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If it's a private upload on a hosting site such as Mega or Dropbox it's probably OK. However if it's on a download site that contains warez it certainly isn't! PM me the link and I will check it out.

I’m pleased that this topic has been resurrected today because Mental Health Awareness Month is still in full swing and I sincerely believe that MSFN is one place that needs greater awareness of this issue! I posted this news in the Funny Farm subforum not so much because of its comedic potential but because “funny farm” is synonymous with “nut house,” “cuckoo’s nest,” or “insane asylum.” At least one of this forum’s most compulsive posters has still not replied to this topic, but I won’t say who unless he/she decides to step forward. Being mentally ill certainly does not suggest stupidity - oh no far from it! The close kinship between genius and madness has been remarked on since ancient times. I think we have some very bright members here who need to devote more attention to something other than old versions of Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism

Yeah, I noticed that too. That's sad indeed. You can post it in a PM normally. Or, we can ask the moderators, if posting the link in a PM isn't an option for you. @Dave-H What do you say? Is it allowed to post such links or not?

Perhaps my words sound too frightening. Indeed they are. You just have to look past the meaningless distractions and see the meat grinder for what it is. https://teddit.net/r/MorbidReality/ Also, I'm sure @NotHereToPlayGames looks just fine the way he is and even if he does look to odd to someone, that's not a reason to attack him or anyone else for that matter. It just occured to me that I've heard several times now that also applies to country where I'm from that some people are afraid to go out in the night time while that wasn't the case 30+ years ago or so. Anyway, I'm tired and need the leave, which I'm taking very soon. School was much better in that regard, a week off every season and Christmas / new year period and 2 months off every summer. Now it's just work work work...what's the point? In any case, I remain a cynic.

Norton was actually spun off from Symantec before merging with Avast, so Symantec is not part of Gen Digital. There has long been a need for consolidation in the antimalware industry because there were too many unprofitable vendors competing. Now that the typical Windows 10 user simply relies on Microsoft’s excellent antimalware, Gen Digital just might be big enough to survive! I thought you disapproved of “discussions about concerns regarding the country of origin”? You make an exception for Russia, but apparently imagine that China exists to benefit Windows XP diehards.

Not by default. https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm

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In Firefox 113, any kind of fullscreen video is broken under Win7/8, see here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1832547 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830721 Apparently this bug was known for 10 days in Nightly but went through for release, because they don't even test stuff under Win7 anymore, and the fix is only scheduled for May 23rd right now. Oh well, maybe this topic can save others the hassle.

I see. Free antivirus is 1-2 programs that is why i ask for vfm antivirus

No, I only have all Windows 7 updates up to 2020-01. I even tested on a clean install with no updates, and still the same.

I had originally tested with a Windows 7 install with a low update level, but I have received complaints about it not working with ESU updates. Do you have those? For that reason I will also start testing (and debugging) with ESU updates.

Actually VARTA. I guess they make some batteries for automotive assembly plants to be fitted to newly manufactured cars. The picture above may eventually disappear, along with the source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234924280418

I kind of see both sides. There is the saying "you get what you pay for". And we are talking about XP. XP is a paid-for Operating System. But clearly a thread like this can't go out and buy twenty different antivirus programs just for the sake of MSFN Assistance.

Thank you! Now I can finally attempt an installation of KFA19. Going to do it now just for @VistaLover's request.

Kaspersky Free Antivirus 19.0.0.1088 For all who are interested in KFA 19 (not me )! I found a download link to an offline installer for Kaspersky Free Antivirus 19.0.0.1088. I sent the link to @Dave-H to give his assessment whether I am allowed to post it here or not. He found an unwanted program inside reported by MBAM. Therefore, I decompressed (SFX-compressed) and unpacked the installer with UniExtract. Then I analyzed the installer. The installer was repacked by SolidShare. That's indeed a common practice by a lot of these websites. There was an SFX script inside which forced to start the file kur.exe. This file was not original and therefore deleted by me (and also the SFX script). I checked all files inside with MBAM, and they were clean except of course kur.exe, harmless, though, but nevertheless unwanted. I packed the files of the cleaned folder into a new 7-Zip archive KFA 19.0.0.1088.7z and uploaded it for you. Here is the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/5b41tc67a29vvbm/KFA_19.0.0.1088.7z/file The installation has to be started with the original file startup.exe. One thing is clear: all at your own risk. The archive is clean, but I didn't test the original files from Kaspersky. And I won't do that as I already mentioned here in this thread. Have fun! Cheers, AstroSkipper

