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I don't use antiviruses nowadays anyways, I just use common sense when browsing the Internet.

Hello Windows Updaters, here are some news. THE NEWS WIndows Update v3: The Windows Update v3 website is still experiencing issues, and we're working to solve them. However, there's an url : http://windowsupdate.overrender.com/R1201/v31site/default.htm (the website is still work in progress). We also discovered the Windows Update Catalog v3 (for update from Windows 95 to Windows 2000 Service Pack 2). WIndows Update v4: Windows Update v4 is missing the results.asp page. Without this page, you simply can't install updates. The Windows Update Catalog is not working at all. If any of you find the good results.asp, send me a private message and I'll try it. This would save us a long time of coding the page. WIndows Update v5: Windows Update v5 is now available in 22 languages, all included in the same folder (v5consumer). Once the pictures will be done, the Windows Update v5 pack will be released. If anyone wants to help us with translating the pages in any other languages (like Japanese, Chinese), send me a private message or join the Discord server. Any of you can help us. Don't worry, this project is not for 3 people only! If you have updates stored on your computer for old Microsoft Operating Systems, you can also offer them. All is accepted ! Credits: Thanks to all the members of this project, especially @WinFX!

Did you disable WD? Can is be completely removed from Win11? I don't use "real-time" but do use "on-demand" scans but they never come up with anything because I don't ever visit strange sites anymore.

So, Windows 7 ESU and 8.1 died today? Just kidding, I will sideload official, non-paid Server 2012 R2 Updates to my 8.1 machine till October 2023. Windows 7 ESU might have ended, but Pos Ready 7 is still up till October 2024. Another very interesting thing I read today was that Microsoft implemented Secure Boot into Windows 7 with it‘s last Security Patch. I wonder why they did that but does this mean I can now install Windows 7 on newer devices that doesn‘t support Legacy BIOS? source: ghacks.net/2023/01/10/microsoft-sneaks-secure-boot-support-into-windows-7-shortly-before-support-ends/?amp

Agreed! I actually see it as a POSITIVE. Makes my OS forever-fixed "static" instead of forever-changing "dynamic".

The end of security updates for XP is not really a big deal. I am using the Atlantis Word Processor, OE Classic, and MyPal which are firmly committed to 32 bit XP compatibility for the time being, so the only thing that could force me to change to Linux is developments in codecs making media unplayable using DirectShow decoders. These do not appear to be in development anymore, so the latest DS decoder I have is the MPC-BE video decoder released in 2016. Also my VPN provider is gradually dropping support for L2TP, and I have not figured out how to make IKEV2 work under XP, which is a worrying development.

Regarding the "likes" that seems to keep coming up. I would encourage my FRIENDS (they know who they are) to please please please not "focus" so heavily on "likes". Your life is NOT reduced to "likes" or "followers". The "psychology" behind thinking that way has been directly linked to teen suicides (and buried in inter-office board-room memos by very large social-media companies that live-and-die by "likes"). Please please please do not "focus" so heavily on "likes". Carry on, my FRIENDS. But I did want to throw that tidbit your way.

I just liked postings in the detox thread with no issue this time ??? Perhaps just a glitch or something.

There are millions around the world using windows xp and most of them using it as a main OS, the future will respond to you for me xp is good so far

Block - yes, it's too good for security. Replace - no.

Is it possible to block or replace certain fonts in uBlock? The problem is not always the remote fonts.

