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I get exactly the same from France ! Do they have something against France ?

"I pressed "Ignore..." " Better - unnotch in Settings/Advanced: "Interceptate certificate risk". No more problem: "the link to the site is not private" warning.

W2k3_SETUPLDR_SP2_to_SP1.xdelta3Most of us don't really need/use the WAIK to build our custom WinPE's. So there were always a problem to get the few tools like wimgapi, imagex or the WIM filter drivers. Attempts were made to use httpdisk to download files from inside the WAIK iso, but it was not a good solution as you still need to load hundreds of MB and it requires to install an unsigned driver. You even had to set your x64 Windows in testmode ... But now we came with a good solution: Our tool uses cURL winhttp functions provided by Homes32 to download only the needed bytes for the hugh WAIK ISO's. There is no need for admin rights and you only need to download 4-6 MB per choosen WAIK. For command line: GetWaikTools -? W2k3_SETUPLDR_SP2_to_SP1.xdelta3 GetWaikTools.zip

Note regarding versions: The regular version will have a file name ending in _rebuild_#. Versions with a file name ending in _ungoogled disables embedded Google APIs in much the same way that "ungoogled-chromium" ( https://chromium.woolyss.com/ ) disables embedded Google APIs. The "ungoogled" version is recommended for those that prefer tighter control over a Google-based browser basically giving special treatment to Google cookies and violating user preference settings. A side effect to this approach (which also exists in "ungoogled-chromium") is that the Chrome Web Store is intentionally broken only in as far as the "Add to Chrome" button is concerned. This is great for those that prefer to manually install extensions as opposed to obtaining from the Chrome Web Store. A workaround to restore the "Add to" button (special thanks to @VistaLover for this solution) can be obtained from here -- https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store Mileage may vary, for me this only added the "Add to" button but clicking it only downloaded the extensions .crx (which I personally prefer anyway) as opposed to 'adding to' 360Chrome. I had similar results with official "ungoogled-chromium" on the official Chrome Web Store (restores "Add to" button but does not actually 'add to'). Special thanks to @Humming Owl for translated .png files. Special thanks to @Dixel for discussions leading towards the "ungoogled" versions. XP x86 SP2: v12, v13, and v13.5 work as-is in XP x86 SP2 but v11 requires special modifications - see this post by @we3fan Download links for starting from scratch with a NEW PROFILE: Regular: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mes4wez1v34w9k4/360ChromePortable_11.0.2031_rebuild_8.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 9, 2022) https://www.dropbox.com/s/wol8va166au2p7j/360ChromePortable_12.0.1247_rebuild_12.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 11, 2022) https://www.dropbox.com/s/6lnst7yp0dt34s5/360ChromePortable_13.0.2206_rebuild_9.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 11, 2022) https://www.dropbox.com/s/8h4z346251wg7r8/360ChromePortable_13.5.1030_rebuild_6.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 11, 2022) Ungoogled: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6z65t5yo08fr0ym/360ChromePortable_11.0.2031_rebuild_8_ungoogled.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 9, 2022) https://www.dropbox.com/s/j5zxk7aqv9ljjjc/360ChromePortable_12.0.1247_rebuild_12_ungoogled.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 11, 2022) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ld5dz2uwdowf1cz/360ChromePortable_13.0.2206_rebuild_9_ungoogled.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 11, 2022) https://www.dropbox.com/s/glulv6r8sce6xpy/360ChromePortable_13.5.1030_rebuild_6_ungoogled.zip?dl=1 (last updated: Jan 11, 2022)

Another change has come. The contents of the updroots.sst file have been changed; the contents of the other * .sst files are unchanged.

Noted, thanks, will see what I can find.

Another quote, mine: "Better - unnotch in Settings/Advanced: "Interceptate certificate risk". No more problem: "the link to the site is not private" warning." - this has to be done originally I think.. Yes I've downloaded now 360EE_9.5.0.138_XP-SP2_M build, unnotched "Interceptate certificate risk". Some thoughts about: Youtube doesn't load video thumbnails on the home page, and doesn't play videos. MSFN website, Reddit OK, but ex. Imgur doesn't load the content of it's website...DeepL doesn't have the translation window but text at the left of it's page so it's deny with JS deny natively?... In uBlock/Filter Lists: AdGuard Base and MVPS Hosts links doesn't work cause bad url's? so "0 used out of 0" messages... deviceinfo.me show OK. Date & Time to me: https://www.deviceinfo.me/ - but say Memory (RAM): 2 GB ? - I've 3071 MB in the system tray...

