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New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20251206-3219d2d-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20251206-3219d2d-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20251206-3219d2d-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251206-d849524bd-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251206-d849524bd-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20251206-d849524bd-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20251206-d849524bd-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z Win7+ x64 AVX2 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20251206-d849524bd-uxp-e4afc5655b-w7plus-avx2.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Issue #2489 - fix `color-mix` implementation. (103bd151c8) - Issue #2847 - Update tests and toolkit CSS to account for `windows-win11` (becf65d05a) - Issue #2869 - Make Purple Buffer additions check if cell is tenured. (34d1d5a650) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. My changes picked since my last build: - layout: restore xp theme names in test (c80b9fc1ea) - ffvpx: update ffmpeg to 3.4.14 ( https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/9983d098ff0ee54bc3b77676dd885883bfbe4ffb ) (83cd56dfbb) - nss: update certdata and bump ckbi version to 2.82 (d8a03301d4) - dns: update effective_tld_names.dat from https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat (e27800bb2a) - icu: update timezone data (cb88bccc0a) - security: update EV root data (c417312184) - icu: import backport of ICU-20558 (Fix regression in DateTimePatternGenerator) (dc67193fba) - icu: if langTag is empty, point it to root.txt as well (9e8e5fbd83) - icu-data: regenerate with icu_sources_data.py (e4afc5655b) Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP! * Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual. ** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions. Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20251206-23f410065-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20251206-23f410065-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: - import from UXP: Issue #2489 - fix `color-mix` implementation. (103bd151) (1791c6a30) - import from UXP: Issue #2847 - Update tests and toolkit CSS to account for `windows-win11` (becf65d0) (bb4464dfb) - import from UXP: Issue #2869 - Make Purple Buffer additions check if cell is tenured. (34d1d5a6) (be165adf3) - ffvpx: update ffmpeg to 3.4.14 ( https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/9983d098ff0ee54bc3b77676dd885883bfbe4ffb ) (c182ca3c9) - nss: update certdata and bump ckbi version to 2.82 (db7a51891) - update timezone tld and ev root data (58e09f3c7) - icu-data: regenerate with icu_sources_data.py (868997718) - icu: import backport of ICU-20558 (Fix regression in DateTimePatternGenerator) (72c196bdb) - icu: if langTag is empty, point it to root.txt as well (23f410065)

Those builds are originally for my private use and they are released because of my goodwill that I think they may help others. This bug doesn't affect me and so I don't have big intention on hunting and fixing it. If you want this to be fixed you at least need to find when the problem started to occur. and last but not least, stop gaslighting.

I didn't realise there were so many still using SP2 (why?). I will consider building the next version with PyInstaller 5.13.2 again. But do note, that in the future that may not be possible any more, due to the changes they make. Consider upgrading to SP3. In the meantime, here is a build that should work on SP2. @davidz, Do you really mean you're on SP3? Because in my SP3 machine (VM), 2025.12.06.064237 works fine: [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] User config "C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\Application Data\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--rm-cache-dir', '--console-title', '--add-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--js-runtimes', 'quickjs', '--ppa', 'ffmpeg:-metadata synopsis=""', '-o', '~/Bureaublad/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-S', 'res:1080,vcodec:avc,acodec:m4a', '--sponsorblock-remove', 'all', '-N', '6'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.12.06.064237 (winXP_x86_exe*) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.5.2 5 Aug 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-121824-g775b102182-WINXP (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-121824-g775b102182-WINXP, phantomjs 1.9.8 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2025.11.12, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.6.0, websockets-15.0.1, yt_dlp_ejs-0.3.1 [debug] JS runtimes: quickjs-2025-09-13 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1853 extractors Removing cache dir C:\Documents and Settings\Nico/.cache\yt-dlp ..

https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Chromium-for-windows-7-REWORK He made few reworked versions. It also can support XP and Vista without extended kernels

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20251206-40a79c75-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z BNavigator Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20251206-40a79c75-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/tree/custom * Notice: the profile prefix (i.e. parent folder names) are also changed since 2020-08-15 build, you may rename their names before using new binaries when updating from builds before 2020-08-15. -- New build of HBL-UXP for XP! Test binary: IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20251206-id-656ea98-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20251206-id-656ea98-ia-c642e3c-uxp-e4afc5655b-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/icedove-uxp/tree/winbuild https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild

There are a lot of clean installations using a CD including SP3 and IE8. If I had to install from scratch I would use a version which contains all updates until 2014 and therefore including IE8.

Of course,. I said to @Dave-H some posts above the more the better and he agreed by replying the more the merrier.

But does anyone still use IE6 in Windows XP seriously? IE8 is crap but IE6...No way!

Very strange! WSUS server + WUMT was the first method which worked without any problems from the first time I tried. Yes, it's the same.

Maybe in Explorer options you have hidden system files and extensions.

