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Here is the future of Chromium on Windows 7: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium I have been closely tracking the many changes made to Chromium since November 2022, made with the intent of dropping support for Windows 7 and 8.x. As of version 111, it became very difficult to keep the newest versions running on Vista with the extended kernel; shared memory allocation changes made it impossible to do so as subtle changes to the API (which were done in kernel mode) prevented stable operation of the browsers. So I decided to build my own Chromium. I discovered that a further change was made to the shared memory allocation which broke it even further; the successor to mojo, IPCZ, was forced on by default. It only works properly with Windows 8.1+'s shared memory API. I disabled IPCZ for pre-8.1 and this made the sandbox work again on Vista and 7. Perhaps I will see exactly why IPCZ is broken (from the Windows API level) and try to fix it for the next release. The only win32 API link I can find is CreateFileMappingW, which I need to test with an IPCZ-enabled build on both 8 and 8.1 to see what makes it fail.

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It should work on regular Windows 7 with SP1 (it always worked in my VM with nothing but SP1, but some users complained about it not loading because of missing delay-load module; my second release should solve that). Vista needs the extended kernel however.

How so? I have Windows Server 2003 and it looks exactly like XP Pro. The two can both be made to look exactly like each other, it's all just the "theme" and theme support exists in both. The 98SE crowd would always use the Win2k "classic" theme, but I myself disliked the classic theme and would use the same theme as XP Pro. I didn't have to install the Pro theme on Server, it was already there and only needed selected/enabled.

... Thanks for that kind offer ; unfortunately, my memory betrays me these days. ... I've managed to locate a certain post by @Vistapocalypse where he, in fact, makes a mention of what I've spoken about, however I was not successful at locating those exact reports... Kaspersky themselves no longer offer downloads for KFA2019 (Kaspersky Free Antivirus 2019, aka Kaspersky Antivirus Free (KAF) 2019 or just 19), but "neowin" have archived a stub (web/on-line) installer for it: https://products.s.kaspersky-labs.com/homeuser/kfa2019/19.0.0.1088/english-gb-0.57.0/kfa19.0.0.1088en_14173.exe Since mina7601 keeps a Vista SP2 VM, perhaps an attempt to install it there could be made? For best results, that VM should be first updated all the way to Vista's EoL, plus select WS2008 updates enabling SHA-2 signature support should also be installed; additionally, KFA2019 requires .NET FW 4.x.x installed; for NT6.0, Microsoft have last year produced a 4.6.2 installer that works out-of-the-box (whereas in the past, only 4.6.1 would work) ... All this talk is, of course, OT for this (XP) thread , but since an offer was made to clarify things once and for all, why not accept it? Perhaps even attempt an installation of KFA19 on a fully updated XP SP3 system (with .NET FW 4.0.3) while one's at it?

Now long EOS Windows Embedded 2009 still living it large in my local Marks and Spencer store! Not quite XP or course, but as near as makes no difference now as far as I'm concerned.

Exactly. Luckily we're on an old version that won't get any changes anyway. I just hope they won't kill it. Ah and by the way, the merger has only been approved by the European regulator few days ago, so they were still effectively two separate companies. Anyway, it saddens me a bit to see avast end up in the hands of Symantec (which is actually broadcom). So now we have Piriform (Speccy, CCleaner etc), Norton, Symantec, Avira, AVG and Avast all under one single company, Gen Digital. P.s I saw the whole discussion about Kaspersky, but to be fair, the last thing I wanna do in this historical period is install a Russian antivirus on my computer. I mean... it's probably ok, but these days you never know...

Yeah well, I downloaded the installer linked by @VistaLover, and when I tried to open it (on a fully updated XP SP3 and a Vista SP2 VM), it shows "Server returned error 404" error.

Looks like Windows Server 2003 to me.

Sure, I will attempt an installation of KFA19 later.

I also consider a good idea to take ungoogled chromium instead of regular chromium. Version 112 of ungoogled chromium is not working on Vista Extended Kernel, it can't find a function

Did the "Virus signatures updated" page's signature number change? The "Last Updated" could still be misleading and the actual signature number be the same virus signatures from BEFORE the "update". The "My Bitdefender" clearly reads Could not connect to server, are you 100% sure that your virus signatures were updated? Wouldn't these come from the same server that was unable to be connected to?

This seems extreme and equivalent to your ban-all-Russian request. Why thwart competition? We currently have two competing paths towards the "Future of Chrome on Windows 7". 1) Catsxp -- Vanilla Windows 7 2) Supermium -- Extended Kernel Windows 7 The two can co-exist.

This is needed only if he somehow managed to mod the drivers, which I very much doubt, knowing legacyfan. Also, he would get a watermark then.

