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Mine is the regular version. Do you think it might be simply an automatic check for program updates? It stops as soon as you actually load a web page.

I would hope that nobody would be banned for discussing donations, subject to the normal forum rules being observed of course.. I would state that as far as I'm concerned "political rants" are not "running amok" here. They have been and will be shut down very quickly if they come to the attention of the moderators, either by their monitoring or by members' reports. They are not permitted according to a very specific forum rule, certainly not in technical threads. I do agree that a breakdown of the costs of maintaining this forum would be a good thing to see, but that is up to @xper as to whether he feels that he needs to provide that information. I don't think that anyone would not agree that this forum is a very valuable resource, and to keep it online with the high level forum software that it uses, and the costs of its server space, is not going to come cheap. I suspect that advertising revenue is low and a very small part of the necessary income, leaving subscriptions and donations as the only thing keeping it alive. Anyway, back on topic here please. Any further observations regarding donations please post here.

Another member in Turkey messaged me by coincidence just before the first donation request message went up saying he wanted to donate but PayPal is not usable in Turkey, something to do with a dispute with the government. I did bring this to the attention of @xper who said that he would look into offering alternatives methods of paying donations. AFAIK you don't have to have an actual PayPal account to pay through PayPal using a debit or credit card, but I know that there are people who don't like using PayPal anyway on principle.

I'm certain it was doing it before I installed any extensions. It certainly still does it if all the extensions are disabled. I did wonder if it was some sort of automatic program update check. There is a manual update check button on the "About" window, which doesn't find any updates.

@NotHereToPlayGames Hi again! Do you remember when I started using your 360Chrome 13.5 I queried that it seemed to be searching for something when the first tab was opened when the program started? I've just checked on this again, and found this when the program is first run and there is a progress animation (which never ends) in the first tab. The domain ws-in-f188.1e100.net appears to be a Google domain. Any idea why the program should be trying (presumably unsuccessfully) to contact it when it runs, and should I block it?

@NotHereToPlayGames I mentioned this on another thread, but just thought I'd ask here. I'm using your version of 360Chrome 13.5, and I've now noticed that the mute icon at the bottom right in the status bar does not work. The icon changes to mute, but the sound is not muted. Not a big deal as the mute buttons on the individual tabs still work fine, but I just wondered if this was a known issue.

Just a gentle reminder that political discussions are not appropriate here, and are in fact against the rules of what is after all a technical forum. FWIW xper has said that with recent donations the site will be OK now for another couple of months, but people do need to keep helping if they can to keep it online.

On my installation of ArcticFoxie's 360Chrome 13.5, the mute button on the status bar doesn't crash the browser, but it doesn't work either! The icon changes, but the sound is not muted. The mute icons on the tabs do work.

That December 2007 version is the last full version. There was a subsequent update in December 2008, which was the final version. You need the full version installed first in order to be able to use it. Here it is for anyone who wants it. AutoPatcher for Windows 98SE December 2008 Update.exe

And of course the other reason we've been trying to get Windows/Microsoft Update working again, is because we can! OK, it's pretty useless now to anyone who has a fully up to date and patched system, but that still doesn't mean that it hasn't been fun to unexpectedly see it working again. We all know that Microsoft could shut the whole thing down at any time with no notice, and that will be an end to it, in fact I'm surprised the websites still work now, but let's enjoy the achievement of getting the system up and running again!

Yes, I did say it was a long shot! I agree that unless you solve the fundamental problem of your SATA controller not being ACHI compatible, or at least not being in AHCI mode, this will never work. It could be that the hardware just isn't capable of doing what you want it to do.

Well if the new method will work in more setups then yes. I think I'll leave mine as it is though!

Is that the same thing that @maile3241has been posting about?

That's right, I can use that version of wsusscn2.cab in WUMT using offline mode, but no later versions work, including the July 2020 version which should. Online scans always fail or never complete.

Ah thanks, I didn't realise that you had to keep the two stores separate or one would over-write the other. I must remember that! The last version of wsusscn2.cab that I can get to work offline with WUMT is the version from November 2019. The next version, from July 2020, which is supposed to be the last SHA-1 signed version, just throws an error message, something like "no signature found". I know some people have had that version working, and I never determined why it didn't work for me.

WUMT unless scanning offline using a wsusscn2.cab file only ever produced error messages for me, or scanned forever without ever finding anything. It also wiped my update history at one point, which is why I've never tried using it again! Fortunately I had a backup.

Yes indeed, the more the merrier! Option 1 has never worked for me, Option 2 does work as you know, Option 3 I don't know enough about.

Ah, understood! Is this a simpler and easier procedure than the one outlined here by @AstroSkipper ?

I can't actually read the MDL post as I'm not a member there, but the link says it's for Vista. Can I assume from the screenshots that it works on XP as well, whatever it is?

AFAIK the device IDs come from the devices themselves, and cannot be changed. I'll be interested to hear if my driver works for you. It's a long shot, but you never know! You can add your device IDs to the INF file(s) of the driver, which may (or may not) get it to work with devices it wasn't actually intended for.

Here's ProxHTTPSProxyMII v1.5 Rev3e if anyone wants it. Credit to @heinoganda of course. Prox HTTPS Proxy MII v1.5 Rev3e Python 3.44 Original Files.7z

You're certainly right in saying that just because there's no AHCI switch in the BIOS doesn't mean that it isn't supported. My BIOS doesn't have a switch either. My driver is using atapi.sys. Whether my driver will work for you I cannot say of course, but here it is if you want to try it. Intel SATA AHCI Rapid Storage 10.1.0.1008.exe

I don't think you can do that just in the registry, you need an AHCI driver for the SATA controller apart from anything else! If there is no option to enable AHCI in the BIOS, it could well be that it's not fundamentally capable of supporting it. There may be an updated version of the BIOS which does of course, if the hardware is capable.

Which proxy program are you using, "ProxHTTPSProxy" or "HTTPSProxy"? The latter is a development of the former as far as I know, but they have very different control systems.

Thanks for the heads up!