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Unfortunately, my time and resources are limited. Researching and writing such articles is very time-consuming. Any help, any testing of programs, any posting of experiences already made regarding such security programs for Windows XP is therefore always welcome.

You might test that in these days again!

@roytam1 eBay must have recently changed their layout. Pages with items lead now to a 100% CPU utilisation on my single core machine, even with uBO. The actual causer seems to be the item images and in some cases also the item description. Weeks ago, it was working fine. Now, surfing eBay with New Moon 28 is no fun anymore. BTW, same issue in Mypal 68.

If you call me Mr. OT Police, then I regret to inform you at this point that you are the Mr. OT Master.

I have made a small change in the All about: custom button to reduce the size of the tooltip popup by half. Now it looks like this: Is it better that way?

You're welcome.

I sincerely hope that constantly posting offtopic isn't a form of senility. In the last few pages, one doesn't get anything about the actual topic here. @roytam1 must have a very thick skin.

@feodor2 I am not sure if you aware of this. The logger of uBlock Origin 1.60 does not work in Mypal 68.14.4b when running single-process mode. Neither in the officially last compatible version 1.46 of uBlock Origin. In multiprocess mode, the logger is running fine.

Your assumption is unfortunately wrong. If you had read my article carefully, you would have noticed that the All about: custom button is not a fork of an extension but of an old custom button. When I create or fork custom buttons, then a well-functioning toolbar button is the main target. So, using the All about: custom button means using the toolbar button. That's why it is called custom button and not extension. I could implement such functionality you requested but I am not interested in. Personally, I am a fan of toolbar buttons with multiple and meaningful functions.

That basically kind of makes my point. MSFN will not teach you how to debloat XP, Vista, 7, 10, 11... People that truly want to learn that don't land here at MSFN. Sorry, they just don't. (At least I certainly don't see it!) Most of us forget that XP was also a very HEAVY operating system with a lot of "bloat". We just had 20 years to get it to our liking and only want to spend 20 minutes to get our next OS "to our liking".

So you promise you will never spread lies about me ever again?

Why my name is involved here, then?

I have no idea what you're talking about, and you refuse to even introduce yourself.

No, in English they use Capslock or Shift to capitalise words.

I'm sorry, who are you? Remind me. What do you do? Are you a developer? Do you write browsers or the such?

The early internet that we knew was a big library where everyone shared info and content. The modern internet is a shopping centre, and browsers money makers machines. Just fire the start page and it is already making money from you....do a search, visit a page, everything.... and remember.,,.... if you computer goes slow or run out of memory... its cause you need to buy new hardware for internet browsing... Adblocking is just the top of the big iceberg...

Excuse me, but this is extremely naive point. FSB is KGB that change nickname to drop the heat. Its like in GTA when you have 6 star chase and you drive in paint shop to change paint color and engine number. NPC in game obey the script. But you are alive human been, and not primitive scripted NPC bot, you should understand simple things, right? FSB\KGB is the most prominent terroristic organization in the world. It stands behind 90% percent of organized world terrorism, from ISIS, to Al-Quaida, Irish National Liberation Army, Taliban, HAMAS. All of this is made possible just cause KGB\FSB. Chekists came to power at the end of 1917, then never give up power since that year. They still in charge of Kremlin. Security Services of Democratic countries exist to prevent crime and terrorism. FSB\KGB is a major terroristic organization of the world - it exist to create chaos, corruprion, wars and terrorism across the world. P.S. Here is a good read about FSB one "special operation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Up_Russia

Don't underestimate the competence of the French intelligence services: DGSE, DGSI, and the DST.

I think Durov already started talking, it's just we don't see the full picture because of the nature of the investigation, they tell us about 000.1%, and now he needs to avoid drinking russian tea.

Today’s Russian papers on Pavel Durov’s detention in Paris: * “If Telegram crashes, how will [our army] fight?" Courtesy and copyright of BBC.UK. (translated papers with English subt.). Interesting! https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1827954149629337600/vid/avc1/1280x720/YeHbAsETO6SsYZLr.mp4

