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It's sad to see legacy support dropped yet again for legacy hardware. Although I agree PC's older than 2005 are pretty slow, cutting them off will make it hard for those who can't afford new PCs...

You can download all of the Basilisk builds from here -- http://o.rthost.win/basilisk/

Speaking of that, has anyone seen MattKC's video where he deliberately tries to infect Windows 98 with viruses? He went into it expecting to get viruses immediately, but got more and more frustrated that he couldn't no matter what he did. Granted, Nostalgia Nerd was able to mess up Windows 10 with DOS-era viruses, 7,000 of them, ultimately. Though unlike MattKC he actually went and deliberately downloaded a huge bunch of "zoo viruses" rather than just trying to be a particularly careless about his Internet habits. Either way, it does show that there is an element of security through obscurity for the older OSes. I don't rely on that alone, of course, but I didn't give into the FUD when tech journalists heralded the impending "XP Zombie Apocalypse" in 2014 and I don't intend to do so now.

Back in Action & Reupload it. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxP1VJf8kaXobWZmc3ZlNkZMVWM?usp=sharing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, have modded the Nvidia Driver Packages 81.85, 82.69 and 93.71 . These Driver supports Geforce 6/7 and 8 series AGP/PCI-Express devices for Windows98SE/ME. Hope the drivers will work fine for all. For addional information read the Readme.txt. UPDATE: 12-05-2007 Repack NVIDIA Installer! Fixed frequency table! Added NVTweaks! Fully Support of AGP Graphic Devices Experimental Support of Geforce 8 series! Link: UP AGAIN! http://rapidshare.com/files/30969815/GF678_98ME.exe12-05-2007_23.32 Update: Added an Picture: Geforce 7600GT is found as GF73 Chip! BUT: Use at your own risk! NV Control Panel will not correctly dectected GF 7/8, but the it will be albe to detect the Chip revision ================================================================= NVIDIA Chip Detection ================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------- AGP-Series; Will be detected by the NV Control Panel ----------------------------------------------------------------- NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS NV40 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT NV40 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 NV41 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS NV41 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 NV41 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE NV41 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT NV41 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI NV41 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 NV43 = NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT NV43 = NVIDIA GeForce 6600 NV43 = NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE NV43 = NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE NV43 = NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL NV43 = NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL NV43 = NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 NV43 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 NV43 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 NV43 = NVIDIA GeForce 6200 NV44 = NVIDIA GeForce 6500 NV44 = NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache(tm) NV44 = NVIDIA GeForce 6200SE TurboCache(tm) NV44 = NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE NV44 = NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 NV44 = NVIDIA GeForce 6200 NV44 = NVIDIA GeForce 6200 A-LE ----------------------------------------------------------------- PCI-E Series; NV Control Panel will only detect the Chip Revision ----------------------------------------------------------------- G70 = NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX G70 = NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX G70 = NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT G70 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 G71 = NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX G71 = NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO G71 = NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS G71 = NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 G71 = NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 G71 = NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT G71 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 G71 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 G71 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500 G71 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 G72 = NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE G72 = NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE G72 = NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE G72 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 350 G72 = NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS G73 = NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS G73 = NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT G73 = NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS G73 = NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT G73 = NVIDIA GeForce 7600 LE G73 = NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT G73 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 560 ----------------------------------------------------------------- AGP-Series; Will be detected by the NV Control Panel ----------------------------------------------------------------- NV48 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 NV48 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE NV48 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT NV48 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT ----------------------------------------------------------------- Onboard-Series; Will be detected by the NV Control Panel ----------------------------------------------------------------- C51 = NVIDIA GeForce 6150 C51 = NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE C51 = NVIDIA GeForce 6100 C51 = NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S / NVIDIA GeForce 6150LE C61 = NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 430 C61 = NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 405 C61 = NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 400 C61 = NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 420 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PCI-E Series; Will be detected by the NV Control Panel ----------------------------------------------------------------- BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 6600 BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 6200 BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS/XT BR02 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400/4400 BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5750 BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900 BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 BR02 = NVIDIA Quadro PCI-E Series BR02 = NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PCI-E Series; NV Control Panel will only detect the Chip Revision ----------------------------------------------------------------- G80 = NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX G80 = NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS G80 = NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra G84 = NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS G84 = NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT G86 = NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT G86 = NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS G86 = NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Can or Cant; Think 7xxx will be dectected as 6xxx - dont know ----------------------------------------------------------------- BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS BR02 = NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT NV44 = NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS Feedback me please your experience .. ZakMcKracken84

