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@joe92 Welcome to the MSFN forums ... It's the new UXP-killer "Googlism" I mentioned several pages back, the very reason all the discourse-based forums broke in UXP... The name of that "killer" is nullish coalescing assignment ... This operator was first implemented in Firefox 79 and Chromium 85; it's unknown if/when "upstream" can come up with an implementation in UXP, but what's certain by now is it's the "new" 2023 trend followed all the more by the well known "villain" sites (i.e. those that don't care in the slightest for "legacy" platforms and are eager to adopt the latest Google "shiny" ASAP ) ... BTW, "*.notion.site" and "*.notion.so" URLs are currently broken in UXP for that very same reason ...

... But they didn't bother updating the copyright dates ... https://www.escanav.de/german/index-new.asp => Copyright © 2020 MicroWorld Technologies Inc. - Anti-Virus und Content Security https://www.escanav.de/german/content/products/MWAV/escan_mwav.asp => Copyright © 2021 MicroWorld Technologies GmbH - Unternehmenssicherheit They do support Vista/WS2008, so ; I'm rather curious, though, why Win8.1/10/11 aren't mentioned/supported?

Now my installers works for any OS from 2000 to 7 SP1. Download your from https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsVjtW11rJfA3FQANrgg_QXRMgfx?e=lCF2lV and run it (follow eventual prompts). It restores WU, MU and AU (including website on Vista and 7). Notes: 1)On Windows 2000, you need SP3 or SP4 and IE6 installed before you run this 2)On Windows XP RTM, SP1, SP2 AU doesn't work if MU is enabled (unsolvable) 3)On Windows Vista and 7 already used installations run the fix before installing 4)On Windows 7 SP1 error 0x8007000A is related to wuaueng.dll and cannot be solved. If you have it, install SHA-2 support 5)The installer can be run multiple times if you need

You have your own thread about this in the Windows 2000 section, where it should be. You can tag any contributor to this thread in that thread. The same will happen with Windows 2003 should the contributors here deem it to be necessary.

Yeah, Chromium can't use GPU for rendering on XP. Mozilla-based browsers may be able to use Direct3D 9, but get this, it's rarely mentioned, Direct3D 9 on XP DOES NOT WORK WELL ACROSS MULTIPLE MONITORS...well, it only does with A LOT OF LAG, the performance is only as it should be (within drivers'/OS capabilities) as long as the browser window is entirely on the primary monitor. Talk about waste of good hardware!

Exactly! Even the newest supported Chromium (109) is still going to work fine for a long time to come. Luckily Firefox is still supported, which is fantastic. There are many options for 7 at this moment, and while it may eventually end up where XP is at now, the future is much brighter right now for 7 users. (It's even brighter than that if you're on 10/11, but I'm staying with 7 for now because I prefer the old-school interface and the speed).

Mozilla still supports Firefox on Windows 7 (they didn't announce an EoS date yet), that's why you can still use it on 7 until now.

Careful with Debian. It's thought by some that it's more suited to those that are sure they need Debian specifically. Debian is outdated by design, which is not necessarily a good thing. I'm experimenting with it on my laptop since it's sill quite familiar choice if one has been acquainted with another Debian derived distro and is looking for 32-bit one...and at the same time wonder if the reason for Firefox crashing when trying to make it use hardware accelerated video decoding capabilities on the GPU is due to GPU drivers / Mesa from 2020.

