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I deleted the default download links pointing to .NET Frameworks installer files higher than 4.0 inside WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6 and then enabled their download. No errors anymore. After the download of all updates for .NET Frameworks, I additionally removed all downloaded updates for higher versions than 4.0 just before the iso image was created. This measure significantly reduces the overal size. Personally, I do not really use anymore Microsoft Office but I assume that the dowload of Office updates will also work in the same way as it does for Windows XP updates. I mention this as Office 2007 was actually the topic here.

To be sure that WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6 really works I ran it a second time and activated some more options as, for example, the download of Windows Service Packs. Works. Only if you enable .NET Frameworks, the downloads can't be done as some links don't match anymore. The log file shows the code 404 in the end. So, some scripts would have to be updated regarding download links for .NET Frameworks and maybe for more. But generally, WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6 works great with a few modifications, even in 2024.

From my personal experience, they can be brought back in Vista, even after updates applied.

Windows 7 and above had Securom drivers removed, disabled SafeDisc-protected classic PC games and the such. Replaced with newer DRM tech. https://www.pcgamer.com/security-update-disables-safedisc-games-in-windows-vista-7-and-8/

The wmp11-windowsxp-x86-DE-DE.exe file is of course the German version and must be replaced by the desired language version. And yes, they can be downloaded from other sources and easily inserted before the iso image is created. If the user enables the programme option "Include C++ Runtime Libraries and .Net Frameworks", the download script should also be paused before the iso image is created just to remove tons of .Net Frameworks 4.5, 4.6, 4.7. and 4.8 files which are no longer work under Windows XP. I have found a way to make it even easier, faster and, above all, more convenient. You can set exclusions in WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6. To do this, you must insert the following strings in the ExcludeList-dotnet-x86.txt and ExcludeList-dotnet-x64.txt files in the exclude folder: ndp45- ndp46- ndp47- ndp48- Doing so, the download of files containing these strings will be skipped. And in order not to miss the right moment to press the pause button when adding the missing updates, you can add the following command in line 3 of the CreateISOImage.cmd file in the cmd folder: echo The script has paused. Now, you can manually add all updates whose download has failed. When done, press a key to continue! pause Cheers, AstroSkipper

Yep. And thanks! Reviving, modifying and fixing programmes that no longer work properly is one of my favorite things to do. Just for clarification. The Wget option --no-check-certificate has nothing to do with the download option "Verify downloads updates" in the main programme window. In my first download logs generated by WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6, I noticed some errors related to certificate checks when connecting to servers. The Wget option --no-check-certificate is meant to not check these server certificates. The programme option "Verify downloads updates" on the other hand, switches on or off the signature verification of downloaded files by the Sysinternals programme Sigcheck. This is the full list of files that can no longer be downloaded by WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6 for Windows XP: The wmp11-windowsxp-x86-DE-DE.exe file is of course the German version and must be replaced by the desired language version. And yes, they can be downloaded from other sources and easily inserted before the iso image is created. If the user enables the programme option "Include C++ Runtime Libraries and .Net Frameworks", the download script should also be paused before the iso image is created just to remove tons of .Net Frameworks 4.5, 4.6, 4.7. and 4.8 files which are no longer work under Windows XP.

You asked about Securom, specifically, Windows 8 has known troubles with Securom drivers, it treats them as exploits, hence the fact I suggested Vista.

Hi, I just get this nice HP Omen laptop from summer 2016, HP OMEN 15-ax009ng. Quality is not bad, but for example the Lenovo's W550s quality is better. It has an Intel Core i7-6700HQ cpu with Skylake chipset Intel HM170 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/90584/mobile-intel-hm170-chipset/specifications.html 16GB ram. Until now, It runs win10 bit64. There, all works. The graphikcard is an nVidia GeForce GTX 960M. Lan is Realtek 8168 and the sound is also from Realtek. No Whitelist as far as I know. For all this devices exist drivers for XP SP3. But it will be hard work. No install of XP is possible, even not in "Standard PC" mode without any acpi. But it has CSM. I put a working XP harddisk into it and I can see the desktop. But then appears a message: lsass.exe cant configure a device correct, Bsod. The same in Safe mode, with VGA, I try all. So I think, that this error is not acpi related. It belongs to a setting of an unknown device other where in Bios, and this device starts also in non acpi mode and in Safe Mode via F8. Because it has a Realtek Lan chip, I think, that I can setup a Debug session. But from my last experiance with HP notebooks this does not help. We will see, Dietmar EDIT: Just now I have an idea: I will make an XP on another compi, with all the drivers for this notebook Omen.

@kin003 You have not been banned from posting anywhere. When Vista was released is irrelevant to the topic concerned, and the off-topic posts have now been removed. Please continue the conversation if you wish, but do not return to this subject.

@Cixert Another idea I have is to pause the script directly (very important!!!) after the download of the wsusscn2.cab file to replace it by an older version of this file. I would do that with the pause command inside the script. Doing so, this could reduce the download of unwanted files and maybe offer links that no longer exist in the most recent wsusscn2.cab file which has been automatically downloaded by the script. However, this is only a theory. I haven't tested it yet.

