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That is obviously a matter of opinion....and anyone working with fixing this crap on a daily basis would almost certainly consider Windows 7 as an upgrade If you are going to write a three word sentance for something most of us think is s**** then please have the decency to explain "why" Me thinks that a certain person only writes things to provoke....I could be wrong....but then I would like to be proved wrong... I am sorry that SkyySX isn't getting the replies expected....we already have threads like mine where we can write about Windows 10 being a pile of crap as much as we like because that is what the thread is about.... I apologise for adding my comments....just saw red.... bookie32

Hehe, while we're at it regarding friends, try your luck at irc.freenode.net, #winapi channel.

Good. The issues being : 1) there is NO proof that this happens "anonymously" or "anonymously enough" 2) what is actually sent to MS is NOT adequately, let alone fully, documented 3) in the old way you reported a bug and were regularly ignored, what makes you think that the telemetry data is not also blatantly ignored? (the only good thing is that you don't have anymore to talk with some support rrepresentative attempting to put the blame on you - or read on a board pathetic attempts by totally clueless people) 4) and this is the worst part, the final result will be that we will be ONLY ALLOWED to use our computers in ways conforming to what the good MS guys believe that is better for us based - maybe - on how the majority of other people use their computers. (something between the Pareto principle and Wisdom of the crowd ) jaclaz

My exams are going on . I will install a raw XP on my laptop for testing. Any beta tester will be highly appreciated

New build of basilisk/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win32-git-20181208-09cf17339-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.1.win64-git-20181208-09cf17339-xpmod.7z diff: https://o.rths.cf/basilisk/UXP-xp-gitdiff-20181110.7z PM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.3.0a1.win32-git-20181208-09cf17339-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.cf/palemoon/palemoon-28.3.0a1.win64-git-20181208-09cf17339-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - Limit the CSS string length for resolved variables to sane values. (f8e83e7e6) - Remove DirectShowReader Part 1: Conditional code (f68b57c0b) - Remove DirectShowReader Part 2: Build system (b867c50ee) - Remove DirectShowReader Part 3: Directories (f2723fc8b) - Remove DirectShowReader Part 4: Tests (caabbb2a0) - Clear HAVE_LINUX_PERF_EVENT_H defines in ffvpx config before setting them for lib use (1f8a1f3fd) - [PALEMOON] Complete making Sync optional at build time (e5e21699c) - [PALEMOON] Complete making Sync optional at build time - Part 2: Packaging (d3e5569ee) - Remove MediaTelemetryConstants (b78915e46) - Merge pull request #895 from trav90/code-cleanup (8d553fef6) - Merge pull request #896 from trav90/media-work (f7430355e) - Merge pull request #897 from trav90/telemetry-cleanup (b07aad353) - Stop feeding a Firefox compat mode to AMO. (93705a7d0) - Add an option to process favicons. (3411dd572) - Fix incorrect preference reference in feed reader. (09cf17339)

It'll be utterly irrelevant. It already is utterly irrelevant. It'll remain there, since it's unremovable, but will be used less and less.

Well as I think people using Win7 now do not like anything related to 10, and since on 7 you can avoid especific updates, I don't think many Win7 users will download a Windows remake of Chrome when they can download real Chrome if they want, or Opera, or FireFox (as I prefer). So this is going to be just another fiasco. But this seems to me more like accepting actual Edge is another failure, and they are desperately looking for new ideas for the browser (copying others and not developing anything new).

I told you that once, way back when... the most perfect (and difficult) way to do it is to locate kernel32, ntdll, hal and if necessary ntkrnl in-memory and hook 'em there. It has the great advantage the simply by removing the module responsible for doing that restores the system to a plain-vanilla state. This should be done early during boot, preferably at the end of the 1st phase or (more difficult still) at the beginning of the 2nd phase. To do so requires much more savy programming than I ever attained, but I'm positive it's possible to be done. If you follow Alex Ionescu's twitter, you're sure to find some people able to do that. He himself obvously is one of those, but I doubt he'd be much interested in that, now that he became world-famous. But his twitter is a good place to meet others of like ability, and make some interesting friends. Sorry I cannot myself be of more help.

