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@Multibooter Just a little tip. If you want to mention and reach someone from this forum, then for example @AstroSkipper is not enough, it should look like this: @AstroSkipper. Otherwise it would only be pure coincidence if your enquiry was noticed.

I have tested the drivers for Windows 2003. For some unknown reason, Windows 2003 drivers for GPT hard drives have a 2TiB size limit. Until we figure out why, please do not use these drivers. If you use a single partition on the hard drive it will appear to use all the available space, but if you have partitions that start above 2 TiB these will be marked as unformatted. If a partition starts before the 2 TiB limit it will be visible, but if it ends after the 2 TiB limit it will write with errors. I have also retested all my versions with Paragon GPT Loader. Below is a summary results. I have to point out that the newest version available for Windows XP contains the 8.0.1.0 driver with important fixes!!! The 10.5.0.95 driver by some mistake only works up to 2 TiB. This was offered before the latest Paragon Partition Manager 15 release, so Paragon Partition Manager 15 with 8.0.1.0 driver is the newest official version of Paragon GPT Loader, with important fixes in the Windows registry for FAT32 users. Blue screens for me occur on FAT32 boot drives in the versions indicated with these asterisks. *(1) Blue screen "gpt_loader.sys" on FAT32 boot drives if a GPT disk is connected, if no GPT disk is connected Windows XP boots normally. I think it worked in the past by modifying the registry as indicated below, but now I get a blue screen even after modifying the registry. *(2) Blue screen 0x7B on FAT32 boot drives if gptloader.sys registry key is not modified by gpt_lo~1.sys Install Paragon GPT loader, but before rebooting run regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\gpt_loader change the value of the key ImagePath from system32\DRIVERS\gpt_loader.sys to system32\DRIVERS\GPT_LO~1.SYS and then reboot, problem solved. RELEASED VERSIONS Paragon GPT Loader 8.0.1.0 original --> Not tested Paragon GPT Loader 10.5.0.95 original --> Not tested FORK VERSIONS Paragon GPT Loader 8.0.1.2 fork --> Blue screen = gpt_loader.sys *(1) --> Works +2TiB = NO --> Driver version = 8.0.1.2 (gpt_loader.sys) --> Digital signature date 2010-12-13 Paragon GPT Loader 11.0.0.175 fork --> Blue screen = NO --> Works +2TiB = NO --> Driver version = 11.0.0.175 (gptmount.sys) --> Digital signature date 2016-09-23 HFS VERSIONS Paragon HFS for Win 10.5.0.95 (2015-06-22) --> Blue Screen = 0x7B *(2) --> Working +2TiB = NO --> Driver version = 10.5.0.95 (gpt_loader.sys) --> Digital signature date 2015-06-22 Paragon HFS for Win 11.0.0.175 --> Not Windows XP compatible Seagate Paragon HFS4WIN --> Not Windows XP compatible SUITE VERSIONS Paragon Hard Disk Manager 11 Suite "Paid" (2011-04-12) --> Blue Screen = 0x7B *(2) --> Working +2TiB = YES --> Driver version = 8.0.1.0 (gpt_loader.sys) --> Digital signature date 2011-02-16 Paragon Partition Manager 15 Professional x86 v10.1.25.779 (2015-09-18) --> Blue screen = NO* --> Works +2TiB = YES --> Driver version = 8.0.1.0 (gpt_loader.sys) --> Digital signature date 2011-02-16 *Contains "install_xp.reg" to fix blue screen on FAT32 boot drives. FIXED PATCHES Paragon GPT Loader 8.0.1.0 patch 1 (gptpatch1) Paragon GPT Loader 8.0.1.0 patch 2 (gptpatch2) -->These are fixes for the 8.0.1.0 driver Is it necessary to apply them on FAT32 or are for NTFS errors? It doesn't seem like it, considering that these patches were merged into the 8.0.1.2 fork and this one doesn't work for me. In any case, I don't understand the explanation given for applying the patches What is the gpt_loader.sys.bak file created, the good one or the old one? When applying the two patches, these two files have been created in \WINDOWS\system32\drivers gpt_loader.sys.bak gpt_loader.sys.bak2 Considering that my current version installed with Paragon Partition Manager 15 works without problems, I would prefer to revert the patch application. Read the instructions carefully and consider whether you need to apply patches. They can improve performance and fix a problem. http://hardwarefetish.com/777-paragon-gpt-loader-3 http://hardwarefetish.com/612-gpt_loader-sys-revisited-file-read-problem http://hardwarefetish.com/524-paragon-gpt_loadersys-bsod-analysis-and-fix

