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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...

XP (and Vista) users should really keep an eye on that thread ; things look grim ... The opening post there displays a picture of what Dave described in a previous post here: However, this time the MB staff aren't interested in "resolving it"; according to the reporter (and confirmed by a staff member), Malwarebytes Premium Legacy 3.5.1.2522 can no longer receive def updates under Vista/Win7 - thanks to user feedback in this thread, we do know XP installations still receive these ; but all the MB staff can, apparently, do is endlessly recite ad nauseam the "inherent perils of running Microsoft unsupported Windows versions like XP/Vista ; as per @lmacri's post 3hr ago, MB staff have started wiping out Forum references to "Malwarebytes support for legacy Windows XP and Vista Operating Systems"; what comes next ? OT: @mina7601; Since you seem to have a Vista SP2 VM installed, could you be so kind as to try MB Legacy 3.5.1.2522 there and check whether its defs can be updated? Thanks in advance ...

Yeah, I see both of your points, I wouldn't promote never throwing away things as that would/could turn to Hoarding disorder, but just conscious of what I use that wind up in a landfill. Its not that easy being green.

the city I live in just recently started there own recycling program called the keep the city beautifull campaign and you can buy city label trash cans and recycling tubs to use for taking out recycling and trash it's a really nice program

Although Malwarebytes announced lifetime support as a nice present for Windows XP users, I came across this thread in their forum: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/295844-legacy-3512522-sudden-red-triangle-your-updates-are-not-current I really hope this doesn't concern Windows XP. At the moment, updating of Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 works. Yesterday, the update package version was 1.0.29410 which was updated to 1.0.29412 a little later. Today, it was updated to 1.0.29420. Here is a screenshot: So we can see Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 is still supported under Windows XP. Whether the lifetime support is really true, we will have to wait and see. One could also ask what lifetime is actually supposed to mean here. As long as the company "Malwarebytes" lives? Or the user?

No matter how we turn it, Windows 10 and 11 will be the next 7 and 8.1, who are the next XP and Vista. Windows 10 will probably receive Firefox Updates till 2029 if not 2030 (four years after EOL) and Chrome till 2028 (?)

That imporssible, if you know some Chinese, you must be know the Qihoo 360 was the garbage company in our heart...

I Don't Care About Cookies that's what I used regarding this subject, I don't know if you also have it. It doesn't delete them on exit, but blocks the google one, for example.

Thank you for this - need to ground myself because I'm dealing with a lot right now. Yeah, I said I wasn't going to return to the funny farm but as I put in my sig line, I'm going to walk alone as It appears I'm the only one left in this section. I don't mind my own company and being my own audience on a computer forum because there is no place left for me to go to write, and even if something I say helps 1 person out there it was worth it. So, today, right now, just going on auto-pilot and this is ok because our mind can take over when our spirit and body is missing in other aspects. Listening to your video @legacyfan and what you wrote @UCyborg did make me feel less alone as its all too easy to alienated in a society with false and unrealistic expectations. I know staying in the house for long lengths of time in decreases the desire to take part in the game but the weather is getting nice and I'm looking forward to walking alone on the sidewalk and feeling connected to the earth without interference from other jaded and conflicted wondering people to drain one of what energy they've left. Things are changing and not in a good way imo and its becoming even more difficult for those struggling to just get through day-by-day. No need to reply or react (like or upvote) to anything going forward that I write in here, I'm fine and grateful I have this space and I'll be true and kind till my last breath even to adversaries. Hopefully I'm start to find a way to be more positive and optimistic (hopefully), but sometimes hard to see thought the endless tunnel sometimes. EDIT: I also don't attempt to fix typos or grammar errors in this section as that would be disingenuous because those mistakes reflect how I am and was feeling when I wrote and posted.

I will help you with the driver, if you promise not to make it public and not to scream on every corner that it's yours and you made it. If you're agree. shoot me a message.

