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OK, an update. I rang the local UK number for Panda's technical support. It's operated by a company called AnyTech365. They took ages to answer the phone, but just as I was thinking about giving up, the call was answered by a very nice and very helpful guy, who sounded completely English! He wasn't aware of the problem, and I had the usual lecture about the risks of still using XP, but when I pointed out that Panda make a big thing of still supporting XP, he was quite conciliatory about it! Amazingly, when I said I'd already reported the problem via a web form, when I gave him the case number, he actually found my report from last Friday on his system! It's open and pending response apparently. I told him that I had, since the report, discovered that the files in the cache folder are apparently related to the problem, and he has added that information to the report. So, a rather better experience than I thought it would be! All I can do now is wait and see what comes back, but if nothing does, at least I now know there's a real person I can talk to if I need to.

Yes indeed, in fact, the first test I did was to replace that entire folder with one from an ISO image I made a few days before the fault appeared. It made absolutely no difference, it still carried on crashing, so I discounted the contents of that folder as having anything to do with the problem. I next looked for any other recently updated files in the Panda installation, and that led me to the cache folder in the Panda program files folder.

Is there a charge for people living in the UK, or is it covered by your standard phone tariff? In Germany, you have to dial special prefixes for support hotlines like this, which are extremely expensive. A rip-off, so to speak.

@feodor2 About Mypal 78.0.3, there is an issue with fonts display... Take a look on the comments below the article of this french web page: https://www.minimachines.net/actu/taxe-petits-colis-double-peine-142239 With Mypal 74.1.3: With Mypal 78.0.3: Regards

This cache folder contains files downloaded when triggering the update button in Panda Dome settings. I also deleted all recent ones, and clicking the update button fills this folder with new ones again. If these are also corrupted or incompatible with the PSANHost process, the whole dilemma starts all over again. But as I already said, hope dies last.

Not to get anyone's hopes up, but I may have found a fix, or at least a workaround. In the Panda program files folder, there is a subfolder called 'cache'. I looked at that and thought, 'clearing out caches is often a good idea'. After first backing it up, of course, I deleted all the files in it. The program then ran on a reboot, with no crashes. All the instabilities seemed to have gone away. The only thing that happened was that Panda started prompting me to OK the running of a lot of program files, so maybe that's where that data was stored before. After OKing all the prompts, things were still good, but surprisingly the cache folder still didn't seem to have anything in it. The folder originally contained a .mngr file, a .util file, a .code file, and several sets of .act and .sig files, which were in pairs with the same filename. The first three files were dated from the date of the program's installation; of the other pairs, one was from back in February, and the others were all from July 3rd this year. I put all the files back, except the recent ones, which I was suspicious of, and everything is still fine. So, was there a corrupted file or files in there?

Ok. Plan B vanished into thin air. Panda Dome 21.01.00 also exhibits the same symptoms as version 22.03.05. I'll have to uninstall that, too. Without a working fix, Panda Dome will become unusable under Windows XP. Hope dies last.

@feodor2 Cauldron Filthcare aka the well-known and beloved service Cloudflare is indeed not working in Mypal 78.0.3. Here is a link to a website checked by this damn service: https://www.sb-innovation.de/forum.php . The check loops in Mypal 78.0.3 but works fine in New Moon 28. Same with the website https://www.wilderssecurity.com/ but here I additionally got a black screen for seconds and some graphics on my desktop crashed. Maybe, you have a look into the last commits from MCP and @roytam1 for getting an idea how to fix it. At the moment, I'll immediately stop all Cloudflare checks in Mypal 78.0.3 to protect my computer.

No one can spoil Windows XP for me . I’m currently working on Plan C. First I need to free up some space on my hard drives so I can back up my main Windows XP partition as an image. And then it’s down to the nitty-gritty.

I have tested your releases. ffplay is only working under Windows XP in your package ffmpeg-8.1-1643-abb1524138-win32-shared-xpmod-P4.7z but not in ffmpeg-8.2-1568-b355200263-win32-shared-xpmod-P4.7z. I compared some file sizes and noticed that your avcodec-62.dll was reduced from 65.668.622 Bytes to only 18.681.870 Bytes. I think there is a lot missing.

Great news! Thank you very much! Your years of work will therefore be preserved.

@panda_zzz Be honest? Your script – or rather, your VLC extension `youtube_search.lua` – is AI-generated, isn’t it? There are too many clues in the code pointing to that. In my opinion, the script is messed up with fixes and overloaded. No human programmer would incorporate so many control and blocking variables: play_guard, play_busy, play_busy_time, pending_play_id, pending_play_url, pending_play_22 and last_played_url. And then your "TINY JSON DECODER". A lot of it is probably just your AI resorting to desperate measures. That’s probably also the reason why your script has suddenly increased in length by 50%. BTW, my ytsearch.lua script is just 12.5 KB (and this value could be reduced again by removing my big header) in size compared to your size of 60.5 KB. I think you need to recreate it from scratch by your AI and keep it as minimalist as possible. Don’t let the AI fix its own fixes with further fixes! At some point, you and your AI took a wrong turn, and your AI won’t be able to find its way back on its own. Humans question themselves, AIs do not. You understand what I mean? In such a process, you have to lead and to control your AI, of course. And, needless to say, you’ll need in-depth programming skills to do this.

I wrote about it somewhere in 360 EE sections (where you were quite active too). This one works very good too . Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.8

Thank you , but no . Why ? A very "big brother" country. Cameras on every square mm. Pro-commie tendencies are very high. Besides , too close to Russia. I think I don't have to explain ,esp. considering the latest news . (russian tanks moving towards Oekraïne (Ukrain), etc). "US StateDept places Ukraine on LEVEL 4: DO NOT TRAVEL due to high risk of Russian military offensive". Heard of it ? Now look at how close Poland and Ukraine. Bordering countries ! Even if Poland will stay out of it , there will be lots of refugees for sure , much more than from Belarus now ! Bordering countries ! Don't forget about Poland's history too . A military communist country , only some decades ago ! Also, I would advise against Prague , the "famous" KGB nest . If you ask me , I don't beleive people can change . Proof : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHEPBnNXMAAuOLS?format=jpg&name=large