Sorry, I can't see the mentioned files in your folders. I see only the file wsus3setup.cab in first screenshot but in second one none of them. And don't hide your extensions of files. They are important to have a look at.

Error code 0x8007000D means Error_invalid_data. Therefore I think using the XP version won't fix it probably. You have to find another version if it exists at all. Did you copy wsus3setup.cat too? Without it won't work. Both files wsus3setup.inf and wsus3setup.cat are included in cab file wsus3setup.cab.

@maile3241 I've checked the location of wsus3setup.inf once again. The file exists in two folders, one copy is in folder WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\SelfUpdate\Default\ and the other in WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\WebSetup\. Both files have been accessed by WU. Maybe you missed one location.

Maybe the file version of wsus3setup.inf is incorrect. Search for a version related to Windows 7. Maybe within a normal Window 7 system. wsus3setup.inf is located in folder SoftwareDistribution. But I've never used MU web site in Windows 7 so it is only a guess.

Release: https://github.com/LordOfMice/Tools/blob/master/nvme9x.zip https://github.com/LordOfMice/Tools/blob/master/nvment.zip https://github.com/LordOfMice/Tools/blob/master/nvme2k-src.zip readme: NVMe driver for Windows 9x. Base: nvme2k 1.0.0.2 https://github.com/techomancer/nvme2k Changes: Port for Windows 9x, 64-bit LBA & Fixes 1. Generic - added SCSI 64-bit LBA commands processing (large drives support). Tested on Windows 9x ONLY - fixed controler shutdown code - speed up of command queueing and it is less CPU consuming - fixed enormously low speed or false positive errors on executing of large size requests - various code rectifications 2. Windows 9x specific - port with 2 bug fixes - install script nvme9x.inf written Install and uninstall as usual hardware, nothing specific.

Yes, there are no more working license keys for My ancient version of Kaspersky. My last license key for My ancient version of Kasperky expired 10 years ago. When I then contacted Kaspersky in the US they informed me that they had no more license keys for My ancient version of Kaspersky for sale, and that I should contact their head office in Moscow, maybe they could sell me one. But that looked a little complicated to me, and I don't need daily updates. My ancient version of Kaspersky is definitely not eliminated. It is a trial version which has NO EXPIRATION DATE, in contrast to subsequent trial versions by Kaspersky, and runs indefinitely without a license key. It has been used nearly daily over the past 10 years, with near-current signatures, without requiring a license key. The limitation of this trial version is that it can be updated ONE time after installation. After the first successful signature update, the update button is greyed-out and doesn't work anymore. Here is the explanation of why My ancient version of Kaspersky is still updateable: I have been making progressive clean opsys/partition backups, since the initial installation of WinXP: step 1) created a clean opsys/partition backup step 2) test-installed e.g. 5 new programs, and e.g. 4 of them were rejected and 1 should be kept step 3) restored the preceding clean opsys/partition backup step 4) made a clean re-install of the program(s) I wanted to keep step 5) created the next clean opsys/partition backup with the new program(s) I wanted to keep etc The benefit of such progressive, clean opsys backups is that the computer stays clean and free of junk. When I made the clean install of My ancient version of Kasperky (step 4), - I installed the program - made all the desired customization settings - created a new progressive, clean opsys/partition backup (step 5), WITHOUT having updated Kaspersky The benefit of creating a progressive, clean opsys/partition backup of Kaspersky, WITHOUT having run the 1st signature update, is that the opsys backup file and all subsequent progressive backups do not get bloated with 700+ MB of signatures. A side benefit of creating a clean opsys backup of My ancient version of Kaspersky, WITHOUT having run the 1st signature update, was that whenever a subsequent progressive opsys/partition backup was restored (step 3), e.g. when making a new progressive opsys backup, a virgin version of Kaspersky was back again, permitting an update with the current signature.. I make progressive, clean opsys/partition backups about every 2-3 months, with new good stuff added progressively. My ancient version of Kaspersky has worked fine for me, even with signatures up to 3 months old. Below are two screenshots of My ancient version of Kaspersky under WinXP SP3, updated last week to the signature of 3Dec2025. The Server edition of My ancient version of Kaspersky also installs, runs and updates fine under Windows Server 2003 on my Inspiron 7500 laptop (Pentium III of the year 2001, 700MHz). Below are three screenshots under Windows Server 2003 of 20Nov2025. I had installed Win2003 on my Inspiron 7500 because WinXP cannot be made to work with GPT HDDs >2TB on a Pentium III laptop. My ancient version of Kaspersky can virus-check OK stuff on a 4TB HDD, under Win2003 on a 24-year-old Pentium III laptop, although it is extremely slow.

