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I would gladly help you and the others , but I don't see any connections like these in my version , that I made from scratch . Where did you see I said so ? I meant, it's no wonder that something that came from russians connects to KGB servers . I'm trying to be helpful and friendly , but it just seems so strange why would you not entirely believe the others (at least two) members from France , who are reporting weird traffic and Yandex connections . Perhaps it's checking which country they are in and connects accordingly ! I think it's no coinsidence that both of them are from France !!! Again , it's just seems to me , due to some of your replies ,where you kinda bothered by any of the members saying something which is not in favour of the russians and it seems to be kinda overprotective . Just sayin' , No offence.

Hello , actually no wonders ! Could you tell whose version is this ? From which member ?

Ever tried GTX780 ( Ti version ) ? Well , you should ! It will outperform your 20 oldies in terms of heating up a 25 square meters room in a matter of several minutes ! Or try GTX Titan Black . I was going to buy it , but I just coudn't sit near it for more than 30 minutes and decided to stay with my first Titan (not black). Also , they all sound like a turbojet , I think you may like it even more . Build quality is very good ! Not like the modern days junk . Just buy original Nvidia reference version from 2013 , not from "partners" like Zotacs , Palit , Asus or EVGA. Besides , they already are ancient too . I know you can find drivers for Win2000. Perhaps someone modded Win98 drivers too.

Short story : just like the topic says . Longer story : I'm a sucker for great audio and video ! No wonder it was my job since the early 1990s. I have an audiophile sound card (several , actually) . On a clean Vista (with any official SP) the sound quality is fantastic ! Also, the video quality is full RGB and with rich and vibrant colours , but as soon as I install almost any update after the platform update , it becomes terrible , muddy , muffled , sandy sounding . Like it's having an obstacle (a pillow) , for example. Have you ever encountered something similar ?

They all are somewhat para-gov. now , the lines are vanished . Like in the case with vaxxines . Did you know , for example, CDC is a private company , yet the most think it's gov. ? The same with FBIbook , it's so powerful , it's like another gov. structure . So even though I liked your comment , I do not agree with you overall . No operator needs your private data . You forgot the times when SIM cards were at every train station without the need for the data from the person ? As for the gov., why do they need our data ? I mean, the taxes are in the goods already , every time you buy them , you pay your gov. , that should be it ! BTW , the war tax is still on , which is illegal .

Everyone , thank you for the help ! I was able to update through the manual method , but not with this tool . Even though I've managed to configure the proxy usage for it , the requests were just blocked ! The only way to obtain them was through a well known download manager programme with a UK IP. And @Dave-H , of course that's not for me to decide , but perhaps you need to edit the post and remove weird text like the word "loud" , I'm not sure what he meant by that. I think it could be shorter , overall , like straight to the point . Too many sentences at the top. And the most important part , please add that the roots update needs to be run as admin , otherwise it won't work on Vista . ".. entry in the string VERSION should be (missed be) "5,0,2195,0" loud (what is loud?) and in VER "005.." Perhaps relace should with must. And this : "...no correct solution for the update of the Roots certificates and revoked certificates found" , but it is found already . Misleading , outdated info.

I do not trust SSDs , sorry ! Just replaced my almost 10 y.o. drive with a new one and now it has 666 GB of free space , lol !

People , someone knows how to force this tool to use proxy settings ? It simply ignores LAN settings if I set up a proxy. I suspect MS doesn't like my real IP , just as it was for some French folks in 360 topic. Otherwise, I'm constantly getting this error. Oh , and DAVE , it doesn't create any registry entries you mentioned . I tried adding them , the result is the same.

There was no "phases" , I didn't even put Win98 CD into the drive , because the mobo doesn't work in IDE mode with small drives (weird , I know!). And I'm greedy to waste an 8TB drive for Win98, lol.

Yes, DirectX9 is miserable. It even breaks audio/video quality on Vista and W7 ! Most good games do not need that DX9 redist. package anyways. And if some game wants it , just put the wanted DLL in the game folder , problem solved.

Thank you , no need , I have it.

@Dave-H , no , it's not blocked by me , I'm getting error 403 , MS forbids me from looking at that page . HTTP , yes , it supposed to be HTTP , no ? As @j7n said , 8.238.102.254 on Level 3 Communications is where MS hosts them , so I unblocked that address . So minus one strange location. Also , perhaps Limelight Networks Inc, GB is where the rest of them reside , some spare hosting ? It would make sense , because UK is close to me. Like very very close. The closest MS server would definitely be there. P.S. As for 403 error , I remembered I read somewhere on MSFN (360browser topic?) , some of the members reported MS blocked France from getting updates.

