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I'm planning to make a simple website that hosts Win9x and DOS downloads only. I made an old thread called the "updated mini list of sotware" and everything there is full of broken links... and honestly, there's no point in depending on some other website to host Win9x specific files. So I can't really "update" that thread in any meaningful way, although I'd like to! So instead, I'm hoping to use my old Geocities webpage and put a ton of Win9x programs on it. I have lots!! That way, I don't have to search google again for non-existing links. I'm Done with that. So I'm going to ask permission here to some people, if I can put a copy of their program(s) on my webpage. Furthermore, I have 520 MB worth of archived freeware (original install files) on my hard disk and on CD backup, and I'd like to post it online... along with my short description. So with that said, I have a few questions: (1) Do the creators of Retrozilla, Retrozilla Community Edition, Firefox Community Edition, Netscape 9 NSS Update, and the other browsers care if I host their programs on my website? I will also make a link to your official page, and back to MSFN forum. (2) If so, do they mind if I rename the file so it's DOS format, aka 8 characters? The program I'm using to build the website only supports DOS filename format, sorry! My bad, I know, but I can't help it at this point. Therefore, I need to shorten something like "RetroZillasuite_tls12_20200021.7z" to say, "retro9x.zip" That's another thing, I'd like to convert the packages (without modifying inside anything of course) to zip format as well. And, of course, I'd appreciate any feedback on further programs to add to the list. What I have posted so far, is just a start. I'm open to adding whatever anybody suggests. As long as it's within limits (freeware ONLY, nothing too big).... which brings me to my last issue.... geocites and their bandwidth limitations!?!? I can't upload any programs at the moment, but when I'm ready to it should be easy. I can't do it on dial-up obviously, so it'll have to wait for a little while when I can borrow a fast computer. Anyway, I have a FREE membership at Geocities, and I don't plan on upgrading anytime. So I'm wondering if somebody can check the Geocities Free Account limits, and tell me if they think it's feasible for hosting half a gig of downloads! Anyways..... if it actually works, I think it'll be pretty cool. Then I can add to my website and never have to deal with stupid broken links again. Here's my website (under construction) http://www.geocities.ws/gcd/index.htm Here's the Geocities description page saying what the limits are.... http://www.geocities.ws/ Lastly, any and all feedback is welcome.

Hello everyone. I'm sorry for the long periods of inactivity lately. I've finally gotten around to getting the list up to date. Here's a summary of changes: Updated all links for Windows Vista Service Packs and Platform Update to ones provided by @greenhillmaniac as Microsoft removed these updates. Removed the link to my "Fix Windows Update stuck on Checking for updates in Windows Vista" video since Windows Update on Vista was shut down in August 2020. Fixed last version of eM Client for Vista: changed from version 7.2.36694.0 to slightly older 7.2.35595.0 (thanks to @tweak and @Vistapocalypse for pointing out this error). There remain some broken links to Microsoft content, mainly in the Additional Microsoft Software & Utilities & Microsoft Office Add-ins & Tools sections. These were likely purged during the "SHA-1pocoplyse" of August 2020. I will work to restore these the best I can as time goes on. Hopefully they are available at the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive...

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20201003-ef27fbe-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win64-git-20201003-ef27fbe-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rths.ml/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20201003-ef27fbe-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20201003-8afdaa8c9-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rths.ml/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20201003-8afdaa8c9-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #1656 - Fix broken comment from Part 1 (a2ed139a4) - Merge pull request #1660 from g4jc/1656 (4e72f8ed0) - Issue #1643 - Follow up: Add a null check for mOwner in ResizeObserverNotificationHelper::Unregister (fb086631d) - Issue #1643 - Follow-up: Make sure things aren't changed while iterating. (bc531bfbb) - Issue #1647 - Followup: Remove excessive VARIANT_OPACITY statements. (b8c604196) - Merge pull request #1663 from athenian200/opacity_followup (96736fce7) - Update CONTRIBUTING.md (15acac52b) No official Basilisk changes since my last build. Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - [downloads] Correct and simplify host handling. (fd30b23a0) - Issue #1842 - Part 1: Establish Beta Branding for Windows and Linux (48188d196) - Issue #1842 - Part 2: Add Mac icons for beta branding & fix unstable (810ccfe4c) - Issue #1842 - Part 3: Add beta channel to ACCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS in confvars.sh (207535416) - Back-end branch pointer update (Unstable 2020-10-01) (8afdaa8c9) My changes since last build: - skipped Issue #1842 related commits