For XP and Vista, you will also very likely need "VMware Tools 10.0.12". They can be found at the Internet Archive - BUT since they seem to also contain items in violation of MSFN forum rules, I feel it best to not "link" them here. Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo for "archive.org vmware player 12.5.9" then do "parent directory" browsing until you stumble upon "VMware Tools 10.0.12". Some people label them as "legacy" or "preVista". edit: have not used, I tend to stick with VirtualBox versions 5.1.22 and 7.0.26 as I have my system configured to use BOTH OF THEM at the same time. I use 5.x for everything except Win11 testing, which needs 7.x (maybe 6.x, don't recall) or higher. and on second thought, the archive.org links "should" be safe to post here at MSFN. according to Wikipedia, VMware has been *FREE* since mid-2024 (news to me, free is why I've always used VirtualBox instead).

I really think it is time for you to stop festering roytam over your YouTube playback issues. Roytam has replied and you keep festering, festering, festering. @Dave-H - can you please add this to your "watch list"?

Maybe the problem is in the splitter. You have updated ffmpeg 3.4.14, the new version of ffmpeg will not necessarily work better than the old one. You might want to try older versions of ffmpeg from 2009. They may work even faster. Because the new ffmpeg is very much oriented to 64 bit and windows 10. The ffmpeg developers are sponsored by donations from google and microsoft related entities. Also, if possible, I recommend you look up the answer in Centaury's code https://github.com/Feodor2/Centaury/releases

I've uploaded v3.6.0 (for which my AMD Ryzen AI MAX 385 for the first time did all the hard, and particularly quick, work). Please confirm it works on WinXP.

Hi nicolaasjan, I still use XP SP2 for now, I tested the latest yt-dlp 2025.12.06 and when I try to download a video it says: "... api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll was not found." hmm, it doesn't work with any command I try. (example: yt-dlp --version ) Can you please keep yt-dlp be able to work on XP SP2 if possible? I would also like to say a big THANKS to you nicolaasjan for all your hard work with yt-dlp and making video download possible on older OSs.

I appreciate your work, so no offense. I downloaded your first version basilisk52-g4.1.win32-git-20180224-dc7ceccf8-xpmod it already has this defect. And to check it is enough even just to throw mp4 file on browser tab and change playback speed in player. While checking noticed that for example in basilisk52-g4.1.win32-git-20180224-dc7cececcf8 CPU load during normal playback is lower than for example basilisk52-g4.6.win32-git-20200725-4d76d4e-uxp-1e0bb1d35-xpmod. The difference is very small, 2-5%. In general I realized that you do not want to fix or can not, too bad.

I'm not a developer. If roytam1 is a professional, he should look for the causes of the bug and the browser version himself, not send users who do not understand many technical issues to do it. It would be very funny if when reporting a bug in firefox, mozilla would say "you look for the problem yourself, we don't know anything".

You're welcome, as for Vista, the guy in the topic you linked, wrote it worked with the early i3 series. Pentium you mentioned is a newer chip.

No. https://msfn.org/board/topic/182660-intel-hd-haswell-drivers-modded-for-vista/#findComment-1198948

Sometimes high, sometimes low. I can't recognise any particular pattern.

Thanks for replying! And yes, I know very well your opinion about POSReady updates for Windows XP. But on my computer, Thorium only works in my Windows XP system with all POSReady updates. Maybe by accident, and there is another causer for my described issue. That's all a bit strange. Are there any specific requirements for Thorium in terms of system software, especially regarding runtime libraries and so on?

Now, a question to all who are running Thorium under Windows XP Professional SP3 with all updates after SP3 but without any POSReady updates. Does Thorium work under these conditions? I have two Windows XP installations, one with and one without POSReady updates. When I start Thorium on Windows XP without POSReady updates, it crashes randomly without any messages. With crashing I mean a sudden closing of the browser without any actions by me, either directly when starting the browser or seconds respectively minutes later.

The installer cispremium_only_installer.exe inside the zip archive is definitely the original one. I already extracted it and checked its content.

ROG - precisely about Asus PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse combo port. "I have purchased 6 PS/2 Y splitter..." https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/z170/ps-2-keyboard-mouse-combo-port/td-p/574618

Either of you tried to mod the desktop drivers? There's a chance up to R430 Kepler might work. https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/151873/en-us/

Yes, but not via DVI. "Nov 3, 2013 — Dual link DVI cannot support 10-bit color at 1440p. 1920x1200 or 1920x1080, maybe." https://linustechtips.com/topic/71182-does-dual-link-dvi-support-10-bit-colours-1440p/ Like I said, try Display Port.

First, try to forcefully set the full RGB mode. Second, 10-bit is only supported for their pro-grade cards, no wonder you see the black screen, even if the monitor supports it. Third, newer cards are tend to be overbright, so again no wonder there's a drastic distortion, they simply distort the vibrancy. Try lowering the digital vibrancy setting.

