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That's great that this works. So I guess manually installing the new updates will make it work, at least on Windows 7. As I said earlier, new updates (only security updates) will be released until October, so we should get updates on 109 until then, after that, we will have to look at backporting again, as has been done on MacOS.
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1 minute ago, mina7601 said:
Unfortunately, on Windows 7, it didn't update. It stayed at 109.0.5414.120.
There is also a direct download link to the new version that Google has released. Can you test if the links below works and installs?
Chrome 109.0.5414.129 64 bit: https://www.google.com/dl/release2/chrome/juzaykgd5e6nyvk27fwtbrjgoa_109.0.5414.129/109.0.5414.129_chrome_installer.exe
Chrome 109.0.5414.129 32 bit: https://www.google.com/dl/release2/chrome/kr3ekrngooyu46qwruasnjsjey_109.0.5414.129/109.0.5414.129_chrome_installer.exe
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For those who don't know, Google will continue pushing Chrome 109 updates until October for Windows Server 2012. You can find more about that here. However, on my Windows 8.1 machine, it seems updates for 109 are being pushed as well. I just got updated to Chrome 109.0.5414.129, which is supposed to be for Server 2012 only. Can someone test on Windows 7 and see if it has also been updated?
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23 hours ago, derpo said:
Ideally, ungoogled-chromium would be the best option. Also I'm still not sure why someone didn't take a backup of the svn/git repo of the last known working compile for win7 along with the build tools, that would at least make it easier to analyse the source at a fixed point in time and perhaps backport things.
Yeah, something similar has been done for older versions of MacOS. Someone took a backup of the repo of the last working compile for MacOS 10.7, and then started backporting fixes for it. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy. In fact, Chrome now requires MacOS 10.13, but this program can run on 10.7 to 10.12.
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I just want to give an update on what has been going on with VxKex these past few months. So while the last official release was in August, vxiiduu has still been working on the project. It is currently be completely rewritten, as can be seen on the Github project. Some programs that have been fixed by VxKex include the latest version of iTunes (albeit with some visual bugs), OneDrive, and many others. So while there hasn't been an official release in a few months, keep your eyes on VxKex, as it will continue to improve over the coming months and years.
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Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but this actually works. It seems it connects to http://weather.service.msn.com/ which was supposed to be discontinued April 2016.
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On 4/25/2019 at 9:37 PM, i430VX said:
Well, I tried taking a poke with wireshark... all I really can tell you is that XP checkers tries to connect to freegames.zone.com which no longer exists.
on windoze 7 it connects to mpgame5.games.msn.com, which still indeed exists.
I suppose one could redirect the old checkers to the new server, maybe.
I have no clue how to do that though.Sorry to reply to such an old post, but did you ever get a chance to intercept the requests to the server during gameplay when it was working? It would help with reverse engineering the game. Also, do you remember if it connected to the server via https? If it did, that is probably a reason it was shutdown, because for Windows ME to connect using https, it would need to use really old outdated cipher suites and a SHA-1 certificate.
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On 11/22/2022 at 12:06 PM, ivanbuto said:
Obviously, I am aware of all of that.
I was asking if anyone else here is able to test, not whether I can share it online...
Update: It's again working, confirmed also by a Win8.1 user on MS Community forums.
Is it still working now? Can you put a link to the forum you are following so that it is easier for people here at MSFN to keep tabs on OneDrive?
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The advantage of using LegacyUpdate though is that you do not need a proxy to access the site. You can just go the site, install it, and then it will be working.
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Any idea if this works on 2000 RTM? Or just SP3 or later?
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On 8/26/2022 at 9:32 AM, Wunderbar98 said:
You got me excited @xpandvistafan, unfortunately your Gmail URL didn't work without JavaScript. After entering username, all browsers tested were prompted with a JavaScript not enabled or supported in your browser message without a password prompt to continue the login process. Also trialed the HTML only URL used here, with the no JavaScript request.
https://mail[dot]google[dot]com/mail/u/0/h/&nojavascipt=1
Failed with DOS 7.1 (Windows 98) using Links.
