AstroSkipper

Hello @jaclaz! I've installed your recommended hex editor Tiny Hexer, and it's an interesting alternative. But frankly, my recommended tools HxD and WinHex are more recent, full of additional features, and still getting updates unlike Tiny Hexer. In most cases, I use WinHex to modify files, and I am very happy with it for years. Nonetheless, thanks again for your recommendation! Kind regards, AstroSkipper

Hello @Cixert! Thanks for posting several links with regard to definition updates of Avast!! Unfortunately, some of your links doesn't work anymore. Secondly, and spoken for me only, I would never use an AV program in Windows XP which can't get up-to-date definition updates. The definition update for Avast! 4 is of March 2018. More than 4 ½ years old! What shall these definitions do for protecting an user in terms of current threats? Even if you have not caught a virus in Windows XP for a long time, it does not mean that you are safe from infection. BTW, the linked definition update for Avast! 5+6+7 is supposed to be of March 2020? Are you sure? Anyway, not much better, unfortunately! And, their program versions are still much older which is no good, either. In terms of Windows XP, there are alternatives which get up-to-date definition updates like Avast! 18, AVG Antivirus, Panda Antivirus, Malwarebytes, ClamWin, K7 Computing Total Security, and WiseVector StopX 3.07, and their program versions are more recent or even most recent. As long as there are such recent AV programs getting up-to-date definition updates, there is actually no reason to use an abandoned one, IMHO. Anyway, thanks for your efforts and your information! Greetings from Germany,

Update notification! The post above "eCleaner custom button created by @AstroSkipper for the extension Preferences Monitor" has been enhanced and the provided download link updated due to a change in the custom button itself. I inserted an additional English description into its Button Help for those who are not proficient in the German language. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

IndicateTLS In my article "ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy in Windows XP for future use", I wrote a lot about the TLS protocols and their cipher suites. This article can be found here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183352-proxhttpsproxy-and-httpsproxy-in-windows-xp-for-future-use/. In the section "4. The TLS protocols and their cipher suites" of this article, you can read about this stuff. Now, I've found a perfect extension to display in Mypal 68 the used TLS protocol and cipher suite of the currently visited website. IndicateTLS displays negotiated SSL/TLS protocol version and additional security information in the address bar. This extension uses the new SecurityInfo-API in Firefox to display information about the transport security used on the sites you visit. The TLS protocol version is displayed by an icon in the address bar. More detailed information can be viewed by clicking on that icon, particularly to display the TLS protocol version of 3rd party servers that the website you are visiting fetches resources from. Here is an image of its pop-up window: In my opinion, IndicateTLS is a great extension to get deeper security information about the visited websites. Tested version: 0.3.0 Download link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/indicatetls/ Cheers, AstroSkipper

I fear that this question can only be answered by Microsoft itself. There are language packs which can be installed, though (AFAIK, only in Windows XP Professional with an appropriate key). All days of the week and months are contained in the file locale.nls as described above.

I was a Firefox fan from the beginning in 2002. I used to surf a lot on websites that were very insecure and should actually rather be avoided. You could quickly catch malware, and the antivirus programs of that time were not really good. Internet Explorer was defenceless against these nasty websites. When the Firefox browser appeared and was constantly improved, I was thrilled. Ad blockers, script blockers, and the many useful extensions made Firefox my favourite browser. It was like that for years. The jump to versions 43+, 46+, and even worse to 52+ and finally, the disaster at its best, 57+ was the reason for me to turn my back on Firefox due to the well-known, worse changes coming up with these versions. I found an interesting alternative in Pale Moon. And so, Pale Moon quickly became my default and favourite browser. I never really liked Chrome and always avoided it as much as possible in Windows XP. In newer operating systems like Windows 7 and higher, however, there is no escaping the Google monster. Truth be told, I love to surf the internet and read articles on a tablet wherever I am. Since I detest Apple even more than Google, my tablet is based on the Android operating system, a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. Anyway, my Android tablet is Google in its pure existence, and all Googlized crap, which does not work on my Windows XP computer, is processed here. I totally agree. Moreover, Internet Explorer died several deaths. First, it was Firefox , then the inability or listlessness of Microsoft to develop this browser meaningfully and keep it up to date, and then came Chrome, which ultimately imposed its browser engine on most browsers. All attempts by Microsoft to counteract this with Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 were too late and doomed to failure. Ultimately, Google and its Chrome engine stifle alternative browser developments. Yes! That the old Firefox code is freely available and could form the basis of Pale Moon and roytam1's browser editions was indeed a stroke of luck for which I will always be grateful.

You're welcome! Actually, the modification of the German strings were no problem at all. Just a few seconds, and it was done!! In your language, I can't assess the effort, though. Anyway, from now on we know where these modifications have to be done.

@feodor2's Mypal 29 was abandoned years ago. There will be no further development of this browser anymore. I removed this version completely from my system long time ago. Anyone who is still wondering why certain websites no longer work in this version can honestly no longer be helped. Sorry to say that! But, that's the truth, unfortunately! We all know, there are other browsers like for example New Moon 28 which can be used in combination with palefill to get access to GitHub. And, these browsers are updated and fixed on a regular basis.

