Dave-H

Thanks Den!

OK, move along, nothing to see here......... My Platinum Sponsorship had actually expired today! I've now renewed it and everything is fine. Strange, because I thought I'd set it up to renew automatically every year, but obviously not! It actually looks as if that isn't possible, which is a shame. It would actually be very helpful if you got a popup or something telling you it had expired though! Sorry for the trouble. Cheers, Dave.

@dencorso and any other admins! I've suddenly found that I can't add any more attachments to my PMs, I'm getting a message which says "You have used 13.62 MB of your 1.95 MB attachment limit", which is total nonsense! I also can't post any more new PMs, it says my Inbox is full, in fact is says I've "Used 123% messenger storage", which is also nonsense! I thought that as a "Supreme Sponsor" I was supposed to have more storage, and I suspect that the problem is that my "Sponsor" badge has disappeared so I'm now being treated as a basic member. Can something be done about this please, as I need to post an attachment to a PM?! Thanks, Dave.

Thanks guys, still no joy with either of those strings. It is logging in, but then this pops up - If I press "OK" it then refreshes and says it's logging in again (although it doesn't ask for my user name or password) and then I sometimes very briefly see my Skype conversations page, which looks fine, but then it crashes out to the error message again, and so it goes round and round in circles. I wondered if my Adblock Plus or Avast Browser Security extensions were causing it, but they didn't before, and disabling them makes no difference. This is what I have in the Custom UserAgent String extension. Does that look right? I tried with the other string too, exactly the same result. I'm puzzled by this, as it did work, and I haven't knowingly changed anything that would have affected it. I did try clearing all the Skype cookies before hoping that would cure it, but it didn't. Thanks, Dave.

Excellent tool, I particularly like the inclusion of some very useful Nirsoft utilities and the HP System Diagnostics program, which I've used for years on Windows 98 and Windows XP, but never on Windows 10! The version of GPU-Z included turned out to be more up to date than the one I had installed too! Cheers, Dave.

Chinese browser.

Yes, officially Skype Web is only works on Edge and Chrome. Why they don't officially support any version of Firefox is a bit of a mystery!

Ah thanks, just thought I'd ask! So, no different from the Oracle installer then. I don't think I'll bother with the 222 version, I suspect there's no real advantage over 221 for normal use.

The error message comes up after I've apparently successfully logged in, when I dismiss it the page refreshes and the error message just comes back. I am still logged in as far as I can tell, I sometimes see a flash of my conversations page, and then it freezes and the error message comes back again. Could you share the user agent string that is working for you? I have the Custom UserAgent String add-on, so I can easily try it. Thanks, Dave.

Skype Web seems to have stopped working for me in Firefox 52.9ESR, I'm just getting "a problem has occurred, please press OK to reload", which just goes round and round in circles. Is there a user agent string that will still work, or is that it, Skype is dead on XP?

Does their MSI installer work on Windows XP?

I did look into PAE some time ago, but backed off as it looked like a bit of a minefield! If it was just a matter of changing a setting I would do it of course, but IIRC it was quite a bit more complex than that. Off topic here of course, but I will now have another look at it. I'll be interested to see if temporarily disabling ABP helps with your Firefox stability in the first minutes after starting it. You don't need to uninstall it, just disabling it is enough. I've just been putting up with it as a minor annoyance. After a few minutes Firefox is perfectly fine for me until it's restarted, it just freezes and unfreezes two or three times in the first couple of minutes of use.

Do you have Adblock Plus installed? I've noticed that Firefox 52.9ESR freezes and unfreezes several times soon after opening it, and after that it's fine. If that's what you're seeing, disabling Adblock Plus fixes it. Why it's doing it I have no idea, but it might well be related to ABP checking for filter list updates, I have dom.ipc.processCount set to 4. Do you think it would be worth setting it to 8? I have 8GB of physical RAM installed, but I run Firefox 52.9ESR on a 32 bit Windows XP system, so can only access 3GB of course.

Thanks @egrabrych! Now updated.

Thanks, that's pretty much what I thought! I think I was very lucky to find an HD Audio driver that would work in Windows 98, I thought DOS would be pushing it!

I mean raw DOS mode, without going via Windows. What you get if you select "command prompt" from the Windows 98 F8 startup menu, or "restart in DOS mode" from the Windows 98 shutdown menu.

Thanks, I thought that would be the case, but I thought I'd ask just in case! I guess there is no way to get sound in DOS games in DOS mode with the audio hardware that I have now.

@deomsh Sorry to bump this thread for an off topic question, but does the Windows 3.1 HD Audio driver I've now got installed on Windows 98 also work in DOS? A big ask I'm sure, but just wondering! I'd like to have sound in old games running in DOS mode if it's at all possible. If it's a "no" as I suspect it will be, no problem! Thanks, Dave.

@rloew I had a look at your site, but I couldn't immediately identify the program concerned. Which one is it?

Yes, that's the only way to get some of them now.

I've now been offered Java 8 Update 221 on Windows XP. Still no sign of Java 8 Update 222.

I can certainly recommend HP System Diagnostics, I've been using it for years after it came bundled with the software for an HP photo printer I bought. I use it on Windows 98SE and Windows XP.

You can't change it in Disk Management? I'm not sure if you can change the letter of the system drive there.

I've been offered Java 8 Update 221 on Windows 10. No offered update on XP as yet, but when I checked the offline installers download page, there is only version 221, no version 222. Have they stopped offering dual versions like they used to, I can find no trace of 222 anywhere?

You're right, without HTTPSProxy running, it will not display.