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It seems to me that over the years, software also got more resilient in general. I remember early days of XP when we got internet access for the first time, the computer had to be formatted the first week, thing were popping up left and right. The contributing factors must have been Internet Explorer 6 + run everything as admin by default approach. Although I can't make a clear comparison in my mind because it was on computer that was used by the entire family and I was just a dumb kid back then. Today, I can just leave them with Windows Defender + uBlock Origin in their web browser and don't have to worry about their computers getting messed up by malicious software. I remember @Sampei.Nihira mentioning at some point using PsExec in XP to run a web browser with limited rights. I wonder if anyone here uses limited account in Windows, which I personally prefer over running things explicitly with limited rights while the default is admin rights. Sudo for Windows can be used for convenience of having a right-click context menu to run stuff as admin when needed, though it was last updated in 2013 and it could have holes. Sure some naughty things can still be done with limited rights, but still there's no reason for common software to have write access to various sensitive parts of the system. AFAIK, Chrome goes out of the way to lock access to various Windows APIs from its renderer process. When life gives you those lists, use them. I mean what's the point of having a computer if you have to do everything manually then? If the person A uses those lists and doesn't get infected and person B doesn't use those lists, but spends a lot of time time effectively re-inventing those lists...why become person A if that time could be spent on something more interesting?

... Just a short while before you posted this, I had finished applying your fix locally ; unfortunately, this, again, involves messing with the omni.ja archive... The file to be patched according to the GitHub commit resides in: "<St52-appDir>\!omni.ja\modules\DownloadUtils.jsm" (! = expanded) After you've finished patching the file, locate "<St52-appDir>\!omni.ja\jsloader\resource\gre\modules\DownloadUtils.jsm" and DELETE it; this is a compiled version of the (original) file in the previous location; by deleting it, you'll force St52 to load the edited raw source file rather than the compiled one (minute performance degradation to be expected ). Once finished, repack (and re-optimise) to an omni.ja file, overwriting the original... So far, so good ...

A big bummer from Koei Tecmo Games. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – Digital Deluxe Edition requires Windows 10/11 No, DXVK won't help.

Vista has that starting up problem since the first Haswell arrived, early 2013. I had an engineering sample of Pentium G in 2012, so I knew it even in 2012 already. They had that cores. So?

my workaround seems working fine here, so it will work again in next build. and BTW if you get this and go to github, you can have similar error message regarding other intl object.

I'm unable to replicate that here, it's working fine on my end, sorry, my sincerest apologies for that. I'm also on latest St52.

But it works and can still download definitions, give or take a few occasional errors. Somewhere in this forum, couldn't find it, mentioned an xp compatible version of a more current clamav. But I'm happy with clamwin, so I have not tested.

Maybe he just trains his skills? I knew a guy who only used a huge hosts file with his XP machine instead of FW, the file was so huge, it slowed down his PC to a crawl, he edited it every couple of days or so,

Assuming no radical update came since April 2023 that turned everything upside-down, you can use ExplorerPatcher. After install, right-click on the taskbar->Properties->File Explorer->Control Interface->Windows 7 Command Bar.

ZoneAlarm is a jewish software, from Israel, perhaps this is what that member meant, when he wrote his "Notes" about "improper racist nature" at MSFN. Otherwise, I have no idea why would he write that. As for my opinion, there's no racism with you, not wanting to use that particular software, you're a customer, a user, so please continue. My experience with it was short, so I can't say much, apart from what I already told about the origins of that software. I actually don't make prejudgements, so I intalled it and tried. It seemed like it was a bit overcomplicated to use and didn't have enough configuration templates, maybe a bit heavy for that old celeron XP laptop of mine. Do you recall anything odd? Like calling home to Israel? Knocking on funny IP? Perhaps give it another chance? We all now have better hardware, no? Founded: 1993, Ramat Gan, Israel President: Amnon Bar-Lev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Point

The lack? Alder Lake has them! "In Alder Lake, the system depends on the ability of the P-Cores and E-Cores to work seamlessly together. " https://techedged.com/intel-e-core/

Misspelling doesn't matter at all and was not the reason I had to laugh. It was the zoological classification of this firewall. Personally, I found it funny. And a bit of humour definitely can't hurt in this thread. In any case, thanks for your interest and support!

