Dave-H

Well, I now have another problem! With my old netbook, I found that Windows XP would not boot with the SATA controller in AHCI mode, I had to use IDE mode. Windows 8.1 was fine of course. I fixed that by installing the Intel Application Accelerator, which enabled it to boot in AHCI mode. I anticipated the same problem with the replacement machine, and of course I found that as expected it wouldn't boot XP in AHCI mode, but changing the mode to IDE now makes no difference, it still won't start, with stop 7B (Inaccessible Boot Device). Also, Windows 8.1 won't boot in IDE mode either, also blue screening. So, I can only get into Windows 8.1 in AHCI mode, and I can't get into Windows XP at all! The other fly in the ointment is that the replacement machine is AMD based, not Intel based, so I obviously can't use the Intel Application Accelerator. Help!

Thanks very much indeed, that makes perfect sense! So I guess if I was only using Windows 8.1 I could switch off CSM and have secure boot, but with the dual boot setup that's not possible. As long as it can be made to work that's fine by me! Cheers, Dave.

OK, I've got it working, but I still don't really understand how! Playing with the BIOS settings, I tried enabling the "Launch CSM" option, which I had to disable the "Secure Boot" option to be able to do. It immediately came good, without me having to put any other boot settings in, the disk was recognised and the system booted from it! So, why did I have to do that, why does it boot from its original disk with "Launch CSM" disabled, but won't boot with the replacement disk? Is there any problem with using it in the mode it's now in, especially as "Secure Boot" can no longer be enabled (if i enable it "Launch CSM" is automatically disabled and it no longer works.) Any insight gratefully receiver, this is yet more completely new territory for me! Thanks, Dave.

Not sure whether this should be here or not, but it is sort of XP related. I recently acquired another second hand Asus netbook, and I'm hoping to replace my existing Asus netbook with it. I want to transfer the whole previous system across simply by moving the boot disk from the old netbook to the new one, but I've run into a problem (as always!) I've installed the disk into the replacement machine, but it won't boot from it, it only goes straight into the BIOS settings. The SSD is being correctly recognised by the BIOS, but all my attempts to add it as a new boot option have failed. When I select "path for boot option" it shows the disk correctly, but none of the *.efi files I can find actually work, when I add the new boot option, nothing happens. Now, here's the complications! The previous machine was dual boot, with Windows 8.1 and Windows XP. I used Easy BCD to configure that, to give me the necessary menu to select which OS I wanted to use. The other possible complication is that both operating systems are 32 bit, and the machine is 64 bit. I know that I can run a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit machine fine, but is the BIOS expecting 64 bit *.efi files? There are none on the disk of course. I've done a lot of research on this, but haven't fond anything that directly relates to this specific problem, most of it is very confusing to me! I have an ISO backup of all the partitions on the disk, it's partitioned into three drives, Windows 8.1 on C:, Windows XP on D:, and a smaller storage drive which is F:. Presumably I need to find the boot files from Easy BCD, but where are they? The BIOS is only offering the folders on the C: drive, I can't see any others, presumably this is because it's the active drive. There is a <Boot> folder in the root, which seems to just contain folders for different languages, but there's nothing usable there. There is also a <Boot> subfolder in the <Windows> folder, and that has an <EFI> subfolder which contains "bootmgr.efi" and "bootmgfw.efi". Neither of these files work to add a boot option though. Anyone any ideas? Surely this must be possible to do with out reformatting the drive and starting again! Thanks, Dave.

Thanks guys, I will give that a try and let you know how it goes! The Intel driver I have on my previous netbook was quite restricted, no acceleration for instance, and the UI was hardly very user friendly, but I could go to full HD resolution (with an HDMI connected external monitor) so I hope this will do the same. If not, as long as the built-in screen can get out of the basic VGA mode I will be happy.

