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On Windows Vista, CUDA must be disabled in the GPU driver's control panel to run Vegas Pro 15. If not, it gets hung up on a version check. I will look into it.

Dug up my ancient Vista VirtualBox VM. It runs the same config that I ran when I had Vista on one of my laptops (that laptop died and I opted to not bring it back to life due to it only having Vista [was never really a fan of Vista]). My VM has two Task Scheduler processes that I kill on startup (this also disables "auto defrag" [I hate hate hate auto defrag!]). My number of processes via Task Manager is 29. But two of those are VirtualBox processes. So my laptop would have been running 27. The lower you can get your process count, the better! (OT - my real-world XP only runs 14!)

... The "free of charge for home use only" download requires you "agree to send statistics related to the scanning process and your PC's software and hardware configuration to Doctor Web", else no free download ; more here ...

It's from r/WindowsVista. Link to the post is here.

Do not copypasta text from other sites and make it a thread. Put the link to where you stole this info from. MSFN is in EU so we have the EU Copyright Directive to deal with.

... Same filesize reported here for the stub-installer (filename PANDAFREEAV.exe, dual-signed on 20220312): Below, Windows Explorer's properties window for the offline setup (downloaded ca. 15min ago): Every Windows user is expected to have Windows Explorer available, the same is not true for Total Commander ... It's possible the file is compressed and TC just expands it somehow , or the file might have changed on Panda's servers since the date (20/02/2023 ?) you fetched it yourself ... Additionally, the third-party site (LO4D.com) posted above appears to agree with my report : Best regards

Okay, I believe the problem lies with the .NET Framework - I'll just have to do some digging to figure out what's going on. Whatever it is, I'm almost certain it's the same thing that's causing every security update(legacyupdate.net) for all .NET Framework versions to fail on my system. I'm afk at the moment, but I had the updates running one more time before I left. I'll check in on them when I get back, and will let you know if it miraculously works while I'm gone. BTW thanks for all your help so far guys!

if you are concerned about safety you should uninstall your china made AV - 360 Total Security this will also free up some RAM and reduce CPU usage.

there's is nothing safe in the computing world but it should be quite a bit safer than the unmodified browser. I don't know if @NotHereToPlayGames has other browser projects in the works....

yes

Ok. No SSE2 problem. You said all that happened after a clean reinstall of XP SP3. My next assumption is an essential component is missing or damaged while installing. I would check the Microsoft .NET Framework installation first. BTW, what version is the Panda Dome installer of you used for installation? The version of my offline installer is 15.14.5.0 with a size of 92.041.632 Bytes. And you should get rid of all remnants of previous Panda installations before you start the next attempt.

MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit is an antivirus/antimalware offline scanner for a manual checking of the computer and cleaning if necessary. WiseVector StopX is an AI based antivirus program with a background guard, but its development has stopped, unfortunately So they are completely different and not easy to compare. You will find only a few tests of both tools in the internet. They are not as well known as the AV programs produced by big antivirus manufacturers. MWAV is a good tool, easy to handle and is updated on a regular base. I do trust it. For more information, follow this link to its English homepage: https://www.escanav.com/en/mwav-tools/download-free-antivirus-toolkit.asp If you are looking for an antivirus program with real-time protection under Windows XP, you can try Panda Dome. I wrote about this program in previous posts. In my system, I use both, Panda Dome and MWAV. A good combination, in my opinion.

That's because these are ONLY offered when the videoID is an age-gated one && the tool is youtube-dl; with yt-dlp, as you wrote, the two audio variants, again for age-gated videoIDs, are labelled as "*" and "*-drc* (where drc = Dynamic Range Compression). TL;DR: When you're using youtube-dl and you stumble upon an age-gated videoID, if your script (for audio) specifically requests just "-f 140", then NO download for that ; you'd have to modify the audio format selection to be based on RegExp (and/or, perhaps, file extension of audio file) ...

You always pay with your data. Therefore, these commercial antivirus scanner are not really free. But if you don't want that, you should avoid using Microsoft Windows, especially more recent ones. In these OSs, you always pay with your data, even if you have paid for your Windows. You can switch to Linux or take all kinds of countermeasures. BTW, MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit is free of charge and an offline scanner which doesn't need any internet connections. Updating can be done offline, too. All has been described in this post and the subsequent:

Eins, zwei, drei, vier Meine Freunde, tanz mit mir!

