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1st do a <Shift><PrintScrn>, then paste in Paint and save with some arbitrary name... does this ring any bells? No software is needed at all.

+1... Il meglio è nemico del bene...

You should give Pi-Hole a try. I do use it to protect all machines in my LAN. Big advantage is one single dedicated RaspberryPi protects all machines, and one has just one central ad/malware trap to configure and tweak. One RaspberryPi 3B or 3B+ is not much of a cost for such 24/7 protection. Of course, this is just my 2¢, and YMMV!

Sure! Done!

Replying to my question: Total Commander exists in the Google Play Store and has a built in simple editor like what I wanted, while also being a great file manager, much better than the one included in Android, at least for those familiar with Total Commander / Norton Commander from way back when.

No, you aren't. There was some talk of vague vulnerabilities, AFAIK never known to have ever been exploited since then, which, IMO were just the usual FUD to force people to update to adware-ladden and or telemetry-ladden later versions. The adware could be prevented from installing and/or removed afterwards, but you know most people won't bother or be able to do that. µTorrent v.2.0.2.19648 was the last that was a single executable requiring no installation at all, so IMO is the one with best cost to benefit up to now.

Well, I'd rather have something that works for the whole LAN, and works across the various browsers I have in my multiboot machines, without having to be set up browser-by-browser. Pi-hole just works, but DNS-based blocking is unable to block those crappy pre-roll ads. So it's just not enough. When every newsreel CNN gives you forces you to watch the same pre-roll about Vietnam's Vin Group or some bank in Africa, and every YouTube clip brings you those cancel-after-5-seconds pre-roll ads, it does get exasperating, doesn't it?

My friend, with all due respect: those die-hards like me who eschew a full-body velostat gimp-suit can keep using the good old free, no-installation-needed (portable), single executable, µTorrent v.2.0.2.19648, which keeps working like clockwork. All others had better move on to 10 release 2004 (or whatever)...

Both html5 and flash, preferably. Pi-hole DNS blocking does a great job, but pre-roll ads aren't blockable that way. It's said AdTrap can do it... can it? And even in case it does, isn't it too costly? Please advise.

What did you expect? Fireworks? Did you update the windows certificates with @heinoganda's certificates updater v.1.6?

Old news. What part of "VFAT only supported 2K until I Patched it for 4K" did you fail to understand?

Well, since you asked me, here are my 2¢: KB2898785 *is superseded* by later updates. The important files there are browseui.dll & shdocvw.dll (both v. 6.0.2900.6740). KB3124275 IE6 *is not superseded* by later updates. The important files there are browseui.dll & shdocvw.dll (both v. 6.0.2900.6985), and the latter is the last shdocvw.dll ever released. As for browseui.dll, the last version ever released of it (v. 6.0.2900.7288) is in KB4025497, from 2017. The much older 2014 KB2962872-IE6 for x86 POSReady 2009 does, however, contain *non superseded* browsewm.dll v. 6.0.2900.6576, which is the last version of it ever released. It won't install on a system already having IE8 installed, but may be replaced by hand on a non-booted XP using, say, a linux-live CD to boot the machine, first in %windir%/system32/dllcache, then in %windir%/system32. Since those 3 files are not used by IE8 they're not updated by IE8 cumulative updates, but other XP SP3 modules do use them, so it's relatively easy not to have the last browsewm.dll & shdocvw.dll in one's installation, because the updates they are in require IE6 to install, and most users had already moved on to IE8 when they were released. HTH

Yes.

One full year after EoS, XP remains alive and kicking! Notice that two months after EoS, the curve clearly changed, because it became dominated by die-hards...

Since @TuMaGoNx had success, let's try one more: has anyone perchance preserved KB2963522 (The system or application freezes in a Windows Embedded POSReady 2009-based device)? I know it's quite a long-shot, but it doesn't exactly hurt to ask, right?

Don't know. I gave up 9x/ME some 6 years ago to focus mainly on XP SP3 (but also on 7 SP1), so I've lost touch with most of the latest developments on RLoew software. But since I didn't give up on DOS, I did acquire TRIM and AHCICD.SYS and kept in touch with Rudy from time to time. I think the one member who might know it is @LoneCrusader.

"imminent" ??? Now, instead of complaining just about AeroGlass stopping to work and/or breaking W10 after the latest "update"... y'all also complain about it potentially hosing the system after a (still inexistent) forthcoming update? @bigmuscle's got himself a fantastic bunch of users, or what?

In fact, it cannot. But it works with many sound drivers and can replace WDMSTUB.SYS on latest versions of Maximus Decim's NUSB, too, to avoid using two different WDM function extenders together. It can help adding GPS and maybe even Wi-Fi WDM drivers, too, provided they were written for 2k. It's quite rare to get WDM drivers intended for XP to work with either WDMEX.VxD or WDMSTUB.SYS, however.

You're in denial, my friend... wake up to reality: Oracle couldn't care less for XP-diehards even if they tried very hard!

I decided to take the plunge... and work it does! Yeah, that's my take on it, too. And, anyway, it's not the 1st file from the java bin folder at least some of us have been replacing for sometime, already... it just happens to be the 1st one that's really mandatory, in fact. My own current replacements list is the following: @Dave-H: Thanks a lot, once more!

Great to see you around! Cheers!

Congratulations to both of you @Dave-H and @jaclaz !!! You two deserve it! However, since it was the product of long persitence and experimentation, I think it might be useful to create a summary post, describing the procedure that works, so othere can benefit of it without having to digest 27 pages of thread. Perhaps we can even split the thread and maybe I can even manage to make the summary 1st post. What d'y'all say?

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