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He probably meant uninstalling UWP version of Skype. I presume the Win32 version, which is basically another Electron app and can be downloaded from official website, isn't connected to Meet Now as it exists in Win10.

There's the answer regarding rutube.ru. Apparently it's not the only video site that uses what it does.

I got Magisk going on an Android x86 installed on bare hardware a while ago, also removed as much SuperSU traces as possible by removing relevant files from system image. Couldn't get the green SafetyNet status, not even the basic integrity passed. Tried Android versions were 7.1.2 (cm14 flavor aka. LineageOS), so the same thing I've got on my phone and the BlissOS 11.11 (fork of Android x86 version 9.0). I just got that HID Approve app on Windows 10 activated and have the exact same problem as with bank's app, just the error is worded differently. So they must have their records of my user profile messed up or whatever, so the issue is to be looked up on THEIR side, not mine.

This driver seems like a suitable match for the audio device in question: https://www.realtek.cz/download-driver-nr-447-for-realtek-ALC888-and-WindowsXP-32bit.html It's got to do with motherboard's chipset (https://www.techwalla.com/articles/what-is-the-smbus-controller). You can try: http://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/R114079.EXE

KZclip is fishy, tries to show NSFW ads...

Seems KZclip was just temporarily inaccessible. No problem with inaccessible videos. Problem with Invidious: I don't know what the pattern is, but it can happen with videos that aren't blocked neither in my country nor in the country where used Invidious instance is hosted.

Which instance? No matter the instance, either the search doesn't work or some videos don't load (stuck on loading the page or I get the error: Unsupported video type or invalid file). This one also gets stuck on search for me. Edit: actually, the entire site now gives gateway timeout error. From what I've seen so far, no reliable replacement exists.

Spamming the forum with new topics won't speed up the development.

It's only supported on Win10 builds up to 18363.752. As long as you stay on 18363 branch, a workaround would be to downgrade just DWM files, as described in the following thread:

I have a working FreeDOS installation on a bootable USB flash drive, so I could've tried Links with the old SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1255TX), for which a packet driver exists, but the card died in a short time frame after being installed. PC went to sleep one day and didn't wake up, didn't respond to reset button, didn't POST after power cycle, no signs of life, just fans spinning. Thought that was it and that motherboard went kaput until I removed the card.

Nothing to do with XP, Good Old YouTube 1.16.0 doesn't work in recent Chrome and Firefox releases anymore neither.

Has anyone run Links in FreeDOS?

I solved the original problem, after removing as much root access traces as possible, it turned out SELinux being in permissive mode rather than enforcing mode was causing problems. I can't keep it in enforcing mode permanently because my OS doesn't have it configured properly. Temporarily putting it in enforcing mode solved the app activation problem. At a later point, another problem showed up, unable to authenticate with the app to access the bank site the normay way, though I can use emergency one-time password generated in the app to get in, but that's not sufficient, eg. if you perform some action on the bank site that requires to be authorized on the mobile app, it wouldn't work. Cause unknown, but apparently there are other users who have the same problem. BlueStacks and other solutions for running Android on PCs have the problem that they don't pass SafetyNet checks, so they're useless for these types of apps.

Lightweight and compatible with modern web is an oxymoron. Moonchild Productions' browsers are good for bells and whistles, but also have problems with memory leaks, though that seems to be a common problem with anything descending from Firefox.

Is the old way of accessing still complaint with the SCA? Customer's knowledge - password, customer's possession - certificate. This one should still render it properly with default configuration at least (just the background color, shouldn't be oversized). Sure you do. I don't only notice it, but it's actually irritating to my eyes. Edit: That's interesting, so only Iron on @jaclaz's machine takes this into account for some reason?

