AstroSkipper

To use a light and working AV program I installed WiseVector StopX 3.0.7. It works great and consumes less resources than Avast!. And the best of all: it's free of charge. The best choice on my old computer at the moment! K7 is commercial, unfortunately. When the trial period is over, you have to pay for it.

That's unfortunately not all. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.2.1.1043 won't get definition updates anymore, either. It was discontinued in May of this year. I have used that version because Malwarebytes Premium for Windows 3.5.1.2522 doesn't work properly on my computer. Anyway, I already uninstalled Malwarebytes completely and removed its remnants.

@jaclaz, thanks for the links and further recommendations! In my series "My essential tools for solving problems in Windows XP", I listed my favourite tools I use for years and helped me a lot. Here is the link to the list of all parts: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183498-general-and-specific-solutions-for-problems-regarding-auwumu-in-windows-xp/?do=findComment&comment=1216513 Most of them are well-known, easy to use, and quite up-to-date. Tiny Hexer is a good and useful tool, no doubt. And, you are right, the newer does not necessarily mean better. And of course, there are other programs which really need regular updates. But, Tiny Hexer was abandoned in 2007, the last version is 1.8.1.6 of July 2007. No further development since that time! I fear that compatibility with all newly created binaries will sooner or later suffer from this circumstance. In other words, I don't like to entrust important files to such an old tool for modification anymore, at most very old files. Spoken for me only, of course! Apart from that, the presentation of the files to be edited is much clearer in WinHex, especially the customization of the text area on the right which represents the text interpretation of the hex values. All in all, Tiny Hexer seems very old-fashioned, but nonetheless, it worked with the files I tried to edit. So everything is fine. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Just to clarify that! I am not against Halloween. I couldn't care less. My other statements are much more important for me.

No, BTW, I am not a believer and a practising atheist. Children used to collect sweets on St. Martin's Day in our region. And if you want to dress up as whatever, there is carnival every year. And there are also many other traditions. What I ultimately mean is that Germans don't have to ape everything that other countries do.

I could say a lot more about this and nothing would show the Russians in a good light, but we have to abide by the forum rules. Any political discussion or debate on the subject of war is not allowed.

One has nothing to do with the other. However, to like a country and have good, friendly relations with its people, one does not have to totally adopt their way of life, traditions and language. And I have a very bad attitude towards Russia and its people, especially in the last few months. Sorry to say that! Ruzzification will hopefully never happen here and is definitely a no go, of course. But I would like to see that real Europeans (and I don't mean Americans, it's too long ago) do not loose their own traditions and their identity.

Ok, but spoken for the Germans, too much is copied and adopted from American customs, no matter where they originated. The Germans have definitely taken over Halloween from the Americans. And, the total Americanisation of the German language is particularly bad. The young people here can't speak any real German at all, and they certainly can't write it. The youth word of the year 2022 in Germany has become "smash". And you know I like the English language!

In Germany, it is similar. I have never seen children in my area who wanted sweets according to the motto "Trick or Treat". The slightly older ones, however, like to have (often private) Halloween parties, and there are also parties offered by organisers, but more for adults, and you have to pay for it. I don't like Halloween. We don't have to copy everything the Americans have in terms of traditions. In my eyes, this is more a loss of identity for Europeans. We have our own traditions.

Hello @Wunderbar98! There is a special tool in terms of DCOM which is called DCOMbobulator. I had used it long time ago. It works under Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. This tool can check the service DCOM in your system and offers the ability to enable or disable it. Here is DCOMbobulator's homepage at GRC: https://www.grc.com/freeware/dcom.htm Cheers, AstroSkipper

Toggle GIF Animation - A custom button for controlling the GIF animation on a specific website Toggle GIF Animation is a custom button for controlling the GIF animation on a specific website. A simple left-click onto the toolbar button stops immediately the animation of all loaded GIF images without reloading the page, and the CPU load is back to normal subsequently. A further left-click will start the animation again. Absolutely great especially for computers which are under-performing, equipped with an old, weak CPU! The GIF animation is generally enabled and will only be toggled on the current website by this button. Tested version: 0.3.0, created by Infocatcher. I uploaded the Toggle GIF Animation custom button as an XML file for an offline installation. Here is the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/87ua0k6ageqgslz/Toggle_GIF_Animation-0.3.0.xml/file 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 Cheers, AstroSkipper

Thanks for your very fast answer! It's this, respectively this, file - Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro BIOS update. I tried NM28, PM31, WinSCP and PM31 with FoxyProxy + WinSCP with Proxy from Canada, China, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and Taiwan...no success! Let me know if you had success! And as said above, a mirror of one of the FTPs (especially the subfolder /Hardware/) would be extremely great. kind regards soggi I've uploaded it to MediaFire. Here is the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/erjx4k038m2qm3h/b1kp154.exe/file BTW, I am from Germany, too. I didn't need to establish a connection via Proxy or VPN. I connected to that server directly via my provider. Cheers, AstroSkipper

No problem here to access ftp://ftp.dyu.edu.tw/pub/ directly in New Moon 28. What file is it?