So what antivirus is vfm so far

That's one way to date XP. But I think of XP as being from 2008 because that's when SP3 was released. Unsure when the last official (non-POSReady) hotfix rolled out - 2014? 2017? Don't recall. Ubuntu users don't define their OS as being released in 2004, do they? I'm not even sure how to "date" Win 10. I kind of think of the different versions of Win 10 as "service packs". Potato, potahto (phonetics saying in the US).

lol, I guess that is one way to interpret. If we are counting non-working, then please make it SEVEN. The '53 Studebaker doesn't drive - but the engine does work, so does that count?

OK, so I tested a video in Firefox Nightly 115.0a1 (2023-05-11) (64-bit) on my Windows 7 SP1 64-bit VM, and full screen video isn't broken to me.

Sampei.Nihira mentioned that Tuesday. Maybe more Windows 7 users should test the nightly builds? Mozilla isn’t loaded with cash like Google, and might not survive the year.

Yes, sites that contain warez aren't OK of course, I was mainly asking about file hoster sites.

Well, the year is 2023 and Windows XP was released in 2001. Perhaps you are living in the wrong period? Though there is only one sure way through time and that is forward. Thinking back now, I think I exaggerated when I wrote that post here... ...the part about Mozart and DOOM. I guess generally more or less things from the person's own period is used. How much stuff from 1920 do you use? Additionally, and this is important, we're living in a time where these things develop rapidly, unlike when nothing changed in the person's entire lifetime. Anyway, is there a technical reason one should expect different results when Glarysoft's Quick Startup is running on XP that runs on bare hardware versus under a virtualizer?

I feel sorry for you.

Never used it in an UXP browser! If I wanted to use such Google services, I would open them in a browser on my Android tablet. Google and Android is an endless love.

Although in Germany the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned against the use of anti-virus software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky on 15 March 2022 https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Unternehmen-und-Organisationen/Cyber-Sicherheitslage/Technische-Sicherheitshinweise-und-Warnungen/Warnungen-nach-Par-7/Archiv/FAQ-Kaspersky/faq_node.html, I don't really share such concerns. The developers of Kaspersky software would ruin the entire company if they implemented malicious code in their software. For me, it's about a general statement, a sign of solidarity. And that may not always be fair, however Kaspersky has to thank for that a certain person.

i said you have to turn on testsigning on for windows 8.1 as well to to use the latest driver. GeForce Security Update Driver | 474.30 | Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit | NVIDIA thats the latest driver for windows 8.1 https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/203218/en-us/

If you want to be truly fair, then you have to say that about "all" antivirus programs, regardless of what country it came from. https://restoreprivacy.com/antivirus-privacy/ (April 2021) https://tweaklibrary.com/is-antivirus-tracking-on-you/ (August 2021) https://www.howtogeek.com/540658/is-your-antivirus-really-spying-on-you/ (January 2020) https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/antivirus-tracking-youd-surprised-sends/ (March 2020) https://www.pcmag.com/news/do-antivirus-programs-spy-on-you (December 2013, too old to be relevant but listed since PC Mag is a respected source, by most standards) https://www.securityweek.com/how-antivirus-software-can-be-perfect-spying-tool/ (January 2018, also old, but also the same time frame as most of these XP antivirus programs) "Security" and "privacy" go hand-in-hand. One has to be cautious that they didn't give up one in order to gain the other. Just my opinion, of course. Opinions are like butts. Everybody has one, doesn't mean everybody wants to hear them.

"Default" means I unzipped it and ran as-is, did not add any extensions, and it does not play DRM content.

Are you sure that MacType itself is buggy or is it just that its Mac-like antialiasing isn't good enough? If MacType just causes fonts to look bad, it will still be technically working. As long as there are no explicit error messages or crashes. If you're then able to see colored fonts where the emojis are otherwise black&white it will be a good start, even if the text rendering is visually botched. What I mean is that it's not too bad if MacType optimization looks wrong, it's more about verifying whether MacType is technically able to hook Windows font rendering to output colored characters where there was only black&white font support before it. If it actually brings colored fonts support, then MacType could be forked into a new project without the aliasing optimization part. Just the enhanced fonts support, and this would solve both the colored emoji support for Windows 7 & the MacType optimization problems.

