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Thanks for your genuine concern ; I live in Northern Greece, in a region that was spared by that enormous physical disaster, whose magnitude was never before seen in European territories (but I do remember the floods in Germany a year or more (?) ago); Thessaly (and, especially, Magnesia), the most fertile Greek region, has suffered the most acute blow of Daniel, but the mourning sentiment is shared by the whole Greek nation (the floods only accentuated the sense of sorrow already caused by the August wildfires, which practically completely charred the last virgin forests of Dadia, in the Evros region, close to the Turkish borders... The infrastructure in Thessaly will take from 3-5 years to be restored, the estimated cost from the wildfires+floods is in the €2bn region ... Comforting to know , since, according to the media here, Saola was pretty intense Glad to hear that you both, @VistaLover and @roytam1, are not directly affected. But, one thing is clear in any case. All those who seriously claimed that the climate changes on planet Earth are of natural origin have finally been proven wrong, especially in the last few years. And the unteachable can no longer be helped anyway.

Thanx for the info! So I finally decided to try Catxsp, because Supermium is not portable, and guess what, I can't even start 117 or any later builds of 116. The last that worked is the early build of 116 Beta (it's now deleted from the site). Could you please check on Windows 7 and simple 8.0, thank you!

There's still no proper dark theme for win7, even after 14 years, simply too few modders available, and looks like the interest in that OS is too low. I doubt someone is interested. And I think win32 is more about Vista.

Did you report the issue to MS?

I assume you applied the nosandbox?

Thanks for your genuine concern ; I live in Northern Greece, in a region that was spared by that enormous physical disaster, whose magnitude was never before seen in European territories (but I do remember the floods in Germany a year or more (?) ago); Thessaly (and, especially, Magnesia), the most fertile Greek region, has suffered the most acute blow of Daniel, but the mourning sentiment is shared by the whole Greek nation (the floods only accentuated the sense of sorrow already caused by the August wildfires, which practically completely charred the last virgin forests of Dadia, in the Evros region, close to the Turkish borders... The infrastructure in Thessaly will take from 3-5 years to be restored, the estimated cost from the wildfires+floods is in the €2bn region ... Comforting to know , since, according to the media here, Saola was pretty intense ...

yeah normally it will cause memory leak, but that is a reference-counting pointer/object so it will delete itself if there is no more variable referencing it. thanks for your words. since there is no flooding or power outage in the place I live so it is fine here.

i heard about the massive rainfalls and deluges in greece and now in Hong Kong: hope you both are passably fine anyway @roytam1 and @VistaLover!

Enjoy. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-permanently-disable-windows-defender-windows-10

Sordum kills Defender Control updates due to conflict with Microsoft Defender "According to Sordum, users have been reporting problems and errors in their systems whereby they are unable to open or re-enable Microsoft Defender" https://www.neowin.net/news/sordum-kills-defender-control-updates-due-to-conflict-with-microsoft-defender/

Or just to force you to make an account (a "free" account), so they can track you more easily! Here's an example of such site. https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/

Yes, the limitations there are not pleasant, I remember! But what about trial versions? Maybe they have some promotions? You only need to make one ISO.

I'm afraid not, because it would require backporting the whole shared memory API from Windows 10 build 1809 to windows 8.1. Better/easier/legally safer to build chromium from scratch (source), which is open, so anyone can try.

To clarify a few things: I haven't tested anything on Windows 7, only on 8.1, and from what I know the latest Opera (tested yesterday) works fine on Windows 8.1. As I had already discussed with @D.Draker Opera is probably just lagging behind in adjusting changes to the browser. In this particular case it's good for us, as we can use a browser, which is based on the latest Chrome right now. Chrome and Chromium themselves do not work on Windows 8.1 anymore since the release of v115. The last version of Google Chrome to work on Windows 8.1 was 114. Chromium based alternatives are: Supermium, CatsXP, Vivaldi and Opera (there might be others too but I tested these). Supermium isn't updated as frequently as the others are but is the closest to resemble the Chromium browser optically. I would recommend any active 8.1 user to switch to Firefox instead, as long as they don't break compatibility with 8.1. Even Windows Vista ran Firefox 115 ESR, although it ended with 52. I am optimistic to say the least but I wouldn't bet my money on Mozilla not adding any dll or function from Windows 10+ that will eventually break 8.1 support anytime soon. Best scenario would be if 8.1 made it till the release of the next ESR. That would at least guarentee another year of promised security updates. However, the next ESR will be v128 and that version is set to release in May-July 2024. Support could crack wayy earlier. If that happens, use 115 ESR instead.