Nice, glad to hear that it worked. Does it work with Tab Mix Plus?

And most importantly we already have a set of solid moderators.

No , you don't wanna do it . Just imagine you would have to read terribly broken English and deal with plonkers of various kinds every day . Some could be very annoying, like little bedbugs or worse. It's a very hard job and should have a good salary ! Let's see. I'd maybe agree for 3 thousands Euro. With respect to all creators/supervisors/moderators of MSFN.

Yes, I know and I am already aware. I am talking about maximum RAM that can be used in XP 32-bit originally without patches.

New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release: https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/KM76.4.7-Goanna-20230311.7z Changelog: Out-of-tree changes: * update Goanna3 to git 35448d94ad...33f0551ea5: - lineContainer can be NULL in nsIFrame::InlinePrefISizeData::ForceBreak(), workaround it to fix crash when loading https://football.kulichki.net/england/ (40afff632d) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 599328 - Clicking a label shouldn't draw a focus ring if clicking the control wouldn't have. r=enndeakin (fe391aecaa) - Bug 1221947 - part 1: add BYTOUCH flag to nsIFocusManager, r=jaws,smaug IGNORE IDL (41b191e6f1) - Bug 1192573 - Require tablet-mode (Win10+) to show the on-screen keyboard. r=masayuki (9244e1d044) - Bug 1197722 - Respect Win10 pref about bringing up the touch keyboard outside of tablet mode. r=masayuki (00e20db670) - Bug 1210033 - Add on-screen keyboard diagnostic information to about:support. r=masayuki r=felipe (0101168557) - Bug 1211805 - rework keyboard detection for on-screen keyboard, r=jaws (d6eee8e170) - Bug 1221947 - part 2: add TOUCH cause to IME Handling and use it to avoid checking for a keyboard, r=masayuki (b39ad48728) - Bug 1221947 - part 3: pass touch information to focus manager in RenderFrameParent, r=kats (84bbf77326) - Bug 1229258: Implement dummy asmMergeWith/retargetWithOffset functions in none backend; r=h4writer (cb7c19dbfa) - Bug 1210577. Remove useless virtual keyword from ScrollFrameHelper::ComputeScrollClip. r=mstange (5c40b8bd98) - Bug 1177505 - Make all continuations fluid within non-bidi paragraphs. r=smontagu (6d7956c20f) - Bug 1216096: restore previous RTL caret behaviour by backout of bug 1164963, bug 1177505, and bug 1180417. r=jfkthame (11d974c609) - Bug 1157752 - In vertical writing modes, text-orientation:upright should force LTR directionality. r=smontagu (b8843ce65e) - Bug 1002466 - Use SK_ScalarNearlyZero instead of 0.0f to render dots r=mattwoodrow (79406a8ce9) - Bug 1214309 - nudge zero dash intervals to be non-zero under Skia. r=jmuizelaar (b781a0c63a) - Bug 1208234: Stop the null pointer crash. r=bas (e7fb7f56ad) - Bug 1202317. Bail out early if RequestRect is going to do redundant work. r=mstange (cc85741516) - Bug 1167026 - Avoid division by zero when flattening a bezier curve segment with equal control points. r=bas (11e036081a) - Bug 1166879. Avoid uninitialized read in FlattenBezier. r=mstange (893177de38) (f3497a0291) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1193786 - crash in mozilla::dom::Element::FindAttrValueIn, r=marcoz (1f03b9594f) - bug 1172516 - fix firing caret move events for proxied accessibles