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I've actually had some form of Linux, mostly Ubuntu, ready besides Windows for several years now, though I only use it occasionally. That issue from last time, well, I've got bit nervous and had to vent. TBH, those weird Windows issues have been rare in recent years. I don't know what happened, but it seems problem isn't even on the computer with the printer as I assumed, but Word from another computer is unable to send document to the shared printer, though I can print from the third computer to the same shared printer. Didn't try printing from Word on that third computer, but printing PDFs from web browser works at least. I don't recall the exact message, I think it was something about the printer setup. I haven't got around checking if other programs on that computer can print, but Windows sees the printer normally. I remember the weirdness with HP Deskjet 3550 that caused the printer to always try to also use color cartridge despite having set to print in greyscale and I think you could also select that you only have black cartridge, but no budge, it always wanted to use empty or non-existent color cartridge, so normal black-white stuff didn't print OK on Windows, but there was no issue on Linux. Newer HP from series 2600 is better, though you at least have to make sure to remove empty color cartridge, otherwise, it may still try to use it.

Agreed! I consider myself quite "frugal" and a bit of a penny-pincher. Some call it "minimalism". I don't buy in excess and I'd rather scrape the mold off of a piece of bread instead of throwing it away. I don't "recycle". I throw garbage away at the curb. Everything thrown into one bin. I don't "sort", if it's trash, I throw it away, all in one bin. But that doesn't make me an environment-killer! How so? Well, it's like this, when the Prius-owner neighbor looks down his nose for me driving a Jeep, I ask him how long a tank of gas lasts him, he says roughly one week, I tell him a tank of gas in my Jeep will last me TWO MONTHS. And I can stretch it into THREE MONTHS. On ONE tank of gas! The PRIUS-owner is "consuming" more dynosaur-oil than I am! My trash is the same way. It takes me FOUR WEEKS to fill up one kitchen-size 13-gallon trash bag. Yet the Prius-owner is carting out two fifty-gallon city-provided bins each and every week, stuffed so full that the lid doesn't even close. And another neighbor looks down her nose at me for throwing aluminum cans into the city bin instead of hauling them to "recycling". She lives paycheck to paycheck and loves the money for recycling. I've watched dear ol' dad recycle his aluminun cans for decades. Five to eight trash bags full at a time. He wouldn't crush them and he'd get $10 to $20 or so for five to eight gigantic trash bags. And mom would always remind him, "We spent more than you got just to drive them here and to buy ant killer because of all the ants they attract."

Thank you for speaking up! Mozilla definitely gets kudos from me for continuing to look out for 7/8.x users! (And you get kudos from me for being persistent in getting a straight answer!) I've been going all over the place with testing OSes...so far so good with Windows 11 on the old HP S5-1020. Didn't think it could be done, but it turns out 11 still supports my PC just fine when the installation hardware requirements are bypassed. Full driver support and everything. It's slightly slower than 10 but is running quite well. So the only limitation I face in the future is if programs start dropping support for the Pentium E6800's full instruction set. I've likely got better odds to win the Florida lottery twice than to have that happen anytime soon, so I'm definitely feeling good about the future. Curious to see what happens with 12...if it's a radical enough departure from 10/11, I'll skip it and stick with 10/11 until the bitter end.

XPerceniol, you are like the sun to me, which I benefit a lot from. This isn't funny as you expected, but that's what I think of you, friend.

I have to say though, all those things you get used to using one particular OS family for so long, you don't think about it 'till you try something else. Then you realize all those things you take for granted from how file manager, task manager works/looks/feels to how mouse and desktop compositor feels. Might depend on individual, but I'll just stick to the best OS for a particular task, as always have.

Sure, will do.

Sure!

TY ... will try to be. Gonna read over the forum and see if I can join in if possible.

Thank you, my friend. Much of what I write might perhaps only makes sense to me and I assume these threads will get less attention anyway now that the forum is back "On Topic" so this gives me more freedom, that is one way to look at it and view it. Got out today for the first time in a few days and it was good but I had to keep my expectations low and try to just not overthink and constantly dissect everything and examine and just try to walk around as I see others do but ain't easy for me at all to do such. Very very hard for me to just take things at face value when I know people have intentions and agendas. K ... everybody is in their own world and I feel far too 'in touch' and 'self aware' than others, or its me, can't tell to be honest. One of the consequences to being a loner and living isolated is that time to ponder and dwell on each and every action and reaction when others *may* not do such or at least they disguise it better than I ... I suspect the latter.

There is no incentive in recycling. In the US, recycling isn't done for the good of the environment, it is done for money. A company holds the rights in a municipality to manage the recycling services. In some cities this company doesn't even do the work, they pick up the recycle bins and truck that stuff off to the landfill.

