NotHereToPlayGames

I have not been following the thread but did see a very tiny portion of all of the Kaspersky talks. I only hereby submit that the thread remain informative and unbiased and non-political. My "two cents" in regards to making 2023 decisions based on 2017 "bans" would be this - how many government agencies have banned XP and should we be using that as a metric to ban XP on our personal computers? My answer would be a resounding NO.

Although my Win7 on real hardware may not be of use, I completely disable DEP on all of my machines.

I run Win7 on real hardware. One of my machines is used for nothing but an email client to read emails on the bedroom TV (currently doesn't even have any web browser). But I haven't been following this thread - what needs tried on Win7 on real hardware? My Win7 (Enterprise x64) is a 12yr old Asus X54C laptop with an i3-2310M @ 2.1 GHz w/ 4 GB RAM.

Here is my version, should be same as @rereser though I may have slightly changed the name on my version - // ==UserScript== // @name Inject Object.hasOwn() Polyfill [93] // @version 0.0.1 // @match *://*/* // @run-at document-start // @grant none // ==/UserScript== if (!Object.hasOwn) { Object.defineProperty(Object, "hasOwn", { value: function (object, property) { if (object == null) { throw new TypeError("Cannot convert undefined or null to object") } return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(Object(object), property) }, configurable: true, enumerable: false, writable: true }) }

I text family members at least a dozen times a day. But always from a DESKTOP COMPUTER. NOTHING is so important that I need to text from a stop light! NOTHING is so important that I need to be ADDICTED to a mobile device with my eyes GLUED TO IT xxx minutes of every day. Try going without your phone for 24 hours then tell me you are NOT addicted to it! I have no need for the ADDICTION and my life is AWESOME without the ADDICTION. "To each their own."

I find them to be the RUDEST and most OBNOXIOUS invention EVER. NOT because people walk around in public while on them, NOT because people stand in line at the grocery store while on them, NOT because people are so ADDICTED to the screen that they will WALK IN FRONT OF A VEHICLE. No, they are the RUDEST and most OBNOXIOUS invention EVER because if you don't answer your phone by the third ring, you are accused by the person calling you for screening your calls. RUDEST and most OBNOXIOUS invention EVER because if you don't reply to a text within two minutes, the person texting you accuses you of being mad at them. RUDEST and most OBNOXIOUS invention EVER not because of the RECIPIENT of the phone call or text message, but by the person SENDING the phone call or text message thinking THEY are so important that the recipient MUST drop anything and everything! RUDEST and most OBNOXIOUS invention EVER !!!

I had one once. Way back in 2001 when I relocated half way across the State. Had it for TWO YEARS. Never used it! When I called to CANCEL, they tried to talk me into a cheaper plan. I merely replied with, "Do you have a way to look up how many minutes I've been on the phone, including texts, including data?" They said, "Sure, of course, absolutely", then I heard the clickety clacking of their computer keyboard. After 90 seconds or so, they return to the line, "Roughly 6 minutes, sir." "Exactly, THAT is why I am cancelling, 6 minutes in 2 years, I have no use for a phone, period, please cancel my service." (I don't remember the "exact" minutes, but I know for a fact it was less than an hour, perhaps even less than HALF an hour, spanning TWO YEARS)

YOU are being blocked. It's not your browser being blocked, but YOU. Or your VPN (we did not allow VPN access on the forum I used to admin).

I actually continue to use 360Chrome v13.5.2036 daily. My best desktop computer at home runs XP x64 and 360Chrome is the only browser I use on it. Mypal is unstable. NONE of Roytam's offerings allow phone calls from Google Voice (I do not own a "phone", everything is done via Google Voice). Even here at work (Win10), I use 360Chrome for my background music (YouTube). But there is nothing to "update", it is forever stuck at Chromium v86 and therefore only as useful as Chromium v86 (which is VERY useful, despite the negatives that some members harrass us with for using something "ancient").

I've reported on several occasions that 360Chrome should NOT be viewed as something to carry XP into the next decade. It is/was a stop-gap to allow us "time" to migrate away from XP.

No! The correct question is "Do you run a screen-saver?" and the answer to that is also No.

Go for it. I no longer use 360Chrome as my default browser and will no longer invest my time on it and this was never brought up when I was investing my time on it.

Not possible. I use "Caffeine" but some non-XP members report "Caffeine" does not work for them and I have not verified if this is accurate or not. https://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/

Nah, no need. Good to hear that a fresh profile is working.

Also unable to replicate at checkout -

Unable to replicate. Perhaps you have an extension interfering. edit - although you did say "when checking out"

There are a minimum of FOUR skin files being used at all times. Visiting the Chinese skin page only changes ONE of them. They all interact with each other. The .xml files may or may not be present in all four. Which one overrides the other is important to not "break". By mix-matching your own skin files, you broke something. You are the ONLY person that keeps reporting this F icon. Nobody else can reproduce this issue. Your best route to replace the XP skin is to replace the files inside MY SKIN with the files from your Steve Jobs skin. Especially the "framebg", "skin_close", "skin_max", "skin_min", and "skin_reduction" files. Other than that, I'm not really inclined to start a lengthy thread on how to create one's own skins.

You could easily unzip the .srx of your skin into a folder, delete the F icon .png, then rezip the folder to a .zip and rename the .zip extension .srx. Whoala, F icon gone!

Not true. Icons displayed in that region of the address bar could indicate 3rd party cookies, could indicate geolocation, could indicate whether your mic or webcam is allowed or blocked on the site you are on, there are DOZENS of icons that can be there. And if your INDEX numbers are off, then just because the icon says FLASH that does not mean the actual trigger is FLASH.

Please also be advised that "official upstream" labeled build 1030 as experimental and the translation index numbers do not match with other builds. What that means is that the INDEX your skin file is pointing to is saying FLASH but the correct INDEX might not have anything to do with FLASH.

The "trigger" for the icon is stored in the skin file. There is no "Flash" content here at MSFN, Flash died in 2020. Are you seeing any "Flash" content here at MSFN? Is one of your ads being served as "Flash"?

That is where that icon is stored. I remove Flash icons, Chinese social media icons, Chinese search engine icons, et cetera from my skin. The skin has EVERYTHING to do with that F icon. EVERYTHING.

I believe we have already discussed this. I do not get this with MY skin file and you are using a custom skin file. I do not provide support for custom skin files (even if they are not modified and downloaded directly from the Chinese skins page).

I use Directory Opus at home and Q-Dir at work. I've also used XYplorer and Total Commander in the past. Unsure if any of these work on Win11 but those would be my suggestions.

Unsure if it's been mentioned yet - is Clamwin still around?