r=lsocks (6a62915a27) - Bug 582024 - ARIA active-descendant should work for ARIA owned elements, r=yzen (4fc7049fe1) - Bug 1212457 - crash at ARIARowAccessible::GroupPosition(), r=marcoz (dd058e3dcd) - bit of 1139049 (ae765adc6a) - Bug 1221542, bug 1221543 - crash in mozilla::a11y::DocAccessible::SeizeChild/PutChildrenBack, r=davidb (8a35b14523) - Bug 1105611 - HyperTextAccessible should set DOM range outside of pseudo elements r=surkov (19e2cf65cd) - Bug 1177765 - Add xmlroles for MathML. r=surkov (381201ae27) - Bug 1176683 - crash in mozilla::a11y::HyperTextAccessible::LandmarkRole() const, r=marcoz (f3fd977d35) - Bug 1176123 - Add NODE_CHILD_OF/NODE_PARENT_OF relations to mroot. r=surkov (36f08faa15) - Bug 1179483 - Fix crash in mozilla::a11y::HyperTextAccessible::RelationByType. r=MarcoZ (fec7fde5b3) - Bug 1177765 - Make nsIMathMLFrame expose the fence and separator properties of operators. r=karlt (91e45d9980) - Bug 1139709. Cache nsMathMLContainerFrame's intrinsic width. r=mats (ac40d07d89) - code style (c5f50fc0c3) - Bug 1226875 - Remove nsIFrame::GetLastChild(). r=mats (9b88566b77) - pointer style (6a5b9599f4) - Bug 1177093 - mathfont.properties does not need to be preprocessed after Bug 1000745 r=fred.wang (d114e285a1) - Bug 1224951 - Part 2: Fix -Wunreachable-code warnings in layout. r=dholbert (5854ee5e3e) - Bug 1141443 - Remove unused rpcns4 from OS_LIBS. r=mshal (1a5ccc985b) - bug 1218762 - proxy ia2Accessible::scrollTo{,Point}() r=davidb (db1db8e703) - Bug 1182208 - Add support for android scrolling and range accessibility actions. r=mfinkle r=yzen (29df38ee29) - Bug 1144516 - Remove offset of mozbrowser iframe. r=yzen (c7473a8feb) - Bug 1176292 - Send 'toggle-shade' control event to content on 3 finger triple tap. r=yzen (536932619a) - Bug 1182222 - Make Layerview support accessibility HTML navigation. r=yzen r=mfinkle (2beb411989) - Bug 1203697 - Add braille navigation. r=yzen r=mfinkle (d5a513e79e) - Bug 1209054 - Make 2 finger tap toggle pause speech. r=yzen (28bc8c16a6) - Bug 1214398 - Add highlight box to doc body if it is available and set z-index. r=yzen (9cca205849) - Bug 1182214 - Update highlight rect as you scroll. r=yzen (6d2738366a) - Bug 1182214 - Follow-up to fix Presentation.displayedAccessibles getter. r=me CLOSED TREE (6dd8ec3652) - Bug 1212528 - ensuring first seen document in ancestry is announced first. r=marcoz (fb8e9bc406) - Bug 1217038 - Remove for-each and legacy array comprehension from accessible/. r=yzen (810590b5d3) - Bug 1220860 - fixing an error with getting documentElement on AccessFu stop. r=eeejay (4a35fabc3d) - Bug 1169019 - Removed screenreader announcement from gecko. r=yzen (2b1732cddc) - Bug 1211122 - ensuring that we check position against an actual doc/dialog on doc load event. r=marcoz (78b7cc8a77) - Bug 1019432 - [AccessFu] Only capture explore by touch events in Android. r=yzen (eee4b09c72) - Bug 1182311 - Make 3 finger triple tap more reliable. r=yzen (7cf926a839) - Bug 1201146 - Introduce "Section" traversal rule. r=yzen (253d53ec8d) - Bug 1203283 - Introduce Android "Control" traversal rule. r=yzen (4d14ffa973) (e0e84a7434) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1216851 - Allow flattening of opacity when it contains text. r=roc (f62dead4b9) - Bug 1219833 - Respect composition