Failed with Windows 98 SE using RetroZilla.
Failed with Devuan GNU/Linux using Links, older SeaMonkey and Firefox 52, including Firefox user agent switcher testing Android, Opera, Windows, GNU/Linux, etc. No unsupported browser notice received, couldn't even get passed the JavaScript message.
The JavaScript change was a long time coming, amazing it still worked without it up to a couple months ago.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-wont-let-you-sign-in-if-you-disabled-javascript-in-your-browser/You can still do it, but it's extremely complicated and required me to replace requests and responses using proxies to actually get it to login. I got it to login on Opera 10 on Windows 98. This shows it's still possible, although it's a tedious process.
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On 8/21/2022 at 8:10 PM, Wunderbar98 said:
GMail's HTML-only via webpage started requiring 'gmail.com' JavaScript domain for login a couple months ago. After login the domain can be disabled via NoScript or similar without loss of function. Before this change GMail worked flawlessly on browsers that do not even support JavaScript, even DOS browsers, oh well.
Don't mean to stray off topic, modern Devuan GNU/Linux, for example, can run >20 year old hardware just fine, user just needs to know what they are doing regarding setup, application selection and tweaks. 3D graphic acceleration support on >20 year old hardware in GNU/Linux, i say multi-boot and run old Windows games in a Windows OS and use GNU/Linux for a modern browser or whatever other newer software is needed.
There are still freshly maintained, 32-bit distributions available for older hardware. The 23 year old hardware used here (32-bit, non-SSE2) runs Firefox v52 and Firefox ESR v78. Of course with SSE2+ support could then run any browser, wish my Windows 98 was on Pentium 4.https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/&followup=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/&emr=1&nojavascript=1 You can still access the no javascript login page by adding ?nojavascript=1 to the url or using the URL above. It might give you a browser unsupported message on older browsers, but if you spoof your user agent just for the login it will work.
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24 minutes ago, WinFX said:
More news regarding Windows Update v4, WUv4 is getting closer to the return, the only problem is that it looks like Windows Update v6 on XP without proxy...
The backend part of the getManifest.asp file is missing to work as it did in its heyday, it's like the client.aspx in WUv6.
If you want to have WUv4 working as I say, you must first download the ieversion.js file that detects the version of IE you are using, and add it to default.asp.
And replace the following lines:var conWinNT = ; var conBrowserVersion = ;
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var conWinNT = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT") > -1); var conBrowserVersion = getIEVersion();
Here below I leave a link to download the folder with all the WUv4 files so as not to spend hours with the wayback machine downloader, in addition to having the bug corrected in English, how to have the famous infinite loop of ?page=3 also solved in English for those with url2rewrite installed.
So it actually searches for updates now? Or that is still not working?
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6 minutes ago, ByQuadCore said:
Okay seems to be a problem with the gng file. When I use other gng files it wont show me as many updates. But my gng file is 0x00000407.gng so a German one. Its 63KB in size. Maybe this helps.
You think it has to do with the .des file? There are many different .des files with different sizes.
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5 minutes ago, ByQuadCore said:
You will need to find the missing cif files and rename them. Copy the ones with the same number and rename them to the requested name, eg. 2456_XXXX.cif to 2456_therequestedname.cif. Without them, Windows Update will only display the updates which have the cif files in place.
Well it still shows the updates that have a missing cif file but they fail to install. What I was wondering though is why in your screenshot you have 16 mb of updates, but for me I only have 964 kb even after replacing the files like you said.
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5 hours ago, ByQuadCore said:
I used the 0x00000407 because of German language. The .gng is the language pack and the .as simply the link between the .inv and .bm. For English the 0x00000409 is fine.
You need valid .inv and .bm files. Also in the CRCCif in Root the called files must be valid for your os config. If something is wrong with the files or the file is for the wrong os IE may crash. Simply test other .inv or .cif files and rename them if needed.