I completely agree. Image how difficult will be for somebody, who has never used Pentium I with Windows 98, to understand how fast Windows was back in the day in a hardware that was 100 times slower than the one we have nowadays. Now... ¿how is this possible? or ¿what is happening? Possible solution: ¿Time to get back to SERVICE PACKS? It feels like a BETA OS Since Windows 10 1607. Windows as a Service isn't the path to follow, MS. This is completely no sense: https://winclassic.net/thread/1652/list-metro-ified-components-windows Current Windows status can be only understood in one way: nowadays hardware, even the cheapest laptop, comes with tons of RAM and disk space to waste... It's a bit sad how all has changed after w8.1.... we are in the last days of computers. Sometimes I think if MS is only testing Windows on a highend PC, even if this is true, the OS feels like a beta; slow gui, lag... tons of background processes... It was one day an (almost) perfect Operating System and not this kind of beta "Service"

I downloaded this once more, eager to see if it would actually work, testing with vlc 0.9.8a and 1.0.5. For 0.9.8a, I renames the file to shell 32.vlc and had to hexedit it in libvlccore.dll. For version 1.0.5, I had to hexedit vlc.exe. I was amazed that they actually load and work. VLC 0.9.8a loads, the menu and dialogs work, it plays music and video, the basic controls (play, pause, fast forward, stop, volume), playlists and the menu and equalizer work. I haven't tested CD's and DVD's yet. I can't seem to get my physical CD Drive to work in NT 4.0 under Virtualbox (ISO's work), although it clearly lists options to use the CD drives in a VM. On the other hand, VLC 1.0.5 is so broken that it is almost unusable. The menu doesn't work, and consequently, the dialogs don't work. The only way to open a file for playing is by right-clicking it and selecting "Play with VLC Media player." Audio seems to play, and I don't know if there is supposed to be a visualiser or not, but if there is, it isn't there. Just a black screen. When I open a video file for testing, it insists in opening the video in a command prompt window, and it is all covered by DOS characters as it plays. The equaliser works and I'm not sure about playlists, Cd's and DVD's.

If I may, the issue you just pointed out (ordinal vs. name) is only one of the causes of the so called "DLL hell", but it cannot be underestimated how a large part of it is to be attributed to sloth and "unneeded complexity" (and in some cases plain stupidity) on behalf of the actual programmers. Some reference: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4896/The-DLL-Hell-Problems-and-Solutions Please note how this has been removed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811694.aspx but we can have it through the WayBack Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20100305054645/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811694.aspx Part of it is due to "abuse of DLL's" however. What I mean is, if you have to make 2+2 you normally have a mental table for it and you know that it makes up 4. You do not search for an algorithm capable of doing addition on integers, real, fractional, and imaginary numbers with precision up to 2^31 and 25 decimal places. What a number of programmers abuse is the use of such external, often overcomplicated (because they are meant for some non-trivial scope) code when there is in the programming language already the provisions to make a smaller, simpler, more suitable and faster algorithm. The use of some "programming studios" is another culprit, when examining a program for dependencies (let's say with Dependency Walker) you will find how there are often completely unneeded dependencies to functions that also exist in another .dll which is actually needed or dependencies created "automagically" by the CASE tool that have no real meaning/use. What is IMHO absurd is that the good MS guys (who have had "full control" on them since the very beginning) in all these years did not manage to keep at least the so-called "known" DLL's and the small bunch of VCC redistributables under control and their way out (supposed "solution" in their perverted minds) is the total folly that Windows Side-by-Side (WinSxS) "assemblies" represents (including their crazy folder/file names). jaclaz

I can't speak for him but for 100% compatibility two criteria must be met - Function Names and their Ordinals. The latter case - out of order functions, is a biggy. In the past it was common for applications and even Windows to call functions in a DLL by importing them via ordinal. So if someone recompiled a DLL without changing a single line of code but re-sorting them out of original order an incompatibility is created because the 3rd ( or whatever ) function is completely different in another version of the same DLL. Having never used it myself ( so I don't know for sure ) I would expect that this topic is an important part of the KernelEx project here at MSFN. Naturally in the former case the function "Names" implies that everything else is the same within the function ( i.e., if it has same exact name then it's still ANSI/Unicode, same arguments, etc, as its same-named predecessor ), but even this might not always be the case since there is nothing stopping some programmer from changing ( for example ) from ANSI to Unicode but leaving the NAME unchanged. Likewise a function could be completely rewritten and butchered to use a completely different prototype while keeping the NAME unchanged. These are exceedingly bad ideas but cannot be ruled out. But for the sake of argument its *assumed* that same name means same function. How was this failure vector even possible? It was considered faster and more efficient to call by ordinal, in other words cutting corners. But speed and efficiency isn't everything. IMHO consistency, stability and compatibility are. But that ship has clearly sailed!