Dave-H

Just to add that it's not only images from Sky's servers which are affected, quite a few other e-mails are also not displaying in Eudora like they used to, with usually no images, or indeed nothing at all, and then they suddenly display after a very long delay (and I mean over a minute!) They then display fine. I'm still suspicious of the Root Certificates update. @heinoganda

Thanks, yes I am suspicious that it is an expired certificate. Presumably the fact that it seemed to happen when I updated the system root certificates is just coincidence? As I said, I tried rolling the registry back to before the update but it didn't make any difference, but i wasn't at all sure whether that was enough. The https URL can actually be reached by Google Chrome 49, which also uses ProxHTTPSProxy, and by IE8, but only after an enormous delay. The http URL works almost immediately in Google Chrome 49, but in IE8, again after a very long delay, I get the standard "cannot display the webpage" message without ProxHTTPSProxy, and with it enabled on http connections, it works after again a very long delay. What is puzzling me now is why IE8 is failing to display an image over a standard http connection, which Google Chrome seems to have no problem with! It presumably shouldn't have to have the proxy running to do that if it's not a secure connection.

That certainly used to happen in the days when we were still getting .NET updates. There are two optimisation services on my machine, one of which was added when .NET 4.0 was installed, and at that point the other one was disabled. After almost every update, the service would run for quite some time, and then stop. It then wouldn't run again. And yes, it was a bit of a resource hog while it was running! I always just let it complete. On a new installation I would expect the optimisation service(s) to run for a time to do their work, but they certainly shouldn't be running all the time. Something is wrong if that's the case.

Sadly not. I normally only have the system set to use the proxy with https sites, and without it the http URL just produces the standard "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" message, with no specific reason given. If I set things to use the proxy on http sites as well as https after again a very long delay I get this - 502: HTTPError The following error occurred while trying to access http://helpforum.sky.com/html/assets/sky-community-v6.png HTTPConnectionPool(host='helpforum.sky.com', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /html/assets/sky-community-v6.png (Caused by NewConnectionError(': Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10065] A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host',)) Generated on 2021-06-05 18:25:12.087625 by ProxHTTPSProxyMII FrontProxy/v1.5. So, a different message!

Good idea! Bear in mind that version 16.12 of Process Explorer is the last one which works properly on XP.

A shot in the dark, but is Automatic Windows Update enabled? I seem to remember that scanning for updates could result in a very long running svchost process running and using a lot of CPU time. As Windows Update no longer works on XP, I'd disable it anyway if it isn't disabled.

Hi all, sorry to raise this thread again, but another problem has just manifested itself. Suddenly, between Wednesday night and Thursday morning this week, my Eudora e-mail client stopped working again with e-mails from Sky, and several other senders too. Quite literally, it was working Wednesday night, on Thursday morning it wasn't, for no apparent reason! Everything seems to be as normal, with my HOSTS file and ProxHTTPSProxy, but the messages now take an age to display, about two minutes, and when they do finally display there are elements missing. Specifically, the Sky logo at the top is missing from the Sky e-mails. I've tried looking at the source of the messages, and this is the URL of the logo - https://helpforum.sky.com/html/assets/sky-community-v6.png If I try to access that in IE8 it won't display. There is a very long delay, and then I get - 502: HTTPError The following error occurred while trying to access https://helpforum.sky.com/html/assets/sky-community-v6.png HTTPSConnectionPool(host='helpforum.sky.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /html/assets/sky-community-v6.png (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)'),)) Generated on 2021-06-04 19:36:11.914875 by ProxHTTPSProxyMII RearProxy/v1.5. So, anyone any idea what's suddenly started happening here? The only thing I can think of that was changed on the system on Wednesday was installing the latest Root Certificates update. I thought that might be the culprit, so I tried rolling it back to the previous version. It seems that all the system certificate information is in the registry, so I rolled back the registry using ERUNT to a time before the certificates update was done, which made no difference at all. Should I have done anything else to roll it back? Any help gratefully received! This is very annoying when my setup has now worked for well over a year! Thanks, Dave.

