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Since Chromium is being further developed and also JavaScript, it remains clear that various plugins are no longer compatible with Chromium 49. In Advanced Chrome, the JavaScript is older than by Chromium 49. On Google Chrome 49, I could to persuade μBlock 1.17.0 still working , for this which I have adapted the file manifest.json ("minimum_chrome_version": "49.0") and have taken over the file "asset-viewer.js" from the μBlock version 1.16.20.

Ideally yes, but in practice I've found a few sites still using TLS 1.0 (!) and at least one (www.fedex.com) which only supports weaker cipher suites. So you may find you need to keep a few that SSLLabs marks with orange. Try to keep them to a minimum, though.

I thought Kindle was a great idea; yet I never trusted it for that very reason: from the get-go it was designed so Amazon could pull back anything you thought you owned. BTW you need to update the link above to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Criticism. Wikipedia's editors didn't send the criticism of Kindle down the memory hole, but they did relabel it a bit

@everyone FYI, new stuff has been released for XP SP4: 1. A SP4 v3.1b installer that does not install .NET Framework unless absolutely necessary (MCE, Tablet PC). 2. Windows XP SP4 Preinstallation Environment and OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) with SCSI drivers integrated 3. An updated MUI ISO with fixes and additions. Check my RyanVM thread for details.

UPDATE - 15 OCT 2018: For novice users that do not want to wait for 20-30 minutes after installing XP SP4 AND rebooting For all .NET haters... A NEW RELEASE OF UNOFFICIAL SP4 3.1B WITHOUT .NET FRAMEWORK This release will not install .NET Framework in both live and slipstreamed install, unless: - Media Center Edition is used -> .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 is installed - Tablet PC Edition is used -> .NET Framework 1.0 SP3 is installed Users can still install .NET FWs of their choice from the Add/Remove Components wizard in Control Panel This alternative SP4 release is called: WindowsXP-USP4-v3.1b-NODOTNET-x86-ENU.exe In addition, XP SP4 OEM Preinstallation Kit ISOs with SCSI drivers, and an updated MUI ISO have been released!

It was only a matter of time before older Chromium versions are no longer supported by μBlock (last version which supports Chromium 49 is version 1.16.20). For this reason, you can download an older version from Github in the following link and run it in developer mode under Extensions. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

With the newest voice-recognition technology, they don't type anymore: they fart in Morse-code, instead! Now you know why it smells so bad!

I think programers working on 10 updates type with their toes not their fingers, it is always the same, they fix something but they break other thing(s), they all look as amateurs making their first programs. alacran

Bu does it mean it works until 10th December or until 12th of October? US middle-endian date style harms my brain :P

Hi Jumper, thank you very much for the new version but unfortunately I can't get it to run !! Windows reaches desktop but then a error message pops up saying something like 'KernelEx couldn't find it's driver counterpart'. Sorry I did not wrote down the exact text. Also it might be good to add a new point 3 (or maybe 2b) that people using kstub should add this to core.ini Best wishes, MiKl

Hi, yes it works..thanks. Although it seems a little less fast than New Moon, Basilisk flows smoothly

With each new distribution of a major build, Windows 10 has needed serious re-tweaking. Some software - such as Aero Glass for Win 10 - doesn't work right at first and so the turning of the system into something actually worth using necessarily has to wait. So here we are, at the end of October 2016, and I can state that just in the past couple of days I have finally gotten the "Anniversary Update" - 14393.351 - into shape to where I consider it actually usable. What's that, 4 months after release? This is why it's better to have operating system releases only every few years. Well, I have to qualify that... I still have several beta bits of Aero Glass for Win 8+ running, and beta firewall software, but it's finally acceptable to use. Listed here are some of the things needed to achieve sufficient usability as a serious desktop system that's App-free and divorced from the cloud, yet all hangs together. These sound deceptively simple, but the devil is in the details. Tweaking to increase privacy and control of Windows Updates. Disabling of UAC. 3rd party software for Start menu, deny-by-default firewall, various maintenance tasks. Setup of features not enabled by default (e.g., System Restore, backup). Desktop usability enhancement (e.g., Aero Glass, replacement Aero 7 theme, various other small tweaks). Verification that needed applications still work. Removal of all but the Settings App, removal of OneDrive, disabling of settings sync, use of only a local account. Removal of many unnecessary scheduled jobs. Reconfiguration of browser, augmentation with custom blacklists. Things that even STILL make replacing Win 8.1 with it unacceptable for my use on actual hardware systems here at my business: ATI has ceased including features I need in their current display drivers (e.g., per channel calibration). I don't know whether a Catalyst driver suite from 2015 could work with the latest Win 10, but that's what I'm using on Win 8.1 now. Media playing features are reduced, though most of the media I'd like to play so far seems to play in Media Player. Even with all the tweaking, the Taskbar isn't quite as usable as with an older system, since themes can't change it. Microsoft disrupts compatibility and stability far too often, even with my exercising manual control over updates. I would need to set Windows Update to the CBB (Current Branch for Business) at the very least. I continue to re-evaluate Windows 10 to determine whether I can move "up" to the latest OS, in order to stay current, compatible, etc., but for now this one stays on a VM as a curiosity only. I had extra hope this time around, because with Win 8, upon the release of Win 8.1 a year later I thought it was good enough to move up to (and I'm glad I did). I keep wishing that Microsoft will ultimately release something that improves the state of the art in computing again, but alas all they really seem to be doing is hanging new apps on the old kernel and making things less and less efficient. I fear they've lost all the people who know how to do serious operating system work. Trouble is, it just won't be viable to continue to run an old version of Windows forever. -Noel

While I don't think its developers think of ReactOS as a dead project, and while I, too, have always hoped it might blosom into a viable successor for XP, I fear I have no choice but to agree the ReactOS project is deeply comatose and seems to have no prospects of awakening in the near future, so that, even if it does come to eventually, it'll be far too late to make any difference anymore. And while I'm not exacly a fan of unix, I do think the best candidate to become a viable alternative to Windows is TrueOS, a very mature distro of FreeBSD. ... the rest ...is ...silence.

