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*sigh* I just came back to this forum after a rather long break, and this bug still exists. Come on! Do things ever get fixed around here?

And... this bug seems to be back now.

What about doing it KernelEx style and patching the system in memory at boot time, rather than modifying system files on disk? I'm not sure if this is possible given that XP is NT-based and different from Windows 9x, but I do like the KernelEx way of enabling extensions on a per-app basis and an easy way of completely disabling it at startup.

A few pages back, there was a discussion about open source and not being able to distribute modified binaries, so I was just offering a suggestion about that.

Dibya, although you can't redistribute modified binaries, you can still make the project open source if you just post the code for the implemented functions and scripts that can patch in the functions on an existing XP system. I think that would be a good idea. Not everyone trusts running some hacked binary that someone put together without knowing exactly what changes were made to it.

Yes, I already have the UAA driver. I think Service Pack 2 installed it. I am able to hear sound through headphones, so the driver is there. However, the internal speakers refuse to play.

Yep, I double and triple checked the volume levels, and everything seems right, and there are no yellow exclamation points anywhere in Device Manager, but I can only hear sound by plugging in headphones, with the exception of the extremely soft startup and login sounds. I tried various versions of the driver, all with the same result. I just now upon logging in that the startup sound started to play, but went silent about half way through, as if something stopped it.

It's also about hardware. Trying to browse this forum on a Raspberry Pi, low-end smartphone, or netbook is just dog-slow. A forum site should not require a 2 GHz processor for a decent viewing experience. Disabling Javascript helps a bit, but I think most of IP Board's bloat comes from CSS. There seems to be some expensive blending effect going on to make the site display the user's theme color.

If you're happy with your current phone, then there's no reason to switch. I use a Lumia 520, which is fairly low end, and it does what I need it to do. The only problem is that IE11 on Windows Phone 8.1 is very unstable, and the only other alternative, Opera Mini, is even slower and buggier. I normally use a desktop or laptop for browsing rather than my 4-inch phone, so this isn't much of an issue for me.

You can use url#elementId anchor in links to make the browser scroll to a specific element. For example, http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174208-windows-10-deeper-impressions/?page=3#comment-1105192 This works even if the client has Javascript disabled.

Yes, I can confirm the latest Waterfox runs on XP x64. Despite being 32-bit, I use Palemoon as my main browser on XP. It's significantly faster than Firefox, uses far less RAM, and retains the Firefox 4 style interface.

Waterfox (64-bit build of Firefox) and the latest VirtualBox work on XP x64. I really wish there was a way to get MSYS2 working. Neither the 32-bit or the 64-bit versions run properly on XP x64.

I know this thread is a bit old, but I noticed today that the Windows XP startup sound and the login sound actually play through the internal speakers, albeit very softly. But once I'm logged in to the desktop, I can't hear anything at all.

That error looks like chrome tried to call a NULL function pointer (JMP to address 0). You could probably try running Chrome in OllyDbg and find out where the crash occurred. It would be nice if you could combine your efforts with BlackWingCat's KernelEx for Windows 2000, since XP and 2000 are very similar and a lot of the code can be shared.

AFAIK, Windows 10 is no longer free to upgrade, so you shouldn't be upgraded to Windows 10 against your will anymore.

That reminded me of something similar I saw a few years ago: A Windows XP-powered coffee maker! http://www.ubergizmo.com/2008/11/coffee-machine-powered-by-windows-xp/

This seems strange. I normally use my XP machine as a standard user for security reasons. To format a USB flash drive or SD card requires me to switch users to my Admin account to format it, but I am able to format a floppy disk without needing administrator privileges. What's the reason for this?

I'm currently using a D-Link AirPlus XtremeG DWL-G520 PCI card that supports WPA2 on Windows 98 SE. So far, I haven't had any problems with this card at all, though it was difficult to find the older Windows 98 compatible driver for it. I also have a HiRO H50069 PCI card (with Realtek RTL8185 chipset) which also supports WPA2 on Windows 98 SE, but I don't recommend this one because the Realtek utility is extremely buggy and wastes CPU usage. It might work better in Windows 2000, though. I'm not even sure how old these cards are. I just got them from my uncle's old desktops that he no longer uses any more. Both of the cards are able to connect with WPA2 to my AT&T U-verse router that was installed this year and have Wireless G support. I posted about these HERE. The issue about the system locking up when using OpenGL is completely unrelated to the Wi-Fi card, and was fixed by updating the BIOS.

There was a page somewhere with a listing of source code filenames for various versions of Windows (presumably grepped from the beta debug versions), though I can't remember where I saw it. Windows, especially the kernel, is written mostly in C, with a few libraries and applications written in C++. WDF is written in C++, but exposes a C API. Windows Vista and higher use C# for the Explorer shell.

I'm not really sure what kind of thing you're doing, but the Windows SDKs come with plenty of debugging tools such as WinDbg and KD. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff551063(v=vs.85).aspx SoftIce was a popular one way back when, and it's completely invisible to the OS, but it only works with Windows XP and earlier, and Windows 9x.

I'm using Pale Moon on Windows XP at the moment, and it seems to be working properly.

I've tried updating two Windows 7 computers using that method, but those standalone updates are also glacially slow. Almost every time I try to install a one, it stalls for an extremely long time on "Searching for updates on this computer", which defeats the purpose of trying to speed up Windows Update. Perhaps next year I'll need to invest in a compute cluster to handle those extremely intense calculations required for Windows Update.

I haven't had any performance problems at all with Windows 10, but I guess that's because I've got an 3.4 GHz Core i7 Skylake with 8 cores and 12 GB of RAM. Nothing will be slow on that! Even still, I can't imagine why 60+ processes are needed for a basic Windows system, when XP and earlier have less than 30.

Does this require the extended kernel, or does it work on plain Windows 2000?

That's odd. I've never had problems getting version 81.98 to work with my Geforce 2 MX 400 in Windows 98 SE. The only issue I had was that the OpenGL screensavers that come with Windows 98 would always crash.