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    Steam Dropping XP&Vista Support

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Tommy said:

    Please do not discuss politics here, it's strictly against forum rules and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

    2.b Topics devoted to political or religious debate, unless technology related, are prohibited. MSFN is a technology forum and both political and religious debates have caused many problems and distractions in the past. Political or religious links in signatures or polite, courteous comments in non-political or non-religious topics are allowed, but we cannot allow any topics in which the sole purpose is to debate political or religious issues.

    Next comment out of line and I'm locking this thread so please keep it clean. Thanks.

    The topic was not devoted to political debate, but I did make a point about technology related software, and I believe the average person would agree the software was created in poor taste regardless of your political views.

    Nevertheless, I digress, and I'm not sure why someone felt the need to be petty and drag it up three months after I made the comment. This is all I have to say.

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    Adobe Flash, Shockwave, and Oracle Java on XP (Part 1)

    in Windows XP

    ThinkPad Can't Connect to School Interent

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    On 9/17/2018 at 10:02 AM, Tripredacus said:

    @sdfox7 if your wireless G clients can connect to your wireless N network, then you have it configured that way, or in mixed mode. I run pure G and pure N radios at home, and wireless G devices cannot even see the wireless N radio.

    Ok. I stated that Wireless N is backward compatible with G up to 54mbps. I am aware Wireless G is not forward compatible with Wireless N.

    Most routers I have come across have the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios both enabled, which makes sense to maximize compatibility. I believe that legacy devices such as the Nintendo Wii cannot work with Wireless N and must fall back to wireless G.

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    Amazon Prime Video stopped working

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted

    On 1/15/2018 at 4:20 PM, Rocky2018# said:

    I just installed a new 27" LGE monitor, with the CD's drivers, on my computer and now Amazon Prime Videos won't run. I was previously using a 19" Dell Monitor that had no problems with Amazon Videos.

    Now I am getting a message on Amazon that says:

    "Unsupported Operating System

    Amazon Video titles can't be watched on this device because the operating system isn't supported. For more information, please see Amazon Video system requirements."

    I understand XP is supposedly not supported, but it WAS before I installed the new monitor. Is the problem with the new drivers?

     I don't have any problems with Netflix, YouTube, etc. I tried it on both Firefox and Chrome and get the same problem with both browsers. It doesn't make sense to me.

    The Display settings in Control Panel show: Resolution 1920x1080; LG IPSFULL(analog) on Radeon x85 Series; 32bit highest.

    My system is :Dell Dimension XPS, Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60 GHz; 144 GB HD with 52GB free; 3.00 GB RAM; MS Windows XP Media Center Edition Ver2002 SP3

    Can someone help or suggest a solution, besides buying a new system?

    Thanks

     

    There are other reason this can happen, especially if you are using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on Windows XP. I discovered and posted the fix here:

     

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    (FIXED) How to watch Amazon Prime Video on Windows XP

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by sdfox7

    All

    A while ago I discovered that Amazon Prime Video stopped working on Windows XP. Attempting to open it in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox fails with "Unsupported Operating System."

    Additionally, spoofing the browser as Firefox 53 or newer on XP will then tell you that Firefox is missing a DRM component.

    However, today I discovered that Amazon Prime Video works perfectly in SeaMonkey on Windows XP. Using SeaMonkey forces Amazon to use Silverlight, and it works flawlessly!

    This is very surprising to me since Silverlight has been mostly deprecated across the web. I'm surprised Amazon Prime Video is compatible with it.

    To download Silverlight 5.1.50907 (the final release), you can download it from my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/Silverlight5.1.50907.exe

    To download Sea Monkey 2.49.4, you can download the full version on my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/SeaMonkey Setup 2.49.4.exe

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    ThinkPad Can't Connect to School Interent

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    9 hours ago, i430VX said:

    Hey guys. My ThinkPad T60 (with Intel 345ABG Wireless adapter) cannot connect to my schools internet.

    It always gets stuck here:

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    It doesn't fail. It will sit there until the end times.

