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22 minutes ago, Sampei.Nihira said:
even in W.10/11 in many malicious websites with (HTTPS) phishing content (this is not often the case for websites with malware content) the certificate is valid and nothing prevents the browser (at a given initial instant of time) from opening the malicious web page without any problem.
Yeah... it still baffles me to see phishing websites getting a perfectly valid certificate from Let's Encrypt. I mean, what's the point of having Certificate Authorities at this point if scammers can just get their ways around it...
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No problem on Chromium 108.0.5359.125 (Developer Build) (32-bit) on my Windows XP x86:
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Why don't you try OpenOffice instead?
The last LibreOffice version compatible with XP is from July 23rd 2017, while OpenOffice is still XP compatible to this very day, in fact: https://www.openoffice.org/product/windows.html
Here's the download page: https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
Of course I didn't just limit myself to trust what they were saying on the website, I'm actually using OpenOffice on XP regularly and here you can see a screenshot with my XP running version 4.1.15 (i.e the latest version released on December 22nd, 2023.
You know, between a project who deprecated XP years ago and doesn't really care (LibreOffice) and one who keeps actively supporting XP (OpenOffice) I'll always pick the XP compatible one
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It's not a lie, it is based on the original ReactOS implementation and also on Wine D3D for the DirectX10 and 11 implementation, which is totally fine and would be 100% allowed.
The problem is that by limiting it to that it wouldn't have achieved much, so it also contains proprietary Microsoft dll which have been patched (hence modified) and backported to allow Windows XP to make use of them by Samuel.
He has done an amazing job in doing that and he has been working on this for several years now, however this means that once One Core API is installed, it will replace system libraries and unfortunately MSFN has a longstanding stance against linking modified Microsoft dlls which is why RyanVM was created in the first place. By the way, if you search for posts from 2019 onwards from Dibya, Peter and I you're gonna see that we all know Samuel (heck we were even in the same chat) and we're all great supporters of his work.
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One Core API is written by Samuel, we know him very well and he has done an amazing job. Please note that Windows XP + One Core API is way closer to Windows 7 level of compatibility than ReactOS will ever be.
Also please note that One Core API is largely based on reversing newer Windows functions, so you won't get far here by linking it (probably a mod will remove the link soon as it's not allowed
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12 hours ago, patchworks said:
Given that I am NOT a developer (much less a Kernel one), couldn't ReactOS core components be (easily?) "ported" instead of reimplementing everything from scratch?
ReactOS doesn't even have full Windows XP compatibility, let alone Vista and 7 one.
Wine, on the other hand, evolved a lot over the last few years and that's the one having up to Windows 7 compatibility
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Not to wake an old thread, but has there been any progress on this? One of my XP installations is currently being virtualized on Virtualbox and indeed I'm stuck with AC97 at 44100Hz 16bit PCM stereo 2.0 routed all the way through to Pipewire/Wireplumber on Linux, upmixed to 5.1, upsampled to 48000Hz PCM 24bit and then delivered to my sound card and on to my subwoofer. That... kinda sucks.
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Yeah, I'm still going through all the errors in the Event Viewer and the plan is to fix them all one by one once and for all on all my systems (the physical one and the VM).
Getting rid of those errors in the Event Viewer does feel good and I reduced them all to just 2 (affecting the system running in the VM) but I'll probably open a separate topic about those as I can't wrap my head around those... I mean they seem to be a bit cryptic.
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Thanks for letting us know, I updated too.
About this, I've just noticed from the Event Viewer that I still have lots of crypt32 errors due to the Microsoft Certificate Updater running
So I'm just gonna uninstall the Microsoft Auto Certificates Updater component given that not only it's no longer useful but it's even "harmful" in the sense that it would be throwing lots of errors for every time it tries to update the root certificates (and fails) in the background, so I invite anyone who still has this component to go "add or remove programs" -> "windows components" and remove it
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Guys, chill, I mean it, don't worry about me.
I swapped the RAM and I haven't had any bluescreen ever since, so all is well what ends well and yes, it was a problem with the RAM after all, so thanks to everyone who pointed that out.
I'm happy with the answer, we can safely close the topic.
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Correct. The reference contact person is Weolar and the builds are provided by him to the companies who purchase the extended support afaik.
I'm very very very lucky to be one of the people that receives those builds, but of course they're private and I cannot share them, however they do have some bugs.
Anyway, they run just fine on Windows XP SP3 x86 without the need to use One Core API.
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Not exactly the best solution, but when I wanna download something from YouTube I use JDownloader2 which is running using Java and it's cross platform. It's still updated regularly and it still runs on the latest XP supported version of Java just fine. This is not an accident, but rather a nice coincidence given that JDownloader2 is cross platform and therefore supports all OS capable of running Java, including a wide variety of Linux distro which are running a very old version of Java, which is why it still works perfectly fine on XP at every update. As for the FFMpeg libraries it uses, I'm of course using Reino's fork that he regularly publishes on Doom9 and that have been already mentioned in this thread.
