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Off-topic post: Last Windows update for Server 2008 "R1" / Vista released on January 13, 2026. Farewell, Windows Vista. You will be missed.

Interesting. So it's not just me... Granted, my Win11 (forced in order to use Intuit TurboTax) is strictly VM. But... And perhaps similar to your Firefox crash, if TurboTax performs an UPDATE, it too does not properly CLOSE and therefore cannot be restarted. In my case, Task Manager actually gets me back but I have to terminate a WINDOWS INSTALLER PROCESS that TurboTax opened and THEN terminate the unresponsive TurboTax. So maybe your Firefox opened SOMETHING ELSE and that has to be terminated before you can terminate Firefox ??? Outside of that possibility, if indeed Task Manager cannot get you there, I use System Informer on my host for this type of situation. I'm using version 3.0.5578 because newer versions do not show my GPU activity properly. I only use the "release-bin" and never the "release-setup", but that choice is yours. The NEWER versions are available from here - https://sourceforge.net/projects/systeminformer/files/ The OLDER versions are available from here - sorry, spent about three minutes trying to find, maybe they don't allow them to be downloaded anymore?

Die Spitz - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) (US 2025) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Spitz https://www.discogs.com/release/35324749-Die-Spitz-Something-To-Consume

Earlier, @D.Draker already brilliantly concluded this topic with "less people, more oxygen". Less people, more oxygen... It's a fundamental fact. Short, sweet and colourfully, dazzlingly clever. Just like everything he ever wrote. We miss him so much! And there's nothing more to add, except for posting the grim stats and observations of the inevitable global warming on this overpopulated planet, like Karla did.

Define please, Troubles for whom?

It used to be (intentionally) broken to burden (very high CPU usage) the csrss.exe service (as seen in Task Mgr). I've installed Avast (from v18 online installer) in my testing XP_VM and will tell you tomorrow. Today everything was calm. Avast and AVG in their new, broken, state begin to burden the system through csrss.exe the next day... EDIT: The results are in and nothing changed: AvastSvc.exe constantly eats up ~25% of (dual-core configured) CPU in VM and csrss.exe eats up the other 20% of (dual-core configured) CPU. So both take up almost 1 whole core! That is outrageous, but Avast got our data, they don't care.

And if anyone thinks that there is hardly anything worse to report about SUPERAntiSpyware, I have to disappoint them. We now come to the "official support" for SUPERAntiSpyware, which has since been taken over by the American company USTechSupport. If you want to fill out the online form on the SUPERAntiSpyware homepage, you are required to provide a telephone number. Rejected! An email to support is answered immediately, but of course by a bot. You can write whatever you want, but you won't get any help. Just a recommendation that it's best to use the telephone support. And for this information, the support ticket is then marked as resolved. I've never seen such rubbish. The hotline is probably chargeable. It all smells like a rip-off. That wasn't the case when I contacted SUPERAntiSpyware support the last time years ago before it was acquired by RealDefense LLC in 2023 which is also an American company. But when it comes to America, nothing surprises me anymore.

I also tested again the real-time protection module of SUPERAntiSpyware. The CPU usage on my old computer is high and completely unacceptable. Therefore, a Professional licence is not worthwhile at all on low-performance computers.

When I set up my Win 7 notebook two years ago I had wanted to use TinyWall as a firewall ... it was listed as a simple firewall that worked. However, it was listed for only Windows 11 / 10 so I went with an older version of ZoneAlarm that worked with Win 7. It works good as just a firewall, no complaints. Just two days ago I discovered that there was an older TinyWall version that did work with Win 7. https://tinywall.pados.hu/ TinyWall is a lightweight, user-friendly, and secure firewall for Windows. It is also completely free. Under FAQ: The latest version of TinyWall runs on Intel- or AMD-based Windows 11 / 10. An older version, TinyWall 3.2.5, also supports Windows 8.1 / 8 / 7. Just asking if anyone is using TinyWall 3.2.5 on their Win 7 setup and if you have any comments, good or bad? Thanks ...

Nonsense! How is it even possible to "fake" profile views?!?!?! And you had been told before, it's a real social site. Stop calling it fake. You need to listen to what the supervisor tells you.

It's a very important metric to draw conclusions about someone's popularity on social media, not as important as profile views, but still.

Jody, Vista is the same 6.x as Win8, as soon as he retires Vista, Win8 will follow the same road. Win10 is another story though.

Just incase someone else might be interested in patching tcpip for the latest versions. Run PEchecksum.exe after patching below. XP tcpip.sys 5.1.2600.7510 @4fbc6 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF XP tcpip6.sys 5.1.2600.7510 @33EB3 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF XP64 tcpip.sys 5.2.3790.6527 @c00cc 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF XP64 tcpip6.sys 5.2.3790.6527 @5e9a0 0A 00 00 -> FF FF FF where 0x0A = 10 is the default, and 0xFFFFFF = 16777215 is the maximum

I think the more the better. Now we have three working methods to access MU or WU. 1. WSUS server + WUMT method 2. Method using ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy + patch made by @Windows7fan 3. Method using Windows Update website patch based on nginx for XP Service Pack 3 Absolutely great! And as @maile3241 already said the third method works with CPUs lacking SSE2 instruction set. By the way the first one too.

This thread is about Root Certificates and Revoked Certificates for Windows XP. You can update your Root Certificates automatically by using the Certificate Updater 1.6 or manually by using the Root Certificate and Revoked Certificate Updater of 02/24/2022 created by me in section Downloads It works perfectly and is intended to keep your system as recent as possible regarding your Root Certificates. Kind regards, AstroSkipper

Thank you for providing a download link of ProxHTTPSProxy REV3e! I have added your link to my article above in section Downloads so that the reader has a better overview.

@WULover This thread is a support thread about Microsoft Update (MU) or Windows Update (WU). So we have reached a point where everything regarding hardware extensions is unfortunately off-topic. If you have further questions relating to your hardware, you must open your own thread with a topic of your choice. Here we can only discuss problems accessing MU. I hope I could help you and if so, I would be pleased about any reactions. Kind regards

Of course, if you can change it, do it! It should be a SSE2 capable CPU But more RAM would be important too. But be aware, your mainboard meaning the onboard socket and the current BIOS have to support the new CPU! Does the WSUS method work in your system?