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If you continue to use Chrome, please make sure you update your pepflashplayer.dll on a regular basis. Flash Player is a serious vulnerability on any operating system. As Google will no longer be distributing new updates, the only way to get an updated Flash Player is by updating this file in the system's Google Chrome application folder. Whenever Adobe releases a new version, I upload it to my directories. Since Chrome runs on XP SP2 and XP SP3, you can find it in either of the following three directories (the current version is 20.0.0.286): Place it in your C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\48.0.2564.97\PepperFlash folder. When it asks you to replace the existing file, click YES. Naturally the version number in the path above will change, depending on what version Chrome is at when Google drops XP supports, but you get the idea.

You needn't. I do. All the main Brazilian content providers switched to H.264 and do not fall back to anything. CNN, Newsweek and YouTube do work. Perhaps that's why I noticed it and I'm actively trying to solve it. My solution would be to continue to run Chrome for the websites that require it. Even if Chrome development on XP ends now, it will likely be years before it becomes unusable.

Apparently H 264 under Firefox requires Windows Media Foundation which is not a component of Windows XP. Apparently I don't need WMF either; all the websites I use play with either Flash or Silverlight. Bloomberg, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube to name several examples. I won't be losing sleep over it, because it appears that websites fall back to those two standards.

Yes, I can actually play HTML5 on SP2 and Firefox ESR 38.6.0. Normally, when Flash is installed, Firefox will play YouTube videos with Flash: However, after disabling Flash in Firefox > Add-Ons, the video will play by default in HTML5: PS: Right-clicking on the video is how you can see whether it is using Flash or HTML5, as you can see above.

Disabling Flash in Firefox should force HTML5 automatically.

Please follow the instructions in this thread and let me know if it works. Basically, you need to create a GoogleChromePortable.ini file in the same directory as GoogleChromePortable.exe. http://portableapps.com/comment/217400#comment-217400 Once creating the .ini file, then add a line with --disable-infobars. Should look something like this: [GoogleChromePortable]AdditionalParameters= --disable-infobarsI should note most reasonable people won't bother with all this, they will simply switch to another supported browser. I have been active in the Chrome Help forums, and it is clear that many people will take the path of least resistance, which is Switching Browsers > Upgrading operating system.

Bluebolt Is there a reason you can't go to the /GoogleChromePortable folder, and then right-click on the shortcut and add the --disable-infobars to the end of the Target line? If a shortcut doesn't exist and you only have the executable, then create a shortcut. Or you could just use Firefox, which I suspect many people (including me) will now do. The appearance of Google's persistent nagging infobar every single time the browser is launched will send people running to the arms of Firefox as the only remedy. If the notice appeared every month or so that would be understandable/acceptable, but it is clear Google wants to annoy people into submission, which will actually have the opposite effect.

Sophy I would still highly recommend switching to Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or any of the many other supported browsers. While my fix turns off the message, you will NOT receive further Google Chrome updates. Since Microsoft will be supporting Vista for at least another year, I don't comprehend Google's reasoning for dropping support this early.

I agree this decision by Google will cost them many users. The Google Groups are blowing up right now with people unhappy by the decision. I would still highly recommend switching to Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or any of the many other supported browsers. While my fix turns off the message, you will NOT receive further Google Chrome updates. Since Microsoft will be supporting Vista for at least another year, I don't comprehend Google's reasoning for dropping support this early.

Sophy: If you are interested, I posted instructions with pictures today in the Windows XP forum, on how to disable the nag screen: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/175099-instructions-google-chrome-end-of-support-vistaxp/ Otherwise, I'd highly recommend you dump Google Chrome and use Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or any of the countless others that still support XP and Vista. It is rather strange for Google to drop Vista support even though Microsoft is still releasing security updates for at least another year!

All: Today I received a message that This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because Windows XP and Windows Vista will no longer be supported. This post is not to start a flame war or to debate running an unsupported operating system; rather it explains how to continue running Google Chrome on these platforms in spite of the notification. Some of us have legitimate reasons for running these older systems, particularly in controlled environments, due to legacy hardware or legacy software dependencies. After all the US Army and US Navy still uses it. Step 1: Right-click on the Google Chrome icon on your desktop, and select "Properties" at the bottom of the list. Step 2: In the resulting window, select the middle tab "Shortcuts". Step 3: On the line "Target", go to the end of the line, after the quotes press the spacebar once and then type --disable-infobars Step 4: After entering this code, press the button at the bottom of the windows "Save". Relaunch Chrome, the message will no longer appear.

That's what I've been thinking. The laptop totally lacks legacy USB support in the BIOS as well as floppy drive and PS/2 support. That doesn't make me too happy. It just wouldn't even be fair to stuff only Windows XP (requires no less than 1.5 GB of free space) on a SSD since it's the only supported OS by HP.. Right now according to NSSI, 658 MB of the 7.44 GB of disk space has been used across all partitions on the 8 GB SSD so far. I might have better luck with Windows NT 4 since it requires only 110 MB of disk space to install it. Update: I wiped MS-DOS 7.1, installed Windows NT 4.0 on the 8 GB SSD, formatted the drives as a NTFS 4 partition and those attempts were not successful. I'm now stuck with the Windows NT 4.0 boot menu and any attempts to select either options (normal or VGA mode only) throws a STOP 0x78 INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Attempting to wipe the partition and recreate the partition was no use at all. The SSD is dead after 19 days of use and it appears that the IDE controller or the motherboard could be failing also. Sorry if this was a total waste of time getting the SSD working although it only worked well on a FAT32 partition under MS-DOS 7.1. As I am not the type to give up on things, you may find this thread interesting: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1145854 Also, I would highly recommended creating an NT 4.0 CD with SP6 slipstreamed- this may prevent the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE You can get the SP's on my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/winntsp.htm

Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 2000 seems like a huge undertaking, considering the browser will end support in four years. In my opinion, you're better off just running Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. They will be supported for years after IE 11. This is actually the situation with Windows XP right now. Internet Explorer 8, a seven year old browser, is nearly unusable on today's feature rich web, while current versions of the aforementioned browsers work flawlessly. As far as Windows Media Player, over the past ten years I have found VLC to be a far superior application with much broader media support. VLC 0.8.6 was the first version that I ever used, even with Windows 95. While I always used to receive codec errors and the such with WMP, I haven't yet found a file that VLC couldn't open.

This is an article that I first referred to years ago: Windows 98 SE on a P4 PC http://www.flaterco.com/kb/W98.html The author has also posted a newer article: General configuration notes for DOS, W98SE, and ISA-era BIOS http://www.flaterco.com/kb/DOS_W98SE_general.html The author has updated these articles on a regular basis.

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Interesting. My Thinkpad has run XP SP2 Professional for years with no antivirus. Chrome and Firefox = no viruses! Smart browser habits are a good start. I could infect a Windows 10 machine in ten minutes, just by visiting the wrong web site.

Have you tried downloading any of the visualizations available here? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-media-player-visualizations For what it's worth, features available on Windows XP may not be available on Windows 98/98SE or Windows 2000, according to this article: http://winsupersite.com/product-review/windows-media-9-series-reviewed

Have you checked to see if visualizations are enabled? I have never updated the Windows Media Player on my ThinkPad; while you are running Windows 2000, WMP 9 is also the standard version included with Windows XP SP2.

It seems that you completely bypassed my post; Avast is a terrific program that is highly capable, but to each his own. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173207-antivirus-in-2015-for-vanilla-w2k/#entry1112623

Thanks for the heads-up on that, I was not aware. It seems that they are more often consistent with the version scheme. The important thing about this release is that it patches 79 security holes!

I just wanted to announce that Adobe Flash Player 20 is available. This is the first time there is a different version number for the Google Chrome/Internet Explorer and Firefox/Opera builds. Google Chrome and Internet Explorer utilize 20.0.0.228, while non-ActiveX plug-in based browsers such as Firefox and Opera use 20.0.0.235. I have confirmed it works on XP SP2 and SP3 systems. You can download each one here (Chrome has it built in, no separate download necessary): Internet Explorer: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/20.0.0.228/install_flash_player_ax.exe Firefox and other plug-in based browsers: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/20.0.0.235/install_flash_player.exe

If you are interested in running AIM on Windows 95, you can try AIM Express, a browser-based version of AIM. As of 2009, AIM Express only required Internet Explorer 5.5 or any flavor of Firefox. https://web.archive.org/web/20090904180437/http://www.aim.com/get_aim/express/aim_expr_req.adp AOL is now free on high-speed, and if you use the AOL client with Buddy List, you wouldn't need a separate AIM client. EDIT: you can find the older AIM clients such as 4.7.2480 here: http://download.newaol.com/aim/win95/

I think AOL is discontinuing some of their Windows 9x-only programs. Earlier this year, I received the below image when signing into AOL 3.0 and 4.0 16-bit. I screenshot it for historical purposes. You can no longer sign into AOL 3.0 and 4.0 16-bit. AOL 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0 all still continue to work on Windows 95 and Windows 98. This is likely due to the fact that the software was also written for Windows 2000 and XP. AOL 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0 were unique as AOL wrote them to work across all versions of Windows: Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows ME/Windows 2000/Windows XP. Many more people today are still using Windows 2000 and XP; they are more viable for modern uses than Windows 95 and Windows 98.

To get the YouTube buttons you need the YouTube spoof, main page is http://toastytech.com/files/95browsing.html and the direct link is http://toastytech.com/files/flash_7_youtube_spoof.zip I've gotten it working under Windows 95 with no problem, it fools YouTube into thinking you are running Flash Player 8, and the controls show correctly: http://sdfox7.com/win95/files/w95flsh3.jpg

I personally have had a checkered history with AVG; around the year 2011 I had family members that were getting infected, even with up to date AVG. I also began receiving several false positives while browsing which were frustrating. Because of that, I felt I could no longer recommend it. Things may be different these days, but since then I have been a fan of Avast. It has historically had a relatively light footprint and low system requirements. Avast 7.0 was among my favorite versions, and Avast 8.0 is the last to officially support Windows 2000. Before proceeding, you should note that some Avast 7.0 and 8.0 functions (sandbox/shields) are unsupported on Windows 2000 due to compatibility limitations of the operating system: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=94069.msg749148#msg749148 You should note there are some steps you should follow when installing these: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=94069.msg749148#msg749148 and https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=149894.msg1089834#msg1089834 FileHippo and other similar sites claim to have these old versions, but they in fact link to and download newer versions. If you are interested, I had the presence of mind to archive these in 2013, and they are digitally signed by Avast: Avast 7.0: http://sdfox7.com/2000/avast/avast_free_antivirus_setup_7.0.1474.exe Avast 8.0: http://sdfox7.com/2000/avast/avast_free_antivirus_setup_8.0.1489.exe The link for a free registration key is here: https://www.avast.com/registration-free-antivirus.php Once you download either of these, the manual update module (universal for Avast 5.0 through 8.0 and updated daily) is available here: http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/vpsupd.exe