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WinNTSetup 4.5.0 RC2 - new ini option "RemoveBootMountsOnExit" - rewrote all file and registry recursion functions to use iteration - command line VHD creation uses expandable by default - command line VHD ignores disk size for expandable type - fixed iso mount does not select install.swm

I do not agree that v13 is "more RAM hungry". I believe that v13 utilizes RAM better than v12. And in turn v12 utiilzes RAM better than v11. RAM utilization is not a "linear" process and it's not as simple as just comparing "magnitude", so to speak.

Instead of making a long list of software that supports Windows 7, I'm making a list of software that doesn't work with Windows 7. There are four categories, the first is: Windows 10+ only, the second is: Windows 8+ only, the third is: Requires modification to work on Windows 7, and the fourth is: Unofficially works on Windows 7. There's likely plenty more software that isn't listed here, so let me know if any Windows 8+ only software gets any mods that lets it work on 7, or any new 8+ or only officially supports 8+ software comes out. Windows 10+ only: Games: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Death Stranding (DirectX 12 only, missing a few APIs, and has an OS block) Forza Horizon 4 (UWP) Horizon Zero Dawn (Same as Death Stranding, but has no OS block, or at least a older patch doesn't) Microsoft Flight Simulator Minecraft Bedrock (UWP) Sea of Thieves (Matchmaking backend comes from Microsoft Store) Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind Other: Facebook Messenger app iTunes Microsoft Office 2019 (Unofficially works on 8.x) NVIDIA Broadcast Oculus Setup/App Presonus StudioOne v5 (Might unofficially work on 7/8, but untested) Windows 8+ only: Game clients: EA Desktop Beta (Requires a 8.x dll, also, the installer has a block that blocks anything under 8.1, and application verifier does not work) Other: Kingston SSD Manager Requires modification to work on Windows 7: Games: Crysis Remastered (You should probably play this with DXVK. This happens without DXVK) Back 4 Blood Alpha (Requires xinput1_3.dll from C:\Windows\System32 to be copied into the same folder as the game .exe and renamed xinput1_4.dll) Mafia: Definitive Edition (Requires DXVK to run. More info here) Mafia II: Definitive Edition (Requires xinput1_3.dll from C:\Windows\System32 to be copied into the same folder as the game .exe and renamed xinput1_4.dll) Need For Speed Heat (Requires modifying the Origin launcher) Postal 4: No Regerts (Unreal Engine bug. It requires a fix that the developers of the game posted) Star Wars™: Squadrons (Same fix as Postal 4) System Shock Remastered (Same fix as Postal 4) Other: Discord (Intentionally breaks screenshare audio on anything below 10, fixed by using a browser or application verifier) Python 3.9.0 (https://msfn.org/board/topic/181979-another-program-drop-the-support-python-390/?tab=comments#comment-1189117) VMware Workstation 16 (Requires a custom installer and replacing vmware-vmx.exe) Unofficially works on Windows 7: Game clients: GOG Galaxy 2.0 (1.2 is superior and supports 7 officially) Games: Anthem Battlefield 4 (Says it requires Windows 8 on Steam, likely a mistake as Battlefield 3, 1, and V all officially support Windows 7. Though Windows 8.x is known to perform better than 7 in game, so that might be why) Boneworks Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection Crusader Kings III Death end re;Quest 2 Destroy All Humans! (Minimum OS is listed as 10, but in additional notes, it says it supports Windows 7 and 8.1. These guys forgot what minimum requirements mean) Detroit: Become Human (Is a Vulkan game, but Windows 10?. People say it actually works better on 7 than on 10) Disintegration (Was patched to fix issues with Windows 7, but minimum requirements still say Windows 10) Doom 64 Empire of Sin Fall Guys Madden NFL 21 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered Persona 4 Golden Phantasy Star Online 2 (According to Steam, it's DirectX 9.0c, but Windows 10+?) ReCore: Definitive Edition Rust (Game that used to support Windows XP, DirectX 9, DirectX 11, OpenGL, and Vulkan in early access, but now "requires" Windows 8.1 and only supports DirectX 11 and 12) State of Decay 2 Trials of Mana Watch Dogs: Legion Other: .NET Framework 4.8.1 Anki Audacity Blender 3 Calibre 6.0+ CorelDraw 2021 Cryptomator v1.6.x Dolphin v16393+ EA Desktop EasyBCD 2.4 Firefox latest Google Drive iTunes 12.11 iZotope RX 10 Kingston SSD Manager Kodi 21 Microsoft Teams Mindview 8 MKVToolNix 67 MotionController0669 Mozilla VPN MySQL MySQL Workbench 8 OBS OneDrive OneNote app OpenExpert Paintnet 5.0+ PCSX2 PerfectDisk Photoshop 2023 Presonus StudioOne v5 Process Monitor Python 3.9+ QMMP version 2 Rebelle 5 Steam TCPView 4.x x64 Ubisoft Connect Vidcoder 7 Visual Studio Code vmware player 16 VQProbe Windows Mixed Reality Xbox App Yuzu emu EA-2686+ ZBrush

