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Yeah, but 7z should *allegedly* compress the files, no? And it looks like it simply fails.

So the last (real) kernel release was in 2022, I knew something fishy was going on, thanks for the warning!

Ok, so now it's time for specifics and evidence. I'll start with v135 ungoogled and v137 on Windows Vista SP2 x64 (update level 2017.04 - final). Let's start with what extended kernel files can be redirected locally (v2023-03-09 rev2). Most except ntdll.dll, bcrypt.dll, and kernel32.dll. Included in this version is kernel33.dll, and it is this that should be used by renaming it to kernel32.dll. Then paste that below into notepad, save it as a file with a .reg extension and add it to the registry. This turns on the ability to redirect DLLs locally. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options] "DevOverrideEnable"=dword:00000001 Just create a folder chrome.exe.local in the folder with it and copy these files. Now, using CFF Explorer, change the NtOpenKeyEx import in chrome_elf.dll to NtOpenKey (thanks to D.Draker for the hint) On some graphics cards with very old drivers supporting, for example, only DX9, the GPU sandbox may crash. In this case, create a shortcut to chrome.exe and add --disable-gpu-sandbox. In chrome://flags set "Choose ANGLE graphics" backend to D3D9, from now on the browser should work correctly without this flag. Now I'll move on to 7 SP0, in which it turns out. you need advapi32.dll from Vista's extended kernel or from Supermium 132 (it's called p_advp32.dll there) In the first case (x64 only), use CFF Explorer to replace the import from RPCRT4.dll I_RpcBindingIsServerLocal with I_RpcBindingIsClientLocal. Then open chrome.dll in HxD, for example, and search for advapi32.dll. You will find it in two places, change it to e.g. advapi33.dll and save. In the same way, of course, name the file from Vista ext kernel/Supermium. That's it, the browser should work fine. I also recommend adding this to the registry so that non-ungoogled versions don't disable MV2 extensions on their own, and so that they can be added from the Chrome Web Store. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Chromium] "ExtensionManifestV2Availability"=dword:00000002 Screen confirming disabling client hint working in one of the previous posts, this one would be too long.

Hello everyone, VT Hash Check is a software that I have been using for years and which allows you to use the VirusTotal online service in a very practical way. At the time of the scarcity of XP compatible anti-virus solutions, its usefulness is strengthened. For a more complete description of the software as well as its use, here is the link on Github: https://github.com/charonn0/vt-hash The 1.60 version released in 2017 is the last compatible with XP (and not completely). The developer uses a little known programming language, Xojo. This programming language is not very effective in compiling applications for Windows. The VT Hash Check installation folder occupies around 40 Mb of disk space, which is a lot with regard to the functionality of the software. The installation files are big because Xojo is a cross-platform App Development tool. It's like that. I have no knowledge in Xojo programming language. It was with rigor and a lot of logic that I managed to restore XP compatibility. To compile VT Hash Check, I used Xojo IDE 2015R2 which is the latest version to allow compiling projects compatible with XP. For the installer, I used Inno Setup 5.6.1. The compilation took place on a computer running under Windows 10 (Xojo IDE 2015R2 requires at least Windows 7 to be installed). Minimum configuration required: A PC Windows XP Internet connection The processor does not need to support the SSE2 instructions set, It is even possible that the SSE instructions set is not necessary also but I have no computer old enough to check it. By Restoring compatibility with XP, I probably also restored compatibility with Vista. If you use a firewall, please update the rules to allow VT Hash Check to access Internet. Finally, the software to operate needs an API key that can be obtained for free from the VirusTotal online service: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload With a free API Key, you can submit 4 requests per minute and 500 requests by day. The limit size of a file is 650 Mb. Tricks: In the 'Resources' subfolder of the installation folder, there is a list of trusted CA, DEFAULT_CA_INFO_PEM which can be updated manually. This file is the same as that used by ProxHTTPSProxyMII.. Just rename cacert.pem in DEFAULT_CA_INFO_PEM (without any extension). The method for using a proxy describe on the github page of the project doesn't works with version 1.67. With 3proxy, you must set a proxy in the settings and copy the content of the file 3proxy.pem into the file DEFAULT_CA_INFO_PEM. With ProxHTTPSProxyMII, you must set a proxy in the settings and copy a part of the content (the private key is not necessary) of the file CA.crt into the file DEFAULT_CA_INFO_PEM. Don't forget that all these files are in Linux format. Important: I do not provide any support for this software. This one is provided as it is. If you notice a bug, first check that this bug is also present with the official version of the software. If this is the case do not hesitate to contact the developer on GitHub so that he corrects the problem. If the bug is specific to my unofficial release, you can still report it in this discussion thread. But I don't promise anything! Here, and now the most important, the download links: https://files.catbox.moe/e4o1ch.zip https://anon.services/folder/fa495338-98fa-4c03-aaa3-a770f77ffb95 md5: 40f917daebe836cdd10b5702dc4ed080 sha1: 9b3ee563ca77974a54e0b91cf5c1a8d1b0f51917 sha256: 65a21aeddb36866a8a432705e7a455f4243d5b11cce2d2f501b3ac989b838857 sha512: e5cb0d88f6b76e98f90ce0942f7d7f5e6c78e71c1fe4de36c5081b1b764ea6bbb8ec2bd1cacae92872f4a43ec1b739b260709c318e16b006a10db8954aefb136 Update: Download links for the new release with the fix for the window of the settings: https://files.catbox.moe/m0auv1.zip https://anon.services/folder/c3c77749-d696-4445-9a48-f6fc2eb6dc30 md5: d11533523c21c67875a1b9d0cfc7f8fb sha1: ce1e1e85b5373a35a9592799cdb52fa503bf5f1d sha256: 3d5bd233b0e32edc8cc01104af5f3bae84e69f09fce00923cf7228533ff2397f sha512: 25408cd22a63f0c329aec7629eaa6ae6d048f50abbdfa88d3c7839f1d5139a829648852c5e0e0c60227b11c0110d82de067a372e56bac970462a9074b4a6bf5b Sincerely