Now downloaded. Apparently it has not yet been uploaded to the server.

as I need an AOM library testbed, yes there is new build coming soon.

It makes me wonder why someone uncovered topic from February and makes it another "My beloved system is the best!" argument. There are plenty of dedicated topics, where all the points you are making were already said...

It is ultra false positive.

Ignorance is bliss...

1. disable automatic windows update - should be recommened. a. if you want to use windows update - only install office updates manually using WUMT / WUMGR / PowerShell b. remove ms office and install a free office then you won't have to bother with wu. c. don't install drivers from wu as they are usually out of date. d. make sure insiders programme is not active so you don't accidently upgrade to some broken beta. installing the big a** "hotfixes" stopped working for me ages ago (failed configuring update error and the repair component store thing never worked either as it always said source files missing when they weren't) so i don't bother with them, i just integrate them in my install media and then do an inplace upgrade to get the fixes applied. never had hotfix failures till after windows 8.1. only time updates failed to install was when the updates themselves were broken and you got an error before they even installed while still on the desktop. component store of windows 10 is a pain in the a**. 2. use O&O shutup10 to disable all the privacy concerns + blackbird to check system a. disable all services not required for general use b. disable *all event logs except app, sys, sec and setup and few others (*will list others later) 3. uninstall windows apps + store 4. install a 3rd party start menu 5. don't you edge, it sucks. use a better browser. (can't easily backup settings, bookmarks, extensions) i recommend Pale Moon fork of Firefox, it still offers customization, uses under half the amount of memory quantum, chrome, opera, no webextensions. leaves out all the bloat that quantum has. you can install lots of addons and still have LOW memory usage. for example quantum with ebay / youtube open i had 1.2gb of memory in use but on pale moon i have 4xx-7xxmb max, drops down to 4xx-5xxmb when a page finishes loading. quantum didn't seem to release memory, just climbed and climbed... best of all, classic firefox ui!!!! = customization / skins etc. I like classic stuff.

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rths.cf/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20181208-8509d9d-uxp-09cf17339-xpmod.7z Browser-only Suite Win32 (removed due to request) source patch (excluding UXP): (removed due to request) Official repo changes since my last build: - [PLATFORM] Update commit pointer (7798333) - [MAIL] Add about:logopage as the mail start_url (df20c98) - [MAIL] Feed off Pale Moon instead of Basilisk for Emoji fonts (824164d) - [MAIL] nsAboutRedirector needs bitwise not logical or for logopage flags (dcd12c6) - [PLATFORM] Update commit pointer (897f500) - [PLATFORM] Update commit pointer (04ce75a) - [PLATFORM] Update commit pointer (674d720) - [ABPRIME] Insert the Tools menu item before the Web Developer menu (52e1697) - [MAIL] Leech searchplugins from Pale Moon and don't involve locales at all (339b4be) - [MAIL] Attempt to fix close buttons for tabs (a2eeb92) - [MAIL] Clean up LWTheme from tabmail.css (655c4cd) - Revert "[MAIL] Attempt to fix close buttons for tabs" (06e74c0) - [MAIL} Fix tabs on MOZ_MAIL_LEGACY (abb364f) - [MAIL] A level of linux tab fixes (ee88234) - [MAIL] Locally define XP_LINUX for the classic theme (ded1994) - Revert "[MAIL] Locally define XP_LINUX for the classic theme" (fd5a334) - [MAIL] Try %ifndef XP_WIN (672842c) - [MAIL] More Linux close button fine tunes (adde05c) [ N.B. commit message was rewritten for not having offensive language, for original commit message please view https://github.com/{X}{Q}{G}{Y}/{X}{P}-{N}/commit/adde05c (instruction to recover url: replace from left to right: {X} = bin, {N} = central, {Y} = cast, {Q} = ary, {G} = out, {P} = oc) ] - [MAIL] Split tabmail into OS Specific versions (fcc9021) - [MAIL] Soft tabs on linux (46459f3) - no message (9d048c6) - no message (9b5f559) - [PLATFORM] Update commit pointer (07b90ac) - [MAIL] Clean up LWTheme bits from the tabbedmails (643a1c5) - [MAIL] override tab's close button image on linux (94ce5d6) [ N.B. commit message was rewritten for not having offensive language, for original commit message please view https://github.com/{X}{Q}{G}{Y}/{X}{P}-{N}/commit/94ce5d6 (instruction to recover url: replace from left to right: {X} = bin, {N} = central, {Y} = cast, {Q} = ary, {G} = out, {P} = oc) ] - [MAIL] Remove What's new menu item and code that pops up What's new on upgrade which won't trigger anyway because of how versions are done for MailNews (adc6019) - [CONFIG] Make version2k use UTC date (585927f) - Fix typo in 585927f (3986fcc) - Issue #45 - Create Official and proper Unstable Branding - Part 2: Mail Official Branding (1a8ff25) - [PLATFORM] Update commit pointer (dd0226b) - [PLATFORM] Update commit pointer (8509d9d) For UXP changes please see above.

