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Thanks for verifying. I finally debugged it out, that I should set third-party cookies to "always allow" to make it work. It's not a good designed site I think.

A misbehaving web page: http://xkctk.hangzhou.gov.cn/yhdl/ The last input field is for verification code that is displayed in the right. Despite how correct your input is, it will mark you a wrong cross and refresh the image, making you fail to log in. IE8 has the same problem. But on my android phone's firefox mobile the page behaves normal.

My result: In normal order, nlite gives warning about 4489973 saying like "cannot direct integrate, that msado28.tlb is not in the ISO", and ask whether to use regular integration. Answering yes seems works. The result is 2698365 and 4489973 both copied to \svcpack for running. nlite does not give warning about 2698365, although it is not directly integrated either. Same thing happens to 952069, 954155, 973540, 975558, 978695, 2803821. There are other two KBs that nlite cannot direct integrate and gives warning, 2900986 and 3033890. Although nlite can integrate them using "regular" method, I hope "direct" method could be used. It will save lots of space.

It's in the \WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb. Maybe there's some tool to read it

I did one more experiment. I deleted those folders under \I386 extracted from those media player updates, namely WM8, WM9, WM9l,WM10,WM10l,WM10MIX,WM11,V8DME,MCEUR2, made a new ISO and installed. No problem. So it seems extraction is indeed unnecessary, those updates will run anyway. This will release about 50MB.

I've tried most of you said: Setup /p j (j, not i) is only needed in virtualbox. On real X61 windows 98 setup successfully identified ACPI device. I used xmsdsk, or himemx, or manually plug off a memory bank to solve large RAM problem (I have two 1G bank). They all work I think. It is worth mention of Emm386: in config.sys, either do not load EMM386, or use combination of "dos=auto" and "emm386 ram". The normal NoEMS option will cause system halt. Thanks for the graphic and sound recommendation. Scitech driver is good enough, and external usb device is not what I was thinking of.

I had searched only to find a others asking same questions... So, this is my experiment result: I have Thinkpad X61, which is Intel 965 with ICH8. My fixed disk has WinXP on NTFS, so I did experiment on a USB-HDD. I tried two ways: First, installed a functional win98se on usb disc in Virtualbox, tested everything OK, then boot host machine with usb disc. It failed with hang, no doubt. Automatic hardware adaption seems cannot work with too different hardware. Second, install directly on real machine. Copy everything in CD to usb disk, boot from usb disk (it has already made bootable to DOS), run setup with all relevant parameters (got them by setup /? ; It will boost setup process and avoid several hang or error). The setup process will detect hardware, hang for long time, reset, hang again, reset, hang again,...I forgot time and what made me persist was one time it made a little progress after long unresponsive hang... and it finally passed! The display was 640*480, 4bit; opened device manager and saw lots of yellow devices, 13 or 15 maybe, some are labeled disabled because it is unresponsive during setup, some are just unknown, and strangely it showed an IR device but I checked that X61 has no such a thing. Then I guess that maybe I could have reset more quickly to let setup program skip those problematic hardware. Then I tried install drivers. For display, as in Virtualbox, I tried Scitech driver, and it works in LCD's native 1024*768 32bit. But for Intel HD audio, there is no luck. For network driver, no wireless; ethernet 82566MM has no driver either, although it could use the same driver of pro/1000 in Virtualbox under DOS. So at last I got a crippled system lack of sound and network. I share this to let others know what you could get best, and hoping maybe someone could go further

I am trying to make a "final" WinXP installation CD with all updates. Thanks to ED_Sln and pcalvert providing the KB links, I merged links as downloading reference, and got the list to download from a fresh XPsp3 installation with PosReady registry hack. Then I use nlite to integrate them all. However nlite complained about three KB numbers: 2900986,3033890,4489973. I checked that they could use /integrate switch without problem, so I integrate them using cmd line first, then nlite with left. All went well. No updates shown after installation except those optional feature packs. Upload my nlite setting file hoping it could help others. Entries.ini is for adding PosReady registry or 4489973 will fail (it will check for PosReady installed). And I have some doubts about integration. The ISO size grows about 80M. I see those updates are copied to \I386\SVCPACK: 2006-11-04 15:10 555,072 KB923789.EXE 2009-01-09 01:17 7,717,256 KB952069_WM9.EXE 2009-07-22 09:57 10,020,752 KB973540_WM9.EXE 2009-09-23 15:22 1,101,192 KB954155_WM9.EXE 2010-05-20 08:35 4,409,752 KB978695_WM9.EXE 2010-08-21 02:05 837,528 KB975558_WM8.EXE 2012-06-19 01:08 920,832 KB2698365.EXE 2013-08-22 12:58 779,464 KB2803821-V2_WM9.EXE 2013-11-07 15:28 516,848 KB2900986.EXE 2015-06-16 04:32 2,320,064 KB3033890_WM9L.EXE 2019-02-20 03:27 729,840 KB4489973.EXE Of which 3 are by my "manual" integration and others are by nlite. And I found them under correspondent [SetupHotfixesToRun] section in svcpack.inf. In addition with the case of 4489973 installation checking, it seems they are not "integrated", but in fact just run in the installation process. Even worse, the contents of them have also been extracted to WM8, WM9, WM9l,WM10,WM10l,WM10MIX,WM11 folders, occupying about 46M. My question is, is what I observed normal? What is special about the 3 updates that nlite can't use them despite they have normal switch as others? As for those 11 updates, are there something wrong with the updates, nlite, or my setting? -----------------------------Update----------------------------------------- One more try letting nlite do all the integration, ignoring its warnings about the 3 updates, got almost same results. So nlite could do it well, the 3 updates' problem may be trivial. And I find some registry failure in my previous setting. Updated nlite.ini and entries.ini below. The only mystery remains is that why those 11 updates cannot be integrated. entries.ini nlite_en.ini