Also, shell32.dll, is not needed at all? SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow replace with SHGetStockIconInfo, should be all. I wrote about it before. Basically, all others can be replaced too, but in kernel32 you would have to re-implement the function which gets the info about your locale (or extensions won't work). I could care less because I use the one and only English GB. But other languages, including the US dialect will fail to load, and you will see empty strings.

Fantastic result, I had trust in you, I wrote earlier. ntdll.dll, Why it's needed at all? NTDLL NtOpenKeyEx needs to replaced with just NtOpenKey, should be all, no?!

Mark, but this screenshot is from 344, not 347 I gave you earlier, I remembered, we had a user@UCyborg with an identical card, and it had no problems with XP. I'll try to find the driver that worked for that user. Hold on.

NtOpenKey without the "Ex" appended was enough. shell32 you mentioned and most other libraries I redirected locally from the extended kernel of March 9, 2023 (rev2). It is not possible according to what I have determined for now to redirect bcrypt.dll and ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll, which is a wrapper for Chromium 110 and 111 support does not work, probably due to lack of platform updates, however, there is also kernel33.dll in the files, which is the original kernel last modified by win32ss in December, 2022, and it works with ungoogled 135 and Chromium 137 without problems. My Vista update level is end of April 2017, no post-eol updates.

Agreed. I do the same on my home computers. I call them "Hobby Hacks". I'm not smart enough to be a "hacker", but I've always found ways to "quasi-hack" and get things to work. edit - I spent all weekend "hacking" an abandonware piece of software that had the arrow key hotkeys defined as "Left, Right, up, Down". That lowercase U bugged the sh&t out of me! Took all weekend, but I found and fixed!

I am using this library for now for personal use and temporarily. I will try to use advapi32 from SP1 Absolutely zero success, even though advapi with SP1 does not lack dependencies in SP0. BTW I forgot to mention, but in v137 the flag to disable clients hints actually worked, including on Vista. Besides, every time I use these libraries, I mention that they come from Supermium. And the fact that I use them to run other, better browsers at the moment, is just my business. As long as I don't create ready-made mods and make its libraries available with them (no, I won't do that, I will prepare simple tutorials at most)

The good news is that I've already run ungoogled 135 and the latest 137 on Vista SP2 x64 (without the 2019 platform update BTW), with some March 9, 2023 extended kernel files redirected locally. On 7 SP0 the problem at least for ungoogled 135 appeared to be with advapi32, I will also check if it can be transferred from SP1 without too much trouble, or if you will have to use the wrapper included in Supermium. I'll show the screenshots later For now I'm also talking only about x64 versions, in Vista Extended Kernel there are unfortunately only wow64 files and not for x86, in addition, mostly flawed. On 7 SP0 it should be possible to run any combination.

