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I was taught to call them quotation marks, without discerning between the British single and double.

Thanks for the notification, Bersaglio and BlackWingCat. I kept getting a "Failed Install" message when trying to install this version of Silverlight (5.1.50428.0, 32-bit) on XPx64. These are the steps I had to take to finally succeed: Uninstall the existing version of Silverlight through "Add/Remove Programs." Run CleanSilverlight.cmd twice, per KB2608523. (You must add quotes to the registry keys in the CMD file.) Restart your computer. After restarting, disconnect your computer from the internet and temporarily disable your antivirus software. Run the latest installer EXE. (Only need the 32-bit installer for XPx64.) Restart your antivirus and reconnect to your network. Hope this helps others with the same problem. I wouldn't install Silverlight at all if it weren't for Netflix stubbornly requiring it in Firefox.

Should have mentioned that it doesn't work with archived topics. Most of the time it does work. Here's a link to another post of mine in another topic. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/0-/?do=findComment&comment=1113273 Yes, I am Guest. Really need to get EDIT working again. Whatever happened to MSFN member -X-? He is also Guest. He disappeared the same time that I did...

Here's a workaround. It's not quite as short. Just change the number at the end. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/0-/?do=findComment&comment=1119989

Thanks, xper.

Want to hear something funny? The Windows Update website handles queries from my 32-bit XP VMs in less than a minute, without fail.

I've seen something similar. Can still get it to work on my laptop if I boot it with a magic packet and login remotely. Once I open Windows Update and set it to check, I'll close the remote session and let it sit for a couple hours. Then I'll remotely login again and set it to install... close the session and wait a few more hours... then remote in and reboot when finished. Need to repeat the process to be certain nothing failed or was missed in the first pass. Only seems to work when the system is completely idle. I have it set to notify only. Win10 nagware is not installed.

authroots.sst, delroots.sst and updroots.sst were updated by Microsoft on 2016/04/14 and released today--the fourth Tuesday of the month in what appears to be a scheduled release. Those using heinoganda's Cert_Updater.exe should run it ASAP. Others needing a redistributable RootsUpd.exe should follow his instructions for creating their own, or PM me for an updated EXE file.

Since the templates are basically text files and Chromium is open source, I believe it should be acceptable to post them here. Mods, if I'm wrong then please edit this post or let me know so I can rectify the situation. Download: Link: policy_templates.zip Size: 7.94 MB MD5: f7d1ff58d6db0edd9f74f1815d19883c

There are also security benefits to running each tab as a separate process, which was the primary reason I switched to Chrome. Firefox usually has one process for plugins (Plugin-Container.exe) and another for everything else. If a plugin causes mischief in a tab in Firefox then the plugin process is easy to close, but it affects all other tabs as well when it misbehaves and often locks the entire browser. If a plugin or webpage causes a problem in Chrome, the tab can be easily closed. The browser and the rest of the tabs remain open and stable.

I'm running Firefox 45.0.2. Maybe that has something to do with it. Then again, it's almost time for you to migrate to ESR 45.

Google Chrome was never as laggy as Firefox on this machine, so the amount of RAM is no excuse. Current Desktop PC specs: Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L (rev.2.0) Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9650 4 GB SuperTalent DDR2 800 RAM GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB System drive: Seagate ST3500418AS (500 GB, 7200 RPM, avg. latency 4.16 ms) Storage drive 1: Western Digital WDC WD20EARX (2 TB, 5400 RPM) Storage drive 2: Western Digital WDC WD20EZRX (2 TB, 7200 RPM)

An addendum: (Yes, I am Guest. Look at the Edited line in the post above.) Google Chrome has breathed its last on this platform... HTML5 HD video on YouTube can be enabled in Firefox without using Flash Player by going into "about:config" and explicitly enabling "media.mediasource.webm.enabled". Now, if only Firefox wouldn't slow down and die every time I have more than 10 or so tabs open, I'd be happy. It really shouldn't happen with 4GB or more of system RAM.

Chrome 50 has been released. XP support has officially been removed from the browser. And I'd only just started using it last October...

In answer to my own question, the SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning was added for Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112, which I did not have installed at that moment. Changing the policy setting can't be done from within the browser. Nor could I do it with registry settings, despite online instructions given to do just that. It was necessary to download the ZIP file of policy templates from chromium.org. This being my first time playing with system policies, I found the experience a bit confusing at first. The relevant template needed is "windows\adm\en-US\chrome.adm" in the ZIP file. To add it in XP, run "gpedit.msc" in a Run box, then right-click "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates" and select "Add/Remove templates..." Press the Add button and navigate to the "chrome.adm" file given above. Once added, expand the new "Google\Google Chrome" template then scroll down to find, "Suppress the unsupported OS warning." It may be necessary to click the top of the Settings column to arrange everything in alphabetical order. Double-click the setting, click Enable, then OK. Once Google Chrome has been restarted, the warning should no longer appear.

How do we use it, sdfox7? I don't see it under chrome://policy.

What can I say? I had an extra. It's not my fault that they seem to taste good.

A friend of mine has cats. One day, they chewed through the cable of his gaming mouse. Thinking he'd learned his lesson, I loaned him one of mine until he could go out to get another of his own. Guess what happened the very next day.

Sarcasm is sometimes hard to discern on a forum. And I'm hoping that much of what I've read in this thread was meant in jest or just to prove a point. I have to agree with the management here. The occasional megathread may be feasible for giving opinions. But honestly, how many people are willing to go through and read an entire 30+ page thread to understand a running joke or find a useful link? For the health of the board and the software it runs, sometimes overly long threads need to be closed and restarted. And efforts to reduce the number of posts in a thread need to be encouraged. (Though I will grant that quoting multiple people was much simpler with bbcode than it is with the current system.) And sometimes useful threads need to be split. The POSReady 2009 updates thread is a good example. It started off with a nice, narrow focus. But it grew to become a catch-all help and troubleshooting thread; overflowing with barely related .NET, EMET and certificate discussions. If you're a moderator then it behooves you to be proactive. Direct the conversation and keep it on topic. And convince your members of the benefits of keeping threads relatively short, when possible.

My newsfeed percentages are more like: 40% Funny, or trying to be 20% Political self-gratification 10% Pointless memes 10% Animals, mostly cat and dog videos 20% Other, mostly asinine BS I think the proportions speak to a person's collection of friends more than Facebook itself. There's a reason I don't send or accept friend requests from family. They know more than I'd like about me already. _____________ Really missing bbcode because I'm OCD. However, loving that double-spaces between sentences are preserved now. Learned typing on actual typewriters, where stuff like that matters.

I've never been one who games Facebook to collect a large number of friends. It was the same when I used MySpace. Never been on Twitter. Guess there's not much good I can say about social media in general. I'm a private person, and don't feel the need to share my opinions very often. Anything negative I'd have to say about it doesn't really apply to the media itself, only to the usual list of shortcomings that masses of people have when given an open outlet to say anything they want. Reminds me of high school. Like-minded people with common interests or activities gather to talk about what matters to them. Only on Facebook, it's monetized by ads. Maybe I'm getting old, but my heart's just not in it.