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Maybe the expectations were too low. The article you linked to is an opinion by an analyst written while Vista was made available, january 2007, compare with these (written two years after launch): https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898610_1898625_1898627,00.html https://www.technologizer.com/2009/08/10/sixteen-reasons-the-windows-vista-era-never-quite-happened/ Vista was not a success for Microsoft (no matter if rightfully or wrongly people did whatever they could to avoid it). Windows 7[1] release was accelerated as much as possible, hoping to replicate the success of XP. jaclaz [1] please read as Vista SP3

Simmer down. No need to be offended. I did say that Vista redeemed itself with service packs. You'll also notice that I had several upvotes from seasoned forum members, which tell you that many fully agree with my assessment. The original notebooks I setup were DuoCores with 4 GB of RAM. That's what Vista was sold on, and it ran terribly. By the way, I use Vista Home Basic on a 2 GB of RAM Dell Notebook today, and it runs swimmingly. So the original RTM version showed its warts. So no, I don't think Vista users should get offended by performance assessments. I'd be embarrassed to admit such a thing, and I'm a sensitive person to most that know me personally.

Sad news for everyone here at MSFN. One of our forum supervisors, Dencorso, passed away on October 24th, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Apparently he was still upbeat and optimistic about the future a few weeks before he passed. My memories of Den go back quite a few years. He was incredibly helpful to me with technical problems, which is what this board is all about of course, initially mainly with Windows 98, and latterly with Windows XP. He was immensely supportive too when I first became a moderator here, something I will always be grateful for. He was definitely one of the good guys, and will be sorely missed here. Please add your memories here of working with Den. Thanks, Dave.

I just want to make sure I am spared any trouble. When you provide something voluntarily, you don't want to be punished for it.

Agreed. But one of them was a guy we know as "MAT" and the Pale Moon versus New Moon saga. I'm sure that Astro doesn't want involved with one of these drama scenes so better safe than sorry by dotting i's and crossing t's.

TikTok comes in two flavours, Android and iOS, I wonder which version of Kaspersky you run on your iOS/iPhone.

For whom it was "failure"? As an example, Vista's business sales were even stronger than expected! https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/report-vistas-business-sales-stronger-than-expected/ Vista RTM ran perfectly fine on several of my Siemens computers, I still run RTM without updates on a Haswell PC from 2013.

Hello, @cmalex! How are you? I hope in any case you are well and, above all, healthy and unharmed in these still difficult times. As you know, you compiled the great programme ProxyMII, dated from 2022-07-17, based on OpenSSL 3.0.5, dated from 2022-07-05, and Cryptography 3.4.8, dated from 2021-08-24. That was a year ago. OpenSSL is now available in version 3.1.2 and Cryptography in version 41.0.3, both dated from 2023-08-01. In terms of Cryptography, there was a big version bump after 3.4.8 directly to 35.0.0. Link: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/tags?after=37.0.0 Do you know if these versions are still compatible with Windows XP? If not, which are the last XP-compatible versions? Would it make sense to update ProxyMII in terms of OpenSSL and Cryptography for the use under Windows XP, especially to support more modern ciphers? TBH, who else could assess this better than you, the creator of ProxyMII? Or, have you perhaps already updated ProxyMII? Anyway! What do you think about all that? Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

xpmgr is a license manager for Windows XP and Server 2003 (and hopefully Office and PLUS!), inspired by slmgr for Windows Vista and newer. It can: Get the system's product ID Change the system's product key Generate an Installation ID Send a Confirmation ID Get the # of days until activation is required Get the # of days until the evaluation period expires, for evaluation copies of Windows https://github.com/UMSKT/xpmgr Credits to diamondggg for making the magic numbers, ICOMLicenseAgent interface, and LoadLicenseManager() function, which were taken from [REDACTED] and modified to work in a CLI. This tool supports all x86 and x64 editions of Windows XP, Server 2003 and other one-off editions. Itanium editions are not supported, as they don't have Windows Product Activation in the first place. This tool does not facilitate piracy. This tool is made for power users to have an easier time with license management on older versions of Microsoft products, before Microsoft made slmgr. All that xpmgr does is use API's that the OOBE (or Office's first run) uses.

