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In theory, it should work, it's a proxy, so they say. "Comodo TrustConnect is a secure Internet proxy service that creates an encrypted session" https://help.comodo.com/topic-72-1-451-4790-TrustConnect-Overview.html?af=1171 But yes, we need an XP guinea pig, the first week is free, who will agree? @XPerceniol, @Milkinis, @msfntor https://www.comodo.com/trustconnect/index.html

I think Comodo TrustConnect is indeed a VPN service. Here is a quotation from their website: As you already said, it is a paid service. You will get only a short trial period free of charge. Unfortunately, they are keeping logs. Thus, when using this service, you are not really anonymous. And you have to install the TAP-Win32 Adapter. Here is a quotation from your linked pdf document: I don't like this TAP-Win32 Adapter. I had a lot of problems with it in the past. But anyway! Any choices targeting Windows XP are of course welcome. And we can't be that picky in Windows XP in these days due to the gradual extinction of alternatives. Fortunately, I still have a few paid services that still work on Windows XP.

I've found their docs in PDF format. "TrustConnect is successfully tested on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and Mac Os. X. It supports mobile devices like iPod/iPhone as well." https://accounts.comodo.com/docs/trustconnect/Comodo TrustConnect FAQ.pdf

All is good. I didn't consider your post off-topic. But such VPN implementions are simply too old and probably won't work in these days. The VPN protocols have changed completely on most servers and are no longer XP-compatible in most cases. Of course, the proof is in the pudding. Someone could test it.

@AstroSkipper, you're absolutely right, the VPN discussion belongs in another thread, therefore I'll post the following questions there. I just thought since it's embedded in the Comodo Internet Security 5.9 package, it's still related.

Comodo Internet Security 5.9, which despite following the security industry naming convention for paid suites is actually the name of Comodo's free suite, now supports the company's TrustConnect VPN service. TrustConnect uses 128-bit encryption to provide addition Wi-Fi protection Source article: https://ethicalhacking.do.am/news/comodo_adds_vpn_attacks_competitors/2011-12-22-257 I wonder, how good is that VPN?

Thanks for letting us know! But we didn't see your topic. Could you just restore it from the famous MSFN keylogger? Anyways, it's nowhere near the scary WebP, I'm pretty sure - most of us have Webrtc axed by default.

I'm just trying to do what xper and Dave told us to do, meaning - use the official accounts. that's it.

I would take such compatibility statements with a grain of salt. Someone could test this first. There are many such statements. But very often they are simply wrong in terms of Windows XP. It should be first checked in any case.

Comodo Internet Security 5.9 is from 2011/2012. So, it is very old. I doubt that these old VPN implementations still work at all today in Windows XP. VPN in Windows XP is a very specialised topic and has become very problematic.

@XPerceniol I personally would urgently recommend to ignore such inofficial threads. This kind of "status update" is anything but informative and helpful. There is only amateurish conjecture and, as one could read very clearly in the past, rather nonsense and more than that was spread in this thread. The posters there are not aware of server problems and are not even able to check a server for availability via different services that exist en masse on the internet. Such threads are not alternatives and are more for disinformation and confusion, the germ of misleading rumours.

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Thanks! So we are basally back to square one.

Introduction: As the title implies, this post serves as a guide for anyone potentially seeking to install and use Vista on the Intel Ivy Bridge platform. I felt there was a need to create this guide, because although getting full driver support for Vista under Ivy Bridge IS possible, it requires you to use certain motherboard(s) from the Sandy Bridge era to get USB 3.0 driver support for Vista. Intel HD 4000 Graphics drivers are also not so easy to obtain for Vista, so a link to them has been provided below. Choosing the right motherboard: With Ivy Bridge, Intel dropped Windows Vista (and XP) support from its USB 3.0 drivers, rendering XP/Vista support for the Ivy chipset incomplete. To work around this, you will need to find a motherboard from the Sandy Bridge era that supports Sandy AND Ivy Bridge CPUs. Almost all Sandy Bridge motherboards, except those with the Q65, Q67 or B65 chipsets, will support Ivy Bridge CPUs through a BIOS upgrade. A notable example of such a motherboard is the Asus P8Z68-V LX. This motherboard in particular has Asmedia USB 3.0 controllers, and Asmedia has excellent driver support for Windows Vista. Gigabyte also offers a number of boards that include third-party USB 3.0 chipsets, which support Vista. Be aware that you might have to purchase (or borrow from a friend/relative) a Sandy Bridge CPU to boot up your system for the first time if you are building from scratch, as the original BIOS version for these boards does not support the use of Ivy Bridge CPUs and will not allow you to boot the machine with an Ivy Bridge CPU without first updating your BIOS. For Ivy Bridge-E processors, the X79 chipset is fully supported on Windows Vista and you may choose any motherboard you like (the BIOS update situation still applies). If you do not care about or need USB 3.0, then you may choose any Ivy Bridge motherboard you like. Chipset drivers for Ivy Bridge do support Vista and can be downloaded here. I personally use the ASUS P8B75-M motherboard with Windows Vista Ultimate, and I find it to work well (Vista simply uses its generic USB 2.0 drivers for the USB 3.0 ports). Finding Intel HD 4000 Graphics drivers: You can download the Intel HD 4000 Graphics drivers here: 32 bit - 64 bit For some reason, Intel decided initially to not support Windows Vista with its HD 4000 graphics chipsets. However, it appears that they later decided to add in Windows Vista support, evidently via backporting Windows 7 drivers, since this installer claims that the drivers are for Windows 7 but doesn't mention Vista specifically. Despite this, the drivers work just fine in Windows Vista. I have studied the driver setup information (.inf) files and found that both desktop and mobile HD 4000 graphics chipsets are supported, so this driver should be able to be used with any Ivy Bridge graphics chipset under Windows Vista. That's it! No additional special steps are required, and you may install and use Vista normally with full driver support on the Ivy Bridge platform (arguably the best platform for XP/Vista). I hope this guide helped you!

