Dave-H

No, it's an Office file, AFAIK it's not part of Windows if Office isn't installed. I guess if you want to slipstream all the updates, you will need to just do that, but then replace the MSO.DLL file with version 14.0.7214.5000 after the process is finished. If you don't do that, you will end up with a non-functional installation. Must easier to do that as if you uninstall updates you will get nagged by Microsoft Update about updates being missing (if it's still working that is!) Just get KB4092483 from the Update Catalogue, extract the MSO.DLL from it, and replace the one installed with it. Whether that can be automated with a batch file or something I don't know.

The only thing you have to watch out for is that you don't use a version of MSO.DLL after version 14.0.7214.5000, which is the last XP compatible version. That was issued with KB4092483. All other files are fine (so far!) When you install KB4092483 keep a copy of its MSO.DLL file somewhere safe, and if Office programs fail to run when subsequent updates are installed, just replace MSO.DLL with the one you saved. Everything should then come good.

Although the MS Update webpage opens for me again now, it's still not working. It scans for a few seconds, and then fails with error 0x80244019. WUMT still isn't working either for me, still just shows error 0x80244004. MBSA also still fails to download the scanning database every time I try a scan, with the ESENT error 623 in the Windows Application Event log. So as far as I'm concerned, still nothing is working!

Thanks! I didn't realise that WUMT would work from a local file. I always assumed that it had to have a live connection to the update servers.

So how come WUMT woks on XP for you, but not for me? My copy of wsusscn2.cab was from 2018, so I ran MBSA to update it. It said it was downloading the updates data, and was downloading for ages, but then said that the download had failed, and carried on the scan using the old version! So what exactly was it downloading for all that time?! EDIT: Just found this in the event log. wuaueng.dll (6040) SUS20ClientDataStore: The version store for this instance (0) has reached its maximum size of 8Mb. It is likely that a long-running transaction is preventing cleanup of the version store and causing it to build up in size. Updates will be rejected until the long-running transaction has been completely committed or rolled back. Possible long-running transaction: SessionId: 0x02C803C0 Session-context: 0x00000000 Session-context ThreadId: 0x00000F44 Anyone any ideas about that? It's almost certainly the cause of the download failure.

No joy there either I'm afraid, error 0x80244004 which is basically, "can't connect to the server". Looks like it's all permanently gone. I guess it's off to the catalogue for the last few Office 2010 updates. At least I have the 64 bit version installed on Windows 10, so that should tell me what updates have been issued.

It does take a very long time to find updates at the moment, you have to be very patient! I've never known it not to get there in the end though. Leave it scanning overnight.

Sorry yes, it would have helped if I'd actually bothered to look at the documentation which came with the program! It does clearly say it's intended for FAT32 partitions only.

The late great Rudolph Loew produced a "TRIM" program which works in DOS! I use it to TRIM two SSD partitions I have which are FAT32 formatted, which Windows doesn't want to know about. I assume it would work on NTFS partitions, but I'm not certain of that.

Well I just bought only a week ago a new 500GB Sandisk Ultra 3D SSD (SDSSDH3_500G_401120RL), and it recognises that fine.

FWIW Sandisk SSD Toolkit v1 works fine on XP, if you have Sandisk SSDs. Not sure whether it will recognise other brands, all my SSDs are Sandisk.

Thanks, that does seem to have fixed the poor rendering of the Trend download page! How do you actually import that code though? I'm sure I must have done it before, but I couldn't get it to work this time. I had to resort to directly editing the code in the project settings file. I tried importing it in the Project Options>HTTP Tab>Streaming Responses section, but when I tried to "Load" the JSON file nothing happened.

Ah thanks, I did wonder! Are there any other visual differences? they look pretty identical to me in every other respect.

YouTube still works fine for me on Firefox 52.9 ESR on XP, the only thing different when I look at it on Firefox 79 on Windows 10 is that you get a short preview of videos when you hover the cursor on them in the lists. This does no happen in 52.9. How do I know whether I'm seeing Polymer v1 or v2?

What about updates to Office 2010, which are still being served by Microsoft Update on Windows XP? That is still supported with security updates until October, supposedly.

Thank you again!

I've now belatedly realised that the Burp settings in the registry are under HKCU\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\burp, not HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\burp, which is where I was looking! D'oh! Sorry for the confusion! The settings seem to be all in that key as they should be. Why the registry is getting corrupted is strange though, perhaps Burp just doesn't like the Windows 98 registry structure.

Assuming this isn't just spam, I don't see how it's relevant to the subject of this thread as it's a Android phone app!

Is that a whole operating system? Actually the netbook itself is 64 bit, I'm just running 32 bit operating systems on it.

I did think about perhaps buying the full version of Burp, until I saw the price!

Understood, I thought that would be the case. I've left the driver installed but with the device disabled. Thanks again for all your help! I can manage OK with the basic Microsoft driver, in fact I've found it works quite a bit better if you switch off all the graphics acceleration functions. The display refreshing when you drag windows about is noticeably better. My main worry was that I would be limited to VGA level resolution, but that isn't the case, and it will do the native resolution of the netbook display, which is good. As an off-topic aside, I finally bit the bullet and "upgraded" the Windows 8.1 installation on the netbook to Windows 10! I got so fed up with various annoying issues on Windows 8.1, mainly things like the Offline Files system not working properly, that I decided to see if Windows 10 was better, and I did it for free so no problems there (I wonder how many people know that you can actually still do that?) The machine seems to be performing much better with Windows 10! Cheers, Dave.

I guess that's because the Azul installer installs its Java as a standalone installation, it doesn't install it to the system. As dencorso says, the usual rather tedious registry editing exercise will still have to be done as it was with the newer Oracle files. The few things I still use which are Java based generally have their own JREs included with them anyway, albeit rather old ones, so I guess I probably won't bother now going beyond 251 on the XP system.

Well Adobe has said IIRC that Flash will not only be unsupported after the end of the year, but will no longer even work, and I guess they meant it! I guess versions before 32.0.0.371 will still work though, I don't see how Adobe could retrospectively block them.

@jaclaz So, is that it, are we now done?

I have never seen the Burp subkey. Perhaps I should manually add it.