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On 2/12/2022 at 4:07 PM, Dave-H said:
Do you know why there are two entries for HTTPSProxy.exe in Task Manager?
Different PIDs and different memory usage.One instance works as a service (server part), another one works as GUI (client part). Some programs use different files for different tasks, some allow to close GUI and run only service, if you don't need to change configuration or see tray notifications...
Open Task Manager on Processes tab, turn on "Show processes for all users", ensure that you have Username column visible and look how many svchost.exe instances you can see - one running as NETWORK SERVICE user, some running as LOCAL SERVICE user, some other as SYSTEM.
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19 hours ago, Dave-H said:
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; Trident/4.0; Sky Broadband; BTRS111060; chromeframe/32.0.1700.107; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; BRI/2)
There's something unusual in the User Agent of your IE8. It is changed by some tools. It should start like that:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0;
and not like that:
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; Trident/4.0;
The server reads the User Agent and then may provide some IE9 compatible JavaScript code which cannot be properly executed by IE8 JS engine. Just guessing...
Do you know why the User Agent is changed? Is is caused by some add-on in your IE or by the proxy?
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15 hours ago, VistaLover said:
Wrong on both counts...
Vista's End of Extended Support came in April 2017 (2017-04-11);
WS2008's End of Extended Support came in January 2020 (2020-01-14) ...I'm not using those systems. Thanks for corrected info.
15 hours ago, VistaLover said:I suspect IE11/Win7+, now deprecated itself, has still some residual "life"
into it, if one cares to browse the web of 2021 with it 
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Looked at the Windows usage statistics: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide
- Win10 78.43%,
- Win7 16.03%,
- Win8.1 3.49%,
- Win8 1.17%,
- WinXP 0.59%,
- WinVista 0.26%
The order stays unchanged for a long time. Obviously people in Windows 7 use better browsers than IE11.
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Windows Vista ans Windows Server 2008 have had EOS in 2018, before Windows POSReady2009.
There may be updates for IE11 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. There may be also notifications from Adobe. If some sites can't run FlashPlayer, they may redirect users to Adobe FlashPlayer download page.
But I'm only guessing. If you provide any link for webpages with such a "security feature", I will be able to check it.
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9 hours ago, mixit said:
I've no idea how Mozilla managed to keep this bug around ever since Firefox 15.0
Don't forget that Google knew about such problems and abused that knowledge, though Google coders working with Mozilla team should rather help to make fixes. They even might deliberately keep bugs unfixed.
Mozilla claims Google has made YouTube perform worse on Edge and Firefox
Mozilla engineer says Google slowed YouTube down on non-Chrome browsers
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
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On 7/24/2021 at 8:55 PM, VistaLover said:
Are you using the version advertised as Basilisk compatible below?
Sure, but it doesn't matter. The only difference is missing updateURL in install.rdf downloaded from Basilisk site.
On 7/24/2021 at 8:55 PM, VistaLover said:... By the looks of things, this extension has become sort of "abandonware"
, since its last update was back in June 2019... 
Well, reading the topic there: http://tabmixplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20034
…it was a bug report for TabMixPlus 0.5.8.0 with Basilisk 52 updated to build 2019.06.08 and onemen claimed it should be fixed in 0.5.8.1 (the latest update).
But I did try TMP 0.5.8.1 and 0.5.8.0 with older Basilisk build (2019.05.04) and failed. If any of you is a registered TMP forum user, could you post a new bug report there, please?
On 7/25/2021 at 10:14 AM, we3fan said:Hi @modnar, I am not sure if we talk about the same issue.
When I watch youtube video with Firefox or Firefox-derived browser on 720p, often the audio will continue but the image will freeze for 7 seconds. This doesn't happen on 480p.
I have 2GB RAM, maybe upgrade to 4GB RAM would fix this, not sure.
When you watch 480p, your browser downloads a single audio/video file containing both audio and video streams. For 720p and higher Youtube uses MPEG DASH standard - it downloads separately audio and video streams divided in segments. In most cases audio stream is always downloaded while video quality in every segment depends on your current connection speed. If your connection goes bad, you may lose video for a few seconds, then watch video segment in worse quality. The player may even automatically switch back to 480p in a single audio/video file.
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23 hours ago, roytam1 said:
New build of Serpent/UXP for XP!
Anyone using TabMixPlus with Serpent in Windows XP? I can't get it working in any way. Tabs aren't colored, closing tab doesn't go back to previously active tab…
Edit: TabMixPlus works OK with Serpent 55 described as "post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP", but this fork has problems with Javascript similar to Firefox 52.9 which aren't present in Serpent 52/UXP.
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7 hours ago, xpandvistafan said:
Luckily the other day I archived a bunch of old Catalog Updates such as Windows XP Service Pack 2, XP Service Pack 3, Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 1, etc.
Service Packs are still available.
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On 4/30/2021 at 2:04 PM, Dave-H said:
Is the Microsoft Catalogue actually working for you?
Microsoft Catalog still works, but almost all updates described as "Security update for Windows XP" only have been removed from the list. You can find updates for drivers, dotnet, IE8, Windows Media, XP Embedded, POSReady, Windows Server 2003 and XP…
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20 minutes ago, Dave-H said:
I've just tried it.
Same result I'm afraid.Maybe that script is too dumb to understand that you have installed system on drive D:
;-)
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22 hours ago, RainyShadow said:
On an unrelated topic, when i switched my desktop resolution from 1280x1024 to 1600x1200 to take that screenshot, Serpent52 crashed in xul.dll . Changing back to 1280x1024 proceeded fine though.
