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I'd also add that *NONE* of us MSFN XP Users have a "setup" like that BIASED video used. They opened all ports, set everything to lowest security possible, didn't NAT on LAN behind a router, you name it. They *WANTED* to be *INFECTED* and so they "configured" their XP to *BECOME* infected. By all means, DO THAT TYPE OF SETUP in 7, 8, 10, and 11 and "report your findings".

In standard (not internal developer coding) names it's either VC1 ot AVC (without the "1"). Or it's simple to confuse with AV1, then. What Are HEVC and AVC? H.265 and H.264 Video Codecs Explained HEVC = H.265 AVC = H.264 Details: https://www.tomshardware.com/reference/h264-h265-hevc-codec-definition

AV1 and VP9, both, smooth out stuff, H265 keeps more detail (8 bit), H264 is behind, trying also keep up. x265 (10 bit) is over-contrast.

Are they somehow better? For me, they look pale, washed out, bright. Probably, because of my Titan oldie (made in Jan. 2013). But then again, H264 looks fine on it, please explain.

You have to log in to view that forum. Could you summarize for those of us unwilling to do that? But even without reading the above, my theory is, Tobin trained them to hate us - how dare we presume to do anything differently than them - don't we understand they're perfect and all their decisions, including refusing to support XP/Vista, are correct? And that feeling lingers, even with Tobin out of the picture.

Nvidia driver debugging (full instructions, very rare!) Huge PDF file, 44mb. https://neowutran.ovh/qubes/articles/nvidia.pdf

Same works for Back 4 Blood: Ultimate Edition Build 14216215 (Zombie game).

No such issue for me, I noticed MSFN works better/faster with Chrome 108-111 and the such, not the latest.

That's exactly why I support the idea of MSFN, and actually the reason for all my efforts here. In my case, let Windows XP live forever or at least as long as possible.

I have no problems to post links that link to the MSFN forum itself. A very fresh example is here. https://msfn.org/board/topic/185045-supermium/?do=findComment&comment=1264614

Chrome 109 from 2022 might be too old. Works fine for me on 119.

by btarunr Apr 24th, 2024 10:38 Microsoft over late-Tuesday started distributing the KB5036980 optional update to Windows 11 users, which effectively makes the operating system adware (software that displays ads to support its author). The update gets the Windows 11 Start Menu to display ads in the "Recommended" section that suggests apps and games for you to download from the Microsoft Store, subscribe to Copilot Pro, etc. While the update is currently optional, the changes contained in it will be made part of next month's "Patch Tuesday" update. This wouldn't be the first time Microsoft is advertising software, the OEM versions of Windows 11 can be customized by PC manufacturers to pre-install bloatware, or suggest apps or services for users to buy within the Start or Apps menus. You usually uninstall the pre-installed bloatware, and dismiss recommendations. Today's update is different, in that even the Retail versions of Windows (without the bloatware) start receiving ads. Luckily, these ads are not inescapable, you can disable them. Head over to Settings > Personalization > Start, and uncheck the toggle that reads "Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more." source: https://www.techpowerup.com/321849/windows-11-now-officially-adware-as-microsoft-embeds-ads-in-the-start-menu Members' thoughts on this?

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, huh? I really doubt that was the case. It wasn't long ago another lost soul wandered to the wrong forum, though. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=31164 Firefox folks hate on Pale Moon folks, Pale Moon folks on hate New Moon folks and the Earth keeps on spinning. Nothing new. Edit: @DanR20 @roytam1 Aye, that x.com user agent override works. Weird redirects.

I don't think I'll be far from truth saying that the Copilot is just a Microsoft rebrand of ChatGPT with modified GUI. The article suggests that this so called "Notebook" is an extension to Copilot, I don't see a reason why Microsoft/OpenAI wouldn't be able to implement this feature in ChatGPT too.

... Not a coincidence, for sure , but this very same YT clip was the topic of a Pale Moon Forum thread that soon escalated to name-calling and bad-mouthing MSFN members using the New Moon browser on WinXP today ...

