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Sorry, I think I should be following the discussion on 8.1 more closely than I've been of late... But... has the way to completely disable Windows Defender (and maybe even install MSE 4.6.305.0, for instance) found? Please tell me (or give me links to) how exactly can one do it on 8.1? TIA

@blackwingcat: For some time, if one did not set the versions to "5,0,2195,0" for rvkroots.exe, as well as "40,0,2195,0" for rootsupd.exe, both the Windows Updates and the MS Updates websites would offer older certificates than those installed. 5eraph says it's not the case, anymore. In any case, the version number in the registry seems not to affect the operation of the certificates in any way.

The beauty of it is that whatever a human being can do, others can get undone. So, with patience, people like us, in forums like this one, will figure out how it's done. MS can add as many new modules as they wish, so long as image backups remain viable, it's just a matter of time and patience. And time is on our side, it's them who have to hurry to try and avoid (the already unavoidable) final flopping of 10.

The latest Firefox (41.0.2) and Pale Moon (25.7.3 -- for Atom and Win XP) are currently the way to go on XP. And both accept PlainOldFavorites 1.3.1, of course!

Yeah. But to kill it, if having physical contact, no IT finesse is needed. The tool depicted below does it best.

Yes. You can edit both strings manually from 38 to 40 all right. And. yes, once is enough. You don't need to change them again ever afterwards.

Happy birthday, xper !!!

+1 All those sectors were relocated in a single relocation event (atribute 0xC4). No further relocation events appearing tend to indicate an isolated random happening, whereas repeating relocation events point to a progressively failing hdd. Backup any mission critical info, then keep an eye on the hdd.

No. Not at all.

There are some .pdf and .7z, all at the same place, at the bottom of this post, too.

I confirm all .7z, .zip and .pdf attachments suddenly became unavailable. Something is definitely amiss here!

Solaris may be the best candidate. With Mac OS X second best. If free software counts, IllumOS has a good start, too. But don't count MS as pushing daisies just yet. They've just begun living through the greatest OS flopping ever, but they are big enough to survive it and maybe even reenter the market with something good enough (not great, though) in time not to go ENIAC's way...

Thanks for the heads up! That's my take, too: any and all ill defined WU updates ought to be considered intrusive and meddlesome, and hence refused. 1st post updated accordingly.

It depends on how you look at it: after all, one needs to say "YES" just once...

IMO XP has something like 12% give or take some 2%, perhaps. Then again, while you're right about lying browsers, users able to spoof the UserAgent are savvy users: those are few, and most just spoof the browser type and/or version... few bother with spoofing also the OS, because that is usually irrelevant... anyhow they should be so few as to not interfere with the available statistics.

Please do notice how the XP share remains fundamentally unchanged, however... and that should be telling!

This is 100x100, as a gift. Feel free to use it only if you like it.

Welcome to MSFN!

Here's my 2¢... You should try the MS Wireless Mobile 1850 Mouse. It works great and is inexpensive.

Happy birthday, Tripredacus and puntoMX !!!

Just a friendly reminder: Most of us navigate the web with other browsers than IE8, and use IE8 solely for WU/MU and sometimes the MS Update Catalog, and that's about it. So, there's no real reason to let SSL 3.0 remain active on IE8. Check the SSL 3.0 status by accessing this test site with IE8. In case SSL 3.0 remains active, here's how to deactivate it: MS Security Advisory 3009008. Please bear in mind that there's just TLS 1.0 on IE8, because it does not support TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2, or, at least, not on XP. More info on SSL/TLS here.

+1

Anyone who has v. 4087 installed and tries to install v. 4089, the new installer will refuse. So, probably, it's just a revised installer, AFAICS, because if any higher version were present inside, it would install it, instead of saying it has nothing to do because the update is already present. I may be wrong at this, but I think that's what happened.

Not at all. IMO, one can safely assume Ghostery users are evenly and randomly distributed among the OSes it can run on, except, perhaps, Win 10. Since Win 10 is quite new (and hard to tame), most installs should still be plain vanilla, so I doubt many 10 users would actually be using Ghostery (or whatever else, BTW) this soon. That means that, at worst, the available data overestimates how many Win 10 machines are there. Moreover, 3000000 is trace (actually about 0.1% of the total at most, if at all), when compared with the total market.