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May I guess "j*v*" should mean "java"?

Look into "Account Settings".

While I repect your opinion, and agree with you along most of it, I'm trying to cater for those, like me, who still are not decided to just stop updating. What I'm pointing to here is that KB3146449 must be a subset of the files in KB3139929, which can be removed, substituted by dummies, or otherwise inactivated. The aim of this thread is to fion out how to do it, and provide a solution. It's always better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness... unless the room is full of illuminating gas, of course!

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Ditto. Any ideas?

I use that, too! Works great!

No. Your system is OK, as it is.

You need the USB 3.0 drivers for the intel HM86.

harkaz nailed it all right! Thank you very much, harkaz, you do rock!

@E-66: Does your Vivaldi on Sandboxie also play the uppermost of the 3 videos in that test page I mentioned before?

But, supposing the user has an installation disk (the user should have it), or an image of the previous system, just before the moving into 10, and puts the previous OS back, does the license for the previous OS remain valid, supposing it's stil within the 30-day window?

Sandboxie is possibly interfering somehow. I am on XP SP3 fully up to date, using FF 44.0.2 and Chrome 48.0.2564.116 m directly on the OS. On that test page, FF does not display the 1st video, but displays the others OK, and Chrome does so all 3. Now, when I open this page on Chrome, then click on your sample links, the pages open normally, with the top video palying. I can then stop that one or not. In any case, when I click on the game snippets, they, too, play OK. The only difference, AFAIK, is that I'm not using Sandboxie.

Sorry to disagree, submix8c, but it's not Twitter, nor it's Steamable.com. It's most of the browsers, except Chrome ( ), rely on Windows Media Foundation (WMF) to render true H.264 mp4 video, Firefox, Pale Moon and recent Opera included. The OP should perform two tests: (i) play the video samples on this test page: the uppermost one is H.264, and should only work for Chrome on XP; (ii) while still on XP, try to play the things you weren't getting to play, by using Chrome ( ) on XP. Then let us know what the tests have shown you.

IIRR, if you're up to the 30th day *or* *less*, you can just go back: the sooner you do it, the better...

The 1st post has been updated again! "Windows Update Client for Windows x and Windows Server 20xx R2: March 2016" update pair added to the list.

Mostly, yes. But SP1 was still capable to detect and use RAM above 4GiB with the /PAE option. That limitation started with SP2.

There is none.

It's sort of a longshot, but I bet it'll work right! Do it on the cold system, from a special linux cd: use this (PCRegedit), which image is findable here: PCRegedit.iso Of course, the instructions I pointed you to are for another reg mod, not the one you want to do, but it's just for you to get the gist of how to work with it. While working on the cold system isn't quite confortable, it should just work. Now, to get back to the previous state, running regedit as TrustedInstaller, on the hot system, may suffice (then again, it may not, but it's worth trying).

No impact at all. MS-DOS 7.1 works natively with 4 GiB RAM. But one ought to add a /NUMHANDLES=64 switch in the line that loads HIMEM.SYS.

Does it happen on more than one computer? Are you sure the issue is on your side and not on your provider's side?

At RLoew's site...

There's nothing preventing you from linking to the W10EpicFail thread that hosts the file. You have contributed a lot to MSFN, and I'm sure will continue to do so. Now you can keep a thread about getting rid of Cortana here too, as it has been up to now, and become OP on top of it... and then we close this one... or we can keep this one going some more, without that added benefit.

Yes and no. It does so by default, but you can go to Options -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Update and set it to "Never check for updates", and then it'll present you the button to check for updates in the Help -> About, but won't check for 'em unless you actually press that button (then again, if you do so, and it then finds an update, I'll go on to download and install it without asking you anything further).

@NoelC: Would you please consider opening a new thread with the same name and [Part II] appended to that name (as suggested by Dave-H on another thread) and a link to this thread on the first post? You'd then be the OP, so you would be able to mantain the 1st post always relevant and keep the latest version of your script there, too, for easier reference and downloading. If you agree to do that, then I'd lock this thread, which is already becoming quite heavy, and add to it a last post with a pointer to the new thread, so that the connection isn't lost. Waddyou say?

Likewise, it's safer to start using NUSB33, and only going on to NUSB36 if actually required.