Checking back in, this time from 7 x64. At this point there's nowhere to go but forward from here, as much as I hate to say it. Unless I'm on a PC so old that I need to use XP for full driver support, I'm pretty much sold on 7 for the foreseeable future. Though in some ways it was a regression from XP, it managed to improve in many ways that are important to me. Download speeds out of the box are MUCH better, so there's no serious need to keep a download manager around unless you are dead set on getting every last kilobyte your router is capable of routing. The kernel is significantly better too...besides being able to run a much wider range of browsers (and having much more modern options available), browsers seem to be much snappier and perform a lot better. I've currently settled on Waterfox G3 (Firefox 78-based). It's very fast, still has the now-deprecated Flash support, and just seems to be a good 'base' browser to put on a 7 build...and of course you can still download and experiment with other browsers too. I figure that I can download and try a newer version of Firefox, or a modern Chromium build, if a site gives me trouble in Waterfox. It seems 7 is on the road to taking the torch from XP as the new 'superstar' of legacy OSes and I predict that there will be many, MANY browser options for 7 users as time goes on. In general, it's good to be able to look at your options and see what works best. It was impressive to see the Mini Browser working so well in XP, but the aging XP kernel is being pushed to its limits, and of course the performance of Chromium 87 in Win7, both x86 and x64, just blows it out of the water. The fact that Chromium 87 even works in XP is amazing in itself, so I wasn't expecting miracles performance-wise.

Well, good luck with that.

It's not easy to make the switch when you're accustomed to Windows way of doing things and specific software. I've been keeping Linux around for years, just not as the main desktop OS. I don't know about the future (if there is such a thing), Win10 currently suits me the best, pre-Win7 versions don't suit me at all, I have grudges about every Windows version I used though and Win11 is way too alien.

Will do!

A blue screen is blue, usually it comes with some white text on it, including a STOP code, see example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death#/media/File:Windows_XP_BSOD.png Besides, WinSetupFromUSB behaviour might depend on the settings you chose. The fact that you tried other tools obtaining similar failures leads me to think that there may be issues with the source, like some driver (missing or "wrong"). jaclaz

Had a feeling that was the reason, as in regular windows, embedded images display fine.

(Admins) this can be locked now

How about we stop the bickering and move on with life? What a dumpster fire this thread has become. Remember, what you post not only in here but in other threads as well is a direct reflection of yourself. I can hand out content moderation if we can't handle the responsibility of following the rules and being nice to each other.

I bite my tongue.

@WinWord2000 Off-topic posts moved here. You have already been warned once about posting off-topic Windows 2000 related posts in this XP/2003 specific thread. There is a thread for this issue on Windows 2000, please use it in future.

At least in Serpent 52, that behaviour depends upon the user setting in about:preferences#general => Downloads The default is: "Save files to: Downloads" and that generates the behaviour depicted in your screenshot... But when "Always ask me where to save files" has been selected (my preferred choice ), then when the browser is about to save a file inside a directory with a pre-existing file with an IDENTICAL filename, you are presented with a confirmation dialog where you're asked to confirm a file overwrite or, if you decline, you're back at the "Save As" window to type a new, custom/different, filename to save the new file under...

Maybe, the most recent version also works under Win 8.1+, and they simply forgot to update their homepage. I can only say that this tool works as advertised and does its job. Not so easy to find XP/Vista-compatible antivirus tools nowadays.

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@roytam1! Do you know if there are or were any attempts to localize MailNews? Binary Outcast seems to provide Interlink Mail & News in English only. Same for your release of MailNews. New Moon can be localized by existing language packs after some modifications in terms of dev tools. I already did that for the German language pack, and it works great which can be found here: My German language pack for New Moon 28 For Serpent, there is a project on board.eclipse.cx. But in the case of MailNews, I found absolutely nothing. All existing language packs for Thunderbird don't work anymore as expected due to all changes that have been made. I should still mention at this point that I am currently in the process of developing a German language pack for MailNews from scratch to use this great email client in my native language. I do that in form of a private project at the moment. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Which game is this? The one where other users suggest something and you reply saying "Yeah, I tried that but it doesn't work." and that goes on for several posts until it ends nowhere or the one where you post the EXACT description of your hardware, the EXACT description of what tool/method/whatever you tried using to install XP from USB AND the EXACT description of the error(s)/issue(s) you had and for which you may receive (hopefully) some advice or something else? jaclaz

It is still to combat spammers, but I do not know the stats on the block.

