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March the 4th now, is it? I'd like to think you'll have something to showcase by then. Otherwise, stop clogging up these information rich threads with vaporware. It's not right for those that utilize this platform for real, flesh and bone projects, nor to those checking back here to track how said projects are developing.

Just a few seconds ago, I uploaded a fixed version of youtube-dl. (fix is not yet committed; got it from a test branch of the main developer) Yt-dlp was fixed earlier. See signature. Could you please test? Here on Windows Vista: [download] 3.5% of ~3.06GiB at 11.73MiB/s ETA 04:44

BTW, there is additionally the possibility to update MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit offline. On their homepage, an weekly offline updater can be downloaded. To update offline an offline AV scanner is a bit funny, but in any case simply great. Here is the link: https://www.escanav.de/german/content/products/generic_eScan/escan_mailscan_weeklyupdates.asp Cheers, AstroSkipper

... It seems most evil Google have again patched this ; I now get: yt-dl -f 140-1 "p7FCgw_GlWc" => [youtube] p7FCgw_GlWc: Downloading webpage [youtube] Confirming age [youtube] p7FCgw_GlWc: Downloading API JSON [dashsegments] Total fragments: 1 [download] Destination: Kanye West - Famous-p7FCgw_GlWc.m4a [download] 7.7% of ~9.83MiB at 50.70KiB/s ETA 01:06 ERROR: Interrupted by user Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y ... Was fine earlier today, with a patched youtube-dl build of mine... yt-dlp is also affected now ... Had you been a fan of SNL's "Church Lady" in the mid-80s to 90s? Google are indeed "SATAN" (and are obviously keeping a keen eye on the yt-dlp/yt-dl repos) ...

Google has entered trolling mode at 31 kB/s. I'd still rather watch a video the next day than view advertisements every 5 minutes with 100% CPU usage. The last version lasted several months, now a fix is needed already after a week.

Thanks for this great find @AstroSkipper. Works good in Windows 8.0

... "upstream" : youtube-dl (the original project); yt-dlp : "downstream" (the fork) ... For a fix from "upstream" , check this (and posted comments); WFM !

... "a strange game" in which "the only winning move is not to play." jaclaz

The installers are simply sfx which execute setup.cmd on extraction. You can look and see what they do. The method simply set the proxy on the client system. The proxy redirects the old URLs to the new ones and ship a very old wuident.cab so that WU won't selfupdate (the latest version blocks any non-Microsoft SSL)

So your „Extended Kernel“ won‘t even be based on Windows 8.1 but rather on Windows 10‘s Technical Preview? All you would have to do is to debomb it and than you want to call it Windows 8.1 Extended Kernel? Doesn‘t seem right to me. You should rather focus on Build 9600, as I think most of the Windows 8.1 users wan‘t to stay on that version for a reason. Furthermore, is there any news about how to get Chromium 113 on 8.1 ?

Thank you for your opinion and thoughts! First of all, I have to mention that I am a die-hard Windows XP fan, and it is still my main operating system for more than 20 years. It has the most important things I need. Working with Windows XP always fills me with joy. I feel free, not monitored, not controlled and not incapacitated. But if I had to switch to another Windows OS, it would be Windows 7. I completely agree with you, Windows 7 was or is a worthy successor to Windows XP. As for Windows 10, I try to avoid using it whenever I can. In this OS, an administrator is no longer really the boss. Microsoft no longer considers users capable of making their own decisions. And all in the name of security. I don't feel free in this OS, but controlled, bullied and monitored, no matter what hacks and modifications have been made. That's one of the main reasons why I don't like Windows 10 and up. Greetings, AstroSkipper

@Antonino Only The Windows11.txt got a new line for windows dev explorer.

Modus Operandi

I'll tag @blackwingcat and see if he has a solution to getting Windows 2000 on InsydeH2O BIOS with ACPI.

