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  1. dencorso
    There's no such thing as abandonware. It's a myth, just like unicorns and centaurs.
  2. dencorso
    Get a 4th or 5th gen i7 and you'll be well served without parting with a lot of money. Avoid 5th gen in case XP on bare metal is part of your plan... if not, go for it!
  3. dencorso
    It just dawned on me that to actually perform the task of changing someone into Win 8.1 you'll will need a variation of that old spell that changes people into frogs, not an installer. I believe you may find a version of it in the classic Circe's Treaty of General Magic...
  4. dencorso
    Those are on 10 already, after all the concentrated efforts MS has put into goading/conning people to move to 10, despite their needs.
  5. dencorso
    Don't look now but... jaclaz is a man (an old and grumpy one, just like me, BTW). And since I'm posting in this thread, let me give you some advice you may not want: Do yourself a favor and borrow/buy/beg a big enough external disk and do create a reliable backup (like a forensic grade full disk image), or even more than one. As it is now, you remind me of someone wingsuiting at 300 miles/h heading straight towards a ten feet thick, reinforced, bubble-free, concrete wall... It just cannot end well.
  6. dencorso
    I usually rename the pm folder to "pm_old", then create a new, empty, "palemoon" folder and move the extracted new version to it. If anything goes wrong, this way I can reverse the change and test/fix things.
  7. dencorso
    Fixed, thanks! Of course, as they say, "the sound remains the same"... (just like "kernel" and "colonel", BTW).
  8. dencorso
    No. 2021 actually. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 updates just work on 7. It's EoS is at the end of 2021.
  9. dencorso
    Uriah Heap - Salisbury
  10. dencorso
    Again? Neither do I.
  11. dencorso
    Or Free/Open/Net/DragonflyBSD, or illumos, or OpenVMS...
  12. dencorso
    It does happen sometimes :) Most times it doesn't, however, but the forum is setup so that it ought to... We're looking at it but so far, to no avail.
  13. dencorso
    @Dibya: Not to release here! No way! @sdfox7: Delete SunJavaUpdateSched (it points to jusched.exe) from HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run. This should be enough. But you can also follow the pointer and rename jusched.exe to jusched.not, just in case.
  14. dencorso
    Agreed. But you misunderstood me: I was pointing out he deliberately gave a misleading reply, not defending him.
  15. dencorso
    Moonchild said it should work, not that he knew for a fact it actually works. So he didn't lie. And, of course, they don't test to know whether it works or not, much less to find out why it doesn't work although they did nothing to specifically cause it. They just don't care, for a long time already.
  16. dencorso
    'N I 4th that!
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  18. dencorso
    If that's the case, whatever observations you've made cannot be replicated by anybody else, so reporting them is useless.
  19. dencorso
    April 2019. Fiery oblivion, they say.
  20. dencorso
    The 1st and most improtant thing to do is to dress in a perfectly white three-piece suit with a sky-blue silk shirt and a white silk tie. Add to that a white Borsalino hat with a sky-blue ribbon (not black) and blue-lensed John Lennon style glasses. Then orient your computer so that, while seated in front of it, you're facing due north. And there you go!
  21. dencorso
    And yet, changing security.tls.version.max to 4, closing and reopening FF 52 esr does work... I don't understand why it didn't work for you (notice that I'm spoofing the NT version as 6.1, however, if that makes any difference).
  22. dencorso
    Don't they appear in the add/remove programs lis, like on XP? I'm becoming less and less able to help... during those 4 years since I've forfeited 98SE I guess I've already forgotten more about it than most latecomers'll ever learn... Not that I meant to, though... Anyway, do look at MDGx's site carefully: I seem to remember MS Installer v.3 does work on 9x/ME (but I may be remembering it wrong, by now, of course ). BTW, I think word actuall does save in .docx format, but it gives the saved file a .doc extension, because four-letter extensions were unusual at the time 9x/ME were written (and they still sound somewhat obscene, don't they?).
  23. dencorso
    Yeah! Some things never die...
  24. dencorso
    No need to. "Random issues" is 9x/ME middle name. I've used it as my main OS from '98 to about 5 years ago... so I should know. When I got fed up, I moved on to XP, and never looked back. But "issues" are part of the game for 9x/ME, so it's even actually questionable whether it's fair to push the guilt for them onto the VM.
  25. dencorso
    The .CMDs won't run on 98SE, that's true. But you may get the .EXEs to install, by extracting the .MSIs or .MSPs from inside them. The compatibility pack won't install, and the excel module really does not work in 98SE. But it's possible to install the Word docx 2 doc and vice-versa converters on 98SE and it's said they do work. See: hxxps://msfn.org/board/topic/133124-ms-office-2007-compatibility-pack-with-office-97/?do=findComment&comment=1049845 and hxxps://msfn.org/board/topic/96877-microsoft-office-2007-compatibility-pack/ I'm getting 403:Forbidden when I try to post those links, so I've scrambled the urls.
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