BTW I won't recommend you to install .NET Framework 4.8 as it breaks PowerShell 3.0

Thank you and that means a lot to hear right now. I really am grateful for your friendship on here and of course I do wish only the best for you, you must know that.

Rebuild 8 is still to be considered "latest and greatest". I've uploaded Rebuild 6 so that Anbima can verify that rebased chrome.dll is or is not the cause of other programs now being problematic.

Not at all. We'll both have to see what happens this time around.

Oh, you are talking about upgrading from an old version, I read it mistakenly as clean installing. Sorry about that, Jody, my mistake. 😅

This is what I have at the time of writing. AFAIK, Malwarebytes have always said that this version will be supported and provided with pattern updates until further notice, and there's been no sign of them moving to change that. There have been a few scares where the definition updates stopped coming in, with a red triangle on the system tray icon, but it was always resolved once people posted on the Malwarebytes forum about it. It was always caused by backend problems, but as you can imagine it did worry people!

Not so fast - ESR 52 ran on XP and Vista - but NOT the release version.

Chasing Cars By Snow Patrol (Live From BNN) this is one of my favorite songs of all time (and there only hit)

I don't know what the heck happened yesterday, but Windows prints today, though I rebooted at least two times yesterday. And TBH, I forgot a lot of trouble with current printer was due to using extension cable, which I used in the past and took a while to pinpoint. Linux somehow had better time communicating using that cable.

Ugh, every once in a while I need a printer and Windows goofed up...again! Just nothing happened when I tried to print, no error, just nothing. I'm so fed up with darned OS corrupting itself in random ways, no matter how careful I am to not goof it up. On Linux, I've been able to print/scan consistently without a single fail. I'm also considering going Linux full-time for normal everyday tasks, maybe keep Windows around for some specifics. I don't need much these days, a web browser, a media player, password manager, maybe a virtualizer and office suite (just for viewing). Just not sure on what distro to settle. I'm sure I don't want rolling-release distro. I'm most familiar with Ubuntu. Edit: Or maybe just more time...

I initiated an upload of https://forums.malwarebytes.com/forum/41-malwarebytes-for-windows-support-forum/ to archive.org as completely as possible. I am registered there.

No, but you can probably modify the source of the program and compile it.

is there something like win8verhack for w10? yes, I'm looking for the opposite to make one Windows 10 application think it's w8. I want to do a test with the explorer & taskbar. Thanks @K4sum1 @vinifera

Meditation Music 4K Meditation Video

I've also seen some screenshots of Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 in the MBAM forum, and all show a component package version of 1.0.365.

if you speak chinese you should ask your countryman if they will keep upgrading this browser for XP. https://bbs.360.cn/space-uid-81118.html

we like you no matter what (:

Ok and okay.. About 9 PM and need to wind down ... still not 100% and in a dazed and confused headspace, but I carry on because others are suffering much worse. BTW - when it comes to meditations videos only sometimes a few minutes is enough and just because they go on forever is just in case you want to leave it in the background running for some reason. Be back tomorrow. No need to reply - I'm (at lease) content.

Thanks for your quick reply! Here is my screenshot of About: Same update package version! That's good. They have updated again. But what about your component package version? And did you read the linked topic? That sounds pretty serious to me.

Wow ... I'm surprised to hear you're considering also switching to Linux due to printer issues - I'm having the opposite, my HP Deskjet only works on Emmabuntus and Peppermint Linux, even Mint just prints jumble so partly why I'm stuck with windows.

That's awesome to know you have that working on your system. Thanks! And yep! It's been a couple of years now that I couldn't get Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 to work in my Windows XP system. And even MBAM's support couldn't help to fix this issue. Today I thought to try it the last time. I had to dig deep into my system and removed all the remnants of old security programs and others, including a manual cleaning of my registry. Apparently, it did something.

Hello @Dave-H! I finally got Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 working in my second system partition. I updated it, and the version of its definitions is 1.0.29410 I received today, 28-03-2023. Do you have the same version in your installation? Is that the most recent? I had a look at the MBAM forum and read some comment (also some of yours ). There I found this topic: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/295844-legacy-3512522-sudden-red-triangle-your-updates-are-not-current/#comment-1558895 It seems that Malwarebytes wants to completely discontinue support for version 3.5.1.2522, even under Windows XP. No further update of the definitions!? What do you know and think about this? Cheers

You are right, it solved the problem!

And all in an answer to my question. So think about it, if I never pestered, we'd still be waiting for this news.

eBay works normally with Waterfox.