I was getting those random crashes for some time in NM27 recently (also in xul.dll) at least 1-2 times a day. I attributed this to the warmer weather and hardware issues cropping-up, but maybe some recent change in the code made it more prone to crashing?
It looks like your old PC is going to die so they're definitely hardware issues. However, you can do some things with your software:
1. Lower refresh rate for 1600x1200 resolution.
2. Turn off hardware acceleration in your browser.
3. Download MSI Afterburner and underclock settings for your graphic card.
4. Underclock your CPU in BIOS settings.
For more helpful hints you should visit some hardware oriented forum, I think.
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On 4/5/2021 at 5:10 PM, xpandvistafan said:
The evidence for that was it gave a 404 error if you tried to access update.microsoft.com/v6/ClientWebService/client.asmx.
It doesn't prove anything. You DID try to connect via HTTPS. You should see "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied" when connected to http://update.microsoft.com/v6/ClientWebService/client.asmx
However, I still don't know why are you trying to connect to that very page. Where did you get it?
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Currently there are problems with both https://update.microsoft.com and https://widowsupdate.microsoft.com pages or subdomains. Firefox 52.9 also cannot connect or reports SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error. Only Catalog seems to work OK.
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23 hours ago, xpandvistafan said:
I noticed that around Mid-March, The Microsoft Update Catalog is now restricted to HTTPS with TLS 1.2 with ECDHE_RSA only. Windows XP with Internet Explorer 8 can no longer access it. But Windows 2000 with the extended kernel can access it.
I have no problem with Windows XP fully updated with POSReady updates. Just opened the site and downloaded one file. Maybe you have connected to https://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx (Catalog for newer systems) or to https://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx (Windows Update site) rather than to https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/
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AFAIK some sites allow either TLS 1.2 with strongest cipher suites (Elliptic Curves etc.) or TLS 1.3 only.
Internet standards for TLS 1.0 (RFC 2246) and for TLS 1.1 (RFC 4346) are marked as HISTORIC now so they shouldn't be used any more.
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22 hours ago, Vistapocalypse said:
I hope that roytam1 will consider starting a part 3 thread in the near future. As I recall, his original thread was locked after reaching the staggering length of 199 pages, thanks in large part to OT posts.
I think, that some moderator should split OT messages (including ours) to separate threads. I won't comment searching capabilites, some things are really better searchable with Google and search limited to site:msfn.org
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13 hours ago, VistaLover said:
<OT>
Many thanks for your suggestion of the GRIT 7-zip plugin
; however, while it does work for .pak files of the rest of the Chromium forks (including Google Chrome), it still is incapable of accessing and decompressing the insides of YB's resources.pak file ; as @ArcticFoxie has stressed, that file has been specially packed/crafted so as to be only accessible by the browser itself, not third party tools... I guess you could consider it a form of soft "encryption" ... 
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I tested plugin on Yandex full installer for version 19.3.2.177 and had NO problems. Maybe Russian devs went Mozilla way in newer builds. Mozilla uses zip files with central directory moved to the beginning of the archive.
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21 hours ago, ArcticFoxie said:
That's exactly what I use for 360Chrome (where resources.pak for build 2206 is 5.2 MB).
But it does not work for Yandex (where resources.pak for version 17.4.1.919 is close to FOUR TIMES the size at 20.2 MB).
The pak file is a simple archive containing uncompressed files, similar to tar. HTML files are mostly gzipped, some large js or css files may be gzipped as well. I guess, that resources.pak may contain different resources for different operation systems and for different languages. The latest 360Chrome may have less resources as it seems to support only Windows 10 (or 8+).
You can download this 7zip plugin: https://www.tc4shell.com/en/7zip/grit7z/ and try to open pak files from Yandex in 7zfm. The pak archive doesn't contain any file names or sizes and the plugin seems to use some heuristics to determine sizes - sum of all the reconstructed files is greater than the pak file size. Some files may stay unrecognized - they have dat extension.
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Thanks for your efforts. I think that there are still many things possible to find as long as there are interested Windows XP users.
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15 hours ago, luweitest said:
Did you install them on an old system, or do a fresh install (direct integration)?
I installed Windows XP SP3 integrated with all patches for XP, then changed the system to POSReady and installed POSReady patches from Windows Update. I was aware that some XP patches were re-released (see v2 in filenames?) and I wouldn't integrate POSReady patches in any case because they weren't checked as intensively as XP patches.
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17 hours ago, luweitest said:
Just another two dll file in the post-SP3 update
What update do you mean? I have installed kb4034775, kb4493796 and kb4493795 (for Excel) - and dlls 4.0.9801.x are registered with no problem.
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21 hours ago, XPerceniol said:
startupCache.4.little [1.65 MB] Upon examination, it appears to contain nonsense and I don't see any personal information within it ?
It's a zip archive containing files from currently installed Firefox extensions. It is created to make the browser startup faster. There is NO private info there. If you delete it on your browser close, it will be created again on the browser start, so deleting is just a waste of time.
However, you may need to delete the startup cache it if you have problems with some extension or if you hack extensions on your own.
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Read about Fiji and Morocco here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-starts-dst-2020.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-changes-clocks-2019.html
Fiji seems to stop using DST - now DST will be only in 4 summer weeks. Morocco moved to EU time zone (for economic reasons), then restored Sun time for Ramadan (for religious reasons).
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Just checked WU and it worked again with no problem - with patched dll mentioned earlier:
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On decommissioning of update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019
in Windows XP
Posted · Edited by Usher
Well. those notebooks were designed for Windows 9x! Some of those Compaq models have an option to expand RAM to 320 MB, running IE8 should be possible also with 192 MB RAM , but if you have only 64 MB RAM with no possibility to expand it, you should better forget about Windows XP and more modern software.