... Going by his recent post , equally unhelpful as it consisted only of screengrabs with "the browser" localised in Russian, I'd hazard a guess and say it's New Moon 28 ... @Slavich : Please , when filing "not working" reports: 1. Provide details of OS and its architecture 2, Provide details of the browser used (name of, bitness, build version) 3. Post actual links of misbehaving websites 4. Describe in more words the exact nature of the error(s); what were you expecting to happen and what actually happens... 5. If the website in question requires a registration for the "bug" to be witnessed, then understand that other members here and/or the browser maintainer won't be able to replicate the bug without such a website account... 6. Because of "current world situation" (won't say more, politics is NOT allowed in this forum), Russia-based websites/services might be inaccessible to "the rest" of the world, this fact imposes additional hurdles for "us" to troubleshoot your reported "bugs"... 7. This is an English "speaking" international forum, try to refrain from posting "localised" debugging info (let alone inside images ) ... 8. Resort to posting images where absolutely necessary (and images should be accompanied by "explaining" text) As a rule of thumb, whenever possible, avoid UXP-based browsers to conduct financial transactions on line, as those "services" (banks, etc.) are known to be "pretty particular" with the user-agents/clients they allow ... In closing, it's now the second half of 2023, you shouldn't treat the roytam1 offered browsers as a "panacea"; they can accomplish many things, but not everything you throw at them (especially on older H/W); while the "upstream" devs try to tackle UXP's shortcomings as best as they can, often times these efforts (commendable as they may be ) are not enough to compete with recent Chromium/Firefox (many websites/services are designed against) ... Many XP users here have attested they have to resort to a recent browser on Win7+ or on Android to complete successfully all of their online tasks; I. personally, have come to consider, especially in recent years, the UXP-based browsers I use (St52/NM28 & St55) as more of a "palliative" on my 'legacy" Vista laptop rather than full-blown browsing "solutions" (no disrespect intended at MCP devs and Roy ) ... Best regards .

The new taskbar is awful. Maybe Tihiy will be able to reimplement it like with the Start Menu. I'll gladly pay an upgrade fee for all of my licenses for something like that. I truly believe SAB is underpriced for the functionality it gives.

I don't know, post the link in the dedicated forum thread? Have you read this? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/ Also, extensions aren't compiled executables, so technically most of the source is already in the .xpi file, so you're already providing the source that way, exception being binary components (if any exist) and I guess whatever other resources that aren't code. At least that's my understanding, taking into account the past drama between Mozilla/Debian developers and MCP/FreeBSD developers/roytam1/feodor2. Hosting it on GitHub or the like would allow the public to see the history of code changes that were made and the ability for users to get future updates to the extension directly through browser's Add-ons Manager. The latter requires update.rdf to be hosted on some web server, not necessarily GitHub, though if you use the latter to host the code repo, it makes sense to also use it for clients' ability to check for updates.

I've submitted a PR to Pale Moon to add a User Agent Override for this site: https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/pulls/1927 I've also added a User Agent Override to Basilisk: https://repo.palemoon.org/Basilisk-Dev/Basilisk/commit/54ebc66d9d00449d0ad89572f912cef9a8e87d84 On my personal machine I use Basilisk, Pale Moon, LibreWolf. I do have Ungoogled Chromium installed but I only use it if I run into a site that does not work in any of the aforementioned browsers. On my work machine I use Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium. On my phone I use Mull and the version of Chromium included with Calyx OS. On my Windows 2000 machine I use Serpent and MyPal 68.

I'm very sorry to hear that. I personally had several conversations with this remarkable man and he seemed very nice and clever. May he rest in peace.

Hi ; thanks for this, special thanks for mentioning my MSFN username inside your own repo(s): However , my wording was chosen carefully: Yes, there's a list of them , that I reported some months ago... First, the Greek edition of Bab.la: https://www.babla.gr That one will "award you" an outright: "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access this resource." when you visit it ; second is the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online": https://www.ldoceonline.com/ which will report a "Secure Connection Failed" error, a la "Cambridge online dictionary"; both these can be "fixed" by a Goanna-less SSUAO (FWIW, I'm using "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0", with 115 being the latest FxESR version) ; NB: "www.babla.gr" loads some CSS from the "bab.la" domain, which will be discussed below ... Due to a part-time job of mine, I have to consult several online dictionaries, hence my reported findings and workarounds ; these three cases were the "easy" ones; the most impossible ones are those that find themselves behind the infamous Cloudflare Protection, a well-known arch-enemy of non-mainstream browsers... The English version of bab.la is found at: https://en.bab.la/ When you first visit this one with the default UA, a CF "challenge" will initiate; if you're lucky to pass this, a "cf_clearance" cookie will be set but, despite that, you'll get the: "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access this resource." block ; with a Goanna-less SSUAO, it will, again, connect (NB: with "bab.la" fixed, "www.babla.gr" will now display correctly ) . Now, let's come to the case of Collins (online) dictionary: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/ Visiting that will give you below uninformative error : "Web server is returning an unknown error - Error code 520" (generated by, yes, CF ) ... Again, this is fixed by a Goanna-less SSUAO - but, this is NOT the first thing that comes to mind for solving that "unknown" CF error; I was driven crazy initially by trying out a bunch of things, in complete desperation , as Collins was one of the first online dictionary services I encountered that would simply not load in UXP ... It's apparent there's a common denominator between the Cambridge/Longman/bab.la/Collins online dictionary services (all being "allergic" to a Goanna UA-slice), but I couldn't be a*sed to search for it ... So, that was a more "complete" story ...

