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I will not continue with this project, I have outgrown it. Thank you for all your kind comments, advice, etc. My modified versions are removed - they are unsafe due to sandbox bypass, embeded videos do not work.

I guarantee you that you won't make an extended kernel better than VxKex - none, to be precise! You don't have even a basic knowledge of the construction of operating systems and the interdependence of system components, let alone programming (you will need knowledge of C++) If I understand your post correctly - there is NO WAY that extended kernel will work simultaneously with Windows 7 and Windows 8. I very much appreciate your desire to keep these systems alive, but so far you are at best compromising yourself. Learn the basics, and then I think, for example, win32 will be able to help you get started.

A quick update (I noticed a few of my downloads last night were not the "latest" for each version [GitHub doesn't list releases in order apparently]). Yes, I've always been happy with v96 builds. They tend to be a nice sweet spot in performance and "newer" versions add a lot of "bloat" like side-bar "features" that just degrade performance. What I actually find as a positive (for the future) is the good results for v104+. While I do not "like" them for my tastes, what it suggests is that Chromium is getting "better" and perhaps dropping support for Win7 will only prove how much FASTER the browser can become on Win10! Yet to be seen, of course, but it would be very positive (for the future of web browsers) if Chromium becomes FASTER FASTER FASTER after they abandon Win7. Not to be misread though, I still use XP most of the time here at home (I've been transitioning to Win10 but only as a "hobby" for now).

Agreed. I didn't go back as far as v90 with my tests yesterday. Here's what I am showing on one of my low-end PCs with Hibbiki versions on Win10. I have not yet compared his "nosync" versus an "ungoogled" as far as Google connections.

You can force "multiprocess mode" (aka "e10s") in Firefox 52 or @roytam1's Serpent 52 and 55, by creating the Boolean preference browser.tabs.remote.force-enable and setting it to true. This splits Firefox or Serpent into two processes. To allow more than two, set dom.ipc.processCount to a value greater than one (i.e., setting it to 2 allows 3 processes, etc.) Don't try this in New Moon, though; it will crash! It doesn't work in BNavigator or IceApe either; setting the above preference makes it appear to work in about:support, but Windows Task Manager nevertheless shows only one task no matter how many tabs are open. Edit: Summarizing what was discovered below, this preference is required to enable e10s (multiprocess mode) in FF 52 on Windows XP. But with later Windows versions, or some other FF forks on XP (confirmed with Serpent 55), you can instead use the preferences @VistaLover recommends in the next post: toggle browser.tabs.remote.autostart from false to true, and if necessary (due to add-ons flagged as incompatible with e10s), toggle extensions.e10sBlocksEnabling from true to false. In Chrome, each tab is a separate process; but in FF the maximum number of processes is limited by that preference. If you open more tabs than that value, tabs will begin to share processes vs. creating new processes.

this is in honour of are dear friend and fellow forum member @XPerceniol who left the forum not that long ago that he may be honered for what he has done here and i await his return someday. your spirit shines through and you shall light up the darkness and wash away any sorrow(s) from your past to pave the way forward." -An Old Friend may be be honored for what he did here

This is just freakishly funny ! What's the purpose of the *supposed to be secure* software that updates itself via non-secure http !??!?

Thank you sooo much - you're welcome!

well my vista install just decided it wanted to break itself and now it won't boot and can't be repaired so it looks like my testing is over for now unless I find some other way to do it (I still have 10 working on a 2nd hdd thou)

@msquidpl What about this?

Hopefully it is.

I guess this is a continuation of the detox posts?

don't get too exited to use vista as you have a haswell cpu which causes the os to not boot properly

Here it is:

@msfntor Just reminding you again that I don't have any problems with reacting to posts. (In case you still thought I do)

And additionally, I don't think WinClient5270 will be able to help in this.

He doesn't even know the basics, and I guarantee you he won't.

Since I don't know whether the guys (and girls?) from WiseVector have finally given up on their WiseVector StopX program or not, I have first completely deactivated it in my system, i.e. deactivated autostart of the program and its system service. Perhaps, they will reconsider their decision. After a deep research, I decided to give Panda Dome 22.00.00 a chance. This version is the most recent and fully compatible with Windows XP. Here are two screenshots of Panda Dome: So far, I am quite enthusiastic. The system load of Panda Dome is very low (lower than it was with WiseVector StopX), and the detection rate is supposed to be very good according to my research. I will keep you updated. Cheers, AstroSkipper

New topic to export your likes and upvotes: ...soon, I'll be back in the evening...

Personally, I see less and less need for an email account... all official needs go through my wife's account... I've never had any real spam from any company, except someone who sent me pseudo-religious emails... that's over, I don't even remember how... Also, I don't check my email very often now, only every two weeks or so... this wasn't the case before my terrible illness, but I changed some of my views - and now everything is calm, flat calm, tranquility... (when I search for flat calm in English: I always find this crazy Amazon that makes me laugh: "Great deals on flat calm in books on Amazon. Low prices on flat calm. Free shipping (see cond.)" Think "Flat Calm on a Moonless Night" is best?... Well, if you're laughing already, it means that the purpose of this post has come to a good end. In any circumstance, the best thing to do in life is to laugh a little...

