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Hello everyone. Glad to see MSFN is still online! I'm happy to announce that the list has been migrated over to the Eclecboard forum. Huge thanks to my best friend @docR for migrating it for me to his forum and making sure all the formatting is correct. Here's the link to the sister thread on EclecBoard: https://forum.eclectic4un.me/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=113 Don't worry, I will continue to update the list on MSFN & EclecBoard for as long as both forums remain online. I am going to resume updating it again soon as I've been extremely busy in my personal life lately (and thankfully am now in a healthy, loving relationship ). After leaving the toxicity I was in before, I feel much better and have regained interest in Vista and the list again and hope to get everything squared away with it within the next couple of weeks, as there's going to be a LOT of new changes made since October 2020... Hope everyone is doing well!

Microsoft Knowledge Base (MKB) and their KB articles For getting information and solving problems in Windows XP, Microsoft Knowledge Base had been an important source for a long time. But unfortunately most KB articles relating to Windows XP were deleted by Microsoft on their servers some years ago. Now we need other sources to get these KB articles. One method is to use a Wayback Machine like archive.org. Here is the link: https://web.archive.org/ Insert the original link of a KB article and in a lot of cases it was already archived in the past. But there are other sources too. Here is the best alternative: https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_KB_Archive And this is an offline database with more than 200000 KB articles: https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftKnowledgeBaseArchive200000Articles Good luck in searching KB articles, AstroSkipper

Well, it seems that @vxiiduu has finally released his VxKex Windows 7 api extensions that you can use to run modern programs on Windows 7. It works very well so far, and makes many programs such as the latest version of iTunes which normally wouldn't run on Windows 7 run. NOTE: These are not modified Microsoft binaries, these are different binaries that just implement more functions their what would normally be on Windows 7. Link: https://github.com/vxiiduu/VxKex Latest Version: 0.0.0.2

Recently in a Microsoft PowerToys livestream, they were showing off some things with it, but the build they are using in the stream was 22540, a build expected to release to insiders next week as 22H2 has been finished basically. At that specific time, you can see it on the run box. Here is a Windows Central topic for it: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-readies-app-folders-start-and-more-features-insiders-windows-11 IMO, I am pretty hyped for this right now. I loved the aero part of Win7 so I am very hopeful they actually go through and add it back, because it seems to exist in 22540. (or 22543, dunno what build in specifics)

I've just tested Firefox 100.0b9 and 101.0a1 (released today) on: Windows 7 sp1 with no updates newer than 2015 installed (KB3033929 SHA-2 update) Vista 6003 with extended kernel and KB4474419 SHA-2 update Both versions work on Windows 7 On Vista only firefox 100 works, while 101 displays the following error when any tab is opened: I don't know if this error is SHA-2 related at all as Vista actually utilizes a newer SHA-2 update.

@George King updated amd64 build https://anonfiles.com/zcCehfa1yf/acpi_xp_amd64_forGK_3_7z and src https://anonfiles.com/v5Y4hfaby3/acpi_v4_amd64_src_7z

I tried several out of curiosity a couple years ago. Don't waste your time. I never found one that didn't result in BSODs at least once every ten minutes! If the system would boot at all!

@George King I'll make a new ACPI x64 once @Mov AX, 0xDEAD has a fix for object already existing.

I'm wondering if that Cloudtube is similar to the old youtube. It works very well!

I think better to split 1) Windows 7/8/8.1/10 EMULATION and 2) LEGACY XP Question is which variant is preferrable... When i see code like this, i want to use only Legacy XP for XP _DEP() returns empty package (if S0ID != One) for Windows10 _DEP() return depended package PEPD PEPD is big device with a lot of sub-packages inside with EMULATION version, XP must handle this garbage and nobody know how correctly

