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I'm a bit late to the announcement but this is extremely sad news for me. I credit Den a lot for me becoming a moderator here on MSFN. I still remember he offered the position to me to which I humbly and graciously accepted it. We had some good discussions back and forth and because he was originally into Windows 98 like I was, we easily found common ground that way. Den was a very kind, cordial, and courteous person. When I first heard he was diagnosed with cancer, I was deeply saddened. I lost both my grandparents to cancer and my mother is a cancer survivor, so I don't like cancer very much to say the least. As optimistic as he seemed to be about keeping the cancer at bay, I was really hoping he'd return one day like nothing ever happened. But he'd go months without any sort of an update and that was very worrying to me. Now the worst has happened, but he is at peace now and pain-free, which is the best thing out of a horrible situation like this. Rest in Peace buddy, until we meet again!

Sad news for everyone here at MSFN. One of our forum supervisors, Dencorso, passed away on October 24th, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Apparently he was still upbeat and optimistic about the future a few weeks before he passed. My memories of Den go back quite a few years. He was incredibly helpful to me with technical problems, which is what this board is all about of course, initially mainly with Windows 98, and latterly with Windows XP. He was immensely supportive too when I first became a moderator here, something I will always be grateful for. He was definitely one of the good guys, and will be sorely missed here. Please add your memories here of working with Den. Thanks, Dave.

If you run DC Browser from desktop shortcut, right click on it and select Properties, add --ignore-certificate-errors at the end in the Target textbox in the Properties Dialog box.

The UpdatePacks are being completely rebuilt in the XP2ESD project because I found a bug in the UpdatePacks and George is building after 1.6.3 release. and some updates are missing

@j7n @UCyborg @VistaLover If you're interested guys, I also found out the minimum Firefox non-ESR version required to render the discourse-based site "boards.straightdope.com". The minimum Firefox non-ESR version required for it to load fully is 89.0.

Apparently I do have something going on then. Even with Humming Owl 360 V13 but not V12 for some reason and I've removed V9 and V11 and no longer use them.

thanks @roytam1 for all you do for this community without you windows xp-vista would be completely unusable your the best!-legacyfan (and merry christmas)

Brief Update. So the search for updates in WUv4 works thanks @WinFX again only unfortunately results.asp is missing because it was not archived properly. It redirects to splash.asp?page=3. That means we can't view or install the updates. I think that we will find a solution for this problem. The Update Catalog is the next project. Here some screenshots:

Hi, Roy ... hope all is well. Are you still planning to update FF 45.9? That last one I have is 45.9.34-20220924 I still find it useful.

https://web.telegram.org/?legacy=1

Thank you very much and it worked :)

Add --disable-infobars into DC Browser desktop shortcut's Target field, and it will disappear.

Thank you again. Well ... it doesn't seem to like it as I have that nag in red and now sites that were secure at all not insecure (arroding to the browser becase of that flag, of course)

NP Did it work for you? You don't receive the nag screen anymore?

Thank you, Mina

No, you seem to request a different username whenever you change whatever your focus is. There have already been at least 3 changes in this thread not counting requests that were denied.

Is that website of "https"? I found this question long time ago ,so I updated the certificate, then I have never found this tip

@legacyfan! And one more for you: wsusoffline updates for eol windows: https://archive.org/details/wsusoffline-eol-windows Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

It still effects the content below the header, though I can't tell how the header is done exactly to be able to influence it further.

WinNTSetup 5.3 Beta 3 - WinCopy: fixed boot files creation in some cases - WinCopy: Volume selection shows needed size - WinCopy: temporary shrink option - WinCopy: added "-shrink" And -"MergeIDE" command line switches - WinCopy: fixed CLI version wrongly reports error - Unattend: Win7-11-Select.xml disables 42 days password expire - MinWin: some fixes for Windows 11 explorer - MinWin: fixed MUI files other than *.mui were removed - MinWin: fixed bootmenu fonts

He was so optimistic that I was fully expecting him to rejoin the forum like nothing ever happened.