I just use the firewall built into windows. But in truth, most systems that don't leave one's home (hopefully trusted) network, do not need host firewalls as any old SOHO/consumer Firewall+NAT router basically eliminates those threat avenues.

Pretty much what the topic says, I was able to get Injustice 2 {2018} up and running, after I figured out how to install these new video drivers, I have to admit, it was not easy to find any help topics about nVidia, the search showed only bizarre results. https://msfn.org/board/topic/183688-breakthrough-new-nvidia-drivers-ported-to-vista-tutorial/ But no sound, no matter what I do. Please share the ideas. the game shows no particular errors and works fine.

Is it only one game without sound? Did you try to change sampling rates to 48Khz?

Alice, you probably wanted to say "How to get the classic Windows 7 Command bar back in Explorer (for win 11)", not "How to get the classic XP Toolbar back in Explorer (for win 11)". Windows XP toolbar looks like this. (above the address bar) StartAllBack is also an option to restore the old Windows 7 command bar + a few classical stuff.

Hi @Proteus ; let me assure you you're not imagining things here ; there's definitely something broken in the downloads API of the latest batch of the UXP releases , as I've found myself when updating to the latest St52 (32-bit) ... For starters, something has reset the user-set default download action based on file-extension ; clicking on a link to a zip file, I was presented with below "choose window": For years, my default DL action was "Save File" ; I had to set this anew ... I'm also using the "Downloads Window" legacy extension, which approximates the old, Fx24-era, "toolkit" DL window, but that shouldn't matter, because the extension hooks directly to the "Library=>Downloads" interface... Immediately after saving the zip file shown above, the DLs Window appears completely empty (as reported): When I invoked that window a second time (via the toolbar DL button), only the latest DL entry of the session appears, and even that without its details (size, domain, time): Scrolling down in that 1-entry window makes previous entries magically appear, again without their DL details: The only way to fix those DL "oddities" is a browser restart, after which things return to a "normal" state: Previous St52 x86 build did not suffer from these bugs... @roytam1 , in your "DL-manager-extensions" related post you cited the new IntlAPI commits as the probable culprit, do you think that: [network] Prepare for requiring Authorization in CORS ACAH preflight and: [XPCOM] Win: Update executable extension list could have also played a part towards the DL breakages? Thanks in advance for any insight ...

Also unable to replicate at checkout -

@Roytam1 in the latest 64bit version New Moon 28 the downloads drop box in the toolbar is unresponsive.. In addition, Downloads part of Library tool remains empty. Previous version of omni.ja restores a correct behaviour. (I didn't tested 32bit version of NM28) Edit: Please disregard my complaint. After I restored omni.ja to the current version, everyting returned to normal. I am clueless,,, Sorry for bothering! have a nice day!

no clue how to fix this properly, but I think I can workaround it! https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/6917ca052b063c9c3ea35c092a95ae48a1527d86

I didn't compare anything. I plainly stated that I doubt that Dixel had enough data points, unless he actually deals (and has dealt for years) with many, many (hundreds, thousands) hard disks, while actually keeping a log of periodical reads, failure modes, etc. and that as such the conclusions he draws are - no matter if right or wrong - anecdotal data based on a relatively small experience, and anyway very likely spread over a too small sample for each make/model of hard disks. Then - separately - I briefly summed up the results of the Backblaze report. jaclaz

I wouldn't want to try my luck with it. Enough products from farmers here.

Hello, nice to see really new faces here, please tell us something we don't already know, anything you are comfortable to share with us. Enjoy your stay!

