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Someone always seems to find some post I wrote a decade ago and revives it or asks a question. Glad to see things are still going strong here after all this time.

Well, we can speculate a bit. Avast 4.8 was the latest compatible version for Windows98SE and was released in 2008. The definition updates went on 'till 2017, so this gives us 9 years of definition updates. Avast 18.8 was the latest compatible version for Windows XP and was released in 2018. Should it follow the same pattern as 98SE, we should get definition updates 'till 2027 at least. Yeah it's been tough for a number of reasons one of which was COVID. I was one of the people you heard about on TV that was hospitalized after taking the first dose of Oxford Astra Zeneca. The 2nd dose went fine (still Oxford Astra Zeneca) after taking stuff to avoid blood clots and the 3rd one (Pfizer Booster) also was fine. Then in December 2021 I caught COVID, had a miserable time despite being triple jabbed, spent Christmas and New Year alone etc. I don't wanna talk too much about all this, but yeah, pretty tough time...

I found that there are ultimately four reasons why Chromium is broken on NT 6.x: 1. New imports in kernel32 and userenv. They can all be stubbed, not hard to fix. (Vista/7; 8.x has them) 2. Use of job object APIs in ways that are only supported on 8.x (without sandbox) and 10 (with sandbox) 3. Use of new NtQueryInformationProcess class for enumerating process handles; if it can't be used, the content process will be terminated (8.0 and below, sandbox only) 4. Use of new DirectWrite factories, like IDWriteFactory3, which was introduced in Windows 10 #1 is taken care of, I'm getting there with #2 and then I should be able to do #3. #4's solution is actually quite simple; copy over a Windows 10 DWrite.dll to use with Chromium using DLL redirection methods (I used 10.0.17763.1 and I think 10240 and up should work too). Then patch these DLL names in the import table with a hex editor or CFF explorer: api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-2-0.dll -> kernel32.dll api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-2.dll -> kernel32.dll This is sufficient to run the latest Chromium browser snapshot on Windows 8: Right now there are truly missing functions on Windows Vista and 7, in api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-0.dll and api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-1.dll. Some of those return function pointers so they can't be stubbed.

Well I think he (Dave = Ponder) likely removed it himself and I respect that but I'm looking to also start a blog for mental health and brain malformation [Acquired Brain Injury] but I'd like to wait until I can find something not related to anything even if its some 1/2-assed blog I'll just connect it to here and the XP forum. I don't wan t a site that needs a phone so Please let me know if anybody discovers something for a few posting a day for me in a month.

Never a bad time to watch Jack :) Well ... not quite like that, but, yes, when a person is admitted into the hospital they have to usually take the meds but they play stupid serene stuff to make it happy and relaxed and there usually is not news anymore since that is such a trigger. I've been hospitalized more than a few times.

Welcome Back :)

Hello @IcemanND, welcome back, good to see you here again!

My dad passed away about a year ago at the age of 82 - all COPD/asthma related. He was advised to *NOT* get any of the Covid shots. He ended up getting Covid *SIX TIMES* - none of them hospitalized him, none even constrained him to a bed, none even gave him digestive distress. edit - OT, of course...

I'm sorry to hear that you got jinxed. It's painful and I understand that feeling very well.

I do not share your optimism. In order to maintain legacy versions that supported XP, antivirus vendors such as Avast/AVG/Norton (now a single corporation), Kaspersky, and Malwarebytes must continue issuing definitions signed with SHA-1, which Microsoft has proclaimed to be insecure for several years. Definitions for Avast 8 and earlier were cut off in April 2020, i.e. no more Windows 2000. https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=233272.0 Vaccines leave something to be desired, but we’re glad you survived.

Good night msfntor and I'm glad getting notifications doesn't disturb you Mina.

Sorry for being off-topic, but glad to see you back, FranceBB. I am sorry you had tough time, though. I hope all is well with you.