I am so sad. He was a great person. I knew him since my first days on MSFN, many, many years ago, and besides the public interactions on the board we had a lot of correspondence via PM's, both on computing and on a whole range of different topics, from cinema and TV to art and linguistics (he could read and understand very well Italian and I can understand a very little Portuguese, we had a common interest in Latin - as root of both languages - and we often exchanged opinions on these and many other things), I considered him a friend. I will greatly miss him and our exchanges. Besides his great work in helping and advising other people on technical matters, he was always polite and just (as a moderator), while often managing to keep a veil of humour in his posts. He told me about his illness, describing it as a "a quite mean cancer", from the tone of his latest messages he was fighting fiercely against it, and was hoping to defeat it only one month before, at the end of september. May he R.I.P. jaclaz

Sorry, this was originally put into the 'announcements' section, where apparently it cannot be replied to. Please do add replies now. Thanks, Dave.

We have an entire sub-forum for this already https://msfn.org/board/forum/24-windows-desktops-screenshots/

Introducing StartAllBack: an app to fix all Windows 11 UI issues! Restore taskbar functionality - Drag and drop, different icon sizes, different screen sides, widgets, new icons, old flyouts, oh my! Restore context menus - Win32 menus were never this sexy! Fix Windows Explorer - Ribbon UI and Command Bar made sexy and not slow; search box that works Top notch styling - Recolor everything: all UI elements in all apps don't have to be blue! - Fix broken Win32 styling in Win11 RTM version - Improved dark mode styling with Explorer And start menu: yes! - Windows 7 style all-signing, all-dancing yet again, refreshed with new look and functions It could be the last year you can enjoy Windows not crippled, so do it! https://www.startallback.com

] Oh, well of course this is without Mina's solution and I of course proceed as I know ghacks is fine.

"Likes" or "upvotes" are the signal of appreciation that someone can give to posters, so they are useful, I think..

Sorry but I don't see this nag screen "your connection isn't private" ..send a link when you can, so I can tell you what's going on here...your guesses are probably OK., this must be security certificates, yes ignore it. @mina7601 propose interesting solution!

You're welcome. Enjoy.

I think (but do not quote me on this) that it may work, though I don't see the actual scope of this replacing of the processor, the notebook has probably a Core i3 or i5, there shouldn't be much difference in speed/performance replacing the original processor with a Pentium 6100, they seem very similar, at least on this comparison: https://technical.city/en/cpu/Core-i3-380M-vs-Pentium-P6100 Maybe if it has a Celeron, there would be some improvement, but I doubt it will be much, if any: https://technical.city/en/cpu/Celeron-P4600-vs-Pentium-P6100 Also the Fujitsu BIOS might be locked to the default processor installed in factory, clock speed of the P6100 seem to be same as the Celeron, but different from i3 and i5. IMHO all in all such an upgrade (which seems more like a same-level-grade) could be risky/problematic (if possible at all) without bearing any noticeable advantage. jaclaz

Microsoft made some non-public hotfixes for Windows. Here are some of them (2000 / XP) https://twilczynski.com/windows/updates/

Bookmark padding resolved to match XP Theme. Win10 Theme file replacement -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qoxtjqutyn3lyn/jisu9_chrome.srx?dl=1

RDP is only used in actual installations. Windows Media Player 11 addon, you can use nLite and RVMI for .NET and C++. RVMI lets you resolve filenames. Add this name after the _Addon file. If you don't add it, RVMI will not see the file. You can skip some methods if you already use addon.

Welcome back

I tried loading those two URIs in Serpent 52.9.0 (32-bit); no success (blank tab) : web.telegram.org/k => ReferenceError: customElements is not defined Also, beware of that URI, as it serves a "CryptoWorker" script... web.telegram.org/z => SyntaxError: invalid identity escape in regular expression

Getting later Intel graphics for the Intel HD 4000 working properly may be very tricky. If one gets it to work, that means any Intel graphics from Haswell and up will also work with Vista (Haswell graphics do work with Vista if you use the XP version, but you get no Aero interface. Kaby Lake and later may also work by simply grabbing the mods for them and installing away, but don't quote me on this), although you will still have the Haswell+ bugs, which won't resolve by simply installing the graphics driver (otherwise the person that got the XP Haswell driver to work under Vista would have seen all problems disappear). I also sent you a PM too!