This is not a politics forum. Stay on topic please.

Shadow Defender http://www.shadowdefender.com/ It's a type of sandbox program that prevents unwanted changes to the system.

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IMHO, this is the best one I saw from Dave-H. Couldn't stop looking at it everyday as it always made me happy.

A short article on thread naming using exception 0x406D1388. Calling DLL is debug version or thinks it detects a debugger. DW profiling might support this technique. NOT related to the LCID functions. Also: Failing very first LCID call might prevent subsequent calls.

Hello @Adrian_, welcome to MSFN! I hope you enjoy your stay here.

That reminds me: While searching unsuccessfully for an offline installer I came across a February 2020 post that the version in question could not be activated (but at least this poster evidently had a working installer): https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/81987/unable-to-activate-bitdefender-antivirus-free-edition-1-0-21-1109 The only advice he received was to uninstall it and install “the latest version.” Bitdefender announced EOL for their Free Edition for Windows as of December 2021, including a threat that “all updates will cease” June 30, 2022: https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/2027/ Apparently there is an all-new Bitdefender Antivirus Free in 2023, but of course it does not support XP or Vista; and Bitdefender plans to end support for Windows 7 and 8.1 in January 2024. It would actually be shocking if they are still providing definition files signed with SHA-1 solely for the benefit of XP diehards running a 2016 version that can no longer be downloaded.

It was just a guess, it doesn't have to be correct though. I only guessed it's Windows Server 2003 because of the default classic theme selected by default.

As long as this computer works, I'll probably keep on compiling FFmpeg, or at least I'll try to. No promises though. After having added 'C:\Program Files\Essentials\Python39\' and 'C:\Program Files\Essentials\Python39\Scripts' to %PATH%, it works. Thanks. D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git>python -m yt_dlp --version D:\Storage\Media\Binaries>python "yt-dlp_git\yt_dlp\__main__.py" --version 2023.03.04 That works too. I don't have much experience with Python, so if I understand correctly this 'yt-dlp.exe' it creates in the Scripts-dir (which is really small in size) is a module binary and is a sort of shortcut method (and hardcoded to that "site-packages\yt-dlp"-dir, which it will always depend on) to be able to quickly run yt-dlp, right? I've tried that. First by removing the already installed package: python -m pip uninstall yt-dlp Then by running that bat-file: D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git>cd /d "D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git\" D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git>echo D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git 1>python39._pth D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git>echo . 1>>python39._pth D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git>echo Lib 1>>python39._pth D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git>echo Lib/site-packages 1>>python39._pth D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git>python -m pip install -e "D:\Storage\Media\Binaries\yt-dlp_git" Obtaining file:///D:/Storage/Media/Binaries/yt-dlp_git Installing build dependencies ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully. ¦ exit code: 2 ?-> [1 lines of output] C:\Program Files\Essentials\Python39\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\Program Files\Essentials\yt-dlp_py39\Lib\site-packages\pip': [Errno 2] No such file or directory [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: subprocess-exited-with-error × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully. ¦ exit code: 2 ?-> See above for output. note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. As you can see I've extracted your archive to 'C:\Program Files\Essentials\Python39', but it looks as though "yt-dlp_py39" is hardcoded somewhere.

Nice pictures but unfortunately they don't really help. What we need are details about the installer. 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. Since then, no further information from you! At this point, I would ask you to share your knowledge with us. Any detailed information about this offline installer would be helpful such as name, size, date and version. Even better would be a working download link or, if there is no longer one, an upload link. Thanks in advance! Kind regards, AstroSkipper PS: Due to the lack of a working installer, I added BitDefender 1.0.21.1109 to the list in the third post. @bluebolt I have now asked you twice to share information about a working offline installer for BitDefender 1.0.21.1109. All what you provide are pictures. But pictures can't be installed and tested. I'm glad for you that your old installations are still running and seem to be updated , but unfortunately that doesn't help us at all . Can BitDefender 1.0.21.1109 still be reinstalled in 2023? I personally fear that this is no longer possible. So I ask you a third and then last time to give us information about the offline installer you mentioned in the quoted posts above. Any detailed information about this offline installer would be helpful such as name, size, date and version. Even better would be a working download link or, if there is no longer one, an upload link. Thanks in advance! Kind regards, AstroSkipper

The two can co-exist. I leave it at that.

Thanks ! Maybe also block/remove the postings with the promotions of china made browsers then ? Not only due to the safety concerns (since they aren't even properly vetted), but also due to the off-topic activities. This needs to be just as the topic suggests, agree with you Dave, as usual.

