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There are no such things as "UEFI HDD" or "normal HDD", there is GPT style of partitioning and MBR style of partitioning. BIOS is ONLY compatible with MBR style[0]. UEFI is (should be) compatible with BOTH MBR and GPT style, though often GPT is forced by some artificial limitation by either the firmware or the OS or both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition The normal BIOS booting sequence (on MBR) is: BIOS->MBR code->PBR of Active partition in MBR partition table->PBR code-> OS loader or bootmanager The UEFI booting sequence (on GPT) is: UEFI->EFI loader on ESP (normally FAT32[1]) which has its own ID of C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B The UEFI booting sequence (on MBR) is: UEFI->EFI loader on partiion (normally FAT32) that is considered the ESP (or EFI System Partition) with an ID of 0xEF (some wrong implementations may want to use the "generic" 0x0B or 0x0C[2]) jaclaz [0] though there are tricks/workarounds to boot GPT from BIOS, besides hybrid MBR's there are a few ways here: http://reboot.pro/topic/19516-hack-bootmgr-to-boot-windows-in-bios-to-gpt [1] though according to the specifications "FAT" is to be used, so also FAT12 and 16 should be possible [2] An example (solved): https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/126

Yes, totally agree, I used IG quite extensively, until they blocked my account, after I tried to login from a cafe with another IP, obviously. I don't understand how people, who often go abroad, what, they're also blocked?

Instagram is mostly for those who have something to show: perfect bodies, fancy life, interesting pets, cars. For those who don't have either, it's just not suitable. I shouldn't say it's a complete crap, but their requirements for "always logged in" are crappy, I agree. The same can be said about Firefox. https://msfn.org/board/topic/183138-mozilla-and-firefox-has-turned-into-evil-and-lie-to-their-userbase-leave-it-and-go-for-alternatives/

OT, good ol' joke about engineers and mathematicians (and physicists): jaclaz

Title should read WMP. (WMC was Windows Media Center, which was discontinued with the release of Windows 10.) I used VLC on Vista, but PotPlayer was often mentioned in the Windows XP forum.

Got mine blocked for dozens of time, each time when I was on holidays, when tried to post from another countries. Always a show, too complicated, they always want to have "proof it's you" and so on. Insane, simply insane.

We seem to have drifted a bit off topic with all this discussion about who's a "real" XP user. If you need a browser that runs on XP, you're welcome here, regardless of how "real" your XP use may seem to others. Thanks for the clarification, although I'm surprised that anything on bugzilla is still relevant to UXP! (Considering how much FF has diverged from UXP in the last several years.) Thank you! A couple of simple prefs make a lot more sense than jumping through hoops to get the necessary code off userstyles.org! (Seriously - they actually look for the word "Chrome" in the browser user agent? Sounds to me like a good reason to avoid them altogether!)

Yes. I made that tutorial. In theory, yes, because Vista and Windows 11 both use BOOTMGR, and both can be used on UEFI, therefore this means you can install any of them in any order. Now, if we're talking about real hardware, then that's another story. If you don't have CSM, you will need 3rd-party solutions to get Vista working on UEFI Class 3. Also, Vista tends to have several bugs on post-Ivy Bridge hardware. If I were you, if you have CSM or Legacy boot mode, if you were on UEFI, I would convert the existing 11 installation from GPT to MBR (use a program like AOMEI Partition Wizard), then install Vista on a separate partition.

And what are business consulting firms for? No one would risk such vast amounts of money without doing a proper research first.

One big, rich and aggressive country wasn't happy with the fast and constant news coverage of what it does to another smaller neighbouring country.

I myself have a KabyLake board, made in 2017-2018, I was able to use Windows 7 only after I changed from UEFI HDD to normal HDD and disabled all UEFI features that were shown in BIOS, including the GOP. UEFI 2.3.1 on paper, in theory yes, the question is, what people really want, it might be too hard to achieve, or nearly impossible with most of motherboards made after 2014. I haven't tried Vista on that kabylake mobo, but with the Haswell gen., it worked fine, but then again, Haswell is 2013, and the OP didn't tell us anything about his mobo.

