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Assuming the theory is true, I'm surprised that they would even bother to flag them as "compatibility issues", making them look like "the bad guys" here. They could have easily said nothing and made Tihiy deal with the mess with no warning, plus avoiding any PR risk along the lines of "why is Microsoft controlling what software I use". Maybe someone at Microsoft actually cares about the quality of the start menu ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have a big suspicion they're going to remove the Windows 10 taskbar completely by the release of 24H2. They're just flagging anything using them as "compatibility issues" early, sort of as a warning.

It's completely arbitrary. You can uninstall SAB, update, change the filename of the setup exe to get rid of "startallback", and it works perfectly.

On the bright side, at least SAB has it's own fwlink: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2264757

StartAllBack appears to work just fine with the newest build, despite "compatibility warnings". Kinda shady on MS's part.

Microsoft doesn't allow you to install it.

0xc1900101 is an unrelated issue. MS screwed up the bootloader for the new installs, so it just keeps reverting.

StartAllBack is being intentionally blocked by Microsoft in the latest Canary/Dev update (26100.1). Or it's automatic, who knows.

Can reproduce, same issue here.

xpmgr is a license manager for Windows XP and Server 2003 (and hopefully Office and PLUS!), inspired by slmgr for Windows Vista and newer. It can: Get the system's product ID Change the system's product key Generate an Installation ID Send a Confirmation ID Get the # of days until activation is required Get the # of days until the evaluation period expires, for evaluation copies of Windows https://github.com/UMSKT/xpmgr Credits to diamondggg for making the magic numbers, ICOMLicenseAgent interface, and LoadLicenseManager() function, which were taken from [REDACTED] and modified to work in a CLI. This tool supports all x86 and x64 editions of Windows XP, Server 2003 and other one-off editions. Itanium editions are not supported, as they don't have Windows Product Activation in the first place. This tool does not facilitate piracy. This tool is made for power users to have an easier time with license management on older versions of Microsoft products, before Microsoft made slmgr. All that xpmgr does is use API's that the OOBE (or Office's first run) uses.

My title bars are unusually big, as if that part of the DPI changed, but not the text part. Is there a way to fix this and change it back to normal?

Is it possible to slipstream the updated root certificates (or otherwise install them after Setup)?

Could there be a feature where the Start button on the bottom left is colored based on the theme color?

The icons are all wrong. Restarting Explorer temporarily fixes this.

Update: Windows isn't booting anymore

It's still asking for Windows 7+.

I can't install the latest version of Firefox, it's saying I need Windows 7+.

Did you download from the official website?

Can there be a way to change the update "channel", so you can get beta updates without browsing through MSFN?

https://www.startisback.com/#faq-tab still shows 30 day free trial, despite 3.3.3 making it 100 days.

Just realized that there's a subforum for x64. Someone please delete.

I downloaded Windows XP x64 from an MSDN mirror (all hashes checked out). I noticed that after installation, it just goes straight to the desktop as the Administrator account instead of an OOBE. Is this supposed to happen?

Looks like Vivaldi is 64-bit. I'll take a look and see if it works.

On the Windows Server 2008 R2 lifecycle page at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2008-r2, it says that Server 2008 R2 updates are available until January 9, 2024 if ran in an Azure server. Would there be a way to apply these updates to Windows 7 when they come out?

Having the Address toolbar turned on breaks the taskbar (such as making it taller and making the time default to what you would find on the Large icon setting). Before: After: