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As with @Comrade_Hajji, I've resisted using Windows 10 in any form until about a month ago, when I realized that if I want a job nowadays, I better be at least somewhat familiar with it, because the world is moving on, and versions like XP and 7 (and their server counterparts) are rapidly being forgotten!
Therefore, I've done the following:
- Installed Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 1809 on my PC running a Core i5-6600k and 16 GB of RAM
- Installed OpenShell (for the classic start menu), 7+TaskbarTweaker (to get the taskbar to behave more or less as it does in XP and Vista), OldNewExplorer (for more sane File Explorer windows), and WinAero Tweaker (to make the rest of the OS more sane)
- And, of course, AeroGlass for nice transparency effects
All in all, I find it to be more or less bearable with all this applied to it (and I'm not even finished, because there's still Telemetry and Cortana to be disabled (I rarely use the search function anyway, and I beliewve with Cortana disabled, there's a basic fallback so searching in general isn't entirely broken, unless I'm mistaken?), and Metro stuff to remove), but I still like XP - through - 7 much better (even 8.x with most of the above tweaks is a bit nicer). Be that as it may, it is now much more in line with older versions, with most of the obtrusive/invasive "features" turned off.
For now, however, I think I'll go back to my P4 machine running Windows 2000
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3 hours ago, Wunderbar98 said:
Started Windows 98 install, already out of memory issues even after reducing to 1 GB physical RAM, will post more later. Tried system.ini modifications without success, maybe R. Loew's RAM limitation patch? Trying to test Windows 98's limits has been a good experience, as most users now have hardware greatly exceeding this stuff.
RLoew's RAM patch is probably a good idea, as I'd imagine it will maximize stability and enable full usage of your RAM if >= !G RAM is installed.
3 hours ago, Wunderbar98 said:The modified Firefox 45 browsers you mentioned a page back from @roytam1 look like they were coded for Windows XP. I would consider them vanilla if they were specifically modified for vanilla Windows 98, but me thinks XP. Without @siria the link magician i probably couldn't even find the download link for these browsers. If you suspect they were modified for Windows 98 i would be happy to test install. Vanilla Windows 98 is presently stuck in the Firefox v2 era
With BWC's Kernel Ex, Roytam's browsers run quite well on Windows 2000, and are reasonably secure, considering the OS is about 20 years old now.
Without undue effort, it's about as close as the average person can get to having something resembling Windows 98 (2000's UI is very similar to 98 and ME) run a reasonably modern browser.
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Here's a suggestion to hide that line:
In your C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file, add "@ECHO OFF" (without the quotes) to the top line, before any other text.
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21 hours ago, Dave-H said:
I've noticed that even with the "proper" drivers on Windows XP and Windows 10, the speakers pop quite loudly a couple of times when the drivers are loading on boot.
Not very elegant. Never had that with the good old AC97!Not 100% on topic, but somewhat relevant: I have a Dell Precision M6800 (a quite modern system), which intermittently emits one or two loud pops from the internal speakers on shutdown. I don't know why this is, but I've speculated that it may not be 100% the driver's fault for causing the pops and clicks, as I've heard it happen without any drivers loaded; Perhaps the same is somewhat true on @Dave-H's system?
Be that as it may, it was thought that functional HD Audio was impossible on 9x (and 3.x) until this driver came along, so the fact that it works at all, imperfect as it may be, is impressive.
Too bad it can't be re-implemented as a 9x-native WDM driver (or can it? I vaguely recall there being talk of it on another thread somewhere not too long ago), as that would probably go a long way toward ironing out some of these minor glitches, and allow for a more streamlined experience.
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@~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ Perhaps try installing Haihaisoft Universal Player 1.5.8.0 on a fresh install of Me or 98SE and see if you get the same result?
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4 hours ago, Kwasiarz said:
Seems that my issue with "Forget about this site" clearing cache of all sites instead of just one is also present in Firefox 52 for whatever reason, not sure if it's worth reporting on PM forums though... (and if they'd accept a report from a Linux user)
MCP does seem seem to offer an officially sanctioned build for Linux, so maybe it's worth a try?
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33 minutes ago, ImWolf said:
I'm fairly certain I slipstreamed SP4 and integrated the updates into an install ISO, but after install "My Computer" still displays "Service Pack 3".
