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Decided to turn off my main Windows 7 PC at home. Task Manager Up Time on the Performance tab has it at 703 days.

I see those win10 lookalikes and raise you Q4OS + XPQ4. https://q4os.org/index.html https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/ In Live CD form dumped onto a USB on a ThinkPad T60 it's not much less snappier than server 2003 on the TP's SSD.

Yes, it is. Sorry to be late, I have not worked much at this project in these few months because of busy life, but from next week I will work on it again. Here is a screenshot of working basilisk from roytam (released yesterday). The graphic is really buggy as you can see, I need to work on it... But at least, it starts... I'm trying to get also chrome to work. I'm evaluating to use user32 and gdi32 and win32k from the first betas of nt5.0 because they have all the updated functions to display text, styles correctly, but it seems that we need to use also the ntoskrnl from that beta because the the old ntoskrnl from nt 4.0 is too old, and here is a question for you users... Do you mind if we use the new ntoskrnl.exe from a earlier beta of nt 5.0? I ask you this because I want your opinion about this. If you say no, I will keep working with the nt 4.0's ones, but it will takes some more time.

@deomsh: I think I've not said yet that you rock, but you sure do!

Thank you very much, it just worked.. I wonder how such magic was done, just some ids replacement or some coding involved? Is this driver only for 218-V or it would work for all Intels 21x cards? Because im greeding, what about driver for some 10Gbit internet for XP? I think that they becoming finally available for reasonable price, and now when SSD are cheap and we are maybe to boot XP from NVME, that 15 years old 1Gbit speed finnaly starting to be bottleneck..

ntoskrnl from nt5 alpha/beta ins compatible ;/ missing API's

It starts also on nt 4.0 with my kernelex, even if the graphic is buggy.

Happy Easter, everybody! I am the Easter bunny bringing my Easter eggs: Replaced Monthly Rollup with the new KB4493471 (located on the root directory of the repository) Added a new Servicing Stack update KB4493730 (located on the root directory of the repository) Added Security Only Updates, KB4489876 and KB4493458 (located in the folder "/Security Only (Post August 2018)") Replaced Internet Explorer Cumulative Update with KB4493435 (located in the folder "/Security Only (Post August 2018)") Added .NET Updates: -KB4488661 for .NET 2.0 SP2 (located in "/NET 2.0 SP2") -KB4488669 for .NET 4.5.2 (located in "/NET 4.5.2") -KB4488666 for .NET 4.6-4.6.1 (located in "/NET 4.6-4.6.1") Added Extra updates KB4490128 (located in "/Extras") with an updated readme file A few notes, as usual: the build number bump is certainly an interesting phenomenon, but sadly an uneventful one (it should've been a new Service Pack). The new Servicing Stack update was released to support SHA2 signing of updates, but no accompanying update (just as a reminder, Windows 7 had both the SS and an additional update). The .NET updates are not Rollups or Security Only, but simply standalones to add support for the new Japanese Calendar, so there's no real need to apply them if you live outside The Land Of The Rising Sun . Lastly, for some reason the new timezone update KB4490128 does not supersede the old timezone updates in the Catalog, so I added it to the Extras folder instead of replacing the older ones with it. https://mega.nz/#F!txxRyLzC!1vBMGzMHiL864f3bl1Rj1w

Here is a Windows XP/2003 x64 driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Connection I218-V (v2) PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15A1 808615A1_x64.7z

