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Basically, chrome.exe starts and asks for chrome.dll to load, which uses the C++ Redistributable to load certain things, but then encounter an API call that is supposed to be in the kernel, it asks the ntdll for it (compatibility layer) but it fails not because it's not there, but because something else (not right) is going on. Unfortunately I can't tell you anything else, but it's like trying to look for a needle in a haystack...

It's an unhandled exception related to C codes. No idea what chrome is trying to do neither what's the breakpoint while trying to use the compatibility layer. Try to run chrome with --enable-logging --v=1 Debug logs are stored in the user data directory as chrome_debug.log. The file is overwritten every time Chrome restarts. Start chrome, let it fail, grab the error log, zip it and attach the zip here.

Exactly! Thank you very much indeed!

Hi. I recently bought a new mSATA SSD but I found out that the mini PCIE port in my old Acer Aspire one (ao532h) doesn't support mSATA (even though the SSD does fit in it, 'cause mSATA and miniPCIE share the same pins - different voltages, though). My question is: does an mSATA to mini PCIE Adapter exist? And, if it does exist, is it going to work in my old, crappy, outdated Aspire One (ao532h)? Thank you in advance.

Weird. Anyway, this means that drivers are working fine. From the control panel, when you click on the speaker, are you sure everything is fine? Volume level up, loudspeaker selected as default sound device etc? Maybe it's just something really silly like the weave turned down or something like that.

Sirmen (avast developer) confirmed that they were having troubles releasing VPS for avast 4.8 in April, then Milos (avast developer) confirmed that they were about to release VS4 and now they are stuck on September 12, but there has been no official confirmation that definitions updates weren't going to be released anymore. Both Sirmen and Milos have been contacted and we are waiting for an official statement from them. Btw I don't think they are gonna drop it; I think they'll keep that old version alive, it's just that they are facing some issues as occurred few months ago and fixing them definitely does not have the highest priority.

@glnz... dunno about Russian people of Novosibirsk, but I can tell you about Londoners: sunset at 5.00PM and drizzle to showers all day long during Winter xD (yep, I live in Chelsea)

@sdfox7 it doesn't load because chrome relies on SSL and TLS cryptography manager built in the OS, but XP doesn't have TLS 1.2 which is the one used by waterfox site.

I don't have office installed, but I didn't get Visual Studio updates as well, even though I think it's normal. May I suggest you to install CodeBlock as IDE and minGW as C and C++ compiler (GCC)? Visual Studio 2010 is getting older and older. Right now, both C# and C++ compilers are too old and are missing some important features. I'm totally happy with GCC and CodeBlock with XP for C++ programs.

Feel free to call me Frank, as my name is "Francesco" which turned in "Francisco" when I moved to the States in 2013 xD (I then moved to the UK 'cause I didn't manage to get a Green Card; long story). Anyway, I'm a beta tester and I collaborate with the team since 2014 in finding bug, reporting false positive etc, but I'm not an avast developer nor I work for them.

Firefox actually did drop XP (and Vista), but x64 only, as x86 is still supported. As to the x86 version, Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required (minimum), but it's gonna be dropped in 2017 as newer version after 2017 will require SP3 due to OCSP Signatures in SHA-2 which is not supported by SP2. Btw none of these infos are official; just rumors.

Bad news for the newer .NET framework. Unfortunately, Microsoft policy is to focus on sharing projects programs which will be able to run in both Windows Desktop and Windows Phone mode via the .NET Framework and Metro. Apps/programs in computers will be able to use geofencing, push notifications and new API have been introduced as well. The new targeted OS will be Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, leaving behind XP, Vista and Windows 7 as well. While it's a great thing to have these functions for developers as we will be able not only to share part of codes between Desktop programs and Mobile programs (as we used to do in 2014 with C# and XAML), but we will definitely be able to release a Windows App which works in Windows Desktop (but not vice versa) or to compile two different executables (for desktop and mobile) using part of the codes in both platforms, with the necessary exclusions in order to avoid compiling errors occurring while using Mobile APIs in Windows programs. As I said, this is great from a developer point of view, but it definitely doesn't represent a bright future for XP, Vista and 7. It seems like Microsoft is starting to inevitably encourage/push people to move from 7 to a newer OS. :| (Why is it bad for XP? Well, because it adds more complexity in any kind of backporting and is "cutting off" XP users from the whole world of Apps, and these Apps are gonna play an important role in the future)... :|

@glnz by the way, we are aware that, while Windows Updates is installing updates, Avast may prevent it from installing them. This is because of the detection engine in the PUP (potentially unwanted programs) which fails to detect and label as safe certain programs, telling avast to block them instead. This is one of the main reason why PUP it's probably gonna be disabled by default in the next release, even though you'll still be able to turn it on manually (not sure, still has TBD).