That's weird. Windows properties should also show 16GB. Are you actually using One Core API or some other patch? This is a screenshot from December 2020, during the pandemic, when I upgraded to 64 GB of RAM: Which browser are you using? Are you using the builds from here? http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser Welcome to adulthood. And I'll tell you a secret: it will just get worse once you'll get to the point of having a job and going to the office every single day with as little as two weeks vacation per year that you won't really enjoy as you're an engineer so they'll be calling you for literally any little thing that happens to any of the systems you either made/coded or that you manage.

Hi LoneCrusader, Thank you for your donation of 100.00 USD. We look forward to improving the forums with your donation. Thanks MSFN

Ah, so it's version 3.5, as I thought. Ok, but this is the first time I hear about that patch, so at first I thought you installed an older version (version 2.0) because of the previous explorer toolbar icons. Thanks for clearing that up, sorry for any misleadings, and thanks again for sharing your setup! Much appreciated!

OFFTOPIC Almost everything I post here is a thank you, a tribute, an attempt to cooperate in some way. To add my grain of sand. For my use Serpent works great. I don't need it to be perfect. I just need it to be functional. I thought I would share a trick that has been useful to me and that I discovered recently. Always trying to improve the performance of XP, I check the hacks pages from time to time and I found this one. Since I applied it the applications started to launch at the speed of light. Almost instantly. If you haven't tried it yet, I recommend it. I also applied several other tricks from that same page with success. But none of them left me so amazed. I wish I had discovered it years ago! lol Hope you enjoy it. https://tweaks.com/windows/37016/memory-performance-tweak/

I don't think we need such a defination

Thank you again. I assure you it is version 3.5. In version 3.5 the toolbar, as you say, is different. But many users liked the previous one better, so Chris at that time released a patch to be able to apply the old toolbar. Everyone was happy.

Thanks! Yes, it is. I use the unattended version of XP called UE6 which is much lighter, trimmed down. It works very well. It's fast and doesn't take up any space. Heavily configured to emulate mac. I use many small programs for different aspects and functions. Obviously Flyakite had to be in the game. A must have. Here is another sample. There is no way to achieve this wonder with any other modern version of windows, as far as I know.

That's another thing, it is a "new" level of the UEFI specifications (UEFI Class-3), this class of hardware didn't exist in times of VIsta or 7, so it is not at all surprising. The surface/surface PRO installing of Windows 7 is talked about on another thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184183-how-can-i-install-windows-7-pro-or-ultimate-on-a-microsoft-surface-go/ As said before there may be "tricks" around that limitation. jaclaz

Well, from what I've read, this is INTENDED - social media dramas and arguments make people more engaged, thus spend more time and look more at ads. And how cool data they're leaving for political profilers, woo! I personally hate social media. I signed to facebook when I had to, as everyone at the university used it and I stayed, but using messenger only - everything blocked what's possible and never opening the board. Instagram, snapchat, tiktok - those are crap for me, never signed in. For twitter, I decided not to sign up and try to go with nitter - redirecting proxy. The only site that is considered social media and noone can get without is youtube, as too many content is being posted only there. that's major thing I hate about social media - they consume smaller sites, and many things are updated only on FB. Blogs I've been reading years ago are now social media exclusive, and I never checked them again. As for alternatives, there are some, but they are used either by political extremists or geeks and thus miss the big point of social media - connecting with a lot of people via one hub. recently, CoHost got my attention, as they promised to be free of profiling, tracking and feed selection, but I always see such initiatives as a potential trap. Anyone remembers Brave being advertised as ethical and privacy-friendly?

I do not provide personal data in forums generally. So, you are allowed to ask whatever you want to in terms of the real person behind AstroSkipper. The answer is unfortunately no comment. Anonymity and data protection are valuable commodities, which should be cultivated, especially in this day and age. And the probability that this will change at some point approaches zero according to Cauchy's ε-δ-convergence criterion. Enough proof? And I look something like this:

thanks. fixed the UA line was missing from loader.ini

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alright it is somewhat working in reactos now

It seems Google is re-considering adding JPEG-XL support in Chromium https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1451807 On this point at least we are a step forward.

Thanks for the link! Never heard of this driver before. I use the GeForce Release 307.83 WHQL which was actually the last official driver for my NVIDIA GeForce 6200. But we don't want to go into that here, as the whole topic is off-topic. This thread is still about @roytam1's browser releases.