@jaclaz You compared Sacramento data center, that runs expensive Enterprise hard drives 24/7, with the consumer grade hard disks MSFN members use, really? My consumer grade hards don't even have that parameter SMART 189 High Fly Writes. What's the point of such comparison? Please enlighten.

@ribbon, hello, new users is what we need, welcome!

Unsure if it's been mentioned yet - is Clamwin still around?

Have you tried spoofing Windows 10 with VxKex? Maybe that could help make it work. Edit: Actually, disregard this. I forgot that VxKex is only for Windows 7. I wrongly thought you were running Windows 7. Sorry.

One of the recent commits to Firefox hard-coded the user agent to Windows NT 10.0.

i mean i want Screenshot to add/Remove Programs as this :

So I went out and bought TerraTec AUREON7.1PCIe 7.1 PCIe internal audio card. I'm out of ideas...

The about:addons page is now displayed properly in Serpent UXP (52.0). Thanks for your work.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230708-3219d2d-uxp-9f1550fb5-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20230708-3219d2d-uxp-9f1550fb5-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-20230708-3219d2d-uxp-9f1550fb5-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-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230708-d849524bd-uxp-9f1550fb5-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230708-d849524bd-uxp-9f1550fb5-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230708-d849524bd-uxp-9f1550fb5-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20230708-d849524bd-uxp-9f1550fb5-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Simplify incremental GC sweeping (95a1e4b7a) - Avoid TLS lookups when checking if zones need to be marked for GC. (24b1a0f16) - Fix debug builds (890e1eb84) - Issue #1969 Follow-Up: Error reporting arguments in RelativeTimeFormat/DateTimeFormat (5a531ea80) - Issue #2259 - Add missing IsAscii* helper functions in mozilla/TextUtils.h (7716602a2) - Issue #2259 - Add mozilla::Vector -> mozilla::Span implicit conversion (9914c0616) - Issue #2259 - Add mozilla::Result<V, E> and JS::Result<> for fallible return values (4c2e37861) - Issue #2259 - Add JS::StackGCVector and JS::RootedVector (f8f7aed52) - Issue #2259 - Adjust self-hosted Array.prototype.sort to ES2018 (a7d752def) - Issue #2259 - Introduce helper for self-hosted hasOwnProperty calls in intl (adffcb127) - Issue #2259 - Update Intl.* Object-ness to ECMA-402, 4th edition (30157344f) - Issue #2046 - Introduce mozIntl.DateTimeFormat with mozExtensions (85612accf) - Issue #2259 - Implement caseFirst option in Intl.Collator (949f69ef4) - Issue #2259 - Reimplement String.prototype.toLocale{Lower,Upper}Case per ECMAScript Intl specification (8d97bd437) - Issue #2259 - Support Unicode extensions with multiple value subtags in BCP47 language tags (e3dbf7c5e) - Issue #2259 - Improve ResolveLocale performance when initializing the default Intl objects (e923c48f4) - Issue #2195 - Add support for hourCycle to Intl.DateTimeFormat (cf7bd8232) - Issue #2259 - process Unicode langtags and locale identifiers according to BCP 47 (3ee2c9dcf) - Issue #1819 - Implement Intl.Locale proposal (c10a29d96) - Issue #2259 - Performance improvements in Locale (4ad4a82a1) - Issue #2259 - Performance improvements for LanguageTag parsing (0b3079d8e) - Issue #1819 - Further align Intl.Locale to spec (e01ff1c5f) - Issue #2046 - Implement Intl.DateTimeFormat's date-/timeStyle and hourCycle options (4400677af) - Issue #1656 - Follow-up: Re-nuke the vim lines introduced in #2265 (f9c39acaa) - [multiple] Update Intl tests. (81a3a92b0) - Issue #2255 & #1240 - Simplify and enhance Maybe and Some(). https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325351 This is a prerequisite for our BigInt V8 fast forward and potential #2255 fix. (2c0384c4a) - [network] Prepare for requiring Authorization in CORS ACAH preflight (96d1e2766) - [DOM] Filter out symlinks for webkitdirectory. (a299eaa96) - [XPCOM] Win: Update executable extension list (c292f9ffd) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. My changes picked since my last build: - webextensions: remove experiment related elements (7c4d0444b) Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.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.