underline color; r=masayuki nsTextFrame didn't use the composition underline color if the composition didn't have a foreground color defined. This patch makes it use the underline color if foreground color is not defined. (02bcedf5fb) - Bug 1211085 - Disable global reuse on b2gdroid r=khuey (a4bfc7c4e1) - Bug 1206817 - Take ownership of error reporting in the component loader. r=bz (d8b9b02dfb) (40ee015dc8) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1172382 - Enable AccessibleCaret on B2G. r=roc (f5c58c2798) - remove duplicated (8823cc4a43) - Bug 1219310 - part 1 - ask the prefs file for its size directly; r=njn (93073cbc5e) - Bug 1219310 - part 2 - keep track of how much pref file we have read; r=njn (6a2a10a8b1) - Bug 1213123 - Make Preferences::SetString accept char16ptr_t instead of char16_t*. r=froydnj (a895a36861) - Bug 1216901 - Make the FasterMake backend reticulate splines when moz.build or jar.mn files are modified. r=mshal (ed4ec93b18) - Bug 1219122 - Move webapprt.ini definition to moz.build. - Add corresponding webpprt files. (da6bc91b5c) - Bug 1219126 - Move greprefs.js definition in moz.build. r=mshal (52f404c935) - code style (1b1e543834) - Bug 1162690 - Remove malformed uri warning in nsURLParser::ParseURL r=mcmanus (8534fcebb7) - Bug 1163028 - URL: stop escaping [ and ] in path r=mcmanus (f2f3deec40) - Bug 1163030 - URL: stop escaping ` in query r=mcmanus (17d6c07640) - Bug 1191423 - Disallow illegal characters in cookies set via HTTP. r=jduell (b1786d140f) - Bug 1210235 - Skip package verification if pref out or no signature. The package would be treated unsigned. r=valentin (63870dd7ef) - Bug 1216062 - Notify OnStartSignedPackagedRequest with package identifier. r=valentin. (81a14af3db) - Bug 1214079 - Doom the package cache if the signature verification failed. r=valentin (83824c2d5d) - Bug 1178448 - Use imported CA in developer mode. r=keeler,valentin (b9cf64b477) - Bug 1216469 - Bypass verification for signed packages from trust origins. r=valentin (a36d0a6d2f) - Bug 1218284 - Match signed packages' with trust origin without suffix. r=valentin (45529dc7df) - Bug 412457 - should unescape hostname first, then perform IDNA r=mcmanus (23ebe47574) - Bug 1217316 - Remove for-each from netwerk/. r=jduell (8d0ca69e9e) - Bug 1208847 - Add telemetry to measure how often secure cookies are set from non-secure origins r=mcmanus (57ecf3651d) - Bug 1165267 - Part 1: Replace appId and inBrowser by originAttributes v2. r=honzab (7710301407) - Bug 1165267 - Fix downgrading issue by restoring appId and inBrowserElement columns v3. r=honzab (3e8b8e4dfb) - Bug 1221049 - Use originAttributes from TabContext. r=kanru (5eaebe3b28) - Bug 1197944 - Change pref so that the http auth dialog is presented for sub resources as well. r=jduell (e3a7e2a1a7) - Bug 1202421 - Rename the network.auth.allow-subresource-auth pref. r=michal (87e29e1fdf) - Bug 1213577 - Use OriginAttributes in nsHttpAuthManager, r=mcmanus (33d0a25ac4) - Bug 961049 - Part 1: Remove unused members and methods; r=baku (0f3e6de06b) (33f0551ea5) * Notice: the changelog above may not always applicable to XULRunner code which K-Meleon uses. A goanna3 source tree that has kmeleon adaption patch applied is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27/tree/kmeleon76

