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Hello Leokids123. You asked: "Can you disable your adblocker and enable Javascript?" Answer: Javascript is enabled in St52 when visiting Paypal. And this is the result when trying to sign in my Paypal account with ST52 and - hosts file adblocking disabled - DNS server adblocking disabled It is as NotHereToPlayGames said: "the SECURITY CHALLENGE CANNOT BE LOADED."

I did just discover that the paypal slide mouse screen in my older version of Serpent is DEPENDENT UPON the ISP that I use. I canceled my previous ISP but it remains active until the end of my billing cycle (I only have two more days) - I get no slide mouse screen in Serpent when connected via my previous ISP (cable). I *DO* get the slide mouse in Serpent (unsolvable - checkbox turns green but page does NOT advance) in Serpent when connected via my new ISP (fiber optic).

No. I just took the time to find it. It is Intel VMD (Volume Management Device), which is directly related to VROC on servers but Intel has been including this feature in their mobile chipsets where it really doesn't serve a purpose. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000101179/memory-and-storage/datacenter-storage-solutions.html

98, SE, and ME do have VirtualAllocEx, only 95 doesn't. Use ImportPatcher or Dependency Walker to find all missing functions. If there are only a few, I can write a wrapper.

NotHereToPlayGames said: "Both results are TECHNICALLY THE SAME! ie, the SECURITY CHALLENGE CANNOT BE LOADED." Hello roytam1, when trying to access my Paypal account with the latest St52 (2025-08-21), I have to confirm NotHereToPlayGames: And now for NM28 (2025-08-21) with the same PC and the same system settings: That's obviously a difference ! NM28 works with Paypal and St52 won't. WHY ?

I now get this with both of my ISP's. ie, both land on the slide mouse page, both get the green box that the slide mouse page PASSED, but then both end up being blocked with "We couldn't load the security challenge."

Okay, well, I can report that the Restore Session page **IS** working in the most-recent version of Serpent v52. I terminated via Task Manager ten consecutive times and ALL TEN presented a populated windows/tabs table. In the past, two or three of those ten would *NOT* present the table, it would just open/restore my last session **WITHOUT** presenting the table - this is not a "functioning" feature. But I can not replicate this behavior with most-recent version, ALL TEN terminations function properly.

Hello NotHereToPlayGames, You said: "Newer versions of Serpent *do not work* on my end because Session Restore is a **MUST**. I have noted these Session Restore issues in the past and intermittent as they are in newer, I have *ZERO* problems with Session Restore in my older version." ------------------------------------------------------------ I have *ZERO* problems with Session Restore in my latest version of Serpent St52.

For Palemoon/Newmoon maybe try the UnMHT extension (legacy extension): https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/en-gb/firefox/addon/unmht/versions/ Direct download for UnMHT: https://addons.thunderbird.net/firefox/downloads/file/662569/type:attachment/unmht-8.3.2-an+fx+sm+tb.xpi?src=version-history For Chromium/Chrome/Brave Browser/etc just save the webpage as MHTML. This option may have to be enabled inside the chrome://flags settings page. If you don't have the option to save a webpage as MHTML, then search for 'MHTML' in chrome://flags.

Try these experimental filters in Ublock Origin (I don't know if they are working with uBO Legacy...). From: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1nf7heb/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2025_megathread_2/ It worked for me in current Firefox. </Offtopic>

@awkduck Well, in theory it is possible if we had a team of expert software engineers and system programmers who know 9x in depth, who would dedicate their time to this problem. It is not a simple problem and would require modifying some vxds and dlls and adding new functionality. At first glance it may not look like that, and it may seem simple, but just look at kernel32.dll it is only 460kB, but its assembly code when disassembled is about 5.5MB. Also VMM.VXD is about 450kB but when disassembled it is about 2.5MB of assembly code. Similar applies to VWIN32.VXD and others. There would also be a problem with the shell, User32.dll and GDI32.dll and others which are not fully 32-bit but most of their most important functionality is actually 16-bit because 9x systems are hybrid. And many other important files that would have to be modified. And not just a small modification but a complete reengineering is required. That is a MASSIVE task and therefore it is not realistic to expect such a thing to happen in practice. But we can still use multiprocessors/multicores for, some calculations and such things...

