be against Google and care from you privacy BUT website privacy policy says against it. so they implemented google invisible recaptcha and google and yahoo trackers on their site. That is caring from privacy right? Also firefox uses google as default search engine Now lets move to browser itself. I wont put tons of stuff here but if someone wants read more Spyware watchdog got good article about it. First issue is Firefox uses google analytics on browser (source) and developers ignored that saying they wont use it for datamining. Sure I trust google about not doing it. Then there is pocket feature which according privacy policy does allow insert personalised ads into stories saved to pocket. Also you need firefox account to use it. Then there is Google safebrowsing which make browser to download address database from Google servers. I explained on other thread why that feature is useless in real life and is only privacy threat. Also Firefox advertises addons during browsing by default By default Mozilla collects telemetry from following I think there is enough from Mozilla privacy issues and time to move for other issues. First one is addon blocking which Mozilla admit they wont care from your choice and want "protect" you https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-ons-blocking-process/ Then there was dropping XUL addons in favor of Webextensions. Problem with webextensions is they are way more limited than XUL addons were. Take example from Classic theme restorer developer if wont believe my word on it again they want limit what you can do and are ready to ignore what users want. Then there is issues related UI changes. Mozilla has been renewing firefox UI multiple times without giving option to go back old look. I absolutely hate new Bloatfox theme. It takes too much screen space for no good reason and removal of most icons on menu makes it harder to navigate. Before you were able to fix it but Mozilla killed XUL addons so not anymore Sure someone will pull you can disable them but why bother fixing something that turns more spyware on every update? Some alternatives I would recommend: Palemoon based browsers. I cannot recommend using vanilla Palemoon for multiple reasons that most here likely know but codebase of browser is solid and Newmoon/Mypal on Windows and webbrowser on linux. Those are best if you need lightweight browser without webrtc or other. Those forks also runs down to vanilla Windows XP Also Basilik is pretty good browser. I recommend disable addon blocklist on both of those If you really want to use latest Firefox based browser: Librewolf which is firefox with telemetry and propieraty blobs removed. Problem with that is they are depent on Mozilla and code grows all the time so it will be uphill battle If you want to use latest Chromium based browser Ungoogled Chromium which removes Google stuff from Chromium. That like librewolf is they are in uphill battle If you want to use chromium on XP: I cannot say anything here since only used goanna based browsers so @ArcticFoxieand @Dixel who got experience can help me out with this one Honorable Mention: Seamonkey I have been using that for while on linux to see how good it is and have to say it is very decent browser and not done by paid Mozilla Employees. It UI makes sense, support classic addons and theming. If you plan use it please follow mitigation guide for maxium privacy. That is way better than firefox on default options, but I recommend still do tweaks Browsers I cannot recommend at all. Waterfox: While it claims to support your privacy it spies on you as much or more as firefox and if that wont convince you it was sold to advertising company Brave: That gotta be absolutely worst out of all options analysis. It has fake cryptocurrency system that needs personal information, it got lot of telemetry, it offers it own "privacy respecting ad platform" which injects ads into webpage. Also it is shilled way too often and you should NEVER trust shilled products. If you want secure and private pick one that does actually well pick one that is as minimal as can and select your own addon set (tampermonkey, umatrix, ublock origin, noscript, decentraliseye) and you got pretty good setup Please add any findings or alternatives I missed

@Dave-H Great! I'm glad your system has got back all features you wanted to have.

Very good! I'm glad it works for you now too.

Yes of course!

Extended Kernel v3.1, a major update, has been released today. (in addition to this - @piotrhn, extended kernel v3.1 now makes Blender 2.80 run on Windows 2000!)

@Dave-H This can be answered easily. It depends on what the user has done when installing ProxHTTPSProxy CA certficate. If you import ProxHTTPSProxy CA certficate by clicking right mouse button it'll be installed under Trusted Root Certification Authority but for current user. If you import ProxHTTPSProxy CA certficate by using Microsoft Management Console mmc or Internet Options Control Panel applet selecting "show physical stores" of IE you've got the option to point to Trusted Root Certification Authority but for local computer. Therefore all of us installed that certificate under Trusted Root Certification Authority physical store but some of us under account current user and others under account local computer. This is the reason why heinoganda's ProxHTTPS Cert Installer is working for all of us. His installer imports due to automatical selection the certificate PROXCERT.p7b (other format of this certificate) correctly but of course installing the old well known certificate valid until 2025 only. This installer is a modified Roots Certificates Update installer and you know these certificates it has to install are added under account local computer generally. Furthermore there is a general positive effect for those loving Windows XP (and 2000 or Vista). If correctly integrated into the system we are all now able to use a freshly generated 10 years valid root certificate of ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy as long as Windows XP, Internet Explorer access to WWW, TLS 1.2 functionality, Microsoft Update for Windows XP or the user himself still exists.