Well here's my debug output of the BSOD, which is very different. I hope it isn't being caused by the rebased chrome.dll, I have been using it now for several weeks quite intensively with no problems. I'll just wait and see how it goes. I have had occasional BSODs caused by graphics problems, so the fact it happened when I was using 360Chrome could have been just coincidence. Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 X86 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [D:\WIN-NT\Minidump\Mini011023-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is: srv*d:\programf\microsof\windowss.1\debuggin\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;symsrv*symsrv.dll*d:\win-nt\localsymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Executable search path is: Windows XP Kernel Version 2600 (Service Pack 3) MP (8 procs) Free x86 compatible Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Built by: 2600.xpsp_sp3_qfe.180912-0606 Machine Name: Kernel base = 0x804d7000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0x8055d720 Debug session time: Tue Jan 10 00:36:16.963 2023 (UTC + 0:00) System Uptime: 0 days 0:08:03.966 Loading Kernel Symbols ............................................................... ................................................................ .............................................................. Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded module list .............. ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 1000008E, {c0000005, bf84ad8a, a8300a60, 0} Probably caused by : win32k.sys ( win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+45 ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- 0: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M (1000008e) This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpoints the driver/function that caused the problem. Always note this address as well as the link date of the driver/image that contains this address. Some common problems are exception code 0x80000003. This means a hard coded breakpoint or assertion was hit, but this system was booted /NODEBUG. This is not supposed to happen as developers should never have hardcoded breakpoints in retail code, but ... If this happens, make sure a debugger gets connected, and the system is booted /DEBUG. This will let us see why this breakpoint is happening. Arguments: Arg1: c0000005, The exception code that was not handled Arg2: bf84ad8a, The address that the exception occurred at Arg3: a8300a60, Trap Frame Arg4: 00000000 Debugging Details: ------------------ EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s". FAULTING_IP: win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+45 bf84ad8a f6412180 test byte ptr [ecx+21h],80h TRAP_FRAME: a8300a60 -- (.trap 0xffffffffa8300a60) ErrCode = 00000000 eax=e69882b8 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=a8300afc edi=e6ab6c08 eip=bf84ad8a esp=a8300ad4 ebp=a8300ae4 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz ac po cy cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010213 win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+0x45: bf84ad8a f6412180 test byte ptr [ecx+21h],80h ds:0023:00000021=?? Resetting default scope CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT BUGCHECK_STR: 0x8E PROCESS_NAME: 360chrome.exe LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from bf84ae5e to bf84ad8a STACK_TEXT: a8300ae4 bf84ae5e e6b4bb10 00000000 a8300b5c win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+0x45 a8300b04 bf8ddbf4 00000000 00000000 00000000 win32k!RFONTOBJ::bDeleteRFONT+0x1d a8300b28 bf8de157 a8300b5c 00000000 00000014 win32k!PUBLIC_PFTOBJ::bLoadAFont+0x21f a8300b54 bf870823 e1a9c610 00000000 00000000 win32k!PFTOBJ::bUnloadWorkhorse+0x162 a8300c00 bf87050e e57cb2c0 00000000 00000000 win32k!vCleanupPrivateFonts+0xab a8300c18 bf86ebe3 e57cb2c0 00000000 00000000 win32k!NtGdiCloseProcess+0xb9 a8300c30 bf86bd81 e57cb2c0 00000000 8978d6a0 win32k!GdiProcessCallout+0x102 a8300c4c 805d1e6b 89002020 00000000 8954dfd0 win32k!W32pProcessCallout+0x5c a8300cf0 805d2153 00000000 a8300d4c 804ff9e1 nt!PspExitThread+0x409 a8300cfc 804ff9e1 8954dfd0 a8300d48 a8300d3c nt!PsExitSpecialApc+0x23 a8300d4c 80541883 00000001 00000000 a8300d64 nt!KiDeliverApc+0x1af a8300d4c 7eb3e514 00000001 00000000 a8300d64 nt!KiServiceExit+0x59 WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong. 0e1bfde4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x7eb3e514 STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+45 bf84ad8a f6412180 test byte ptr [ecx+21h],80h SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0 SYMBOL_NAME: win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+45 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: win32k IMAGE_NAME: win32k.sys DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 5c93004e FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x8E_win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+45 BUCKET_ID: 0x8E_win32k!PFEOBJ::vFreepfdg+45 Followup: MachineOwner ---------

I will never give up!

ive been using avast because my family pays for the premium version every year and it would be a waste of money to not use it (so I'm stuck with it until the payments stop)

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Me too...never "likes" problems... sometimes I change instantly "Like" to "Upvote", that's all

Ok this is enough of this thread. See Rule 10. Get a Twitter account.

Just where did these come from? Plucked out of thin air?

[off-topic] For simple progressive videos, sure: xidel "https://url-to/video.mp4" --download . The Youtube-url you mention is a program-url and not a direct video-url. You have to recover that video-url first. As it just so happens, I've created my own Youtube extractor for my hobby-project Xivid (a function module for Xidel). The most basic usage would be: xidel -s --module=xivid.xqm -e "xivid:youtube('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ')" This returns a JSON with the direct video-urls of all the different formats it can find. For the DASH-formats you'll need FFmpeg, so with Xidel you'll only be able to download the "pg-1", "pg-2" and "pg-3" formats directly. If you want to download the 720p variant, you could do for example: xidel -s --module=xivid.xqm -e "()" -f "xivid:youtube('dQw4w9WgXcQ')/(formats)()[id='pg-3']/url" --download "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video).mp4" [/off-topic]

I've been using build 1030 as my default for about a week or so. I don't recall what base address was used by @UCyborg - I've been using 0x1001000 for both my x86 and x64.

