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I bet some patching or spoof will be found quite soon. There are just too many XP users still around and Dropbox is a quite popular aplication for it not to happen.

I can confirm that: heinoganda's mod. Version 4.8.204.0 Rev. 3 still works OK. And original v. 4.4.304.0 still does so, too. Hence, there are those two options to contunue to use MSE after Sep 1st.

If using Microsoft Update, you can also start it indirectly, just run from a CMD Box: C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\muweb.dll,LaunchMUSite

Welcome to MSFN! Glad you were able to get it working! And thanks for the heads up.

Download WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6-x86.exe; extract WUA-Downlevel.exe from inside it, using 7z; run it from a CMD Box with the /wuforce option. Do not forget to hide KB2934207 (the nag), before downloading updates. After you get all that's offered for XP SP3, you may want to implement the POSReady trick.

Well, what you called "extra function code" is *THE* function code (= that's actually what the function does!). The problems you're having with some functions is that not all function code can be simply transplanted from another NT-OS kernel32 as is. That's because some code may reference variables which are located at different addresses from one kernel32 to the other, or even variables that do not exist on the XP kernel32, not to mention variables residing on other modules, referenced by using hardcoded addresses ... So, in fact, one needs to figure out what the function code actually does (= that's the true meaning of "reverse engineering") before deciding to transplant code, to transplant, then modify code, just to stub the function to always reply either "success" or "failure", or even to implement ex-novo some functionality onto XP. I hope this helps you understand why sometimes you have success and sometimes you don't. I just wish I were able to help you more, but helping understand what's happening is about all I can do for you, at this point. And wish you good luck, of course!

I confirm this. I was using heinoganda's modded MSE 4.6.305.0 in a VirtualBox VM, and it worked flawlessly up to the last days of August. Today I've started the VM once again, for the 1st time in September and the icon became red. I was able to update it with heinoganda's updater and then to start it: it briefly turned green, then back to red and the service stopped again, all by itself. After repeating that dance a few times to convince myself it was useless, I've removed the modded MSE 4.6.305.0 and installed 4.4.304.0 once again. It then updated, became green again and remains working OK. So, I do agree with antiproton: besides the nag that heinoganda's mod disabled, there must be a timebomb for XP in MSE versions 4.5 and higher, set for Sep. 1st, 2016... or, at least, it's the only explanation to the observed facts that makes sense.

I'm annoyed by that, too! There seems to be no rhyme nor reason for it, yet: It seems that this kind of link does not work anymore: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/0-/?do=findComment&comment=1128833 but this one: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=0&view=findpost&p=1128833 still does work (till when?). Go figure!

It's one of Tihiy's magics: here.

That's just one more reason to encapsulate modifications in a new executable and redirect/inject those in real time, without modifying system files. Don't ask me how to do it: I don't know, but I do know it can be done. And that's the beauty of how Xeno86 implemented kEx in for 98/ME.

<shift><enter> gets you a newline like this, while simply hitting <enter> gets you a double-newline like this... go figure!

Well, the point is, to go through the moves and seem to be updating the IP.S (S for "service", not B for "board" anymore), they not only deprecate perfectly useful features, but also add others fully useless, until it actually reaches crapheap perfection. MS is doing likewise with Win 10, you know...

Try this: unknowndevices to get a list of identifiers. Then searching for drivers may become much easier. BTW, which are the maker and model of the machine's 500 GB HDD?

Move on to 2k or XP.

... or you might consider moving on to a double boot setup, to have both 8 and Vista at your disposal, depending only on which you select at boot time.

This topic has been updated! What's New? on post #2: Dave-H's machine (2) has been updated. Let's keep the list up-to-date: If you are using 9x/ME with more than 1 GiB RAM, do PM me your info and you shall be added to the list!

Windows Virtual PC ???

Choice? Whaddyu mean "choice"? You got Win 10: no choice at all!

@jumper: Did your quota get bigger? If not, let me know.

If you mean XP Home, no. One can add the POS trick onto XP Home all right, and it just works. As for XP MCE 2005, I've no experience with it, so I don't know. BTW, Jody: you surely meant "bad news", not "back news", right?

Same here. Updated 3 machines already.

I may be somewhat out, perhaps, and if so, sorry to bother, but... what is "Sweet 1607" supposed to be?

Possibly because it is on my list. But, then again, my reasoning is "things that require the Universal C Runtime are from the Win 10 set, so they have more telemetric potential than average". However, if one is willing to use Office 365 ( ), one shouldn't anymore actually worry about the Universal C Runtime, because the telemetric potential of Office 365 far exceeds that of the C Runtime, of course. My list tries embeds my jugement of what is undesirable: it may be too paranoid for some, and too relaxed for others. YMMV, as always.

But OT is not: have you all considered it's utterly ambiguous (viz. does it mean "On-Topic" or "Off-Topic"), yet it rarely, if at all, creates ambiguity? The ways of the human mind, and humans approach to language, in particular, work in mysterious ways, reason enough for no good solution for machine translation exist up to now...

YES!!! If Tihiy had created "RibbonNuker" instead of StartIsBack, I'd've been his 1st client for that!