Dupe topic. Other one is here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183446-windows-81-extended-kernel/

WinNTSetup 5.3 - compiler updated to PureBasic 6.00 C-Backend - updated wimlib to version 1.13.6 - right-click on apply mode combo opens Tools\Compact\WimBootCompress.ini - fixed errors with native 4K drives - fixed VSS error not displayed - fixed Bootice Mod always starts in darkmode - fixed capture problem with OneDrive On-Demand files - fixed error message on FormatEx failures - fixed inaccessible devices were listed in drive combo boxes - fixed offline windows scan may not detect Windows 10/11 builds correctly - fixed internal VHD boot files option may create duplicate BCD entries - fixed auto format may not work if drive is in use - fixed loading ISO with relative path may create duplicates in source combo box - added commandline switch for VHD-CREATE -uuid:{UUID} (simular to VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid) - added WinCopy option (copy Windows from one partition to another) - added WinCopy and WinCopy-CLI command line - added ReFS support for Windows 11 23H2 - added combobox script selection to diskpart window - added -diskpart command line switch to bring up diskpart window - added WIM_MSG_ERROR and WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR Messagebox choice - added Remove OneDrive tweak - added DISM feature enable/disable and APPX removal - added possability to disable SFX detection with file: "nosfx" next to WinNTSetup_x64.exe - new right-click on tweaks button to quickly disable all tweaks - changed wimlib is the default compression engine - changed Unattend: Win7-11-Select.xml disables 42 days password expire - changed rearrage folder layout - MinWin: support inline comments (//) - MinWin: grant full admin access to files - MinWin: fixed VCRuntime 2008 installer needs sxsstore.dll and config\TxR - MinWin: fixed diskpart shrink needs defragproxy.dll - RegImport: added support for [?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...] (only processed if key exists) - workaround windows 7 Dism /add-driver bug 30 (AMD, NVIDIA drivers with LZSS compression) - workaround EFI NTFS driver bug

Me neither, mate.

As I already mentioned, I chose Xubuntu LTS, too. It is leightweight, compatible with old hardware, and a lot of program packages are available. Managing, fixing, flashing Android devices and repairing devices is my main use of Linux. And, I was always successful, at least until now.

@Tommy You're absolutely right, you're a very nice person, I'll just put him to ignore list and move on. I'm pretty sure you also understand no guarantees he does the same.

Yeah! It's the funniest thing...all of the browsers in your examples don't have an issue with that. I have been able to overwrite just fine with those, from my tests on 7/10. For some reason it's only been 360 that was giving me problems in that regard. It's not a big deal--it's just kind of weird. What I mean is, when I go to overwrite a file in 360, instead of properly replacing the original file with the rewritten version, it creates a duplicate with a number next to it. Very strange. Mini, on the other hand, rewrites the file with no issues. Doesn't even give a prompt: it just does it! I still think 360 is great...I'm keeping Mini around because it just works more 'common-sensely' for all my daily browsing needs. The only quirk I've noticed with Mini is it doesn't seem to let me go to a link from within a tab when I use the address bar--instead, it goes to the link from within a new tab created next to it. It seems every browser has a quirk of some kind, that takes a little getting used to. But as an XP user, I'm grateful for anything we can use at this point. Definitely thinking ahead to the future now, but so far XP still has life left in it. Also, thank you for sharing the link to that extension! To post it again, for others' reference: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/downloads-overwrite-alrea/lddjgfpjnifpeondafidennlcfagekbp

Interesting, I compared chrome://gpu of these browsers & versions all running on windows 8: IRON 104: Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled CHROMIUM 112 (bp): Video Decode: Hardware accelerated GOOGLE CHROME 107: Video Decode: Hardware accelerated 1440p60 it's smoother on chromium 112 - I have also found these extensions when I tried to get hardware acceleration on IRON 104 first: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal/related https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magic-actions-for-youtube/abjcfabbhafbcdfjoecdgepllmpfceif/related _ Ok, I made some more tests after I read about how to enable Chrome hardware acceleration [DELETED] (I don't know if I can post this) Long story short, I enabled acceleration on Iron playing with [DELETED] Anyway, I not discovered the wheel (the wheel was discovered by blackwingcat ), so comparing this to chrome on w10, I want to have the best video playback experience on w8, at least as smooth as in VLC, so I'll continue investigating... I knows this -maybe- doesn't bring anything new to the table, It's more like a personal appreciation about how accelerated video playback works these days on different chrome versions and windows oses... but I remember an old HP laptop from 2009 in which I installed 10 1511 10586 (wddm 2.0) and youtube on iron worked better than in Windows 8. This is what always kept me curious trying to understand...

