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I am updating the root certificates using a utility Cert_Updater_v1.6: Once started, it automatically downloads the current version of all root certificates and then installs them. After that it shows the date of each of them. Just run it every 3-6 months and all system certificates will be up to date.

But for example mpc-be as well as mpc-hc will not work this way, the problem is in user32.dll, with the file from OCA they still do not start, you have to edit dependencies through CFF Explorer.

I do manifest a little differently, I have it in two parts, and the dlls that are loaded are in a separate folder. Using mpc-be as an example. The first file is called mpc-be.exe.manifest and is located next to mpc-be.exe its contents: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?> <assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='share' version='1.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> </assembly> The second share.manifest is located in the "share" folder along with the dll, its contents: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <noInheritable/> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="share" version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="x86" /> <file name="advapi32.dll" /> <file name="advapibase.dll" /> <file name="bcrypt.dll" /> <file name="dwmapi.dll" /> <file name="dxva2.dll" /> <file name="kernel32.dll" /> <file name="kernelbase.dll" /> <file name="ntext.dll" /> <file name="propsys.dll" /> <file name="shell32.dll" /> <file name="shellbase.dll" /> <file name="ws2_32.dll" /> <file name="ws2_base.dll" /> <file name="comctl32.dll" /> </assembly>

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So Firefox now also has three supported versions at once, 115 ESR, 128 ESR, 133. And in the description of Plasmafox it is written that it is a night build, for tests, that's why it has a different name to distinguish it.

New version of Widevine plugin is incompatible with Win7. The latest version of Supermium has a patch that fixes the dll, you can take a test on this site, but the digital signature becomes invalid, so it may not work on sites with protection. You can still replace the dll with an older version, but sites may not accept it soon.

Maybe it will be noticeable on very old and weak computers, but on my computers I didn't notice any changes. Of course on IntelHD there may be little sense to put a new driver, it's hard to call it a gaming graphics card, but for example on my nettop with Celeron N3150 processor old drivers cause blurring of fonts and interface in browsers, and the 2020 driver fixes it. And if you use the latest generations of Nvidia or AMD graphics cards, new drivers are necessary.

The driver is actually version 10.18.10.5161. It works on Win 7, but SHA-2, KB4490628 and KB4474419-v3 updates are required.

Each item in the Control Panel is a cpl file, it is most like a dll, so it is not easy to make a new item. Add Device Manager to the context menu of My Computer, it will be even easier to open it.

I meant to look for other programs or options how to activate the USB driver first at boot, it's the reason why the system can't boot. But since you found a solution, it's horribly irrelevant. Yes, you can't install a paging file on flash. And even if you could, it would use up the entire resource very quickly. Flash has a very small write resource. It depends on the flash drive, you should look for a faster one, then the system will work faster.

Yes, I have been able to make a portable WinXP on a USB HDD before. But although I think I used UsbBootWatcher that time, now I failed to boot the system, I get BSOD 7B. And the instructions in my link are for Win Vista+. WinXP should be done differently, first it should be installed as usual on another computer on HDD, then it should be configured to boot from USB (you should look for more options), then the partition should be cloned to a USB flash drive.

WinPE is not designed to be fully functional, so the drivers may not work there either. You need to install a full system, and to boot it from USB, use UsbBootWatcher: https://github.com/vavrecan/usb-boot-watcher

I've never used the installer, so I haven't even checked to see if it works.

CPU-Z 2.11 works again in Windows XP.

It is necessary that the device knows how to use the received data, hardware codec is not much different from software codec. If a software codec doesn't support the format, there is no way to make it support it, except updating. If you make the data to be processed so that the device understands this format, but this is already a software decoder, and the conversion will be done by the CPU.

Yes, especially since there aren't many suitable graphics cards, which further reduces the number of suitable systems. XP x64 itself is a stable system, after all it is made on the basis of Server 2003, but there are problems with drivers, so the stability depends on the hardware, on one computer it can constantly glitch, and on another will work more stable and faster than XP x32. If you set the "Enable CUVID DXVA processing" checkbox, nothing changes in LAV 0.70, I don't know if anything is enabled at all, because although this version officially supports XP, it doesn't have DXVA1, only DXVA2. In LAV 0.79, enabling CUVID DXVA breaks every video into artifacts.

I didn't take screenshots because everything is the same as in the previous test, acceleration with Cuvid. DXVA as in XP-32 does not support h265 at all.

Continuing my hardware acceleration tests on the GTX950. I have now installed Windows XP x64, LAVFilters-0.70.2-x64, the latest officially supporting XP, video driver 368.81, MPC-BE 1.7.3 x64, the new MPC-HC x64 I couldn't make work, and there are no other x64 ports, so I'm using version 1.7.13 x64. Hardware acceleration seems to work better in x64, there is no problem with h265 the first time, everything works, but the h265-10 bit doesn't work either. VP9 also works, but for some reason very low fps, only 10-14 frames, although neither CPU nor GPU are heavily loaded.

About LAV - it seems that because of K-Lite there were such settings, reinstall LAV, cleaned the registry from it, now VC-1 is enabled, but MPEG-4 is disabled.

Most likely it was used at the dawn of the BD era, I've seen a lot of BD disks, and they always use h264, or h265 if the video is 4k. Although, according to Wiki, some studios encode more in VC-1, but apparently I haven't come across such disks.

Something is still wrong with h265, after rebooting the system the video crashes again with artifacts, even though I haven't installed or changed anything, neither in the players nor in the system.

In LAV 0.70 hardware acceleration is disabled for most formats, it's not clear why, maybe K-Lite set it that way, I installed it. And you are confusing VC-1 with AVC (h264), this is the codec used in BluRay disks.

VC-1 is supported, it's just that it's disabled by default in LAV, I don't have any videos in that format so I didn't turn it on. I checked in older versions of MPC, where there is VMR, the video also crashes with artifacts. Looks like the problem is in LAV itself, apparently this version doesn't work properly in XP. I downloaded unofficial LAV 0.79.2, it's much better, artifacts happen after starting the video, but disappear after a few seconds. But hardware acceleration works only in 8 bit h265, 10 bit is not accelerated. To make it work, you need to disable h264 and h265 codecs built into the player, as well as disable mkv, webm and mp4 filters, and add external filters from LAV. Screenshots:

I checked the hardware acceleration on a GTX950 in WinXP using LAV. CUVID is indeed there and it works, but with h265 and VP9 there are problems, the video opens and hardware acceleration works, but the video is scattered into many artifacts, it is impossible to watch it, so actually only h264 works, no problems with it even in 4k. But CUVID only supports Nvidia GT630 and newer graphics cards, so the use is very limited. But those who have suitable video cards will be able to get hardware acceleration back on ported versions of MPC-HC and MCP-BE, where there is no VMR.