I don't know what exactly you are going to take my word for. But I know exactly what I'm talking about. This guy likes to write disparagingly, especially when it comes to MSFN, old operating systems and New Moon. Rudeness and negativity are the pillars of its character. Guys like this trollbat were the reason why I gave up my account in the PM forum and never posted there again. Good decision.

"The comment" looks exactly how this poor soul generally thinks, hates and writes comments about all MSFN related. It never ceases to amaze me what certain intellectual low-flyers are allowed to write there. Apart from that, the ignorant has no idea about Windows XP. And then it also wants to be a developer ...

I've seen that video before. I am unable to replicate. Granted, my XP install *never* (and I mean *NEVER*) connects to the internet *without* Proxomitron filtering/blocking those connections. Personally, I would love to see this same exact "test" be performed on 7, 8, 10, and 11. Do you really think for one second that Malwarebytes won't find similar with 7, 8, 10, and 11 "if installed the same way as the test-case XP" ???

Interesting. Unfortunately I don't see a specific answer to who owned the x.com domain, which (I assume) wasn't a big thing before Musk decided to rebrand Twitter as X (leading me to refer to the two domains collectively as Xitter.com).

... If you don't want to use a dedicated extension (and I simply find you're just being obstinate without a reason), I'll point you again to: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40574814#comment23 For a PAC script like the one below: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (shExpMatch(host, "example.com")) { return "PROXY localhost:8079"; } } go to an online base64 encoder and the result you'll get is the string: ZnVuY3Rpb24gRmluZFByb3h5Rm9yVVJMKHVybCwgaG9zdCkgewogaWYgKHNoRXhwTWF0Y2goaG9zdCwgImV4YW1wbGUuY29tIikpIHsKIHJldHVybiAiUFJPWFkgbG9jYWxob3N0OjgwNzkiOwogfQp9 Then, you should add to whatever 360 Loader/launcher you're using below cmdline parameter: --proxy-pac-url="data:application/x-javascript-config;base64,"ZnVuY3Rpb24gRmluZFByb3h5Rm9yVVJMKHVybCwgaG9zdCkgewogaWYgKHNoRXhwTWF0Y2goaG9zdCwgImV4YW1wbGUuY29tIikpIHsKIHJldHVybiAiUFJPWFkgbG9jYWxob3N0OjgwNzkiOwogfQp9 WFM: Caveats: You'll have to re-encode the PAC script and re-modify the switch whenever you add new domains; once the length of the cmdline switch gets too big for Windows Command Shell, this method will quit working... IOW: Use an extension! Addendum: I have verified myself the fact the Chinese must have done something wrong with their 360EE browser ; when you correctly configure IE (9 in my case - requires "unhealthy" syntax, i.e "file://", and NOT the "healthy" one, "file:///*") to use a locally hosted PAC file: and then instruct 360EE to "Use IE proxy", this configuration isn't applied ; OTOH, if you configure IE to use ProxyMII (FrontServer): and then instruct 360EE to "Use IE proxy", this configuration is applied (360EE uses ProxyMII - of course, for ALL secure URLs) ; in this latter case, you can avoid IE completely from acting as a MITM by configuring 360EE to use directly ProxyMII's FrontServer: and selecting this option from its Proxy Context Menu:

Wow! The Pale Moon team has to be so nasty (especially Moonbat) towards New Moon users. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=31168

... Apologies are in order , it appears to be a "mea culpa" case; I have edited my original post accordingly :

And @Anbima, IE8 is very old. I wouldn't implement a PAC file there. As @VistaLover already explained, IE8 has poor support when it comes to PAC files loading from disk. Install instead a proxy extension with PAC scripts support in 360Chrome as this browser doesn't seem to natively support it any longer. For example, this one: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proxy-switcher-and-manage/onnfghpihccifgojkpnnncpagjcdbjod, and there are others, too.

I have now integrated the proxy.pac in IE8 and it also works in IE8. In 360Chrome I have activated “use IE proxy”. But it does not work in 360Chrome. If I set a fixed proxy in IE8, this is also adopted in 360Chrome. The proxy is not used. What am I doing wrong? function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (shExpMatch(host, "*.example.com")) { return "PROXY localhost:8079"; } else { return "DIRECT"; } }

Yes, install WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

There used to be an old MyPal browser which was based on Pale Moon, but Mypal68 is based on Firefox, not Pale Moon, so you should install Firefox versions of extensions on it.