If GPU-Z shows the GPU Load on Windows 7 but not on Windows XP, it is most probably a driver problem. Additionally, you can try other tools as for example Process Hacker or Process Explorer which can also show the GPU load. If they all fail, it is definitely a driver problem. @we3fan! Maybe, it will comfort you a little, in my Windows XP system the GPU Load is not displayed, either. This is probably due to hardware and drivers. Presumably, there is simply no sensor for measuring the GPU Load. I have a very old graphics card installed there, an NVIDIA GeForce 6200.

Thanks, I already had GPU-Z 2.15.0 but for some reason it never shows GPU Load for me on XP. Test PC: HP laptop from 2008 XP SP3 + Win 7 SP1 Dual-boot It doesn't show GPU Load on XP SP3: It shows GPU Load on Win 7 SP1: I tested other GPU-Z versions (0.8.5, 2.2.0, 2.4.0, 2.36.0, 2.40.0), but it didn't change anything, it never shows GPU Load on XP. Any ideas how to make it show GPU Load on XP?

Ok, I have managed it. You must only change the UA for general.useragent.override.google.com and not the one for userstyles.org. Thanks you very much for your help, @VistaLover!

To add to Roy's reply, Mozilla's "BugZilla" doesn't only contain "bugs" in the sense most of us we'd use that term for ; "bugzilla.mozilla.com" has many entries for purely "new features" (these days, mostly backported from Chromium) or new "executive decisions" implementation; e.g. Mozilla dropping support for NT < 6.1 was "bug" () #1130266: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1130266 When a Bugzilla "entry" is being cited in the UXP repo/changelog, this means that relevant code from that "entry" was used (as a starting point, at least) to implement a similar feature/fix a similar "bug"/etc. in UXP itself; after all, Mozilla is UXP's "upstream"... I hope this clears things fully now ...

no, they use gitea's issue tracker. dbsoft is referencing mozilla's bugzilla entries.

Do you know a way to bypass it? It's captcha. Thanks. https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js

I agree, but when one just points out to the facts, no MSFN rule against it, no rule that would forbid to name the official investors/owners. Like you wisely pointed out, we are the customers, and have the right to know who owns them. "Russia funded Facebook, Twitter investments through Kushner investor." "Institutions with close links to Kremlin": https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor "Facebook is taking that rumored $200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment group... giving Facebook a $10 billion valuation." This one is from 2009, so $200 million/ $10 billion was a lot, lot more. https://techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/facebook-takes-that-200-million-investment-from-the-russians-at-a-10-billion-valuation/

Boots on the ground is not enough, one would always want to conquer hearts and minds. It was always the weakest point of all soviet strategies, but they learn and progress in that subject, hence the enormous amounts of money they invest in propaganda since 2000, I can say much more, but I shan't, since it's defo not for MSFN. On the other hand, it's 100% related to everything digital we now have. And what we have, all media has only one, left point of view. There's simply no right media anymore.

You speak from my soul.

you may edited as much as you like, your confession stays on the server forever.

Of course not! They both check my profile every second. BTW, that post is 0.0000000001% of what you didn't see, before it got deleted after an MSFN member discovered that nest. I mean the amount of dirt they put on MSFN members before the deletion of their was simply jaw-breaking! It needs to stop.

And thank you for bringing up the good memories of safe and divided World. Surely helps anyone with a healthy mentality to stay on the course.

A group of XP users ran out of shampoo, fortunately they had a museum with a fully functional guillotina there, also compatible with their heads.

I already wrote, you tend to put lots of different/unrelated stuff in one post, and it's going downhill, when you start with good, maybe even interesting stuff and then ... caboom ... insert your favourite part with the KGB lieutenant software, literally in each and every post. I mean, I kinda want to like you ... alas.... Nevertheless, I still upvote your post, since it's a big huge progress, and thank you for the compliments! And sorry, if I was too harsh on you at times.

Hello @Mark-XP! Sorry for the late reply! I totally overviewed this. I managed to get the "Alternating row highlighting" working in MailNews right away without any problems. So what is your problem in detail? For me, it works like a charm.