(although the OS date is now 2014)
Is this normal?
That's normal. It was left that way for compatibility purposes (some programs won't install and/or run if the Service Pack number != 3).
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Take a look at the photos in this eBay ad: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-C640-Windows-xp-wireless-card-installed-WORKING/362759505871?hash=item547626c7cf:g:-VkAAOSwlqJdg-Ga
What do you see? I see a very unusual version of Windows which claims to be Windows XP Pro Lite?
Does this actually exist somewhere, or is it a custom job? I'm leaning toward the latter so far, but thought maybe some of you could weigh in....
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On 9/17/2019 at 2:07 PM, dencorso said:
I cannot find any report after Sep 10!
Hmm, interesting....
Hope it gets fixed soon!
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1 hour ago, alacran said:
Well, I could say there is no news, just bad updates every month, another thing I can say is they are very consintence.
IMHO this is caused mainly because they are always trying to introduce new features/changes every month, they need to stop thinking this way and concentrate all efforts and all required time in fixing all that is wrong first, then when having the OS working flawlessly, they can comeback to introduce new features/changes but not before making extensive tests.
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In other words, go back to doing what they had been doing for for every other software release since MS-DOS!
That doesn't mean each OS release didn't have problems, but at least there wasn't this constant barrage of half-baked, kinda-sorta working updates every month! In the past, Windows actually got *better* with every update (for example, XP: XP was pretty truthfully not the greatest at first, offering little more than extra eye candy and bloat compared to 2000, but over time, as it was being updated, it became far better, to the point that it surpassed 2000 in terms of stability and performance).
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On 9/12/2019 at 8:39 AM, dencorso said:
Let's let sleeping dogs lie, please!
Agreed 10,000 percent!!
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6 hours ago, VistaLover said:
2. Dirty hack, by using @roytam1's modified DLLs.
All this was inspired from:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=3040639
a. Download latest Serpent 52.9.0 package by Roy Tam
b. Extract the .7z file to a folder, copy the following 3 files:mozavcodec.dll
mozavutil.dll
vcomp140.dllc. Locate your SM 2.49.5 installation folder - rename and back-up the original files mozavcodec.dll & mozavutil.dll (of version 52.9.1.7156)
d. Place there the 3 aforementioned files, extracted from the Serpent package.
e. Launch SMNow SM 2.49.5 should be able to use the patented decoders contained in the modded DLLs; so HTML5 MP4 should be playable! (not tested by me, though...
EDIT: Just tested, and it works!)
Could this or a similar method work for New Moon 27 on 2000?
I could probably run SM 2.49.5 if not, but I'm worried that it'd be too slow and heavy on my old P4 machine. To that end, I probably have no business trying to watch MP4/HTML5 videos on it anyway (and it's not like I don't have any better machines for the task; My main tower right now has a Xeon X5680 with 18 GB of RAM, and can handle anything I throw at it), but it's a "because I can" sort of thing
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@MrJayCobPL I can corroborate your confirmation! Windows Update is still working fine on Windows 2000!
By the way, for future reference, has anybody ever managed to reverse engineer what makes the WU site work, and create a reasonably functional facsimile? Or better yet, an actual archived version with full functionality?
It could then serve as a very nice front end to the super nice to have update archives the community has developed, I think.
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It's mid August, and WU and MU are still working fine on Windows 2000 and XP-x64 over here, with no signs of it stopping any time soon (I'd imagine it would display a warning to the effect of, "Windows[Microsoft] Update will be shutting down soon" to give users some advance warning.
I'm starting to think maybe this was just some F.U.D designed to scare off the few who are still using XP.
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Oh, yeah, I did install those! That's what got me from the "This page cannot load" screen to the Windows Update error. It was late, and I forgot to mention that.
But, it's all moot now, as somehow I managed to get it to work!
Apparently I was almost there. I needed only to install a couple of cumulative IE6 updates (I forget the KB numbers; the laptop I had the VM on died this morning, so I have to wait until I've copied everything off its drive to check what they were), and then everything just worked! A .NET update (1.1 SP1) complained and wouldn't install at first, but I retried it and it installed fine the second time.
Now I have to find the post-EOL updates and install those!