@DrunkenTanker! Have a look into this post! Sometimes, a search in this forum is not bad, either. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Update notification! The article "Mypal 68 on low performance systems with an amount less than 2 GB of RAM" has been updated with regard to uBlock Origin as the new, recommended ad blocker extension. The RAM consumption is much less than in the case of the extension AdBlocker Ultimate. Mypal 68 behaves much smoother and less sluggish on my old computer. Cheers, AstroSkipper

eCleaner custom button created by AstroSkipper for the extension Preferences Monitor eCleaner is an extension to control and remove entries in your browsers preferences which is normally done via about:config. It's my favourite tool to get rid of all remnants of previous installed extensions. Very convenient is the function to open the corresponding entries via about:config and search for information about them on Google as shown in the first screenshot below. Additionally, the browser's Profile, Downloads, and LocalStore can be cleaned up, too. Here are some screenshots of eCleaner: Unfortunately, the standalone version of eCleaner was abandoned with the version 1.4 in 2011. The more recent versions of eCleaner were embedded into the extension Preferences Monitor, an extension which watches for changes on the about:config preferences and notifies the user about it exactly. The last release of Preferences Monitor is the version 3.6.1.1 from 2014-03-21 which can be downloaded from the Classic Add-ons Archive. Into this version, eCleaner 2.5 was embedded as its last version at that time. You can't execute eCleaner directly, though. First, you have to open the setting page of Preferences Monitor, and at the bottom you find a button to start the tool eCleaner which is shown in this image: All a bit cumbersome! For this reason, I have written a custom button in JavaScript to access eCleaner directly from the browser. Here is a screenshot of my eCleaner custom button: And, here is the JavaScript code of my eCleaner custom button: /*CODE*/ eCleanerWindow = window.open("chrome://prefmon-ecleaner/content/ecleaner.xul", "eCleaner", "chrome"); eCleanerWindow.focus(); The icon of this button is the original one of the eCleaner standalone version. For the installation of this button, the extension Custom Buttons is required which you can get from this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1226328 I uploaded my eCleaner custom button as an XML file. I added an additional English description to the Button help for those who are not proficient in the German language. Here is the updated download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/qds9t8g5plcvyo5/eCleaner-ID1.xml/file My eCleaner custom button is a perfect example of how missing functions can be retrofitted using already existing or self-created custom buttons. Cheers, AstroSkipper

I also believe that such "bugs" are not deliberately implemented to annoy users of old UXP browsers or to force them to abandon their use. It is much more likely that website developers simply don't have these users and their browsers on their radar anymore and certainly don't test their websites in such browsers. Only the latest browsers are important for them, nothing else matters at all, unfortunately. They probably follow the rule of the more recent the better, as so many do these days.

Hello to all readers of my thread! As I already mentioned in a previous post, my article "ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy in Windows XP for future use" has been updated and enhanced by everything about my program packages in the last weeks. A lot has been rewritten due to the existence of the brand new TLS 1.3 proxies ProxyMII and ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3. New sections about TLS protocols, cipher suites, and certificates have been added, too! Here is an up-to-date content overview of my article "ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy in Windows XP for future use" in the first post of this thread. All orange sections have been revised, all blue sections have been added by me as brand new sections. From now on, all sections are numbered consecutively for a better structure of the article. 1. Introduction: 2. Purpose of ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy: 3. Area of application: 4. The TLS protocols and their cipher suites 5. Certificates - CA and Root Certificates 5.1. The CA certficate of ProxHTTPSProxy 5.2. The Root Certificates of Windows XP 6. The TLS 1.2 proxies ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy 6.1. Prerequisites: 6.1.1. Detailed information: 6.2. Installation: 6.3. Configuration: 6.3.1. Configuration of ProxHTTPSProxy: 6.3.2. Configuration of HTTPSProxy: 6.3.3. Configuration of these proxies to access the MU website successfully nowadays: 6.4. Usage: 6.4.1. Usage of ProxHTTPSProxy: 6.4.2. Usage of HTTPSProxy: 6.5. Maintenance of ProxHTTPSProxy and HTTPSProxy for future use: 7. The TLS 1.2 proxy ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu 3V1 7.1. Prerequisites: 7.2. Purpose and components of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu 3V1: 7.3. Features of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu 3V1: 7.4. Changelog of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu 3V1: 7.5. Installation and configuration of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu 3V1: 7.6. Tranferring all settings of an existing ProxHTTPSProxy's installation: 7.7. Usage of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu 3V1: 8. The TLS 1.3 proxy ProxyMII 8.1. Prerequisites: 8.2. General information about ProxyMII 8.2. How to set up and use the TLS 1.3 proxy ProxyMII: 9. The TLS 1.3 proxy ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 9.1. Prerequisites: 9.2. General information about ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 9.3. ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3 9.3.1. Features of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3: 9.3.2. Changelog of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3: 9.3.3. Installation and start of ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3 3V3: 10. Versions: 10.1. Versions of the TLS 1.2 proxies ProxHTTPSProxy, HTTPSProxy, and ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu: 10.2. Versions of the TLS 1.3 proxies ProxyMII and ProxHTTPSProxy's PopMenu TLS 1.3: 11. Downloads: 11.1. Archived Downloads {obsolete}: 11.2. Latest Downloads: 11.2.1. Downloads related to the TLS 1.2 proxies: 11.2.1.1. Downloads related to ProxHTTPSProxy: 11.2.1.2. Downloads related to HTTPSProxy: 11.2.2. Downloads related to the TLS 1.3 proxies: 11.2.3. Downloads related to cacert.pem Certificate Update: 11.2.4. Downloads related to Root Certificate Updates: 12. Update notifications: 13. Conclusion: 14. Disclaimer: Have a lot of fun while reading! Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

