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My laptop (thinkpad x61) have been unable to standby for sometime. It used to work fine. I googled a lot and failed to find a solution. The symptom: 1, Power button or start->shutdown, the menu shows: greyed Standby (press shift will not switch it to Hibernate), Shutdown and Restart. But if I do it before user login, the Standby button is normal and Standby actually works, yet only once, after back from standby, it becomes grey again. 2, Control panel -> Power options, there is no Hibernation tab; but in Advanced tab ->close the lid, there are two options: Do nothing and Hibernate, without Standby. Closing the lid will make the screen dark when Do nothing is chosen. 3, Cmd -> "powercfg /a" gives: The following sleep states are not available on this system: Standby (S1) Standby (S2) Standby (S3) Hibernate. 4, Under C:\ there is hiberfil.sys, which cannot be deleted. Even if I deleted it after closed the file handle by procexp, it recreates after reboot. 5, In Lenovo's power management software, "Enable hibernation" is greyed out. I have reinstalled Intel chips driver, Intel video driver, ACPI driver, power management software; checked BIOS, nothing relevant. Switched memory from 4G to 2G; stopped services and killed processes one by one, while checking the shutdown Standby menu, still grey. Group policy has no relevant option either. The last thing I won't try is reinstalling Windows. I think maybe Windows is given the false information about sleep ability after user logged in. Is this information hidden somewhere in the registry? Any suggestion is appreciated.

Hopefully @roytam1 could recreate another key; I do have concerns about his special identity as a HKer.

Yes! works with: @="cmd /c \"pause|\"C:\\Program Files\\GnuPG\\bin\\gpg.exe\" --verify \"%1\"\""

Well maybe in their opinion it's not gnupg breaking things but windows xp's bug in batch processing, since windows 7 could handle it. Who knows. Anyway, gnupg could still be used on xp, if no bat|cmd file is concerned. Edit: oops, just find the latest gnupg 2.3.2 cannot decrypt (gpg-agent cannot start; though encryption works). 2.3.1 is the last one now.

Today I also tried rename verify.bat to verify.cmd, or put shortcut in "SendTo", no change. And I learned a new way to do this instead of using "SendTo" : add context menu to a specific file type, thus saved a click, or even two clicks if set as default operation. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sig] @="Signature" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Signature\shell] @="Verify" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Signature\shell\Verify\command] @="cmd /k \"\"C:\\Program Files\\GnuPG\\bin\\gpg.exe\" --verify \"%1\"\"" This way I have to use "cmd /k"; pipe operation "pause|..." couldn't work (it seems windows do not recognize "pause" as a way to open file). Anyway this partially workarounds the problem. I still believe gnupg 2.2.28 do break something, yet the developers seems not even interested to acknowledge it.

Thanks @jaclaz,the pipe operation pause|"C:\Program Files\GnuPG\bin\gpg.exe" --verify "%1" does the job (without cmd.exe /k). And confirmation to @Tripredacus, gpg just terminates the batch, regardless what command is followed.

I have a simple batch file in "SendTo" folder to add a context menu verifying signature: "C:\Program Files\GnuPG\bin\gpg.exe" --verify %1 pause "pause" line allows showing the verifying result before the cmd window closes. It always works fine to GnuPG 2.2.27, then begins with 2.2.28, the "pause" command lost effect. The cmd window of verifying result splashes away quickly. I tested in a Windows 7 machine, it works fine. So my bug report https://dev.gnupg.org/T5560 is doomed to be "wontfix" as a Windows XP issue. What could be the cause of it? I tried the releases of GnuPG from: https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/

I may have found the cause of that failure. You could try stop the "automatic update" service, delete the "%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\AuthCabs" directory, or even the whole SoftwareDistribution directory (I didn't do that though it seems no harm), reboot (not sure if it is necessary), then the signature validation passes.

If thunderbird is also affected, you could raise the issue to bugzilla.mozilla.org.

Never mind. I find offline update method using wsusscn2.cab could find office xp updates, and get the patch list.