Quite late, but I was reading the Wikipedia page about WDDM, and found this "DXGI 1.1, Direct3D 11, Direct2D, and DirectWrite were made available with Windows Vista Platform Update; however GDI/GDI+ in Vista continues to rely on software rendering and the Desktop Window Manager continues to use Direct3D 9Ex. WDDM 1.1 drivers are backward compatible with WDDM 1.0 specification; both 1.0 and 1.1 drivers can be used in Windows Vista with or without the Platform Update."

Hello there @feodor2 That code was probably ported from Arctic-Fox, a Tycho (Pale Moon 27's platform) fork targeting mainly old Macs: Part1: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/commit/9e6e13a15ae60fc4379b9dd0dd26969784b13a53 Part2: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/commit/bc40f1eb67037a878c0b270f72efb3076cfcf01e That code there affects only FFmpeg's h264 decoder but, by the looks of it, is turned OFF by default; you'd have to create the hidden about:config boolean pref: media.ffmpeg.skip_loop_filter and set it to true to make use of it... I can't speak from experience, because under Vista SP2 32-bit I'm not seeing (rather... hearing ! ) this bug ; but having followed closely related discussions in the past, I can surmise that: Twitter don't care at all for a Pale Moon user-agent (or any other non-mainstream browser they don't support ), so they are treating it as a generic mobile device browser, thus feeding it with a lower quality/bandwidth audio stream encoded in the HE-AAC (v1/v2) profile (more here); most times, they stream using either AppleHLS and/or MPEG-DASH (i.e. fragmented streams), rather than progressive download streams; the ffvpx library patch (to contain additional h.264/aac decoding support) is just a hack to cater to Windows XP's lack of Windows Media Foundation (WMF), i.e. native patented decoders; it hasn't been identified, yet , where exactly things break, but the patched ffvpx can't cope fully with HE-AAC over fragmented (aka adaptive bitrate ) streams, hence the audio distortion under XP (NB: On Vista+, NM28 makes use of WMF decoders [media.wmf.enabled;true] and this issue does not manifest itself... ). Switching to Firefox compatibility UA-mode (or using a Firefox SSUAO for twitter.com) allows Twitter to treat NM28 as a desktop browser and thus it is fed audio in the higher quality/bandwidth AAC-LC format (and possibly via progressive HTTP streams) that ffvpx can decode more efficiently... But YMMV, especially between various sites... Kind regards