Very interesting results! It seems the Chromium engine got some significant speed optimizations starting with version 96. Performance seems to have stayed more or less consistent since then, with some versions being faster than others. Of course Hibbiki's builds aren't the only game in town...I ended up finding out about them when I figured out how to download the 'stock' Chromium 95, only to discover it didn't come with a full set of codecs. As it turns out, there are multiple maintainers who have been nice enough to work on and share Chromium builds that restore some of the better aspects of 'normal' Google Chrome (including proper codec support), and Hibbiki seems to be one of the trusted folks in that regard. So far I haven't had any issues with Hibbiki's builds...Chromium 90 is working great. Smooth, speedy, and stable.

My dad used to complain constantly about the amount of spam in his inbox (and in the mailbox at the end of the driveway). It took *years* to convince him that it was basically HIS FAULT. My credit card accounts, my utility bills, my checking and savings account, they all ask for an email address when establishing online access - NONE OF MINE have my "real" email address! That could be too extreme, but the point is you have to draw a line on just who you TRUST with your "real" email address and don't just give it to "every" online web site you come accross. MSFN obviously has my real one - but my WORK email and not my HOME email. Truth be told, I did not want to but this is like the ONLY web site I've ever signed up for that would not "activate" using a 'throw-away' Gmail or Guerrilla Mail email address. But that was years ago and I don't recall the details as to why a Gmail or Guerrilla Mail account would not work at the time.

I don't use Google though. Google had blocked all of my acoounts long time ago.

Never had anything even remotely similar ! Yes, some spam is there, but mostly from the online shops I used some time ago.

Only x64 builds at the moment, I take it? Good to know this is out there Hopefully I can use it eventually on Vista Home Basic UPDATE: This requires Vista Extended Kernel, so it's of no use to and x86 Vista installation

Why use Win8/10/11? I cannot understand this. Capitalism is their goal. On every new M$ OS, more backward compatibilty is missing. They implement newer DirextX for every new OS, so that gamers need to switch their OS to newer ones if they want to play modern games. High OS -> more CPU power is needed, thats an insane policy against sustainably living, hundreds of (modern) "old" computers got thrown into city trash area every day. Programmers could do everything, but they don't want to, money interests are far more important than humanity. The same thing exist in the game developer industry. Userfriendly programmers would never remove compatibility. Hope to see a XP revival (driver support for all new GPUs, DX12 support, possibilty to install modern browser) or a massive switch-over-to-linux. It is time to stop the insanity, it's already urgent since 20 years...

Through cosmic connections ? Astral plane ?

@msfntor, thank you for your worries, but it doesn't bother me much. I'm able to give likes almost everywhere (except for the non-technical discussions).

But you wrote you also had a problem with likes, just the error message sounded differently. So @msfntor is right.

I recently created an iso with all Windows Vista updates: 862 in total. I made an iso in English and in French because I am French but I thought of you because you are a great Windows Vista community. You will find the iso on my Youtube channel, I made a video of it. This is the only title in English at the moment.

No it would not work. The problem is that UpdateProcThreadAttribute does not support Job Objects as an attribute until Windows 10 (actually since build 98xx where it works too). I actually suppressed the UpdateProcThreadAttribute error on Vista and it does not "crash" as such, but pages do not work, probably because it still does not actually initialize the job objects as such.

How are you patching kernelbase.dll? I have a virtual machine with a proxied user32.dll (i.e. user32.dll is written by me, which exports my added functions, and then proxies all original functions to "user33.dll" which is the original user32.dll). However, when I try to proxy kernelbase.dll, I get a bluescreen. STOP: c0000142 {DLL Initialization Failed} Initialization of the dynamic link library winsrv failed. The process is terminating abnormally. Inspecting winsrv.dll, we can see that it imports kernel32.dll, which in turn imports kernelbase.dll. The original Kernelbase.dll itself only imports ntdll.dll. However, my patched kernelbase.dll imports kernel32.dll due to the Microsoft visual C runtime (MSVCR100.DLL), which is a BIG problem since kernel32.dll depends on kernelbase.dll (a cyclic dependency). In order to solve this problem, I statically linked the Microsoft visual C runtime into my kernelbase.dll, resulting in only a kernel32.dll import (no msvcr100.dll import) But this still requires kernel32.dll which is the big problem. So then, I fiddled with more compiler and linker settings in order to remove the kernel32 dependency as well - as pictured. Then I went into my virtual machine and took ownership of kernelbase.dll and renamed it to krnlbase33.dll, and copied my kernelbase.dll to replace it. After rebooting, the system works. Note, that I haven't added any functions to kernelbase.dll, so I can't help you with your functions (unless you provide your source code). When you add your functions, keep in mind that you can NOT call any C runtime functions like printf, strlen, etc. You have to write your own implementations of those functions (which is easy). You also cannot call ANY function in ANY library that directly or indirectly depends on kernel32.dll. In practice, that means you can basically only call functions in ntdll.dll and the "original" kernelbase.dll (krnlbase33.dll in my example) - which is quite a lot of useful functions, actually. Note that "original" kernelbase.dll contains lstrcmp, lstrcmpi, lstrcpyn, and lstrlen in case you find those useful. Hope that was helpful, ask me if you have any further questions.

And here it is! The most awaited Vista repository with Server 2008 updates (atleast for the few people who care about the OS). Included in here are updates for both x86 and x64 architectures, and all versions of .NET available for Vista, from 2.0 to 4.6.1. If there's anything missing, do let me know. https://mega.nz/#F!txxRyLzC!1vBMGzMHiL864f3bl1Rj1w I would like to direct a huge thank you to @VistaLover and @2008WindowsVista, for testing out the updates, and listing them in an easy to copy way