I appreciate that, brother. For me, Windows XP was the finest hour for Microsoft in terms of designing a stable, reliable, fully-featured OS. I think 7 did regress from it in certain respects, but managed to improve upon it in other areas (such as out-of-the-box download speeds, and a far more powerful kernel). I think 7 got better over the years, and is now in all respects a worthy successor to the old, legendary XP. I'm not really on the 10 'hate train'--having used it quite a bit myself, I can appreciate the good things about it, and while it is by no means a flawless OS (actually, I think that it was an even more significant regression from 7 compared to 7 from XP, with less advantages outweighing the drawbacks), when you figure out how to deal with its various quirks it's actually not too bad. I find that to get decent performance in 10, you need a more modern dual-core or any triple/quad-core or better you can find. 7, on the other hand, can run fine even on a higher-clocked single core and flies with two or more cores. My advice to anyone who wants to be more future-proofed (because let's face it, eventually 7 is going to end up exactly where XP is now), and absolutely must be using Windows 10 at this point in time, is to choose an Enterprise release (LTSB or LTSC). These versions are a lot more stable, and while each seems to have its share of quirks and bugs, the overall experience is going to be much closer to the XP/7 days. Most of the fluff in 'regular' 10 has been removed, or can be easily turned off during the initial installation. The only updates these versions seem to get are security and stability-related, so your odds of an update ruining your OS and forcing you to do a reinstall are far less. I recommend LTSC 2019, which will get extended updates until January 2029...after that, IoT LTSC 2021 will get updates until January 2032. (Quick note if you burn to/install from disc media: LTSC 2019 will fit on a single-layer DVD & IoT 2021 needs a dual-layer).

True. But I actually prefer to disable GPU rendering on my mid-spec'd not-new but not-old Win10 systems. I often need to screen-cap via keyboard Print Screen and video frames will not screen-cap if GPU-rendered. I also don't notice any CPU/RAM "improvement" by offloading that task to the GPU. Often times it's even the opposite, better CPU and RAM utilization by not offloading to GPU. That may have been YouTube only, to be honest. But screen-cap is everywhere, you can't screen-cap if hardware "acceleration" is enabled. edit - at least none of my Win10 systems will screen-cap if HA is enabled

I administrate an older notebook which was originally delivered with Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit. After I had upgraded the hardware (SSD and RAM), I installed Windows 10 Professional independently and completely on a second partition. I use the boot manager BOOT-US to select the desired OS when starting the notebook. I can absolutely understand why Windows 7 is your favourite. I am already having a crisis when you can only log into your own operating system with an account. I don't like Windows 10 and up.

@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 ...

is ETA in the morning or in the afternoon? jaclaz

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

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!

This is now added to the Readme: This version is built with Python 3.8, EOL: 2024-10

Pushed a release (only yt-dlp) with the latest fixes from upstream. Download speed should be back to normal now.

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

By any chance, you aren't under the influence of chemical substances, are you ?

What exactly are you working on? Is this to be similar project to KernelEx for Windows 98? So far, I've seen you focused on at least 3 different versions of Windows. Do you have a demo or screenshots of something you can show some sort of progress that you're making? I think you'd be apt to get a lot more people onboard to help you if you showed what you're working on, that it does work to an extent, and that you're not just stringing them along.

Empty promises again ? I'm timing you. If by that time you don't release it, I'll report you to the imperial guards.

Guys, my try to port it failed (in theory, resolved dependiences, but browser still not worked). But on @win32 modified DWrite.dll from W10 1809 and these api-ms files, build 5535 of Chromium and Opera 97 Dev based on 5532 works fine. Thank you so much! I will try newer builds

I had to build my own api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-0.dll and api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-1.dll. I also had to make a patch to prevent it from continuously polling a non-existent ALPC port. I may also have to write a bcp47mm.dll to go along with it, because the DLL isn't working for much other than Chromium due to a null function pointer somewhere. The breakage point is between 5547 and 5555 as a result.

Actually, unrelated to what we've been discussing here... The multiple [1888] WARNING: file already exists but should not: C:\DOCUME~1\nico\LOCALS~1\Temp\_MEI18882\Cryptodome\* warnings are a manifestation of a very recent bug, which I have reported here (possibly related to the new "ways" PyCryptodome[x] is imported at yt-dlp's runtime and, thus, the "new" ways the module is being packed by PyInstaller) ... Even your very own compiles are being affected by that bug: https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.02.09.051430/yt-dlp_x86.exe https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2023.02.11.092312/yt-dlp_x86.exe (One needs Vista SP2+ [32 and/or 64-bit] to test these). The bug may be exclusive to the GitHub Actions compiled builds, because the ones I prepare myself locally (with CPython 3.7.16), as well as your "manual" build "yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP.zip", do not exhibit this bug ... Sometimes I wish the yt-dlp devs left the code "at peace" for awhile, in a good-working-state... "Shouldn't fix what isn't broken" comes to mind... But what do I know (except for stumbling on bugs ) ?

Youtube-dl is not released (by me) on GitHub. Yt-dlp is here (forked the official repo and publish in-between builds. Then manually upload my compiled XP compatible one) : https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases Click on "Show all 19 assets" and you'll see "yt-dlp_x86_Windows-XP.zip". In the New Moon browser you need the extension "Palefill Web Technologies Polyfill" (palefill-1.26.xpi) to navigate GitHub.