A real-time antimalware may be useful for novice users, but it makes little sense for users with a high level of mastery such as those who frequent this Windows XP section of the forum. After subjecting a system to on-demand scanning by multiple antimalware, online and offline, I can consider the system safe; rechecking every time I use components that have been in the system for many years and used countless times without problems is just a waste of time and computational resources. Since at least ten years I have been performing only periodic scans, and since the scans end regularly without reporting problems, gradually the period has automatically lengthened; and in any case, a possible infection would not create big problems and would be detected immediately. It is necessary instead carefully monitor new grafts, external elements entering into the system. To test new programs the procedures are well known to users of this forum: Virtual Machines, SandboxIE, other forms of sandboxes, etc. I typically test the installation of new programs under SandboxIE, and I use two scripts to derive a report of the changes that the installation would make to the system (new or changed files, changes to registry, etc.), reports that I archive along with the program. For incidentally, from this structural information I almost always build a portable instance of the program, which I keep off the system partition (20 GB, of which only 13.2 GB is occupied). If the program installs drivers in the system, SandboxIE is generally not usable and it is necessary to run the test in a virtual machine; even in this case I create and keep a report of the changes that the installation makes to the system. But today in reality the main source of infection is the Web, and the most dangerous vehicles are browsers; here the variables and defense mechanisms are virtually infinite, so I subscribe to the need posed by @UCyborg to create a new dedicated thread: Maybe we need a thread about surviving on the modern internet without an antivirus? Notes: 1. Similar considerations apply to Android, where the real usefulness of antimalware is even more doubtful, and many other defense tools exist. 2. I consider improper that in this technical forum are allowed expressions and positions of a decidedly racist nature, further confirmation of the well-known maxim that the first casualty of a war is truth (and common sense, I might add); but this too surely requires a dedicated thread. Greetings

Yes, after June 2022 Win7 is no longer supported, but the versions released before that time work, albeit without updates.

My startup manager gives a notification for every newly created startup entry. Trust is good, but control is better.

@WULover Yes, I meant I have the downloaded files. I double checked my archive it actually 15MB not 26MB, 11 MB files are duplicates. @ward201185 I used a standalone installer for IE6 back in 2009. It was that version I used to visit the site from my recollection it worked with both Wks/Srv and what it displayed depended on what was installed. I doubt Embedded was supported. I think the Jan 2005 file works with IE5.x, in IE5.01SP2 it gives me these results in pick of the month with a odd random number update. @mina7601 Thanks Here's the archive. https://workupload.com/file/tJXSdpcE4vs It contains the following. WindowsUpdate folder with the following sub folders. - backup contains only root files of the WindowsUpdate folder - Downloaded manual downloads from Microsoft Download Center - Downloaded2 manual downloads from Microsoft Download Center - New Folder original contents of WindowsUpdate folder with 26MB downloaded cab files. And a crude readme file noting one update didn't appear in MS download centre. I've also included two animated gif files demonstrating IE6 showing updates using the 'New Folder' contents copied to C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate. While checking out these old files I was able to get the latest updates displayed in IE6 in Wks/Srv as you can see from the screenshots. Which helped me remember why I 'temporary' kept those files, back then the site wouldn't work correctly on my system. It would give the stop error but when click the back button it suddenly started working and realised the those inventory files were linked to it. I used it to help me download files from Download Center saved it the those Downloaded folders, when I tried install to those same new updates through site it just fail but when installed updates manually and revisit site the number updates displayed reduce until there was no more. Once I had the update files I needed I meant to delete inventory files but I forgot to.

