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@caliber Would great to see user_hidden's QFE + 5eraph's PostReady QFE combined and finalised. BTW it's just me that late to see those April 5 updates.. duh

@someguy25 yeah, just when I'm about to pack my final debug symbols files. MS is sure busy, maybe they have another surprise this month >.< uhh technically the updates are dated April 5 so it's within EOL

MS push another updates today! just kill me already lol

@sparty411 In number, yes. But the difference is those OSes are at the end of the line so users try hard to resurrect what left. While XP is in the end of well.. a branch? is not like Windows is over, so the drive to strive will be lower.

When did this happen to Win2000? Seeing other dedicated diehards (OS/2, BeOS/Haiku or even Amiga) I have a feeling XP wont reach that level of community... Just imagining those try porting modern firefox onto relics OS is just crazy. In the end OS/2 fork and Haiku become half-linux franken OS.

Oops its too loong I will upload the file instead... IE8 Cumulative is the only missing update for YumeYao_IE8_Addon_Nosetuperr_ENU_1.5.30.7z The list doesn't include custom hotfixes, and additional updates to .NET 1.0 on MCE/TPC

Since nothing came up today (EOL), I make listing to recap the updates of XP and .NET framework after last Service Pack applied. XP SP3 (no MCE/TPC) .NET 1.0 SP3 .NET 1.1 SP1 .NET 3.5 SP1 .NET 4.0 XPNETpostSP.txt

What's really end for XP by tomorrow beside Windows, .NET and IE8 security updates? What about MSE definition? @Dibya looking forward for your final patched PAE kernel !

I thought Posready was equipped with FBWF/EWF for a reason... with junction.. App virtualizer.. and maybe disk image mounter.. why slowdown the OS with "malware" called heuristic antivirus/HIPS or wahtever? Just kidding

Cpython 3.5 and up use VS2015/2017 (which not run on XP,) to build C-ext thus porting just cpython is half of story. Different approach would be Pypy (pure python), last time I check (py 3.5) still use VS2008 (not that it matter much anyway) and run fine on XP. Then there is msys2's python3 (mingw64) if you want to go separate way from the official.

Could we *focus* on the _pagefile_ please? Thank U

Well. while my PC is from 2012 it's at that time no weak specs: Xeon E31265L with 8GB RAM

It may come as outright dumb to some but bear with me.. So they say "why not run XP32 VM for compatibility?" I say why not the opposite? at the moment my thought goes to 7-zip usage with large dictionary size that benefit large RAM so it doesn't have to be Win7-64 VM but the idea is the same. With at least 8GB RAM in XP32 one could allocate spare RAM into RAMDisk which in turn host virtual disk image(s) which in turn host Pagefile(s) that mounted and used by XP64 VM inside VirtualBOX (I use 4.3.40) which otherwise only limited to less than 2GB of host RAM. Combined RAM and Pagefile(s) should hypothetically allow 64-bit process to use >4GB memory with feasible performance (since everything happen in RAM right?). At least that's what I thought to be.. but NOPE the pagefile underperform! it's freaking slow! Actually I see HDD blinks for seconds on occasions. Anybody tried similar thing? maybe with VMWare?

@Mathwiz thanks, that's why I need TLS/SSL analogy. TLS has been available for a looong time and only enforced when it become serious matter. Firefox is well known for using its own library to do most thing (e.g NSS and friends) that's why it's the only HTML5 portable browser in existence (no chrome in Unixware, OS/2, OpenVMS, QNX or "others" OSes). If ESNI patch landing one of these dependencies then it may easier to port, just like encryption module. Personally I'm no browser security enthusiast (knowing that I use obsolete OSes to begin with), never use security plugin either, just text mode Opera 12 or full mode Seamonkey via privoxy piped to console tor and maybe a web proxy as additional pipe.

during initial boot? That's probably not what it trying to say

@Mathwiz is there article explain the current situation? like if SNI in the same situation of say SSL3. Anyway I think such things maybe too browser specific for this list, providing HTML 5 support is another thing though. I will remove browser specific features.

@dencorso I see that make sense now, conflict is possible because third party controller driver like that loaded by service 0 (boot) but even earlier are system driver referenced kernel itself. Then does it work something like Alcohol virtual drive? Or RAID/SCSI/AHCI controller... I will add Kai driver link

@dencorso Before I read that long thread :D, can you clarify that OFA driver has been ported to SCSIPort? because you still mention 2k3 storport.sys + Kai's drivers, that's make no sense to me unless ntoskrnl.exe modded. @caliber so it doesn't work at 5Gbps (with correct BIOS XHCI hand-off setting) ? Does it show as XHCI in device manager?

