Dave-H

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.

I usually fall back on the good old Universal Extractor for that sort of thing!

Yes, I saw that too. Still, I guess we did have six months more updates than we expected, so can't complain! Now we know that version 14.0.7268.5000 of the Office 2010 MSO.DLL is the last one, I wonder if anyone could modify it to be XP compatible..........?

No Office 2010 updates offered this month. This could well finally be the end.

Yes, do let us know how it goes! If your laptop has to be dismantled to get at the drive I think you'll almost certainly be OK as the drive will very likely be secured by screws into its sides, which should be fine as the spacing should be the same on the SSD as on the original conventional hard drive. If however the drive is accessible though a door in the bottom of the machine, as Tripdredacus said it may need additional support.

FWIW my very underpowered Asus netbook's performance noticeably improved when I changed the hard drive for an SSD. If nothing else, I assume that it makes swapfile usage pretty much as fast as RAM access. I never actually benchmarked it, but in real use it seemed significantly more responsive. Sadly the processor is still rubbish, so I can't do much else!

I don't see why it wouldn't work, my motherboard is from 2009 and works with SSDs absolutely fine, but not at their maximum capable transfer speed of course. An SSD should appear to the system exactly the same as a conventional drive. One of my SSDS is 465GB and there is no problem with it. All my SSDs are Sandisk, but I can't think that the brand would make any difference. You would need a program to TRIM the drive though, as you're probably aware, you should never run legacy defrag programs on an SSD! Windows XP cannot TRIM drives like later versions of Windows of course, as SSD support was never added.