If something doesn't support MSAA, it won't support CSAA either.

Not really, MSAA 8x and SGSSAA look better and more vram available on most series 900 gpus is more useful for dual-booting Windows 7 and playing newer titles.

This is a great find. Original wget in WSUS 9.2.6 is only 236 KiB, this seems to be a faulty file. Downloading wget 1.19.4 x86 from wget GNU it is 3804 KiB. https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ After copying wget to the bin folder and trying to get XP updates the new thing was that in addition to the updates listed for Windows XP in Downloading/validating update 1 of 1... This has managed to download several previous files that previously gave the "failed" error. Now only 2 files give the failed error: -wmp11-windowsxp-x86-ES-ES.exe -WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe As well as Silverlight. I have found that the trick to include them in the ISO is to download them from another source and paste them into the WSUS Offline Update folders: wXP -esn -glb after the moment when the message "Downloading/validating update 1 of 1..." appears At that moment we press pause and paste the files. If they are pasted before they disappear. The trick does not work with "KB968930" in XP64. It has not been necessary to modify the DownloadUpdates.cmd file in line 206 for wget to work correctly, I have not seen any change if the "verify downloads updates" option is disabled. The pity is that wget has not been able to solve the problem with downloads for Office 2003 and 2007. The problem here is that errors similar to this one appear dozens of times in XP: The system cannot find the file D:\DOCUME~1\User\CONFIG~1\Temp\OfficeUpdateCabExeIdsAndLocations.txt. Cannot find D:\DOCUME~1\User\CONFIG~1\Temp\OfficeUpdateAndFileIds.txt Cannot find D:\DOCUME~1\User\CONFIG~1\Temp\OfficeUpdateCabExeIdsAndLocat ions.txt Cannot find D:\DOCUME~1\User\CONFIG~1\Temp\UpdateTableURL-ofc-glb.csv FINDSTR: Cannot open D:\DOCUME~1\User\CONFIG~1\Temp\DynamicDownloadLinks-ofc-glb.txt While on Windows 7 and 10 WSUS downloads 800 updates that are not related to Office.

Overall agree, but 900 series lack CSAA, which is a must have for old games.

I think that your best bet is to settle for a compromise config of some sorts, like an X79 motherboard with a higher-end Ivy Bridge Xeon (12-core is the fastest one that's available, I think) and a Geforce 900 series or 700 series gpu, or even a regular Haswell (B85 chipset) or Sandy/Ivy bridge (any chipset) quadcore if cpu perofrmance is not that desired, these configs will let you run XP. Otherwise most AM4 configs will support Windows 7 (Can't vouch for all of them since I haven't been keeping up with things that much the last several years, but I had an MSI 320-chipset board for a few years as my main computer running Windows 7 with a Ryzen 1600X and all seemed well). AM4 configs go up to something as good as Ryzen 5800X3D, which is still enough for anything.

After deleting all certificates in the folder Certs and updating the certificate cacert.pem, all certificates will be generated by ProxHTTPSProxy once again. That means my certificate chi.uk2.net.crt was updated 2 days ago. It has a validity from 28.07.2024 to 28.07.2034.

WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6 does not do anything good from scratch under Windows XP in these days. So, I modified the DownloadUpdates.cmd file in line 206 located in the sub folder cmd where I added an additional option to the downloader wget.exe: set DLDR_PATH=..\bin\wget.exe --no-check-certificate Furthermore, I replaced the wget.exe file by the last XP-compatible version 1.19.4. Then, I configured WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6 to use ProxHTTPSProxy to avoid any possible connection problems, especially certificate related. But one can also try to download all updates without it, of course. And I inserted the last XP-compatible version Sigcheck 2.30 to avoid any verification problems although I didn't enable the option "Verify downloaded updates". And what shall I say? WSUS Offline Update 9.2.6 still works under Windows XP even today. Of course, only if such modifications were done I listed above. Here is my log generated after a successful download of German Windows XP updates under the OS Windows XP : TBH, I did all that here to show that even today these updates can be downloaded under Windows XP. Personally, I do not need to download those updates anymore as I already did it in 2014, 2019 and 2022. And I archived all installed updates I got from Windows Update from the very first including all POSReady updates. Cheers, AstroSkipper

First of all, the most recent version is MyPal 68.14.3b. So, why do you want to install an older one? Regarding the updating of Mypal 68, there is no updater. You simply copy all new files over the old ones, or you create a new programme folder. Via the profile manager, you can call up your old profile, or you can create a fresh one. In any case, all has to be done manually. Personally, I usually edit my profile.ini file manually to my needs. If you create a fresh profile, you can copy, for example, your bookmarks file from your old profile to the new one. The same applies to other important files so that your data is not lost.

Securom was removed even in Vista with updates since it's officially considered to be an exploit and unsafe. So, I'd suggest to run your old games on un-patched Vista, not 7/8. For that purpose buy a PC made in up to the year 2012. And a GTX Titan 6GB card (or GTX780). If you are you going to run a 32bit Vista, then all 2013 Haswell/Skylake/Kabylake* systems would do just fine, too. *Skylake/Kabylake would need a PS/2 port for an easy install.

Or have I overlooked something?