This problem has reared its ugly head time and time again in Linux....so I put the old card I had in a Windows 7 and left it at that....really sad that they have just given up on some graphic cards..."Dumbing Down of Things" as you so quaintly put it is just a pain.. I don't like everything Nvidia are doing but they are good at maintaining drivers... bookie32

Honestly, if ALL I had to worry about was functionality, I might go ahead and adopt Win 10 for my system of choice. My configuration is even fully private. But it's a fully moving target. It has occurred to me to think about adopting it, then just avoid updates for a couple of years at a time, but that line of reasoning just leads me back to where I already am with a mature Win 8.1 setup, which just runs and runs and facilitates my work. Win 10 isn't as stable, and is not likely to get any more so. And it's no more functional as a desktop workstation. Maybe it's interesting if you like fun n games and social networking, but that's not where I'm at. Honestly, EVERYTHING Microsoft has put effort into is exclusively what I DON'T want in a serious computer platform. If they had done even just a few things besides hanging garbage Apps all over a good kernel, I might find it more attractive. Maybe, with nothing actually better, I would have STILL considered it worth using if only they didn't actively make the parts that I do need worse. Then back that up with continuous updates destabilization. It's hard to imagine that Microsoft is making SO many moves to stop Windows 10 from being a viable choice for people who need serious computing power. But they clearly recognized this, based on the initial giveaway. So here I am, putting in all the ongoing work necessary to turn Windows into a usable system, without actually committing to use it as my system of choice, just so I can stay fully informed about what it's capable of. Who knows, maybe one day Redmond will wake up, lay off the people who are killing Microsoft's legacy, and make a halfway decent future release. I fear they may longer be technically capable, though. -Noel

I agee completely! But the same was said 25 years ago by the constractures behind the drawing-boards, about computers. I was then, at the time, one of the fore-spokers for CAD, btw.

Those who think that young people will be able to do anything more useful with mobile tech - no matter how young / flexible they feel they are by comparison to someone who they believe is old and stiff - are deluded. I'm not old (yet). I'm wise. I have experience. I know my a** from a hole in the ground. It's not a matter of being young or old, flexible or inflexible. It's a matter of understanding what's actually useful in the real world. What it takes to create rather than just use. The root problem is that people who carry around mobile technology feel they're doing important things, when they don't really even have a handle on what's important. Or how hard you have to work to do something important. THAT is what's going to undo everything. Looked at another way: Someone working at the limits of their human abilities, when aided by a top notch collection of technology is always going to outdo someone working at the limits of their abilities and aided by necessarily limited because it's mobile technology. Limited in power. Limited by battery life. Limited by poorer connectivity. Limited by small size. What could you think of if you never, ever had to worry about battery management or never, ever lost a few hours (days) due to an ill-timed update? Or never had to wait for the information you requested to be painted on the screen. How well could you communicate if you didn't have to ask the person on the other end to repeat themselves so much? That crap just makes people weary. We don't need more weariness. The future would be better served by people who aren't slaves to their technology, but instead are its master. Nothing Microsoft or most others are doing right now seeks to make you more the master of your technology. I believe I'm pretty adept at applying technology. Hey, I'm using Windows 8.1 to advantage in a world where most others stopped on 7. Years ago I got good things from Vista where most stayed on XP. I haven't changed; I embrace new things and make the best of them by applying my considerable experience. You can see from the original post in this thread that I'm no stranger to figuring out Win 10. Every new release that's come out, I give "Apps", "The Win 10 Experience", "Cloud Integration", and the whole 9 yards a fresh new try, with an open mind. And, unfortunately, every time I have reached the same conclusion. It's not like I'm living in the past. It's like Windows 10 just isn't better. Even that - EVEN JUST BEING AS GOOD BUT NOT BETTER - I could live with, because there are advantages to keeping current. But Microsoft increasing the ongoing cost in time and weariness to make Windows just not be worse - by releasing new alpha quality software constantly, by adopting "our way or the highway" policies, by being so arrogant that they think they know what people need better than the people themselves... That ongoing cost is increasing, and it has become simply unacceptable. We need things to be better, and "better" is a long way from "almost as good if you work hard and tweak like crazy". -Noel

So do not wait for an answer developers, thanks to already understand itself. If you like to work on a Windows 10, and Windows 8.1 computer has an error occurs in the tweak.exe Added command line option ( /x ) which specifies the path to the pkgmgr.exe to properly remove the components. wim_tweak.en.NET3.5.zip wim_tweak.en.NET4.6.1.zip source codes and files on mega - https://mega.nz/#F!fAVnxDAL!sZ26163s2UuJ2E3ODDdSaw Так и не дождался ответа разработчиков, спасибо, уже сам разобрался. Если например работать с образом Windows 10, а на компьютере установлен Windows 8.1 то возникают ошибки в работе tweak.exe Добавлен ключ командной строки ( /x ) который указывает путь к "правильному" pkgmgr.exe для корректного удаления компонентов. Так же утилита полностью переведена на русский язык, включая исправленную и дополненную справку. wim_tweak.ru.NET3.5.zip wim_tweak.ru.NET4.6.1.zip исходники и файлы на mega - https://mega.nz/#F!fAVnxDAL!sZ26163s2UuJ2E3ODDdSaw