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Nah, he just took the latest 64-bit drivers that are functional on Vista (368.81) and modified its INF a bit. He also removed a device ID of one of the older cards for some reason. The whole thing is based on a big and bold assumption that the drivers released in July 2016 are somehow able to drive the cards released in September 2018 and later.

For extensions, install this extension; it'll give you access to the archive of the classic extensions. It's possible to "transfer" themes to another computer by going to about:config page on the computer where they're "installed", then copying the value of lightweightThemes.usedThemes and setting that preference on the target machine, then they can be selected the usual way. I used quotes because Firefox keeps resources of non-active themes in the cache (if they've been used before) that is deleted when you completely wipe the browsing history, so the resources have to be re-downloaded, which is the problem if they're taken down.

Apart from Virtual Machine Monitor driver (vmm.sys), the networking driver is incompatible as well.

There's also this blog post, look under Differences between UEFI vs. Legacy BIOS boot install. Must have been added starting with Windows 8.

The OP is just experiencing known stability issues with Aero Glass that cause compositor to crash and its recovery causes the screen to flash. It's already been brought up in other topics.

IE11 lacks support for certain newer web standards. Edge used to be quite unstable in the past, it's better these days, still has occasional stability issues, I mostly encounter them on my low-end laptop though. One thing about IE11 and Edge in its current form...they're the only browsers that don't choke on playing 1080p@60 FPS videos on my laptop. I did make sure hardware accelerated decoding was utilized, but regardless, such videos aren't watchable in neither Firefox Quantum, Basilisk, Pale Moon or Chromium. I guess it depends on what you expect from the web browser. For the out-of-the-box customizability, there's Vivaldi, for plugins other than Flash, there are IE11 and Firefox forks like Basilisk, etc. Some noticeable basic things missing in Edge: Ability to mid-click the site entry in right-click menu of the forward/back buttons to open selected site in new tab More options in the right-click context menus Where are favicons? (Looks like it's just a common trait shared with IE, they don't appear in InPrivate mode unless they were cached from previous browsing sessions in normal mode.)

Any cloud storage provider would do, things like MEGA, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. Also some alternatives.

He's cheating alright. No cheats here. But it's probably not very significant difference in behavior. If IE9 compatibility was looked into, all videos would play for everyone, not just at random.

This method doesn't fool Firefox because it only hooks legacy APIs for querying Windows version. In addition, it applies redundant compatibility shims. Method with manifest has a smaller impact. Ideally, someone would figure out how to change it properly at CSS level.

My Vista's image is from 2013. No newer updates integrated. Whatever the reason, browser just chokes on JavaScript. No version of Internet Explorer supports VP9. Edge does, but must be explicitly enabled in about:flags. I haven't encountered a video that wouldn't play with H.264. Forcing H.264 can be useful if GPU doesn't support hardware decoding of VP9. Some people use h264ify extension with Chrome/Firefox browsers for this purpose. Saw that one too. I didn't see it when looking at the code with newer browsers. You're right, looks like they're in the process of cleaning up old Flash code. Interesting! True.

That checkbox appears to be a static element rather than an actual checkbox. It's much like those checkboxes indicating browser support for specific formats/features. Either way, you haven't posted any screenshot indicating Flash player is actually used on your end. If it is, right-clicking on the video player would show "About Adobe Flash Player …" in the context menu. Though I did spot the reference to Flash when viewing the code. The non-working videos produce a JavaScript error, non-supported codec would get you the error message on HTML player itself. I suspect the video that doesn't play on @Tamris's end, but plays here has to do with installed updates (I didn't have any extra software installed). I don't have enough knowledge about these things to recognize the pattern to be able to explain why some videos play, but others don't. K-Lite only influences media players that use DirectShow, IE9+ uses Media Foundation.

So how do you get Flash player on YouTube? The option on HTML5 page to switch to Flash is long gone. I can only get HTML5 or nothing (turning off certain settings in Firefox also gives me nothing and the old extensions to force Flash are not effective). With IE8 on XP, the site is broken, but with Chrome Frame, it works with HTML5 player (no Flash neither). That's odd, this particular video plays on my end with Vista's IE9, but certain other videos are like in the above screenshot.