    I know the wireless access points in question use WPA2. But I use WPA2 at home, so that's not the issue. If I boot into Windows 2000 and try to connect using boingo, it also fails. My iPhone SE and the laptop i used to bring (toshiba satellite c55-a) can both connect. I am assuming the 345ABG does not support wireless 'n' networks, could that be the issue? If it is, I know there is a compatible ABGN adapter I could buy to put in this laptop.

    Any Ideas?

    Thank you all!

    P.S. If I 'borrow' an Ethernet cable from one of the school PCs and attach it to my ethernet port, it works that way. So the network is seeing me and not blocking me that way. But wireless is the problem

     

    I think you have a different issue. My ThinkPad R60 has the same card (the T60 and R60 are identical machines other than cosmetic differences) and has no issues connecting to my network.

    You don't need a Wireless N card to connect to a wireless N network. Wireless N is backward compatible to wireless G network cards but the maximum speed will only be 54 mbps.

    Stephen Fox's IBM Lenovo ThinkPad R60

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    Adobe Flash, Shockwave, and Oracle Java on XP (Part 1)

    in Windows XP

    MCE 2005, WPA2 and SP3

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    I did not find any info online about Media Center 2005 and WPA2. You'll have to try it to find out.

    Service Pack 3 is designed only for Windows XP Home and Professional. Trying to install it on Windows XP Media Center will probably fail.

    For Media Center 2005, there were two rollups, you can install them and see if WPA2 works:

    Update Rollup 1 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20130103023854/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24011
    (direct download: https://web.archive.org/web/20130103023854/http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/1/111088f6-cd59-4adf-a2d4-f9cc003f33dc/windowsxpmediacenter2005-kb873369-enu.exe)

    Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: https://web.archive.org/web/20120603175548/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12939
    (direct download: https://web.archive.org/web/20120603175548/http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/e/21e4c99c-8170-4ec2-a9fc-9d4c5f1430c4/WindowsXPMediaCenter2005-KB900325-usa.exe)

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    Latest Adobe Flash Player for Windows 2000

    in Windows 2000/2003/NT4

    Posted

    Stable release channel for Adobe Flash Player was updated to 31.0.0.108 yesterday September 11, and is confirmed working on Windows 2000. 

    https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

    Flash Player for Internet Explorer - ActiveX:
    https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.exe

    Flash Player for Firefox - NPAPI:
    https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player.exe

    Uninstaller:
    https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe

    For best results, I recommend Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, the Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Security Rollup Package (SRP), the Windows 2000 UURollup, and Internet Explorer 5.0 (included with Windows 2000) or Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2.

    Many sites (like Google) don't work or are broken after upgrading to Internet Explorer 6 so I do not recommend it!

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    Netflix playback

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    8 hours ago, WoodyXP said:

    Well good news!  I retried all my previous fixes.  Then tried Firefox like you suggested and got Netflix working again.  The funny part is that now Netflix works on Mypal and New Moon as well. 

    Go Figure!  :thumbup

    Sounds like you had a plug-in issue. Any plug-ins that are installed for Firefox will retroactively work for Pale Moon/New Moon.

    So,if Flash Player for Firefox is correctly installed on your system, then it will also work inside of Pale Moon. I am using the ZIP version of Pale Moon and it automatically detects the Firefox plug-in.

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    Netflix playback

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    @WoodyXP @FranceBB

    Just to demonstrate, I am at this very moment watching Netflix on my Dell Inspiron 1720 with no issue in Google Chrome and Windows XP. So, as long as you have the WidevineCDM in the proper directory, you also should be fine.

    (The West Wing is one of my favorite shows, RIP John Spencer and Kathyrn Joosten):

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    Netflix playback

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by sdfox7

    @WoodyXP

    Silverlight should be working for Firefox, but NetFlix is discontinuing support for it in favor of HTML5.

    I use NetFlix successfully in Google Chrome on Windows XP all the time. You are probably missing the WidevineCDM component which is required for NetFlix.

