UCyborg

Thanks, and good to see you back! I'm trying to focus on the positive, though it isn't always easy. We have an extended weekend, the following week starts with 2 holidays. The second one is rather bleak though, the day of memory of the dead.

Oh, didn't know Silverlight can still be used and your post only mentioned modern Chromium / Firefox, which only support it via Widevine AFAIK. The Silverlight problem sounds like something that would have to be debugged by @win32.

It needs support for dynamic module importing and doesn't seem to care about the user agent at first glance. What about MyPal 68 or one of those Chinese Chromium variants?

There are extensions that don't work with multi-process. Mozilla eventually added a dropdown and exception list for that in their browser, Basilisk seems to be stuck in the past though.

The nice thing about the dialog, besides knowing the program just crashed, is the ability to choose whether to launch the debugger (lookup AeDebug) or just close the program. I noticed there's another dialog, presumably OS provided, that pops up if WerFault.exe isn't functional where you can also select whether to attach the debugger.

Windows Defender? Well, they do seem to insist on deliberately keeping it on. Didn't test if its service back away with another anti-virus installed, but I noticed that if you set the service to manual start by editing registry offline, it goes back to auto when the OS starts. Vista's Defender has a nice UI and a checkbox "Use this program". Doesn't tell you, "nope, can't do that". My board has TPM designation on it, nothing plugged there, nothing about it in the manual.

Didn't watch the whole thing, it was a little while back and I saw a small part of it, it was an interview with one of the ex-presidents of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana Arango if I'm not mistaken. He said something along the lines that biggest threat to the environment being shrinking of rain forests to make space to plant coca. I'd have to find the interview and listen through it to be sure that was really what he said. Nobody mentioned something like that yet. Another thing that sparked my interest, I had to get myself a new set of wheels and one of the new (to me) features is start-stop system. Apparently it's one of those things new cars in EU must be equipped with and it has to be set to enabled by default to pass all those emission regulations and stuff. But what difference does it make? Found an interesting reading...https://unsealed4x4.com.au/why-stop-start-is-a-dumb-idea/...what do you think? My regular everyday route has total 2 intersections with traffic lights, where in the worst case scenario, if timing is right, I'd wait for about max 15-20 seconds or so at each. Turning the engine off for such a short time doesn't make much sense to me. There's also a number of conditions that must be just right, otherwise it can happen that it turns off with a significant delay, eg. 5 seconds or turn off immediately, but restart again after 2 seconds. Then there's the factor of engine components wear, they may be better reinforced, but things wear out with time and use anyway, so why deliberately put more strain on it? Just my thoughts, I don't pretend to fully understand the big picture. How suddenly everything has become about saving energy at every step, seems to be a constant theme on TV these days. "Just 1 degree Celsius less heat in the house will reduce consumption by x %". I come from a family where we're used to a bit lower temps and we're like, hey, we know that, tell that to the youngsters. New theme this week, they're reducing road lighting.

