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Without a correctly installed and running HTTPSProxy, you will get this message each time under Windows XP when trying to activate Panda. Whether the proxy is working correctly or not, you can see in its console window. If you are not familiar with these proxies, then you should read my article ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy in Windows XP for future use.

Responded with PM. Note that a request for account deletion specifically to remove attribution for privacy purposes is moot at this point. The site is archived to bejesus and back, so even if an action is taken to remove attribution, that information will still exist on other websites. Re laws and this forum, we are bound by the laws where the server is physically located and no others.

https://github.com/LordOfMice/Tools/blob/master/nvme9x.zip High speed of executing large (>64K) I/O requests. Custom DMA handling instead of using OS service. Large requests (from 64K to max size supported by controller) executed as fast as in NT now.

Thank you, @davidz. @VistaLover, you're right. If my old pc wouldn't have died, then I definitely would've continued compiling FFmpeg. But in the end I indeed don't regret it at all. I've gone from a single core AMD Athlon XP 3200+ to an 8 core (16 threads) AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 (Framework Desktop, see photos), with an integrated iGPU (Radeon 8050S) that is as powerful as an AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT. And let's not forget the NVME SSDs. The transition is enormous! Right now only the monitor I'm using is still my old Samsung SyncMaster 203B (1400x1050@60Hz), because I'm waiting for the ASUS ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG (2560x1440@280Hz) to become available. For the OS I took the chance and installed Windows X-Lite instead of the normal Win11 Pro iso. Despite all the negative comments on Win11 at the moment, I absolutely love it! Very fast, light and responsive. Never regretted it. My main internetbrowser is still Pale Moon (on WinXP it was New Moon obviously), but my absolute secondary one is LibreWolf. A lot of websites nowadays just don't work anymore with Pale Moon. I'm now typing this message also in LibreWolf. Also with the integrated uBlock Origin add-on I can watch Youtube videos uninterupted. Absolutely amazing!

My new beloved superhero, @autodidact : https://msfn.org/board/profile/398146-autodidact/content/ This most kind, generous and altruistic person is also a member on the videohelp.com forums, where he's been releasing Win7-compatible FFmpeg builds periodically; and here, he's doing the same for Vista/XP users; in some way, he's picked up the baton from Reino (whose very old, SSE-only, PC with XP died one year ago) ... As I said, it was by necessity ; but I don't think he's regretted it ...

Finally! It was so simple too. Just change the UA and it works! I could've used this years ago! Unfortunately it comes too late for me. My workplace has a new "security" admin who refuses to authorize any app other than M$ Outlook. (Well, he did relent and authorize GMail for phones.) MailNews looks like Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird is perfectly fine from a security standpoint, but he's not going to unblock it because "why do I need to use another email client besides Outlook?" Still, it's nice to know that it's at least possible on XP again.

https://github.com/LordOfMice/Tools/blob/master/nvme9x.zip Full handling of Windows 9x specific requests that use Linear Scatter/Gather buffer. Update is recommended. Install either by reinstalling the device or manually copying nvme2k.mpd and nvmevsd.vxd to %windir%\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS\ The problem and solution are described in detail in https://github.com/techomancer/nvme2k/issues/15 There are no remaining issues, except for slightly slower performance under Windows 9x than under NT. This turned out to be an issue with the implementation of standard OS service for DMA (Bus Master) controllers – it's almost impossible to receive a real requests for the controller longer than 64K over any length of time. Solution is possible, but this would require custom implementation, using non-standard code.