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Add --disable-translate flag to the .ini file and try . This junk is also not needed --disable-glsl-translator , disable too , just in case.

There you go , problems with the russian repack again! I've noticed this pattern in their behaviour , seems quite obsessive how they stuff everything with their language, even though it wasn't even developed by them . Have you tried the flag --disable-translate ?

I have tried mostly these two betas (shown below) , and I removed the telemetry by myself . Why ? They have less chinese junk. If you care to read , I'll explain . Do you think I have tons of spare time ? No , I don't and there are two reasons . First , I do not trust Russians and/or any Eastern block countries , including Chinese (but not limited to) , yes this my choice and my right (no need to argue on that , please). And , as I said earlier , I do not have much time or maybe I was a bit lazy and tried the russian repack first , but I soon noticed they didn't remove the most important telemetry blocks , like the chinese DNS (that I discovered) , it is still NOT removed , I do not know what is the previous user talking about , it is still there, in their repack. Read the 1st post from the top. https://msfn.org/board/topic/182304-extreme-explorer-360-chromium-78-86-general-discussion/page/22/ Second reason , I like to do things myself , when I have enough time, so I did it. And I think I wrote earlier , I created a program to start it in something like sandbox mode with lots of chrome features disabled, right at the start . 13.0.1106.0 (sorry , lost the link to it) and 13.0.1032.0 . The one below should be the official chinese link. Proceed with caution ! For God's sake , do not use the installer , unpack it with any popular (free) unpacker and make a portable version yourself ! http://down.360safe.com/cse/360cse_13.0.1032.0.exe P.S. I think some 360 users may find this website to be of interest . No warez there . There are two versions inside of the archive (mega link) - 11 and 12. I did not try any files from there myself and I do not know if russians have something to do with it ! You've been warned ! https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2019/05/360-extreme-chrome-browser.html

Update notification! I have revised my article "My essential tools for solving problems in Windows XP — Part 2 — File extractors and packers". 7-Zip has been updated to the version 24.08. And some files in the package UniExtract2 2.0.0 RC 4 Nightly has been updated on 06.07.2024, too. Cheers, AstroSkipper

There is a further Windows GUI tool called InnoExtractor which also contains innounp 1.72 and is worth to mention here. Of course, it is compatible with Windows XP (and most probably also with Windows Vista, at least it is listed to be compatible with Vista). Here is the homepage of InnoExtractor: http://www.havysoft.cl/innoextractor.html

Hi Mina, InnoUnpacker 1.9.4 works on XP: https://www.rathlev-home.de/tools/prog-e.html#unpack [ Executable programs as zip archive (1.99 MB) ] https://www.rathlev-home.de/tools/download/innounpacker.zip]

Didn't tried 3.8.9 yet, but so far the 3.8 series seem to be worst update for me, Ever since you reimplemented the taskbar it indeed got faster and explorer is crashing less, But now there are many new issues which I've reported some of them and was ignored or said that they're not going to be changed back but didn't get an explanation as for why, Current issues I'm having on daily basis: Taskbar won't always show app's previews when you hover over their icons, to solve that I need to restart explorer. Desktop peek button sometimes won't work, to solve that I need to restart explorer. Some app's previews can look funny . All of the app icons' UI elements moved to the upper area and the answer I've got when I've asked why was something about "Chorme moved icons up" but as long as the reimplemented taskbar not was made with chorme-related stuff, I don't see how it relates, so why ALL of the apps got these UI changes too? I don't care about chorme, I'm talking about any other app aside from Chrome . One of the main annoying bugs that alongside the rest driving me insane: very often when I will press on some apps or folder icons that have an open window/s, they won't shows their preview nor launch their window at all, Sometimes pressing right click and then left click on them fix it, but most of the times when that random issue happened I need to once again restart explorer. All of these issues appered at 3.8.x versions and I've reported some of them since the start of 3.8 and didn't got much of reply, please fix them or I will be forced to move back to 3.7 and stick to it till StartIsBack for win12 will be a thing :0.

... This is a generic Windows error produced when one tries to run a Windows executable which has a sub system version value inside its PE Header higher than the host OS the executable currently resides in; e.g., file "cpu-z_2.11-en.exe" has a value of "6.1": meaning launch will proceed on Win7 (SP1) and higher; thus, when that .EXE is double-clicked on NT 5.x (XP and its servers) and on NT 6.0 (Vista and its server) it will generate the error mentioned; however, this error doesn't tell the whole story on its own; you can try to lower the sub system version value (with special PE Header tools ) to match your current OS and then try anew; sometimes, you may be surprised ... Still, in this particular case it's the version of the InnoSetup (IS) script used to package the installer that is the real obstacle on Win < 7 (as already mentioned here and here ) ; when you can't successfully run the installer even after patching its PE Header, you may try to extract its payload instead (not needed, obviously, in the case of CPU-Z, since the author already provides zipped distributions ) ... Mind you, the most popular InnoSetup extracting tools (innounp.exe, innoextract.exe and GUIs containing them, like UniExtract2) don't (yet) support IS script versions 6.1+ : https://sourceforge.net/p/innounp/discussion/353235/thread/ef0e2c5c41/ Luckily, thanks to a compatriot of AstroSkipper's called Jürgen Rathlev, such a tool has recently been made available ; the CLI is called "innounp-unicode" and it's currently at version 1.72: https://github.com/jrathlev/InnoUnpacker-Windows-GUI/raw/master/innounp-1/bin/innounp-172.zip One can use the standalone CLI or use it inside a dedicated GUI, InnoUnpacker-WinGUI-v1.9.5 : https://www.rathlev-home.de/index-e.html?home-e.html#unpack Tip: If you're already a UniExtract2 user (like myself ), you can substitute the old v0.50 of innounp.exe contained inside it with the CLI of "innounp-unicode" ... Disclaimer: ALL tests were done on a Vista SP2 x86 machine, nowhere near an XP box at the moment ; test for yourself and report back...

