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Hard to belive? Never underestimate the MS geniuses! @Dave-H: Never mind. It'll be useless. I get the same result here, look:

Get well soon!

Absolutely. MS, OTOH, is just begining to learn how to do it propperly... but it seems they're fast learners, AFAICS.

You forget Mozilla is the heir to Netscape, and Netscape has already proven they knew how to utterly sink a winner product... I guess they've kept alive both the knowledge and the urge to do it. I'm 7 years short of reaching that mark, but except for that, I do fully agree, mutatis mutandis.

Santana ft. Maná - Corazón Espinado

One can spoof IE version for everybody but it cannot fool MS... and it's adamant on refusing to talk to IE8... Then again one can visit those pages with FF/Opera/Chrome/etc. (well, mostly...)!

It's just you, AFAICS...

Well, I, for one, think one can resist and remain using, say, XP SP3 x86 for as long as one's able to... I've just decommissioned my last Win 98SE Athlon XP machine, after realizing I hadn't booted 98SE once in the last 12 months and didn't even notice it. Nowadays I think running anything on a non-SSE2 processor isn't worth the while. And I've never ever come around to installing 98SE in my newer hardware. That said, I do not think it's reasonable to expect anyone to continue supporting the OS I want to run, just because I'm a die-hard. I do bellieve that adapting to the OS being dropped all around is part of the game, for those who intend seriously to keep using it. There: I've said it! [Way off topic] And, BTW, the sooner people realize the only way for our huge population to live suistainably on this world, in case there actually is one, involves embracing nuclear power, the sooner the world will have a chance to keep going. But that's not really a topic to discuss here, I do know. [/Way off topic] It's great to agree to disagree... that makes for dialogue and understanding: there's no true democracy without dialectics!

My take: the only really strong reason to remain at 8.0 is to avoid decommissioning (= retiring) perfectly good and healthy older hardware, which is Jody's original reason. Of course, one can stay on 8.0 for other reasons, all perfectly reasonable, but deciding to keep one's loved/trusty hardware may compel one to stop at 8.0, if one wishes to use the x64 version (the hardware requirements discussed in the quotations below apply to x64 only!). My 2¢ only. Feel free to disagree and/or disregard, simply because YMMV.

PM me a new e-mail address and I can change it for you.

You can try. Look, with a text editor (notepad will do) for the line that says "Version"="MSIE 9.0" and change the 9 by 10 or 11. Save and merge. Reboot or, at least log out then log in the profile. It should work as far as spoofing goes, but IIRR, pretending to be more than 9 results in garbled displays on IE8. YMMV, however. If you decide to try it, let me know how it went. I do spoof IE10 as IE11 on 7 ultimate sp1 x64 successfully, too. But that requires a longer reg file.

Try merging this reg. It's an IE9 spoof. It helps, but by no means fixes it all. Yet, it'll make IE8 a little more usable by supressing some of the upgrade notices. UserAgent_IE9_noNet.zip

You could post a mini-how-to for XomPie in this thread. Let´s say, a step-by-step description of how to use it with Pale Moon. It sure would help attract testers. My 2 ¢ only.

Check the file versions of the files installed. They should match or be newer. Try using Nirsoft's WinUpdatesList for checking them more confortably.

Ditthawat Chaikaewruchikorn - Cha-La Head Cha-La / Pegasus Fantasy (excerpt: starts at 5:00 min)

I cannot think of a reason to install .NET 1.1 at this time, so I'd keep that hidden, and also KB2756918, because it's spurious. The others you've hid are safe to install, IMO. I did and have no issue to report.

Yes. Just as it used to prompt one to install older Roots definitions after using any rootupd or rvkroots newer than the ones it considered the last ones, remember? I think it doesn't do it anymore, but anyway heinoganda's roots updater has obviated the need to worry about that, nowadays

Because it sucks. By design.

Use the Ranish Partition Manager 2.44.

Hide it. It's a glitch. That one is from Jan 2014.

It was taken away... I do miss it, too. As you should know, by now, resistance is ...

Not to me either, but both install without problems. There seems to be no MS16-120 for .Net 2.0 on POSReady 2009, though. Then again, there's a new Silverlight, too, as part of MS16-120. But atmzzr beat me to it!

Well, thanks for the heads up! But now that you mentioned it... and what about: