dencorso

Moved on to fertilizer business some 20 years ago. See: Helix.

A decade ago? You've joined on 2013... were you lurking around since 2007???

An alternative is the Syntech Adapter, which may be more convenient. BTW, you talked about EMS. There's no true EMS for a long time already, what one can get is emulated EMS, usually created from XMS. A the good old Intel AboveBoard was only produced for the ISA bus, AFAIK (maybe there even was some EISA version of it, but nothing later).

Well, you might use a common garden variety PCI USB 2.0 card and mount it using the StarTech.com PCI Express to PCI Adapter Card (PEX1PCI1). That may be an adequate test, and sure is far easier than finding a true PCI-e USB 2.0 card to test.

@monroe: You're right. I redownloaded after reading your post, and got a slightly smaller .exe than before and, when I used this newly downloaded .exe for updating shockwave on another machine, there was no Norton offered. So it seems they had put the wrong .exe at the usual link, then realized the mistake and fixed it. That's the best explanation for the facts as they happened I can come up with. Then again, all is well that ends well, right?

Because it does not use XMS to create/manage the RAM, of course.

There is none but RLoew's.

@DrWho3000: This is the setting you've missed:

Right! Shockwave Player 12.2.9.199 is out. And, for the 1st time ever, it's traditional "adware-free installer" isn't adware-free anymore... it tries to push a Norton something trial onto one's machine. Be sure to untick the offer to be able to bypass it (see the screenshots below)... it appears right at the end of the install.

52.2.0esr is working perfectly for me, too. And performs great in this test, too, as it should.

8 cores do work in XP all right. At least for the i7 3770k on a Z68.

Will you please post the requested results?

Well, that's surely true. You want great, get yourself a Kingston DataTraveler Workspace... it's only downside is the price tag.

It's working again! It must have been some quirck on MS's side, but it seems to have been fixed by now. I've just got v 1.245.768.0 right now!

No. You're doing nothing wrong. The link jaclaz gave y'all actually doesn't work anymore. But this one sure still does! And all other versions are still available through KB955704, of course!

======== Ext2 Installable File System For Windows It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). http://www.fs-driver.org/ driver: Ext2fs.sys installer: Ext2IFS_1_12.exe release date: 12-31-2015 ======== Ext2Fsd Project It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). http://http://www.ext2fsd.com/?p=219 https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/files/Ext2fsd/0.69/ driver: ext2fsd.sys installer: Ext2Fsd-0.69.1039-02.22.exe release date: 02-22-2017 ======== Both work right up to 7 SP1 x64. I've never tested either with 8.1 (I have a single machine with the x32) nor 10 (wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole). Now the latest Ext2Fsd v. 0.69.1039 may have finally fixed the issues they were having since the v. 0.68. If not, I'd fall back to the older but great Ext2fs. As for the portability issue, it's very true: it'd be a nightmare. Therefore: caveat emptor!

True. MSE says "up to date" but the latest update was 24h ago??? Same thing on Win 7 SP1. It got v 1.245.730.0, created on 06-09-2017...

No it hasn't. It might as well be Ext2, and you'd be much safer: no journaling on a pendrive is a bliss... Just my 2¢, of course. Feel free to ignore.

The last time I've estimated the size of the full PC universe, as you can see in the quotation above, I came to 2 billion machines. Let's assume it didn't grow any, just for the sake of simplicity, and that means 5.66% of 2x109 = 113x106 machines or, in other words, there's still a minimum of about 100 million XP users today, not counting the true POSReady and related machines, which purportedly don't browse the web, so that they don't get counted by netmarketshare. So no, not at all, we're still very far from being the last half-a-score of XP users in the world!!!

No kidding! (Data obtained from www.netmarketshare.com, FTW. Lines calculated by Theil–Sen Method).

Yes.

Yes! Precisely! Now, let's suppose a given machine yields 3.5GiB, OK? Then the maximum swapfile 98SE will ever use is 4 GiB - 3.5 GiB = 0.5 GiB, no matter how hard one yells at it. That's what RLoew means by Commit limit = 4 GiB: that is Accessible RAM + SwapFile = 4 GiB.

While the absolute maximum RAM accessed by RLoew was 4094 MiB, that was a "for test" or "for Record" setting, which is not stable for everyday use. The maximum RAM accessible in a stable setup should be something around 3.25 to 3.50 GiB of RAM, depending on Video Card and on the specific board. Once one determines the maximum RAM visible to Windows on their specific board, then, by subtracting that value from 4 GiB one can know the maximum size a system managed Swapfile will ever use. All this is valid when using the RLoew's RAM Limitation Patch (and the 64-bit non-XMS Ramdisk to use the rest of the RAM and to put the Swapfile in).

Asmedia USB 3.x does actually work beautifully on xp sp3, provided one has Asmedia hardware. My ASUS P8Z68-V LX does have an ASM1042 USB 3.0 controller, but no intel USB 3.0, and that was the main reason I selected that board for my 3770k i7. It has provided me with trouble-free USB 3.0 from incept time. Now, as to whether Asmedia drivers can be modded to work on Intel, that's another question altogether, which answer I don't know.