@Cixert So sorry that I haven't been able to do my tests with different hardware configurations yet. I am now using version 8.0.1.0 of the GPT driver, but as stated in my previous post, a 250GB GPT disk works fine, but a 3TB GPT disk is unreadable by XP. This is when connected via an eSATA add-in card, or USB, with the disk in an external caddy/enclosure, so I must now test with a direct connection to the motherboard. Hopefully I will be able to do that tomorrow and let you know the result.

FYI Debian-based still prepares and compiles 32-bit Firefox for CPUs that don't even support SSE, let alone SSE2. Here running latest Firefox ESR 128.6 stable on 26 year old dual boot Windows 98 hardware (800 MHz single core Athlon, BIOS date 1999, 384 MB RAM). Mozilla stopped supporting non-SSE2 at something like FF 52. Last official FF support for Windows 98 was something like v2. Some here are running FF 52 in Windows ME (maybe 98) with KernelEX but most modern sites are broken on this old release. FF configured here with modified prefs.js, Vulpes and NoScript. Other than slow, no issues accessing modern sites like email and banking. Reasonably new Linux kernel, system uses 29 MB RAM for text boot, 64 MB for graphic boot (OpenBox). The rest is left for FF. Of course runs much faster on a newer 1.8 GHz (query 2004 era) single core Athlon (without SSE2), my quad-boot system (Win98, Win2000, POSReady2009, Devuan) but it's fun to push older hardware. In 2024 my almost 20 year old Windows XP Pro install needed re-activation following hardware change, Microsoft's automated phoneline re-activation still works. Using homemade thermal paste from pencil graphite and petroleum jelly. Tested for one year on old hardware with temperature monitoring, works great, cooler than old paste before hardware refurbish. Use steel nail file to grind down pencil graphite (no sandpaper or pencil wood contamination). Mix with petroleum jelly using toothpick or cotton swab, heavy on the graphite, to spreadable consistency. Apply evenly to hardware before mating. Ensure temperature monitoring. Use at own risk.

i held out for as long as i possible could but this new microsoft that's arisen over the past few years is not the one i knew and grew up on with windows 11 they have taking what once was a spectacular os and made it into a flashy os just for looks

Your employer/IT should completely disable your ability to log into Teams. All of the discussions within Teams are technically the property of your employer and the employee cannot request they be deleted.

Disappointing that you see it that way. 2016/2021 ??? This is 2025 and you and I both use a browser from 2024. Web browsers evolve MUCH FASTER than anything Darwin ever cited! Let's play a little game, shall we? I want to do everything that I can to get you to that 10k "rep". Let's you and I reply back and forth CONSTANTLY so that your "friends" can easily find their daily allotment of "likes". I want to see how fast we can get you to 10k. All of MSFN has witnessed how this little scheme got you from 2k to nearly 7k in less than a year. It would be one thing if USEFUL posts were being liked, but when *everything* is being liked no matter how *USELESS*, some days going back *YEARS*, it really does seem to me to be rather POINTLESS. But it isn't against Forum Rules. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." Or is the Forum Rule that we agree to our terms in a PM versus a Post. New to this Rep Farm, so I'm learning the rules as I go. It's been going on for about a year or so WITH NO END IN SIGHT. At least it feels like it's been that long. If not, then the 2k to nearly 7k is even MORE impressive. So I might as well JOIN, eh?