How 'bout a handful of testes? Seriously though, @bigmuscle, you should take all distribution as a complement. If your code sucked no one would share. I think you should THANK @nicely for getting the word out about your work. Remember he is doing this for free, and you don't owe him anything for his promotional efforts.

Naaah, more like Monty Python's Life of Brian: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes/qt0471984 jaclaz

When you are in the software development business, you know as well as I there are always those that just DO NOT follow directions for whatever reason, mostly because people choose not to READ and follow directions, all they want to do is download the file and run it and 99.9% of the time if the software does not perform for them it's only because of my previous statement, people do not follow directions. "If you look into past, you can see situations when I released private version to donators only and someone immediately publish it in different forum - not "by mistake", but intentionally to disrespect my work." You are preaching to the choir my friend but, all I can say is it is all part of software development, like I said in a previous post, if I had a nickel for every time someone took or republished something of mine, I would be rich. Being able to control Copyright on the web is virtually impossible and unless you are a mega software giant that has the time and resources to chase down copyright infringement you pretty much have to put up with it or change your licensing model to make it harder on those that try to redistribute your software, the only thing I can suggest is that instead of a donation key model change to a license key where everyone would get a unique activation number so that if that activation number gets shared then you can blacklist it and the software(s) with that number then becomes inoperable. I COMPLETELY understand that the development of Aeroglass is done on your free time and that MS is making it harder for you to develop it, which is why I don't complain about it and those that do just really do not understand what goes into something like Aeroglass and to keep it up to date, especially with a one man operation that also needs to keep his day job in order to pay the bills. What I don't understand though is how the actions of one person would delay the release of the software indefinitely? I know it gets to be a bit much listening to all the moaning and groaning, personally if it were me, I would just select a handful of testers, and let them test it before release instead of making it available to everyone, then you would not have to worry about things like what happened with nicely happening.

In your opinion.

It's quite clear to me. It means, if one annoys bigmuscle enough he may as well disappear, go use his talents in other endeavours, and let all the users of his program in the rain!

Stop nagging. It won't make things any faster, but does annoy.

Adobe Flash Player 32 Final has been released today: 32.0.0.101 (tested/working on Windows XP SP3 and XP x64 SP2) Internet Explorer ActiveX: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/32.0.0.101/install_flash_player_ax.exe Mozilla Firefox NPAPI (also for Opera Presto/Google Chrome 44 and earlier): http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/32.0.0.101/install_flash_player.exe Google Chrome 45 through 49 PPAPI: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/32.0.0.101/install_flash_player_ppapi.exe

I still buy CDs online, because I like to have a physical copy that I can rip to whatever format I like directly from it rather than either relying on wasting mobile data through streaming sites or resorting to YouTube rips from Russian MP3 websites... I have all but two of Feeder's albums for instance on CD

Good to know. jaclaz I find it hard to believe you hadn't presumed it, way back when... Not at all. Rules are just that: rules. When one decides to use the software, one agrees to abide by them, no matter how nonsensical or arbitrary they may be.

I'm working on the solution and the implementation to avoid similar malfunction in the future.