As for things I wanna watch on my PC without downloading them, with M108 (the chromium fork), all videos work, including VP9 ones and AV1 ones as they're royalty free codecs whose decoders are included/embedded in chromium however they all run via software decoding due to the nature of the XP compatible versions of chromium. Nonetheless, for anything up to 1920x1080 60p software decoding on a quad core is fine. I don't of course expect it to be playing 4K or 8K footages via software decoding on a puny 4 cores CPU, but realistically most of us probably have a FULL HD 60Hz display anyway, so we're gonna be more than fine for the time being.
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I will. Thank you Dixel.
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Damn, I'm really sorry to hear that 'cause these RAM sticks (ironically also HyperX) are actually 8 years old and I was emotionally attached to them...
I will try running a memory test through it, though, but if you say that it passed it then I don't know how reliable that can be...
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Hi there guys,
I was doing my usual stuff when suddenly I got the following bluescreen error message:
STOP 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xB9D17E94, 0xA7664FF0, 0x00000000)
fltmgr.sys - Address B9D17E94 base at B9D11000, DateStamp 480251da
I rebooted and it seems to be working fine but I'd like to know what caused this issue.
I looked for a MEMORY.DMP file in C:\WINDOWS, however the only one I could find is a 1.9GB one from 30/07/2017 which means that it's not the one of this latest crash.
BlueScreenViewer also doesn't report anything at all which leaves me puzzling a bit...
I wasn't doing much, I only really had 3 different RDP sessions opened to computers in my local network and that was pretty much it, really...
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6 hours ago, Saxon said:
Just a word of caution from Wikipedia regarding that Freegate.
"In 2004, the Financial Times, citing a member of staff at Symantec in mainland China, reported that Norton AntiVirus identified Freegate as a Trojan horse. There were initial fears that the reports may be a ploy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities to encourage removal of the software from computers..."
Well I don't know how things are nowadays, however I remember using Freegate back in the days and their intention were actually not bad: it was a free proxy run by a non profit organization (NED - National Endowment for Democracy) to allow people in censored countries to be able to browse the web freely with a U.S IP Address. I personally used it to watch Hulu (back when Hulu was free).
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Thank you @AstroSkipper for the build, I installed it and it works like a charm!
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On 12/22/2023 at 2:59 PM, AstroSkipper said:
Here is a download link for the installation programme: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn-for-windows-xp/
Even better! Thanks!
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Interesting! I'm currently still using v2.3.18 which is the last officially supported one, so if the patched 2.5.4 version you're using works reliably well I might use it and ditch v2.3.18.
I found the source code and the XP guide (https://openvpn-for-windows-xp.sourceforge.io/), so perhaps this weekend if I have time I'll try to setup the environment and build it, however if you already have a trusted build feel free to send it over.
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13 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:
I don't like this TAP-Win32 Adapter. I had a lot of problems with it in the past.
Same here, including occasional bluescreens caused by the driver.
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18 hours ago, 66cats said:
It does, Not for security afficionados, but work it does.
Yep RDP also works as long as Network Level Authentication is disabled, which is totally fine for an internal network, but I wouldn't dare to use it over the internet (public network) in the wild nowadays... (unless you're asking for troubles, that is).
Out of curiosity, are you using RDP without NLA over the internet? O_O
I'm personally using Anydesk for remote connections over the internet (public network) and RDP for internal connections between computers in my house (internal network).
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Yep, I use Anydesk all the time ever since Team Viewer left us stranded. It has been working reliably well and I'm really glad that it still does.
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Ah, I see...
Good to know.
This also means that the net market share stats for Windows are gonna be completely screwed, nice.
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On 12/16/2023 at 6:31 PM, D.Draker said:
This makes you unique (not in a good sense).
No it doesn't as anyone can request commercial support to Weolar afaik: weolar@miniblink.net
I'm not sure whether a private user can buy the commercial support and the versions he provides the companies with or not, but it's definitely worth trying and after all I wouldn't see why he wouldn't.
For those looking for his GitHub account, it's here: https://github.com/weolar
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Port .NET 2.0 to Win 95, YouTube Film noir
in Windows 9x/ME
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I watched the whole video and what he managed to pull off is amazing.
I know that he started backporting .NET Framework 2.0 to Windows 95, but then he saw that he could get all the way up to .NET Framework 3.5 which is one release before .NET Framework 4 (the last XP Compatible one).
Now, I don't have Windows95 as my first ever computer was with Windows98SE in 1999 which is the one I cloned and I still run - albeit in a VM. The thing with Windows98SE is that it only really supports .NET Framework 2.0, so the real question at this point is: can I use his installer on Windows98SE to make .NET Framework 3 and 3.5 work or am I going to screw the whole thing up?