Lucky you! My update history on my XP machine was deleted last year since I had to reinstall XP. It had update history back to 2003. Great you got it working though.

is there a new version (02042022)? check the mega folder

I believe OpenNT project will make this easier. Some dlls can be compiled from source code.

I hope you deal with Ximonite, so that we don't get confused whether to use your version or Ximonite version . I hope you will produce a wonderful, advanced version for the next generation. Good luck

@xpandvistafan Also, I have the update page running in Windows 10 and it works without any issues.

Okay, that makes me happy. Now only the error 0x80072eff would have to be fixed. This is because Internet Explorer cannot access the page in https. Despite Tls 1.2. The problem can be seen in the Windows Update log file.

Note the following settings:

I fixed this infinite loop as described above. The forwarding stops and the page loads. Unfortunately, for now you get the error 0x80072eff because I think something is wrong with the Microsoft Root Certificate Authority 2011. But I can't say for sure. This is currently just a guess. But there could also be something wrong with Internet Explorer. What is strange is that the page https://fe2.update.microsoft.com cannot be called up and the page https://fe2.ws.microsoft.com can. Maybe the problem could be solved with the ProxHttpsProxy software. Unfortunately I don't have access to the download.

And here you can see the error that occurs when calling the page.

Hello everyone and a happy new year 2022! This is my first post. Sorry, I have to translate from German to English. Since July 2021 I have been working on the update problem in Xp. As many people may know, the page has not been accessible for about 1 year. I found a workaround solution. To do this, click Internet Options in Internet Explorer, then go to the Trusted Sites option in the Security tab, then click Sites and add the pages http://www.update.microsoft.com and https://www.update.microsoft.com . Then set the security level to high and call up Windows Update. The page is already reloading. Unfortunately you get the error code 0x80072eff. The problem is that Internet Explorer is trying to download a file in the https protocol. After adding Tls 1.2 I still got the same error code. A few months have now passed. Until I got the idea that it could also be due to the certificate. I then downloaded a certificate trust list from Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/security/trusted-root/release-notes). After I installed this certificate trust list, with a lot of luck and patience I was able to access the page. But unfortunately the search for updates failed. But after I downloaded the sha-2 patch from @max-h, I was actually able to search for and install updates again. The strange thing is that shortly after loading the page you have to click on Quick Search or Custom Search immediately, otherwise the search will fail with 0x80072efe. What is also strange is that I cannot open the page in a second window, otherwise the error 0x80072eff pops up again. What's also strange, when this page is open, the links in the Help and Support Center work too. Unfortunately, strangely enough, I am currently unable to access this website at all. But I am sure that the problem is with the certificate. Sorry, the pictures are only in German. Maybe someone can help.

This component is too old. It collides against extended kernel. You don't need it , If you installed extended kernel :3

Yes, my server moved to http://win2k.org

Sorry, I missed your email for a long time. Zoom version 3.5.71665.0713 and later are crashed cause of tp.dll http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1996464.html

XP needs some Vista kernel32 functions. And if you install it on XP, .Net Framework 4.0 will be broken.

The installation is possible, but it does not work at all. .Net 4.5 Binaries were made for Windows 7.

The RAM Patch can make use Windows 2000 memory 64G :3

I found the resource table of the localized NTDLL.DLL has been broken since Jan 2016. Japanese, Korean, Italian .... etc. (English version has no problem) The following article shows the detail :3 http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1981317.html That is too awful that the reason of XP shows "Application Exit by CTRL+C" when embedded Windows XP update is applied, (Japanese blog). Of course KB4493563 is also broken.

There is well known problem on Web browser with Externded kernel v2.8 and later. There are three ways to resolve the problem. * Not use XP compatible Winsock (It may be requires to reinstall tcp-ip) (Chrome / Firefox) * Check off any "Disabled" functions Vista /Win7. (Chrome) * Change Security soft. ( Perhaps it comes frim any security soft's driver or service )

Hi, did you remain the checkbox “disable Vista mui” ? if you check off it and enabled it , then Windows will go down slowly.

I found Windows 2000 comdlg32.dll bug. I released Extended kernel v2.9i which includes the fix. :3 Perhaps Save / Load problem are fixed.

Extended kernel provides fcwin2k (App version / UserAgent configuration tool) http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1949743.html

Hi. Now 2.9f and 2.9g (perlhaps test version 2.9h, too) have critical problems. * Certain security softwares collide with extended kernel. (It is almost resolved) * Chromium and Firefox based web browser will freeze. Regrettably I don't release English version untill fixed them. You may believe that Japanese only version is Beta Test :3 It may be released in March. You know the following article comes for correction problem reasons http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1979072.html

Hi. CCleaner 5.35 needs XP compatible settings :3

How about base address ? It is most important.