Just a general note regarding cipher quality in old browsers: on 98SE with kernelex my old main browser always was K-Meleon1.6 (engine FF3.5), which of course is the most horrible regarding ciphers. Those original old browsers now get kicked out by about half of all websites today, number still growing rapidly, and that means no access at all. It became absolutely disastrous only since 1-2 years, when google used its monopoly to force even the most harmless and public sites to switch to httpS only. And obviously most use only the most modern and strict TLS versions, providing no fallback for older browsers. Result is no access to important tools and resources on sourceforge anymore (except direct download links, if known), no info on dev-mozilla anymore, and MS killed github-access too after buying them, major disaster. So when a site now is blocked for FF3.5, the best solution used to be Opera12.02 (early TLS1.2) for many years. What I sadly learned far too late. Same for Firefox9. Both needing only basic kernelex for 98SE. If sites are blocked for Opera12.02 too, the next better browsers with modern TLS1.2 are now roytams old Firefox versions (retrozilla /FF2, Fx36, seamonkey). They even run on original old systems, without KernelEx. But if even those are blocked, which now slowly happens on a growing number of sites too, the only chance for 98SE I currently know of is roytams TLS-updated PaleMoon26 engine, which I'm using as KG74 (KMeleon-Goanna74 for Win2k) Definitely the best browser now for today's ciphers. The big prob is it's meant for Win2000, not 98SE, where it only works partially and often crashing, and also needs a very recent KernelEx version. But today this browser is often the last rescue when all else fails with broken ciphers, luckily. Just not usable as daily browser yet, crashing on me after a few pageloads, even without any JS. But I do feel it basically WORKS, there's not much missing yet! Just a little glitch somewhere... The engine itself seems to run fine, the prob is rather the browser shell or msvc-dll-stuff. Have zero dev skills, just suspect this because it happens mostly when right-clicking or opening some menus, and the titlebar can only show 1 character. Then again, am still on KernelEx v16, which is quite buggy itself. Meanwhile KernelEx v20 is out, probably better, just couldn't test it yet. ----- As for youtube, am mostly downloading them for viewing, with a userscript (gantt) and a macro in KM1.6 Until recently 3gp was among the choices too, great for small files with bearable image quality, but now killed by google too, arghh. Now only bigger mp4 files are available in desktop view. 3gp still exists on youtube's mobile view, but find no size choice there, only tiny "stamp" size. But unlike desktop view, this 3gp link on mobile view can be clicked to open in VLC and runs as stream. ----- Just sharing some experiences on 98se, by no means "the best ways" or anything.