Thank you for your thoughts and tips! I already read the MPL-2.0 FAQ. As far as I understood all correctly, the measures I have listed should actually satisfy the MPL 2.0 licence conditions: Or, have I missed something? What do you think?

My answer to the original question is no. Its adoption will increase with time and more development from other software vendors will be focused on it, in fact it already is.

Hi, if you have problems, or any suggestions please write exactly what is your problem.

Well, it could be, yes. I'm just going on past experience: so far, Google has been behind far more UXP-breaking changes than Mozilla, so I figured the odds are pretty good that the next one will be Google again. (And my usual disclaimer: Not all UXP-breaking changes are "egregious;" i.e., serving little purpose other than to break older browsers. Some are quite useful to Web designers. Many do strike me as quite egregious, but I don't know enough about all this new CSS stuff to have an informed opinion yet.)

Not only which browser, but details on "the site" would help us to help you.

well now it does run on any vhd, even miniwinned, it was some syswow64 dll or other. in a bit for the findings. i do not know how to connect it with winntsetup though, but I will tell u what it does in and of itself that can be useful, at least from my point of view.

Thanks! Could you link to some docs I could read and compare, most of these I replaced are undocumented. Replacing Exes worked for me in the past.

Yeah, no problem. Btw, i'm looking for someone who trying to install Vista Extended Kernel on modern hardware especially with Intel CPUs

Please forgive me for being so late to the announcement, but I'm very sorry. Dencorso was a great guy, the post above by mixit says it all. Sit tibi terra levis, dencorso.

When I create a new post containing own images, I always upload them to an image hoster before. I think a post should also be able to be understood by readers in the future. Especially, if one, as for example me, has created articles with information which should be preserved for as long as possible. And I personally am not too lazy to insert the golden rule:

Oh, it's fine, like I said, I can live without seeing the attachments, thank you, I know how to change the IP, I even tried with a very famous VPN (that everyone knows, they usually unblock everything), I tried right now, all the same.

Looks like 360Chrome 13.5 doesn't display mediamarkt.de properly either. It displays in Edge 94 (the oldest "modern" browser at my disposal). They are not needed anymore after RegExp updates. Man, these people are nuts. A new (smart) TV was bought couple of weeks back and its web browser (Chromium 85) is obsolete straight out of the shop. Secondary function, but still, these lyrics come to mind: My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks But it was obsolete before I opened the box You say you've had your desktop for over a week Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique Your laptop is a month old, well that's great If you could use a nice, heavy paper weight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos Released in 1999 xD

Honour to whom honour is due.

Hello @UCyborg! Thank you very much for sharing your "mediamarkt.de | saturn.de quick fix" userscript! I tried it in New Moon 28, Serpent 52 and 55. Although there are issues with images in the item lists as already reported by @VistaLover, it works and makes these websites readable again. In Palefill 1.27, martok also made fixes for mediamarkt's login area. Nevertheless, I hope there will be a solution of all these issues one day coded in NM and SP themselves. BTW, I am a customer of Media Markt's online shop and I am glad to be able to use this site in NM and SP again. Thanks again!

AstroSkipper, thank you for fast reply! I thought the Finnish guy was talking about Komodo firewall 6, his post was rather confusing. There was several versions, like. Comodo Internet Security 6.0.260739 Comodo Internet Security 6.0.264710 I already wrote before, on my XP install 5.x and 6x. were the last good working ones.