This is with respect to the USB stick controller with a "flippable" bit that can tell OS whether the device is "removable" or "fixed". And with my difficulty in getting removable HDD sticks to be seen as BIOS bootable. Maybe some related setup restriction that is tripping me up? Thanks

Disable it on gpedit.msc

Really, you don't need the install.bat. Delete "bin" and "doc". Just copy everything to a folder of you choice, without using install.bat.

No, I am talking about this post. You wrote in that post saying that an Opera developer said he would try to keep Windows 7/8.1 updated with latest Opera (after knowing that Chrome is dropping support for 7/8.1), and then D.Draker replied to you saying "it's a big lie, try Opera 96 developer yourself", you tried it, and you said it crashes on 8.1. That's what I meant by "It was already confirmed that this was lying from Opera developers and not true.". Which, in fact, means Opera developers were lying when they said they will keep 7/8.1 updated with latest Opera.

UNITED STATES Relaxing Birds Sound - Birds Chirping in Forest 4k | Forest Nature Sound | 6 Hours (6:10:10) Forest Film 236 views Jan 6, 2023 "Sending love and positive vibes to anyone struggling right now. You are not alone and you are strong enough to overcome any challenge. Remember to take care of yourself and reach out for support if you need it. There is always hope for a better tomorrow."

I rarely touch them a lot anyway.

Listening now and hope for some natural healing sounds in the AM as its about time to go out for a walk today with another person as they don't want me alone but its not like I'm going to walk off and vanish. That isn't happening too much around here but in the west, Trans people are vanishing because they are usually estranged from family and they do unseen. Ok and okay I'm already dressed and a bit I must take back what I said above I'm battered but NOT broken.

Esp is you don't get much natural sun as like myself I stay inside too much and don't get sun and I take 400 of Vit D and small E in the multi. I also take aspirin per my cardiologist. I also am on blood pressure meds and try to avoid anything that treats a stuffy nose for only 1 or 2 days MAX and stop and try to use hot shower and clean the shower hose nozzle because at night turns to mold spores in the dark bathroom. I hope that made some sense - I'm not doctor I just play one on TV.

I was liking the last posting in this thread but that doesn't mean I like the situation I'm happy everyone here has survived.

there been a lot of bad stuff happening over here because of that shot so it's good you made it thru

It was already confirmed that this was lying from Opera developers and not true.

I recently heard (again) from someone IRL talking about finding a post of mine. I guess we really did end up helping a lot of people over the years and never really know about it because there are tons of people who never make accounts or post.

360Chrome v11: 1. open a page 2. minimize browser window to Taskbar 3. do something else for 5 minutes or longer (open: folders, files, other browser) 4. open browser window again, text is disappeared This is only from memory, I will have to test it more to narrow down the cause, and how long it takes do replicate it. I wonder if it has something to do with Fonts, open in the same time pages where I block remote fonts and pages where I allow remote fonts, not sure if this is relevant, will have to do some tests.

Hi @IcemanND, hello from Belgium and welcome to MSFN! I wish you to enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

Thanks @win32 and you for responding to my matter. I also noticed that if you have a Chromium build below 5520 installed and attend to open a Chromium (zip) that has a higher build number, it will actually launch. However, not only the New Page- but also the Settings page won‘t open and Chromium will immediately crash. Is there any way in how to avoid those crashs? Same is obviously happening with Edge/Chrome and Opera also still not works in Dev Builds, although they stated that they will keep 7/8.1 Support up

I'm setting up a topic for your forum right now. x64 has been built but I haven't published it here.

Support page that says: https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/87065 - sign in to Blogger, then: Restore a deleted blog In the top left, click Down arrow . Under “Deleted blogs,” click the blog you want to restore. Click Undelete. Your restored blog will show up in the “Your blogs” list and you’ll be able to post to it.