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230311-3219d2d-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20230311-3219d2d-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230311-3219d2d-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win32-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win32-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win32-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.6a1.win64-git-20230311-d849524bd-uxp-6f99b9744-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Issue #1693 - Use scoped enums for IDBTransaction. (c920f32df) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1430303: Implement ShadowRoot.pointerLockElement (3dfffeaec) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1430305: Implement ShadowRoot.fullscreenElement (e286eb8ad) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1413102: Ensure Shadow DOM boundaries are dealt properly in event handling (24572438a) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1413102 (Follow-up): Ignore current target because of shadow DOM retargeting (1bb2009f6) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1323815: FocusEvent.relatedTarget should work consistently with MouseEvent.relatedTarget (1185cfe3f) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1438129: Remove ShadowRoot.applyAuthorStyles. (3350af82c) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1430301: Implement ShadowRoot.elementFromPoint/elementsFromPoint (e64aeea52) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1356496: Don't use nsIDOM* in ConfirmSelectionInBody (b2c77e5ed) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1066965: Make contentEditable and spellchecking to work in Shadow DOM (010db07bf) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1453789: Remove Element.createShadowRoot (45c179d01) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1410578: Make <link rel="stylesheet"> work in shadow trees (588c2154a) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1455891/Part 1: Improve StyleChildrenIterator (263b719ef) - Issue #2135 - Implement sequential focus navigation for shadow DOM (56193120c) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1518795: Properly track responsive content in a connected ShadowRoot (7b395189a) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1329877: Optimize AncestorFilter usage in lazy frame construction (7924a2f60) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1414692: Adopt shadow roots when adopting a shadow host across documents (b72ddcf65) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1393806/Part 1: Change nsNodeUtils cloning/adopting stuff to use an ErrorResult for errors (e65a864a3) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1393806/Part 2: Modify AdoptNodeIntoOwnerDoc to use the non-XPCOM version of document.AdoptNode (3062964d2) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1393806/Part 3: Change dom::ReparentWrapper to take an ErrorResult (9f0fb9c16) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1425864: Ensure printing documents which have shadow DOM works (015148fcc) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1419803: Use GetComposedDoc instead of GetUncomposedDoc in ContentEventHandler (70d493586) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1433669/Part 1: Remove dead function (2f9186959) - Issue #2135 - Bug 1433669/Part 2: Flush the document instead of the shell in ContentEventHandler (4d778226e) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Fix crash for passing nullptr as an argument to the aNodesWithProperties parameter (c194fbf6a) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Fix typo (9cb33ab84) - Issue #2046 - correct debug assert for intl_FormatRelativeTime() (3fb11e542) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Fix potential crash if shadow root is null (ad929c5dd) - Issue #2136 - Part 1: Implement CSS inset property (21d468ee6) - Issue #2136 - Part 2: Regenerate devtools CSS database (ae26d8a04) - Issue #2143 - Implement CSS env() Environment Variables (2b903a20b) - Issue #2135 - Follow-up: Ensure document is not null in nsImageLoadingContent::BindToTree (cfef3fa48) - Issue #2148 - Root the RegExpShared in RegExpMacroAssembler. (1f0df8f42) Official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build: - [Pale-Moon] Set compatversion for hardcoded overrides to 102.0 (5a627b6ce) - [Pale-Moon] Issue #1915 - [SSUAO] Add override for Instagram (c8488397e) Official Basilisk changes picked since my last build: - Revert "[Basilisk] Fade out tab label on overflow instead of ellipsis" (15e3a38b5) My changes since my last build: - [Basilisk] ported PM version of tab caption fading to here (2a32b18f4) - [Basilisk] add tab caption fading to CtrlTab (f159e44b2) - [Pale-Moon] add tab caption fading to CtrlTab (5db2ae1aa) - Revert "revert last rev (7faa37b7) and revert rev b7e45308 and 9824659d instead." (1b1d672dc) - Revert "reverting rev 22dc363c and 233802c9 for now since I got a crash in destructor of RegExpShared." (6f99b9744) Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt58l.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