Me either...

... FWIW, password-protecting the uploaded archive only takes care of downloading the archive from MediaFire; in the event one's locally installed security solution still flags some of the files contained inside the then extracted 7z archive, it's still a "nuisance", as those files have to be manually put inside an exception list ... Let us NOT revisit the whole "K" discussion (beaten to death already), I still respect the views voiced by members here ; but let's consider that in places of the world where XP is still used (e.g. in ex-USSR states), "K" (v2018 Free?) might be also installed as a local Security Suite ; the best approach (apart from recreating the culprit files) would be to send those unjustly flagged files to Kaspersky Lab themselves, so, hopefully, they could lift their block on them: https://support.kaspersky.com/common/error/other/1870 https://opentip.kaspersky.com/ @Multibooter, would you consider this? Kind regards. PS: I suppose you're still being able to fetch definition updates after the Sep2024 US ban?

Only 2 of 62 scanners flag the cacert_Updater_Fixed_Recreated.7z file as malicious. That's a perfect result. One of these two scanners is Kaspersky. So again, forget about Kaspersky! It's trash just like Jiangmin.

Your old version of April 2022 gets flagged by my ancient version of Kaspersky, signature of 8Nov2024, as follows: detected: Trojan program Trojan.Win32.Gamaredon.gj file: E:\Downloads_5\cacert_Updater_Fixed_Recreated.7z//cacert_Updater.exe No riskware is detected. virustotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/245eb2147210581ce8965cd1337d1137b48da190e5e5e2dd6627d8eb803dd563 Software which gets flagged has a much shorter life expectancy. A programming job may be considered complete after having ensured that it will not get flagged.

In April of 2022, I already recreated the cacert_Updater.exe due to false positives generated by some scanners. Read more about it here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183352-proxhttpsproxy-and-httpsproxy-in-windows-xp-for-future-use/?do=findComment&comment=1217288 Strangely, the archive in this post has not been flagged as malicious by MediaFire although it contains the same cacert_Updater.exe file.

The four files are now password protected and stops MediaFire from spreading further untruths. That's quite enough for me.

The files were uploaded to MediaFire by me more than two years ago. Only in the last few months they have been flagged as malicious by MediaFire. They are probably using some new scanner that works just as well as Kaspersky.

Why do you always, and by always I mean *really always*, try to undermine me? Are you jealous? I'm trying to be friends here! I quoted the guy's post, if you don't see well, I'm not the one to blame. I found articles from 2021, but I'm not gonna post them here since it's off-topic, and I've lost interest in communicating on this matter, if you wish to go on, make a dedicated topic, tag me, and I'll *maybe* join. EDIT: Adieu.

One thing is if you wish it die, Ben. Another, why not stock up on XP compatible parts? They could be found for free. Not that actually it's any of my business, just sayin'. VM requires a strong CPU with virtualisation, and it has lots of shortcomings, not only 3D Acceleration.

Just for clarification, the cacert_Updater.exe is not a root certificate updater for the Windows OS. It only updates the cacert.pem certificate bundle inside the ProxHTTPSProxy folder, exclusively the root certificates of ProxHTTPSProxy itself, so to speak. This is a quotation from my main article: That means it does not do the same as the Cert_Updater_v1.6.exe file. For more information, read the section 5.1 of my main article in the first post of this thread.

Then, Kaspersky is as bad as the virus scanner which MediaFire is using. These files are all clean and virus-free. The cacert_Updater.exe file has been fixed by me as the original version from @heinoganda stopped working. It is totally clean. And the cmdow.exe file is a DOS file from a trusted source and checked by me. Unfortunately, some scanners don't like it but it is totally clean, too. So, forget about Kaspersky!