You should only need to SORT them by EXPIRATION DATE and isolate which have been updated most recently. HOWEVER, this is NOT a guarantee that you will end up getting paypal to work in non-chrome. IT IS ONLY THE *FIRST* HURDLE and there could be a DOZEN hurdles in front of you. It doesn't even mean that you will find a cert! Again, there are going to be a DOZEN hurdles, certficates should always be the FIRST (in my opinion) to clear. Nowadays, CSS is next. Then JS. And DON'T EVEN BOTHER changing your user agent! The sooner you break that "old school" thinking, the better. (again, just my opinion)

So it worked initially?, what was it set to? DXVA2(native) or none ? LAV settings can also be accessed from the start menu, K-Lite Codec Pack\Configuration There will likely be 2 one for mpchc and one system-wide, set both to whatever worked, if settings crash, redo k-lite codec pack setup and configure those options during setup Test dreamscene Some applications may not respect LAV configuration settings, in that situation you will usually have to remove DXVA2-related dlls installed by the graphics driver so they will have no chance to use something broken, I'd done this once with AMD drivers The fact that symptoms are the same between AMD and NVIDIA gpus however makes me think that you have a conflicting other application/driver installed as these are all old vista-supported gpus not something that needs custom drivers EDIT: And did you uninstall AMD drivers with DDU before installing nvidia? (latest for vista - DDU v18.0.4.6.exe)

So now that you have the codec pack, launch MPC-HC that got installed with it and try to play a h264 test video https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h264 launch LAV splitter video settings - the red icon in the system tray, there is a "Hardware Decoder to use:" in the top middle, test various hardware decoders and check which do and don't work, make sure H.264 is checked under codecs for HW

Is any of the extended kernel-like stuff installed?

just trying to make sure it is worth our whike doing all the above, what compression rate are u referring to? the compression rates that we are practically accustomed to are reasonably satisfactory - a very good compression rate can be achieved thru winntsetup itself by clicking on the start square icon on the top right corner of the mask and then on "local windows installations", then right-clicking and selecting compact windows, choosing "lzx" and ticking the recompression box below. yet other good compression rates can be achieved thru windows10tweaker.exe from the optimization section (the only inconvenience being with this one here that u cannot do anything while it is compacting as everything freezes till the end of the process). pls try both and compare with ur rar kinda thing for best compression results.

Working at the now bankrupt captcha company that hired low wage poor educated individulas, and we see the result. But like I already wrote, they allowed me to get in only by guessing the word! It's strange to see people having troubles understanding simple sentences, even with the screenshot attached. Now I get a standard Google captcha (very simple!), But I only tried from work.

Just like Supermium, others have a huge memory leak and crashes, so I tested this one, no leak! Most likely due to the 32bit nature. https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Chromium-for-windows-7/releases/tag/136.0.7063.0 More info about the leak. https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1566

The browser I was using was Roytam1 Newmoon28-sse browser it is recent build 2025-08-08 I will update it and a;so try with other browsers. I see a file that is maybe it's a base64 orientated which cold have all the pictures. Now understand for your thinking all the pictures should be there and showing. As the web page did download completely. After updating and trying with other browsers if I am still getting the same results I will let Roytam1 know in his thread my-browser-builds-part-5 Thanks for the info Tripredacus

ok next besides assembly would be c++, windows drivers, physical harddrive knowledge and how its programmed to (not engine/api like createfile and writefile or script like "copyfile c:\a.txt c:\b.txt) to write this to a windows xp driver you also have to have knowledge about pe headers sections, relocs ect.

Colour is spelt as colour in all countries, except one. You wrote, this forum is based in Europe, France to be precise, as we all know, and I always read what you write with attention. No one spells "color" in Europe, apart from (maybe, just my guess) some oldish people, like 90 or more, from the period of US/USSR occupation of Europe in 1945. But they can't join the forum, obviously, and any other generations of Europeans had learnt British English at school, like the rest of the World. "I mentioned but MSFN is based in Europe" https://msfn.org/board/topic/184809-alternative-location-for-discussing-msfns-status-if-msfn-is-offline/page/6/#findComment-1280862 Addition, the absence of articles points out to a foreigner working there.

Tripredacus, the user could be from a troublesome location, Nigeria, Russia, Uganda, whatever. I tried to make an account, they simply asked me for a word. I didn't even have to solve captchas. Though, there is an error in the word colour, a misspelling.