I use Mozilla series portable this way: install as normal, run "<app> -p", that will let you manage profiles. Create one at your selected directory instead of the default random name, make that your default. Then go to <C:\Documents and Settings\user>\Application Data\<Mozilla\Firefox | Moonchild Productions\Basilisk> and check profiles.ini. Mine is like this: [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=Default User IsRelative=0 Path=E:\Firefox Default=1 The items are easy to understand except "IsRelative=0". I learned this trick from some mozilla doc, but cannot recall exactly what it means. Anyway it will let you put your profiles anywhere and move around freely. Just modify the "Path=<>" after moving. So you don't really need a separate "portable version"; just carry your profile with you.

Pressing cart will get to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/cart first, then pressing (the new) magnifying glass will work. And the link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/search?q= is more direct. Yet still, Serpent is having problem to render the original page, and I want to give feedback. I should clarify that I am on Serpent 52 (20190503).

I used to go to http://download.microsoft.com/ to search and download MS stuff. Now using Serpent I found something is unusual about searching, as below: Click the magnifying glass will not show a search bar; the radio button seems to be pressed down when clicking the blank; I can input words which is not shown, but search suggestions will show up. In Firefox 52, the same page will jump to a searching page when click the magnifying glass: I doubt either behavior should not be right (though I prefer the old Firefox52 way); Please confirm and see if something could be fixed.

It was me who reported again the issue, and thanks to harkaz's post, I manually edited registry to fix this.

I raised a bug on firefox before to request that pref be changed automatically, (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356939 ) but was redirected to an older bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383582), which is still there unsolved.

Compared to abundant software we have less freedom in choosing hardware, even less in cellphone. I, too, using Xiaomi, mainly for its price, yet I enter into its all levels of configuration menus to disable all ads and spy-like functions as many as I can , do not use its pre-installed apps, limit network connections by default, change system language to English (This will make some chinese apps treat you more respectfully, which is a shame), and still, take it for granted that anything on my phone may be collected somewhere in a database within china. IMO cellphone is not a proper platform for serious security and privacy.

As long as this Thinkpad X61 serves me well, I will continue using XP. How is a notebook's normal lifetime?

I am switching to XMPP. It is an open-source, E-mail like, secure IM. Get an account from thousands of independent servers, and you are free from those big monopolies. I use the client Conversations on my Android phone: https://conversations.im/

Video problem : https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzE2ODg0MDAw.html I can't play that video in Serpent 52, both normal mode and safe mode, but Firefox 52 can.

Basically agree with this, but my transition from Firefox ESR52.9.1 -> Serpent 52 20190323 may be an exception: I extracted serpent program file (basilisk52-g4.1.win32-git-20190323-0d9f3396a-xpmod.7z), made a copy of my Firefox profile folder, made profile.ini (in C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Moonchild Productions\Basilisk) point to that copied directory, then ran basilisk.exe, and everything seemed get working right away. The only thing refused to work was ublock origin, and I found there's a legacy version which only lacks script blocking, but I use Noscript so there's no problem. My profile has evolved for more than 10 years and it seems could last even longer...

Like Mathwiz, I was not aware of the "container tab" until it is removed. I am trying with it in Serpent52 20190323 and becoming fond of it immediately. So I am in those people hoping Roytam would add it back in the next release of Serpent52; For extensions I use I will not going for 52 above. p.s. I have a question for a pref involved. I assume it means long pressing the "+" sign, but It seems not function here, long pressing opens a normal tab.

Yes that is what I expected, yet different with "unofficial SP4" (which is from SP1 from SP3 above) is that, I hope it could include updates from SP3 to POSReady final. Because the common XP install media now is SP3. With WSUSOffline's framework it could be an option easily though.

Could this project continue with a form like WSUS Offline Update (www.wsusoffline.net)? The last version supporting WinXP is 9.2.4. It is highly customizable, has options to select whether .NET, service pack, VC redistributables, or other languages should be installed, etc. WSUS works by downloading updates first then installing. Those downloading scripts could be stripped and only release installable "client" directory. And the updates it gets do not include those after applying PosReady hack, which if also included, is very favorable.

Have Firefox did anything that broke any web standard, making that Skype web page not function? If not, This is definitely a monopoly challenge to EVERYONE, whether use Firefox or not, like Firefox or not.

Can't agree with that more. There are many great programs made by my countrymen, but you'd better avoid anything from or related to a Chinese company if you still have choice. "Do evil" is the default setting here. This is not only a political warning.

This is where things get ridiculous. If they deliberately discourage the use of older browsers, they should make FF64 work.

I just tested a spoof to FF60.9, as above, and GitHub does work with that spoof. Yes I confirm spoofing to FF60.9 works for FF52. However this makes no sense, so Github page's javascript must have some bug. Anyway, thanks to RT's Serpent build of Basilisk I find it's most compatible with FF52 extensions I am using, so I am switching to Serpent. p.s. For site-specific User-agent spoofing, I should mention HTTP Header Mangler: https://github.com/disptr/httpheadermangler From it's sample rules: example.com .*regexp\d+ # This is a comment. X-Forwarded-For=10.11.12.13 # Delete headers using "" or ''. X-Forwarded-For="" X-Forwarded-For='' # Indentation is allowed. foobar # Formatting with whitespace is allowed. X-Forwarded-For = 100.101.102.103 User-Agent = Mozilla/3.0 (X11; I; AIX 2)