First I want to say "Thanks!" @roytam1 for all these new builds released nearly every week and the permission to mirror them on my own website! Can't remember when I did that last time... Your work is really appreciated by all who are writing here and additionally a lot of silent users! And not to forget "Thanks!" to all supporters and contributors! Second Sorry for posting a bit late, I'm still worn out by SARS-CoV-2 - nothing really bad, I'm just some kind of exhausted/sluggish. Third The mirror of latest ArcticFox 40, BNavigator 0.9, Firefox 45ESR, IceApe 52, IceDove 52, K-Meleon 1.5.x/74/76, MailNews 52, New Moon 26.5/27/28, RetroZilla, RZ browser and Serpent 52/55 builds by @roytam1 has been updated -> soggi.org - tools. changelog: - added latest BNavigator 0.9 20221126 build - added latest IceApe 52 20221126 build - added latest IceDove 52 20221126 build - added latest K-Meleon 76 20221126 build - added latest MailNews 52 20221126 build - added latest New Moon 27 20221126 builds - added latest New Moon 28 20221126 builds - added latest Serpent 52 20221126 builds - added latest Serpent 55 20221126 builds To don't lose track of things I want to update too someday... todo: - add various flash player versions - add FlashFix for WinXP - add VLC 2.2.8 (WinXP non-SSE2) - add polyfill addons ------------------------------------------- I don't have this backspace problem myself, just thought that this input may help someone!? I have this "YT problem" too, but thought it is related to latest hot s*** YT uses to render the page. But nevertheless YT still works...yeah it's extremely slow, I know. After doing a reconnect to my ISP I got an IP from a completely different IP range and could connect to the former FTP with WinSCP, the ladder still fails. So my IP (range) was the problem, it just has been blocked. This FTP is very old, has a lot of important files and I don't know how long it will be available in the future. So I begun to mirror the two directories which are important to me (/pub/Hardware/stuff/ and /pub/Hardware/vendor/) - still not finished (11.7 GiB until now), if I get 50 kb/s I can be really happy (the FTP is the slow part, not my internet connection). But nevertheless: Thank you, I really appreciate your efforts! BTW Welcome back! BTW2 I would recommend WinSCP instead of FileZilla. The latest version (portable) still works under WinXP and up - you can also install WinSCP 5.15.9 (XP) / 5.17.5 (Vista) and replace the executable with the one from the latest portable version (actually 5.21.6). kind regards soggi

I notice that I missed his tweet about installation Java 8 on Windows XP five years ago. I wonder he had installed Java 8 on his Windows XP.

In Serpent 52, firefox-91esr seems to be the minimum FxESR version that is supported by "boards.straightdope.com" (91esr has been now deprecated, the currently supported one is 102esr) : general.useragent.override.straightdope.com;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0

May He rest in peace of Heaven...

@j7n It may work if you set the user agent like you're using the newer version of Firefox, eg. Firefox 100. It doesn't seem to mind official Pale Moon user agent either, so I assume you should be able to get it working if you use the new New Moon at least.

Wow, calm down. V4 ist not completely restored, so there's no guide for it. If we can't restore the new inventory system in V3.1, I'll do a guide. But please be patient, this take a long moment to restore.

That's totally normal, Windows Update V6 wasn't made to support Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition. The ActiveX is only for Windows NT (2000 SP3 and newer).

The grub4dos (normal and for UEFI) is available already compiled on its github page: https://github.com/chenall/grub4dos/releases There are usually no issues in having a "base VHD" with the OS and another attached VHD with all the programs (though not all "portable" programs are really-really fully portable) As a side note there is a relatively new feature of grub4dos (for UEFI) that allows using differential VHD's, that probably would be what you want to achieve, a "base", immutable, OS (in a VHD) and everything else on a "child" VHD. But I believe you are wanting too much all together, IMHO you should start with a simple - surely working - approach first, to get the hang of tools and methods, try this thingy by Wimb: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=22621 jaclaz

Not going to happen on a ban on rule 1.

i got it to work! i just needed to boot from the usb and pick the custom resize option during setup and it worked im now happily running ubuntu next to 8.1!

To let you know, you are not the only one who asks this, it was mentioned previously here Basically, you can find tutorials and videos by clicking here

Hello! Try this: https://www.bleachbit.org/ There are some good opinions about it here: https://alternativeto.net/software/bleachbit/about/ Cheers.

DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) is pretty much all you need as far as I'm aware of.