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  1. dencorso
    Day 193 of 2018, of course!
  2. dencorso
    +1 In my experience, they're going unix, mostly to Android phones or tablets. And a handful I know kept their notebooks and went Linux (or... FreeBSD: I know of one case only but, in the context, I think it's a lot!). Less and less people uses desktops at home, AFAIK. I have yet to see a Chromebook, here in Brazil, though.
  3. dencorso
    Also over at overclockers's, also by HellGates: https://www.overclock.net/forum/132-windows/721973-msupdate-kb980408-warning-all-win7-x64-2.html
  4. dencorso
    I do use that one, too. Even so, I've had a handful of instances of clobbered profiles since about 2005, as I told you. My oldest extant installation dates from 2007, so it's not that frequent, after all.
  5. dencorso
    @roytam1: Are you OK, my friend? I saw Mangkhut has moved on so the worst must have passed already... Here's hoping you're well.
  6. dencorso
    No, you ain't! No way! Win 10 has actually an insane interface and is really perplexing to use. And you're not alone, I, for one, do abhor Win 10 with a passion. I don't think I can be of much help to you with Win 10, sorry, but rest assured you're my hero for even giving it a try! You have all my sympathy.
  7. dencorso
    Well, I've seen that happen, maybe some half-a-dozen times with my own XP installations (nowadays I have four bare-metal and one virtual XP SP3 boot-partitions in three physical machnes, but they've been seven bare-metal plus one virtual XP SP3 boot-partitions up to when I decommissioned my two beloved A7V600-X Athlon XP machines -- because they are non-SSE2, to limit how many minorities I belong to -- and gave the wife one Phenom II quadricore machine I assembled but used very little). Observe that all my XP installs, but the virtual one, are on FAT-32, not NTFS, so that permissions were sure not the issue, then (none of the instances happened with the virtual XP installation). My solution, in all cases was to redeploy the previous backup image of the system partition involved, since those never were older than one month, and usually were even more recent. IMO, there actually *is* some quirk, possibly a race-condition or some other problem arrising from a complex interaction among processes in XP that does cause it to clobber the profile info (most commonly the user.dat) once-upon-a-blue-moon. And in every case, after having redeployed the previous system image, the problem did not happen again anytime soon. I think it actually did happen twice on my oldest install, but the two events were two or three years apart, so I deem them unrelated. Sorry for the long-winded post.
  8. dencorso
    After MS changed minimal *hardware* specs silently between 8.0 and 8.1, one can always count on them letting one down at the worst moment, IMO.
  9. dencorso
    Alkahest, of course.
  10. dencorso
    +1
  11. dencorso
    @roytam1 and feodor2 are taking the trouble to compile and keep up-to-date and debugged the only real options of browsers for Vista and XP. And they're doing it for free (= gratis) just because they want to help and support the people's right to choose their OSes freely. If there is sheeple willing to ignore that and move on, despite their generous gifts, it's too bad for those sheeple, but I, for one, think neither ought to give half a damn about that. Just my 2¢, of course.
  12. dencorso
    It may be. However, when you 1st enrolled as a member at MSFN, you agreed to abide by our rules. That means that, according to Rule #1, abandonware does not exist, and in case it did, you have agreed not to distribute nor to proselytize for it in here.
  13. dencorso
    Bifrost, golen, snark and popess are there, too. So what?
  14. dencorso
    @Dave-H: you may want to visit Aaron Stebner's wonderful Unified .NET Framework Troubleshooting Guide page: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/astebner/2005/08/22/unified-net-framework-troubleshooting-guide/ once there you might download the Setup Verification Tool and the Tool to Gather Logs and run them... you'll get a wealth of info about your setup without harming it, and as a bonus, you get familiar with one of the most useful single pages on the web! We have cross posted... well, I'm glad my suggestion is unnecessary, in view of your latest post. Then again, I still recommend a visit to Aaron's page, just to get familiar with it and his powerful tools.
  15. dencorso

    Beta channel

    dencorso replied to Tihiy's topic in StartIsBack+

    Try: "You have to run [the] hot shitpot [that] latest Win10 is." It means: "You have to run the wonderful latest Win10", of course!
  16. dencorso
    I've just done it. Now I have: Antimalware Client Version: 4.4.304.0 Engine Version: 1.1.15200.1 Antivirus definition: 1.275.943.0 Antispyware definition: 1.275.943.0 Definitions Created on: 09/08/2018 at 5:43 AM It must've been some temporary quirk, nothing more.
  17. dencorso
    Ring 0 Army Knife -- A Command Line Utility To Read/Write/Execute Ring Zero on for Windows 10 Systems: https://github.com/ionescu007/r0ak 'Nuff said!
  18. dencorso
    Nah! Try this instead:
  19. dencorso
    Those messages are nothing more than nags. They might as well insert 'em contextwise!
  20. dencorso
    The workaround is to activate by phone.
  21. dencorso
    Do activate by phone.
  22. dencorso
    http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-vista-service-pack-2-service-configurations/ http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/ Handle with care! YMMV!
  23. dencorso
    I'm reporting that the Adobe Primetime CDM is able to perform h264/aac decoding on Serpent 52 / UPX (by roytam1) just like the patched third party library ffvpx included in it (which then has to be disabled, because both cannot work together), only better, because there are sites, like GloboNews, for which the modded ffvpx renders sound shifted towards the bass region (like a voice masker/distorter), while Adobe Primetime CDM works as intended. Of course, all that ritual dance needed to activate the Adobe Primetime CDM on FF esr 52 is also needed here. I had reported this once before somewhere, but since it seems I'm the only one who visits sites in which ffvpx does not work as intended, I didn't insist on it, but due to your very detailed post above I decided to correct this particular info. @roytam1's Serpent 52/UPX is not a fork from Mozilla 53, but instead from FF esr 52, AFAIK. Fact is it behaves exactly like FF esr 52 in what regards the Adobe Primetime CDM, and all other old-style add-ons, including Silverlight and Shockwave. As for Basilisk 55, as I said before, I don't know, because I've never tested it, nor intend to.
  24. dencorso
    No. On XP the Adobe Primetime CDM, provided on gets it and installs it by hand, still works OK on FF esr 52.9.0 and on Serpent 52/UXP. I don't know whether it also works on Basilisk 55, because I have no interest in it, at least for now, so I haven't tested.
  25. dencorso
    Yes, I did. I wanted to have Recycled Goods recorded on our site, because they're a veritable treasure trove for old hardware. Then again, I reckon I should have done it in a less odd way, all right!
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