Look mate, I don't care if you still consider my English "not-so-good" until now, nor do I care if you are satisfied (or not) that I said I am mistaken, just please stop talking (and also, talking back) to me. That's all what I want. Thank you very much. And as for honoring XPerceniol or not, that doesn't matter, because I can honor him by myself, I don't need to write words. XPerceniol will still be remembered in my heart, and I will never forget him, not even one bit. This will officially be my final reply on this topic.

On my old Windows XP computer, I installed a Linux distribution on a separate partition years ago. I decided to go with Xubuntu, a distribution for low-performance systems. With the installed boot manager Boot-US, I can select the desired operating system when I start the computer. For each OS, you can set in Boot-US which logical partitions are to be available. Linux as an additional alternative to Windows is simply great. My main operating system is still Windows XP and will remain so, though.

I observed this (new) behavior the last year too: even with Firefox 78 it wasn't possible to upload (the Elster certificate) for login. My solution was to install version 102; i suppose the newest hypermodern upload-technics of google used in Elster.de to be the culprit...

All the best wishes @roytam1 also from my side. Let me take this oportunity to say hello to this forum and a big Thank You!, including also @VistaLover, @NotHereToPlayGames, @IXOYE and the many others for their valuable help and contributions here! Having been lurking here for some years, now there have accumulated a couple of questions an small issues i'd like to discuss: 1) After Palemoon 25.8 i started using Roytam's Serpent-55.0, later used Serpent-52.9 (with it's slightly more recent codebasis) parallel, for different websites for about two years. Now i wonder, if there's a qualified possibility to merge the S-55.0 bookmarks into the bookmarks of S-52.9. 2) I have a triple boot system with XP, Win7 (and a modern Linux partition) to boot in. All my roytam's browser installations are kindof ,portable' which implicates that i can launch (for example) the Serpent-52.9 (32 bit) from the XP-partition, in Windows 7. Now, [having added the CTR to all UXP browsers to protect my sense of esthetics ] the result of starting S-52.9 from the XP-partition (with that XP- .\Profile) under Win7 is, that the menu-bar is missing! But, when i simply COPY the SAME S-52.9 folder from the XP to the Win7 partition and now start Serpent in Win7 (,locally'), the menubar comes up as expected. Isn't that funny? 3) I have the Status-bar activated in both, Serpent 52.9 and 55.0 in which is located the downlod status icon (bold arrow down) at the right corner. In S-55.0 that button works perfectly: it shows an active DL by color, it's possible to open the dl-window by clicking ont it, hovering above it shows some dl-information, and it indicates the completion of a DL with a nice animation. In S-52.9 in contrary, that button does nothing of these at all. 4) At th beginning of this year my both main mail-providers changed authentification and security mechhanisms so i was forced to leave my beloved and familiar Thunderbird 2.0. behind, but later very lucky to find roytam's Mailnews version as a dignified successor. Everything is familiar and works as expected... Many thanks again for providing it! Jast a small ,issue' for me: those ,ancient' thunderbirds had a nice feature: the rows of the main message-list had alternating colors (white and a light grey). That's gone unfortunately in mailnews. The solution, to put a userChrome.css with #threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(odd) { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: rgb(232,232,232) !important; } in the profile path (as described here) didn't work for mailnews... Edit: just found a picture of alternating color: http://blog.officefirst.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1057948436-3.png All kinds of help and hints for the 4 cases are very appreciated. Many thanks!