In order to fix OCR not working in "Document Imaging" tool, I am thinking of re-install MS Office XP. I have the original installation media, but the office xp update service is ended, so I need to get a update list and download them manually from catalog.update.microsoft.com. Now there are two problems: 1, Is there an update list for Office XP as for Windows XP? The list is relatively short (24 patches) seen from control pane "add or remove programs", so I could do it by hand anyway, but: 2, There are 3 updates without KB number, only shown as "update" and "cannot be removed"; click the "support information" will only get an "update ID": DA256408-A2E7-41A5-8AD6-62ACB86A0FD7 (this one I have identified as OfficeXpSp3-kb832671) 106E7A1C-22DA-42D7-8E74-37772A9C89FB FA111F3D-A299-438D-A61F-2E8D5138D1D2 The latter two I cannot find any KB number information.

I 'd like to know if Serpent 52 still supports export SSL key like this: https://wiki.wireshark.org/TLS?action=show&redirect=SSL#Using_the_.28Pre.29-Master-Secret I created a bat file as this : set SSLKEYLOGFILE=E:\Basilisk\keylogfile.txt D:\green\basilisk\basilisk.exe But although keylogfile.txt is created, Wireshark (the last version for XP 1.12.13) cannot decrypt the SSL stream. It used to work with Firefox.

Thanks for the update. And still a little surgery should be done to the install.rdf in the xpi archive to make it install on Serpent 52: <Description> <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id> <em:minVersion>52.9</em:minVersion> <em:maxVersion>52.9.2021.*</em:maxVersion> </Description>

I notice the huge memory occupation of Gmail web UI. The original working set memory of Serpent 52 is about 400MBi; When opened a gmail tab, it increases above 600MBi, more than 50% percent! Is it google's fault?

Since you do not enable POSready patch, I think you could safely install all patch offered, leave off those would not install, then turn off WU for ever. Use other offline patcher alternatively.

Yes, 16.12 is the last one displays DEP status right. Thank you for the tip! I usually use P.E. to find out which app is visiting network suspiciously, reading/writing crazily, consumes most memory, etc. I would not check DEP status frequently; I added that column because I saw another person's screenshot. And I disable image signature checking by default for it consumes lots of memory at opening, and never gives correct result at first run (lots of "not verified" error) .

The process explorer version is 16.22, the last working one for XP. The DEP column shows nearly all processes are "Disabled", despite that I choose "Enable DEP for all programs and services except ..." in the system->performance of the control panel. What's wrong?

From http://web.archive.org/web/20191108174030/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/898461/software-update-898461-installs-a-permanent-copy-of-the-package-instal I have KB898461 installed long ago and integrated to a fresh installation, no problem observed. But from descriptions above KB898461 is not needed now since WU and AU is dead for XP.

Thanks for your through test. So it seems some audio related APIs (are they standardized?) is only present in the newest chrome browser. But due to strong disapproval of 360's malware, I'd rather install zoom's client if I have urgent need to run zoom on PC. p.s. I advise you not using 360, strongly; and less strongly, zoom, for it's also reported to be censored by PRC, which I think is normal if it is developed and operated by chinese.

No add-on and client is needed. You can use browser only: My problem is it complains that audio do not work: Video received OK, and chat works. p.s. Chrome 49 has the same problem.

It shouldn't need install I think, just a web application run inside browser.

Has anyone tried using Zoom in Serpent 52? I can't get audio work.

I observed that in the process of offline scanning, the cab file is first copied to %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\ScanFile, then the package*.cab files in it is extracted. That once leads to insufficient disk space so I add a deleting operation in the script. The verification of signature seems happen before extraction (confirmation request). If the verification fails (the error encountered by Dave-H), the cab file is deleted. I suggest Dave-H to check whether the package*.cab files did got extracted; yet whether it is extracted or not, I don't know what to check next; I think the mystery hides in the process of WUA API functions, so I pointed to the MS doc site.

The poster corrected it in the later post of the thread. I can confirm the last sigcheck version supporting XP is 2.30, and it does *not* support SHA-2 signatures (I think it just calls system functions), which is displayed as ????????.

Neither could I. I guess the answer may be hidden in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wua_sdk/using-the-windows-update-agent-api , where I got the offline scanning example code. But I am not a real programmer, so trying to understand the whole structure and utilizing it is beyond my current ability and will. Hope others could look into this.