That dll is needed for what? Never used it and Firefox 119 works on 8.1

Maybe this is why they don't know what to do with the influx of "refugees"?

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230909-3219d2d-uxp-73a7ce1e57-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20230909-3219d2d-uxp-73a7ce1e57-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-20230909-3219d2d-uxp-73a7ce1e57-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-20230909-d849524bd-uxp-73a7ce1e57-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230909-d849524bd-uxp-73a7ce1e57-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230909-d849524bd-uxp-73a7ce1e57-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20230909-d849524bd-uxp-73a7ce1e57-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - [DOM] Follow-up: fix refcounting in FilePickerParent. (57020c1f59) 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: - Revert "[DOM] Follow-up: fix refcounting in FilePickerParent." (adbf75c56c) - Revert "[DOM] Make IORunnable::mFilePickerParent into a RefPtr." (a3e6917887) - pref: separated pref for long names of css animation/transition properties. (73a7ce1e57) 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.

If you want a folder to open like when you run explorer, showing the tree view, then, as I've said above, you need to change the default action for opening folders from Open to Explore.

I'm glad too to read your status reports (but doleful for all the victims anyway). Not denying it at all, imo the climate change is only the one side of the coin: in the german "Ahr valley" (where the flood desaster happened 2 years ago, which @VistaLoverreferred to above) similar catastrophes have happened ever again in former times: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Hochwasserereignisse_an_der_Ahr Let me please indicate to the row with date "30. May 1602" for instance: 16 buildings were destroyed, 9 people drowned! Now, what would you expect in casualties and damage if you multiply that former population with 10 or 20, add all the modern attendent infrastructure and simultaneously diminish the majority of natural flooding areas? However, let's finish this off-topic - good to know the two protagonists of this thread are fine!

You can disable acrylic menus in shell with ImmersiveMenus=0 registry entry, but Dark Magic can't do that yet.

This story is hard to believe, they will never allow you to do it in a corporate environment, I linked to a simple solution, without third party software of unknown origins in your other topic.

A bit, maybe, not much though, if we are to assume you run very basic 59-60HZ screens. Those who have troubles with high temps on a multi setup, they usually run 120HZ monitors and up.

Here is a guide how to make Firefox 118 beta 2 work on 8.0: 1. Install Explorer Suite (which includes CFF Explorer): https://ntcore.com/?page_id=388 2. Download the exe installer from this site: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/118.0b2/win64/en-US/Firefox Setup 118.0b2.exe (the only version that I tested, but that should work on FF 116/117 too) 3. Extract it via 7-Zip 4. Open all exe files located in core folder using CFF Explorer 5. In Optional Header change MajorOperatingSystemVersion and MajorSubsystemVersion from A to 6 (and repeat that to all exe files that have set those aforementioned versions as A) 6. Save them 7. Copy this dll file to Firefox folder 8. Open Firefox, and voila, you got working Firefox 118 beta 2 api-ms-win-shcore-scaling-l1-1-1.dll

I'd say that is "successful" but it may lead to another problem, "memory leaking". thats why I finally reverted all of them. mozilla's fix is doing this, but underlying infrastructure (i.e. IPDL) is needed to be updated in order to apply that fix. and of course those changes are too huge for me to handle. not really, every page that allows opening file dialog for uploading/processing will be affected by that "fix". reverting those changes actually fixes the problem that fix brings to us.