I managed to boot Windows 2000 with Clover UEFI32 and Longhorn 5472 boot files on real hardware. Only problem is, no screen. But sound and disk activity exist and heard Windows sounds. Even GTX980 driver does not display (both in legacy and UEFI boot with longhorn files. But displays normally with ntldr). This problem does not happen in XP. It displays correctly. @reboot12 @Dietmar maybe you guys can solve with patches. For NT4, it wants kdcom.dll and bootvid.dll. If these files bypassed or patched, it can boot with UEFI. EDIT: Display worked when I switched DP to HDMI for win2000! For NT4, I managed to bypass kdcom.dll but this time, 0xc000007b bootmgr kernel error (not BSOD). Maybe it requires ACPI or bootmgr should look non-ACPI hal. EDIT 2: Tested also with QEMU and it worked. Video: https://youtu.be/NLW0Eg1nDNU

I don't know about AI in search engines, but AI in general seems like one of those things that will corrupt already too corrupted mankind even further.

Too less information and posting of one sentence comment again! The next one I will ignore! I looked into your log. You had and have a lot of problems relating to your Windows Update client. Do carefully following steps of my guide again: 9, 10 and 11. Steps 14 and 15 only if necessary as described in my guide. And I'm serious, no more one sentence comments with nonsufficient information! "here is the log" is nothing! The next one I will ignore definitely! A complete screenshot of ProxHTTPSProxy's log window while accessing MU only (no other connections to whereever) plus information about your system and what you have done so far, are missing too.

Did you read my post above? I need information about your system and what you have done so far. And in your ProxHTTPSProxy's log window there are fatal ssl tunnel errors. What did you do? Post additionally a complete screenshot of ProxHTTPSProxy's log window while accessing MU only (no other connections to whereever) and upload your WindowsUpdate.log located in folder \Windows! And please, no more one sentence comments with nonsufficient information! Compare my posts to yours and you know what I mean!

@LonghornXP Any assistance is senseless without information about your system and what you have done so far. You are bombing this thread with error codes but you didn't explain what you did to generate them. And regarding your language skills, please use Google Translate additionally to post clear statements and comments! PS: It's not meant to be mean! But speaking and writing in a clear way is mandatory.

Whatever will happen and whatever fate befalls my little guide, thank you for your interest and your efforts! I totally agree. The Wayback Machine is great but for more complex backups especially due to incompatibiliy in backing up links on MSFN, it's not an option. Thanks for clarifying. It's very sad but we must make a mark, no matter how small. I do have a DropBox account, therefore it is an option, of course. As I already mentioned above there has to be a possibility for me to delete old and add new versions of this guide. Thank you for understanding and respecting that! What tool do you use to generate a html version of my guide? In the past I had different problems with a lot of tools. Simple constructed web sites, no problem, but more complex and linked sites, I got partially or completely results which were terrible. So far, kind regards, AstroSkipper

You mean you are getting now error code 0x80244004. If so, you should check or perform step 11 once more. You have to verify the existence of patched "wuaueng.dll" in mentioned folders. Be aware of SFC which tries to restore an original old version of this file! After patching restart your computer and check again! And please, more information about your system and what you have done so far. Anyway, doing all steps correctly and keeping the order should let the probabiliy of success increase to nearly 100%.

We can talk about your problems and error codes tomorrow. But one thing I can say: you probably missed a step of my guide or a step wasn't performed properly. If you have a fresh installation of XP, check step 14 and 15. So long! Good night!

You have to answer quickly because I am tired and want to go to bed.

You mean while calling up MU in Windows XP you get the error code 80072F78. Is that correct?

Hi @cc333, I have never noticed that you've read and liked my guide. But thanks for reading and apparently liking! Usually there is a little button called "Like" to let me know that. Anyway, I think we are talking about my "Complete guide for restoring Microsoft Update in IE". I already wrote it in 21th of January. Due to new facts, modifications and reorder of some steps I've updated it in the last two days and for now it's finished. The linking to other posts is very important to get additional and necessary information. But could you be more specific relating to your request "if you have any input"? What kind of input do you need? And where shall these html sites be mirrored to? You see, a lot of questions we have to talk about. And forget about any old versions of my guide. The only interesting version is the current one. So long! Kind regards, AstroSkipper

I disabled automatic updates a long time ago. I thought this app would use IE engine to check for updates. So actually you had to keep HTTPSProxy running generally. I think you don't really want to do that. Therefore disable automatic updates! Unfortunately there will be no more updates in future. But since restoring MU you can check manually for updates at any time.

Microsoft had changed a lot in the past. Maybe they had switched back to old ciphers in this short time in Dezember.

Due to the fact that in Windows XP (and 2000 too) you can only use IE or IE engine to access to MU and the ciphers of IE are outdated you have to use ProxHTTPSProxy or HTTPSProxy to add modern, more recent ciphers to IE or IE engine. Therefore is the answer from my point of view: No!