I wouldn't even start to consider installing it or participating in that kind of sites.

Breaks a lot of things and makes sound (audio quality) much worse , in my experience.

1 - Yes , it was fully detected , but only in SATA mode , in IDE it just says something like : WD HDD [unknown model on sata S1]. 2 - It was new (raw) . I tried an old (10 years or more) WD Raptor 160GB and then later 250GB. They both work fine in SATA , but not IDE. 3 - I didn't start the installation process at all.

Am I the only one who didn't touch anything FF related all these years ? I've never heard of this browser either, until now. Also , I do not know anyone who uses FF. Are they that good to get so much attention from MSFN users ?

@Mr.Scienceman2000, thank you for the advice ! Unfortunately I won't be able to install , because that mobo is acting up ! If I set it to IDE mode , it won't detect HDDs with small size (like 160-250GB) , weirdly enough , 8TB and UP are detected !!! I'm not ready to use an 8TB HDD for win98 , lol. I'll search for another mobo.

Well , I didn't use any older versions , so no . Readme file says : "If you have used the previous version 1.4 or 1.5 of Cert_Updater and have not yet updated the URL's after the last Roots and Revoked certificate update, please run "DL_URL_UPD.reg"."

I don't use fbibook , but thanks for letting me know ! I read somewhere on the news , it's exactly what russian banks force their clients to do.

Dave , I'm absolutely not able to make this tool work . Someone , please tell what am I doing wrong ? I had to reinstall my Vista from scratch , because of the new videocard I bought (but that's another story). Now I obviously have all certificates outdated . 1 - So I start this tool version 1.6 and it tries to connect via HTTP to Level 3 Communications, Inc. (which is blocked by my firewall, of course). IP in the range 8.238.0.0 - 8.238.255.255 and some unknown to me "Limelight Networks Inc. , Great Britain" , is this where it supposed to fetch the certificates ? What are these organisations ? 2 - It will endlesly send it's requests to the above and nothing happens for hours. P.S. Somewhat ironic to update cetificates via http , kind of defeats their purpose , anyone can send you the forged ones , no ? So I'm back to the old method , cert. pack by legacyfan , it works , but it has no MSFN (D3) and some others are missing too. Thank you !

Everyone , excuse me for off-topic ! You might be surprised , but I actually studied some Finnish ! Yes I did , back in the early-early 1990s. Of course I do not remember much , but "ihmiset" you're referring to , is already plural too , just like in English ! I find it strange , like very strange (assuming you're Finnish , as it says on your profile). https://en.bab.la/dictionary/finnish-english/ihmiset Back on topic : I have an idea to try out windows 98 (vanilla) on a G31 mobo from 2006 , someone did it already ? Is it stable ? Thanks. P.S. My teacher , a 25-28 years old female from Finland (!), said almost 80% of "Finnish" words came from English . I do not know if it's true , I quit the studies , Finnish was quite hard .

Do you mind me asking what is your citizenship ? And where does this "freedom fighter" live now ?

Dave , you're welcome ! Instagram uses insane user fingerprinting techniques , I'm just not ok with it . Perhaps this has something to do with their new "anti-bot" protection . I remember just waiting for a couple of days had solved some problems in the past . BTW , I used plenty of methods for browsing ,including NOX , Grids (which was very good!) until the pl@nkers banned it ! They just want everyone on their phones for total surveillance and user data mining/stealing. So I'm taking a break until I find something new . My 360 Browser version had it's own emulation fo their app , but they found how to detect it (quite recently). Until then they were sure I was using their App and all functions worked flawlessly , including uploading , etc.

Tripredacus , it says you're from US , so what about DMCA Section 1201 ? "It's Now Legal to Crack Your PC Games..." - By Marcus Yam at tomshardware.com He writes : "Essentially, it comes down to this: "New DMCA rules make it legal ... People may now rip DVDs to show clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos. People may now legally jailbreak their iPhones and root their Android phones without fear that a corporation will rain down upon them. People may now legally unlock their cell phones. (These first three are mostly the result of lobbying from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.) People may now circumvent the copy protection of PC and video games for investigative reasons. This should be a great thing for PC gamers sick of dealing with the DRM of the games they legally purchased. People may now get past software that's protected by an outdated hardware dongle." P.S. I do not know about other countries. Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/drm-dmca-jailbreaking-unlocking-iphone,10944.html