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Regarding Invidious, I see now why it appears so broken for so many videos. I don't know why non-DASH streaming breaks, but when DASH is enabled, it insists on using AV1 codec when available. If the browser says it doesn't support AV1 or a script is run that makes the browser pretend to not support the codec, then Invidious just says "Playback cannot continue. No available working or supported playlists." It doesn't even try to fallback to any other codec like normal YouTube does.

Some Control Panel items are registered in Windows registry, editable with Registry Editor, specifically in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace. One of those keys / "folders" is the one you're looking for to delete, if registry entry is its origin. Description on the right may give it away. The folder name is just a GUID, so there's probably another folder with the same name under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID, describing behavior of the Control Panel item. So deleting found keys on both sides should rid of it completely. The interesting question is where are its origins and if other traces exist.

Apparently I did in Best Hypervisor for Windows 98 thread in 2017. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170208-00/?p=95395 Maybe Windows 12 will have AI to tell if it's really the best.

Strange times. I hear some people are ending their friendships solely on the stance regarding vaccination.

Might depend on fonts used. Win7 itself with default fonts looks fine to me as well, I think oddities I've seen happen with certain fonts fetched from various web pages. Wish I had technical explanation. The UI of Win98 for instance also looks fine by default. OldNewExplorer is probably statistically most demanded tool on this forum, its thread has over 2,2m views (visible on page 2 of StartIsBack+ subforum currently). I always found assigning human characteristics to inanimate objects odd. I think there's too much drama here at times and these discussions which OS is better practically never go anywhere, everyone seems to only see things from their own perspective.

18k tested, 13k confirmed infected yesterday here . Where the heck are we going? *Sings* Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid I'm still negative after all this time Picking up the pieces of my life without COVID on my mind I'm still standing (Yeah, yeah, yeah) I'm still standing (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

You still have regular mortals writing code with new syntax who don't check which browsers support it because who doesn't run always-up-to-date Chrome/Firefox. None of these two browsers have checkbox in their settings pages to turn off updates. Over a month ago I adapted Return YouTube Dislike user script to use classic syntax with those conditional statements, I still use Pale Moon often (link to the script if anyone cares, no warranty or promise for updates). Some time ago, the place I work at put "latest Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer" in the system requirements of the software it develops. Ridiculous. Exact versions used to be specified. I suspect only Internet Explorer is keeping them from going nuts with recent JS bells and whistles, I had to report a bug a while back since those damn ?? appeared in the code. Funny I still have Chrome 79 on my phone, thought it'll last longer before I find something that doesn't work in it and it's only one version behind the one that added nullish coalescing and optional chaining operators. For the record, the "important" stuff that I use still works in Pale Moon for me. I'll probably sound like an old broken record now, but I consider Edge the only usable Chromium browser on Windows ATM. I cannot stand Chrome's font rendering, it irritates my eyes if I read text for too long. Edge makes it better with edge://flags/#edge-enhance-text-contrast flag for my eyes at least, much closer to Firefox based browsers, though it's not exactly 1:1, I detect a slight added blur to it compared to Firefox, which I can still tolerate, at least it doesn't irritate my eyes. I don't know what's with the added blur or why there's more of it as some slight amount is supposedly inherent with anti-aliasing, haven't found an explanation for that specifically, but general official explanation regarding default font rendering in Chromium and with the new flag in Edge is here: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/06/02/improving-font-rendering-in-microsoft-edge/ I used to be of opinion that Windows 7 is my minimum preferred version, last year I changed that opinion to 8.1 solely because I detected some slight font rendering defects while browsing in Firefox based browsers that don't occur on 8.1 and 10 with same ClearType settings. Don't get me started ranting on XP font rendering, edgy fonts all over the place that ClearType tuning doesn't fix. Chromium renders OK on Linux though, changing system font settings actually makes a difference in font appearance. For the record, last time I used CRT computer screen was at least 15 years ago, so no clue how any browser/OS fonts would appear with different settings on those. Only LCD TFT screens have been used since.

Actually, the link I posted is actual 70.0.3650.0. While this one is 70.0.3650.1.