Notice: These projects have no affiliation with any upstream community code sources or organizations. Please direct all support or related questions to here. "Serpent", "New Moon", "MailNews" are generic debranded names and they are subject to change in the future. Archive directory names and archive filenames will only be changed once generic debranded names are not used in the future. Latest changelog is available here as well: http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser for people who can't register here, there is another place you can create post for asking/help besides in github and blog: https://forum.eclipse.cx/viewforum.php?f=33 Serpent/UXP browser (MCP reforked 52ESR as new base), and NM28XP releases: Binaries are moved to here: (I'm lazy to edit all previous posts) https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/?sort=date&order=desc BOC and hyperbola related binaries: Binary list: https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/?sort=date&order=desc ------------------------------------- NewMoon 27 build: ------------------------------------- Serpent/moebius browser (deprecated by MCP, forked by me), and also 26.5 as playground : And NewMoon 26.5 and K-Meleon 74 with Goanna 2.2 (newmoon-26.5) for vanilla Win2000 build: ------------------------------------- K-Meleon browser with Goanna/Tycho engine: It has its own sub-forum in K-Meleon official forum! http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/list.php?19 Latest build: ------------------------------------- Firefox ESR 45 with TenFourFox fixes for IA32/SSE-only machines: ------------------------------------- K-Meleon Original cross-post is here: ------------------------------------- ArcticFox XP win32 test build: ----previous post----

The irony of my enthusiasm for Windows XP is that, originally, I didn't want to use a XP machine as a personal computer. I was still in high school and the family computer ran 98; I did a lot of DOS gaming back then and so I fretted over losing the ability to play games and use programs I liked by switching to XP. On the other hand, I personally had the roughest OS experience with 98, though that's likely because, being a family computer, I shared the 98 machine with people a lot more careless than me when it comes to computer security. (I've hung onto the family's first IBM-PC, a Gateway P5-120 running Windows 95, so I can still enjoy DOS gaming and run DOS and 16-bit programs.) However, I wound up getting a Gateway XP machine as a graduation present. I quickly grew to like XP for the simple fact that I rarely ever had any software-related BSoDs. In all my years of using XP (and then XP64) the vast majority of BSoDs and system issues I've encountered have been due to failing hardware and not an issue with the operating system. For the most part, the times XP did go off the rails, it's because of something I know I did. And for the most part, I've been able to fix those mistakes without resorting to a wipe-and-reinstall. Similar to my concerns over losing the ability to run DOS programs, I was resistant to upgrading to Vista. In fact, I deliberately sought out and purchased an OEM installation disc for XP64 on Newegg back in 2008, when an aforementioned hardware failure necessitated overhauling my computer entirely. I figured going XP64 (and yeah, I was already aware of XP64's reputation for lack of software/driver support) would future-proof my machine once computing truly moved to the 64-bit era. (Alas, I didn't account for APIs ...) Also, having a 64-bit operating system that used less memory than Vista and future Windows OSes (XP64 needs at minimum 256 MB; Vista, 512 MB but 1 GB recommended) meant that I had more memory for multi-tasking and the sort of memory-intensive work that I do, namely multimedia production. XP64's rep for lack of driver/software support hasn't really been an issue for me. There's only been two notable exceptions, both games: Civilization 4 and Phantasy Star Online 2; in the latter case, Sega seemed to *specifically* deny XP64 the ability to run any PSO2- related executable. But out of over a decade's use of XP64, those have been the only issues with programs during XP's support cycle. (Of course, programs made after support ended are another story.) The good folks here at MSFN have really helped in keeping XP64 viable in these post-support days. I'm especially grateful for guys like @Sampei.Nihira who have called to attention vulnerabilities and security threats and how to protect against them; it was through him I found out about NoVirusThanks' OSArmor, which I now use on all of my machines, XP and not. In recent years, following hardware failure in the 2008 setup, my girl got an overhaul using some of the best hardware available to a SABERTOOTH X99-based system, thanks to @XP-x64-Lover's efforts in sourcing drivers. (She's now got maxed out with 128 GB of RAM, by the way, which are XP64's natural limits as well as that of the X99 chipset.) And according to one of my friends ... my enthusiasm/stubbornness over using XP has a Steve Jobs-like "reality distortion field" that's been enticing others to do the same!