Realistically, we're just going to have to do the following: Stick with Windows XP/Vista/7/8.1 on low-end hardware If Chromium or modern web browsers become unusable, simply dual-boot a Linux distro like ZorinOS (I personally use Mint Linux) Purchase an SSD on a higher-end PC and install Windows 10/11 Strip-down Windows 10 and customize it If you gotta, replace its system shell and explorer with a third party one. The majority of Windows 10's built-in components (image viewer, media player, etc.) are bloated and inefficient. Windows 10 LTSC IoT versions will actually be supported until 2032 at minimum (according to wikipedia), so I think there's a bit of relief for all of us At this point, I personally prefer 10 over 11. Windows 10 at least does not get rid of the Windows UX we love it for. I smell a potential lawsuit towards Microsoft for abandoning Windows 10. They've literally made computers from the past 15 years unusable and are adding onto electronic waste. Even our archaic Windows 98 computers can still be made useful in 2023 if given a right Linux OS.

Yes. However, my post only includes successful methods to clean install (the upgrade method MIGHT work, but the last time I tested it it didn’t).

Watching Keanu Reeves in Speed (1994)

https://pondermovedhere.blogspot.com Gone - Blog not found?? Well remember, we're here for you and just come as you are.

Lol, no problem. Anyway, good night!

Your profile suggests you are almost 23 years old, so I wonder what you were using before Avast? Avast Free 18.8 was the last thing I used on Vista, but I wasn’t really crazy about it. I wonder how much longer definitions will be provided for the legacy version.

ehehehe I never really left, I was mostly lurking around, but I didn't have much time to reply. It's been a bit of a tough period.

Serpent 52 lacks an "about:permissions" "internal" page... However, once on a specific URL, you can access a mic/camera permission setting via "context menu -> View Page Info -> Permissions" tab:

thanks for this clarification . i also opened an issue on the extended kernel GitHub hope that someone sees it.

: Web Components/Custom Elements : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components#custom_elements (most of this was implemented in Firefox [Quantum] 63 (/ Chromium 53), partial implementations were behind a disabled "about:config" pref in earlier Fx versions...) .

I'm typing this on W8.1 running Chrome 111.0.5542.0, so it still works. I've found that after rev 5520 many of Chrome's internal pages will cause it to crash. The worst offender being chrome://newtab because I use it often. If Chrome is crashing when launched it's either because its trying to restore a previous session with an offending page or its starting a new instance with newtab. The workaround is to downgrade to 5520 and install one of several available extensions that redirects chrome://newtab to another website. You can try this one or this other one. But theres a bunch of others.

Thank you very much! We're trying our best to restore these old Websitese. Spolier : Windows Update v3 will be available soon...

@NotHereToPlayGames : Official Pale Moon (and, as a consequence, NM), has never supported WebRTC, which is required for (most) online-services accessing the mic and/or camera... Serpent 52's WebRTC implementation, despite being standards-compliant (the claim by "upstream"), is generally not "well-digested" by recent "chat/telephony" services, which expect the type of WebRTC found in recent Chromium incarnations... It's actually UXP issues 1279, 1285 , 1286, 2056 , all fixed by martok's (the author of palefill) PR #2060 (I believe martok was paid a bounty by MCP for his contribution). The merged code landed first on Roy's browsers (actually, ahead of upstream ) with the Xmas Eve releases ... ... Don't make decisions based on sheer enthusiasm ... That was just ONE long-standing UXP shortcoming that was fixed... Chromium 86 is years ahead in JS features in demand by the recent "web"... UXP still lacks a full and proper WC/CE implementation (that's why palefill exists for just a handful of sites), plus lacks "dynamic module import" support and a few other "deal-breakers" ... And UXP is still developed as a single-process platform; might have been good back then in 2016-7, but what about now when one tab might "host" a full-blown web app (with 10s of MBs of js code, e.g. web discord/desktop YT, etc.)? Especially on older H/W most of us here use, that "one tab" stalls the whole browser GUI by itself ... I'd stay with 360EEv13.5 myself (especially if WebRTC is a "must") ...

My Windows 11 impressions so far are that most peoples' impressions of it aren't that great (I haven't used it myself, and probably won't any time soon). I waited 7 years for Windows 10 to get better — and it never really did, so I'm not waiting around for 11, because I doubt it'll ever get meaningfully better either. Microsoft simply doesn't seem to care anymore, so why should I? c

Which one should I use for 2003 x86? Do I need to integrate two things for 2003 x86 like with x64?