In France one can get seriously beaten up for a talk like that.

Sounds very much like your monitor is over-contrast to begin with. Try lower your contrast first, as full RGB looks amazing and shouldn't put strain on eyes.

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In the meantime, I have made various performance improvements to Thorium, on the one hand by selecting suitable flags for my hardware, and on the other hand by generally using a mobile user agent from Android with the help of the ingenious User-Agent Switcher and Manager extension. Today, I have found an additional flag to reduce the FPS when it comes to media which is --max-gum-fps=30. Here is a screenshot from MotionMark which runs now at 45fps and not 60fps.

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results Anyone already got hit by the new AI results on Google Search? Workaround: add `&udm=14` to the URL. So, I made a new entry in `$profiledirectory$\searchplugins` to add it to the search bar. (with the help of the extension `Add to Search Bar` (link). google-search-web.xml.7z

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP! * Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual. ** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions. Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20240518-12107a8cf-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20240518-12107a8cf-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: - import from UXP: PR #2514 - Don't split up happy emoji sequences (52d7e4f3) (12107a8cf)

Do you talk about their X-Launcher? In the case of the paf version from PortableApps, these entries are only written temporarily to the registry. After closing the browser, they are written back to a local reg file and then removed from the registry. So, nothing to be worried about. Unfortunately, Supermium does not run fluently on my old hardware.

Terrible, painfully slow "saving..." process, took a screengrab.

No. Maybe if you can root the phone and the kernel's USB gadget still supports USB Mass Storage mode and is configurable through files, you could access FAT32/exFAT SD card that way, if you have it. Of course, you don't get to configure that through menus. Not sure about internal storage, as this is usually just a folder on an ext4 formatted partition. There's supposed to be VFAT emulation taking place, but I'm whether this means it could just be exposed to the PC through USB is another question, I never tried and can't say I have a clue what file (if it exists) would correspond to a block device representing internal storage. As @windows2 said, you'll definitely need WMP11. Judging by Samsung Galaxy A15 I'm testing, you might have to convince Windows to configure it as MTP device. Out-of-the-box, it was detected as a camera. This is is the content of one of the folders listed through phone shell's ls command: And this is how the folder appears in Explorer: Besides default layout being centered towards working with cameras, eg. Date Taken and Picture Size columns, Camera Tasks on the left, no full path is shown in Address bar and folder names are truncated. Not good. Likewise, its appearance in My Computer and its properties: Anyway, head to Device Manager to find "the camera", open its Properties, then on Details tab, select Hardware Ids and note the first ID. You will need the part after USB\. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB, there you should find the key that corresponds to the ID noted earlier, inside that key, you should find another key (folder, if you like), if you select it, you should notice CompatibleIDs value on the right. You have to open that value and insert the following line at the beginning: USB\MS_COMP_MTP To be able to do that, you'll probably have to temporarily grant Administrators group (or your user) permissions to the key/folder containing CompatibleIDs, so right-click it->Permissions...->Add...->type Administrators->OK->tick Full Control->OK. After you're done modifying CompatibleIDs, you can remove the permissions. Now you just have to go back to Device Manager, open "the camera" and trigger driver update, so Driver tab->Update Driver...then just accept the defaults to let the wizard configure it properly. Final result:

It doesn't matter which one. When the Supermium installer is used from GitHub, it writes for each extension which is installed an entry under HKLM and HKCU -> Software -> Supermium. In the portable PAF version from PortableApps, these entries are only temporarily written into the registry and are stored locally in the programme folder when Supermium is closed as it is usual in PAF versions from PortableApps.

