Dave-H

Thanks!

Good to hear! Could you add the information to this thread, outlining the procedure that you used? This will help others. Thanks, Dave.

Possibly, although I always imagined there would be a special mechanism for them, not using the public site.

I don't actually think it will ever work again, in fact I'm surprised it's still there, as I said earlier. The only thing it's any good for now is checking your update history.

Glad you sorted it!

Try selecting the "customizer" icon at the top and make sure that "Larger font-size for posts?" is switched on. It may have been on before but got switched off somehow. Also check the browser zoom level settings of course!

Are you using the latest version, v1.57? I had terrible problems with it, it seemed to be very unstable, freezing and crashing all the time. I ended up having to go back to v1.53, which still works fine.

Well I'm glad the replacement config.ini at least enabled it to try to connect without immediately failing! I can't connect to Microsoft Update either at the moment. Maybe a temporary problem, but who knows? I was actually surprised that they didn't take the update v6 web pages down anyway as soon as they changed the security protocol requirements, there are no supported operating systems or programs that still use that mechanism now anyway AFAIK!

That's very interesting, I wasn't aware of the "Lite" version of MediaInfo. I wonder if that will still work on XP with future versions of MediaInfo.dll? I suppose it depends on what's been done to make the full version incompatible with XP. If it's only GUI changes then the Lite version may still work.

Is that using my "config.ini" on ProxHTTPSProxy?

Maybe it won't work "out of the box". Try with my HTTPSProxy config.ini file in your installation, it has a lot added to it compared with the default version. Config.ini

Boo! I've been using that for years, it's incredibly useful if you do a lot of work with videos from many different sources, especially with its Explorer integration. It hasn't been updated that often recently though, it used to be updated at least every month, so I guess they're not finding much to add to it now so the last XP version won't become problematic anytime soon.

It still works fine in IE8 with ProxHTTPSProxy installed too of course!

There are instructions for patching the XP files if you have access to a Windows 7-10 machine. Basically, patch the files on that machine and then copy the patched versions back to the XP machine!

Ah OK, just thought I'd mention it as an option!

Have you tried using the Flash files with the time bomb removed? They're still working fine for normal browser Flash operations, and running Flash screen savers. How they would work with a piece of software which relies on Flash outside the browser I don't know, but I imagine they would.

Yes Vista is mentioned in the thread title, because it's a thread about the cessation of the Windows Update services, which happens to apply to both XP and Vista, which is why it's mentioned. However posts about problems which are specific to Vista alone should of course be in the Vista section.

Well posts about Windows Vista should not be in this section of the forum anyway! You contribution was obviously valuable @Dixel, and if you want to please make a new thread in the Vista section of the forum outlining your fix and stating what problems it should resolve. We will look at pinning it, and moving the relevant posts from this thread to it. AFAIK liking or upvoting posts does not give them any more prominence here, and while you are quite free to ask people to upvote your posts, others are quite entitled to disapprove of this! Cheers, Dave.

Using WSUS?

A solution was found, in the other thread.

This is what I use as a replacement for Task Manager. It has pretty comprehensive process killing functions, which I've never known to fail.

Do we know how many of those tools still work on XP? I would be very surprised if they all do!

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Thanks to @FantasyAcquiescetoo in that case!