I always appreciate your investigations. Maybe, my installer is more recent, or there are different versions. I download it from Germany, maybe they redirect to another server or file. A lot of different possibilities. I downloaded it by myself and by using the online installer. Same sizes! Anyway! Dito! Καληνυχτα!

Many thanks , however I never requested anything myself - it just so happens I don't have TC here to compare; BTW, I did not doubt/second guess you in the first place; it just appeared weird to me that a discrepancy exists between the file size you posted and the one I "measured" here in the recently downloaded, same file, copy ... With the provided WE screenshot of yours, I can only conclude the file must have been, somehow, "trimmed" by Panda themselves... Don't know what else to think ... The digital signature of the file I downloaded has been verified OK, so I guess I'm fine ... As you pointed out already, the matter discussed here is not related to on/off-line installers per se, but to a defective .NET 4.0 installation in affected member's setup... Regards, und gute Nacht ...

Sure but Windows isn't doing this out of the box. The real reason why Windows reverts or re-enables anything is because it is designed with those things to be on by default. And there are things in the task scheduler you can't see in Session 1 that work to re-enable these things.

No, nothing new at the moment.

Windows XP x64 1.5eraph_Windows_XP_x64_Post-SP2_UpdatePack_ENU_v2019-08-Final.7z 2.5er_IE8_Addon_2019-08_1_x64 3.WMP11 Addon Server 2003 x64 1.5eraph_Windows_XP_x64_Post-SP2_UpdatePack_ENU_v2019-08-Final.7z 2.5er_IE8_Addon_2019-08_1_x64 3.5eraph_Windows_2003_x64_Post-SP2_Addon_ENU_v2019-08 4. WMP11 Addon You can choose to use it or not. 5er_NT5.2_EoS_FlashAX_32.0.0.465_SIAddon Flash Player 5er_Win7CMDToolsForNT5x_Addon_v2012-01_3_x64 entries_IE8Tweaks ;localization via MUI packs For IE8 5er_IE8MUI-x64_Addon

Panda Dome installs fine in Windows XP Professional SP3. No problems here. My system is fully updated including all POSReady updates. These are the system requirements for installing Panda Dome: Does your CPU support the SSE2 instruction set? Running an installation program that then immediately closes again is something I know well from systems whose CPU does not support SSE2, although the program needs this feature.

I did a scan of my system partition by MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit. Surprisingly, the tool found a strange file that other AV programs did not notice. In any case, it is always a wise decision to use different scan tools. The one perfect tool will never exist. But we have to be glad that there are still a few tools running under Windows XP at all.

Is this good such as the wise vector?

it's not a true AV with background processes that you can't take away, it's in fact a portable scanner.

My Vista x64 has almost 100 processes at this moment and runs poorly on an overclocked Pentium E6600 CPU. I need to upgrade this computer to a Quad Q6600, which I also own.

In my opinion, you should buy an SSD or at least make RAID 0 of two HDDs (not very safe for data). Try to disable indexing and automatic defragmentation (and do it for the system drive, by the way)

So there is no free antivirus anymore

I'm planning to build a last rig for XP (4th gen intel) but I 'm not sure it's worthwhile to go that route. I first need to try all of my software utilities (hundreds) with a lightweight W11 to see what they look like, that's a deal breaker to me coz I can't stand these icon's plain colorway I neither updated some programs to the last version for the same reason because they look awuful to my eyes

For example, it caused Sony Vegas to be unable to load .NET libraries. I managed to bypass the Discord updater, but this time I get a javascript error....

Problematic as a meaning of what?

I used ClamWin in Windows ME for a long time. It is still installed there, as this partition was never deleted due to historical reasons. Unfortunately, the detection rate is not that good, and the program does not have its own background guard. For this, one must additionally use an external tool called Clam Sentinel which unfortunately consumes a lot of resources in these old OSs. But as far as I know, it is one of the last working AV programs for Win9x/ME. Under Windows XP, I would try to avoid it, unless it would be the last existing AV program for XP at all. The good is ClamWin is Opensource.

seems to be fine as well.

It is possibly related to the bug where it cannot access audio devices. I have solved it along with the general audio issues, but now need to solve another issue with .NET applications.

You're welcome, and it's fine. I also hope.

WOW, this is from the opening of this year's Nordic world ski championship in Planica, Slovenia, an adaptation of old Slovenian song Oj, Triglav, moj dom (Oj, Triglav, my home):

While researching for an antivirus program which still works under Windows XP, I came across an interesting offline virus scanner that is still fully XP-compatible. The program is called MWAV - eScan Antivirus Toolkit. It is free for private and home use. MWAV provides the ability to scan for any virus, spyware, adware or other dangerous software on your computer. MWAV requires no installation and can be run directly from your computer, on whatever media. It can also run when other antivirus software is installed on your computer. The database is continuously updated to detect new spyware and adware, and the scanning engine is constantly improved for faster and smarter detection. Their homepage is in German. Use a translator if German is not your native language. Here is the link: https://www.escanav.de/german/content/products/MWAV/escan_mwav.asp

The Office Update website should be released, but there are still bugs.

Any updates regarding WU?

Is ther any snapshots of V2 in the wayback machine or pictures from it ?

V1, I don't know, but v2 yes. V2 was designed for w98, and was shut down a long time ago.

Is there any plan to bring back these updates?

You can't just get it, you have to earn it...

A mole hill would be a better metaphor rather than an exploding building.