Hi Nico ; I run St52 as my daily driver basically, "File upload" via the VT modern GUI works fine here in my "dirty" profile: I then launched latest NM28 in an almost fresh profile (no extensions, only slight GUI customisation ), and "File upload" via the VT modern GUI also works as expected there: So I believe it's something in your current NM28 configuration that prevents the VT File upload from functioning as expected ... Kindest regards

As I wrote in another topic, I managed to get it working BTW I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the latest version of VS Code works.

Well yoltboy01 gets the prize! After months of radio silence on the issue, Mozilla finally wrote back to my question on Bugzilla, that they WILL allow Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to run Firefox ESR 115. This was up in the air as to when support was going to get yanked. For awhile, it seemed that maybe ESR 102 spelled the end of the line for these versions of Windows. I cannot speak for "release" versions of Firefox though. Anyway, here's our correspondence (at the bottom of the page) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594270

Steam to drop Windows 7 and 8.1 on January 1st 2024. They say it's because Chromium no longer supports Windows 7. It looks like a lot of Chromium dependent apps will drop support soon. Announcement on Steam's FAQ page.

Yeah, it just works with little interaction(s) FWIW: Even version 1.09.4.1001 just updated a few minutes ago along with MB Anti-Rootkit 1.10.3.1001. Just saying they do work but can't say much for their detection ability.

So, you thought XP is supported because of the "(Windows XP IE8)" part?

I just installed the .msu. It didn't require restart, but didn't make any difference: Dism++ still stalls!

You don't understand my question! Why won't you click "Download" button and you'll see what I'm talking about?

I can't confirm that statement. I have just tested Panda Dome, and it checked a file that a lot of scanners think is malware. While checking it deleted that file immediately. So, no problems here. Good protection as expected. I performed a second test. I copied two malicious files and two clean files in one folder. Then I started a manual scan of this folder. Both malicious files were recognized and immediately deleted. Panda Dome works exactly as it should be. I assume something is wrong on your side. Panda Dome works reliable, as has been confirmed for years by AV-TEST and others. Proof ? Proof ? As already explained in previous posts, I have carried out my own tests with the result that Panda Dome detected and deleted my malware. However, we all know the real security problem is very often in front of the computer. In such cases, a good program like Panda Dome can't help anymore, either.

Yes, there is a full (offline) installer for BitDefender 1.0.21.1109, and it still works fine.

Already listed at main post under Video & Photo Editing Software.

ClamWin was already discussed here: The main problem is ClamWin does not have an own background guard and its detection rate is not that good.

This announcement at the time was intended for existing business customers who still used Bitdefender on legacy operating systems. Bitdefender Free Antivirus under Windows XP was abandonded years before.

and bitdefender did support windows xp at one point but apparently does not anymore https://www.bitdefender.com/business/support/en/71263-77680-windows-xp,-windows-vista,-windows-server-2003-and-server-2008-support-announcement.html

The last error-free, XP-compatible version is Comodo Antivirus 12.0.0.6818. The very last version targeting Windows XP seems to be Comodo Antivirus 12.2.2.8012, but it is reported to have some bugs in Windows XP. To be honest, I personally never liked Comodo Antivirus. Here is a download link of Comodo Antivirus 12.0.0.6818: https://web.archive.org/web/20190502052352/http://cdn.download.comodo.com/cis/download/installs/1000/standalone/cispremium_only_installer.exe It's an old installer, so it is only available by using the Wayback Machine. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Meow Meow & Thomas Lauderdale - Mausi, süß warst du heute Nacht (feat. Barry Humphries, Pink Martini) (AU 2019) Frisch g'strichn - Leckerfassl Polka (South-Tyrol/IT 2019)

Plex has stopped https://www.howtogeek.com/879615/plex-media-server-is-dropping-old-windows-pcs-and-macs So has Rufus https://www.neowin.net/amp/rufus-322-beta-adds-an-option-to-disable-bitlocker-removes-iso-downloads-on-windows-7/

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

I was talking about official release builds starting with 2nd paragraph. Exactly, running a pre-release build isn't a viable option for obvious reasons.

That's done by default on all XP systems. The last OS to have games in Accessories was Windows 2000. the_guy