@Dave-H Great! I'm glad your system has got back all features you wanted to have.

Here the DNS servers I suggested: Google Public DNS. 8.8.8.8. 8.8.4.4. and Cloudflare. 1.1.1.1. 1.0.0.1. Try them! And here's another fix referring to error code 0x80072f8f I have found while researching: Open in a registry editor the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\LastRestorePointSetTime. Here you can see a date and a time (that's my idea to find a suitable point in time). Now go back to this date and time plus for example one hour. Try to access MU. Reboot. Then adjust clock to current date and time. Do a synchronization. Reboot. Then try again! The idea is to go back in time to the last successful update on MU web site and try to access the MU server. Some people had success with turning back time to solve error code 0x80072f8f. And here a screenshot of my Internet Options - Advanced referring to HTTP settings: https://imgur.com/EHW7rix

@Dave-H Ok, thanks for further details! I have compared our lists of certificates intently. If you had compared our lists of certificates intently too you would have realized that only one of them is identical. And that is the list of certificates referring to Microsoft in Third Party Root Certification Authorities. But in my list of Intermediate Certification Authorities I have 8 certificates referring to Microsoft and you only 3. Have a look! That's a big difference. If wanted I can upload these missing certificates via PM so that you can import them under Intermediate Certification Authorities. As I told you two posts above expired certificates can still be required and in use too. At last I have analyzed your Windows Update Log once again. Here the interesting lines: 2022-02-01 22:53:27:781 1856 9b0 PT +++++++++++ PT: Synchronizing server updates +++++++++++ 2022-02-01 22:53:27:781 1856 9b0 PT + ServiceId = {7971F918-A847-4430-9279-4A52D1EFE18D}, Server URL = https://fe2.update.microsoft.com/v6/ClientWebService/client.asmx 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 Misc WARNING: Send failed with hr = 80072f8f. 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 Misc WARNING: SendRequest failed with hr = 80072f8f. Proxy List used: <https=localhost:8080> Bypass List used : <<local>> Auth Schemes used : <> 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT + Last proxy send request failed with hr = 0x80072F8F, HTTP status code = 0 . . . 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT WARNING: GetConfig failure, error = 0x80072F8F, soap client error = 5, soap error code = 0, HTTP status code = 200 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT WARNING: PTError: 0x80072f8f 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT WARNING: GetConfig_WithRecovery failed: 0x80072f8f 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT WARNING: RefreshConfig failed: 0x80072f8f 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT WARNING: RefreshPTState failed: 0x80072f8f 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT WARNING: Sync of Updates: 0x80072f8f 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 PT WARNING: SyncServerUpdatesInternal failed: 0x80072f8f 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 Agent * WARNING: Failed to synchronize, error = 0x80072F8F 2022-02-01 22:53:28:796 1856 9b0 Agent * WARNING: Exit code = 0x80072F8F As we already know Microsoft Update 0x80072f8f error code means ERROR_INTERNET_SECURE_FAILURE ErrorClockWrong. What does it really imply in your case? You can see it in your Windows Update Log. Look at bold text! A client fails to contact its server. In your case client is your computer and server is Microsoft Update Server. Request sent from your computer to MU failed. Synchronizing of client and server failed. Getting configurations failed. That' your problem. What is the conclusion? The connection and synchronization failures between client and server have to be fixed. At first we have to think about what we've already restored and fixed. The Windows Update Agent looks fine and you have reported that all steps of my post "Manually reset Windows Update components (KB971058)" have been performed: Have you performed step 4 too or have you skipped it as recommended? If you skipped step 4 then it should be catched up. Furthermore I added another registering of a DLL component: in step 6: Perform this registering to complete step 6. Now some settimgs: Go to IE Internet Options, Advanced and click to select the Use HTTP 1.1 and the Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections check boxes if not already selected. Next check if system service HTTP-SSL has system been started. If not start it and set it to Auto Start. Now reboot your computer, try to access MU again and post your Windows Update Log. If these tips don't solve the problem I have another one: Change your DNS servers to Cloudflare or Google and check if it helped. I use often DNS servers of Cloudflare but at the moment the servers of my provider. So far from me today!

@Dave-H I've read an interesting article of a person who had same error code and the solution was a missing certificate in a chain of certificates. Check if following certificate exists under Trusted Root Certification Authorities: GTE CyberTrust Global Root valid until 14.08.2018. I know it has expired but I've read that such expired certificates can still be in use. It's just a try. Furthermore I've found another tip that obviously others had helped: And one more question: Do you have a normal installation of XP or are you running it in a VM? Is your computer a clent or server in a network or a stand-alone one?

