Jody Thornton

I take it August went well? Hope so I think what saddens me most about the end of the board is the history here. Even go and look at some of the early Windows XP threads (prior to 9/11 even). It was a different time with different people on the board here. And the oooodles of tips as well. It's so sad.

Well I'm at jodythornton@yandex.com. I can be reached there. The first thing I'm grabbing is NoelC's scheduled task tweaks. There are sooooooooooo many gems here.

Me too! Holy Crap!

Oh Gawd! I didn't know this. Holy Crap that's Saturday! This is AWFUL news! How did I miss it?

There doesn't appear to be any .NET updates.. Now I have a real treat in front of me. I had to perform a complete reinstall of Windows 8. I buggered up my profile folder. Oh well, I've been back in service for a week, but I've only updated up until January 2016. Sooooooo ..... out comes my USB drive full of updates from the past year and a half.....lol. Oh fun!

Shoot! I forgot yesterday was patch Tuesday. Oh well, I've been way too busy ....lol. But I'll bring my update results to the board later today or tomorrow.

However some pages on IE 10 are beginning to fail at properly rendering (not just useragent issues either). I may try it at some point.

Hmmm - I wonder if the same trick can bring IE 11 to Windows 8

Yes like eComstation, Blue Lion (or sorry - ArcaOS) is a licensed finished product, and IBM allowed licensed use of the final OS/2 with the convenience pack and security update installed. The Blue Lion folks just added their own toys like eComstation did. I tried running eComstation 2x on a VM a couple years ago. QTWeb was about the only browser I could reliably get working, but it was slow as snot. These companies are trying to cash in on a deprived market who want a new OS/2 version on bare metal. For eComstation, you had to buy the release of OpenOffice that they had available. Completely silly I think.

Hi Folks: What happens is when I type a message in a text input box, I don't see what I've type until about five to six seconds has gone by. This happens on any Gecko browser. The same symptom shows up in Firefox (release), Firefox Nightly, K-Meleon and Pale Moon. The symptom is NOT exhibited in Vivaldi. If you go to this classified ad page: https://www.kijiji.ca/v-stereo-systems-home-theatre/ottawa/vintage-garrard-zero-100-c-turntable/1268246216?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true On the mid-right, click on the box that reads "Hi, I'm interested! Please contact me if this is still available." Erase what's there and pretend to respond to the ad by typing something. If I type two or three lines, it takes FOREVER to show up. This only happens on Kijiji (the classified site), and on a Gecko browser? I've cleared cache and reinstalled from scratch, but no improvements have revealed themselves.

Do you have this update installed? KB3163589 Out of Date Notification is all it provides. Remove it! Hope that helps

I think the reason for lag on those CPUs is less internal CPU cache. So less instructions can be quickly recalled. Someone else may be better to chime in though.

Ta-Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Thanks to SFC /scannow. I was able to update, but because it reset WinMail.exe to the original file, I have to re-apply the Windows Mail hack to get it working again on Windows 8. Oh and also MS Paint - I need to grab that again from Vista Thanks to everyone for their help. Cheers All!

Crap. I was almost hoping someone else had the experience. I just wonder what's missing on my system, especially when EVERY OTHER update works. Wow, I just can't figure this one out. I was even trying to go through the DISM and the CBS log just to see if I could decipher anything. EDIT/UPDATE: Went through clearing out the Software Distribution folder and re registering all of the DLL components for Windows Update. Still no improvement. If worse comes to worse, I will try both the rollup and security-only for August, and see if it updates.

Valiant attempt at a suggestion my friend, but alas it still failed. Now I had run a reg hack awhile that hid Libraries. When an update makes libraries reappear again, you can experience renaming directory issues. I re-hid the libraries again, thinking maybe this was causing file directory structure issues for Windows Update, but no, that wasn't it. Oh well, don't stress yourself greenhillmaniac, but do I appreciate your suggestions. It was a weird one. Maybe others will chime in with their experience.

Oh well. I'll have to further extract this cab, and then see if there's anything inside there. I can see the Cat files, and all the stuff that ends up in the component store.

I will do that later this morning. My cat woke me up early ....lol - It's 6am here and I've been up for two hours

I attempted installation of the monthly rollup. It has also failed. Be mindful of the fact that I've attempted uninstalling this month's Flash, IE10 and last month's security-only update. I then ran a cleanup of my Component Store using the DISM command discussed earlier. Then I installed the removed updates after a restart. They all worked. But not this month's rollup or security-only patches. It has to be something specific to this month's updates. One added not. I attempted running the Windows Update Repair Tool: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/512a5183-ffab-40c5-8a68-021e32467565/windows-update-troubleshooter Sadly, it also failed with a 0x80070002 error.

I also have an Error 2147942402 showing in the Event Log

Yes after several attempts (and making sure that I have the right update), KB4025343 (which is the security-only update for Server 2012) does not install on Windows 8. I get a 0x80070002 error show up in Event Viewer. Trying to run "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth" to see if this fixes the issue, but it's just the single update Edit/Update: After cleaning the Component Store, the update still fails

Hmmm the main update did not install (KB4025343), but I'll have to check it out when I get home

Well I have updates for Adobe Flash (KB4025376), IE 10 (KB4025252) and Security-Only (KB4025343). The only .NET Framework updates appear to be for Windows 10. So time to install. I'll see you on the other side of the boot.

Does anyone know how I can source the Windows Defer 4.9 engine? I wonder if it will install and update on Windows 8 RTM.

Props to 2008WindowsVista, Burd and VistaLover for straightening out all of this. It's very helpful, but it's also illustrating the lessening options for x64 browsing on Vista.

Apparently, Waterfox and Cyberfox 52x both support Vista. In both cases this should include x64 support. Waterfox regular release post-52x have not been running on Vista however. Edit: Cyberfox v52.2 has removed Vista support. It was removed after v52.0 (however the developer cites that even the x86 version does NOT work - yet Firefox v52x does - WTF???)