@Cocodile, thank you for the information! I had a chance to read the topic soon enough after you posted! A very interesting fact they mentioned, even VPN services are infested with that malicious AppMetrica Yandex API, hundreds of them. We'd have to assume the popular Browsec also has it. No wonder it has so many negative reviews and articles questioning its security and reliability. Such VPN services are definitely not advisable to use on iOS.

From my research, WD is simply not capable to produce disks of any capacity above 6TB. I have WD60EFAX (6TB SMR), it's fine, despite the new not so popular SMR tech. It's still too new to tell about the longevity.

What are you trying to edit "without success"? "Sunsetting Chrome Translate for old Chrome" - is the cause. Research done in a couple of clicks. https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/217285368/sunsetting-chrome-translate-for-chrome-m95-and-older?hl=en They claim to still support 96 and up, which is not entirely true, at least on my end, I was only able to get translate fully working with Chrome 103 (May or June 2022).

My version of 11/12/2019 is probably the same that you have used from November 2019. Then it works offline with this version but using WSUS server + WUMT doesn't work in your system. Is that correct?

And what else do you use? A bit more detailed information would be helpful!

Thanks for upload of your Windows Update log! As far as I can see in you have used WSUS proxy method to get notification from systray shield. Is that correct? As mentioned above it works in my system too but that's not the problem actually. Only using HTTPSProxy switched on, no WSUS server. Is it then working too? I don't think so.

I use Glarysoft's Quick Startup. It has a delayed startup feature too. Very good tool and afaik more recent. No, I meant wuauclt /detectnow doesn't work for me too. No notifying of new updates (and in my case there is one), no shield in systray, no entries in event log. Sorry for confusing! It's not my day! Automatic Updates Control Panel applet is not greyed out and can be called up but changing settings by this applet has no effect.

Also , one could buy a dozen of SIM cards from albanians at the nearest train station . Though they could still ping your location, if you have a battery in your phone . Or go to a big city , like Paris , activate with a SIM from there . Return home. Forgot to say , do NOT forget to use burners .

I don't , I just ignore such websites. They can go and screw themselves . Less money for them , it's as simple as that. In the end , what's their goal ? To sell goods or to track us ? And again , not a problem for the Dixel's starter (can change your fake ID with a given interval or not change at all , just allow to generate it once).

Not the case with Dixel's starter . It generates a new hardware ID and fake fingerprint each time your start your browser . I don't know about the one he gave you (which version) , but should also be doing the same thing . If not , there's a newer one. Try visit such websites and see what happens . I always get a captcha if I turn the advanced privacy setting on in the starter , and even if I solve that captcha , it asks me again because it can't make a proper fingerprint . As far as I know , from what he told me , they fingerprint you by your videocard first . And then by your driver , CPU , RAM size , system and vendor . All that should match with what the browser reports . No matches : captcha again .

I was wondering it myself , First - there is a "service worker" tracker folder [which is not deleted], second - there is a folder named "dailybackup" ?!?!. It has many files with "favdb" extension and each login session data for every day, possibly they are responsible? Yes , would be nice to hear @Humming Owl's opinion . Thanks.

I think those are the consequences of the tab freezing nonsense google introduced in 7.xx chrome versions. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/146276-how-enable-disable-tab-freezing-google-chrome.html

An interesting discussion, I want to join . While I agree that "its" could be dropped , I don't fully understand the purpose of what you wrote after besides . In his sentense Youtube could NOT be considered a collective name because he wrote "youtube is" , NOT "are", so saying "their" would be a severe grammar error , don't you think ? So how is this relevant ?

There you have it ! You need ONLY 64 bit . I will share this direct link to ALL official Opera versions from their archive . https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/ You just need to extract it with 7zip , replace the files in your portable version, no installation needed . And use that portable launcher. Everyone , notice he has Aero working with Opera...

I didn't have any problems with "SP0" , except that it somehow limited some games in terms of video memory . I mean it did have that weird limit with newer games that needed more than 512mb of VRAM . I'm talking about both 32 and 64 bit . That was fixed in SP1 . As for the speed , I had superfetch and indexing disabled and everything was smooth (with SP or without), very similar to XP , I agree that XP (out of the box) could be faster in theory , I think it's because it had less unneeded services , but they can be disabled in Vista. The thing that really bothered me - freaking white folder background (which coudn't be changed by a simple user). What about you ? Edit : I too replaced Vista on my laptop for some time because I couldn't change the background . But I went for Win2000 Pro.

What's there to check out ? You've already done a marvellous thing ! One can make this flag permanent and use the browser with it forever . I think it's better to investigate what causes the locale problem with the extensions . Or , as I said earlier , figure out how to force everything to use English (block other locales) . I already added this flag to the starter (with ungoogled) quite some time ago. Oh , and extensions without locales will work (I checked with chromium 86). By the way , the new files are already in the mega folder ?