I presume that's because it's a FAT32 partition. Why I don't know, as Windows 10 seems to play nicely with my FAT32 partitions in every other respect. I guess MS assumed that nobody would use a FAT32 fixed disk partition on a Windows 10 system!

Thank you!

I really don't know about partition alignment, I'm sure others will give a more expert opinion on that, but as far as TRIM is concerned I would have thought a drive is either trimmed or it isn't, I don't think there's any degrees of TRIM, unlike defragmentation.

I don't think there's any point in leaving unallocated space on an SSD, or an empty partition, it's physically pretty much like using RAM or a memory stick. It certainly wouldn't make any difference to the read/write speed I wouldn't have thought, because of the way it works. There should be some ideas here and here on TRIM programs for XP. As I have a multi-boot machine I rely on Windows 10 doing the TRIM on my NTFS drives. It won't work on FAT32 drives but I have a DOS (!) manual TRIM program for that courtesy of the late great Rudolph Loew!

layers.prefer-opengl - true seems to be fine on FF 52.9 ESR. layers.acceleration.force-enabled causes it to crash on startup though.

Thank you! The third setting was already correct, but I changed the first two and WebGL now works with the ATI card!

Sadly not. If I switch to my other graphics card, the Nvidia Quadro 2000, WebGL works fine, so the Firefox settings are presumably OK. The ATI card just doesn't support it. I have DirectX 9.0c installed.

Search the registry for any entries relating to the mypal executable (presumably mypal.exe). Just delete them and it should come good. Back up the registry first of course, just in case! That's one of the problems if you can't uninstall properly, the program's registry entries are still there.

Is UBO Legacy still being supported? I can't see anything on GitHub to that effect, but it doesn't seem to have been updated since the end of January.

Thanks, that's fascinating stuff! I bought my first PC in 1993 in the Windows 3.1 days, but I never attempted dual booting until I dual booted Windows 98 and Windows 2000, in 2000! I thought that having an NT option would be better for video editing, which I'd just got into, faster and more stable than Windows 98. I waited ages for Windows 2000 to come out because I wanted to wait for FAT32 capability on the NT system, as Windows 98 couldn't use NTFS of course.

Ah, thanks for the clarification jaclaz. I would think it would be very unusual not to have a complete OS installed on drive C: in any system, but interesting to know that it's not actually essential.

Thanks Den, at least that confirms it! I've not been a moderator for very long though, and I thought I could see the flags before I became one. Was this done when the forum software was updated some months ago? A strange decision IMHO when I'm pretty sure that everyone had been able to see the flags for years. Why would xper not want people to see them any more? Perhaps I'll ask him!

Just to be clear, although two operating systems can go on the same physical disk, they have to go in different partitions on that disk. IIRC Vista and above have to be installed on drive C: but XP can go on drive D: (or any other drive letter you choose.) C: still has to be the boot drive though. I actually have Windows 98 on drive C: and Windows XP on drive D: on the same physical disk, and have had for years. I've never done a true dual boot with an OS newer than XP though (my Windows 10 installation is on a completely separate disk).

The switch is there for me on every browser I've tried, so maybe it is a moderators' only option at present. I think that's very odd if it is the case, and if the switch wasn't there I would expect the option to be enabled anyway. I'm sure I used to be able to see members' country flags before I was a moderator. Maybe it's something which has crept in with the new version of the forum software, but if so I suspect it's something that has been left switched off for general members by mistake. Until another moderator or supervisor confirms this by saying they can see the flags and have the switch option I don't know what else to say!

Curiouser and curiouser! I can't image why that setting would only be available for mods! Perhaps @dencorso or @Tripredacus can shed some light here?

How strange. I've always assumed that everyone could see the flags, but obviously not! EDIT: Have you checked this forum setting? I thought it was enabled by default, but you never know!

How strange, the flags are certainly there for me on Firefox 52.9 ESR. They're on every page of the forum in fact. Perhaps they're being blocked somehow for you and others.

The country flags should still be there, they're just to the left of the username now instead of below.