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That's from last month. It was released out-of-band, near the month's end, IIRR.

It seems using 3.3.1 instead of 3.4 and de-UPXing the resulting executables minimizes the false positives. While UPX is great, it's also pointless, because download bandwidth is not anymore the problem it used to be in the past, on one hand, and nowadays every antivirus and her cousin use to detect UPXed executable as viruses/malware, on the other hand.

Isn't it ever?

@roytam1: with all due respect, @yuhong, just like me, must be thinking the same byte sequence may be part of some section in the binary that's not code, his suggestion is that it may be part of an external symbol reference, in that case. In my experience, to find out which parts of a binary are code without actually executing the file is quite tricky: I've never seen any disassembler, even adaptive ones, that never mistakes data for code... and then, even if there were one that good, we'd still not know whether the code is reachable, and in case it is, whethe it's called conditionally, as you mentioned, or not. But the conditional calling after detecting whether SSE2 is available is the most sophisticated hypothesis, while unreachable code and, particularly, non-code read as code are the most pedestrian ones, so they should be considered first.

Because it's real good? Because there is demand for it,actually?

Just download and run it. There's no install, so you may put it anywhere and then create a shortcut to it on the desktop, for instance. ============= BTW, when you install MSE, it stealthly turns on "Automatic Updates", so that, if you use to run with "Automatic Updates" disabled, you must disable them again...

I consider this good enough. Please notice it's the last version that works OK to this day, and updates correctly, too. there's also a great thread about MSE on the main XP forum, in case you need help (it's fallen out of the 1st page, though).

That's my experience, too... I'd love to find something like Win32Pad for android, but up to now, I'm not even near... thanks for the links!

Not yet! As I posted, but was mostly ignored: I just tried again right now: I used the url: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hotfix/kbhotfix?kbnum=916157&kbln=en-us&forceorigin=esmc and I went stright to the old good MS agreement form and clicked "yes" on it.. and was redirected to the page that says "This hotfix is not available anymore, blah, blah... so I ignored that and pasted the above url again with "paste and go"... This time I got the old good MS hotfix by e-mail order page, opened the language selection menu and ticked the PTB version (because I already had the ENU one), and gave the e-mail it was to be sent to. The link to the hotfix inside a zip was sent as usual, and I was able to download the file all right. Try yourself, if you don't believe me! No telling how long this will remain happening, so better save all that's relevant right away!

Which version of browseui.dll did you test? It seems to me to be a false positive...

Sure!

Well, I didn't post about it, because I had forgotten about it, that's how much I use it... It's "Leitor de código QR - Sem Anúncios" (=QR code reader - No Ads) by Sustainable App Developer... it's bare bones and just works. As for the app title, I don't know whether it's really titled in Portuguese, or if I see it that way because I'm in Brazil (I actually see some apps title in English mixed with others titled in Portuguese, so it's hard to tell)...

I know just 3: Mr. Number, CPU-Z and NirSoft's Wifi Collector. I'd much like an indication od a simple Notepad-like text editor, but all I found up to now are riddled to the brim with ads or paid-for. TIA.

It depends critically on what one's peddling (and on how much demand does it have)... Way to go! Mine is 15! I'm sorry about that. Really! That's why I delayed moving these posts. But, at the end of the day, here they're on a better place, IMO. Moreover, it's good to stir the pot sometimes. Things here were too slow, of late (highlighting, in fact, how good XP actually is, because if it were real crap, we'd be too busy troubleshooting issues to even care about philosophising), so it's good to see so many of us expressing their POVs. And yes, this thread is just for that, just like its sister thread in the 10 forum. And make no mistake: I see petitioning Firefox to keep supporting XP pointless, but even somewhat disrespectful, because (i) they were the ones who supported it the longest voluntarily and (ii) their code is open, so anyone is welcome to fork it and keep support (as, in fact, @roytam1 and Feodor2 already have done)... The XP community at present is just below 4% of the martket: New Moon, Basilisk and MyPal are more than enough to keep going, and IE8 and the last Chrome are also there for specific uses. We should count ourselves blessed with having raspberries aplenty, not asking for Sebian raspberries, when ours are sourced elsewhere. Much worse would be not having any raspberries, ain't it?

We sure do, and I've just moved here everything not pertaining to the petition. So, both threads are right on-topic at the moment.

Well, I didn't read @Jody Thornton as being dismissive. Then again, @jaclaz and me are often read as agressive or provocative more often than not (when declaring that "nothing is safe", for instance), when we clearly don't want to come across in that way at all... That said, things die. If one insists in using a rotary dial phone on a land line at present, it'll still work, in the sense that it will be able to make calls and receive them, but as more and more services require one to type numbers in reply to automated menus and the interfaces used for those menus only understand tones (and the dial phone uses pulse dialing), things become progressively more cumbersome and irritating. The same applies to all material devices, like the non-SSE2 single-core processors I mentioned above. Obviously, since all software, OSes included, are immaterial devices, they could, in principle, keep on being updated indefinitely, and remain up-to date and relevant, just as @FranceBB envisaged. But that would require a commitment to good engineering practices like those that spelled the end of Digital... Why? Because that is not part of the Zeitgeist anymore (and the demise of Digital has shown that already was the case in 1998!). Sic transit gloria mundi.

I have used 98SE on bare iron, as day-to-day main OS (banking included), from 1999 to about 2012. Then, as browsing the internet started becoming really hard, I began migrating so that, by around 2014 I realized I almost didn't use 98SE anymore and my non-SSE2, single-core machines had become too slow... at that point I gave up on both non-SSE2, single-core machines and on 98SE and migrated to i7 based machines running XPSP3 and 7SP1. So, while I'm not one of the die-hardest among us, I'm still die-harder than most, and generally stubborn as a mule. In my view, whenever using an OS or a piece of hardware (like non-SSE2 processors) becomes a true pain, it's time to move on. I really do believe in "if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee"... "

You ought to have a further subdirectory named "Basilisk" (under the "Moonchild Productions" directory), with your independent profile for Basilisk/UXP for XP. It seems it wasn't created for some reason... Let's wait for @roytam1 to chime in, though, before trying anything. Maybe he can provide you with a profile cleaner or some other convenient utility to clean-up before trying to reinstall. Patience usually is worth it. Just my 2¢, of course!

You bet!

Well, sort of... I've just now tried to download one hotfix, just to check it: WindowsServer2003-KB957910-x86-ENU.exe I've used the link below: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hotfix/kbhotfix?kbnum=957910&kbln=en-us&forceorigin=esmc It was redirected to the page with the message @tain quoted above. Then I closed the tab it was in, opened another one and gave it a "paste and go" command with the same url above... This time I got the old good MS agreement form and clicked "yes" on it... I got once more redirected to the page with the message @tain quoted above. Then I closed the tab it was in, opened another one and gave it a "paste and go" command with the same url above... This time I got the old good MS hotfix by e-mail order page, opened the language selection menu and ticked the PTB version (because I already had the ENU one), and gave the e-mail it was to be sent to. The link to the hotfix inside a zip was sent as usual, and I was able to download the file all right. So: go figure!

Yes. but one only needs to uninstall KB4134651-v2, if already added, to install @heinoganda's mod. The bad file in the previous one is overwritten by either.

Indexing is too much last millenium! On NTFS, no indexing and no Windows Search is ever needed. Try SwiftSearch instead:

You need to set "media.ffvpx.enabled" to "false", too...