Of course, you can download these files from the original source provided by @cmalex: https://mega.nz/folder/68dj2YTY#As2w31IO4Smr7gy6p1ciSg

These two files, for example, both created by @cmalex, are incorrectly classified as malicious by MediaFire's virus scanner although they are virus-free: https://www.mediafire.com/file/pdy1cd8insmdq7g/ProxyMII_220717.7z/file https://www.mediafire.com/file/yb0xjos28l110xx/ProxyMII_230813.7z/file

I was able to finally get it after creating a mediafire account and through URL manipulation. Hello! You are the very first reporting problems with the download of files I hosted on MediaFire. In any case, all my files are clean and free of malware. If MediaFire really reports something like this, it is very wrong. I have now checked my MediaFire account, and indeed, some of my files uploaded years ago are suddenly and wrongly flagged as malicious. MediaFire seems to use a new virus scanner, and it must be very bad. Therefore, all flagged files will be replaced by me with archives protected by a password to free MediaFire from such false positives. The password will be provided in the section 11. Downloads of my main article in the first post of this thread. Four archives are incorrectly classified as malicious by MediaFire's virus scanner. Of course, all my uploaded files are virus-free. I have now re-uploaded these files with password protection so that MediaFire doesn't continue to make such nonsense. As always, the download links with the corresponding password will be provided in the section 11. Downloads of my main article in the first post of this thread. Cheers, AstroSkipper

It's not me, it's the guy from the github issue link, and I'm busy, you'll have to do without me. I listen to this marvellous vinyl and scroll down a huge list of my next ex-girlfriends, I don't use Ung. https://msfn.org/board/topic/5150-what-are-you-listening-to/page/120/#findComment-1276706

Windows 7 and Vista Extended Kernels are no longer active, at least here. To me, it seems you shan't get answers. Try look them up at github, but beware of fakes!

@668, @NotHereToPlayGames's just jealous, welcome to the forum!

C'mon, I kinda liked the deep, rich red colour he chose. You probably, and most likely, don't have enough sRGB on your monitor to understand and fully appreciate the colour shades.

How about that? "Get notification Blocked attempted request to: https://support.9oo91e.qjz9zk/chrome/?p=e_awsnap_rl" https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/104#issuecomment-256545702

"Okay, so now I can replicate one notification: Go to https://mcdonalds.fi/ Get notification Blocked attempted request to: http://www.95tat1c.qjz9zk/generate_204 This notification comes only with HTTPS connection. I'm not logged into Google, so it can be replicated in incognito mode too. This is what I see when I go to that page (due to the invalid certificate): Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.mcdonalds.fi (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID Back to safety HIDE ADVANCED This server could not prove that it is www.mcdonalds.fi; its security certificate is from a248.e.akamai.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. Proceed to www.mcdonalds.fi (unsafe)" Link

For starters, there are rules, and in contrast to you and another member starting with "V", I have to follow them. I could care less whether it was Shift, Capslock, or your stuck finger, you didn't have to write a poem about that. Broadcasting to odd links has been known for decades, including the ungoogled Chromium fork. The question is, whether it's the case with your edits of Monkey! "Now I got a new notification: Blocked attempted request to: http://www.95tat1c.qjz9zk/generate_204 Immediately after opening https://translate.google.com. I was logged in in Google (through web). What I'm wondering is that, is this normal behaviour? Do you guys too get these notifications regularly?" https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/104#issuecomment-254244492

I do, and you'd better not touch the veteran wolf of the internet. With your rep of 3.2K you're supposed to be at least somewhat *tech savvy*, and know how to use WinHex, no? Well, despite your usual disrespectful talk, I do. Now use a tutorial on how to get to this. Need help? Get back to me.

With modern browsers, they are "taught" to work with odd links, so like I said, it can and will try to connect. I think, there's still a discussion can be found on how they (ISP and whatnot) spot Ungoogled chrome, it broadcasts rubbish to the net because the developer simply broke Google links, like you, but didn't clean them up.

