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Boot from a live Porteus CD and find out what it sees. Windows cannot hide things when offline, and Porteus couldn't care less about NTFS attributes even if it tried hard. Then let us know what did you find out. Good luck!

Boot from a live Porteus CD and delete all you want! It's a great way to cripple one's system beyond all recognition, too, however... so don't say I didn't warn you beforehand!

You really ought to move to a place where the nanny state won't bother you so much... Paraguay, Bolivia and Moldova are the options that come readly to my mind, but since you seem to be francophone, I'm sure there must be some sub-Saharan African country better suited still for you to enjoy true freedom.

People who disable telemetry probably prefer non-MS backup solutions. Why would one who refuses to trust MS after finding out about telemetry trust them with a critical thing like backup? So people who doesn't disable (or even know about) telemetry also shouldn't care to backup at all. Why would they? MS Win 10 rocks so no backup'll ever be needed right? That's there just for the die-hard bona-fide tinfoil-hat (or better still: Velostat-lined-hat) wearing certified paranoids, after all. Exceptions, there are some, but they just confirm the rule.

Because they are stubborn as a mule, perhaps? OTOH, crystal balls are really a problem-prone hardware, you know...

No. There is not. There never was any such tool. It does not matter. There never was any such tool for whatever type of driver. =========== Now on to the questions we posed but you did not answer: 1st question: 2nd question: 3rd question: Why are you sure you must install an aditional driver to an unbooted Windows 10?

Security from obscurity never obtains, no matter what people wants to believe. But posready updates, lack of 6x-only OS-functionality and lack of telemetry, taken together, may actually add some more security to XP, after all.

In any case they're keeping their pace aligned to FF, now, it seems... FF has just updated to 50.0.2...

Well... Please allow me to strongly suggest we stop all replying until the OP condescends into returning here and replying to the questions already posed him/her...

jaclaz did not mean with internet online/offline. He meant "non-booted" Windows 10 (= offline) because the machine would be running WinPE (= WinPE would be the online OS during the driver install). He did understand what you say you want perfectly, although he possibly did not imagine you want to use a bare-bones plain-vanilla PE, when there are much more powerful alternatives available nowadays. What he asked is what do you need to accomplish? How do you think you ought to install the drivers he understood clearly. Question is: but... why?

Of course it is. And it fits quite nicely a straight line gently sloping downward y = -0.306 * x + 12.118, in which y is the market share percentage and x the number of months... and suggesting Windows XP has at least two more years to go before falling below 5%...

Yay!

Here's some context: Fact is that limitation is PM specific for XP (and any pre-Vista NT-OS, for that matter)! So here's the reply I gave @JodyT: I'm planning to keep on FF till 52, then onto 52esr to the last one before it becomes 59esr, then stop. I shall then keep using that final version while at all feasible, same as I still do with Chrome 49 and IE8 (when and if ione of them is needed or to test issues on multiple browsers). PM 26.5.0 is kept also, for the selfsame reason. As for what happens after the very last 52esr becomes unusable, I'm not sure, really... ... the Deluge, maybe?

Wise words!

They've dropped XP. They got their desert. Now lots of non-XP users sure will drop them. One got to reap what one sows.

I think the last good version will be 52esr anyway, so my plan is to keep updating until 52 is out, then move on to the esr branch and stop updating just in time to keep the last 52.x.y (avoiding the move to 59esr, that is bound to happen later on)...

You didn't do it exactly as described or it would have worked... those directives are case-sensitive, do re-check case and spelling carefully, please.

Inside the gmp-gmpopenh264/1.6/ is Cisco's "OpenH264 Video Codec", while Adobe's "Primetime Content Decryption Module" goes inside gmp-eme-adobe/17/... the .dll in mine is v. 5.14.40673.0, digitally signed by Adobe on Feb 12, 2016. This plugin is the one that does the magic, AFAIK. Cisco's module is installed when FF is installed and is not enough by itself. Until one adds the correct directives to about:config and the Adobe plugin gets automagically installed, the videos that matter don't play at all. Afterwards, it just works!!!

I've just updated to FF 50.0 and I confirm all the videos in the Quirksmode Test Page play OK. Moreover, all my extensions (PlainOldFavorites, RefControl, User Agent Switcher and New Tab Override 3.0) were accepted and kept working.

They've got some time to fall in line, because they've sure still got lots of money to waste, while learning. Both best alternatives (viz. OpenVMS and OpenSolaris) didn't quite prosper, which is a pity, because now all we got is Free/Open/Net-BSD and MS. Let's hope it'll find its way back to the right path till 2020. Time is on our side...

Not yet, AFAICS. I'd be great if you did so and reported your results... TuMaGoNx mini how-to is quoted below, but small adjustments may be needed for the newest xompie-0.4a.exe

You quote this post which has an official MS direct download link in it (why do you think "Windows Essentials 2012" is in blue and underlined?): ... however you don't check that link and go ahead to say: And then you go looking for a link to the offline-installer, while all the time you already had one... Fascinating!

Well, to me it sounded precisely like that... Moonchild's post opens with: It can be construed as a reminder to XP users to disable automatic updates, just to avoid being shut out suddenly, and nothing more. My 2 ¢, of course. But it may turn out my reading is correct... let's wait and see.

That's my opinion, too. I use as main machine nowadays precisely a 3770K i7 on a P8Z68-V LX motherboard. Just my 2¢, of course.

Who says they didn't? 26.5.0 is the current version, all right, but who said there should be any further 26.x.x version, before they release 27.0.0? AFAICS, they might have fulfilled their promise to the letter...