a fixed quikview.exe for working in newer version of windows: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/935423430642249768/1152845956124004412/quikview.7z even works on win10 x64. EDIT: with an updated exe parser (vsexe2.dll) as well, but it is better to replace all files. EDIT2: fixed PE32+ import listing. EDIT3: fixed 64bit display. EDIT4: fixed some import/export table parsing bugs. EDIT5: better mouse interactions(add mouse wheel support, show scrolled contents when dragging scrollbar box), add delay import listing. EDIT6: fix import listing from delphi executables. EDIT7: disable wow64 fs redirection, add version info section

Since youtube doesn't offer HEVC videos, could you give a couple of examples of such websites with H2655/x265 videos? thanks.

Because it doesn't need to, I think you all confuse VP9 and AV1 with HEVC, they are not HEVC or H265. A good example would be YT, that serves VP9 and AV1, some vids are still H264.

Did you try to open the browser console to see what happens?

To annoy you, so you would purchase a "premium" account, simple.

While the modern ntlite may not be the most convenient tool, people write it still can do this in Windows 10 LTSC 2019 but it's paid, not sure if it fits you. I can't give the link to the post because that site is known to store carcked software. Basically they wrote you need to go to: Components / Windows Apps / System Apps / Uncheck Windows Defender, hit Apply. Then need to go to Settings / Windows Defender / Open Windows Defender and Disable, hit Apply. There were multiple confirmations it worked in Windows 10 LTSC 2019.

Because the operators of GitHub no longer tick quite right.

Unfortunately, a new issue. This happens in the latest release of New Moon 28 (32-bit) (2023-08-10) when visiting the website userstyles.org: Any ideas? Cheers, AstroSkipper

Court? Seriously? They are judge, jury and executioner, all in one package. Anyways, lets hope he's all well and safe.

He also wrote the court's decision is not due until next Friday. So, he can't be cut off from internet yet.

Yes, because it can't allocate memory properly, hence what I wrote before. Since 115/116 they removed the old portions of the code, so you would need to build a new chrome from scratch.

Besides, more and more software will rely on that function, you wouldn't want to use only chrome 117 on your 8.1 OS, would you? Right, you would want games, photoshop, etc. Even now, for many major software 1803 is the cut-off minimum, so 1809 is the sweet point right now. But like I said earlier, Chrome is open source, so people are welcome to prove me wrong, and I'd be glad to see it!

After all this time, does AC Valhalla run on Windows 8.1? On one hand, you need directx12 and windows 8.1 is only compatible with directx11.1. On another, perhaps a fix exists? Please let me know.

I tried on a simple Window8 (without the "1"), on an old laptop from 2012, it works good. Not sure there were drastic changes between 114 and 115.

I've just checked the Malwarebytes installation on the XP side of my netbook, and there the component package is version 1.0.365! That was installed from exactly the same installation file, so I guess it's nothing to do with that. Looks like that installation must have updated itself at some point, and the other installation didn't for some reason.

According to an answer in Malwarebytes' Support Forum, the component package updates are updates to the Kernel in how the software integrates with signatures and associated detections, heuristics and other constructs. Have a look here: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/287375-what-does-the-component-package-do/ If I were you, I would perform a fresh reinstall of Malwarebytes. Or a repair install. And backup your exclusions first! The component package version should be 1.0.365.

Although Malwarebytes announced lifetime support as a nice present for Windows XP users, I came across this thread in their forum: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/295844-legacy-3512522-sudden-red-triangle-your-updates-are-not-current I really hope this doesn't concern Windows XP. At the moment, updating of Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 works. Yesterday, the update package version was 1.0.29410 which was updated to 1.0.29412 a little later. Today, it was updated to 1.0.29420. Here is a screenshot: So we can see Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 is still supported under Windows XP. Whether the lifetime support is really true, we will have to wait and see. One could also ask what lifetime is actually supposed to mean here. As long as the company "Malwarebytes" lives? Or the user?

I've also seen some screenshots of Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1.2522 in the MBAM forum, and all show a component package version of 1.0.365.