I don't think you can "polyfill" nullish coalescing operator. It's occurring more frequently so good luck with the modern web on old browsers. I think Iron from that screen was supposed to be 70. I got this particular installer since it's not in the official archive: https://www.filepuma.com/download/srware_iron_64bit_70.0.3650.0-20779/ Some downloads there are definitely wrong, Iron 70.0.3700 was actually Iron 71.something.

Sharing living costs with existing family, stable job. Car is inherited from my brother and I don't spend much. Not much of a materialistic person. I can't buy being able to sleep in the morning rather than go to work unless I won the lottery, LOL. Car still needs servicing every year, there's registration, vignette to be able to use highways. Should buy proper summer tires when spring comes around as well so new winter ones won't be messed up too soon. Eventually the time will come when it becomes too much of a burden and will have to get something newer, so far, I consider every year a bonus (*knocks on wood*).

When I was still in the mood for games, I was looking for ways to get better MIDI on VMware or VirtualBox virtual machines with Win98. While both could be configured with a sound card with MIDI support, I missed being able to use WeedsGM3 sound fonts. Wouldn't be an issue if they could be set to passthrough MIDI commands to host like DOSBox. There's a Win98 driver for VirtualBox's Realtek AC97 and VMware's Ensoniq <I forgot the exact model>, don't have to be stuck with Sound Blaster 16, there's no MIDI in Windows DOS box with that I think. But DOSBox is too slow on my PC for Terminator: SkyNET's SVGA mode. If I remember correctly, I only got it to work in SVGA in VirtualBox with VBEMP generic graphics driver.

do UXP based applications need this? https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/5386cd812b9fe8294a57eae7ed6d2ef117912af4 They added globalThis soon after Reddit stopped working then if I remember correctly. I don't expect fix for the current breakage to come soon though.

No, you're not.

Out of curiosity, is there something like Coolsoft VirtualMIDISynth for Win9x? Maybe WildMIDI? Doesn't say on which Windows it works, but there's also a DOS binary. Oh, this works with Gravis Ultrasound patch files, so not exactly like SoundFonts like VirtualMIDISynth.

Guess it's still real in a sense that there are api-*.dll DLLs in the background that just have exported functions pointing to DLL with actual implementation.

Yes, you actually only get Vista update when searching for KB2533623 on Update Catalog. AFAIK, this was the first update with those functions, there was at least one newer update that supersedes it so it also adds those functions. Best to check kernel32.dll itself if it contains listed functions. Probably a whole lot of updates changed kernel32.dll.

Found references to Win8+ APIs here: https://www.nirsoft.net/dll_information/windows8/api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0_dll.html This one adds another 3 functions that didn't exist when Windows 7 was released. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-security-advisory-insecure-library-loading-could-allow-remote-code-execution-486ea436-2d47-27e5-6cb9-26ab7230c704 It was superseded by another update a long time ago.

List of Windows 7 API sets The one in OP is not mentioned. It's likely that the application depends on newer APIs.

It's not a real DLL, it's an API set contract name. Either PE loader recognizes it or it doesn't. Clearly whatever you're trying to run wasn't compiled for Windows 7 (assuming updated Win7 also throws the error). Windows API sets

Probably, never looked into it. The author of the program presumably put it there because bad actors apparently love trying to use his program as the vessel for bad stuff. Yup, it's not saved anywhere. I may take a look next weekend.

I've noticed Emoji problem on Windows 8.1 with Edge as well. Not on Instagram specifically, can't tell for this site specifically. When did all this time pass? Just realized Win8.1 is already 9 years old. Anyway, I'm not too knowledgeable about technicalities in this case, but Chromium-based browsers tend to rely more on resources provided by OS compared to Firefox-based + who tests their site on Windows XP.

Direct2D doesn't exist on XP so related prefs shouldn't make a difference.

I guess it refers to actual JavaScript software served on web pages, which is not necessarily free. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

Plus they have links to older versions. Edit: crx4chrome.com I mean.

Another way to manually update which doesn't require you to remove and reinstall from Chrome Store as suggested in another thread is to get them off https://www.crx4chrome.com/, they have links to extensions hosted on Google's servers. Drag and drop .crx onto opened Extensions window and it will be updated.