How about the .des files? After changing the files specified, I still get the same amount of updates on Windows 98 SE, a few new ones, like Flash, but the critical updates package is only 964kb. Also, the CRCif folder is missing many updates.
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11 minutes ago, ByQuadCore said:
I think I renamed it. The original name should be 9CF8F16EC35A1C51E503075187D04DA6E6369D92.inv and 966E85EC2985933BE567EDC0EE888D8DAA29FD8E.bm.
Alright, got it. Did you get a different .gng and .as file as well?
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5 hours ago, ByQuadCore said:
It's E523F435D07F55621D376488CD866161407FC187.inv from August 2000.
I can't seem to find that file anywhere in my archive downloaded using the wayback machine downloader for some reason. I also can't find it on the wayback machine itself. Is this file from the wayback machine?
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1 hour ago, WinFX said:
Really good news community
, I have finally achieved an important advance regarding Windows Update v4. WUv4 was stuck looking for the activeX, since there was a corrupted line of code in static top.js (like the language of WUv3, which was always in English).
Replace the sCodeBase line with this:
sCodeBase = "/CAB/" + (navigator.cpuClass == "x86" ? "x86/" : "ia64/") + "unicode/" + "iuctl.CAB?" + dDate.getTime();And if it doesn't work, use the signed iuctl.CAB Aug 25, 2003
Today a great titan came back to life!
This is great news. The hardest part will be making it actually search for updates using the right server. It has a completely different backend from v5 and v6.
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12 minutes ago, ByQuadCore said:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617074150if_/http://www.fiddlertool.com:80/dl/FiddlerSetup.exe
This one works on NT4 with .Net Framework 1.1 installed.
Interesting, I never knew that Fiddler was that old. I suppose it doesn't run on MS-DOS operating systems like 95 and 98?
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3 hours ago, ByQuadCore said:
Not yet. Win95 gives me critical errors. I must debug them later using a proxy, which is tricky on Win9x. An older version of Fiddler works fine under NT4, but not in 9x.
How do you get an older version of Fiddler? The oldest one I can get is from 2017 which runs on 2000 or later.
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3 minutes ago, Sanvahu said:
So, after some trying, I keep getting a can not display page error. I'm trying it on windows 98SE. Could Windows 98FE be a solution? Trying fiddler also doesn't work... as it needs Windows 2000 and up..
Yes, Fiddler only supports Windows 2000 or later. It's a great way to debug errors and get the missing files if necessary. I have it setup where the Windows 98 machine has a proxy set to the Windows 2000 machine running Fiddler.
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Well that's interesting, the IE 5.01 web installer still works. I would have thought that they deleted the files for that years ago. But IE 5.5 from v3 doesn't work because of 404. It's interesting that they don't remove IE 5.01, but they remove 5.5.
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8 minutes ago, WinFX said:
The problem is that very old updates appear, like ie5.5rtm when windows 98 supports up to ie6sp1, or dx7.0a when it supports up to 9.0c.
Also for some reason wayback machine stores only up to R563 of inv and bm, coming from the middle of 2000. Although WUv3 remained open for more than 10 years there is not a single inv of R1150 archived, or at least of a close version such as R1116 or R1097 , only up to R563!
Yeah, probably because you have old catalog files, if ones from 2011 were archived, then all the recent updates would show up. Also, on the topic on Windows Update v4, that is probably going to be much harder than v3. First off, v4 has a different mechanism, where it sends data to Microsoft and Microsoft returns the applicable updates, much like v5 and v6. But with v3, we got it working because it didn't send data to Microsoft, it requests catalog files which contain all the updates in them, and shows them in the site based on what updates you have installed.
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Future of Chrome on Windows 7
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For me, I just downloaded the Chrome installer, and when I ran it, I intercepted the requests when it was downloading and it directed to the above links. The Chrome Installer still pushes Chrome 109 to operating systems below Windows 10, and when it fetches 109, it should fetch the latest version, which is currently 104.0.5414.129.