To force the updated installer of DreamMail Pro 6.6.6.5 to use English instead of Chinese as the installer language, I updated again my small loader that does this when it calls up the setup program. It must be executed in the same directory in which the setup file is located with its original file name dmpro_setup6.6.6.5.exe. Here is the download link of my loader Force_En_Install_DM_Pro_6665.exe: https://www.mediafire.com/file/i5bckh1l88a42in/Force_En_Install_DM_Pro_6665.7z/file Although some virus scanners detect this file as malicious, it is just a false-positive as always. Use my loader to force an English install, only if you trust me, of course! Cheers, AstroSkipper

Our days are numbered, too. But, joking aside! Speculating about the future is one thing. But we are (probably) not clairvoyants . The actual state is decisive. It's not only about your needs or mine. The fact is, MailNews and DreamMail Pro work with many email services, unfortunately with the exception of Microsoft 365. But in old operating systems, not every new gadget has to and can work. Then the user just has to use a more up-to-date operating system. There, the choice of email clients is much greater, and presumably, one of them will work with the latest stuff.

A small update information! DreamMail Pro has been updated again and is now available in version 6.6.6.5. It is still XP compatible. Great to see ongoing development! Here is the download link: https://dl.cy-email.com/dm6/Download/dmpro_setup6.6.6.5.exe Cheers, AstroSkipper

After reading the last comments here, I rather think we have to be grateful for every developer who still supports Windows XP nowadays. So I'm glad that programs like Pegasus Mail, DreamMail Pro and MailNews exist at all and are free of charge. They are of course not comparable to the email clients available for Windows 7+, but they work. The current release Pegasus Mail 4.80 from 14.02.2022 is still XP-compatible and quite up-to-date. The beta 4.81 is unfortunately not XP-compatible anymore. I extracted the installer and did a manual install as suggested by Dutch support, but unfortunately without success. The main program winpm-32.exe is the culprit and no longer XP-compatible. I am still in contact with the support and hope that maybe this will be fixed in one of the next releases. As we all know, hope dies last. Cheers, AstroSkipper

A less-than-ideal solution for the error code 0x80072efe or 0x80096010 caused by the AU client in Windows XP If you notice the error code 0x80072efe or 0x80096010 in your system event log and you want to get rid of these errors in a fully updated Windows XP system, you have simply to turn off Automatic Updates in AU applet located in control panel. The reasons for these errors are different and described in detail in another post of mine: Cheers, AstroSkipper

An experimental solution for the error code 0x80072F78 while accessing the WU/MU website If on the WU/MU website the error code 0x80072F78 appears, turn off your firewall temporarily. If MU is working now, add the program "wuauClt.exe" into the exception list of your firewall and turn your firewall back on. In any case, ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy must not be blocked by your firewall. Same for Internet Explorer, of course. This is rather an experimental solution. In a lot of cases, this tip had helped users to solve the error code 0x80072F78. Try it if you are affected! Maybe it works for you. Cheers! AstroSkipper

All options of the Automatic Updates (AU) applet are greyed out In Windows XP the configuration of Automatic Updates is done by an applet from Control Panel. In some cases, when you open this AU applet, all of the configuration options may be greyed out and inaccessible for the user. Very often this happens due to any of following reasons: Either you're not logged on as Administrator, or Automatic Updates Policy is enabled which can be caused for example by using WSUS + WUMT method or by individual changes to AU time intervall settings. To recover access to these options you have to delete a few keys and to change some settings in your registry. One of them has been set by using WSUS + WUMT method: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate But there are a few more keys and settings in your registry causing this behavior. I recommend to backup the registry first for safety reasons. If you are not familiar with registry keys, or you do not dare to delete or to change them, you can apply the following reg file which deletes all responsible keys and changes settings automatically. Here is the download link of FixAUOptionsGreyedOut reg file: https://www.mediafire.com/file/uqt1r3d2mz5r30x/FixAUOptionsGreyedOut.7z/file If you want to know which keys and settings are affected, have a look inside the reg file! Kind regards, AstroSkipper

Microsoft Knowledge Base (MKB) and their KB articles For getting information and solving problems in Windows XP, Microsoft Knowledge Base had been an important source for a long time. But unfortunately most KB articles relating to Windows XP were deleted by Microsoft on their servers some years ago. Now we need other sources to get these KB articles. One method is to use a Wayback Machine like archive.org. Here is the link: https://web.archive.org/ Insert the original link of a KB article and in a lot of cases it was already archived in the past. But there are other sources too. Here is the best alternative: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_KB_Archive And this is an offline database with more than 200000 KB articles: https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftKnowledgeBaseArchive200000Articles Good luck in searching KB articles, AstroSkipper

You're absolutely right. My fault. I've already corrected that. Of course I didn't mean AU service but simply AU. Sorry for misleading!