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  1. Dave-H
    Amazingly, and against all my expectations, yes it did! I copied MSO.DLL to a temporary folder, reinstalled KB4462223 via Microsoft Update (which resulted in the Office programs failing), and then put the original MSO.DLL back. Office is now working again, and MS Update is no longer telling me that I've hidden an important update, and when I scan again it says I'm up to date! Thank you very much indeed @Nojus2001, great result!
  2. Dave-H
    @heinoganda Thanks, yes that's what I thought. Not too much of a problem for me as I can access the Windows XP registry offline with Registry Workshop when I'm booted into Windows 10.
  3. Dave-H
    I thought there was a problem removing the POSReady key once it was there, the system wouldn't let you do it while it was running so you had to access the registry from elsewhere without XP running to be able to delete it.
  4. Dave-H
    Strange, I still seem to be getting notifications OK.
  5. Dave-H
    The update program still works fine, the problem is only that MSE is still trying to do its own updates, and is now failing and writing loads of error messages into the Windows Event Logs. Part of the problem is that it's trying to update the engine, which can now no longer be updated as the current versions are not XP compatible.
  6. Dave-H
    As always it depends on what else you have running at the same time as the browser. I've seen Firefox eat nearly 1GB of RAM with multi process enabled. Just experiment with it, and if it causes issues, just changing browser.tabs.remote.force-enable to false should disable it.
  7. Dave-H
    OK, well up to you if you want to keep multi process enabled or not. I found that it gave a significant performance improvement on sites like Facebook. You do need a lot of free memory to use it though, so I wouldn't recommend it if you're very short of RAM!
  8. Dave-H
    If you don't have browser.tabs.remote.force-enable present now, you shouldn't be seeing multiple processes, as I couldn't get it to work until I added that setting. This is what I have - browser.tabs.remote.force-enable=true browser.tabs.remote.autostart=true browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 - not present and apparently not necessary, can be removed by resetting it and restarting the browser. extensions.e10sBlocksEnabling=false - this setting will prevent any problems with some add-ons being blocked when multi-process is enabled. dom.ipc.processCount=4 These settings seem to work fine for me.
  9. Dave-H
    browser.tabs.remote.force-enable seems to be in your list twice. Which one is right?! Is it there or isn't it?
  10. Dave-H
    If you haven't made any other changes apart from to that one setting, you shouldn't be seeing multipole processes. What are your settings in these parameters? browser.tabs.remote.force-enable browser.tabs.remote.autostart browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 (may not be present) extensions.e10sBlocksEnabling dom.ipc.processCount
  11. Dave-H
    Interesting, I always assumed that MS Update looked at the file versions on the system to determine if an update was needed, perhaps it doesn't! I'll give it a try, it would be nice to have a "clean" MS Update without the nag that I've hidden an important update.
  12. Dave-H
    Thanks @heinoganda, I've applied the new batch file, I'll keep an eye on the event logs and see what happens. I don't really want to remove the POSReady key, although with the end of updates I'm wondering whether it is really now necessary to keep it! Cheers, Dave.
  13. Dave-H
    You can't enable multi process with just that setting, the others mentioned earlier in the thread have to be set as well, especially browser.tabs.remote.force-enabled which overrides the fact that multi process is specifically disabled on XP systems. Look in your Windows Task Manager, if there is only one firefox.exe process running, it's not enabled. I wouldn't worry about the plugin container process, at least on my system it only runs when I visit a site that uses Flash. I can't see that there would be any great advantage in disabling it unless you have a bad resource shortage problem. It does keep the browser more stable, as before it was introduced a crash in a plugin could take the whole browser down!
  14. Dave-H
    Indeed so, and surely if you put the old MSO.DLL back, Microsoft Update will just nag you to install the patch again?!
  15. Dave-H
    KB4462223 is the latest broken update, from April. KB4461614 is an older version, not that this helps at all of course!
  16. Dave-H
    Yes, download and install the patch!
  17. Dave-H
    Thanks @heinoganda, that explains it all very well. I'll keep an eye out and hope that the error messages stay away! I'm hoping that changing that registry setting will stop MSE from constantly checking with the MS update servers.
  18. Dave-H
    A very good question!
  19. Dave-H
    I use two graphics cards on my triple boot system, because one of them has no Windows 98 drivers, and the other one has no Windows 10 drivers! I use the very wonderful Nirsoft's Multi-Monitor Tool to switch between them on Windows XP, which I can do at will. I have shortcuts set up for that, and it might be possible to run a shortcut on startup to always select the right card via the tool. Just a thought, it does seem a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but it might just work!
  20. Dave-H
    @heinoganda has built a more up to date version of HTTPSProxy that works on XP. A lot of us are using it. PM him to ask about it.
  21. Dave-H
    It seems to be fine. IE8 with HTTPSProxy.
  22. Dave-H
    I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Although the article doesn't specifically mention Vista, it does say that only 8.1 and 10 aren't affected.
  23. Dave-H
    The only symptom of the problem in 52 ESR seems to be that if you look at the add-ons list it says that they can't be verified for use in Firefox. They carry on working just fine! In Firefox 66 they actually all stopped working as they had been blocked!
  24. Dave-H
    I suspect they're the same thing, I downloaded the two files, and they are only 4 bytes different in size!
  25. Dave-H
    Thanks!
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