That and I'd have to have at least faintest idea what to do, which I don't. I don't even know what to expect from such tinkering, but I can't imagine they would be significant enough, also considering the experience messing with Windows XP in that way back in the old days, with significantly weaker hardware at disposal. Heh, the most noticeable improvement I did on that computer was overclocking 2 GHz Intel Celeron by a whooping half-gigahertz. Also did it with cheap low-end NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440, just put the graphics processor's frequency straight to the max RivaTuner allowed without showing any warning. CPU overclocking might have contributed to the early demise of the motherboard, which was then replaced. CPU had locked multiplier, so other components took some strain as well. But I had the faster computer for a while. What else was the teenager without regular income supposed to do? Back to today, maybe the best result would be ability to open 5 more tabs in Firefox. 4 GB more RAM would probably up that to 50 while a brand new computer - maybe 500?

Lately, I started to have these weird dreams where I'm around the dead ones, they don't look dead, but I know they are. I talk to them , we do some stuff, like walking, exchanging items (yes, I know it's a very bad omen, actually). They are constantly trying to show me something, trying to explain (?), I have no idea what's this all about. I usually can't watch the dreams 'till the end. Something always wakes me up! Today it was a very loud, annoying dog (which are extremely rare here!... weird, again). I had a similar dream in the 1990's, later I was almost killed in a shootout. Someone had anything similar ? Are these mental issues or not? P.S. I already checked, I'm not cursed, no spells on me.

Yes, exactly! I didn't mean to offend anyone here, and by pointing out that you all talk too much, I meant no harm, I totally understand for all of you it's very important to talk. So like I wrote, better for me stay away.

For many years, with the soviet help (of course), ex-DDR communists had been developing a top notch, nasty, modern PC virus, imagine such scenario, now they've breached your fortress-house, carrying an infected USB flash drive, unfortunately you (your family) went to visit the Bavarian friends on a holiday and missed the daily AV update definitions, so the only thing that will save the World your PC - that simple, yet powerful tool, which blocks the autorun Virus without the updates and/or user interactions !

The links will probably change from time to time when an update or upgrade is due. I extracted the link to the offline installer from the online installer.

You're welcome! The list with working security programs is most important and will be maintained by me as regularly as possible. I also count on members who notice that a program has been updated or abandoned. When I created this thread, I already added the tag "Antivirus" and others, so the search function should be able to find my thread. Therefore, it shouldn't actually be a problem. Thank you very much! Most of your listed programs are already on my internal list, though. But, any help is welcome! Thanks again! Much appreciated!