In fact, an early build of chrome51 works fine on vista chrome51 2679

New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release: https://o.rths.cf/kmeleon/KM76.1.1-Goanna-20190420.7z Changelog: Out-of-tree changes: * update Goanna3 to git 6e57ba34..b68d61fda: - dom: change `override` to `MOZ_OVERRIDE` to match ArcticFox (a5f7ce22e) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1141905 part 1. Make it possible to CreateScopeObjectsForScopeChain with a given non-global scope chain terminator. (f511987e7) - Bug 1141905 part 2. Make the 5-arg version of CreateScopeObjectsForScopeChain non-static so it can be called from multiple files, and move it to a possibly-saner location. (8eb583d35) - Bug 1141905 part 3. Use CreateScopeObjectsForScopeChain in DebuggerFrame_evalWithBindings. (00ccdc430) - Bug 1141905 part 4. Add some assertions about what enclosingScope can return for non-scope objects. (efcdac5da) - Bug 1137844 - Part 0 - Add docs for Debugger.Memory.prototype.onGarbageCollection (5db93db6c) - pointer style (c329881dc) - Bug 1137844 - Part 1: Make {get,set}HookImpl not rely on a Debugger instance in the 'this' slot (934d19578) - Bug 1137844 - Part 2: Add a Debugger.Memory.prototype.onGarbageCollection getter/setter pair. (4ea252a53) - Bug 1137844 - Part 3: Fire the Debugger.Memory.prototype.onGarbageCollection hook after GCs (3f549a594) - Bug 1137844 - Part 4: Test the Debugger.Memory.prototype.onGarbageCollection hook (1e82dc1ea) (9dcfc17d2) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1142311 part 1. Stop parenting self-hosted objects to the intrinsics holder. (3cb7980c4) - Bug 1142311 part 2. Rename the parent arg of NewScriptedFunction to enclosingDynamicScope, and make it optional. (27c00cbb2) - Bug 1142310 part 1. Stop parenting scripted functions created via the NewFunction APIs to non-globals. (46f6521fd) - Bug 1142310 part 2. Stop parenting scripted functions created via CloneFunctionObject to non-globals. (f164e8c49) - Bug 1136486 - Simplify the SVG text rendering callbacks by getting rid of NotifyBeforeSVGGlyphPainted and NotifyAfterSVGGlyphPainted. (fc76dffd1) - Bug 1142865. Remove the parent argument from NewObjectWithGroup. (211d191b7) - pointer style (c83032f78) - Bug 1142859. Don't parent the object created by JS_DefineObject to the object we're defining on. (7a91bf02a) - Bug 1135731 - fix encoding inconsistency in NS_NewXBLProtoImpl (9d5d99022) - pointer style (53f1a2cd1) - Bug 1142309. Remove the parent argument from NewObjectWithClassProto (472a00e66) (19f4294af) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - pointer style (b6253e08b) - pointer style again (9a39bc621) - even more pointer style... (f28b6f2c4) - Bug 1066234 - Part 1: Parser support for 'extends' in ES6 Classes. (7782e671d) - Bug 1066234 - Part 2: Implement JSOP_CLASSHERITAGE. (d29afcf6d) - Bug 1066234 - Part 3: Refactor js::CloneFunctionObject to take a proto argument. (0cc6f6048) - Bug 1066234 - Part 4: Implement JSOP_FUNWITHPROTO. (2e0c04103) - Bug 1066234 - Part 5: Implement JSOP_OBJWITHPROTO. (2f3980885) - Bug 1066234 - Part 6: Emitter support for 'extends' in ES6 Classes. (361d75fb4) - Bug 1066234 - Tests. (c06dccce7) - Bug 1066238 - Part 1: Parser support for static class methods. (53315d021) - Bug 1066238 - Part 2: Emitter support for static class methods. (3dc069679) - Bug 1066238 - Tests. (78470ee78) - Bug 1142296. Remove the parent argument from NewObjectWithGivenProto (plus adaptations for Goanna) (918202ddd) - Bug 1142304. Remove the parent argument from NewObjectWithGivenTaggedProto. (036d97369) (81d2deb5a) - backout bug 1134280 for fixing yandex search "Read more" link (980f33dae) - Revert "backout bug 1134280 for fixing yandex search "Read more" link" (01ed5ad3a) - finally fixed yandex search "Read more" link issue. this seems to be an accidentally changed line in upstream(s) that is fixed in bug 1141455. (6a3c759b1) - ported mozilla changes: bug1143506, bug1143509, bug1144899, bug1145560, bug1162350, bug1189593, bug1124084 (ea571e456) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1142864. Remove the parent argument from NewObject. (2e4cce561) - Bug 1281596 - fix evutil_rand.c for clang/android builds clang apparently dislikes |return func(...)| in a function which returns void. Remove the return to make everybody happy. (beab9a4b3) - Bug 1282141 - compensate for arc4random_buf not being available on Android; (db344c525) - Bug 1181026 (part 1) - Reformat libevent's README.mozilla file. (2816f11ef) - Bug 1181026 (part 3) - Fix libevent constants for 32-bit Linux/Mac/BSD builds. (979920fdc) - Bug 1181026 (part 2) - Clean up libevent patch handling. Add a missing one to the docs, and move them from their current two locations into a new patches/ directory. (40911a1f5) - Bug 1259218 - don't use arc4random_addrandom on Android, since NDK r11 doesn't provide it (ab8a3fcdf) - Unbreak bundled libevent on FreeBSD 12 without upgrading it - hack of existing Bug 1259218 for Android. This patch needs to be reverted when livenet is upgraded and Bug 1497169 applied instead. (4a29b331d) (7f760bdaa) - nss: update nss to hg rev 2d6adc7d8bfc with vc2013 hackfix (a81b41088) - import change from rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 805052 part 1. Remove assertParentIs. (4c5d44eb8) - Bug 805052 part 2. Stop using the shape's parent to get the object's global. (6da3560dd) - pointer style (e2545c9a5) - Bug 805052 part 3. Remove parents from SpiderMonkey. (8ca3b3643) - Bug 1143706 - Allow BaseShape's global to be null when tracing (8e45cec9d) (b68d61fda) * Notice: the changelog above may not always applicable to XULRunner code which K-Meleon uses. A goanna3 source tree that has kmeleon adaption patch applied is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27/tree/kmeleon76

I have no intention whatsoever to ditch XP so soon. It serves all my needs nicely. I have been using it since july 2010 ( after my pc running win2k pro went kaput ) . In 2011, I got another pc win7 pro but I hardly use it. Actually my trouble and strife does but believe it or not she prefers my xp . I would like to thank you all for your invaluable contribution and help.

MSE 4.4.304.0 is still able to auto-update and to update from it's internal update tab. Both on XP SP3 and on 7 SP1 (yes, I still use 4.4.304.0 on 7 SP1, too, by choice). Then there is @heinoganda's MSE_DEF_UPD_v1.5, which is available on another thread, in this selfsame subforum. The current MPAM-FE.EXE itself don't work anymore on XP, but the definitions inside it do, that's why @heinoganda has created the updater. As for Windows 7, I think the current MPAM-FE.EXE may still work for 4.4.304.0, but haven't ever had the need to actually try it. Also, although you did not actually ask about it, but MU/WU still do offer definition updates for 4.4.304.0, which, when accepted, intall correctly and work OK.