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Yes. No MS service relies on SSL 3.0 anymore. But do not uncheck TLS 1.0, else MU/WU will malfunction.

I confirm it. Seems to be a DDoS attack... it started yesterday, but is much worse, right now. But rest assured it'll be fixed. Those things pass and are forgotten fast. Too bad it came so soon after that big one week-long crash we had, but RL is like that. I'm getting Error: 500 sometimes, too. Oh, well...

IMO, you'd be best served by installing Win 2k on that laptop. It'll probably be the best compromise between usability and compatibility, in this particular case... Of course, those're just my 2¢.

Around here (in São Paulo City at least), infrared-sensor enabled taps rule (at least in good hospitals and eating places, from Mc Donald's to expensive restaurants), which fulfil Ford's principle of "putting knowledge into the machine, to avoid depending on the human" and obviate step 10. I'd expect such taps would be at least as popular in Italy, as well (although I don't actually remember having seen any such taps there back in 2005, when I last went there... then again, I doubt I'd have taken any notice of them, had I seen any, in fact, because they were already common here, by then). Of course, there are places in Brazil where there's not even piped clean water supply, let alone infrared taps, but that's obviously beside the point.

@jaclaz & @Mcinwwl: you're looking at it from the serious POV, which all of us in this thread actually do understand. It seems only @Tripredacus got my point, which is "a textual warning saying something like 'wash your danm mitts, yo!' ought to have the same effect and obviate the nedd for a 10-step illustrated instruction chart to the same sense." If using toothpicks preclude detailed instructions, then washing hands shouldn't need 'em either... or can you really discern a difference?

You've got me curious: what are the VEN and DEV of your on-chip HD Graphics 530, which video driver do you use for it, and if its .inf was modified, which mods were needed?

But... then... why???

Well, there actually *is* a size limit per post, and it has existed for a long time, already (from before IP.B 3.xx for sure). I had forgotten about it. I found about it because of my old thread on 9x/ME with more than 1GiB RAM... when the machine list became too large, I've had to break it in more than one post, to be able to keep it growing. However, I was able to do that only because I had reseved some posts below the 1st one...

Because he couldn't care less. Then again, we have @roytam1's PM mods already, which do work fine, and he's committed to keep 'em coming and to give 'em support... reason enough, IMO, for us all to ignore moonchild, instead of caring for what he thinks/wants/will actually do. My 2¢, of course.

Don't hold your breath, though...

On Serpent 52/UXP, yes, it does.

Below is the full FF 52 ESR Release Cycle Overview, for easy reference:

Well, considering that: Windows Embedded Standard 2009, Extended Support will end on Jan. 8, 2019. Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, Extended support will end on Apr. 9, 2019. ...it does make sense. That's not to say we'll give up on XP so soon, of course!

I've asked xper to give it a look. But I have a question: Are you then unable to edit any post or just the ones you've posted recently?

For Vista/Server 2008. For POSReady 2009, KB4056564 should be used in addition to KB4019276, which is not superseded for the XP platform.

And, in any case, they can be toggled off with this .REG, IINM: The relevant info is in KB4078130, whence I got that .REG.

Bear in mind @NoelC is benchmarking 8.1, and the real issue are the Meltdown/Spectre patches (which are mostly FUD as vulnerabilities, because they require actual physical access to a machine to be of use) and those don't exist (AFAIK) for Windows 8. So you should be good. Of course, for Spectre, attack though the browser is a possibility, but by using Chrome/FF/PaleMoon/@roytam1's browsers, that aspect of it is taken care of. And, yes, your approach'll keep the component store smaller.

I do.

Are there any?

What is fcwin2k supposed to be?

I'm on FF 52 esr, and moving on to Serpent (52/UXP), after the former EoSes.

It's FUD! MS continues to activate by phone and online. They don't use the old automated phone service anymore; they have a smartphone-friendly system now, just as you said. Online activation still works for never-used-before valid FPP keys 1st activation (and maybe the next 2 activations, as of old, but I'm not sure about that). OEM SLP cannot be activated because they already are activated, provided the machine has the right string in the right place in the BIOS. Simple as that.

I buy from Japan, sometimes from Finland and, when available, from amazon.com... Even considering the importation taxes double the price (only books and printed matter in general are tax-free in Brazil), if they have what I want, I'm OK with it.

Is KB2253680 of any help? Others say to... ... although I doubt it may solve anything, it's harmless, so you lose nothing in trying that. Good luck!