I've got a keyboard from Vista era, Logitech Internet 350 Keyboard with a PS/2 connector. I used Logitech Media 600 Keyboard before (USB connector, also Vista era), the only issue was that its volume knob broke after some time. I bought another 600 then, which is actually still unsealed and unused (I didn't want to use it so I wouldn't break the knob, but I liked it otherwise, guess my thinking back then was to save it for another time or something), switched to 350, which was also still unused at the time, this one must have been bought as spare. No idea what I'd buy if I had to buy a keyboard today. None of those extra buttons work on Win9x AFAIK, but if my memory is correct, I remember reading in Windows SDK files that with mice, button 4 and 5 became a thing in Win98 time. That era was really short, first computer at home had a 133 MHz Pentium and 16 MB of RAM, it ran Windows 95. Only few years later, a new computer was bought and the difference was radical, CPU speed measured in GHz rather than MHz, Windows XP. I remember a very short manual included with XP and not understanding a thing ("What the heck is a domain?"). Win95 manual was longer and understandable. Was a kid back then, didn't know much technical gizmos. Never saw Win98 manual as everything between Win95 and WinXP was skipped, at least on the home computer. There was a business computer for my father's company at home (there was a car workshop in the same house), this one ran Win98, it came with that OS, but no CD, it had WIN98 folder from the OS' CD on its second disk, so that could be used to install the OS. It was used for several years after WinXP was well established. That computer didn't do anything else but ran an accounting application, who knows what I would've found if I used it for stuff I normally did. It was never connected to the internet and if I'm not mistaken, it didn't even have a sound card. Its CPU was 233 MHz Pentium, it had 128 MB of RAM. Back then, we also had to wait for things to load, so not much has changed since, huh? I remember HOVER! game from Win95 CD, you could actually sit for a while and watch the progress bar before it loaded completely. I probably didn't know it could be copied to disk, but not sure if the speed up would be that significant. Wasn't it also a thing with slower computers at the time that you could watch graphical applications' interface redrawing at slower pace? My current computer's motherboard has some classic technology (COM ports, floppy connector), but from what I've found, completely unsuitable for running Win98 natively. Vista was bound to lead us into the future and XP support was left there for the old grumpies while Win9x have been designated as irrelevant old dinosaurs.

https://www.sordum.org/9480/defender-control-v2-1/comment-page-39/#comment-36149

I recently found out about WerTweak. Binaries aren't provided, but compiling it is straightforward. Since I did it for personal usage, I figured there might be other people who might appreciate being able to download them for themselves, so I published them under my repository. Installation instructions are in the README on the main page. I encountered one of those freaky Windows problems on one of my installations where WER refuses to show crash dialog even for plain applications with normal GUI, when the group policy setting DontShowUI=0 is set (Prevent display of the user interface for critical errors set to Disabled), so the crash dialog should be shown. The issue is not encountered on the fresh installation of the exact same Windows 10 build. No idea what went wrong and how to solve it to behave as intended, but the tool also restores the dialog in this case.

I don't know, I think I'd go nuts staring at the code all day. Imagine code rolling in front of your eyes everywhere you look. Then there are endless to-do lists, things that should've worked right with v1.0, but still don't after a decade, customers complaining all the time and expecting program to read their minds etc.

Admittedly, I only tried current version on a virtual machine on a work laptop, which isn't too old (cca. 5 years), I got past system requirements page by inputting some registry settings. They're making it difficult to skip finishing setup with Microsoft account. Rufus is supposedly able to modify an installation image to bypass all these, not personally tested on 22H2 though. The darn OOBE phase even refuses to continue if you're not connected to the internet. This craze with forcing online connectivity all the time and online accounts for everything has really gotten out of control. Microsoft Defender Antivirus also keeps insisting on running. The group policy setting for turning it off is "unsupported" in any other state but "Not configured". Then if you do set it to enabled, connected DisabeAntispyware setting in registry gets deleted right away. Oh, but it can be there as long as it's set to 0! This happens even with tamper protection disabled. Registry modifications listed here are yet to be tried (another article predating 22H2 release). Something about aesthetics, MS really hates proper window borders. In Win10, they just "deleted" them from resource file, but Win11's compositor doesn't draw them at all, even if present. Some time back, I modified Win11 RTM's theme resource file aero.msstyles by transplanting image resources from Windows 7 plus some community contributed images (those whose original image's dimensions don't match and the elements they represent would come out weird with Win7's image due to under-the-hood changes), Seems Win11 RTM's theme file is usable even with some Win10 builds, at least I haven't noticed any bugs on either 20H2 or 1809. So this is the run dialog with said file on Slovenian Win11 (ExplorerPatcher was also used to disable rounded corners, to make it closer to Win10): But on Win10, it comes out like this: Registry settings for window captions are the same on both systems. Win7 and Vista also have an emphasized edge, not just rounded corners they're selling with Win11!