So I've been hearing about this one since last year. Intel's working with motherboard manufacturers to introduce a new power supply standard that's probably going to up and replace power supplies as we've known them since the mid-90's. PSUs on this standard will only supply 12V power. Intel touts this as a way for computers to lessen energy usage when idling. Here's Intel's design document for ATX12VO. KitGuru also has an article about this in a more easily readable format. That's going to come with an overhaul to how the connectors work, and also require motherboards to handle converting voltage that don't take 12v out the gate. The end result: ATX12VO requires entirely new types of motherboards. Because of that, we can probably expect this technology to supplant existing power supplies in the coming decade. As for why that's important: it's going to be another hurdle to overcome for us legacy OS enthusiasts. It's one thing to hunt down motherboards that support 9X, 2K, XP, Vista and such; it'll gradually get even harder once the power supply market adopts the ATX12VO standard and stops producing current form factor power supplies. That's, of course, assuming that companies don't build backwards compatibility into their PSUs, but I doubt that even if some did they wouldn't keep it up for very long. Whether or not we can rely on the existing stocks of power supplies out there to work reliably for pre-ATX12VO equipment in the future, I can't say for sure. The [H]ard forum has some debate about that, with one user noting "A sealed PSU is never going to last 30 years of service, no matter the usage, without being completely recapped at least a couple of times. Head on over to the vintage computer forum where we have PSUs from the mid 90s and older with dead electrolytics and exploding tantalum caps." This bridge is still quite a ways down the road, but it's something to think about. We'll see how things play out, I suppose.

I agree. I am aiming to get a new 30 series card and wish to keep LTSB compatibility as well as 8.1 support.

ZakMcKracken84: NV82.69 MDGX: http://www.mdgx.com/files/NV8269.EXE http://www.mdgx.com/files/NV8269.ZIP

That's a very good question. I never had any problems installing Java on XP with the normal installer until later versions of Java 8, where the Java still worked, but the installer became incompatible with XP and wouldn't run at all. It's not unusual to find multiple versions of Java on a system. Because some applications need specific versions, like with your problem where it needed specifically Java 7, installing a Java 8 version, for instance, does not uninstall any earlier versions which are already present. Different versions can coexist on the system quite happily. The only thing I can think of is that something on the system in question was blocking the Java installer from completing everything that it had to do. Could be security software of course. Did you ever try installing in Safe Mode, I can't remember? Some installers won't work anyway in Safe Mode of course, but it's always worth a try. It sounds like you're fine now anyway, and if you don't have anything else on the system that needs Java I can't see any reason to worry that it's not fully installed at system level. Cheers, Dave.

Regarding video downloading extensions, Ant Video Downloader is another one. It requires FFmpeg, user must point it to ffmpeg.exe, then the download is just two clicks away; click on its toolbar button and select one of the detected video streams on the website.

Software WebGL1 on Windows XP, for non-OpenGL2.0 video cards (MX440, Radeon 9250, GMA....) download opengl32.dll https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/4hr7voppxcxpqq8/opengl32.dll or MESA OpenGL Software Renderer http://trixarian.net/Chell/ opengl32.dll drag in folder ..... C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox (or another browser) In about:config webgl.disable-angle - true webgl.force-enabled - true gfx.prefer-mesa-llvmpipe - false https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193695

The minimum version of FF is 36, so it also works with NM27. With my NM28 I have no problems. Unfortunately, if I'm not mistaken (I don't download video/audio from YT with my pc but I use my Android smartphone) it doesn't work anymore with the recent changes of YT. But with other streaming video platforms it works great.

While benchmarks don't paint the "entire" picture - if I used Basilisk 52, I would be using basilisk52-g4.4.win32-git-20190727-9b0ff0e8b-xpmod. For the most part, my observations in testing Bailisk 52 is that the first in a "4.x" series performs better than the last in a "4.x" series - but I did not look for ouliers between the first and last.

Powerful, but steep learning curve that I will eventually one day tackle.

Yes, this is quite true. ^_^ Indeed, it can also be made into a rather fun learning experience if you learn and slowly digest that information within a safe environment such as a virtual machine. So, if you ever somehow broke something you could simply roll back to the previous snapshot and start from where you left off.

Well, in my case I have found Windows XP Professional x64 Edition to be a mixture of good feelings and practicality. It is mostly used for work or projects, It takes a lot of effort and time to set things up to where it all works out properly; especially in special or rare setups. I simply much prefer it over newer versions of windows because it just fits my needs quite well. I am not a fan of some changes Micro$oft has made over the years to their newer Operating Systems such as Windows 10 involving privacy issues and other things. Though further into the practicality of such... I have found that Virtual Machines also help in keeping a comfortable compatibility layer; allowing you access to certain technologies or software. For instance if there was a need to use newer versions of programs to perform specific tasks for work or other scenarios that you are not able to perform on your current older Operating System. So, ultimately I would say there is a balance, and that depends upon the users overall needs of course and what they care about.

Another problem is the multiple types of package managers. Developers have to compile for different package managers (zypper, apt, pacman, yay, emerge) but on Windows, you generally have just one type, an exe file.