@JFX Could you please add support for Windows 7 ISO with split WIM (install.swm install2.swm). WinNTSetup v45RC1 doesn't recognize it.

Yes, again no disagreement. But "at the same time" these people with only 2GB of RAM need to stop living in a "fantasy world" and stop expecting their 1996 computer to function 100% in 2021. ie, if you only have 2GB of RAM and you are loading 10 or more tabs, "then you bring upon your own pain and no doctor can treat you." That said, I have 6 computers and two of them have 2GB of RAM (one used exclusively for streaming videos, but I don't bog it down with other tabs while doing so, that would be "unrealistic" of me). I certainly don't expect them to function comparably to my i7-4770 computer with 16GB of RAM. But anyway, I think we've beat this dead horse and others know where we are both coming from

So you just proved my words again , with 5 tabs opened 726mb versus 957mb with 13 version. I think it's a big difference for his system with only 2GB of RAM, and if he needs a fairly modern browser (obviously not from 1996) , downgrading from 13 would be a good choice . Also, he can search for flags that can be disabled to reduce RAM usage . I'd suggest these , they are very good for low-end systems , hence the name , obviously : --enable-low-end-device-mode --enable-low-res-tiling

With all due respect to XP , I just don't understand why would anyone need to use 1000 series cards in combination with XP. There are simply no games that would run on XP that require powerful GPUs at all. I think even GTX780 is way over the roof . My advice would be purchasing a used GTX680 and be done with it ! There are really good drivers for that card available for windows XP (prob. free).

kaspersky was made by a known KGB officer , doesn't this bother you ? Well, read the experts , besides it has nothing to do with the ex-kernel itself, the programme is glitchy as hell , you can use translate and read articles by ordinary russian users that encountered those similar problems. If you you're so afraid to get infected by evil viruses , just use mallwarebytes 3.5.1 . "My firm is recommending that our customers, who largely are financial companies, uninstall Kaspersky AV." — Dave Aitel, Immunity Inc.

It's a well known Axiom that with every newer version chrome consumes more and more RAM. But if you think otherwise , you're very welcome to help that poor guy yourself . In real life scenario people with low-end hardware solved their problems downgrading to 11 or 12 , but yet again , I do not use the browser myself , I'm not even sure why I was asked in the first place . My post here was related to the telemetry that was left by the russians (on purpose or not , I can't say) and some piece of advice (hints) on how to remove it. So it supposed to serve as word of warning to the fellow members.

Kaspersky Free 18.0.0.405

From what I understand there's one in the works for the whole XP family, OneCore API. Originally @Dibya was working on ExtendedXP, but cancelled it in favor of OneCore API. I believe that OneCore API is designed so that you can compile it to work on XP64, but I'm not quite sure how far along they are. I've heard they've got Windows Server 2003 running DX10 games though. You can see the discussion about it here.

Your English is quite good, rest assured of it. As for your questions do please read the attached document. It's author is YuriyCN, not me: I only made an English version of it using the DeepL translator, which is crude but way better than anything the Google or Bing translators can ever hope to do. If you can read Russian, however, you should get the original file, which location is also indicated in the same document. Good luck! Later edit: thanks to @gerwin, a much more readable version of the initial translation now exists, and is attached below, replacing the original one. Windows_XP_2021_1_ENU_c.zip

Can you better explain what specifically we should share? I have been using XP since it came out, before, I used the other older OSes. Specifically, my pc is from 2005/2006 (I don't remember very well ). I use XP to do any other tasks I do with the most modern OSes. With my security configuration I can use (as in fact I use) my pc for online banking,certified e-mail, .electronic invoicing.... etc and other activities that ordinary people consider highly risky.

Greetings. I had compiled Cryptography 2.9.4, cffi 0.14.0 and some other libs for Python 3.7.1 (thousand thanks to Dibya) for WinXP (without SSE2 support). OpenSSL 1.1.1g compiled with MSVC for Python 2.7 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 *.dll to *.def converted with pexports https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/pexports/ Cryptography compiled (and *.def to *.a converted) with MinGW GCC 6.1 http://files.1f0.de/mingw/mingw-w64-gcc-6.1-stable-r20.7z Command line for compiling python setup.py build -c mingw32 But it's also need some changes in distutils and setup.py... At least streamlink, youtube-dl and mitmproxy (6.0 from git) works perfectly. Full archive from C:\Python37 https://mega.nz/#!v8MjAATQ!fYErykcN0bBSVvU2-SjqcY8UG6sJsMZYQk5B_X6WflQ