I just had my first ever BSOD when using 360Chrome 13.5 build 2022. I was scrolling a web page, and suddenly there it was, stop 0x8E - (KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED), apparently in win32k.sys. No other foreground programs were running at the time. I've been using @UCyborg's first posted rebased chrome.dll for several weeks now, with no problems. I hope if this was the cause of the BSOD that it doesn't happen again! After rebooting, 360Chrome was badly messed up, not surprisingly, but restoring a backup soon fixed it.

I never had any problems with reacting to posts in any topic generally.

No.

Like now, I'm by myself but I don't lonely at all because I'm "with" myself. Hard to explain, I know.

Hm, quoting gone wrong...I'll try quoting both separate posts rather than quote the quote... Yeah, I also see it funny, just comes out differently.

I don't plan to ever abandon msfn thou (I have to many friends here)

I'm glad that we agree a little for once. I'm guessing that these are all old cars. Unfortunately, I am not at all familiar with American car models. The initial numbers are probably the year of manufacture. Therefore, you are a fan of classic cars. I drive an '89 Golf I Cabriolet.

I don't think we can really make a blanket-statement such as that. These "new standards" are not 'always' more cumbersome and heavy on loading. Some javascript functions were created out of necessity for "efficiency". "New" ways of doing things are sometimes "better". If we "parse" the full list of javascript functions "introduced" in 2015 and compare directly with the "old way" of doing the same function, I bet we will find that "newer is better". And if they are not, then at least the non-lazy web developers would still be using the "old way". But unfortunately, in this cookie-cutter world, "non-lazy" web developers are few and far between.

Agreed! However, I highly disagree with the term "Googlized" - that's just a fancy Mozilla Term in my book, some sort of "blame Google that we cannot render your web site". That "blame game" doesn't really work, in my opinion. ECMAScript 2015 is the "standard" to which javascript engines have to comply in order to render "modern" web sites. Available here -- https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_6th_edition_june_2015.pdf There are newer standards, but for the sake of the term "Googlized" that gets thrown around here at MSFN, I'll refer to the 2015 standard. I do not know what the newer standards bring to the table, but I do know that import, optional chaining, and nullish coalescing has been around since 2015. 360Chrome v13/13.5 is a 2018 web browser and it complies with import, optional chaining, and nullish coalescing operators. The actual "base" for most of roytam1's is a bit muddy for me, but basically circa Firefox 52 (March 2017), 53 (April 2017), or 55 (August 2017) depending on your reference point. 2017 browsers should comply with 2015 standards. Will another two+ years of weekly updates on roytam1 offerings achieve better "compliance"? Your guess is as good as mine. Optional chaining and nullish coalescing operators were not in compliance two years ago and are today in some of the roytam1 offerings. So yes, "progress" is being made. But my main point here is that Google does not write the "standard", they just do a better job at complying to the "standard". I am quite positive that ECMA International did not set out to create a standard that Google could comply with but that Mozilla could not. Market share is determined by who can best comply with web standards more then by brand loyalty. Mozilla does have this for them, they're like "pirates" - the ship may be sinking, but they will go down with that ship and stand proud while gasping in that last breath.

You're right if you refer to these Googlized websites! However, this is not @roytam1's problem, but due to the browser architecture he supports. Even he cannot work magic and Moonchild, either. I give all these Google-infested sites to 360Chrome v13.5 build 1030 or my Android tablet to eat. But, my mainly used browsers are New Moon and Serpent, and maybe, Mypal 68 in the future. That's how it will stay for now, and hopefully for a long time.

Perhaps... But I could list one by one "at least" a hundred web sites that WORK on this "no longer actively developed" 360Chrome but do NOT WORK on ANY of the roytam1 offerings. The last TWO PLUS YEARS of weekly updates have still YET to get any of the roytam1 offerings to "work" for any of those "hundred web sites". To each their own... I'm done for the night... I tap the mat and bow out...

As you probably already suspected, I can't really agree with you there, either. The 360Chrome versions here are no longer being actiively developed, the modifications are rather cosmetic, except for the innovative rebasing. All versions of @roytam1 are actively modified in their code, week by week, for which I am extremely grateful to him. Therefore, this comparison also stands on shaky ground. But however, I appreciate all your efforts here.

Server 2012 Extended security updates are supported till October 2026 and with a bypss tool for certain SKU's like professional should work on client workstations. Now we have to find the ESU bypass tool.

because your concurrent download sessions eats up all my server's bandwidth, I can unban this time but if it happens again I'll block it forever. BTW there are some Google Cloud IPv4 Class A blocks are blocked because of same reason.