Unless extended kernel can support Widevine Content Decryption Module, video playback on such services won't be possible.

https://www.top-password.com/knowledge/enable-windows-administrator-account.html XP is a little different: https://www.trishtech.com/2010/10/unhide-the-administrator-account-in-windows-xp/ Though maybe nuking everything and reinstalling gives a better sense of peace since maybe the incident also corrupted something else besides the profile. I personally have a feeling people often burn the entire house down to get rid of a small bug.

Peeked at Win11 22H2, still looks confusing as the first release. Noticed they changed Task Manager, now looks like UWP app and it's got icon buttons on the side instead of labeled tabs on top (can be expanded to see the labels) and huge context menus. Was looking for the Startup folder the other day, then I remember Win10's start menu hides Startup folder as well. I'm so used to the sane menu provided by Open-Shell (formerly Classic Shell). Hopefully don't need Win11 any time soon. Somewhat off-topic, but I really dislike the idea of running multiple OSes on one machine on a regular basis. Virtual machines cost a lot of resources, no proper graphics support, sound latency. Rebooting also couldn't be more annoying, close everything, wait for the other OS to boot and then you end up in another world.

Reads like one of those random problems where at the end, nobody knows how they occurred in the first place. I've had bad luck with some other part of Windows going bad in the past, I only recall the one when audio didn't work anymore after an update and couldn't figure out what was wrong. I remember looking at known (to me) related registry entries, which looked fine. I think it was the update process rather than the update content. That was Win10, but I've had other strangeness with older Windows as well, including 7 and XP. Never had a corrupt user profile though. I wonder about the message specific meaning, is it about loading NTUSER.DAT (user's registry, aka. HKEY_CURRENT_USER) or could be also something else? I've had a funny issue on non-desktop Linux, specifically my previous Android 4.4 installation on my smartphone. Anytime phone would be rebooted to recovery, fsck would find some file system errors on /data partition, which would be fixed only until you booted the system again. Then they would come back. But if I formatted the partition, boot the phone, go back to recovery, then they wouldn't appear anymore. They also haven't appeared ever since I replaced stock Sony's flavor of Android 4.4 with community port of LineageOS 14.1. I thought about bad flash memory, this is something that is yet to be confirmed, I think I've never run full test, but I remember reading about some command line utility you find on Linuxes and toying with it, it can be told to test the device by writing data to each block and reading it back for verifying the correctness. Not sure if it's part of BusyBox, which I do have on Android, but it's possible to mount phone's partitions on desktop Linux when you plug the phone to computer via USB, you can even use dd and netcat together to transfer whole partition data on the block level over USB both ways! After enabling ADB TCP forwarding, that is and the sufficiently functional custom recovery on the phone is required, can't do much with locked-down default device. Either way, If it's really a flash problem, it must be well disguised.

That one is not too old, only 3 years. Huawei apparently doesn't officially support unlocking bootloader anymore. I like to be able to tinker. I must have voided the warranty right away with the current one. Thinking about the past models I used, I've always been tight with internal storage space, but these days, tens of gigabytes of space is the norm. I settled on Via, while it may look like a random no-name browser just looking at it at the store and it doesn't support extensions, it does have some features you wouldn't expect, eg. listing direct media links, built-in ad blocker (uses AdBlock Plus lists I think), simple source code viewer. The biggest thing though, the version I use currently is 4.0.5, its APK size reads 968.26 KiB, doesn't use extra native libraries, uses installed WebView to render web content, doesn't consume as much RAM as the bigger browsers where on a low RAM device, you may notice the Android will terminate home screen app just because you opened one or two web pages. It also supports back-forward cache (instant back/forward navigation without reloading), not sure if mobile Chrome supports it these days, back when I installed Via for the first time, it wasn't a thing or maybe it could only be turned on in chrome://flags. While Chromium WebView is rather complex, the impact of other parts that web browsers may rely on does not appear insignificant.

The speaker is holding up, for now. I see Android 7 is slowly getting out of radar sight, statcounter lists its market share at 2.44%, Android 5 is at 1.26% , the older aren't listed specifically anymore. The forum for my phone model on XDA is deserted. So I guess things will stay as they are on the software front. I hate dalvik-cache folder eating hundreds of megabytes of space on internal storage. Do you already know about Greenify?

