Dave-H

Thanks hmuellers! I now have a copy of EMET 5.0 installed, and the error popups on running PDF shortcuts have gone away. I saved the contents of 5.1's "Deployment" folder, as the files in there seem to unsurprisingly be newer than those in 5.0, so I substituted them, assuming the XML files are later certificate lists. That's certainly what they look like. 5.0 seems to work fine with them anyway. I might even try to use the ones from 5.2 as they will be even newer! My Event Log seems to be completely clean now, with no entries from EMET at all unless I change a setting. Internet Explorer 8 would not run at all with the default settings on EMET. I had to disable the "EAF" and "StackPivot" options on iexplore.exe to restore it to working. Don't know why that would be. The EMET icon still isn't working, but you say that is a known problem and isn't an issue for me. I'm still getting the crashes when I use the "Trust" button though, which I guess must be a .NET problem, as all versions of EMET fail there the same way. I've attached the full error log, which is meaningless to me I'm afraid. Can any .NET experts see what's happening there? Cheers, Dave. Error.txt

Thanks @hmuellers. That's very interesting about the error message you're seeing, because I'm now seeing that exact same message whenever I run a shortcut to a PDF file! If I dismiss it, Adobe Reader then opens and displays the file fine. As the error message box is apparently from AcroRd32.exe, I was assuming it was a problem with Adobe Reader, as the version I'm using (11.0.13) no longer officially supports XP, although it does install fine. I'm wondering if the message appeared after I installed EMET, I will have to uninstall it again to confirm that. I've not seen it in any other context but the running of PDF shortcuts. I will have to search for EMET 5.0 and try it if I can find a copy anywhere. I suspect that if 4.1 and 5.1 are both throwing the error on pressing the "Trust" button that 5.0 will be the same, but you never know! EDIT: Apparently the msvcrt error with EMET 5.1 on XP is known. See here and here. I'll see if I can find 5.0!

Just thought I'd report my experience today with EMET, something I wasn't at all familiar with before today. I downloaded and installed version 4.1 (Update 1) as recommended, and it seemed to work fine although it was throwing five warnings into my event log that five "PinRules" were out of date, having expired on 01/08/15. As I didn't want to just delete them, for obvious reasons, I looked into how to update them. I found what I thought was an answer here. I downloaded the "easy fix", which failed because I hadn't installed EMET in the default folder. To be fair, the page does warn you of that, but it's still stupid when the EMET installer allows you to choose a different installation destination! Anyway, I uninstalled EMET and reinstalled it in its default location, and the "easy fix" then completed successfully, but didn't fix the event log errors! There were a couple of other issues as well, the system tray icon didn't work as it should, it popped up a message saying "administrator rights needed" if you tried to use it, which is nonsense as I am an administrator of course! More seriously, pressing the "Trust" button at the top of the interface resulted in an exception error message coming up. I therefore decided to try a later version, although this isn't recommended. I installed version 5.1, which is not stated to be compatible with XP (although it is with Server 2003). That installed fine, and the error messages about expired certificates in the Event Log went away, so good result there! The only issues outstanding are that despite the fact that it appeared after the first install, the system tray icon now does not seem to appear at all, even when it's enabled, and the crash on using the Trust button still happens. I'm not worried about the icon obviously, but the crash is a strange one. As I said, it was doing the same with version 4.1, which is supposed to be compatible with XP, so it's a bit of a mystery why it's happening. Does this tie up with other people's experience with this? I appreciate this is a bit off-topic, but it is relevant to the thread as EMET is one of the recommendations to use for maximum security.

Thanks, that does sound like a good rule of thumb for how often it should be run, although obviously running it once a month say would do no harm.

I wouldn't have thought it was necessary to run the certificates updater program on every single boot, but you could set up a scheduled task to run it automatically every week say.

So if I have the installers for all six of these archived, I can safely delete and forget about the three that are listed as having been replaced?

I can't remember which one it was, but the discussion about it is in here somewhere! IIRC someone patched it, but that eventually turned out to be un-necessary as MS released a fixed version themselves. If you've installed all but the last few months worth I'm pretty sure that one would have been in there as it was quite some time ago now. If your fonts are OK, i wouldn't worry!