I think I know what the answer is going to be, but I've just got hold of a second hand ASUS netbook which has an AMD Radeon HD8180 graphics system. I'd like to dual boot it with Windows XP and Windows 10, as my older netbook was booted with Windows XP and Windows 8.1, but I cannot find an XP graphics driver for it. The old netbook had Intel graphics, and there was a very basic Intel driver which worked with it on XP, but I can't find an AMD equivalent. While there are obviously no official XP AMD drivers for this hardware, has anyone running XP had any success with other older drivers, by INF editing etc.? I only want it to work at a very basic level, but not with the basic Microsoft driver if I can help it! Thanks, Dave.

Just one update for Word this month, KB4484240. Installed via Microsoft Update with no problems. The clock is ticking down to end of support in October, but let's hope future updates stay XP compatible until then!

Perhaps rather surprisingly, all thumbnails are displaying fine on Opera 36!

Now I've looked more closely "Breaking News" is not showing thumbnails for me on Google Chrome 49, but everything else seems OK. They are showing fine on Firefox 52.9.1 ESR. I'm not using any special user agent strings on either browser.

Google Chrome 49 is showing the "we'll stop supporting this browser soon" banner on YouTube, but seems to still be displaying the pages OK.

July 2020. After a huge amount of research and experimentation, here as a working Windows XP driver for Elan touchpads. It was specifically produced for the touchpad of an Asus X102B(A) notebook, hardware ID ETD0108, but it may work also with later touchpad versions and on other machines. Many thanks indeed to everyone who contributed to this, but of course especially to @jaclaz, who never gave up on this even when things looked impossible! The driver can be downloaded below. The rest of the thread is from the past, and if anyone has the time and enthusiasm to wade through fifty pages, they can see how we got to the the final result! Cheers, Dave. Elan_Touchpad_Driver.zip

Mine has updated automatically, which I was impressed with, as I wasn't at all sure whether it would or not as it didn't come from the usual Mozilla add-on store!

I'm using Firefox 52.9.1 ESR. I guess if the filters only update every few days anyway, it's now going to be a while before I can check to see if I really do have the problem! Before switching to UBO, I used AdBlock+ for many years, and I'm pretty sure that used to update the lists a lot more often.

I just checked and I couldn't see that error message, but all the filters were marked as out of date. I manual update worked fine. How often are they supposed to be automatically updated?

Thanks! Yes I just checked, and although I couldn't see any network error massages, the filters were all shown as being out of date. A manual update fixed it. How often are they supposed to be checked for updates?

Apologies @Delrvich, I foolishly assumed you were using the standard "Google Chrome", not "Advanced Chrome"! And yes, as I should have said, welcome to the board!

Glad to hear that it seems that things are OK again now. Fingers crossed!

Strange, YouTube is working fine here with Chrome 49! I haven't done any user agent spoofing. It's sending the default - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36 I'm getting a warning about the browser being unsupported soon, but apart from that everything seems to be fine.

Does it work if you replace example.com with a wildcard asterisk (*)?

Is this really about Windows 9x or ME?! Please be more careful where you're putting your posts, there have been several recently which have been in the wrong thread, this is the first one that's actually been in completely the wrong forum!

People here are obviously concerned about fellow forum members in areas where there is most risk, and as a friendly community I see no harm in it being discussed, even if is of course always going to be fundamentally off-topic here in any thread. I hope the moderators are lenient with this at the moment.

Yes, if the chrome folder isn't there, you will need to create it. You will need to restart the browser for it to take effect.

Sent you a PM.

You need to add the following code in a file called userContent.css in the Chrome folder within your Firefox profile folder. You may need to create it in Notepad or whatever if it doesn't already exist. Make sure it has a .css extension, not a 'txt extension! @-moz-document url-prefix(chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul), url-prefix(about:addons) { .warning { visibility: collapse !important; } } Credit for this to @VistaLover.

Surely "unknown module", not "unknown model"?! Installing the debugger certainly wouldn't do any harm, and might give a diagnosis clue if you can capture what happened when explorer crashed. Occasional intermittent problems like this are always very hard to diagnose. If you could find any particular file selection, for instance, which triggers the crash, that would be very helpful.