Congratulations on opening the thread, now we can make a nice list in the header. Perhaps the disadvantage is that in search engines users will look for the word antivirus, not the word malware, although I don't see a very much problem. Here are a few programs to add to the alphabetical list. I order them like I have these on my computer, rate these however you like. ANTIVIRUS Avast Free Antivirus 18.8.4804 https://install.avcdn.net/iavs9x-xp/avast_free_antivirus_setup_offline.exe Avast definitions 12-18 https://install.avcdn.net/vpsnitro/vpsupd.exe Avast Clear (uninstall) https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avastclear.exe AVG Antivirus Free 18.8.4804 (offline downloader) https://install.avcdn.net/avg/iavs9x-xp/avg_antivirus_free_setup_offline.exe AVG Antivirus Free 17.9 (offline downloader) https://install.avcdn.net/avg/iavs9x-xp/avg_free_antivirus_setup_offline.exe AVG Internet Security 18.8.4084.0 (trial) https://install.avcdn.net/avg/iavs9x-xp/avg_internet_security_setup_offline.exe AVG Clear XP (uninstall) https://install.avcdn.net/avg/iavs9x-xp/avgclear.exe ClamWin http://es.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/ Clan Sentinel (real time protection for ClanWin) https://clamsentinel.sourceforge.net/ Dr. Web Cure It (free with send statistics or paid) https://free.drweb.com/ eScan https://www.escanav.com/ Panda Dome (free or paid) https://www.pandasecurity.com/es/homeusers/free-antivirus/ I can't find an official offline downloader do you know of any? please comment. Virus Total.com (file analysis online multi-antivirus) https://www.virustotal.com Wise Vestor StopX https://update2.wisevector.com/WiseVector_StopX.exe ANTI-SPYWARE Adware Removal Tool https://www.techsupportall.com/adware-removal-tool/ ComoboFix ??? http://www.combo-fix.com/ Malwarebytes Free & Premium 3.5.1.2522-1.0.365-1.0.5292 https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3_legacy Sophos HitmanPro https://www.hitmanpro.com/en-us/downloads Spybot – Search & Destroy 2.4.40.0 Oficial Legacy version for Windows XP (2014-10-22) (updatable database) https://download.spybot.info/Spybot2/ SpywareBlaster (for browsers) http://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html SuperAntispyware https://www.superantispyware.com/ FIREWALL Agnitum Outpost Firewall (old) PORTS SCANNERS CurrPorts https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html The Nmap Security Scanner https://nmap.org/download OTHERS OLD VERSIONS Anti-DDOS Bothunter TrendMicro Housecall 1.50.0.1154 TrendMicro RUBotted 2.0.0.1034 beta Anti-PUP AdwCleaner 6.047 (2017-05-19) (last Windows XP) MalwareBytes Junkware Removal Tool JRT 8.1.4 (2017-09-07) Antirootkit Avast antirootkit aswar 1.0.0.1 beta (gmer based) Avast MBR scaner 0.9.9.1771 Karpesky TDSS rootkit removing tool 2.8.16.0 Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit (Beta) mbar-1.08.3.1004 (2014-11-18) gmer 2.1.19357.0 Randoms system information tool RSIT 3.3.6.1 Disinfectant Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (Windows-KB890830-V5.39-32-bit) (2016-08-10) (last Windows Xp) I have tried almost every antivirus for Windows XP in the past, but that was more than 10 years ago, when I decided to stick with Avast 6.0. Unfortunately now, in 2023, I am looking for a new antivirus. I'll test if any from the past are currently working and comment.

I have installed Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 on my Windows XP computer and use its real-time protection. There is a three-layer protection: Web protection and Exploit protection are permanently activated, Malware protection only if I surf unknown or a bit dirty websites. So my real-time protection is a bit on-demand due to my underperforming computer.

You're welcome ! I guess not everyone wants to run real-time scanners or any real AV, and this simple tool will prevent their PC from infecting off these autorun viruses.

Thank you very much for the kind words! Thanks for this find! I will check it when more time is available. However, it is a very specialized program whose function should normally be covered by an antimalware program with background guard.

Hi, a very nice topic indeed ! What else one could expect from @AstroSkipper ! Found an antivirus programme for you, for XP. "Protects removable disks against "autorun viruses" https://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Anti-Autorun-7.shtml

Alphabetical list of programs that need to be tested for compatibility, features and support or whose installers have been lost Name Version Type Link Status Vir.IT eXplorer 9.5 AM-/AM+ Link Further detailed user experiences, Lite/Pro reviews, tests and screenshots needed Comodo Antivirus 12.x.x.x AM+ Link Further detailed user experiences and information Comodo Internet 12.x.x.x AM+ Link Further detailed user experiences Security and information Comodo Firewall x.x.x.x FW Link Further detailed user experiences and information Huorong Internet 6.0.2.3 AM+ Link Further detailed user experiences Security and information Trend Micro 1.2.2.1001 AM- Link Further detailed user experiences, Sysclean information, tests and screenshots needed

Funnily enough, these 2 direct links worked for me.

On the other hand , it's so bad what he did to the poor lizard ...