@Dave-H Yesterday I had trouble to access Google and other web sites using HTTPSProxy. What had happened? I checked and found out that HTTPSProxy's cacert.pem was faulty. I downloaded a new one manually from this link https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem and copied it in HTTPSProxy's program folder. I deleted all certificates in certs folder and after starting the proxy I could access all sites without any problems. Updating cacert.pem in SysTray menu is working again. So what is the teaching of that? You have to check and deeply too. Comparing two files only due to size and date is not enough. A binary comparison is necessary or comparing hash values. You can do it for example with Total Commander. So download a fresh cacert.pem from link above and compare it to yours just to be sure your certs are valid and proper in your HTTPSProxy's program folder. Here is a screenshot of my Intermediate Certificate Authorities (there are Microsoft related certificates too): https://imgur.com/G2ogHnj I don't know if they are relevant, they seem to be expired. And here my Third Party Root Certificate Authorities: https://imgur.com/vY3dnq8 What is your current time server? And please upload a new WindowsUpdate.log! Maybe something has changed. A lot of Windows users have reported getting error code 0x80072f8f due to activation problems. So my next question. Is your Windows XP Professional properly activated? Do you have Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Validation Tool installed and what is your version? As far as I know the latest version for XP is 1.9.40.0. And I know a lot of questions. Sorry!

New year is coming. Happy 2022! A little guess about the shape of things to come. 1) Omicoof breaks the narrative, but its "escape" will be blamed on the "unvaccinated." It will be allowed to spread wildly and cause lots of disruptions (schools, flights, work, etc.). All of this disruption due to lots of people getting sick all at once will be blamed on the "unvaccinated," even though case loads, etc., will be worse in the vaccinated. This data will all be made foggy, hidden, disrupted, and misreported, of course. The scapegoat must remain. The goal of this uncontrolled omicoof disruption will be more blame upon the "blameworthy" while offering the Regime and its mouthpieces an exit ramp ("The Science changed because the 'unvaccinated' screwed up"). They'll still push "vaccines" in this time even though it's nonsensical, but this will all be in preparation for Phase 2. 2) "Cyber pandemic," massive disruptive cyber attacks interrupting LOTS of stuff, far more disruptive than coof. They've telegraphed this for over a year. Believe it or not, it will kind of be the "unvaccinated" who are blamed for this Cyber Pandemic, but the shift will be from the "unvaccinated" to the "digitally anonymous," who are predominantly "unvaccinated" because they refused to get coof Digital ID "passports." We'll see a massive shift in narrative and scapegoating from the "unvaccinated" to the "digitally anonymous" (or something equivalent), these will be linked to make a scapegoating bridge (like "deplorable" to "unvaccinated"), and a new, hard scapegoating campaign will commence. The goal is always to get to fully controllable Digital ID. It will be racist, sexist, misogynistic, threat to public health, threat to cybersecurity, etc., to refuse a Digital ID, and it will be a full-court press against the "digitally anonymous." That's my best guess for the adventure we face in the first half of 2022, at least so far, reading the entrails the Regime keeps putting out. Make no mistake and take heart, though. They have plans, but they didn't expect to lose this hard this fast. Keep fighting! Author : James Lindsay

Good news : you won't die . Just rest more and eat LESS salt . Exersize (not heavily) to create blood flow . It's your NECK !! Bad blood flow . High pressure . Need to relax .

Solve captcha to buy a loaf of bread , thanks but no thanks . I ignore and boycott such "shops". Do you know we train AI for them for free (as slaves) ?

I strongly suggest to NOT use LED monitors . Get an old CCFL one. As for the LED lamps , also not good , but if you can't avid them , do not use cheap ones and get 2700K max. As for the eye , seeing a doctor is not an option ?

31st of December 2020 - works cool (even with disabled remote fonts), 1st of January 2021 - all hell breaks loose . It has nothing to do with the operating system. It's the new java , scripts and remote fonts. I'm glad it is working for the creator himself though. I've been away for some time , now logged in and everything works again , except the odd squares in the menus.

here's a good read for ya , from the respected member @sdfox7 https://msfn.org/board/topic/176837-disable-web-fonts-in-google-chromemozilla-firefox/

Exactly , how could you ! xD

I think so , yes. People need to be polite and read the rules , as far as I can see , the one who started the topic is responsible to keep the right content.