Dave-H

OK, I've removed them. Thanks!

Are they new? I'm not sure. Anyway they are pointless because they only point to those sites' home pages. If they pointed to MSFN pages on the sites (as most social media buttons on other sites do of course) I could see some point in them, as it is, there's none that I can see.

I assume you've checked that saving browsing history is actually enabled in the settings options? Even if it is apparently enabled, try dis-enabling it. closing and re-starting Firefox, and then re-enable it again and do the same again.

Is it remembering your browsing history at all?

As the subject line. The flags seem to have been replaced with plain text. Is this a temporary glitch?

Sorry yes, I'm not using Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit, I'm using what is now called Malwarebytes 3. 3.5.1 is the last XP compatible version of that.

I would imagine that Windows Update will shut down, but Microsoft Update will stay online, as it supports other Microsoft products which are still within their support windows, like Office 2010. Of course they could just say that even though they're still in support, they are no longer supported on Windows XP, so they will close that too. The fact that they've made Office 2010 incompatible with XP with the latest updates to it would seem to make that likely I'm afraid!

Are they kernel updates? If so, they may need to be installed with the /overwriteoem switch on your system, using the downloaded installation files. They have to be on one of my systems or they keep coming back as they haven't actually installed properly. Not sure why they would have come back if you had them installed before though.

Version 3.5.1 still seems to be working fine here (touch wood!)

Can you dismiss that warning message and still log in with Skype 7? I would be very surprised if you can!

@heinoganda That's brilliant, looks like it's worked a treat, no more error messages!

Thanks @jumper. I've added the extra lines to core.ini. Will it cause any problems if I don't delete the other entries?

Is there any way of stopping MSE doing its own definition update checks? It's now writing loads of error messages into my Windows logs all the time.

@jumper Just an addition to what I said yesterday, I did notice later in the day, quite a few days after I copied the 4.5.2016.20 kexbases.dll and core.ini files across, that Opera 12.02, although apparently working fine, was not showing all of its menus. This turned out to be because the KernelEx mode on opera.exe had for some reason reverted to "Base Enhancements (api fixes + extensions)". When I returned it to "Windows 2000 SP4" which is what it had been, everything came good again. I just thought I'd mention that in case anyone else hits the same problem. I'm not sure why the mode should have changed.

@deomsh Just as an aside, today I came across this thread from over a year ago. I'm glad that we got further this time!

My copy of Skype 7.36 has now (not unexpectedly) died. Strangely, it ran OK the last time, but would not connect to any of the contacts, if I tried to post a message it just said "not delivered yet" permanently. When I logged out it of course then said "update your operating system if you want to carry on using Skype", or words to that effect! Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.......... I'm using the web version of Skype now on Firefox 52.9.1 ESR when I'm in Windows XP using the UA string specified earlier in the thread via my UA string setting add-on. It does work, but it's extremely slow and unresponsive!

I'm not sure if this option is present on all settings, but if you right click on the entry there will probably be an option to reset it to the default.

Oops, yes of course! I did copy them both across.

Do any Facebook videos play automatically inline for you as they should do? As I said to you in another thread, I'm pretty sure that some won't play anyway, IIRC because they are too deeply linked.

Pleased to say that I've had no apparent stability problems. The "HDA Sound" entry in the Multimedia control panel is still sometimes there and sometimes not there (I'm pretty sure that it is there actually, but appears as a blank unnamed entry) but as long as the sound is always actually working I don't think that's a problem. Thank you yet again for all your work on this, and I'm pleased to see that others are now experimenting with it too. Cheers, Dave.

Good to hear that you sorted it out!

My copy is still working at the moment, but from what you say, I suspect that its days (or perhaps hours) are numbered!

@Mathwiz @heinoganda Thank you!

Is that the case for all add-ons or just for some of them? Not all add-ons have a "Remove" button.

@heinoganda Just used the new updater for the first time, and thanks from me too! Just one thing puzzled me, on the English translation, one of the options to select is labelled "Raue", or possible "Rave", which presumably is still German. "Raue" seems to mean "rough", and "rave" means, well "rave"! What should it be?