Feature request for SAB: Preserve application taskbar order when switching between virtual desktops. The default Windows behavior basically makes the feature unusable. There is an open source implementation for Windows 11 available. https://windhawk.net/mods/virtual-desktop-taskbar-order https://github.com/m417z/my-windhawk-mods/blob/main/mods/virtual-desktop-taskbar-order.wh.cpp

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Just add this to your unattend.xml --> oobsystem. <component name="Microsoft-Windows-SecureStartup-FilterDriver" processorArchitecture="amd64" language="neutral" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" versionScope="nonSxS"> <PreventDeviceEncryption>true</PreventDeviceEncryption> </component> If you want to keep most of the WinSxS folder than delete WinSxS.ini. Without it you black\white list WinSxS files like all other in the Remove folder.

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I noticed a huge delay, before it finally got through, when posting inf. in a post. Like it checks something or so.

Interesting! Shouldn't Iron 109 correspond to the exact same Chrome 109 version @Cixert uses? Probably his adblock (or something else) interferes with the site, then?

Notepad3 6.24.309.1 RC3 (2024-03-09) The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad3 tries to follow this principle, it’s a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most programming jobs. Features include code folding, bracket matching, automatic indentation, word auto-completion, convert character encoding between various formats (ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16), newline format conversion (between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF), and Macintosh (CR) formats), multiple undo or redo, bookmarks, and regular expression-based find and replace. Notepad3 changes and improves upon many of Notepad2 and Notepad2-mod's features. Author's site: https://www.rizonesoft.com/ Download: https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/ Changelog: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/master/Build/Changes.txt RIZONESOFT SOFTWARE If you experience issues with our software or have some suggestions, report it on: https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues Changes in version 6.24.309.1 RC3 (2024-03-09):

My essential tools for solving problems in Windows XP — Part 2 — File extractors and packers 7-zip: 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The main features of 7-Zip: - High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression - Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: APFS, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z. - For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip - Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats - Self-extracting capability for 7z format - Integration with Windows Shell - Powerful File Manager - Powerful command line version - Plugin for FAR Manager - Localizations for 87 languages The latest version 24.08 from 11.08.2024 still supports Wimdows XP. Homepage: https://www.7-zip.org/ Download link of 32 Bit version: https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2408.exe Download link of 64 Bit version: https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2408-x64.exe WinRAR: WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives. WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip). WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example. WinRAR is a trial product, meaning you have the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can be used absolutely free of charge for 40 days! Last version compatible with Windows XP is WinRAR 6.02. Higher versions don't support Windows XP anymore. Download link of 32 Bit version: https://dl.filehorse.com/win/compression-and-backup/winrar-32/wrar602.exe?st=SbzTXEEXkA-QIyqb3giTsg&e=1656381022&fn=wrar602.exe&x-clickref=1101lvURYqNr Download link of 64 Bit version: https://dl.filehorse.com/win/compression-and-backup/winrar-64/winrar-x64-602.exe?st=MBUaNQiVXmgEmCOyR9_WSg&e=1656381255&fn=winrar-x64-602.exe&x-clickref=1101lvURYwRa UniExtract2: Universal Extractor 2 is a tool to extract files from any type of archive or installer. After the release of UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 3 in 2020, a new nightly build has been uploaded last month, UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 4 Nightly (06.07.2024). Below are the download links of both versions: Link to UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 3: https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2/releases/download/v2.0.0-rc.3/UniExtractRC3.zip Link to UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 4 Nightly (06.07.2024): https://update.bioruebe.com/uniextract/files/nightly.zip innoextract: Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows extracting such installers without running the actual setup executable. innoextract currently supports installers created by Inno Setup 1.2.10 to 6.2.1 The current version of innoextract is 1.9. Download link: https://constexpr.org/innoextract/files/innoextract-1.9-windows.zip KB_Extractor: KB_Extractor is a special extractor for Microsoft updates. The last version is 1.2 from 26-06-2011. Simply drag the update you wish to extract onto the pre-saved executable, and wait for the extraction to complete. Download link: https://www.vistax64.com/attachments/kb_extractor-exe.23613/ A list of all parts of my My essential tools for solving problems in Windows XP can be found in my post of Additional Resources. Link: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183498-general-and-specific-solutions-for-problems-regarding-auwumu-in-windows-xp/?do=findComment&comment=1216513