Great :-) Actually now remembered that the last version for Win98 with basic KernelEx v452 was Firefox10, acc. KernelEx wiki, but when I tried this as fallback many years ago it was just about unusable on my computer, extremely slow and freezy and crashy. Only years later learned that Firefox9 should work much more fluent, but at the time had finally heard about Opera12.02, which was much more advanced already, so never really tried Firefox9 anymore. But pity that FF10 was so problematic, since lots of important new engine features, JS+CSS, were introduced with version FF10. And now wonder if roytams TLS-package for Cometbird9+10 would work in FF9+10 too. Perhaps will test when getting around, but not now... ------- And just discovered something else, the handy ancient addon PREFBAR which I always assumed needed at least Firefox version 3.5 (=useless on vanilla Win98), actually has older versions available too. Didn't realize earlier, since on official AMO page the oldest version always started with "min Firefox 3.5", but now see the addon-homepage still hosts even the oldest 0.x versions, way back to 2003! Here are some screenshots to get an idea what it's about: http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/screenshots.html Or less scary, early versions from 2010 for Retrozilla, Firefox2 etc (wayback archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20101004180100/http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/screenshots.html Mainly it can create toggle buttons for javascript and other stuff (like in K-Meleon PrivBar, have once read it were based on PrefBar), and it has a UserAgent switcher build in etc. Or extend it with yet more buttons with all sorts of powerful actions (e.g. for taking screenshots of whole page, making lists etc., similar macros/userscripts): http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/buttons.html Since v6 the button code changed from "xml" to "json", but older buttons are still available HERE Overall highly flexible and customizable. There's also a long forum topic for it on MozillaZine Don't know if this special button system existed already in v4.3 (for vanilla98), but the core functions are already nice, and it's quite rare to find addons which work in ancient SM/RZ too. Actually there's another very similar addon, named "Custom Buttons", but acc install.rdf only works in Firefox, not SM/RZ. I find both very interesting, but have no own experience. Only used PrefBar in FF2 for a short time until getting younger fallback browsers. Download page for old versions: http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/archive.html v4.3.2 install.rdf says it's for Firefox 1.5+ and Seamonkey 1.0+ (=should work in Retrozillas) v5.x needs Firefox 3.0+, but Seamonkey must be 2.0 already v6.x needs Firefox 3.5+ v7.x needs Firefox 4.0+, and Seamonkey at least 2.1+ Archived AMO pages: https://web.archive.org/web/20171227123958/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prefbar/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180730050933/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prefbar/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180730050932/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prefbar/versions/ FIX if installation of SIGNED Addons doesn't work: younger versions contain a Mozilla SIGNATURE, which is in folder "META_INF", and also referred to inside install.rdf. Luckily many alternative browsers allow to install addons without signatures (or even can't handle them at all) HOWTO modify the xpi: make a backup copy of the original file, then open the XPI with with 7-zip, right-click on folder META_INF and remove whole folder. Perhaps also click on install.rdf to EDIT, and adjust text inside (not signed anymore). Do NOT save, instead CLOSE it by X in upper window corner => now 7-zip will ASK if you want to save changes - NOW save it. Close 7-zip with X, again it will ask - now save. .

This is completely normal, MPlayer has actually no GUI, so when you lunch it without any parameters it instantly quits. You can try to drag&drop video file on the mplayer.exe or invoke from the command line. If it works good enough for you Yo can add MPlayer in your 'Send To...' folder or associate it to your video files so that it opens them on double click. Because Mplayer has no GUI, you ave to use the Keyboard to navigate in the video (left and right arrows to move forwart/backward 10s) up/down => 1min pageUp/Dwn => 10min, 'Space' or 'p' to pause, 'f' to toggle fullscreen, 'j' to change subtitles, '#' to change audio track, 'ESC' or 'q' to quit, 'o' to cycle through more or less OSD, Read the Keyboard.txt for more details, you can change those keys with the mplayer/input.conf You can change general options in mplayer/config (open with notepad), you will want to try several video drivers to check which is the best for you. If you want to benchmark the video output, find a short video file on your drive and use the flowing command line (in command.com/command prompt): > mplayer shortTestFile.mp4 -vo XXX -nosound -benchmark With XXX = directx or direct3d or gl or sdl -vo stands for 'video output' At the end MPlayer will display performance details. Then once you found the one that works best put it in your config file (vo=XXX)

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rths.ml/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20201003-355db4de-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z BNavigator Win32 https://o.rths.ml/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20201003-355db4de-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/tree/custom-older * Notice: the profile prefix (i.e. parent folder names) are also changed since 2020-08-15 build, you may rename their names before using new binaries when updating from builds before 2020-08-15. -- New build of HBL-UXP for XP! Test binary: IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rths.ml/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20201003-id-eed0566-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rths.ml/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20201003-id-eed0566-ia-41157bf-uxp-15acac52b-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/icedove-uxp/tree/winbuild https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild for UXP changes please see above.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Hopefully you didn't get it from some shady "Fix All Your DLL Problems" site...

Is RD 7 the XP/Vista one or the W7 one? I have some information about Remote Desktop in my W2K guide here, which you might find helpful: https://w2k.phreaknet.org/guide