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Used Windows from eBay is only reliable if it's FPP and the seller provides you the original package containing the licence key card, leafets and holographic CDs/DVDs. And even then, there's some risk it may be counterfeit. Good Windows 7 is particularly difficult to get, nowadays...

Lady Antebellum rocks! Give it 127.0.0.1 to swallow... does it get happy with that?

Either PM or e-mail him. He'll get back to you real fast.

Sure thing... it's an automated system.

Reactivate by phone-call to MS. It's fast and fully automated.

Possibly. But not at all necessarily... Is the mouse connected to the keyboard and the keyboard to the machine? Or do each use its own separate usb connector on the machine?

George Michael - Somebody To Love

I doubt it. Things that look too good to be true, usually aren't, you know.

It's a Pentium III-E, which, as clearly shown by CPU-Z, has no SSE2 support whatsoever. Then again, as I've already said, only the linux (or maybe it and the Solaris one, too) version of Flash requires SSE2, since v. 11.1.x.x. The Windows versions do not need SSE2 to run at all, up to now, as you've just demonstrated!

Neither. It seems both do comply with the VESA standard in a well-behaved manner, just that. My 2¢ only, of course!

In fact, nobody said there won't ever be a FF esr v.52.8.1 (or 52.9.0) released... it might as well happen... just like FF esr 24.8.1 was released, way back when... and that may as well lead right into early 2018, at least... (yet, POSReady 2009 still goes on to April 9, 2019). Why worry? \m/

It must be Michal Necasek's VBEMP for VirtualBox he's referring to. That one is supposed to support up to Win 7 SP1... And the universal VBEMP cpl addon should work, too, for fine tuning it.

Yet another shameless plug (the patcher for that issue)... KillCHS.7z

It's more complicated than that, I regret to say. The problem the *linux version* of Flash 11.2+ has with non-SSE2 processors is specific, and it didn't carry across to the Windows versions of the same number. On the other hand, there is *another* issue affecting all Windows programs compiled with MSVS 2012+, which is caused by MS discretionarily deciding to require SSE2 by default, regardless of it being actually needed (or even useful) or not. However, since the linux versions 11.2+ of Flash cannot possibly have been compiled using MSVS 2012+, the issues mentioned above *must* perforce be two different issues, not a single one. The one with Flash and linux may be due to clumsiness and/or sheer cluelessness. The one due to MSVS 2012+, however, can be seen as causing deliberately otherwise unnecessary hardware obsolescence, which is just a less negative euphemism for "malice". Further evidence (if required) that there are 2 different issues is provided by the fact that the linux Flash issue seems to have apeared initially with Flash Player 11.1.102.55 (Released: Nov 11, 2011), while MSVS 2012 was initially released only on Nov 11, 2011...

Never underestimate MS's ability to break something that used to work due to sheer incompetence: it seems they let go every single person able to do things right they had, and actually couldn't care less, in case they tried hard to, although I really doubt they even consider trying to care any less than they already do.

It's a signed file, so it's easy to confirm it's bona-fide: WindowsXP-KB955704-x86-ENU.EXE is 3,403,304 bytes long, has CRC-32 = A8F493B3 and MD-5 = F11CEB024DBAC555B1DA3BD7F1CB49CD, and has been Digitally Signed by MS on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 10:25:36 AM.

@vinifera: when you set this thread's title to "breal the myths", what you actually had in mind was, perchance, "Break the Myths" ?

It´s not there explicitly, but one can infer it based on what's shown for 2016 and 2017... sometimes, the best info is just implied, and this is one such case.

If you had read the chart in my previous post while paying it the real close attention it deserves, you'd already know that June 12, 2018 is the point in time FF esr 59 becomes the sole FF esr, and from that point on, no new release of FF esr 59 of should occur (= no 52.9.0), isn't it? .

Nope.

Disturbed - The Sound of Silence

Moved. Obviously it causes nothing catastrophic, or we'd heard about it already... but, nonetheless, it's too soon to know about subtler bugs and the like...

I confirm that! I just installed KB2973115 "again" from standalone installer, and kb2756918 stopped neing offered to me by MU. No reboot was required, nor did I uninstall any updates at all. In fact, I didn't even go to "Add/Remove Programs" to see what it told me, before installing KB2973115. Congratulations to all involved in finding this fix, especially to @Dave-H, for never letting down, and to @Yellow Horror, for finding the most convenient fix for it. You folks do rock

@WildBill: Man, you're alive!!! That's great news!!! But you might have posted from time to time just to let us know that! And you brought us a newer version of your kernel32! Wonderful! Thanks a whole lot! You do rock! Live long and prosper!

Bon Jovi - Mrs. Robinson