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  1. Dave-H
    Back away from antagonistic political discussion please guys. That is not allowed here. Rule 2b. Topics devoted to political or religious debate, unless technology related, are prohibited. MSFN is a technology forum and both political and religious debates have caused many problems and distractions in the past. Political or religious links in signatures or polite, courteous comments in non-political or non-religious topics are allowed, but we cannot allow any topics in which the sole purpose is to debate political or religious issues.
  2. Dave-H
    Ah, understood! I'm sure you're right, and of course if the machine is from 2006, there's no reason why it wouldn't install XP! I suspect, as @RainyShadow has said, there is a hardware fault of some sort.
  3. Dave-H
    Have you switched the BIOS to compatible mode? In my experience AHCI mode will not work unless and until you've got XP installed and can deploy a suitable driver for it.
  4. Dave-H
    Just an off-topic language usage point, "waiting for the release of AstroSkipper" could imply that you're in prison or something, and we're waiting for you to be released! You would normally qualify it, "waiting for the release of AstroSkipper's software" or something like that, to make it clear that it's not you that's being released.
  5. Dave-H
    It takes as long as it takes! Better to be absolutely sure it's right than have to subsequently withdraw and reissue it. There was a standing joke here some years ago that whenever anyone kept asking when something was going to be released, the standard answer was 'WIR'. When It's Ready!
  6. Dave-H
    Dropbox is working fine here with 360Chrome 13.5. I don't even see a Captcha.
  7. Dave-H
    I agree with @mina7601, all is working fine, including the new version of ActivateProxy.exe. Great job!
  8. Dave-H
    Well if it's easy to have the flexibility to change the port I would say why not, but I certainly don't think it's an essential feature, and not worth going to a lot of trouble over.
  9. Dave-H
    I can't imagine why anyone would need to change the port, unless it was already being used by something else which couldn't be changed. I think that's very unlikely.
  10. Dave-H
    IIRC it's the '--disable-webgl' and '--js-flags=--noexpose_wasm' switches that prevent WhatsApp web from working.
  11. Dave-H
    Yes, that all works fine. EnableProxSysWide.exe v3.0.0.0 is now starting the proxy if it's not running. I know it's not really an installation, being pedantic, because there's no packaged installer, but what else do you call it? A deployment? People do talk about 'portable installations'.
  12. Dave-H
    OK, I'll substitute it. Another complete install?
  13. Dave-H
    I've now noticed something else. I rebooted the machine, and PopMenu did not run. Looking in the registry 'run' key, its entry has vanished! The one for Min2Tray is still there. I guess this must have happened as a result of one of the errors.
  14. Dave-H
    I've now done another clean install. I confirm @mina7601's findings. I never tried enabling the proxy system-wide without the proxy already running, as I assumed that wouldn't work anyway. It should run the proxy if isn't running of course! The setup doesn't seem to add the path to the files to the PATH environment variable. I assume it's not needed. I'm not sure why I had an entry for it there, I guess I added it manually for some reason. I doubt that @heinoganda's version of the proxy needed it, but I'm not certain of that.
  15. Dave-H
    I will do that, although I'm a bit busy at the moment, so it will be later today. I assume do it with the latest 'fixed' versions of all the files.
  16. Dave-H
    Yes, yes and yes! The only thing I didn't remove before I installed your package was the entry in the PATH environment variable, and that's simply because I didn't know it was there! Do you want me to clear everything and do a new installation from scratch again?
  17. Dave-H
    Yes, I know that! I was only making the observation that it did seem to add the two run commands that it does add, for PopMenu and Min2Tray, even though I have spaces in the path to the files. The reason I want the proxy running all the time is because my e-mail program doesn't display messages properly without it, as it uses the IE8 engine to render them. As I'm checking e-mails on and off all day, I don't want to have to keep running and stopping the proxy. I can't think of any disadvantage in running it all the time, unless you're very short of system resources, which I'm not.
  18. Dave-H
    Yes you did, and thinking about it, I now think that I did remove all the original relevant run entries in the registry. Your setup just adds entries for PopMenu.exe and Min2Tray.exe, and they were definitely both there OK. It doesn't add anything to run the proxy on boot.
  19. Dave-H
    I'm actually quite happy with the number of icons I have in the tray, they are all informational, things like processor temperature monitors, or just tell me that something is running OK. The presence of the TrayIt! icon tells me that the proxy is running, albeit with its window hidden.
  20. Dave-H
    Thanks. Hiding the tray icons will be a good thing to have if I go back to using Min2Tray, but it's still not quite the same as I've got now with TrayIt! Looks like a useful utility though, and I'll certainly add it to my tools archive.
  21. Dave-H
    I'll try anything once!
  22. Dave-H
    It must have looked OK to me because there was already a run key for PopMenu in my registry from the last version. That just shows that you should clear everything from previous versions before you try a new one!
  23. Dave-H
    It would certainly be good to hide it without using the Windows native method, which leaves an extender icon in the tray instead. Being able to click on it to toggle the proxy window on and off would be even better! That would be good too. I used to use 'System Tray Factory', which did a pretty good job, although it's not free. SysTrayUtil, the solution I use now, is better IMO, except that setting it up is fiddly, involving registry editing to set it up, and if you want to make any changes, which would make it very user-unfriendly for many people. The holy grail of course is reproducing the system from later versions of Windows, where you can just drag the icons around and their positions are remembered. I suspect this may not be possible with XP though, or someone would have already done it!
  24. Dave-H
    I don't know what the symptoms of the bug in Configure Popmenu.exe were, I didn't notice anything, but I've replaced it with the new one. I think it's the right thing to test with spaces in paths in future, as I would have thought that the vast majority of people would have spaces in their paths unless they were specifically told to avoid them, if only because of the 'Program Files' folder in English versions of Windows, which is where most people would want the files.
  25. Dave-H
    Yes, I see that now! Not an issue for me, but it would have been for anyone who was only starting the proxy when they needed it and then stopping it again. Sorry again that it took so long for me to get there.
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