vinifera

very out of context and this was quite a dirty trick by you some are relevant, not all, I agree many hotfixes, especially in SP2 screwed the OS but those that are for system level & kernel, I do agree user should have btw quoting system on this board sucks !

can't go more stupid than this basically you rely on your AV for everything while known backdoors and weakness are still there

problem isn't just in XP its in all NT win versions if you disable UAC in any NT 6, it is equally weak as XP/2000 is about 1.5 years ago I got certain virus under win7 SP1, that installed itself under SYSTEM account !!!! UAC was off (gee I thought SYSTEM was protected by certain restrictions even with UAC off - guess NOT)

funny thing is, if they just tweaked win7, to for example boot faster and be maybe lighter on resources thus RAM requirement be lower they'd got perfect OS (well at least as NT goes...) after XP and 2000 question is what made them to make such radical and stupid change... was it fear from google and apple ? (who cares)

even if I despise what vista became as final product I'd never use RTM, not even SP1, SP2 would be my only choice as many things are fixed and tweaked with SP2 so while you're determined to use Vista, why not slipstream SP2 init and solve your miseries also some things like Platform Update was released after SP2 (I think), should slipstream that thing too

problem with that idea is that its not doable many NT 6 features are simply incompatible with NT 5 tho believe it or not vista shell and explorer DO work on NT 5 via alky but I doubt that kernel changes could be simply reintegrated, same goes for ReFS or even superfetch same goes for UAC and DWM while some things from business side is better to deny

to above posts, simply put, they won't care win2k sp4 + rollup still has system exploits, do they care ?, no same will be with XP, why should they care, it ran out of its support cycle and thats it soon will come vista with same problem activation servers, again why should they care, since you're technically not buying their OS but simply rent it, otherwise it wouldn't be illegal to modify it, even with nLite your only salvation is to use XP Pro VL, and then backport XP POS patches, as that one go till 2019 is it legal ?, its up to you

since you didn't write which ones are for both we can only guess they can be or .net frameworks or visual c++ redist packages or some other stuff

maybe if someone ports over Protogon/ReFS

actually they are bound but as that article by mvp(?) said, it wasn't reported enough times and I read few weeks ago article from one of developers from early vista(longhorn), how they do development & bug fixing and IF certain team didn't report on time the bug, they leave it unfixed even if they are aware of it they leave it unfixed for next version of winblows so either they fixed this in w8, and if vista doesn't have this bug then it is limited only to w7 users which explain above situation

this is lame, 7 along with vista is BOUND to get major bugfixes

but it doesn't always run the 2nd one I'd say at least in my case, this happens every 2nd day

for some time I noticed I get 2 explorer.exe running, dunno when it all started, except that 2nd one takes much less memory than original "needed one" when I run Process Explorer I do see it is ran under different services but not much info is revealed except what info baloon shows I can kill it no problem, and nothing happens any ideas ?

so there is no fix for this ? I see article is from 2009

stiff ISO into RAR or ZIP or whatever and put password on it this way only you know password but as told CD/DVD won't be installable as you'd have to extract/de-pack the contents out

nice to know that, ty

which doesn't mean surfing is dead the only disadvantage that older operas like 10 and 11 have is that they don't support 3D models on HTML5 crap as far as CSS 3, with opera 11 I haven't come across a site that shows it all, therefore its again ok as v11 supports about 90% of CSS 3 while v12 supports even more things than v11 and those sites that refuse to make you enter with that horrid message "your browser is obsolete, upgrade to ...." is BS I have hex edited my Opera 11.52 string that now shows Firefox 25 and all those sites let me in now and work just as normal ------------------------------ on another story regarding win8 rants, MVPS HOSTS (winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm) have changed their localhost number from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 explanation:

I even wouldn't be so much against "new" Opera if they optimized the **** program itself this way it behaves exactly as Chrome/Iron, and what bugs me about it/them is: 1. each added extension (plugin) consumes the same amount of RAM as original Process (app) so if Opera by default takes 100 MB RAM, and you add 5 miserable plugins, they will cost you 500 MB + 100 MB of Opera (no tabs) and for what ? , simple plugin as "add download button" to UI takes 100 MB - fantastic I'd rather shoot myself in foot than buying extra 4 Gig's of RAM for this monster, and this worths for Chrome too 2. they call it modern and optimized browser, but it only works fluidly on multi core CPU's, single core ones choke on it is that what is modern these days ? to be unoptimized piece of crap that simply forces people to buy new machine/parts ? using webkit fork aka Blink which I'd rather call Snail doesn't excuse them from having such sluggish browser one my personaly favored ALSO based on webkit is QtWeb, that one is light, portable (bit sucks their forums are fubar but oh well) BUT its also based on webkit and is updated accordingly, so if THEY can have ultra light browser that uses webkit, why can't Opera too ??? as I understand, but maybe I was dropped on head who knows... Layout engine and Shell (which is actually app with hooks to Layout engine) are NOT TOGETHER !!!!

microsoft.... back in the days one would only need to register active-x (.ocx) and it would work

@ tomasz86 its a resource hog just like its clones

think I'll pass

they switched to fast upgrade release cycle instead waiting for bunch of hotfixes to pile up and make service pack

it didn't actually solved the issue but it reduced "the happening" used the 1st one with deleting all the "bags" unfortunately I don't know what makes OS (from time to time now, before it was constantly), to forget changed setting just for that one folder also another weird thing, when I ran yesterday for example after "fix", nirsoft's bag view, it wrote "Icons" view, but when I entered the same folder few minutes later it reverted to thumbs again the only logical explanation I can imagine is that desktop folders share desktop icon size? - as mine on desktop are larger than 32x32

thanks it helped !

its not ripoff of Chrome, it IS Chrome !