Very unsharp fonts on this screenshot. Blurry fonts.

Lemon is light yellow, all colours are now lighter. I wrote in the comment, and I emphasised on that, you probably failed to read. https://msfn.org/board/topic/186460-msfn-ui-gets-brighter-and-larger-with-each-update-hence-more-blurry-and-hard-to-read/?do=findComment&comment=1272714

When brightness increases, it adds blurriness, colours become washed out. It's not real blurriness per se.

Told ya , use betas . They are far more stable. I have no crashes. Oh , and I see you want to be on the safe side and not use the russian loader , in that case you can add any flag to the shortcut , as simple as that.

@NoNameNeeded , still it doesn't explain why I have everything in English (even when I'm on the repack version) . I tried it , just out of curiosity , all is in English , except the gugle.ru search (which they forced , but I quickly fixed it). BTW , I think youtube may use your IP to detect the location and set the language , no ? Perhaps it has something to do with the IP ? Also , as I wrote before , I do not have this line "accept languages" at all . Because of the flag , perhaps.

I've tried several betas of 13 version , the first betas , to be precise. I'm sorry, I don't have the links anymore , it was almost a year ago , in September of 2020 , but I'm sure I didn't use the russian warez website, linked here by the user who "strongly" suggests using it. Oh , and I launch with the flag --disable-translate , perhaps this helps.

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... From the linked homepage : ... thus innounpacker-setup.exe (of v1.9.5) won't run on XP ; hence the suggestion by its author, echoed by @we3fan here ; however, the German author has not yet updated the application to v1.9.5 (on purpose? ), as the zipped distribution is still on v1.9.4 ; since the CLI tool is XP-compatible (thanks @AstroSkipper ), one can use it (on XP) to unpack innounpacker-setup.exe and ascertain whether the main GUI executable, InnoUnpack.exe, of latest v1.9.5, can launch under XP SP3 x86 ... Name and surname corrected in original post ... Thanks for that, too; a freeware in its basic functions, a donationware if you want "advanced" features ; of notable mention the ability of the (third-party-hosted) installer to perform a "portable" installation ...

BTW, I have successfully replaced the old version innounp 0.50 from the most recent beta UniExtract 2.0.0 RC4 Nightly (06.07.2024) by innounp 1.72. Works fine here.

Yep! And InnoUnpacker 1.9.4 already contains the most recent version innounp 1.72.

@genieautravail, Sure! I will prepare a special build not requiring SSE2 for older CPUs and let you know when it’s ready to test. I understand SSE2 can really help with the crypto performance, so most likely the main build will require SSE2. Regards Jose

You’re right: You can download the 32bit stunnel installers from https://github.com/josealf/stunnel-win32/ Please use the latest version published. Right now is Stunnel version 5.73 with OpenSSL 3.0.15

Okay, I'll work on returning weather to the left if possible. On secondary segments, we can arrange a support session. Write to startisback@gmail.com.

Thanks for reporting! The tool innounp 1.72 from my compatriot Jürgen Rathlev is definitely XP-compatible and works fine here. No need to extract the file cpu-z_2.11-en.exe under Windows 7 or higher.

I'm from another country (GB), the brightness did increase. Areas where it was black are now dark grey. And I'm on Windows 8.1, unlike the OP. It has nothing to do with OS.

In all fairness, it was better like it was before, and the little image/badge is blurry only because of the increased brightness, but the image itself is the same. Try to watch a video with text, pause it, add some brightness, see it becomes more blurry,

A lot more time passes…. Please know that my 32-bit binaries for stunnel now support windows XP. I also upgraded openssl to the latest LTS version (3.0.15 when this was posted). I found this thread due to the fact that traffic was being redirected from msfn.org to my github page… You should have opened on issue and it may have been faster 🙂 Regards Josealf

Today, I have installed Legacy Update 1.9 on my Windows XP Professional SP3 installation where POSReady updates have never been applied. It's just a pure Windows XP 32-bit. Due to the lack of POSReady updates, I decided to test Legacy Update in this XP installation. It was installed in seconds and calling up this service worked without any problems. It even offered to install root certificates and POSReady updates, which I didn't want and had to untick during the install process, though. The Windows Update search was performed in the Internet Explorer without any settings or actions by the user, and only few minutes later, it was done. Great service! I can definitely recommend it, especially to those who haven't use the POSReady hack. BTW, the result was the same I got in 2014 as all WU/MU updates have been installed at that time. I just wanted to be sure that no updates are missing.

Solution for the error code 0x80244004 while accessing the WU/MU website using ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy If getting error code 0x80244004 while accessing the WU/MU website using ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy, one should check or perform step 11 of my complete guide for restoring IE's access to WU/MU website using ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy in Windows XP. It has to be verified the existence of the patched file wuaueng.dll in the corresponding folders I mentioned in my guide. Be aware of SFC which tries to restore an original, old version of this file! After patching, restart your computer and check again! Now, the WU/MU website should finally work if there are of course no other errors. Cheers, AstroSkipper

My post "4.2. My essential tools for solving problems in Windows XP — Part 2 — File extractors and packers" containg an article about 7-Zip has been updated now. Thanks again to @UCyborg for the hint!