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because they simply can't port anything higher than 86/87 to XP

@AstroSkipper, thank you for the professional, more than well-written reviews in outstanding English, it helps us save so much time! What would we do without you! Now I'll not waste my time with that dodgy FW.

... Thanks for the confirmation! Can't replicate. Maybe 2023-07-70 was updated? I downloaded just today, after word the about:addons thingie was working. @dmiranda! The download dialogue window in Serpent 52 looks broken from time to time. Here are two screenshots to show you the issue: One time as usual: The next time broken: Cheers, AstroSkipper

@j7n, I'm sorry to inform, what you say won't pass the @jaclaz's certification, since he will obviously doubt that you had enough data points, unless you actually deal (and has dealt for years) with many, many (hundreds, thousands) hard disks, while actually keeping a log of periodical reads, failure modes, etc.

Update: twitter has reopened no-login access to direct posts. Still no account visiting.

Thank you! Indeed it does, I'm now spoofing it with 78.

Thanks for reporting here! Glad to hear ClamWin is still working. I use it in an old Windows ME partition which I haven't booted for a long time. This partition only exists for historical reasons. But thanks again!

Right! I definitely can confirm that. Surfing the web with IE 6, malicious windows were popping up left and right. All became better when Firefox appeared and the first content blocker extensions. I started to use Firefox with extensions from the very first. And I also think that software got more resilient over the years in general. Yep! I think so, too. Although there are a lot of things I do manually, it does not make sense to re-invent the wheels.

Subject: ZoneAlarm Here is my assessment on the firewall solution ZoneAlarm I wrote in another thread in June of 2022: Nevertheless, I reserve the right to decide whether or not to write an article about ZoneAlarm. At the moment, it is on my internal list of security programmes. Maybe, someone who is still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP can post their experiences here. The more, the better! @Monroe Are you still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP? AstroSkipper

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Ok.

thx and i cant use discord becuse umm i forgot my password AND i dont use discord now

@feodor2 thank you , mypal 68.13.1b (latest version) work perfectly on windows 2000 without any problem :

@Cocodile There are no such things as jaclaz's certifications, let alone blessings. @j7n In theory yes, in practice, unfortunately, in the best case you will collect a number of vague, inaccurate reports creating the typical GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) situation. jaclaz

I have no idea of any correlation (or lack of it) between e-cores and Vista issues. A statement was made to the effect that all Alder Lake processors had e-cores. Another statement was made to the effect that only F and KF had them. Both are seemingly not fully accurate. I only provided a source[1] from which it comes out that up to i3 none have them, in i5 only K and KF have them, i7 and i9 have them regardless the model. jaclaz [1] Wikipedia, not necessarily to be taken as the ultimate truth

Now I have re-installed Windows completely and followed all the steps again,it finally works!As you can see,it started to update itself! Hope no more errors will appear.

Hello guys, although it has been said that Kafan MiniBrowser is heavy for old computers, its the one that works best on my PC. I tried all the browsers listed here. I still choose Kafan. However, it is very annoying that it opens a new tab every time I type a link. Any idea how to solve this? some chrome://flags/ change perhaps? Thank u very much in advance!

Injustice 2 runs on the old Mortal Kombat X engine (which supports Vista!) Unreal Engine 3, with the mobile version running on Unreal Engine 4.

... Thanks for the confirmation! Can't replicate. Maybe 2023-07-70 was updated? I downloaded just today, after word the about:addons thingie was working. EDIT Note that I delete the following files from basilisk root folder: :: Kill borwsers C:\Desktop\Filemngt\KillProcess.exe BASILISK.EXE C:\Desktop\Filemngt\KillProcess.exe mypal.exe :: Clean basilisk and mypals installations cd C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk del api-ms-*.* del "C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk\D3DCompiler_*.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk\msvcp140.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk\ucrtbase.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk\vcomp140.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk\vcruntime140.dll" rmdir /q /s C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk\uninstall\ copy /y "C:\Internet\Browse\[settings]\1Basic\dependentlibs.list" "C:\Internet\Browse\Basilisk\dependentlibs.list" cd C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal del api-ms-*.* del "C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal\D3DCompiler_*.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal\msvcp140.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal\ucrtbase.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal\vcomp140.dll" del "C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal\vcruntime140.dll" rmdir /q /s C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal\uninstall\ copy /y "C:\Internet\Browse\[settings]\11Mypal\dependentlibs.list" "C:\Internet\Browse\Mypal\dependentlibs.list" Where dependentlibs.list includes entries not deleted by the bat file.

Reset your password using the "Forgot your password?" link in the login screen. Hope that helps.

thx and i cant use discord becuse umm i forgot my password

There are all the GUI options you can save with CTRL+S and the 26 hidden option mentioned in the WinNTSetup.ini.txt. Do you need anything in particular? Links are on the first page, do you need another mirror?

Nevertheless, I reserve the right to decide whether or not to write an article about ZoneAlarm. At the moment, it is on my internal list of security programmes. Maybe, someone who is still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP can post their experiences here. The more, the better! @Monroe Are you still using ZoneAlarm on Windows XP? AstroSkipper I forgot to mention that the last compatible version of ZoneAlarm for XP was the version 14.3.119.000. Here is a link where the EOL of ZA was announced: https://support.zonealarm.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001849832-Is-the-Windows-XP-operating-system-still-supported-by-ZoneAlarm-products- Cheers, AstroSkipper

Yep! But there were definition update problems in the past. And the programme itself doesn't seem to be regularly updated anymore. The last ClamWin version 0.103.2.1 is from June 2021, unfortunately.