Found 'em ! Not seeing the source code for the latest 116, though. The latest they have is the 113 source code. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-windows/releases/tag/113.0.5672.64-1.1 EDIT : This one should play all videos (allegedly). "Website for ungoogled-chromium contributor-submitted binaries (contributor binaries). IMPORTANT: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them. Because these binaries are not necessarily reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed." https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases/windows/64bit/

My old friend VistaLover seems to have put me “on the spot.” Alright then: My dim recollections lead me to another forum where a Vista user who went by the name AndyTampa posted a query about Windows Mail in April 2019: https://www.vistax64.com/threads/yahoo-embedded-images-missing-damaged-in-windows-vista-default-mail-client.305570/ In the last line of the original post, he provided his exact antivirus version. I’m certain that I could unearth at least one more instance of someone using Kaspersky 19 on Vista if I searched long enough, but it wouldn’t necessarily follow that it was also compatible with XP (although one author of Kaspersky support articles certainly seems to think it was). In case I haven’t mentioned it lately, I never used Kaspersky myself. By all means attempt it! However, winvispixp stated January 22, 2021 “I couldn’t install it [KFA18] in a vm but on my real pc it works just fine.”

@win32 wrote he had built from the original chromium source. Simple (vanilla) chromium doesn't include HEVC (H265), H264 - which you need to play most videos, youtube works because it has VP9 , VP8 included, but it's not enough for the majority of websites, Twitter. for example. I'd suggest a good solution to avoid possible licencing issues and the users who are so overly concerned with "thin" or "thick" lines of legality, or whatever they call it - compile from the source that has all codecs included (some ungoogled versions, for example). Though, I'm not sure if they share their code in the open.

U-Bahn (Metro) Duesseldorf, Germany, Last week. Cannot identify the OS exactly. But it has the classic theme and icons.

I said this before, but I will say it again: win32, you're a legend! It's been a long time since your last great contribution here in this topic. I'm glad you're back. Thank you so much for your contributions, keep it up!

That was in 2021. I’m not sure how it could affect Windows XP diehards using a 2018 version of Avast. 🤔

This video is wrong. If it were the Longhorn kernel booting up, you would see the Longhorn logo appear instead of the XP one, as the bitmaps are stored in ntoskrnl. Also, other kernel mode system components would be incompatible. NTDLL would be incompatible due to a change in syscalls between 2600.5512 and 4074. XP still boots at all, because it does not actually boot from a kernel named ntoskrnl.exe; in this case, the user also has a file named ntkrnlpa.exe in their system32 folder. This is a variant of ntoskrnl for single-processor systems that support PAE. The user would have needed to change boot.ini to boot from ntoskrnl to actually try using this kernel. And it would probably fail early on due to incompatibilities with the HAL and the like. But I think you could get a DWM-type experience with XPDM if someone did a lot of hooking work to capture each window, seize the borders and captions, create bitmaps of window contents and "play" around with them to make animations, etc.

This picture is from Thailand. It's like being used in a DNA research company.

POSReady 2009 still going strong on the self-service tills in my local Marks and Spencer!

Dunno how old is this one. Found on the internet:

imagine that being only checkout and you would be in hurry to buy food

Sticking to Password and security topic - back when I finished university and went to my first full-time job, in an outsourcing company doing stinky stuff for the very big IT company we love to hate here for dropping support for older applications, messy documentation, dying domains etc... with a lot of other newcommers like me... needless to say, the sense of humour in the office was between high-school hoolies and conscript barracks, so we were so below the floor we could scare people knocking at it from below. And rotation was so high, that having a year-long experience in this company was considered long experience. But that's the reality of neo-colonial slave meant to make money for his overseas masters. Anyway, you get that the atmosphere was highly 'professional'. But, still, the thing we were working on was highly confidential - which makes me laugh right now, but back then, we could not bring mobile phones to the room, the windows were without knobs, so we could not throw out a device with unpublished code and transfer it via the window, and all of that in the office with full access to unrestricted internet, unblocked USB ports and so on. The internet was THAT secure, we were being trafficked via clients proxy and going via his AD domain, so our IT supervisors could not even track us, as we were seen in reports as only going through client domain, so when the request came to reduce usage of Facebook and Youtube in local network, we were secure. Did I say every newcommer had admin rights from the start (remember, mainly people with zero-to-none professional experience XD), because we had to run 60-lines-long Powershell script and signing it or walking any other way around was too much for our supervisors XD Then, as said, we had domains in client account.... ehem... and some further repositories and systems were locked with extra smartcard verification, so at peak point we had 80 people on project with only three people having access to crucial tracker due to authorization bug, who could not upgrade their PCs as any change would have broke it. Did i mention, that Smartcard were flying from client's HQ, so when we finally received them... they were malfunctional and we had to wait one month more. With all this security, we had a problem on a client's side-project, that, surprisingly, required to take as much people as possible for a weekend overtime job, mainly because our main progress-tracker was an excel file overloaded with VBA macros, which was located on a shared drive with +-5 second ping and took 5 minutes to save. If you still didn't grasp what the company I was working for, a hint - major competitor in cloud applications and office suites, both now and then. And, a surprise, around 90% of people hired, or rather, caught for this side-project either had no account in clients Account Directory or were waiting for having access granted, but oops, client's office is closed during weekend. And we ended up with our team lead posting his login and password on whiteboard. And y'all had it right, I had the moral high ground, having proper, accessfull AD account from the start and sharing it with noone at all.