CHKDSK C: /F /R ("c is the letter of the drive you want to scan), as Dibya suggested. Besides, I generally use TotalCommander for batch operations like renaming several files etc, but it can move files as well and you can adjust (limit) the transfer speed as well. Not just that, in Windows settings be sure that the PIO mode is DEACTIVATED, as it's an old transfer method used by the system which implies some expensive CPU workloads. Last but not least, use Speccy to check the drive health and check the S.M.A.R.T data as well.

Yep, we both backported .NET 4.5, as I remember your screen as well Anyway, we will manage to backport it eventually, somehow... :')

Windows 8.1 or 10 only. You may try to install XP and run third part drivers for GPU, but honestly, you won't get the motherboard drivers to work anyway (except with the default drivers), so... it's not worth it. If you really need XP, use Linux and a virtual machine

I'll make some tests during the weekend; I'm pretty busy at work right now and I'm really really tired when I get back home. The last thing I wanna do is to test kernel calls xD Anyway, Saturday and Sunday I'll make some tests and I'll let you know. As to the .NET framework, I failed several times with the 4.5 with several different approaches in the past; good luck with 4.6.1. If you remember, I managed to get it installed but it didn't actually work and I ended up relying on mono, which does include some new functions, but lacks some other Fundamentals functions included in the .NET 4. With the few programs I tried, it failed as it didn't have some of the functions required either to compile or run such programs. Unfortunately, .NET is a huge framework which handles several things (really, many many things) for you when you run programs written to use it, that's why it's so flipping difficult to successfully backport it. C#, XAML, Prism MVVM, JSON etc they all rely on .NET... not only that; we received updates for .NET in the past, which means that a new .NET framework (especially a custom made/backported one) might actually introduce new security issues in XP.

Sure, no problem at all.

Ok, btw we already had the topic about the modified kernel; why don't we use that one? I mean, modified kernel, compatibility layer: same target, different implementation. I'm pretty sure the old topic was fine, but if you wanna start a new one, fill your boots. Out of curiosity, did Blackwingcat replied to your message?

Format factory is free, but it's not an open source project, although some of the components it uses are. Just think about it as an user interface which writes down commands for you. For instance, let's assume you want to open a video and encode it. When you click "open" and select the video file, it writes down commands for you. Let's assume you imported a video and that you selected H.264 as encoder and aac as audio, then you clicked on "options" and you selected a few settings like constant quality factor and you choosed 22, profile and you choosed "high", preset "medium", audio bitrate 320. Under the hood, format factory will write down this code for you: ffmpeg.exe -i "video.ts" -c:v libx264 -crf 22 -profile high -level 4.1 -preset medium -c:a -b:a 320k "output.mp4" So, it will rely on external executables like FFMPEG, which has libraries like libx264 and libaac. These, of course, have to be linked and compiled to run in XP, otherwise your program will write down the code above but won't be able to start the encode, as it will fail while calling libraries and codecs.

Weird... the download link works for me... I'm gonna upload somewhere else later on in the afternoon (gotta go to work now). As to the files, you'll find out when you'll download it, but I simply replaced them with executables and DLLs compiled for XP. It's not a big deal at all to make FFMPEG, mencoder, x264, x265 work in XP, as they are written in C++ and with CodeBlock IDE I can use either Visual Studio or MinGW (GCC++). Once you set everything to x86 and your target to XP, it works perfectly. I usually prefer Microsoft compiler which has no problem at all with the programs, even 'cause XP it's actually able to run the Microsoft C++ Redistributable, from 2005 to 2015. As to GCC, you won't need them if compiled with GCC. Oh, as to the assembly optimisation, I limited them to the SSE3, 'cause I wanted to make it run on almost every CPU. Unfortunately, in C++, once you build something, you have to choose assembly optimisation and then you are gonna be stuck with the one you've chosen as the rule "one dll per optimisation" applies. (For instance, if I wanna make it AVX 2 compatible, I have to make another dll and it won't run on processors that don't support such an instruction set). This doesn't apply with C# though, that's why I like it, but in this case they are written in C++, so... xD

Done in about... 5 min? xD It was super-fast xD I replaced encoders like ffmpeg and mencoder, then I replaced mediainfo as well and I managed to make Format Factory working in XP, as you asked! Btw, I don't actually use Formact Factory, so I tested a few random audio and video encoding in H.264, xvid, AAC, AC3 and AMR and they worked. link and images below: psw: Itadakimasu0 https://mega.nz/#!mU0m0aLC!zz6JumB7N2-UIIoFENZ8SFKBfputXTzQIrdHuuFedmc @Tripredacus... they know that it doesn't work in XP, as I asked them about Windows Server 2003 compatibility a while ago and they told me that they never tested it on Win Server 2003/XP and that they don't officially support that either; in other words, they simply don't care about whether it works on XP or not, as such an OS is not in their target user range.

Uh... I never tried it, but it might be backported as well, dunno. I'll let you know later on this week

And that would be an awesome thing! Unfortunately I've been pretty busy at work and I'll keep being busy, unfortunately. Anyway, it's a great news and I really appreciate everything you are doing!

Do you remember when we talked about the group "POS Ready spotter?" Well... Windows POS Ready: spotted successfully!