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Den - I'll try ... but you know how hard that is for me.

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Hi toas, I'm mildly chuckling (in a good way) at what you are letting yourself be dragged into as this thread progresses. You start off just wondering if installing Win7 SP1 is okay. Then you fire yourself into a process of trying different options to see if you can update the 'good' stuff and miss the bad stuff. Not the best way to go in my opinion. I have installed Win7 Pro. x64 SP1 on my computer and, after, now, several years of use, have never had a problem with it -- rock-solid stable. I have Win Updates blocked at a couple of points on the system, so this is never going to update, ever. Of course your system will be different from mine so that might not work for you. But if it was me I'd just try try the bare install of Win7 with SP1, see if it is okay, and don't tie myself in knots trying to work around a problem that doesn't exist for my machine. Yup, this is what I avoid! Yup, too! Don't dance with the Devil unless you are utterly, utterly pressed into it. All the above said, having read this thread I do like the advice you are getting from others about how to update 'safely'. I've bookmarked this thread for my own use in case I ever need it in the future. But I'd never do it unless completely pressed to it.

No, that screenshot was taken without the theme atlas. But here is something to try: Go to Tools > Options > Advanced > General, then click the config editor, and check whether mail.tabs.drawInTitlebar is set to 'false'. If it is not set to 'false', Thunderbird will attempt to draw the title bar itself, which is likely what causes the problem with the buttons not being skinned properly. I completely forgot about this setting; IIRC there is a similar one for Firefox.

XP was the greatest Windows ever and a HUGE, HUGE leap over Windows 2000 in every possible way, right from day 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_XP With SP2 and SP3, the security was bolstered too. Windows 10 is truly the apocalypse and dumb people are to be blamed for accepting it and the shite that started with Windows Vista, got worse with 8/8.1 and eventually the malware-OS, 10.

Try just this from a dos box before anything. I've used it many times in the past. It just works. %systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ngen.exe executequeueditems

I have a 100% perfect and clean method to fix Firefox and Thunderbird but you would have to modify the .exe of both, would you be fine with that?

You may integrate the Update Pack to your selected install image index or all if you want (it takes long time for all indexes) on your ISO in a single run, see: http://forum.oszone.net/post-2609527-2478.html (Use Google translate to read it in your own language). Download Link: http://files.simplix.ks.ua/boss911/UP7Integrator.7z This way you only apply the pack once and not every install, but you may also apply the more recent pack on line after installing your December/2017 updated ISO if you want, and it will only apply the required updates (not the 178 updates), taking only a few minutes to run it. And control Spectre and Meltdown mitigations patchs using InSpectre: https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm alacran

Certainly install media may have some in there. I do not remember exactly, but it is likely the image I used had some updates in it already, more than stock DVD would. You will likely find that OEM Recovery DVDs will not have a lot of updates in them, because those increase the ISO size and it is more expensive to have the Replicator press onto Dual Layer discs...

Hey Bigmuscle, @bigmuscle Is there anything you need (debug info, logs, feedback?) from any of us in this community/forum to complete your debugging efforts and finally release AeroGlass v1.5.9? The beta/experimental version seems to be working well on my test machines. How can we help you get v1.5.9 released? -JT