Well none of them have ever caused me any problems, with the single exception of one that messed up the font rendering, which was quickly replaced by a fixed version. I would say go for it, but it might be better to do them in batches rather than all at once with that many.

Assuming that "rp88" isn't actually you, there's someone else here with the same problem. Unfortunately the general consensus there seems to be that certain updates just cannot be uninstalled. For what it's worth, when I had Windows 10 briefly on my netbook, one of the first things that put me off it straight away was that the first block of tiles on the start menu was named "Life at a Glance". "Not my life" I immediately thought!

Opera 12.02 is running fine here on 98SE with Windows 2000 SP4 mode on opera.exe, with the latest 4.5.2015.10 KernelEx DLLs. I'm using it to post this now!

Yes, I guess this is "by design" for some reason unknown to anyone outside Microsoft.

Opera 12.02 is still working fine for me on YouTube, the videos still play perfectly after installing the new 2015.10 KernelEx DLLs. I'm using Flash 10.2.159.1, with the YouTube Center version 2.1.7 extension installed. My only niggling problem with Opera 12.02 is still some text apparently appearing in Greek characters at certain zoom settings (including the normal setting unfortunately!)

Well I am certainly an administrator! I'm pretty sure that the first user set up on any new Windows system is always an administrator by default.

My system is fully patched. As far as I know this problem has always been there, so I have to assume that it's by design, but I can't think of a single reason for it to be this way! I switched off the dog in the search settings BTW, I didn't delete any files!

Yes it is. As I said, all other Explorer windows do remember their settings, including the columns selected and their order in Details view. The Search window is the only one I've found that doesn't remember and always reverts to its default column settings.

My search window always opens in the details view anyway, which is remembered, and the headings are Name, In Folder, Size, and Date Modified. I can change the headings, and re-order them, but none of that is remembered. If i do the same on any other Explorer window in details view, it is remembered. Why should the search windows be different?

I've come across this as well, as I'd like the search results to include the file versions. As you say, you can add "version" to the columns displayed, and it works fine for that session, but it isn't saved, as it seems to be for every other Explorer window in details view! Very annoying, and I'd love to know if there is any fix.

That RyanVM link seems to just redirect to the login page if you're not a member, so it looks as if you do need to register to go any further.

If you mean on-board capture hardware, then as far as I know the ATI AVIVO system was unique to them, there was no Nvidia equivalent.

Please don't apologise, your English is a great deal better than my German! That's good to know that your program should work to download later certificate updates as well as the current ones. blackwingcat's update file is a modified version of the MS original update patch by the look of it, so only contains the current October 2015 certificates. What made me wonder was the version numbers in the inf files, which I thought would change and prevent it working with later updates.

Thank you! I ran it and it worked fine. Presumably it has installed the same certificates as blackwingcat's file, as they are the most recent? I looked at the contents of the installer, and I think I understand what it does. Am I right in assuming that a new version of this will be need to be made every time the certificates are updated?

@blackwingcat Thanks. I've over-ridden the warning, and it seems to have installed fine! @ heinoganda I've just downloaded it thanks. Does this do the same thing as blackwingcat's file I've just installed? Presumably it doesn't enable future certificate updates to happen automatically, I would have to implement the procedure you outlined before to do that.

@blackwingcat I just tried installing your October 2015 Root Certificates Update and Trend Internet Security blocked it as a "suspicious file"! Presumable it's really OK, but I'd just like some reassurance......

Here is a list of rekoved certificates from Windows XP to New installation and running "rvkroots.exe" (Security Advisories): Based on the lists, you can look in the Certificate Manager and make a comparison. Well I have 566 trusted certificates and 60 untrusted certificates. Some, but obviously not all, match those in your lists. Should I be worried about this?

I was wondering about this too! My machine is still regularly putting "crypt32" entries into the Application Event Log that say "Successful auto update retrieval of third-party root list sequence number from: <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootseq.txt>". Is that doing what it should do anyway?