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Hi,
OK, I've decided to setup a fresh install before the Windows Update servers go offline, but when I try to run WU, I get error# 0x80072F7D. Are there any updates I must install manually to fix this error?
I have installed so far:
- Service Pack 4
- KB835732
- Update Rollup 1
- Internet Explorer 6
- The latest WU agent
- Windows Installer 3.1
And none of it has resolved the error.
Any help will be much appreciated!
Thank you!
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On 4/26/2019 at 10:39 AM, VistaLover said:
Not to worry; apart from English (and, of course, Greek
), I also speak (but not write well) French and my late father (God rest his soul) had studied in Torino; lots of Italian books exist in the family library, as a young kid I used to open and try to read them; I can now understand quite well written Italian (it has evolved from ancient Latin, of course, a common root shared between modern French, Spanish, Portuguese and, to a lesser degree, English...); but I'm certainly going off-topic with this... Saluti
Interesting! You're multilingual!
I'm not a linguist by any means, but I self-learned some of these interesting tidbits while taking a Spanish class, so if I may, I'd like to expand on and clarify your information a bit:
English is, as you seem to imply, actually a Germanic language, which means it has common roots shared by German and Dutch (similar grammar and syntax). However, the language was heavily influenced by French and, by extension, Latin, due to the Nordic Conquest of England during the Middle Ages (around the 10th-11th centuries), primarily in the form of new words and phrases. So, as a result of this, modern English could be thought of as a sort of hybrid, because it has characteristics of both language families.
OK, back on topic now!
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On 7/25/2019 at 6:24 PM, siria said:
Since you realized already that an addon is causing your prob, disable half of them, restart and check again.
On 7/25/2019 at 6:26 PM, VistaLover said:???????
(Help us to help you
; to pinpoint the culprit extension(s), apply binary search or install them one-by-one, until you discover the infringing one)
I just uninstalled all but Stylish and CTR, and sure enough, all is well again.
I'm now going to reinstall the removed ones one by one until I can determine which one was at fault.
EDIT: Done! Turns out, all but NoScript were versions that apparently have limited/broken support for Firefox 45, which was causing bookmarks and history to break (i.e., they were too new). I used the Classic Add-ons Archive add-on to find and install versions that explicitly state support for 45, and voila! All is working as it should once again.
I probably would've figured it out by my self in time, but your posts helped speed things up. Thank you!
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I have a problem!
I just installed FireFox 45 SSE, and the browsing history and bookmarking mechanisms are broken (the Library window is empty and none of the buttons work).
It seems to work normally with a default, empty profile and a profile with my bookmarks added. The trouble seems to begin when I begin installing addons. I'm not sure what's causing it, but these are the addons I'm using:
- Classic Theme Restorer
- AdBlocker Ultimate
- Privacy Badger
- Ghostery
- Downloads Window
I doubt they would be causing the problem, as I use them all the time without any problems, including with FF45SSE, but maybe there's a version conflict? But then, if that were so, then why did they all install properly?
Thanks!
EDIT: This is on a fully updated Windows XP x64 install.
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Has anyone checked out these:
They appear to only go back to 2006, and they include all kinds of superfluous updates for later versions, but it could be useful for something?
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Indeed.
With 5eraph's update packs (and KB4500331) integrated, it should be fairly trivial to figure out all the .Net updates, as they should be the only ones offered (unless I also install WMP11).
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Ah, of course! I had forgotten about this!
Thank you very much! I'm integrating it now, and hopefully that May 2019 update too.
Is there an easy way to integrate the .Net Frameworks? A brief search turned up little.
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Or maybe an update rollup which includes compatible post-EOS updates from Win2k3?
Just wondering, because slipstreaming them all one by one is a bit tedious.
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Windows Update is still working fine for me as of today, July 20, at 2:04 PM Pacific time!
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EDIT: Just tested, and it works!)
), I also speak (but not write well) French and my late father (God rest his soul) had studied in Torino; lots of Italian books exist in the family library, as a young kid I used to open and try to read them; I can now understand quite well written Italian (it has evolved from ancient Latin, of course, a common root shared between modern French, Spanish, Portuguese and, to a lesser degree, English...); but I'm certainly going off-topic with this... Saluti 
Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions
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I reenabled Photo Viewer. WinAero Tweaker has a simple "Enable Windows Photo Viewer" button, which makes it really easy!
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