You can't, but the browser isn't "familiar" with randomly broken links, so it still tries to go there, whereas it was coded to properly deal with the address of 0.0.0.0. Meaning - attempt nothing when it "sees" the zeroes, since it's been a standard for many decades.

Of course it does work. Fast: "0.0.0.0 is not an address of anything". Slow: "127.0.0.1 is the loopback Internet protocol (IP) address also referred to as the “localhost.” The address is used to establish an IP connection to the same machine or computer being used by the end-user." And redirection can't be faster. All because. "You can't send data to 0.0.0.0 or actively open a TCP connection to 0.0.0.0 because there is nothing there; 0.0.0.0 isn't even an unreachable or non routable address" All quotes from here: https://superuser.com/questions/949428/whats-the-difference-between-127-0-0-1-and-0-0-0-0

I meant insert https://0.0.0.0 into Google lytics, not home page, And home page, simply edit it out completely, the whole string with the quotes, what's stopping you?

Then listen to D'Darker's raving wisdom and replace with https://0.0.0.0

If you run several extensions, it obviously will make sense to remake them with zeroes.

Well, then sorry for the assumption, but 90's aren't around anymore, are they? And 0000 consumes nothing, it's a general recommendation since the day Vista came out.

This is what you saw how the not-so-clever russian 360chrome repackers did it, and aped it, but it's wrong and silly, the browser will still broadcast rubbish and/or try to connect to it wasting the precious CPU cycles. You need to replace e.src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js"; with "0.0.0.0" Like they do it in the HOST file. Or with the loop "127.0.0.0", but it's SLOWER. @Sampei.Nihira, this is only for @NotHereToPlayGames, so don't read, you just don't and never appreciated advice from me.

It sounds very racist! You, yes you, without any shred of shame, discussed, and made a gazillion of topics on how to remove the telemetry from the Chinese-made Extreme Explorer 360! So, how discussing how to break/modify Tampermonkey's telemetry is any different? Oh, those famous double standards!

I'm not an expert, but it seems hypocritical of China to complain about America banning Tiktok, when the Chinese Communist Party bans Google and Meta from being used by Chinese netizens. So from my point of view, as an exhausted, tired, cynical, nearly apathetic American, is I'd rather NOT have Chinese companies running their biased algorithms (in order to destabilize my country) on platforms used by Americans. In fact, I'd rather we just ban EVERYTHING Chinese altogether, including all their spies crossing our borders illegally. The entire reason of existence for the CCP is to control and censor information to make themselves look better and everybody else look worse. So no, I don't think we should allow some Chinese companies FREEDOM to espouse their anti-American and anti-Western views inside our own countries. We aren't allowed to post anti-Chinese new stories and articles inside China, are we? Just because we live in a democracy, doesn't mean our flow of information has to be for sale to the highest bidder, there still has to be some morals and principles related to freedom of speech. And letting some communists, and America-haters run the algorithms that control what stories and news articles are trending, doesn't bode well for the future of a stable, democratic society. These are the same Chinese rulers who tell Hollywood which scenes and dialogue are to be erased from movies before they can be seen in China. These are the same Chinese rulers who teach their school children to hate Japanese people and to hate Americans for existing, and because they have some arrogant, "century of humiliation" grievances in their deluded minds. For example, they erased the statue of Liberty from the most recent Spider-man film. What a bunch of cowards, is all I can say. Why don't we just make movies, software, and hardware for Americans and like-minded democratic allies? In my opinion we should COMPLETELY de-couple from China, and Russia. But that's just my two cents. I'll just put it even more simply and bluntly..... they (Russia and China) hate the Western world, so I dislike them back..... they have no business in our open societies. All they want to do is undermine our cultures and destroy us. So, I'm going to vote with my wallet, and not buy anything Chinese or Russian. I don't support Chinese and Russian fascism.