WinNTSetup 5.0 Beta 4 - fixed various bug on Windows 7 Host - fixed WinRE could not display PNG compressed icons - fixed MessageBox font on Windows 11 - fixed tweaks incorrectly loaded from ini - lighter disk access during disk scanning

I work in an Engineering office with 60 other Engineers (two of them are IT but they are lumped in with Engineering Department). My computer "brightness" is not any different than any of theirs, both by "my eyes" and by "their eyes". It is the "vampires" eyesight that I worry about - I'm 20/20 and "healthy as a horse". My only doctor that disagrees is my Dentist - but that's a Mountain Dew issue I guess my BIGGEST thing is this - I have HUNDREDS of software packages installed on this system. It's an EYESORE for ONE of these software packages to be "dark" and the other HUNDREDS MINUS ONE to be of a "universal color scheme". I guess, to ME, it's also this - when I buy a book or newspaper, there is no such thing as a "dark theme". You get black text on white paper - period. I do have a "theory" but it's also admittedly just an off-the-cuff theory with no research behind it. My theory is this, that 'gamers' are huge into "dark themes" but those of us that read to read (anything from Aristophanes to MSFN) are fine and dandy with "black text on white paper". However, I do acknowledge that one of our IT guys does use a task-specific software package where all of his text is red, maroon, cyan, blue, yellow, green, purple, and white all on a dark gray almost-but-not-quite black background. But his WEB BROWSER is still black text on white background. I would hate to have his job and have to constantly toggle back and forth between the two. So for him, "I get it". But also for him, he never once has ever complained that his web browser, his AutoCad, his Microsoft Office, his dozens of other software programs, he's hever once complained that they don't have a "dark theme". Oh well... Carry on, fanboys

I'm afraid your retina could be damaged to the unrepairable levels ... I , of course , hope it is not the case , since I wish only the best for you ! But your LED lights , white walls (OMG why?) and 5 LED TVs that's what worries me . Perhaps you live in Florida or some other sunny state ? I actually have the same Dell 2408 , (am I right, it's one of your models?) and my brightness is at ZERO !!! . Of course yours may be much older and worn out, BUT 40% brightness on any Dell is NOT normal ! And your theme is not only bright, it is distracting . It is acid blue , even with more acid than the original XP theme . When I browse , the browser's UI is the least thing I want to see. It's gotta be neutral . Neutral soft colours , etc. LESS saturation. Otherwise it's counterproductive ! I'm actually not in need of any changes , since I have my own version , just tried to explain for the others. And the version I gave you , that theme was for you only , I don't use it , as you may have already guessed.

My hunch is that the Google monopoly plays HEAVILY into that !!! There is a very large amount of .css code dedicated to the "dark theme" that has nothing to do with the 360Chrome user interface - so it seems evident that there was a "concensus" by complying websites that wanted to be "included". Or I supposed more than likely something of the form of "publicly disclosed .css code" -- "If you want to follow in our footsteps and be 'dark' at night, use these .css selectors and users will flock to your site like a dung beetle to a turd." Google fully owns and controls YouTube, DoubleClick, and Fitbit (among others - YouTube our primary concern here). There were industry rumors circa 2015/2017 that Twitter was going to be acquired by Google or Microsoft - that didn't happen but Google did acquire "portions" of Twitter. But in all honesty, I just don't get it! I hear (over and over and over, actually) that my XP theme is "blindingly bright". My monitors are only 1920x1080 - they have higher resolutions but I only use them for certain map-based programs where I want to see more of a city/town at one time. I do not "hide" the taskbar so that's 1920x1050 usable by 360Chrome. If you use default tabs in the middle, my theme uses 76 rows of pixels at the top and another 25 at the bottom for the status bar. 76 + 25 = 101. Consumed from a total of 1050 horizontal lines of resolution. That is 9.62% of total horizontal lines, not undermining that - but my point is that it is the remaining 90.38% of your screen that is "blinding" you (ie, the web site that you are visiting). Auto-hide the XP taskbar and it only drops from 9.62% to 9.35%. Display tabs on top instead of bottom and we are down to 7.50% to 7.71% depending on taskbar presence - and 92.29% to 92.50% of the screen being the website that you are visiting. It "seems to me" that if you don't want basically 91% to 93% of your screen "blinding you", then we are talking about Stylus .css sheets customizing those pages and not the brower user interface only consuming 7% to 9% of your screen. Okay, we do have the settings menus - black text on white background -- but just how often are you "in" the settings menus ??? Is it the MENUS that you dark-theme users are so "against" ???