I only tried a trial version a year or two ago. AFAIK, it uses its own way to store resources without depending on .msstyles in any way to make it easier to deploy the same skin on multiple Windows versions. I don't remember seeing any option to import the existing .msstyles file. Probably the only way is to make a new skin in SkinStudio using resources exported from existing .msstyles file.

It can be done with WindowBlinds, there's the option in the accompanying application for developing themes/skins (SkinStudio).

It would require hacking the DWM, which is beyond my capabilities. The settings for text alignment in the .msstyles file are respected for all windows only with DWM disabled.

I see. Either way... Yes, uploading the crash dump (minidump file) that is usually generated after the crash (unless something goes wrong) and stored in C:\AeroGlass folder is always a good idea. For NVIDIA driver crashes, you may want to ask for help on GeForce forums if updating to latest drivers doesn't solve it.

You gave up on AMD after seeing the settings application crash? Some stability issues have been identified in the older version, but it really depends on the applications you run. I guess it's always helpful to see if some regression hasn't sneaked in.

Are you guys using the beta version from http://glass8.eu/beta ? Use this one before reporting issues. The older versions have known stability issues.

Have you tried the beta version of Aero Glass from http://glass8.eu/beta ? You're using both experimental version of AG and the newer 19H1 Win10 build, right? Support for the latter is still experimental from what I've read.

Can you access the invisible PC by entering its IP address in the Explorer's address bar, eg. \\192.168.1.3 The only other idea I have is if maybe some firewall is in the way.

That would be me. @NoelC told me about it at some point. At the time, I was already a big fan of QTTabBar, which also has the same function (and much more), it's just labeled differently. It was actually disabled. It's a drawback of the older folder view control implementation on those systems. The story was that MS went to implement a new control to support Libraries functionality in Windows 7 and due to lack of time and supposedly low amount of users using the custom ordering functionality, the said functionality was never implemented in the new control. That issue isn't unique to Tiles view. That's just the date when it was put on GitHub, it actually dates back to 2011 at least. It does, though they broke it further at some point, I guess in 2017; it doesn't remember file/folder order anymore... I guess you don't mind screen tearing on the desktop then, something I personally find irritating (classic theme being tied to desktop rendering without DWM). Shouldn't there be a setting somewhere to adjust the border height? BTW, technically, classic theme isn't a real theme; there's no skinning capability, while with Luna, Aero, etc., graphics resources representing various GUI elements are replaceable. Unfortunately, it's only meant for internal use by MS, I guess for marketing reasons so each Windows version would have distinct aesthetics the way MS intended. There's also an API call to disable theming; SetThemeAppProperties(0), which gives the calling application classic look, even on Windows 8+. Pretty sure it could be done somehow globally the clean way (there's a known hack for Win8+ at least that prevents the system from accessing theme resources, reverting to classic looks). I find it absurd that code injection is the "normal" way to unlock ability to skin GUI elements on Windows.

I don't know what could be changed in the program to tackle the taskbar disappearing issue, especially since it doesn't appear to be universally reproducible issue. Plus the program uses standard API calls to hook itself into explorer.exe, which is overall a rather simplistic process. Does starting it with a delay with the help of Task Scheduler help? I guess one extra command line parameter could be added to specify that it starts with a delay.

It's just that the MSFN mostly attracts XP users, so other parts of the forum are quieter. Though I'm sure lurkers also watch this space.

Windows 10 version 1803 has a bug (I don't know whether it's fixed with newer updates or not, but it existed for at least 6 months) with certain key services not starting up when computer is connected to a private network. Function Discovery Resource Publication service is the one that must be running to make a computer visible in other computers' Networks folder. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/17/fix-pcs-no-longer-recognized-in-network-after-windows-10-version-1803-upgrade/ You don't have to restart the PC to make it visible as that article says, just change the service's startup type then start it manually. Also make sure you're not accidentally using Public network profile on one of your computers. https://tinkertry.com/how-to-change-windows-10-network-type-from-public-to-private

The notable difference between default and Longhorn skins, there's a transparent background where the icon is rendered with the latter.