Your link is JPN version. Did you install Japanese version ? I think the base address is different from your localization.

36.0.2130.80 :3

1. You should install Internet Explorer 6 security update KB2722913 or later from WLU. 2. You should apply QFE registry before install it. 3. It may require recent cert root update. 4. v28* is compatible version for Vista. v28*G is compatible version for Windows 2000/XP. I recommend v28*G.

I released openssl 1.0.1t for Windows 95 today. http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1591502.html

Bad news. I succeeded to launch Chrome 50 on Windows 2000. But Chrome 51 blocks Windows NT 5.x. When I set compatibility mode XP on Windows 7, Chrome 51 Window is gone gray out . https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=616425 I posted bug report. I think that the dropping support is right but the not working on compatible mode on Windows 7 and 10 is bug.

The Chrome till version 36 works on Next version Extended Kernel. Chrome 37 can not connect internet on Win2000 . It seems to fail to boot child process . But I do not know the reason. I released extended kernel v2.8c. English version is available. Fix. Installer - DX9 Extender config tool available. - QuerySystemProcess (NtQuerySystemInformation) Disable option kernel32 Fixed Some application Crash with reason alignment bugs. Fixed .Net Framework 4 WPF application crash (LCIDToLocaleName fix) Fixed GetModuleHandleEx problem DirectX 10/11 support. iphlpapi.dll remove iphlpxp.dll. add two functions. Fix localize mistake for English. advapi32.dll Add debug version. gdiplus /jscript9 security update.

Windows2000-KB957579-x86-enu.exe + new mswsock.dll = Windows2000-KB951748-v2-x86-enu.exe

[for Win2000/XP/2003]The tool to disguise the OS version for All Application. I released OS version disguise tool. fcwin2k (KDW) can set Application name. but this application applies all application. So We can execute Unknown filename install application which depends on OS version. Caution: You should restore setting before your PC reboot.( May be your PC can not boot next time.)

I am not Roll update creator but KDW and extended kernel(perhaps you say unofficial kernel32) creator. IE6SP1 Security Cumulative update in 2013 can download from my WLU site. If you want to use vanilla Win2000. You can use firefox 12 or 10 ESR or Qupzilla 1.6.6. If you use Extended kernel , you can install recent firefox and recent Qupzilla and Otter Browser and so on.

I released Extendede Kernel v2.5f4a (10th Nov) - TLS 128-bit & 256-bit AES cipher suites Support. - Improved the crash when terminate Vista application. - included some security update.(GDIPLUS etc.) - add following functions (for iTunes 12.3) SHGetAttributesFromDataObject GetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID SetGestureConfig (stub) GetGestureInfo (stub) CloseGestureInfoHandle (stub) UnregisterPowerSettingNotification (stub) RegisterPowerSettingNotification (stub)

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1914304.html I made an update root certificate + untrust roots for Windows 2000/XP/2003 before. But, its version number is uniquely. You can download from here. http://w2k.flxsrv.org/wlu/wlu.htm rootsupd201510.exe

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1912125.html For reference, here is trying Adobe Reader DC on Windows 2000. I extended several functions on Windows 2000.

Windows 2000, XP and 2003 have the following issue in Sound recorder. You receive a "Not enough memory available to complete this operation" error message when you try to record a .wav file by using Sound Recorder But microsoft did not fix it and left it over 10 years !! I fixed it and you can download here. http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1910546.html You can install the English version in whatever language Windows 2000 and XP. * note I did not check it on vanilla version Windows 2000 (Extended Kernel is okay).

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1452362.html Umm. it is not correct, because the implement format is wrong so it may be crash program. So, I created a library for VC++2005 for Win95 before.

Hi. I released v2.4d English version yesterday(15 hours ago) There are some problem on v2.4cX. Some people report me the following thing. * Fail to execute and set the task scheduler. ( I checked it). * Fail to install microsoft update file. * Fail to run PRC Server.( I checked it). v 2.4d is also fixed psapi.dll compatibility problem. It may be able to run more application !

Hi. The reason of IE7 and IE8 would not work on Windows 2000 is that the following reasons. * The SHLWAPI.DLL has 2 type structure XP and Windows 2000, and it is not compatible. ( For example explorer can't show some icon image and crush when You run explorer.exe with XP mode ) * IE 7 and IE 8 were separated from shell functions, XP's kernel has many fuctions for them , but 2000 one has not it, I embedded some of them , but there are some functions which I would not do. ( For example DCOM Service) * IE 7 and IE 8 requires LUNA Interface. I think that Internet explorer has many many vulnerabilities, so there is little advantage to use it on Windows 2000. If I can work IE7 and IE8, we should drop Windows 2000 compatibility ! ( It is nonsense http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1703891.html