HTML5 capable browsers naturally don't process embedded Flash elements inside a video tag, even if the video in that tag fails to play. For CloudTube, a script like below takes the embedded Flash element, removes video element and puts embedded Flash element in its place. There's no error checking, if layout is changed in a specific way, it'll break. // ==UserScript== // @name CloudTube - force Flash Player // @namespace https://github.com/UCyborg // @version 1.0 // @description Removes video element from CloudTube to allow HTML5 capable browser to pickup on embedded Flash video player. // @author UCyborg // @match https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== "use strict"; (function() { // quality selector isn't programmed to have an effect on Flash player document.getElementById("quality-select").disabled = true; const f = document.getElementById("f4Player"); document.getElementById("video").remove(); document.getElementsByClassName("video-container").item(0).appendChild(f); })(); I don't remember ever checking GPU stats when Flash was still used on YouTube. Were videos actually decoded on the GPU then if supported by the host environment? I've read someone here saying they were. They seem to be always decoded on the CPU in the Flash player here. This seems to be because f4Player is coded to only use flash.media.Video class while HW accelerated decoding is provided by flash.media.StageVideo class. Also 60 FPS playback might have worked under specific circumstances. I found a hint that it supposedly worked in Flash version 11.5, but not 12.0. Either way, thanks for pointing out CloudTube, @cmccaff1. This alternative frontend is actually usable for watching videos in the browser on slower computers. Even if you have decent, but not too recent computer and want to watch higher definition / frame rate videos, Invidious insists on using AV1 codec. Poorer browsers may still be able to handle the YouTube's interface, but older CPUs will choke on AV1 codec even in the dedicated media players.

All options of the Automatic Updates (AU) applet are greyed out In Windows XP the configuration of Automatic Updates is done by an applet from Control Panel. In some cases, when you open this AU applet, all of the configuration options may be greyed out and inaccessible for the user. Very often this happens due to any of following reasons: Either you're not logged on as Administrator, or Automatic Updates Policy is enabled which can be caused for example by using WSUS + WUMT method or by individual changes to AU time intervall settings. To recover access to these options you have to delete a few keys and to change some settings in your registry. One of them has been set by using WSUS + WUMT method: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate But there are a few more keys and settings in your registry causing this behavior. I recommend to backup the registry first for safety reasons. If you are not familiar with registry keys, or you do not dare to delete or to change them, you can apply the following reg file which deletes all responsible keys and changes settings automatically. Here is the download link of FixAUOptionsGreyedOut reg file: https://www.mediafire.com/file/uqt1r3d2mz5r30x/FixAUOptionsGreyedOut.7z/file If you want to know which keys and settings are affected, have a look inside the reg file! Kind regards, AstroSkipper

I do not like the JS frameworks at all because today's developers just get them and throw it in a project and call it a day. I'd rather develop a project from zero without any third party libraries, pretty vanilla and old school style. But this doesn't make money in today's Web 2.0 world, unfortunately. I despise JS frameworks, although I do acknowledge that they are good and look good, they don't look like how I think the Web should be. I don't wanna open a browser to run a web app or a page 100% built in a JS framework knowing that my browser will not support it at all in the next years. Twitter (2006), Facebook (2003), Youtube (2005) nowadays make an extensive usage of JS frameworks and libraries, to add these unnecessary features. jQuery's first release was in 2006, four years after XP was released and 2-3 years before the last official XP update (POSReady update, not for the public in general). jQuery and JS nowadays is being overused in a multitude of projects, when in reality you don't need it at all because HTML5 and CSS3 are now very powerful. You can do a carousel or an accordion without any line of JS at all. I'm a 100% full HTML/CSS guy, old school style. I always try to find ways to make the same thing these modern things do, with just pure HTML/CSS. As for your idea, I think it is not feasible because many features used by modern sites didn't exist when vanilla JS and initial releases of jQuery were around. Linkedin's usage of PerformanceObserver, for example, wouldn't be possible. And I wouldn't want to have it anyway, because JS like this one eats a lot of memory. And old systems like XP with Pale Moon tend to choke with it because there's just not enough memory for that task. I'm in a brand new, modern 16GB notebook and sometimes a tab running facebook in my browser eats so much RAM that I have to close it when it locks up. Blame it on facebook devs. For my personal projects, I try to avoid JS as much as possible and to a minimal vanilla usage. My current personal website uses bootstrap and jQuery, but my next-gen version will be pure html old school. I just need time to develop it. As for my professional works, I try to convince the developers to take the CSS route where appropriate and convince them about it because not only it's easier, but also better performance and a better cross-browser compatibility.