I found the file where the weekdays and months of different languages are contained. The German weekdays and months are located there, too. The file can be found in the folder windows\system32\ and is called locale.nls. Open this file with a Hex editor and search for the corresponding strings in your native language! PS: I was able to edit this file and change successfully the German month "Dezember" to "dezember", just for fun, of course. Frankly, I do not need to change anything with regards to this language file. Anyway, the hex editor I used was WinHex 20.3. You can find my recommendations of hex editors in this post: And now, a final tip! Backup the file locale.nls first and be careful when editing the strings! Do not change other signs, only the first ones of your months and weekdays otherwise you might destroy the file structure! Cheers, AstroSkipper

My Windows XP Professional SP3 is an original German version. I have never thought about in which files the weekdays and months are located. There was no need to do that in the past! When I'm back at my desktop computer, I'll see if I can find these files. But I can't promise anything. Presumably, it depends on the already existing version of Windows XP, too. There are multilanguage versions of Windows XP Professional. Or, the user has installed one or more language packs subsequently. BTW, you should also ask yourself whether all the effort is really worth it just because of the upper and lower case of a few strings. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

I had a look at the German language file located in the subfolder Lang. Unfortunately, I couldn't find there the German weekdays Mo, Di, Mi, Do, Fr, Sa, and So. The program uses presumably the weekdays from the system language files. Therefore, I fear you can't do anything about it unless you would modify your system language files.

@we3fan! By the way, I also had to readjust the German language file due to a wrong layout. The option "Bold"="Fett" shown in the setting tab was cut off and therefore not completely visible anymore. I fixed that by inserting spaces in the corresponding regions of this file.

I can't see in your profile which country you are from. So, I don't know what your mother tongue is, either. I am German, and all my weekdays start with capital letters. Anyway, my suggestion is to modify the appropriate language file in TClock Light's program folder. All weekdays of your preferred language should be contained in its corresponding language file. You simply have to edit it to your personal needs.

Thanks for the reminder! Nice idea to block the Javascript file *.deprecation.js which generates this unwanted banner. I will change the current filter when I am at my desktop computer next time. At the moment, I am writing this using my Android tablet.

Yes, you're right. I disabled it as recommended for old, slow computers. In the past, I didn't use any own filters. It's now the first time I've enabled it. And, it works as it should.

If you use the tool TClock Light, you can also edit the date and time format to your personal needs. Capital letter or not, all is configurable. In addition, there is no longer any need to change system settings that are probably difficult or impossible to edit.

I took care of that in UBO: ! https://learn.microsoft.com learn.microsoft.com##.has-default-focus.header-holder @VistaLover Thanks for this tip and your filter! Microsoft is always coming up with something new. Anyway, it works like a charme. It only remains to mention that the option cosmetic filters in uBO must of course be activated, which unfortunately was not the case with me, and therefore did not work at first. A second thanks for the tip to modify the file builtin-rules.js in palefill! All is working fine now. Kindest regards, AstroSkipper

I think it is the native setting of Windows XP. In your case, presumably, the taskbar height has been set too short. By increasing it, the date will probably appear automatically. @we3fan! If you want to have it look like this, you can use a tool called TClock Light. With this tiny tool, you can adjust the date and time settings to your personal needs. @we3fan! And, here is my favourite setting for TClock Light: You can customize many parameters as for example the font, background colour, font colour, the format of time and date, alarm, and so on. Download link: http://web.archive.org/web/20161108100319/http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/tclocklight-040702-3.zip . And this is the TClock Light help page with all features explained: http://web.archive.org/web/20161108100319/http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclocklight/help/en/index.html Cheers, AstroSkipper

I think it is the native setting of Windows XP. In your case, presumably, the taskbar height has been set too short. By increasing it, the date will probably appear automatically. @we3fan! If you want to have it look like this, you can use a tool called TClock Light. With this tiny tool, you can adjust the date and time settings to your personal needs.

I think it is the native setting of Windows XP. In your case, presumably, the taskbar height has been set too short. By increasing it, the date will probably appear automatically.