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Because, if there is an easy way and an easier way, there will always be someone who'll try to do it in the most difficult way... it's part of human nature to be contumacious agains the fact!

Hi, @feodor2! It's great to have you around! Welcome to MSFN!

You may want to get @roytam1's Serpent 52 from the XP forum, and also use @heinoganda's Cert_Updater_v1.6 to give XP the latest security certificates.

Done!

Meanwhile, you may want to change the link to https://msfn.org/board, which points to the forum index...

FTW, @WildBill's PETool is here: ...and @blackwingcat's PE Maker is on his blog, at this page. @Dibya is right about both: they really are quite useful.

Your post illustrates quite nicely my point: one BSOD per year (and none without the patch) is one BSOD too many per year, IMO. And CHKDSK becomes unreliable on top of it? That's dangerous by definition: one cannot rely on one's filesystems if even something so basic as CHKDSK refuses to work. As I said, it's not ready for day-to-day use.

It seems, but I'm still far from sure of it and have no personal experience with the case, that *some* Z390 (Coffee Lake-S and maybe -X) BIOSes map most of the RAM on those boards above 4 GiB, thus exposing just something under 1 GiB for XP, even when populated with 8 or more GiB of RAM. If that turns out to be a fact, it might be an additional reason for using the PAE patch, albeit I would prefer to forgo such boards completely, instead.

I don't think anybody really knows for sure. All those PAE patches are still *very* experimental, so there are scanty reports of their use and no serious, intensive, test of them in day-to-day use. In my experience, if one can see 3 GiB or a little more than that, XP SP4 updated to the last POSReady updates will run smoothly in day-to-day use and run OK any Office (from 97 to 2007), graphic processing programs like Irfan View, LView Pro, Pic win Pro, @roytam1's browsers, 360chrome, Origin 7.0, MPC-HC, Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1 together with the last MSE, and many system diagnostic and optimization utilities, among other software, for months on end, without requiring a single reboot, and even with no pagefile, although I favor using the Gavotte Ramdisk (using RAM above 4 GiB) for a pagefile, TEMP and the temporary internet files from every broswer. My 2¢ only but, then, you sort of asked for them, right? Of course, were I to ever use the PAE patch, I'd go to @daniel_k's and MOV AX, 0xDEAD's one, which I trust hands down.

Most of the contents of the Older Windows NT-Family OSes and Windows 9x/ME forums are actually made by geek minds for nerds only...

Well... but it didn't yet, the so called "extended support" actually goes on until Jan 14, 2020... ain't it?

My 1st computer was a Burroughs B6700, back in '80. My 1st personal computer was an MSX, the Gradiente Expert XP-800, a brazilian clone of the National CF-3000. The 2nd was an IBM PC-XT.

Of course. But even I who am very aware of such EoS dates (even if they don't mean much to me, since I keep using Word 2000 and Acrobat Reader 9.5.5, not to mention Shockwave 12.3.5.205 and Silverlight 5.1.50918.0) was somewhat taken aback when the latest Chrome (on Win 8.1, at work) started nagging more than one year in advance. Of course I'll keep Flash on my machines! And it'll be a "long goodbye", no doubt, but it's sad, even when one believes firmly that EoS != EoL, like I do, to see such a good piece of software being put away like a rabid dog, isn't it?

Well, announcements of EoS are becoming more and more common all the time, so this one should be no surprise at all but, in any case, heads up: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/

Here is a regrouping place for when RyanVM.net members need to communicate and that board is unavailable for any reason.

No more vaporware.

I confirm it's down.

No idea... then again, I'm positive whatever @Goodmaneuver smoked sure was good!!!

No need to. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 is directly compatible to common 7 (so no hack needed at all). And it reaches EoS at Oct 12, 2021... so almost two years more to go, although without WU/MU: one'll have to go to the MS Update Catalog to get the (one or two) rollups each month... no big deal, IMO, but, of course, there'll always be those who'll say it's a life-changing nuisance!.

Avoid Google Translate and use DeepL, instead: the result will be much better understandable text. My 2¢ only, of course.

Although it's not my day-to-day mobile (which remains being a Nokia C2-01), I do have a basic smartphone for the few situation in which it's really needed (regretably). It's a 3 year-old SAMSUNG GALAXY J2 Prime SM-G532M (Global Single SIM). If I connect its micro-B connector to any of my XP machines, it's promptly recognized, and I can access both the micro-SDHC inside it and the phone memory using WIndows Explorer,without any special software being necessary. However, in fact, it does not get a drive letter, being accessed via Media Transfer Protocol, but I don't see that as a problem in any way. Moreover, it's powered by a Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 (an in-order CPU), so it's not vulnerable to Spectre/Meltdown. And last, but not least, it's relatively inexpensive, as opposed to many fridge/freezer combo priced smartphones that usually are the 1st they try to push on one. My 2¢, of course.

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This thread is now locked! It continues in the thread pointed to in the post just above this one.

Gladly. Unless @roytam1 objects.