I suspect that if he specifies Chelsea he will get a Russian flag instead ... @FranceBB ... and all this time I thought you were an AirBnB superhost jaclaz

The post-it notes would be dated on when I added the company to my "watch list". The IT Manager was convinced that it was a hidden code for basically only three passwords required for various network applications. He thought that if I put all of the pink post-it notes in chronological order, that was one password. Put all of the yellow post-it notes in chronological order, using only those with one text string, that was another password. For the next couple of weeks, all 20 or so of us that were in that meeting put random post-it notes anywhere and everywhere. The receptionist always brown-bagged her lunch and always used a post-it note whenever she left something in the refigerator. She wasn't in the meeting but it got to the point where she would no longer put her NAME and DATE on her refrigerator items (a prerequisite by the cleaning crew), but was putting things like "The password is 'pAsswOrd' ".

ROTFL

My office desk several years ago and two jobs ago almost always had a stack of 10 to 20 post-it notes with anywhere from only one to ten or so seemingly random text strings of three to five characters. One day the IT Manager calls me out specifically in a meeting with about 20 of us and reminds us all that passwords are not supposed to be written down where prying eyes could find them. Accusing me of violating company policy, then he asks "Why do you have so many passwords?" My first reply was, "They're not passwords, they are all text only and no numbers, all of our passwords are not only alphanumeric but also have to be a minumum of 12 characters long." STILL accusing me of violating company policy, he INSISTS that I reveal the "hidden meaning" behind all of my post-it notes. "They're stock market ticket symbols that I'm monitoring as investment opportunities." edit: meant to say ticker, not ticket

I was born in Italy, but I've been living in the UK since 2015 (namely in Chelsea, London), so my IP Address is always a British one. I didn't pick any country when I registered, but rather "European Union" in fact I had the EU flag (not for any particular reason other than trying to be as generic as possible).

What country are you actually in? The flag should surely follow the country stated in your profile.

There is something weird about how the flags work in this version of the forum. https://msfn.org/board/topic/182837-my-flag-got-changed-to-uk-where-did-scotland-go/

I really hope it's the name of the host and they login with their own account via Active Directory... ... and that the post it is not the password xD P.s why do I have the French flag? I didn't choose it. Besides, I'm not French, "France" in my nickname stands for my first name: Francesco (aka Frank) and "B" is the first letter of my surname (double B cause FranceB was taken). Not much creativity, I know, but still...

That's hilarious! Windows 10 is so much slower in general (primarily because of all the extra "features"), that I think production would slow to a crawl if those robots were upgraded to it. Besides that, I doubt 10 would support them anyway. 11 certainly won't, unless M$ relents on it's somewhat unrealistically high minimum requirements (last I heard, there was some rumors suggesting they might, but that was several weeks ago-- an eternity in the computer industry). c

Kinda no surprise there. We have regional dealers that are caught holding back fixes like that more often than you might think. There are 300-some "robots" at the factory and 260-some all run XP (I would be fired if I posted a picture, these robots build electrical parts for BMW, Daimler, and Ford and warranty-only parts for a GM model no longer used in current production vehicles). The funny part is the teenage kids working the factory floor right out of high school, "We could build parts faster if that robot was upgraded to Windows 10." You reply, "XP is actually fastest for this application, it's an embedded OS on a socket-479 90nm cpu running at 1.8 GHz with a 400 MHz bus." Their eyes glaze over like they just missed the bus and have to walk to school.

I was at a customer site a couple weeks ago to do some physical inventory work and they had quite a few Windows XP computers at both of the locations I visited. I thought about this thread but also knew it would not have been appropriate for me to take pictures of those computers. They were only being used to run old machines. Some were used to run some sort of metal grinding machine and others were used to operate lasers.

Game over I think, it doesn't get better than this! Neneh Cherry onstage at the Glastonbury Festival after the laptop running her background video apparently crashed!