A very worthwhile read. I just have to wonder just how many folks will actually read it (we live in a Twitter/X/Whatever society with an attention span of only ONE sentence at a time) [Even members of MSFN will "complain" if a reply is more than three sentences]! I think I counted 28 paragraphs (give or take). And to me, you have to get all the way to paragraph 19 (67.9% into what I suspect most will classify as "TL;DR"). The Cliff Note version - 1) Google claims the goal is to reduce fingerprinting for the browser itself (Chrome, in this case) 2) MARKETERS are against the goal - MARKETING AGENCIES want fingerprinting to INCREASE (societal norm, you can never take away free cheese after your constituants are accustomed to receiving free cheese) 3) Google isn't just a "browser", they are ALSO a MARKETING AGENCY! (Google owns DoubleClick) 4) Google is clerverly playing both sides at the same time! DECREASING overall fingerprinting but at the same time allowing a BROWSER-SESSION that visits YouTube, Gmail, Fitbit, Waze, DoubleClick in that same session has the "data" from each other!

Brave https://browserleaks.com/javascript

Make a dedicated topic to help you diagnose the trouble.

@Mark-XP, did my 347 driver suggestion help? Need further assistance?

Blaukovitch inserts a unique identifier to its ported Chrome. What for? What Russia structures Blaukovitch really works for? Blaukovitch had removed the standard X-Client-Data filed on HTML response header form and changed to F**KYOUGOOGLE X-Client-Data, what it is. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20200205-google-chrome-x-client-data/ More info on the matter. "When a browser wishes to fetch a web page from a server, it sends an HTTP request for that page, a request that contains a set of headers, which are key-value pairs separated by colons. These headers describe data relevant to the request. For example, sending the header accept: text/html tells the browser what media types it will accept. For years, since 2012 at least, Chrome has sent a header called X-client-data, formerly known as X-chrome-variations" https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/05/google_chrome_id_numbers/

To prove my point even further, a standard Android or iOS phone already includes the precise model in its UA. What else do they need!?!??! Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; SAMSUNG SM-A536B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/21.0 Chrome/110.0.5481.154 Mobile Safari/537.3 https://deviceatlas.com/blog/samsung-phones-user-agent-strings-list Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1 NAVER(inapp; search; 1000; 11.8.10; 12PROMAX) https://whatmyuseragent.com/platforms/ios/ios/15

@nicolaasjan Thanks for updating your release of youtube-dl to version 2025.04.01! I have tested it with my fork ytBATCH for Windows XP, and it is working again with YouTube. . Now, I am able to deeply test my latest version in all its functionality.

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.

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.

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.

If you want to have a pure ProxHTTPSProxy, then you can use @cmalex's ProxyMII. Read from the section 8. to 8.4.! In case of ProxyMII, however, there is no starter programme, and therefore the necessary settings in the system proxy of Windows XP have to be done manually by the user. And no additional features like minimising to systray and so on are then available.

In Chrome, there should be a setting to use the system proxy which has to be enabled. When starting ProxHTTPSProxy via the PopMenu, my self-created starter programme StartProxy automatically sets the necessary configuration in the system proxy of Windows XP.

My main article even offers a Table of Contents at the begining of the first post. In your case, read from the section 9. to 9.3.3! Following the table of contents, the download can be found in the section 11.2.2.. The download package contains a short and a detailed documentation. What else is supposed to be needed? I think nothing. To answer your question whether it is installed or portable, it is more portable than installed. To be more detailed, you have to install a certificate and some registry settings to let the ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3 run correctly. All has been sufficiently described. But nothing of it is harmful and can easily be removed if necessary. And that's all I'm going to say about it. Read first, then try it out and only if something doesn't work, I'll be happy to help. However, one thing should be clear, I am not a fan of spoon-feeding.

As I don't use 360Chrome 13.5.1030, I can't judge what your problem is. And only one sentence without a concrete description of your issue is simply too little information. BTW, the installation of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3 can be done in minutes. So, just try it!

And so that everyone has something to laugh about , I am solemnly publishing the result of my Thorium test on my old Windows XP sweetheart: