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You know who made windows XP? Obviously, Starring at a TV in a right moment is not that bad, if you know the right moment

I installed the Windows XP Professional x64 operating system on a Samsung 970 Pro NVME SSD drive using an ASRock X99 Extreme4 motherboard. Really easy the second time. Download Kai Schtrom's driver here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nvme-for-windows-2003-server/files/ Download KB932755 here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11619 Download AOMEI Backupper Standard here: https://www.aomeitech.com/download.html Use diskpart in Windows 7 x64 to create the aligned partition on, and format, the NVMe drive (the Windows 7 OS must have an NVMe driver installed, or diskpart will not be able to see the NVMe drive). Use Device Manager in XP x64 to install Schtrom's driver, which makes the NVMe SSD available as a storage drive -- and the XP x64 operating system as such now includes the NVMe driver. Run the storport hotfix. Use AOMEI Backupper to clone the XP x64 disk to the NVMe disk (remember to align the partition). Reboot into the BIOS and set the NVMe drive to boot first. I don't know whether Kai Schtrom had Windows XP 64-bit in mind when he wrote his driver, but for those of you running that OS it does present the potential for significant performance improvement, to say the least.

Very unusual to support Vista but not XP. Most developers just drop both at once and jump to Win 7. My guess would be that they started using Windows Media Foundation, which was introduced in Vista. The funny thing is, if you open the installer .exe with 7-Zip, there's even a PotPlayerXP.exe packed within the installer! Which doesn't crash, but looks like this:

This is what Microsoft would like us to think. FUD at it's finest c

den - on Win 7 and springtime, shorts and flipflops will do just fine. But i'm going to leave MSFN up on my XP browser so the hacker-hordes know where to go!

I just ordered one, thanks for the link.

@glnz: did you get yourself a full-body Velostat vest already? If not fetch one fast: you must be ready for when, precisely 24h after April the 9th, a horde of 6.02214086 × 10²³ raving-furious hackers drop into your machine, after all, isn't it?

For Moebius to get Primetime working, in addition to the prefs that have to be added in along with the gmp-eme-adobe folder there's a couple of obscure prefs that have to be changed back. Apparently even when copying over the profile from UXP to Moebius they're automatically given new values: media.gmp.decoder.aac media.gmp.decoder.h264 Change these from 0 to 2. Primetime instructions: https://msfn.org/board/topic/175591-enable-mp4-h264-aac-html5-video-in-firefox-on-windows-xp-without-flash/ Fortunately for me the built-in decoder works fine and is much preferable to using the buggy plugin-container.exe but it's an extra option to have just in case.

It automates it. Less work.

KB971512 is one of those four, but KB2117917 (Supplement) is in addition to the four. I gave myself a refresher course on Platform Update in connection with difficulties installing Kodi 17.6, which includes screenshots. IE9 has specific prerequisites; but for the Standalone Installer (which I presume that OP sdfox7 used), the only prerequisite is SP2 because it includes the others. I believe KB971512 was also needed for official Pale Moon 27 and Slimjet 12. Edit: Microsoft link I decided to add in July 2019 is broken in August 2020.

Hi, the alternative to Potplayer: https://www.videohelp.com/software/PotPlayer&sa=U&ei=fqnSU7vtFMuWyATR5YCIBQ&ved=0CBMQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNETIPfXbcVKuN4aeE40YrxEVXMbPg KMPlayer and SMPlayer are the most updated alternatives that can be installed with XP. I wonder if they are as light as PotPlayer?

Seconds release for v1809 seems to work perfectly. Haven't had a DWM reset since installing it. Thank you for making Windows a little more tolerable. -Noel