How to install Office 2013 on Vista 1- Have a copy of Office 2013 64-bit handy (The latest extended kernel is needed, x86 is useless) 2- Copy to the desktop in a new folder the root of your copy of Office 2013 3- Copy the ProPlus.WW.en-US folder to the desktop (the name may vary due to the language/edition of the copy), this is important since the Office installer detects the edited files and the installer of this folder needs to be edited. 4- In the folder copied to the desktop open ProPlus.WW.msi with Orca, go to InstallExecuteSequence and remove AbortMsi (it blocks the installation outside of setup.exe that verifies the files), then in Components change all Conditional VersionNT >= 601 by VersionNT >= 600. 5- Replace gdiplus.dll with the one from Windows 7, this is the path in the system: C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft.windows.gdiplus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.6002.19749_none_56a723b1b598503f\gdiplus.dll 6- In group policies of the local machine, it prohibits rollback (very important) 7- Create an osver.ini file with the following settings (required at all times when installing Office 2013): [global] MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 8- Open ProPlus.WW.msi and after installation the Office 2013 suite should appear in the start menu, but it is not enough! 9- Go back to group policies and disable rollback, but keep osver.ini 10- In the root folder of Office 2013 the only change we will make is to delete the update or updates folder, they cause bugs when installed 11- Open the setup.exe of the normal Office 2013 installer and customize it to your liking (it should install successfully, if an error appears, reboot the system) 12- Open Word 2013 (it can be any program in the suite except Visio, Lync, InfoPath or Outlook) to configure Office 2013 13- The programs of the Office 2013 suite will need to be detected at all times as Windows 7 or an annoying Windows Installer dialog will appear configuring each time the program starts: [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\EXCEL.EXE] Enabled=1 Win7SuperVerFix=1 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\MSACCESS.exe] Enabled=1 Win7SuperVerFix=1 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\MSPUB.exe] Enabled=1 Win7SuperVerFix=1 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\ONENOTE.exe] Enabled=1 Win7SuperVerFix=1 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.exe] Enabled=1 Win7SuperVerFix=1 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\POWERPNT.exe] Enabled=1 Win7SuperVerFix=1 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.exe] Enabled=1 Win7SuperVerFix=1 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=7600 14- ¡Enjoy Office 2013! SOMEONE BUGS 1- A large part of the office suite worked without problems, but there are programs that have some problem to solve: Outlook: won't start due to missing dependency on advapi32.dll (in future extended kernel updates this may be fixed) Lync: Stop responding... on welcome screen Infopath: Won't even open Visio: When creating a new drawing stops responding 2- It is impossible to activate it (at least there is no time bomb) 3- Can't login (maybe because of TLS) CONCLUSION We have partly killed the obsolescence imposed by M$ in Vista, which only received two versions of Office. Almost the entire suite works perfectly under Vista, except for Lync or InfoPath that I don't find useful, Outlook and the lack of dependencies in advapi32.dll. In the usual programs like Word, Excel or Powerpoint I can do anything without problems as if I were in Windows 7 or 8.

I never heard of it before either ! But just searched for it. They introduce themselves as "Our Awesome Team"... lol

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-kb5020044-makes-task-manager-partially-unreadable/?fbclid=IwAR0GkaQ_XNqL16p_ZvmEvoKbr7R7_MRZug6EmIVJfosWS8DjoRRsZbmT41o Eternally beta since windows 10. Why leave vista/7 if we have all kernel extensions we currently have? better to use two machines

Yep , and before anyone attempts further strange things, it is better to remind how the particular .wim format that is used in Winflp (Windows for Legacy PC's) is a very early version, not compatible with later imagex or dism, and of course it makes little sense to have a "universal" (as opposed to minimized and machine/use specific) Windows Embedded image, as if you do that, you will come up at the end with something very, very like PosReady2009 . jaclaz

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