Dave-H

Looking at the board in Opera 12.18 (admittedly on Windows 10) I can see some of the effects jaclaz has pointed out, such as "I" (upper case i) looking a bit dimmer than "l" (lower case L), but the difference is not huge, and everything still seems to be pretty legible. I will try later on using Windows XP and see if that looks different.

Of course you were quite right to report the problems jaclaz, I wasn't saying that you shouldn't, whatever browser you're using. The fact has to be faced though that Presto-based Opera hasn't been properly updated now for over four years. The last 12.18 update was over two years ago, and was only to help with security protocol compatibility, it didn't do anything to help fundamental site compatibility, which had always been a struggle with Presto Opera anyway, as nobody coded for it as its user base was so small. Opera always had to put loads of workarounds into the browser, like browser.js, which had to be constantly updated as sites changed their coding. With no updates for so long, inevitably sites were going to start to malfunction, and the browser is now crawlingly slow on javascript-heavy sites like YouTube and Facebook. Sorry to be blunt, but even I had to bite the bullet eventually, as much as I loved Opera 12. Frankly it's like wondering why MSFN doesn't work properly in IE8. I wouldn't hold your breath for any fixes if they're only affecting Opera 12, whose user base must now be minute. Cheers, Dave.

jaclaz, your problems are I'm afraid almost certainly being caused by using an old version of Opera. I adored the original Opera, and used it as my default browser for many many years, and was horrified when they replaced it with something that was Chromium-based and stripped out all the customisation options that I used fully on the old version. I kept Opera 12.18 (the latest and almost certainly last version) as my default browser until literally a week or two ago, when I had to accept that so many sites were now not working properly in Opera 12 that I had to admit defeat and move to Firefox as my default. Not only do many pages display wrongly in Opera 12 now, javascript links often don't work, which is really annoying when you spend ages filling in a form and then the "submit" button does nothing! I'm sure the problem with the MSFN site is nothing to do with the coding, I'm sure it works fine in current browsers, it's Opera 12 that's the problem I'm afraid.

Xper, I really hope this means that you're considering keeping the board open now. Why would you do a software update a couple of days before closing it?! Looking at other threads, you will have no shortage of support from your members, to whom this board has come to mean such a lot. Cheers, Dave.

All four updates installed fine here. Scan took about 10 seconds on my main machine, and less than a minute on my very slow netbook. That's more like it! There seems to be no update for IE11 this month either.

Slim pickings compared with last month! At least with no Office updates this time we should get a fast update scan. Nothing here in England yet, at least no yellow shield has appeared in the system tray.

Thanks, I'll hold fire for a while then.

I'm only really interested in the possibility of memory-hungry programs like Adobe Premiere Pro being able to use more of my available memory when running on XP. However, as the program itself is 32 bit, would it be able to access more that 3GB of RAM anyway, even with the operating system patch applied?

Thanks, I hope Dibya will come back and say exactly what has to be done with his patch. I use USB a lot on my system, so I don't want to risk anything that might compromise the stability of that function, and Dibya reckons he's cracked that issue.

So, I have a server motherboard, with dual Xeon processors. Do you think I should give Dibya's patch a shot? I have a full backup and can easily repair Windows XP using the other operating systems I have installed as regards substituting system files. I've downloaded the package, but it's a bit vague about what I actually have to do to try it. Is it just a matter of substituting all the system files with those in the package, or do I have to edit boot.ini as well? I have 8GB of RAM installed (for 64bit Windows 10) and it would be nice if XP could also use it all.

@Mac I was just thinking that the "will be installed shortly" message meant that it was pending download, which would now never happen.

Will it now install itself automatically if it's no longer available to download? Won't people have to do it all manually from now on?

That test page seems to be working fine here using Firefox 52 ESR, and says it's using HTML5. Bizarrely, Opera 12.18 also plays the video, and if I right click on it the Flash Player menu pops up, but at the top right of the page it says "Flash is not installed or enabled. If you would prefer not to use the HTML5 Player on this device you must download or enable Flash"!

OK, I probably won't bother with manually doing that update then, I'll wait until the automatic updater prompts me. Thanks for the information.

Unbelievable, I only updated to SE8u141 9 days ago!

Strange, I have both activated too, but YouTube on Firefox always defaults to HTML5 for me. Opera 12.18 and IE8 still use Flash on YouTube for me, but not Firefox.

In that case I assume you're not on Instagram either! ? How about YouTube? Is that now using HTML5 or Flash? ☺

OK. Are you on Facebook? If so, do the videos there play OK? If they are in your newsfeed they should play automatically.

Does it appear in your plug-ins list? "Primetime Content Decryption Module provided by Adobe Systems, Incorporated".

LOL, a cinema using a Windows XP PC to drive its digital presentation. Who would have thought that?! I would have thought XP was well obsolete before digital projection systems became the norm.

Thanks for the heads up. I already had a copy saved, just in case I ever need to reinstall it, but good to know that it's still available somewhere else if I ever lose it!

Or indeed Microsoft's own Baseline Security Analyzer 2.2, which will also tell you about the security status of your machine.

Eleven updates installed fine here yesterday, plus the later KB4025409 update installed fine today, which has updated WLDAP32.DLL. The scan was much quicker than it has been for ages on my main machine, probably about half an hour. It still took several hours on my low-powered netbook, but still much better than last month!

That's good news, way better than last month when it had become almost impossible to complete a normal scan in any sort or realistic timescale!

How long did the scan take to get to that this time?! No yellow system tray shield here in England yet.