FYI, YouTube changed something... Downloads are now very slow. See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/6369 Lets hope it can be fixed. [Edit] Format 22 (mp4; 1280x720) is not affected, e.g: yt-dlp -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppojLHm-Z1I [download] 100% of 103.60MiB in 00:00:08 at 11.51MiB/s

Who's XPerceniol ?

I thought ALL web browsers did the auto-rename when you download the same file over and over. Even older versions of Firefox do this auto-rename. But not if you right-click and select save-as. Chromium v105 on Win10 - Ungoogled Chromium v96 on Win10 - Catsxp v110 on Win10 - Serpent v52 on Win10 -

None of the remaining links on that thread go to any sort of download.

Forums that still do the delete inactive accounts thing are either running extremely old software or do not know why that SOP was created in the first place. The issues with large datasets in tables for forums were solved ages ago, so there is no issue with needing to purge accounts or things like threads becoming very large.

Totally understand! It's one of the reasons I am not a fan of the "Tri-Five Chevy" (1955, 1956, and 1957). 1955 = 1,775,952 produced 1956 = 1,623,376 produced 1957 = 1,555,316 produced Compare that to Studebaker for 1955 when only 116,333 were produced or 1957 when only 63,101 were produced. But yeah, a bit OT, lol.

Yeah, those forks are always behind, mainline Firefox usually isn't (as much) AFAIK. And TBH, there's a good deal of flexibility in those old-school Mozilla-based browsers that I simply don't need (that I know, so extensions that I don't need) while there's probably also some that maybe I would find useful, but to get it, I would have to be the programmer to implement. I know there are folks that aren't interested in tweaking simply due to the fast pace that these browsers are changing and they just want something that will surely work on all those odd sites and not worry about fighting the browser on each update. When my parents were young, there was basically one car on the road, it was Zastava 750. If you had a car back then and came from these parts, it was probably that one. Now look at how many cars and different models are on the road. I don't know, maybe I'm straying a little, but sometimes I get these thoughts that all this so called "user choice" is more of a burden than the freedom. I could get by with most popular browser with mostly default settings if I wanted, but I guess I don't due to the nerdy side of me.

Basic network troubleshooting. Verify your current IP, gateway, DNS and subnet. Can you ping gateway? Can you resolve DNS? Know that Windows does not let you use multiple gateways. So if you have WLAN connected and it has a gateway, LAN won't have one and vice-versa. Make sure if you have DHCP on both interfaces that they are not trying to use the same IP range/scope. If you are trying to bridge the networks, you may want to use static IP on the LAN and have WLAN on dynamic.

And even MORE IMPORTANTLY (to me at least) is that they also maintained the ability to Disable DirectWrite.

Has there been any more updates for DcBrowser?

I recently created an iso with all Windows Vista updates: 862 in total. I made an iso in English and in French because I am French but I thought of you because you are a great Windows Vista community. You will find the iso on my Youtube channel, I made a video of it. This is the only title in English at the moment.

There is nothing more to be said here.

Posts in Funny Farm section does not increase post count. PS: I'm a member of a forum that uses badges and they had badges for "posts in a day" such as 10, 100, 250, 500 and 1000. I think on that forum no one got to 1000 posts in a day but I did manage to get 500 posts in a day. But since multiple members attempted the 500 posts in a day badge on the same day, the Admin decided that giving a badge for 500 (or 1000) posts in a day was a bad idea.

User can't do it for themselves. As a general rule we do not delete accounts but rather recommend that people just logout and not come back if they don't want to be here. We make this recommendation instead of complying with a deletion because of the countless times that people have returned to MSFN after years of not using it. Also consider this: if we delete your account, your posts will remain. However since this server is hosted in EU, we will respond appropriately to a properly worded GDPR Right to Erasure request, which anyone from EU (or UK since they retained this law after Brexit) can send in a PM to a Supervisor and we will delete your account.

seems like Microsoft has just declared the 1809 version "business ready" and is now available in the SAC channel. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Windows-10-version-1809-designated-for-broad-deployment/ba-p/389540 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10/release-information and there are new refresh ESDs & ISOs of 1809 available that contain build 17763.379