Yep! Using the hosts file instead of a good firewall does not make any sense and is counterproductive.

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.

Found it! Choose IDE. https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/c/hardware-components/cables-adapters

Hello, there was a long discussion between @D.Drakerand another member, where @D.Drakerwrote which quality IDE adapters worked good and need to be bought. I'm sorry, I have no link. But I remember they were German.

@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.

I once tried a small piece, tasted like synthetic crab meat made of fake chicken. Imported from USA.

Yes it was already mentioned by @D.Draker. Yes, it's still around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Lake#List_of_12th_generation_Alder_Lake_processors The i5 seemingly miss them, even the F models, only K and KF have them. jaclaz

Isn't that due to the lack of E-cores?

I'm sure you wanted to say evolves, right? Well, it depends on the social circle, and varies from one state to another.

I'm sorry, I have to disagree, Hard disk Sentinel warns ahead of any failure, especially if we talk about Seagate (which one shouldn't purchase anyway, due to the high failure rate). From my observations, Seagate will fail within several days or weeks after HDD Sentinel showed its warning. One thing to point out, this software does not always know newest HDD models.

Your screenshot was obviously taken from Process Hacker. The System Information window of Process Explorer looks a bit different.

On Windows XP, Process Explorer v16.32 works, but doesn't show the menu bar icons and graphs. Therefore, a less recent version than 16.32 will be more suitable. But unfortunately, Process Explorer doesn't have the above mentioned, additional security features of Process Hacker. BTW, I already wrote about other task managers like Process Explorer: All in terms of security programmes, of course! Process Explorer as a task manager is really good. It's portable and easy to use.

I checked the homepage of Spybot - Search & Destroy again, and the last release compatible with Windows XP does indeed appear to be version 2.4. Here is a quote on this from the link posted above to the page with the heading Spybot 2.5 Compatibility:

For me, ESET never was, not only it marked legit copy protection game files as "viruses", it also deleted important files on my XP pc and put them to "quarantine" forever, I was not surprised to see it still does! To be fair, I gave it a chance in the past. I remember, I even lost my online registration for the DVD check of Sacred 2 (based on securom). As for your OT question, I fail to understand, why would you be interested, if you discarded ESET anyway? I could only guess, but If you want to be recruited or renew some previous pre-1991 arrangements, I'm sure there's no need to go to Bratislava, and I'm definitely not the one to talk to! NOD32 "Such file could contain valuable information, and losing it is certainly not what you’d wish for" https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/how-to-return-files-if-eset-nod-deleted-or-placed-them-in-quarantine.htm

Oh, and good evening to you too! Are the wires thin? If they are, maybe not worth the hassle. Need to be at least AWG18 (2mm).

Yes, we need to see the pics.

Your review is almost 3 years old. Therefore, it doesn't refer to the current version. I will list a review (or more) which is more recent if available. And it doesn't matter whether it is favourable or not. Furthermore, I'm not at all surprised that your linked review is unfavourable. TBH, I had expected nothing else. Since Covid, it seems that negative is the new positive. Cheers, AstroSkipper

I guess you're right. I couln't find any official tests by AV-Test and other independent labs, either. I can't confirm this. I found reviews which are rather favourable.

This is false. I release both 32 and 64 bit builds of Basilisk for Windows. Edit: sorry for reviving an old thread, I wasn't paying attention to the dates. Ignore me

There are instructions out there how to patch latest Flash to disable EOL restriction. I was the first to bring it up on MSFN. Some even opt to use Flash version that continued to be developed for Chinese market (only security fixes I guess) after it was EOL for the rest of the world, but I didn't follow that. In my most recent experience, NPAPI version for Mozilla-based browsers and other browsers implementing NPAPI was most performant, the worst was ActiveX in Internet Explorer, though for some reason it was much better in the pre-Chromium Edge, a bit better than NPAPI even. Of course, standalone version keeps it simple by not being tied to the web browser's plugin architecture.

Draker forgot to tell you about the most amazing addon "SpellForce The Breath of Winter" , also released in one package with The Order Od Dawn under the name SpellForce Gold. Dungeon siege is nowhere near this game . I played them all . I can help you with the right version and setting up this game . There was a patch (official) that removes outdated CD checks . You need Spellforce any version below 1.3 . Then patch it with the patch 1.38. Can send you the link , if you're interested . I played this wonderful addon in 2004 on a cheap ar_se 1.5Ghz mobile Celeron and Intel "extreme" (lol) graphics and Win2000 . Worked fine. Later there was a "Phoenix" addon that bumped the version to 1.5x , but it's still being sold at steam , so no protection-free patches , but this addon is no good anyways ! In any case , do NOT patch the game to 1.5x versions to avoid bugs.

It seems you already decided to stay on Win10 long time ago and no matter what , so what's the point ?

Trolling lvl 168 . I'm sure you know Cyberpunk 2077 is directx12 only , not to mention it's buggy as hell. And XP is what , 9.0b maximum ? Or smth like that.

New games are simply not possible with his current hardware. I read the OP has GTX 1050 , which was too weak , even at launch . So I'd say win 7 is the max OS that could make sense. His 6 year old low budget card , very similar to GT950 . Even GTX960 would be faster , esp. 4GB vesrions . And I have GTX980 , new titles don't run well . Poor FPS. Not pleasant at all. Hell , not only new , I started to notice poor FPS in 2017-2018.