I don't believe they're deliberately seeking bugs in old browsers to break them. General apathy towards what happens in the older browser versions seems more likely. Or thinking the property is needed for some reason and so was left there or was forgotten to be removed while changing other parts of the surrounding code.

UXP and other descendants based on old Firefox are in the wrong because that behavior contradicts the specs. Fixed in Firefox 80. "z-index" has an effect on transformed content in Firefox, but not in Edge/Safari/Chrome

Firefox dev tools lets you know the property z-index is ignored if the element isn't positioned; its position is not set to something other than static, which is default if not specified (it isn't specified in this case). Chromium seems to do the same, but doesn't warn. W3Schools also suggests it shouldn't work for statically positioned elements. Also here:

The image problem you're discussing looks like a layout issue. Try the following CSS: @-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.tunwalai.com/story/") { .story-image { z-index: unset !important; } } Interesting that unsetting filter on the image (which sets contrast in this case) also makes it display, but then it obviously doesn't display with intended contrast.

No, someone mentioned it on another forum I don't recall. Didn't know about the official article. I took care of that in UBO: ! https://learn.microsoft.com learn.microsoft.com##.has-default-focus.header-holder This cuts off more than just the unsupported banner. I personally use: ||learn.microsoft.com/_themes/docs.theme/master/*/_themes/global/*.deprecation.js$script This script specifically removes hidden attribute of the banner if the browser doesn't support certain features.

So this is actually Cambria Math! I didn't believe WordPad when I pasted it there, when I made the new line and had formatting buttons and font dropdown set the same as with selected text I copied from the website, it looked a little bit different, so I wasn't sure if this is really the correct font. One source I found yesterday suggested this font initially came with Windows Vista and Office 2007. ... Hello? Where have you been? ... It's Q4 of 2022 we're into, this isn't any news ... FWIW, the overwhelming majority of sites, with social media services being the top offenders , will favour the latest Google Chrome over the rest browser choices, especially when non-mainstream You don't say, I remember when you could still chat via Facebook Messenger (normal version of the site) on Pale Moon and it didn't make you wanna start throwing things out the window. On my not very latest browser versions, on Firefox it works with a bit of scrollbar twitching while on Edge, it works correctly. Some websites out there are still reminiscent of the old web, eg. https://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/VCDS.php. They have written specifically to let them know if you believe their website has an accessibility issue. In contrast, one Ross-Tech's distributor's website (https://vcds.si/) has a bit more modern design and there's more going on in the background (eg. jQuery). I think it would be decent for the site of such caliber to also pick the language from the browser. Looking at the HTML, it's made with WordPress and I know for certain WP can do that as well. Above website is compatible with UXP, but WordPress or at least certain plugins these days can in fact serve UXP incompatible scripts. Which is a problem because such platforms have their appeal for taking away technical details when it comes to working with websites and such incompatibilities may, given some time, manifest on multiple websites. You too? I still cough occasionally after 1,5 week from the point when I seemed to be fine at first glance, it's really taking a lot of time to clear up.

Yes, Palefill is a community effort, it's pretty much about coding site specific fixes using some known workarounds where they may work by injecting certain polyfills (JavaScript functions not natively supported by the browser) or performing some smaller alterations to the original JavaScript code on a specific site. Some can be fixed while others rely too heavily on specific features, those are hopeless. https://www.tunwalai.com/story/651554 The text in the bracket says "Omegaverse". You might be missing the font the site is using. I'd say what it is, but I'm honestly not sure after trying to identify it if I'm doing it right... If possible, having Office 2010 installed is one way to add some fonts Windows XP normally doesn't have. Generally, if a used font is known, that font alone can be installed on the system and then sites using it will display correctly. May not apply for the poster above, but if anyone is unaware, there are extra fonts on Windows XP CD covering letters of specific languages that aren't installed by default: