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Back when I wrote my last post here, policy setting for InPrivate mode was still called IncognitoModeAvailability. Now it's called InPrivateModeAvailability. There's also -inprivate command line parameter that is accepted by msedge.exe, equivalent to Chromium's -incognito.

Recently experienced the same issue. I was trying to boot one of OSes I have on the USB flash drive and it failed. Plugging the drive in a running Windows machine showed it as unformatted. Could access the data from Linux, TestDisk showed invalid boot sector and some unimportant files were corrupted. I could probably avoid reformatting if I knew the correct numbers for drive geometry (they were different than after format). At the end, I also had to change drive's unique ID with diskpart because it apparently changed to the exact same one my laptop's disk has, so Windows refused to mount it. I'm certain the actual cause was loose connection. If you even slightly touch the drive so it moves just a little to the left or right when plugged in, it can lose power. That's how my laptop's ports are and the fronts ones on my desktop aren't much better.

Yes, it seems they have to be made specifically for non-default taskbar configurations. When I have more time and if I figure out how to do file selection and such.

I wonder how much effort it actually takes to provide 32-bit builds. Is it just the compilation part or are there also significant chunks of processor specific code? Graphics cards with 2 GB of video RAM were already common in low-mid price range 5 years ago. So that takes the half of the 32-bit addressable space, so one can use 2 GB RAM max. 4 GB card would take that number down to zero. Then there's PAE, which, AFAIK, on today's Windows can only be utilized by unofficial patches to the kernel (assuming drivers in use on the particular system aren't buggy).

I noticed clicking on the thread title from the index page (https://msfn.org/board/) takes me to the last post. Obviously, the selection of threads is limited to specific one per each sub-forum.

Compatibility section is irrelevant when it comes to Windows Vista because it's only recognized on Windows 7+ and even there, the Vista supportedOS entry alone is meaningless and equivalent in behavior as if compatibility section is absent. The OS looks for the entry of the highest Windows version it recognizes (so either itself or that of the older version) and modifies the behavior of certain APIs accordingly. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/win7appqual/compatibility---application-manifest

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-USB-Blog/What-is-new-with-Serial-in-Windows-10/ba-p/270855

chkdsk is useful to get certain file system structures back in order if they were corrupted, though it can't ensure data integrity. There are also cases when TestDisk fails. Never had problems with USB thumb drives unless the one in question was actually faulty.

Disregard my previous post. Yup, that's it. Works as intended. When you think about it, it would be silly if clicking thread title would take you to the last post instead of that being separate action.

Looks like users of certain forks aren't affected. Waterfox, Basilisk and Pale Moon have xpinstall.signatures.required set to false by default.

Right, should've said that it's supposed to be stored on the server. Actually, I think it still is, but I guess some of the old data was lost. At least in this very thread, I see the "New content begins here" marker, while it's absent if I view any of the old threads I've visited before, but have new posts added since. Edit: Or instead of some data being actually lost, could just not be interpreted by the updated forum software.

It's not, it's stored on the server.

I figured it reads group policy settings from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge, while Chrome reads them from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome. I haven't found policy definition files for Edge specifically, they might be released in the future, but I can confirm the registry settings for forcing/denying Incognito/InPrivate Mode and the ones for allowing/blocking Flash Player on certain sites do work. I'm not aware of any ability to tweak such parameters, AFAIK there's only the stuff that you can turn on or off on edge://flags page. This would probably require the UI to be implemented differently than it is in order to have the ability to change that. It's possible in Vivaldi with CSS tweaks.

The old Edge still has better video playback performance, smoother scrolling and lower CPU usage.

@VistaLover True, but there are always some extra details involved and one might see inconsistencies from one time to another due to certain usage patterns. It's possible to run the Thunderbird's installer with limited rights, in which case the program will be installed for the current account only and won't be registered.

Games from newer Windows except some API functions not present on XP. There are alternatives online. I suppose messing with XP games would be more of an academic thing.

To revive these games, someone would have to reverse engineer their communication protocol and implement their own server that would behave like the one that used to run at freegames.zone.com.

Great! I was just looking into it. It's like this; you don't normally need admin rights to choose a default email client for your own account, but a prerequisite is that the email client has been registered on the system (which does require admin rights). Usually, that's the installer's job. After that, anyone can pick their favorite. So in your case, the client had to register itself on the system first (which failed due to lack of permissions) since the installer wasn't involved to do it.

No, having Thunderbird installed and registered shouldn't prevent MailNews from successfully registering itself. Something else must be off.

No, only Outlook Express. I'll try again with a clean state (have it in VM) and register Thunderbird first and MailNews second.

@andy_h Yes, pinning it there creates a separate shortcut in some other place, so you have to setup that shortcut properly as well.

I actually already tried that, but no change.

I tried Roy's MailNews fork on my XP SP3 install and registered it as default by checking all checkboxes in its System Integration dialog and it did appear under E-mail in Start Menu afterwards.

Apparently my assumptions were incorrect, and so is this thread's title. I searched through Chromium's commit history and found out only the option in chrome://flags was removed, the functionality is still intact and can be invoked using a command line parameter, see here. So one must add --disable-features=Windows10CustomTitlebar parameter to Chrome's shortcut properties, at the end of the Target field on the Shortcut tab. This method doesn't have any undesired side effects like running in compatibility mode has.