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+1. Did you remove it before retrying?

Shockwave 12.3.5.205 is out, too. It's probably the last iteration of it, since its EoS was April the 4th, 2019.

It's worse now, because now one gets "Server not found" from trafficmanager.net... So what was not hoarded and saved seems to have fallen down the memory hole forever (unless it's been moved to yet another CNAME... then again, it still'd be problematic brcause the numbers in the url are not related to the KB numbers in any obvious ways, IMO). BTW, has anyone perchance preserved this one?

Same here. My next machine will be debian x64 / TrueOS (= FreeBSD x64) double boot. And I'm giving it a VirtualBox on each, to run XP SP3 from, so as not to stop using the XP programs I love. But browsing and new programs will be on unix, as soon as both XP and 7 become unusable. I hope to have that new machine up and running before Thanksgivings. For now I'm still deciding about the hardware and looking for good deals. I'm in no hurry, though, 'cause 7 should go at least up to 2021, and XP SP3 on bare iron maybe just as long, if not more.

Wise words.

If, instead, MS nuked Windows 10 with extreme prejudice and released 7 SP2, 8 SP1 and 8.1 SP1, the world would become a wonderful place.

Read this tutorial... it shows step-by-step how it's done. Be sure to read it in full, before starting.

@roytam1: You do rock!

May it be because nothing new has been added here for some time already?

Even though it's ENU, there's no DEU version of it. As for halmacpi.dll, that one is DEU v. 5.1.2600.5512, so just get a bona fide WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-DEU.exe, extract the plain vanilla one and hexcompare them. Then you can describe the patch, if you feel like it.

Removing it restored functionality or not?

That I have done before 1st connecting to the internet, at install time, 12 years ago (and on every subsequent new installation I did on my other machines from SP2 time onwards). Since then I always serached for updates manually, using the "Custom" option. That's how I prevented KB905474 (by hiding it) from installing. After that, on serarching again it offered KB892130, which I accepted.

Can't you see the attachment to the his post below mine? Try logging in, then.

Yet, the last good antivirus they've produced was AVG 9... when AVAST! bought AVG, they EoSed, all of a sudden, every old version AVG had kept releasing Definitions Updates to and forced even Licenced Users (aka those who paid for it) to upgrade to their latest & gratest megabloated version. That was when I gave up on them. Of course, by that time, AVG's heuristics had grown megaparanoid so there were false positives galore to be excluded from removal, which was also a big PITA. Alas, sic transit gloria mundi.

Same here! Glad you got it fixed fast! Nothing similar happened here (3770K i7 on Z68 mobo), though. Are your XP on a multicore processor?

Well... what "Trick 1803" is supposed to mean?

As a sad side-note, Shockwave went EoS today. The last one is v. 12.3.4.204. RIP!

But, but ... you had mentioned hal.dll and intelppm.sys ... what do we have to do on them? Moreover, which hal (halmacpi or halmps) exactly do you use? BTW, prudence demands adding both KB951126 and KB958244 to a general installation, the latter being mandatory for machines having more than 8 logical cores.

BTW OS/2 (viz. ArcaOS) has resurrected!

In fact, once XP SP3 is inside VirtualBox, one can keep using it forever for Text Processing and Spreadsheets on Office 2003 and Graphics (I use Origin 6.0, never yet had any reason to buy a license to any later version of it). There'll always be some way to convert the next .doc(x)(y)(z)* format to plain old Word 97 .doc, and keep going. Same with .gifs, .jpgs, .pngs, and the like. As for browsing, one can always do it right on debian, and there's ESET for additional security at the OS level, pi-hole for crappy ads and Open-WRT firewall at the head of the LAN (and *NO* Wi-Fi whatsoever connected to it). Until Hell freezes over, Long Live XP!

And no viable antivirus remains. As it is, MSE should get definitions till 8.1 EoS or maybe even till it's corresponding Embeded 8.1 Industry EoS, which will happen on July 11, 2023, so that's 4 years 2 months hence. Even so, probably there'll remain ClamAV, so it looks like @sparty411 may be right and the browser will be decisive. But even then, I, for one, tend to install debian x64, then VirtualBox and XP SP3 inside it. So I guess I'm not giving up any sooner than, at least, 2021, or even much much later. When I finally find time and patience to build my next machine, I guess I'm gonna settle on a 3GHz 6950X i7 with some single PCI-e x16 video-card.

@glnz: did you get yourself a full-body Velostat vest already? If not fetch one fast: you must be ready for when, precisely 24h after April the 9th, a horde of 6.02214086 × 10²³ raving-furious hackers drop into your machine, after all, isn't it?

That complicates things, I guess... Fact is I got "EventID: 7026. The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: nvme" on my every attempt to get XP to see NVMe disks with Kai's drivers. I'm using the Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller (iaStor.sys v. 11.2.0.1006) in all 3 XP SP3 installations I've tried (2 on a Z68 and one on a H67 rev. B3 motherboards). For more about what I've tried, see the post quoted below and some others around it.