Qihu 360 Total Security Essential 8.8.0.1119 is quite ok as an alternative in Windows XP where the choice of antivirus programs is very limited. Although I can't say much about the quality of its protection, you have the option of installing the Avira Scan Engine. This increases the detection rate of this program considerably, as AV-Test has shown in the follow-up version. Here is an image taken from the test: First a screenshot of the main interface: And now a screenshot of my security configuration especially in terms of the Avira Scan Engine: In this screenshot above, you see I changed the protection mode from the default Balanced to Custom, and I enabled the Avira Scan Engine. Or you set the maximum protection mode Security. This definitely improves the program's detection rate. Cheers, AstroSkipper

To be fair the 'necropost' was only reported today, when it was already three months old!

@mina7601! I am not paid by Panda and not a member of their support team, either. I hope you are not serious about sending me links containing malware files. If you have a problem with Panda Dome, can't configure it properly or can't operate it, please contact the support of Panda! Anyway! Do not send me any links containing malware files! That's a no-go!

But support of Windows XP is not listed. You have to look at the system requirements first. Read my post! And we already talked about all that in the past.

Where did you read that Webroot SecureAnywhere still supports Windows XP? I already wrote about that antivirus program here and some more: And here is a quotation from the site you linked:

You can download so called eicar test files to test antivirus programs. Use Google and you will find them!

I didn't find any offline installer. Any link to a working, full offline installer? The name, size or date of this installer would be helpful, too.

BitDefender 1.0.21.1109 still works fine on XP.

... And his "Notice" writes: https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist#windows-vista-notice ... And he's actually right; the last standalone file "VC_redist.x86.exe" provided by MS that will install out-of-the-box on Vista SP2 32-bit is of version 14.31.30919.0: https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/8c1c2dbb-0856-4dc3-b863-b16c637bc245/E55681B9E07A58F7143E5AB5941F45DE0B485E0C9933B0CB6B702D3921F48527/VC_redist.x86.exe Subsequent versions 14.31.31005.0, 14.31.31103.0, 14.32.31302.0, 14.32.31326.0 and 14.32.31332.0 had their installers blocked from launching under Vista SP2, but their "payload"/content (various DLLs) continued to remain Vista-compatible ; next version 14.34.31823.3 had several of its DLLs contain Win7+ function calls ... So, the last of abbodi1406's vcredist AIO custom pack with full/proper Vista SP2 support is v0.6.1 (2022-06-21): https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist/releases/download/v0.61.0/VisualCppRedist_AIO_x86_x64_61.zip What point would there be in doing so ? Its VS2022 DLLs are incompatible with Vista and, if force-installed, would fully break all apps requiring the VS2015-2022 runtime ...

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):

wildchild by enya (from day without rain)

This seems to work best: https://github.com/tumagonx/xompie/ A wrapper that allows XP/2003 to run some newer NT6 stuff that BWC kernel for win2k can also run, I believe, like Blender 2.79b. There are a few others, like Dibya's ExtendedXP, One-Core-API, and BWC's Extend Kit for XP/2003 but they are buggy, not very advanced and/or contain non-redistributables.

Well, in the meantime I checked, and seemingly you didn't change the .sys contents, but changed the .sys name (or at least I was able to find the same binaries in a supposedly original Asmedia driver set), then the 64 bit .dll is unchnaged but renamed, while the 32 bit .dll you patched/modified. If I may, not the smartest of the ideas to call the 32 bit and 64 bit drivers the same . I am attaching the original drivers (together with a copy of your drivers in a more convenient .zip format and with a filename slightly more readable than "f45t5753p100543n2_dQJtNfwo.rar" ) because - set apart the name change - it seems to me interesting for learning about the .inf and .oem changes you made . jaclaz ASM106x_ori_XP_sata_drivers.zip danielk_ASM106x_mod_XP_sata_drivers.zip

Thanks, I am working with so many OS's I get confused. One other question, the .Net framework optimization usually runs a lot of processes (1.1 and 2 with patches) tried the silent net maker from TC as well as roguespears silent installer renamed to dotnet.exe and they both flag an error in the application log: .Net Runtime Optimization Service (cir_optimization_v2.0.50727_32)-Service reached limit of transient errors: Will shut down. Last error returned from service manager 0x800736b 1. Any insite?

Works fine now. Thanks for the heads up on the underscore - that was certainly the issue... although, despite the fact that the files in the original build were in the HFGUIRUNONCE folder, they ran at T-13, instead of first bootup. Now, with the new build (see attached hfslip logfile), it all runs at the proper time - on first bootup, with no errors at all. * I did replace the older Dot Net 1.1 + Dot Net 2.0 exe files with RogueSpear's integrated 1.1sp1/2.0/j++ package, and renamed that to dotnet.exe. * Again, I praise everyone that is developing this script. It's truly a timesaver, and despite the issues I've had with it, I will continue using it for a long, long time to come. HFSLIP.zip