Dave-H

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.

I bet it weighs a ton too! I would at least replace the BIOS battery, assuming you can get it open. They're not expensive.

The screen with the smiley face is because you were looking at a page on Microsoft's support site in IE8. The pages on the MS support site no longer work at all in IE8, in fact you do sometimes get a message saying that you must use another browser, and sometimes just the emoticon with no text. There is no way around this as far as I know, you have to now use another browser for those support pages.

Thanks! The revoked certificates update failed the first time I tried it, but worked when I tried again. I now have - authroots.sst 13/06/17 20:02 delroots.sst 12/11/16 00:59 roots.sst 13/06/17 20:02 updroots.sst 13/06/17 20:02 disallowedcert.sst 20/04/17 16:59

The KB4032782 update for IE8 was included in the latest packaged security fix for Windows 10. It affects IE9-11 as well.

Incidentally, I've just noticed that the "Windows Update" link under the Tools menu in IE8 is now working again. I guess MS finally fixed the redirection failure!

As I almost never print from IE8 nowadays, i think I'll give that one a miss unless it's promoted to an important update!