Dave-H

Thanks, glad I'm not the only one seeing this! In my experience the new post is always actually saved and posted, it just doesn't tell you that and you don't see it until you refresh the page.

There appears to be a slight issue with Status Updates. If you add a reply and send it, the button says "sending" but then stays like that. The new post has actually been saved, as can be seen by refreshing the page. Seems to be the same in all the browsers I've tried. 🤔

Thanks! No repeat of the "out of memory" error this time. I did have Firefox 52.9.1 ESR running, but with no tabs open.

UHD videos work fine for me on Firefox 52.9.1 under XP. I realise this isn't with a Chromium browser of course, but it shows that XP itself is not the problem.

I suspect that the EU flag was probably dropped in the new version of the forum software, and it defaulted to France as it's what it thought was the nearest equivalent! If you want to change that I guess you'll have to set yourself as being in the UK in your profile.

What country are you actually in? The flag should surely follow the country stated in your profile.

I would certainly have had Firefox 52.9.1 ESR open when I tried the updater, but I couldn't say for certain whether it had any tabs open at the time.

Well that's good to know, I guess it must have been just a glitch on my system at the time that I ran it.

Just ran the @heinoganda updater today and saw this for the first time ever. Slightly worrying, but when I said yes, it still seemed to work OK. Anyone any idea why it would have appeared, I'm certainly not obviously short of memory, but presumably this is low-level memory, not RAM.

Well I never heard of that, you learn something new every day! I'll have to see if I can find some of those. Although I can put ISOs onto Blu-ray disks, I can't print on them with my printer as they are too thick to work in it!

Yes, all the different flavours of writeable DVDs are the same capacity, I think they're actually 4.7GB. I usually use DVD-R disks as I've found them to be the most reliable when it comes to reading them on other drives. Blu-ray disks are 50GB capacity, an enormous difference!

Perfect, thank you! I used the "Custom UserAgent String" extension. I'm very well thanks!

Thanks for the heads up!

https://imgur.com/ doesn't work here on FF 52.9.1 ESR. Just a blank black page.

I didn't realise that option was only available if Windows was activated. My installation was activated automatically with a digital licence when it was first installed, so it's never not been activated.

There was one Windows 10 64bit ISO recently that wouldn't fit on a DVD either I found, although strangely the next version would! As I always have trouble booting from memory sticks on my machine, I ended up burning the ISO to a Blu-ray disk, but you have to have a Blu-ray drive for that of course. If you look in Settings>Personalisation>Taskbar>Taskbar behaviours there is an option there to move the icons back to the left.

Well it's still working at the moment, I got a cumulative update patch via Windows Update two days ago, and Windows Update still seems to be working now, patching the Windows Defender. I'm guessing the "change", if it happens, may well come with the next Patch Tuesday roll-out on September 14th. We will see what happens!

I seem to remember that there was a hostile cyber attack on NHS systems a few years ago. Much as I love XP, unless they are paying MS for current security updates, I hope those machines aren't connected to the internet! Windows Embedded 2009 still runs on the self-service tills in my local Marks and Spencer shop BTW, saw one booting up only yesterday, but didn't get a picture sadly.

I'm amazed that it would be, it's still only in beta!

Probably some useful hints here as well. https://msfn.org/board/topic/118097-day-to-day-running-win-9xme-with-more-than-1-gib-ram I don't know about in a VM, but I've been running Windows 98 accessing 3GB of RAM for years!

Ah thanks, the setup didn't make it at all obvious how to install it with a local account, but it did once I found how. As you say, must have been because it's the Pro version.

I managed to install Windows 11 on my ancient (for a computer) 2009 motherboard. After a few Windows Updates I now have Windows 11 Pro 21H2 build 22000.160. First impression is that it's pretty much Windows 10 with a slightly different GUI. Mainly the Start Menu is different, other changes, like to Explorer, seem to be just cosmetic, different icons etc. The settings menu does look different, but its functionality is exactly the same as far as I can see. I was very pleased to find that some things which I thought might well have been gone are in fact still there. The old Control Panel is still there, to my great surprise. Windows 7 Backup and Restore is still there, which pleased me as I do use it. I was pleased to find that I could still use a local account, exactly as on Windows 10. I had read some reports saying that was no longer possible, and you had to sign in with a Microsoft account. Internet Explorer does seem to be finally gone. A stub remains that just goes to the MSN homepage on Edge if you run it. All the apps seem to be pretty much as on Windows 10, and work exactly the same. Start Menu live tiles have gone completely, replace by boring fixed size static icons, which I think is a great shame, as I found the live tiles useful on some apps, like weather, news and photos. Why they removed them I don't know, perhaps they thought they were a waste of resources. Apparently Open/Classic Shell no longer works properly on Windows 11 at present, which is a huge shame, but I hope that can be fixed by its developers. So, fairly underwhelming IMO.

Windows 11 found and installed a driver for my Nvidia Quadro 2000 absolutely fine, it's working just as it does on Windows 10.

@GD 2W10 Pleased to report that I managed to install Windows 11 on my 12 year old motherboard! I got a Windows 11 ISO using the uupdump.net procedure detailed here, but it wouldn't install as it of course failed the system requirements check. Thanks to your workaround detailed above, I managed to get around that and do a successful install, which seems to be working fine! It had to be a clean install, so I'm not using it seriously yet, and it will be a long time before I will, but good to find that it is possible to update even on my old hardware. Gives me something new to play with anyway!

I'll certainly consider New Moon as an option if (and when) I have to finally abandon Firefox 52.9 ESR. At the moment I keep it mainly because it still works fine 90% of the time, and it synchronises with my other Firefox browsers on Windows 10 and on my phone. Actually AFAIK Roytam1's Serpent is the closest to Firefox 52.9 ESR, not New Moon.