You do not miss anything, the server is missing files Use a proxy like Fiddler Classic, set it up, change Internet Explorer settings to use it on port 8888 and give me the filenames (.inv, .bm, .as, .gng) and the folder name.

The language code identifier to locale name and locale name to language code identifier functions may not be needed anyway for the browser to work for WinME. 0x0C00 is a default LCID. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-lcid/926e694f-1797-4418-a922-343d1c5e91a6

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...

Changes to the display driver installation process under Microsoft Windows 7 | NVIDIA (custhelp.com) https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5445/~/changes-to-the-display-driver-installation-process-under-microsoft-windows-7 it applys to windows 8.1 as well

Thanks for the suggestion about those codecs. I got all of the mentioned tools and to be honest wasn't sure what exactly to do with most of them, but autoruns did show me two Techsmith codecs, which were vidc.tsc2 and vidc.tscc, with a reference to the SysWOW64 folder. I got rid of them alongside all the corresponding registry entries I could find. In total, the deleted files were: tsccvid64.dll, tsccvid.dll, tsc2_codec64.dll and tsc2_codec32.dll. After a reboot, I could not see any Techsmith in Resource Monitor, but as soon as I start Firefox, unfortunately that activation.cloud.techsmith.com connection is back.

Hi @Adrian_, hello from Belgium and welcome to MSFN! I wish you to enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

found in my country's news channel. Mono 29 1st May

Great! Does it have DRM?

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

So Supermium, to be clear only works on extended kernel?

Sure, I will attempt an installation of KFA19 later.

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?

Unfortunately, no good news! I already wrote about WiseVector StopX. Here is my last post: And here is my list of programs that have recently been abandoned: No hope anymore! This program is dead. Sorry to report such bad news! Of course, it might be used for a while if it was already installed. But there are no new definition updates (since January!) which are important to let the program work properly, though. I already uninstalled it completely.

We are definitely a dying bread. There are more than three of us. I think what a lot of visitors forget is that XP today is a lot like 98 x-number of years ago. By that I mean that 7 and 10 folks don't visit 98 threads and remind them that they run an insecure OS - but they will to an XP thread. Makes no sense to me.

Something I've been wondering about, this car has EFB+ battery installed. There's not much written about the plus part, seems to be a Volkswagen thing, they only have written on one of their sites that it has surface-active carbon additives for more effective power consumption and charging capacity. But carbon additives are mentioned at other places for EFB (without plus)... The main part, the car keeps the battery charged at 80% max, supposedly to save fuel and reduce emissions, something about alternator not being run all the time by the usual means, but engaging when using engine for braking and using kinetic energy to run the alternator. I've noticed with the help of diagnostic interface that when the car is sitting for a day, battery discharges from 80% to 72%. That's a whooping 8%! The manual does mention something about shutting electronics down if it goes too low, but nothing specific, just that it can't prevent battery from going empty if you do something stupid like leaving the ignition on with the engine off. So about EFB's longevity, while it's designed to operate better at reduced state of charge, I wonder if it would still be beneficial long-term to charge it every once in a while, given that the car is mostly sitting in garage for weekends and a week at a time few times per year. Edit: Higher state-of-charge should still be the better state to be in. https://microtexindia.com/efb-battery/

I learned the speed-up-then-coast back when "hypermiling" was a big thing. One of my "favorite" things to do is see a RED LIGHT over half a mile up the road and take my foot off the gas and coast the entire half mile.

I eventually picked up the habit of cruising at 110 km/h rather than 130 km/h on the motorway and that reduced the fuel consumption to little over 5.7 l/100km on that model. That 4.5 l/100km figure is on the current 2022 model, after recently experimenting with cruising in 90 - 100 km/h range. Slower indeed gets you further. Some time ago I stumbled upon this comment on YouTube, forgot which video: That, I haven't experimented with. Those that encounter me on the road must already think I'm insane as it is. But, I get to listen to the music longer!

There is literally only one stop sign between my house and where I work. Only three turns to get to work and one of them is at the end of my driveway.

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!