Does it have to do with the "Browser time discrepancies" section of the first post? Checked one link, but: I get the message "Your request has been blocked..." when I want to access the Microsoft website: https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_date_change_time.mspx?mfr=true I do not use a Proxy or a VPN. I don't have a Microsoft account: "Proxy server not detected" says this online check tool: https://whatismyipaddress.com/proxy-check Tor Relay IP Address: No. VPN IP Address: Not detected. Proxy IP Address: None detected - says deviceinfo.me: https://www.deviceinfo.me/ Too from deviceinfo.me: Date & Time: (edit: on Firefox fork: Basilisk Moebius): System (Live): Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 12:11:20 (UTC+02:00 GMT+2) (DST: Yes) Local (Live): Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 12:11:20 (UTC+02:00 CEST) (DST: Yes) Local Time Zone: Europe/Paris No similar error message appears while accessing some other sites, recently (but I have seen this in the past). This appears in Chrome builds and Firefox forks. My ISP is using proxy, maybe? - "Success! No Proxy Detected!" says test from http://whatismyip.network/detect-isp-proxy-tool/ ... "Success! No Proxy Detected!" - then why this Microsoft message, did you also get this weird Microsoft message from this page, please?... Edit: I've found now, that deviceinfo.me in 360Chrome builds report that: Date & Time: System (Live): Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 13:09:16 (UTC+01:00 GMT+1) (DST: No) Local (Live): Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 14:09:16 (UTC+02:00 CEST) (DST: Yes) Local Time Zone: Europe/Paris -so my SYSTEM time doesn't see DST (Daylight Saving Time) for my zone (by 360Chrome builds)?..why Indeed, in my Time zone tab of time Properties window, I've notched: GMT+01:00 for Paris (Windows choice line)! NOT good! So I change now for GMT+02:00 another zone line ... but the result is that my horloge in the tray is 1 hour in advance! so I went back to GMT+01:00 for Paris, no luck this time... Under the Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation - and time zones key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones which value I have to change, and for which one? If anyone knows the answer, it would be very welcome!

WD black 3.5" is good one without CMR. Toshiba has SMR on many disks, but avoid cheap p300 ones. Here is list ones to avoid from toshiba if do not want CMR source. I do not know from seagates since have not been used them for quite time. At the end there is no many hdd manufactures anymore, so you may have Seagate or WD/Hitachi drive rebadged from some companies. Also unless you plan RAID array do not use NAS drives, they rely on RAID controller ECC and can cause major issues

But I thought Cyndi Lauper always wore spandex? Or was that Madonna? I'll show myself out. Great to see how attentive the authors of these versions are to any issues. I don't think I've seen attention like this outside of paid enterprise-level support.

Does it have to do with the "Browser time discrepancies" section of the first post? Nice to hear that. If you find any problems feel free to report. Cheers.

About TIME/CLOCK online websites: In 360EE_11.0.2251.0_XP-SP2_M (but this same problem in latest version 12 and 13 builds of @ArcticFoxie and @Humming Owl) (but one build has good time: 360Loader 12.0.1247_reb 5 ) https://time-and-calendar.com/ This one missing 1 hour to be exact with my Paris time...why?... Another websites have my exact time, ex.: https://heure-exacte.net/

That's a company. It would help to specify which of their products you are looking for. P.S. why does this feel like deja vu?!

You're welcome , enjoy ! Hi , I'm sorry , I can't find your post I've seen a bit earlier (where you showed us your XP network settings) . You do not need all that bloat you enabled (like client for Microsoft , etc), you only need TCP/IPv.6 or v.4 (depends on the ISP). I remember I suggested you to disable some junk services earlier , and you liked it , perhaps you will like this too. Have a nice day.

If you want , I can send you [I think I had said it a very long time ago] my version, not only it has a good dark theme , but with dark webpages (inverted) . Plays 4K on youtube [even wih XP] and has no russian language . With zero russians involved during the building process. Also , it can pretend to be an iphone without detection. Due to my laziness, it still has minor English language misspellings. I should say they are more like a weird translation made by a non-native speaker. {but not russian , lol}

You're welcome ! I'm sorry for your 30 Euro down the drain . If only you lived nearby ... I could solder them for free . Buy an office Siemens board, where it could be disabled in BIOS , yes , there are some boards like that , for your 775 socket also . A good example would be Q35 chipset boards where Siemens folks made an option to disable it completely , even with a password protected setting , so no one could revert it back! I'm guessing could be found for 10-20 euro max in Germany.

Yet another link says : "Key Features: - Latest 7th Gen. Intel Core i7 processor - Latest GeForce GTX 1050 2GB GDDR5 with desktop level performance ! And you may know that the first GTX 1050 driver is 375 , so this one is (at least on par with it or even newer) So we can assume the neighbour is right . https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/NVIDIA/MSI-GL62M-7RD-NVIDIA-Graphics-Driver-373-19-for-Windows-10-64-bit.shtml

The country flags should still be there, they're just to the left of the username now instead of below.

I hope people can distinguish Hongkongers from Chineses.

I sometimes really just can't help but laugh at some of the conspiracies that run rampant in these hallways. You don't trust Chinese software, I get it. You don't trust Russian software, I get it. But how about a little perspective here! The UNITED STATES is number 2 on the list of top hacking countries worldwide! China is #1, USA is #2, Turkey is #3, Russia is #4, Taiwan is #5, Brazil is #6, Romania is #7. That ordering was true in a 2012 article and remained the same order in a 2019 article - I'll leave the Google/Bing/Duck searches for your own free time. And, um, roytam1 is Chinese - I'll ask this, where do you think top Chinese Hackers got their start? Maybe by doing projects like roytam1? What will roytam1 be doing 30yrs from now? No offense to roytam1, I/we really do love your work! But come on, does MSFN really have to be so chock full of anti-this, anti-that at every turn of the corner? But I digress...