@someguy25: thanks, added @dencorso: I'm talking about USB generic, I will add NEC toshiba support UDF 2.50 Panasonic support 2.60 I don't remember the link anymore but filename is MEIUDF-5.3.0.1_XP-X86_EN.exe and MEIUDF-5.3.0.1_XP-X64_EN.exe storport is referenced DIRECTLY by ntos kernel itself so I don't think if vanilla XP kernel which don't know about it understand how to deal with driver requiring it.

To celebrate the year when XP will be EOL lets list feature that's not supported by/for Windows XP. The list meant to be "technology enabler", so no end-user software listed here. OS Builtin (Microsoft): 4Kn AF Drive AHCI generic (ongoing support by UniATA) AR and VR AVX CODEC for modern multimedia formats (support by e.g LAVFilters) DirectX e.g DXVA2, Direct2D, DirectWrite >= 10 (partial suppport by Wine) .NET >= 4.5 (partial support by Mono) ETW GPT (driver supported by Paragon) HTML5 (ongoing support by Maxthon and Seamonkey) Input Language for Indic and few others (Support by MS Indic or Google Input Tools or Free Keyman Desktop 8.0) IPv6 partial support missing DHCPv6 (use dibbler as alternative) and PPPv6 KASLR (partial support by Ozone/Wehntrust) KPTI Media Foundation e.g. WASAPI MultiTouch/Gesture (also check this) NDIS > 5.1 ODBC > 3.51 (most BigData vendor provide JDBC alternative) PAE > 4GB due to licensing and driver stability issue (unstable support via PatchPae3, detectable RAM up to 2^37 and usable by Gavotte RAMDisk as multiple 4GB pagefiles, in case of PAE + 3GT max RAM is 16GB where the rest may usable via Imdisk AWE alloc ) PowerShell > 2.0 SSTP StorPort (note that in Win2003, ntos kernel 5.2 need to manage the dualism of old scsiport and new storport, thus transplanting it into XP kernel 5.1 = loose cannon) UDF >= 2.5 (HD-DVD driver by Toshiba / Bluray driver by Panasonic) UNICODE (uniscribe) >= 5, Incomplete 4.x, and missing some unicode fonts (newer version available as part of Office Viewer 2010 with VistaFont Pack) USB 3 generic (driver supported by e.g ASMedia, NEC) WIC at same level as Vista (additional codec by older and free FastPictureViewer) WIA (incomplete, available as separate install? see this) Windows Installer MSI > 4.5 Windows Store / UWP WSSAPI (separately bundled in InTune) 3rd Party: 10GbE Ethernet: intel x540 (Many drivers support Windows 2003 but not XP specifically, some old 40Gb/s Infiniband NOT ethernet might supported by OFA driver) CUDA > 5.2 Dokan (FUSE) > 0.6 Electron (The popular way to make "App", usable alternative by NW.js 0.14.7) HEVC/AVC HW Accelerated Encoder JavaVM > 8 NVMe (OFA driver port) read above storport note. Oculus VR (apparently older runtime SDK did support, but the device driver never support XP, so maybe other vendor?) OpenGL >= 4.6 OpenCL >= 1.2 (AMD/Nvidia Driver only have OpenCL 1.1 interface file for XP though they may bundle OpenCL 1.2 runtime) SATA-6G / SAS3 Steam ? Surround Display per GPU (support by Matrox pre-radeon chipset) Thunderbolt UHD 60Hz Resolution, DisplayPort >= 1.2, HDMI >= 2.0 Ultrium LTO > 6 (note: XP never support LTFS) Vulkan, SPIR-V I'm sure missed a lot so please add more and correct me too.

@Dibya I thought Qupzilla already run well on XP? The problem with Epiphany is gnome integration (I've no problem with webkitgtk though it stuck at version 2.2/2.4 same for WebkitQT) Also see Otter Browser (IMO best webkit browser, from ex. Opera Developer) but not yet reach version 1.0 I have tested my gcc for a while now, I will uploaded it later including patches

Added ffmpeg 3.4.1 https://sourceforge.net/projects/xpitory/files/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-3.4.1.7z/download

@Dibya If you want to use -vcrXX option then it's not ready as libmsvcrXX.a files still untested. So far I only used it against msvcrt.dll

Added Qemu 2.10.1 universal cpu emulator and virtualizer

@Dibya I can't do MSY2 it's more than 150MB compressed So here is which to install base: http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/i686/msys2-i686-20160205.exe packages: http://repo.msys2.org/msys/i686/ if packages has "i686" in its filename then only install if the date modified is up to August 2016, newer may no longer work if packages has no "i686" then it may works or may not (if it depends on newer binary packages) to put it simply, just download all latest packages before September 2016 install them altogether manually using pacman