    You can no longer download the component from within Chrome, but I have it backed up to my FTP: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/WideVineCDM/1.4.8.zip

    You must download it and unzip to C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen Fox\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data (replace my user name in red with the user name of your computer)

    I discussed this in a separate thread I created last year:

     

     

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    Adobe Flash, Shockwave, and Oracle Java on XP (Part 1)

    in Windows XP

    Official Windows XP SP4 mentioned by Microsoft

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    It's possible that as of 2008, when these hotfixes were released, a Server 2003 SP3 and XP SP4 were planned, but ultimately were never released.

    While installing Windows 2000 one time, I noticed that the Security Rollup Package (SRP) says "SP5" at the top of the dialog window.

    Of course, we know Windows 2000 Service Pack 5 was never released; it became the rollup:

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    Latest Adobe Flash Player for Windows 2000

    in Windows 2000/2003/NT4

    Posted

    Release channel for Adobe Flash Player was updated to 30.0.0.154 on August 14, and is confirmed working on Windows 2000. 

    https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

    Mozilla Firefox (NPAPI):
    https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player.exe

    Internet Explorer:
    https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.exe

    Uninstaller:
    https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe

    For best results, I recommend Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, the Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Security Rollup Package (SRP), the Windows 2000 UURollup, and Internet Explorer 5.0 (included with Windows 2000) or Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2.

    Many sites (like Google) don't work or are broken after upgrading to Internet Explorer 6 so I do not recommend it!

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    Adobe Flash, Shockwave, and Oracle Java on XP (Part 1)

    in Windows XP

    Browsers for XP after the end of Firefox updates on September 5, 2018

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, FranceBB said:

    Advanced Chrome is a Chromium fork that aims to support XP after Chrome 49.

    The latest version has been released on January 5th this year and is based on Chromium 54.20.6530.0.

    Unfortunately, that's still too old 'cause right now Google is developing Chrome 70, but still if you are really willing to stick with Chrome, it's better to use Chromium 54 rather than the old official 49.

    There are a few bugs like when you go to settings it makes a call not available in the kernel but it doesn't crash and when you surf pages with many video contents autoloading (like Facebook) it may run out of memory and crash.

    Anyway, overall it's still kinda "usable" as long as you spoof it as Chrome 68 on startup.

    http://browser.taokaizen.com

    I still use Chrome 49 on XP on a daily basis, in addition to Firefox and New Moon. I don't think I've ever had issues with websites.

    Not bad for a browser that has been unsupported for nearly three years (April 2016).

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    Browsers for XP after the end of Firefox updates on September 5, 2018

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    The standard 27.9.1 builds of New Moon (based on Pale Moon) are still being developed and updated on a near weekly basis:

    Windows XP 32 bit: https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.1a1.win32-git-20180811-327e3a476-xpmod.7z

    Windows XP 64 bit: https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.1a1.win64-git-20180811-327e3a476-xpmod.7z

    Directory: https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/?sort=date&order=desc

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    Adobe Flash, Shockwave, and Oracle Java on XP (Part 2)

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    1 hour ago, i430VX said:

    Works on XP x64, no surprises here...

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    and yes... I do verify that java not only installs but functions, too!

    I was able to install Java without any issues on my XP Professional 64-bit virtual machine in VirtualBox.

    XP Professional 64-bit shares the same codebase as Server 2003 (NT kernel 5.2) but it is called "Windows XP". Since it works it probably means Oracle has not specifically blocked "Windows XP", but has blocked the installer from functioning on NT kernel <5.2.

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    Adobe Flash, Shockwave, and Oracle Java on XP (Part 2)

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, i430VX said:

    Somehow my friend managed to install Java 8u181 on Server 2003 Enterprise x64 SP2 without any hiccups, with the normal java installer. :blink: I cannot replicate this on XP, but it works for me as well on 2003. What is different between XP and 2003 that would cause this problem?

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    I am going to take a stab in the dark and say that Server 2003 may have newer or patched code that is unofficially compatible. Server was supported about a year longer than XP. I wonder if 64 bit has anything to do with it. The only way to know is to see if it runs on XP 64 bit.

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