Didn't mention this yet, but at some later point, I've confirmed that the app was only picking up on SELinux status somehow, so removing Magisk for the activation process was unnecessary. Maybe the more accurate description is that permissive SELinux lets the app see something it doesn't like, but I'm unable to confirm that theory. I'd report the issue to Magisk developer to help improve MagiskHide, but unless you actually know the technicalities on how some app is picking that your device is not "clean" (https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/issues/1152), it's pointless. Some banks still send you the SMS with the code to confirm it's really you rather than rely on the app. In my case, the reliability of the particular app is also a problem. You don't get a lot of bad user reviews on Google Play unless your app is really fishy. The title of this topic refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android) Financial apps don't like rooted phones. Regarding COVID-19 app in this country, they called it #OstaniZdrav (translates to #StayHealthy) and since 14th December, if you cross your municipality's border and your reason is not one of the allowed exceptions for which you have a confirmation like a permit from your employer, you're permitted to move around if you have the activated app on your phone. If a cop pulls you over and you have neither, you're either warned or pay a fine, then sent back to where you came from. There are reported reliability issues with the app, a lot of people don't have the smartphone, others don't have the phone that would support the app (it requires Android 6.0+), it's considered unconstitutional since there's no alternative for those that can't use it for one reason or another etc. etc. The whole crisis has turned into a political game and people have had bad attitude since the beginning. Your typical Slovene's mentality, even when reasonable measures were just recommended rather than enforced: "It's recommended, therefore, it only applies to others, not me.". They've opened up certain shops/services temporarily recently until the holidays and of course people rushed there in big numbers as usual. Third wave is already anticipated for the next year. Slovenia is currently at the top in the deaths per million (last 7 days) criteria, according to this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ App or no app, I don't think it matters at this point.

UMDF drivers are bundled in WMP11 installer and may either be installed automatically along with WMP11 or separately by running two installers packed inside WMP installer file. When I got those drivers ready, it still wouldn't work, device wouldn't be installed (as if drivers were missing). I had to find the device key in registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB and modify CompatibleIDs setting by adding USB\MS_COMP_MTP at the top then finally trigger the driver update from Device Manager. Afterwards, the device was installed successfully and showed in My Computer. USB debugging enabled in Android may also prevent MTP from being seen on the computer if ADB drivers aren't installed and working, so my advice to anyone would be to start with USB debugging disabled and worry about that after you get MTP alone working.

Old bugs inherited from the old Firefox codebase that appear to have been fixed in later official Firefox releases. Not so sure about that anymore after a bit more testing. The whole multi-process thing just makes it easier to reclaim memory since you can just terminate the process without having to deallocate explicitly allocated memory. I think browser devs in general should slow down a bit and go back to basics.

Web browser (and/or graphics driver DLL) may also leak memory and those damned multi-process browsers take significant amount of memory before you even open any website. My work laptop (Win10 1809 x64) idles at about 3 GB, but I didn't set it up from scratch and I might have left some less obvious stuff running, which accumulate. Initially, idle RAM usage was about 5 GB and both MS SQL and MySQL servers were running in the background. The same OS build on my home desktop would usually be at 1,3 GB. A screenshot from my personal laptop (Win10 1809 x86): It can get tight, but I can work with that. The most impactful change regarding resource usage that I tend to do is that I disable Windows Defender, though I suppose that's not the most suitable configuration for the common folk.

FX 52.9 does support WebGL.

Aye. And guess what's the alternative...another app...HID Approve, exists as Android 5+ app and as Windows 10 UWP app. And they suggested it without sending me the user name and activation code. When I asked them about those, they just sent me the link to the same instructions saying I need to input the user name I'm supposed get in the email and the code which I'm supposed to get in the SMS. I guess the user name is the same as the one used to login to the bank site, but no sign of the SMS neither. People are insufferable.

Asked about it on PM forum as the issue is inherited from upstream.

The problematic code is in one of the core Vista's system components, not VLC...

There is indeed a difference between VLC versions due to what kind of icons developers chose to put on the buttons. But this topic was started as a discussion for the solution about the technical problem that happens under specific circumstances and causes the application to render GUI in the old fashion, like how it was always done before Microsoft added visual style functionality in Windows XP. The topic was also initially placed in Vista sub-forum, which I think was appropriate, considering it is related to Vista specific issue. The workaround ensures theming works for the application so the buttons and other GUI elements get background texture from Microsoft's Aero theme. That's all there is to it. It doesn't seem like this discussion is going anywhere, so I believe that unless there is an interest in fixing the issue at the OS level, we can just call it a day. BTW, I have tested the following code snippet: SetDefaultDllDirectories(LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_SYSTEM32); HMODULE hUxThemeLib = LoadLibraryExW(L"C:\Windows\System32\UxTheme.dll", NULL, LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH); It works as expected on Vista. So if the code that loads UxTheme.dll used the absolute path, there wouldn't be a problem. It's also done like that on Win7.