I don't think that disk management/diskpart will allow you to shrink that partition. Personally I would use directly a hex/disk editor, but of course it isn't advisable if you are not familiar with one or you don't want to waste some time learning how to use one. In case you are interested, since you are also running XP[1], I would suggest you good ol' Tiny Hexer, optionally with my MBR view script: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=8734 Your mission, should you accept it , is to change four bytes in the partition table (second entry): 976771071=FF57383A should become 721614847=FFF7022B so, actually, three bytes. jaclaz [1] it should work just fine in Windows 7, but if I recall correctly Windows 7 has a mechanism to protect the MBR so - again if I recall correctly - the disk needs to be put offline (or maybe it was the PBR that had this protection? )

...(but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth

Right! This is a well-known problem that many users have already reported. Apart from that, the TAP-Win32 Adapter driver was officially discontinued for Windows XP years ago. The last version targeting Windows XP was v9.9.2_3. And it becomes particularly tricky when several such adapters have to be installed in the same system. I have already installed OpenVPN 2.5.4, a special, unofficial version for Windows XP, which contains the tap_v9.9.2_20220123_for_XP, a patched version of the TAP-Win32 Adapter v9.9.2. Thus, I try to avoid installing any further TAP-Win32 Adapters.

Same here, including occasional bluescreens caused by the driver.

I cannot say "why" you have that situation, but you have a hole between sdb1 and sdb2. Please follow me. sdb1 starts on sector 2048 (right) it is 67149824 sectors in size which is evenly divisible by 8 (as the device has a physical sector of 4096 bytes it is 8 x 512 bytes or 8 logical sectors), disk management/diskpart normally creates "rounded to megabyte" partitions and 32788x1024x1024/512=.67149824 so this is also "right". sdb2 starts on 67167765 but, (and this is "queer") before it you have 2048+67149824=67151872 so WHAT is this hole of 67167765-67151872=15893 sectors? sdb2 is a an extended partition, the unused sectors for the extended partition would anyway normally be - again - 2048m so everything would remain alignedm but sdb2 has an odd number of sectors, 310423995, which make no sense to me, unless this extended has been aligned to the cylinder (I just checked it is, it virtually starts at CHS 4181/0/1 and end - like the logical volume inside it - at CHS 23503/254/63). Also, sdb5 is the actual logical volume inside extended, but it starts at 67167828 and 67167828-67167765=63 which is the "old" offset. So, it seems to me like you used the "new" Windows 7 partitioning for just the first partition and then you used XP (or another "old" convention tool) to create the extended and the logical volume in it. jaclaz

Good to know we are in good hands. The game is what it is.

If you include layers.prefer-opengl in Mypal, V-sync will work. Test https://www.testufo.com/stutter#demo=smooth

I'm on vaccation and server sudenly vent down. Don't forget we are working on site for free. Show some respect. Thank you

Sorry to hear that. It's such a time waste. Every day, same s***, it just doesn't end. Days turn into months, months into years and you start to wonder what's the point. At least during school there's some decent time off. Onto another thing, my phone's power button suddenly almost stopped working. Before I got out of the car after I got home, I went to turn off the Bluetooth, it was still normal, then 2 hours later I could barely wake it up. Not sure what now, may have to start looking for a new one. Hoped I would get some more years out of it. Even if I manage to take it apart somehow, no way I'm putting it back together successfully. Sigh, should probably at least adb pull data partition. Edit: False alarm, the button started working, so a temporary (software) glitch? Very strange.

I couldn't find any status messsges on Facebook. It rather seems to be a dead account. Last official messages are from 2019 as far as I could see.

That "alternative" is only for those who are banned on MSFN, you aren't banned yet.

Folks, someone knows how to disable the bloody freaking qr code? The flags are removed, I tried already.

Extensions, plenty of them. You can even pretend you're on win10 with its default set of fonts. Enjoy.

I recall there was something about Mypal 68 and executing Web Assembly code...ud2 instruction was encountered and that threw crash dialog. There are legitimate uses of that instruction and a crash dialog (or kernel panic if you're in Linux kernel) are not expected (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7268352/linux-kernel-module-to-check-memory-integrity/7268558#7268558). And another one could happen when forcing OpenGL compositing, which AFAIK Mozilla never intended to be used on Windows in the first place, but works in some browsers with glitches. Not exactly performant either, but with it, you can have video in a web browser without screen tearing, which I find to be an unusual phenomenon on Windows XP. I did notice at the later point D3D9 compositing works as well as with the old Firefox versions and roytam1's forks, just needs to be turned on manually in about:config.

Hard to tell remotely, though crashing in vcruntime140.dll sounds really odd, this library has the most basic C-runtime functions. Maybe look into generating crash dump for someone to analyze? This sounds highly specific case to me...

Somehow this place, https://www.researchgate.net is broken: cloudfare verification stops it, here and in roytam1's build, where I'm replicating this post in case there are different options (I will blank out the one that doesnt' correspond, and accept @Dave-H o r other moderator ruling about it. Basically, if I have the exact download pdf/doc address, no problem. If I have to go through the interface, cloudfare (surprise, surprise) complicates things the way it does. I tried different suaos, and using firefox 115.0 almost does it in vanilla, but not quite. Thanks.