@AstroSkipper I did read your considerations regarding WVstopx with great interest and I'll have to admit I am in a quandary.t seems to be an excellent find. Thank you. For personal research purposes you may also refer to this thread. https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/wisevector-stop-x.431502/ Cheers

But Avast 8 or older reportedly haven’t been getting definition updates since April 2020 (however 18.8 is the only version I ever used personally): https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=233272.0

@AstroSkipper Please bear in mind that the universal key given is ineffectual. Renewal environment is kaput. Of course it has been confirmed that the expired avast software will continue to work. If you are a bit fussy about it you'll have to do a clean install. It is the only solution that really works. Cheers

I've found that any NVMe SSD just works with a generic driver, you can use the Microsoft hotfixes, Phison driver, etc. You can probably get a better SSD for cheaper btw

XP is a great OS. Specially the 64-bit version. But recently I realized something. My motherboard got busted. And in my search for motherboards for am3+ socket I don't know why but I was still expecting to find a new one in box at a good price. So finding the the hardware that supports it is the most difficult part. I guess you can run it virtually if you really want to but it's not the same.

LIFE BEYOND: Chapter 1. Alien life, deep time, and our place in cosmic history (4K) melodysheep 2.38M subscribers 12,461,966 views Nov 20, 2019 Get the soundtrack: https://bit.ly/345n0nf 5:02: "The exact recipe is still a mystery, but the ingredients for life are simple - energy, organic molecules, and liquid water." 12:06: There are more habitable Earth-mass planets in the observable volume of the universe than there are grains of sand of all the beaches on Earth."

melodysheep @musicalscience Feb 18 2022 Wish you were here The Sights of Space: Art Pack Here: https://melodysheep.gumroad.com/l/qncdj

Still no @XPerceniol here ?!

Explore - From Space to Sound Ever wondered what the music of the spheres would sound like? Hubble brings us cosmic sights, but these astronomical marvels can be experienced with other senses as well. Through data sonification, the same digital data that gets translated into images is transformed into sound. Elements of the image, like brightness and position, are assigned pitches and volumes. Each translation below begins on the left side of the image and moves to the right. No sound can travel in space, but sonifications provide a new way of experiencing and conceptualizing data. Sonifications allow the audience, including blind and visually impaired communities, to “listen” to astronomical images and explore their data. MANY examples here: https://www.nasa.gov/content/explore-from-space-to-sound

Avast Freee Antivirus has reported: "Free License has expired" and button "Fix" does not work, because can't connect to server. Versio: 18.8.

OT: I stayed at home today too. I still have to take it easy. However, my lady went to a St. Martin's market. It's a pre-Christmas public market.

- cause is cold today, so rain is not more pleasant! Exceptionally then I don't going out to risk cheat my long hair and wild look! jajajaja Never happened recently, after having been sick. But normally I love little rain, me too!

Side note, Avast has seemingly been bought by NortonLifeLock, after more than one year long procedure: https://investor.nortonlifelock.com/news/news-details/2022/NortonLifeLock-Completes-Merger-with-Avast/default.aspx they plan to change name: and probably (IMHO) technology from Norton will be poured over (ex-)Avast, thus (stiil IMHO) ruining the products for good. I think this can be good news for those people that have too d@mn fast computers and couldn't find an easy solution to slow them down. jaclaz

I ran into a problem compiling psutils under this custom build of 3.8.1350 for XP. I received the error message Does this mean that this Python interpreter was built using the --without-threads option in order to disable threads? Is there some way under Windows to see a list of the options used to build Python so as to see if the --without-threads option was included? Could cmalex provide a list of the options they used when compiling his custom Python 3.8.1350? The archive of Python binaries provided by cmalex is a mess, so I selected and reassembled the relevant files to make a standard Python distribution which you can obtain here. Pip is not included but it can be installed using the ensurepip module and this command: python -m ensurepip --upgrade I am attaching batch files to write the registry entries that might be required with Python 3.8. They are intended to work in conjunction with the mingw compiler. If you are using MSVC the %PYTHONHOME% variable cannot be used. Python 3.8 Add.bat Python 3.8 Delete.bat

PotPlayer may no longer be updated to support XP (their download page still says it's also for XP!), but Extension\Media\PlayParse\MediaPlayParse - YouTube.as file is usable with the older XP compatible version and may be extracted from the installer using 7-Zip. The old parser of early 2021 is unable to stomach YouTube of 2022 as expected.

I've recently had luck with "VDMSound.win9x.bin.alpha3.zip", when using WDM drivers. Probably works with VxD drivers, too. It is just stitched together enough to work. There is some reg addition needed to kill the tip of the day. Once you understand how it is put together, you can fix it up to your needs. I've never tried the original VDMSound. It is for Win2k and up.