Glad to hear you are fine. Maybe, it will need some days to come down and get finally tired. We all need sleep. Greetings, AstroSkipper

You can use a translation service like DeepL. The OP does not want to transfer files from Android to PC via internet services but offline. No, it's the correct forum. The OP wants to transfer files to a PC with Windows XP installed.

I'm sorry,, but I can't open that image. 403 forbidden.

Hello @D.Draker my friend and soulmate! I am glad to hear from you again after a long time. I hope you are well and unharmed. I'm still coughing around a bit after a Covid infection four weeks ago.

First, no reason to be rude! And now: Unofficial update servers! No trust! Compatibility? Unknown. I would only trust ESET to make virus definitions. A third person might inject bad code. And, making definition updates compatible is a complex process needing the knowledge of ESET and testing without any end. Therefore, no real chance to do that! My comment about uninstalling NOD32 is very helpful because ESET NOD32 9 (and beow) has reached End-Of-Life (EOL), and there are definitely problems to get rid of this crap. And, that means for me doing that: Therefore, both your comment and your considerations unfortunately lead to nothing. Anyway, you can consider whatever you want, of course. Have a nice day!

Hello @FantasyAcquiesce! If you want to transfer files from a PC to an Android device or vice versa, I can recommend the way via FTP using your WLAN. You have to configure an FTP server on your Android device by using an app like Solid Explorer or Total Commander + its TotalCmd-WLAN-Transfer plugin and an FTP client on your PC as for example WinSCP whose latest version (I tested the portable paf version) is actually still compatible with Windows XP. WinSCP is open source and simply great. Furthermore, both devices have to be in the same WIFI network, of course. This kind of file transfer is absolutely great and fast. I never had connection problems anymore. No more instable connections and fiddling with cables! And, the configuration of such a connection is very simple to perform. Kind regards, AstroSkipper

I reported in the old thread "My Browser Builds (Part 3)" an issue with leo.org when looking up a word in the dictionary. The expanding of further translations doesn't work anymore. Here is my post: This issue can be observed in the latest releases of New Moon 28 and Serpent 52 of 2022-10-27, too. Therefore, I reported this problem in the already existing issue thread (leo.org #44) of martok's palefill on GitHub. Here is the link: https://github.com/martok/palefill/issues/44#issuecomment-1295866806. Maybe, it can be polyfilled somehow. An corresponding thread in the Pale Moon forum already exists (I didn't know that). Here, you can find it: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=28785 Cheers, AstroSkipper

@jbclem! Here is the link to an official step-by-step guide of TestDisk: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step Cheers, AstroSkipper

Interesting news! A new release of Mypal 68 will come soon. It seems to be the version Mypal 68.13.0. This is a quotation from @feodor2 on GitHub's issues: Here is the link again: https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/3#issuecomment-1279302448. Thanks to @mixit for the hint! So, we have to be patient and stay tuned! I am very much looking forward to this new release. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Thanks for the tip, @mixit! I thought any activity on GitHub is shown under activities. Very strange and a bit illogical! A comment in the issues is actually an activity, too. That a new release will come soon, I already noticed in the issues, though. Anyway, thanks again for the clarification!

Hello @XPerceniol! Haven't heard from you for a while! Hope you are well! With regard to your question, I didn't hear anything from @feodor2 since 2022-08-19. And on GitHub, his last activity was from August, too. Since then, no further activity! Unfortunately, I don't know anything more. And truth be told, I've also been worrying about his well-being and his safety.

First of all, a general tip. If you want to ask someone a specific question in this forum, you have to quote or mention that member. Otherwise, the person will not be notified and will not realise that you have asked a question addressed to them. That's how you mention someone, for example me: @AstroSkipper. The fact that I saw you ask me a question is purely coincidental. Furthermore, your images are relatively useless, except for the fact that they don't bode well. Without any information about your affected hard disk, its original partition structure you want to recover, and the names of these partitions with their OSes installed on it, I can't say anything reasonable. This information is very important. TestDisk might find old, deleted partitions which you don't want to recover, of course. Therefore, you have to decide what is to be restored or not. One thing is crystal clear from your pictures: you do not want to restore partitions marked with a D (Deleted).These partitions can't be restored, they are overlapping. In such cases, you have to take a deeper look into them. Actually, you want to find partitions marked with * (bootable), P (Primary), L (Logical) or E (Extended) like in your second picture. That means you should look for an intact partition structure which is really recoverable and corresponds to its last known. BTW, TestDisk is a hell of a tool, but it can also do a lot of damage, especially in the wrong hands. Do not write any partition structure on your hard disk if you aren't sure that it is the correct one! The idea of this tool is to find the original, lost partition structure, to check if it is recoverable, and to write it back to the hard disk. I recommended version 6.13 and gave you a download link for it. Have you tried this version first? The versions 7.x didn't work for me. They couldn't recover the lost partition structure on my old hard disk, presumably due to the age and the hardware of my computer. Try TestDisk 6.13, too, and provide more detailed information! The advantage of TestDisk is its easy usage if the partitions are recoverable. Cheers, AstroSkipper PS: Spoken for me only, TestDisk was able to recover the lost partition structure of my hard disk in nearly all cases, and that on two different computers. I never had to fix the partition structure manually. In addition, however, I have also created backups of my MBRs in case TestDisk fails.