Dave-H

Well I don't think that anyone could deny that Flash has had a pretty good run! The end had to come sometime.

I'm not sure why the problem of the incompatible SHA-2 signing is only a problem with Microsoft Update, and not with the standalone installers. Obviously I'm very glad that the standalone installers still work, but why don't they fail as well?

Microsoft Update didn't take anywhere near as long to complete its scan as it did when we had the issue before, it wasn't hours and hours like it was then! It just took several minutes, which is unusual now. I did get a yellow shield with those Office updates this morning, but they failed again when an attempt was made using that interface. I have now installed them all manually and all seems fine, but what a PITA! I guess we will always have to do that in future if what @Mathwizsays is correct. The second update (KB4484160) seemed to take forever to install, but it got there in the end!

I think we may have a problem with Microsoft Update here. I wasn't offered any Office 2010 updates with a yellow shield today as I expected, and when I ran MS Update after scanning for ages it eventually offered three updates. Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB4484127) 32-Bit Edition Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2010 (KB4484164) 32-Bit Edition Security Update for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB4484160) 32-Bit Edition None of them will install, I've tried twice. They show as failed as soon as they download. The error is 0x80096010, which apparently means "TRUST_E_BAD_DIGEST - The digital signature of the object did not verify". That does not sound good! I have a horrible feeling that we may now be blocked because of out of date certificates. I ran @heinoganda's certificates updater this morning, i hope that didn't cause this! EDIT: Just tried with HTTPSProxy disabled, just in case, same result. I guess I'll have to try installing from the standalone installers for the updates tomorrow (off to bed now!)

It has been for some time, I updated to it three weeks ago.

It's only updates that replace MSO.DLL that you have to worry about, all others seem to be OK, and should still be applied IMO.

Thanks guys, maybe it's just me then!

Is anyone else seeing this quite often on the forum? It usually appears when I go to the link for the "Windows XP" forum. If I try again it's always then OK. Been happening for a long time now, and seems to happen at all times of the day. Just wondering if anyone else had seen it.

Yes, great to know that's possible to do, but just going one version up doesn't seem really worth it. Accepting that "Quantum" Firefox versions will never run on XP, it would be good to be able to go to version 56, IIRC the last non-Quantum version.

Apologies @jaclaz. You said "Thank the good guys developing Android for removing this useful feature, the good guys developing Windows for NOT providing drive letter/file access via MTP and the sheep common people for not having made a big fuss about it." I read it that MTP had been removed altogether, but I guess you just meant that access by drive letter had effectively been removed. Cheers, Dave.

Yes exactly, which is what the other thread said didn't exist any more in newer versions of Android.

Off-topic for Windows 98, but I was a bit puzzled to read that first thread. I have a Galaxy S7 Edge phone running Android 8.0 (Oreo) and it appears fine as a storage device on my machine, both on 10 and XP (not Windows 98 though!) The thread says newer phones won't work like that as later versions of Android don't support it. It doesn't get a drive letter, but it appears in Explorer and both the SD card and the internal memory can be accessed fine.

Thanks, I'd forgotten about the uninstallation complication with that add-on! I've never bothered to remove it on my Firefox, but it is disabled. It actually says that it can't be verified, not that it's incompatible. I don't think it's doing any harm as it is.

IIRC that's a pretty obsolete extension. I would just uninstall it if it's actually in your extension list. It's probably marked as incompatible with Firefox 52 anyway.

Anyone fancy this, if it were possible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_T80ZVD7e8 No, me neither!

It annoys me too, especially when people say their software still supports XP (and probably Vista too) when it actually no longer does!

@dencorso As this thread is about to hit 200 pages, do you think it should be continued in a new thread now (keeping the original intact of course, but locked)? It is getting rather unwieldy, and on many other forums I use the mods lock threads and start continuation threads when they are deemed to be too long.

A Boots shop in the UK I guess, looks a terrible mess! I wonder why it's apparently actual XP and not Windows POS/Embedded 2009 as I would expect on a self-service till? We have loads of places still using ancient equipment!

Just to say that Partition Wizard 11.5 does run fine on XP.

Welcome to MSFN! Your link doesn't work, it just redirects to the home page, I suspect it's not complete. I don't know about the technical limitations of new drives with XP, but I'm using a 2TB drive quite happily. It is connected via a SATA interface card though, not directly to the motherboard.

Good to hear!

Two more updates today, both seem to be OK. KB4484130 and KB4475569. @roundball Off topic again of course, but I'd be interested to know if they installed on Windows 10 OK for you

Good news!

Sorry, I didn't realise that Flash support had now been completely removed from YouTube! I thought it might remain for very old videos which were originally Flash only when that's what YouTube completely relied on. As VistaLover says, there are several other encoding methods still used on YouTube, but Flash obviously isn't now one of them!

I suspect that the reason why some videos on YouTube work for you and others don't is that older ones still have a Flash fallback available, and newer ones don't. If you right click on a video that's working and the Flash plugin menu comes up, that would confirm that. As to why the system isn't working as it should for you, all I can suggest is that you go through this thread and double and triple check that all the necessary settings are present and correct in about:config, and that the necessary files are all present in the <Firefox Profile>\gmp-eme-adobe\17 folder. There should be three files there, eme-adobe.dll, eme-adobe.info, and eme-adobe.voucher. It's far more likely that a setting is missing or wrong though. HTH.