I did not tell you to use the official Pale Moon build. I suggested downloading the portable and THEN COPYING THE BUILD THAT YOU DO USE INTO THE BIN FOLDER. We only want to use the "portable loader", NOT the "official Pale Moon build". ps - not for the faint of heart, but I wouldn't run antivirus software if you PAID ME TO. Never been hit with a virus (and would put money on it that I never will be). Click-Savvy. Know what you are clicking, use a good HOSTS file, use NoScript and only allow white-listed .js, use a good uMatrix list, et cetera. But again, I wouldn't run antivirus software if you PAID ME TO. But "to each their own", I know that "most" people don't like BLOCKING ALL javascript by default. But it's either nag-screens about .js or nag-screens from the antivirus software, "pick your poison". But anywhoo...

One of the many reasons why having a chrome based browser monopoly is bad. Feels like we are back in the bad old ie6 days.

No, those builds are only needed by computers that don’t even support SSE2, which is only a fraction of the remaining Windows XP diehards. I think browsers that support SSE2 will be around for a long time - they just won’t be based on the latest Chromium.

I would strongly encourage the use of the "portable loader". Using the "portable loader", I can literally run dozens of Pale Moon / New Moon / Mypal / Basilisk / Serpent / you-name-it all SIDE-BY-SIDE and all with their OWN profiles. I personally only use the 32-bit despite being on a 64-bit OS. You can download the 'official' "portable loader" from here -- https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml#Portable_versions Unzip it via 7-Zip. You should have a folder with 6 sub-folders (Backups, Bin, Downloads, Lib, ReadMe, and User), one Palemoon-Portable.ini file, and one Palemoon-Portable.exe file. For starters you should be able to just use the default .ini and .exe. Whenever you download a Roytam release, unzip his release and copy those into the portable loader's "Bin" folder. Your profile is stored in User -> PaleMoon -> Profiles -> Default. You can rename the root folder anything you want and move it anywhere you want, all path names are "relative". VERY convenient for bouncing around from one profile to the next, for testing new Roytam releases without effecting your "daily driver", et cetera. Just copy the root folder over as often as you like and name the root folder something conveniently describing your intent for that profile, et cetera. I just keep everything with the "palemoon" name (ie, my version of Basilisk has the Basilisk files copied into "Bin" but then basilisk.exe is renamed to palemoon.exe so I don't need to change my .ini. "Mileage may vary"

@halohalo If you can't/won't release the modded drivers, please provide a tutorial on how to modify the correct files. This goes much bigger than running drivers on a somewhat older Windows 10 build. Most notably, installing Windows 7's RTX 30xx drivers into Windows 8.1 is retardedly blocked by Nvidia and will instantly show the same damn error 43 if you force-install them. No, Nvidia can't be contacted about this.

Note: This step covers the remaining portion of the Settings -> Security tab. Note: The original days of the week were off by exactly 24 hours so if you are converting the Chinese yourself as a double-check, I am offset by 24 hours intentionally. Note: I did not investigate whether this 24 hour offset was due to Time Zone differences or due to computer Time & Date settings. Go to your temporary working "options" folder where you used PeaZip and extracted "options.zip". Open "privacy_security.js" in Notepad++. Do a Ctrl-F (Find) for "GetDateStr(AddDayCount)" (without the quotes) then close the Find dialog. Make the "first changes" pictured below then PgUp to the very top of "privacy_security.js". Make the "second change" pictured below. Do a Ctrl-F (Find) for "barData(data)" (without the quotes) then close the Find dialog. Make the "third change" pictured below then use PeaZip to "Medium compression, ZIP (compatible with most extractors)" all the files in the "options" folder. Cut-and-paste the new "options.zip" back into the 360Chrome -> Chrome -> Application -> 13.0.2206.0 folder (360Chrome should be CLOSED when you do this).

Back when I tried Mint with Xfce, this was as close to Windows as I could get it. But not a single desktop environment with folders as cascading menus+search, and a case sensitive file system were deal-breakers that made me switch back to Windows.

Yeah, it's kind of ironic. Like, supposedly the web has come so far, and you think back to the 90s when every website was unique and different, and the early 2000s, when a lot also look nice, and today they all look like crap, work like crap, load like crap, and all look the same. So much for progress... w2k.phreaknet.org is brought to you by all-American sweat and ingenuity!

I'd rather recommend than listening to the FBI but to upgrade your very unique Brain.exe instead. It's the best anti-virus out there. The only downside is, that Brain.exe can't be bought for money and downloading it is impossible, too. It must be fed proper knowledge to grow. And then one day, you will be capable of using the old operating systems online without running into a wall. Would I recommend to average users who use their brain on other things than computers to use Windows XP and Windows 7 for example? No, because that would put them easily in danger. But if you know, what you are doing, then you'll be able to avoid the problems. Use a hardware firewall, that you can configure. Block unwanted Javascripts. Block everything, you didn't ask for. Don't click on everything that sounds like a promising help to your problems. Learn to read links before clicking on them. These things. Also consider that something like Windows XP got more secure over time, as less and less people were using it. Windows 7 is still a very attractive target for mean hackers with circa 15% market share (2020).

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