Dave-H

If you want to know what updates were downloaded and installed, you should find them listed in your Windows System Log. To scan for updates, go to Windows Update using the link in the Tools dropdown on Internet Explorer. Select custom rather than automatic.

Got them, thanks for the heads up!

I'm sure I know what the answer to this will be, but I thought I'd ask anyway! I am just updating an emergency installation of 98SE that I keep on a USB stick. I have it so I can boot my computer into it in case of a dire fault that prevents me accessing any of the normal operating system drives. It works fine apart from a problem with the sound, which is for another thread, and I finally yesterday got around to getting the internet access up and running on it. Ideally I just want to use Internet Explorer to keep it as simple as possible, and I've updated it from IE5 to IE6SP1 with all the latest versions of the files. Of course I've now found that there are a lot of sites it just won't load, including all the Google sites, which makes it pretty useless! Basically it seems that any https site now won't work at all, you can't even access it. This is presumably because of outdated certificates and security protocols, and I accept that there may be no solution to it now, but the strange thing is that one of my own sites, which doesn't use https or any secure protocols to my knowledge, will open in my normal install of IE6 on 98SE, but won't open in the version on the memory stick. I can only assume that the protocols and/or certificates on my normal installation are more up to date than on the new install, so has anyone got any idea how I can at least make the new installation as up to date as possible in this respect, either by importing/installing an update, or just transferring the necessary files from the other installation?

Well when it showed no sign of being a temporary problem, I finally tried asking about this on the MS support forums, with the inevitable result. The usual "fixes" were suggested involving scanning for system file errors and using a new profile, and when I reported that (surprise, surprise) this made no difference, there was no further response from the MS "technician", as usual. What a joke, but I suppose i shouldn't have expected any different! I don't really care if the Event Log help links in Windows XP or 8.1 have finally been depreciated, but they should at least have the decency to say so!

Glad to hear that you got it sorted!

The version on your support CD is probably very far from being the latest one. I would go to AMD's site, download the latest package for your graphics hardware, uninstall the Catalyst Control Center and the graphics driver, and reinstall them using the latest package.

Did you uninstall and reinstall the Catalyst Control Center?

Thanks as always jaclaz! Yes, I found the links in the chocolateyInstall.ps1 file in the \chromium.49.0.2598.0\tools folder after I unpacked the .nupkg file with WinRar. As you say, what a performance just to get a couple of links!

Thanks @sdfox7, but my message wasn't worded very well. It was only the policy templates file I was after, not Chromium as a whole! Incidentally your link to 49.0.2598.0 seems to just prompt the download of a 3.3 kb .nupkg file. Just out of interest, what exactly do you do with that?

I've always used large fonts on Windows 98, 2000, and XP. Even at 1024x768 on my old CRT monitor I did, as I just found the text too small otherwise, and on my present 1920x1080 monitor it's really essential! The text size on Windows 8.1 seems to be fine on its standard settings, so I guess MS finally got it right! I did find in the past that some programs did not display their dialogues properly with large fonts selected, but that's pretty rare nowadays.

Thanks 5eraph, that worked perfectly!

Wise words as always Den! I've not been tempted to apply SP4 as I too think that with the POSReady updates a SP3 XP installation is as complete and secure as it can be now. I would certainly use SP4 if I had to make a new XP install now, but not otherwise.

Oh dear, so I missed the boat! I suppose there isn't an archived copy anywhere of the last Chromium 49 version?

@5eraph I tried your instructions here just out of interest, and the necessary option isn't listed in the Group Policy template for me. There are loads of options, but not "Suppress the unsupported OS warning". It isn't there at all. Any idea why? I'm using Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112.

Officially they released 12.18 to update security protocols which were out of date and starting to compromise the browser's stability, as well as presumably its security. I and many others were getting frequent random sudden shutdowns on Opera 12.17 which was of course a real problem! Since upgrading to 12.18 I haven't had a single one. It's very slow indeed now with javascript heavy sites like Facebook and YouTube, and one of the worst things now is that the submission of forms sometimes doesn't work after you've filled them in, meaning you've got to start again from scratch in a different browser, which is really annoying! It's still a great browser, arguably the best ever produced, and I wish Opera's new Chinese owners would tell them to revive it!

Thanks for that, I will certainly have a look at those options now that my preferred one has gone! It's mainly annoying because Vivaldi were specifically trying to create a browser that would substitute for Opera 12 for power users, who use things like the unequalled user configurability of Opera 12, which will probably actually never be equalled. I've been using Opera for many years, and it was very sad indeed when Opera decided to go down the Chromium route and re-build the browser as a shadow of its former self, even though I understand their reasons for doing it. There is of course no guarantee that the latest versions of any browser will always work on XP.

@vwestlife Yes, I just saw that, sad but I suppose inevitable. I was really hoping that Vivaldi would eventually be a long-term replacement for Opera 12 for me. I guess if you want a supported in-development browser for XP now it's Firefox or nothing, but I'm sure that Mozilla will drop XP and Vista support as soon as it becomes in any way awkward to continue with it.

I take it that you have an ATI or AMD graphics card, as MOM is part of the ATI/AMD Catalyst Control Center, which is built on .NET 2.0 IIRC. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the Control Center and hopefully you'll lose the error message. MOM.exe should be in the C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static folder. That's what I have, later installs probably substitute AMD for ATI of course. What happens if you do try to uninstall SP4, you said it was now listed in the installed programs list?

Check here for the catalog files error message. This was referenced in the first post of this thread.

That looks as if the SP didn't fully install, although it did do the registry tweaks to continue getting updates, assuming you hadn't done that yourself. What happens if you run the installer again?

If it's downloading POSReady updates, you must have the necessary registry modification, which would have been done by the SP4 installer. You should be able to check that the SP is installed by looking at the system properties, which should I assume now appear like the screenshot in the first post of this thread. It looks as if it still says Service Pack 3, but the date changes to 2014.

Already covered here, but thanks.

All the offered updates installed fine here on both my XP machines. The yellow shield does often come back after subsequent restarts in my experience, showing some but not all updates as still needing to be installed. This month it's the IE8 update KB3148198 and one of the Office 2007 Suite updates KB3114542. This often seems to happen, but if I just hold my nerve the shield always eventually stops appearing after a couple of days!

Sorry, I don't follow you. What update.exe file do you mean?

So I guess there's no need to keep the installation file for KB3099866 any more?