Hello @Saxon! Thanks for your reply! Your quote refers to version Comodo Firewall 12.0.0.6818 and is therefore version 12. However, I referred to version Comodo Firewall 8.4.0.5165 which is obviously version 8 and therefore older. In this thread, a member has also confirmed what I once read in the Comodo forum and therefore wrote to you: TBH, I have not been a fan of Comodo for a long time, and it's a long time ago when I used it. Furthermore, I do not plan to test this firewall. As I already wrote, my firewall is Windows 10 Firewall Control Free XP 7.5.105.217 from Sphinx, and I am not about to uninstall it for testing purpose. If anyone was interested in testing Comodo Firewall 8.4.0.5165, that would be great, of course.

Hello @AstroSkipper 'I have been only able use comodo firewall/internet security 6818 under xp. Newer than it won't work. '' https://msfn.org/board/topic/182219-comodo-firewall-last-win-xp-version/?do=findComment&comment=1194048

CF makes a series of fingerprints, and canvas isn't the main. They look at CH, WebGl, , System Fonts, Clientrects, IP, device CPU cores count, RAM amount, audio API fingerprint, even if you change the canvas, the rest will stay the same.

// ==UserScript== // @name mediamarkt.de | saturn.de quick fix // @namespace https://github.com/UCyborg // @version 1.0 // @author UCyborg // @match https://www.mediamarkt.de/* // @match https://www.saturn.de/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== let a = document.getElementsByTagName('style')[0]; a.innerHTML = a.innerHTML.replace(`*:where(:not(iframe, canvas, img, svg, video):not(svg *, symbol *)) { all: unset; display: revert; }`, ''); It was implemented in Firefox first in 2019, that's 4 years ago, pre-COVID-19. So how can you say it will be Google that will come up with something else, it could be Mozilla.

Thank you, interesting observations. I am of the same opinion, it was fine up to 2015. I wonder if upgrading even makes sense.

Update notification! Malware Hunter has been updated on 17.07.2023 and is now available in version 1.169.0.787. It is still listed to be compatible with Windows XP. Accordingly, I updated my article. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Hello, all loyal readers! I am very happy to have loyal readers who still use Windows XP and are interested in security programmes which work under this OS in these days.

One of my computers has two Windows XP partitions. Until now, I had installed Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 on both. I have now changed that. I have installed Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro 1.75.0.1300 on one of them for a week. On older, less powerful computers, you notice a considerable difference. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro 1.75.0.1300 is much more resource-efficient and lightweight. I loved to use it in the past, and now, I am able to enjoy it again. I am very happy. On more powerful computers, I would of course prefer Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522.

Hi@win32, for the first time a small issue with the kernel, short story, I had to install an update KB4499184, to be able to run a game, now open/save dialog doesn't work in most apps, chrome for example. This is with all kernels, but currently I'm on v06102022. I also have the platform and DX11 update, that's all. Thanks for looking into this.

Finally ! You're welcome , enjoy !

Somehow it just stopped asking for updates , the issue resolved , thanks again !

It is quite unpredictable . Usually it pops up right at the start of the programme. I do not have this line at all . I only have "UpdateCheckingPeriod" with only one digit available, so it seems they don't want me to disable it completely , only to change the period . This is with 7.3.1 , yes , as I told earlier I made a frankensteined version with the main .exe being 7.3.1 . I searched all lines with the word "update" , opened in Hex , nothing even remotely similar.

This is really strange because I trust this experienced user @UCyborg . He just helped me with Riva Tuner on Vista . What is their framework level ?

Thank you , appreciated , will definitely try . And the OP might have a problem with his higher version of framework , like I suggested earlier.

Oh , that's bad . I'm kinda gamer too . Are there any other alternatives ? (please not from kaspersky or the such) , thank you.

http://web.archive.org/web/20170825082730/https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/20758/Graphics-Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-Vista

And several other missing functions : InterlockedCompareExchange InterlockedDecrement InterlockedExchange InterlockedIncrement

A quick look at the programme and I see this missing function : K32GetProcessMemoryInfo . I haven't dug any deeper , but this is enough to say they are lying ! I'm wondering what they did to disable it on Windows 8.1.

Maybe , maybe not . I wouldn't be surprised if it's intentonal, though . But ! To be sure you need to test with the same Net 4.5.1 , VC Redist 2015 and drivers' versions. Also , try to remove Afterburner and see if it works without it . Today I've used drivers 388 , 391 , 416 and 430.x.x - again , all is fine . I shall test with Vista if I find some spare time.