Dave-H

Anyone any idea how to get rid of this annoying banner on YouTube? I've tried hiding it with uBlock Origin, but it seems to be connected to the text box above, and I can't hide the banner without hiding the information box above, which I want to keep of course! Even more annoyingly, if you click on the 'install' button, the thing the banner's plugging doesn't even seem to be actually available yet!

I don't think that app passwords work any more with Microsoft e-mail.

I would be very surprised indeed if the version of Outlook in Office 2007 supported OAuth2. Surely it went out of support long before OAuth2 was a thing! You would need a recent version of Outlook, and even the last to work on XP, from Office 2010, would be very unlikely to work.

I will be very seldom replying to messages sent to my Hotmail account, so advertising on the sent messages with the OE Classic free version is not an issue for me. If I do need to reply I can do that from Aurora (the in-alpha Eudora replacement) on Windows 10 where I have a proxy set up for OAuth2. As a message reader on XP, the free version will do just fine.

Just to report, I'm now using OE Classic on XP, and it's great! It fetches the messages from my Hotmail account with no problems whatsoever, and as I'm only using it with one account, the free version is fine.

I'm getting a green padlock with the proxy in use, unlike with a direct connection, but the site seems to work fine with either configuration, including downloading files.

I'm using - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 This matches the string used by Thorium.

I'm not seeing any verification. This is what I'm seeing - The certificate appears to be faulty, but everything still seems to work.

This is in Windows XP. No sign of any problem at all.

Strange, as I said, it works fine for me with 360Chrome 13.5.2036.0. And I've changed the UA string from the default too, which I think was speculated might be part of the problem.

Thanks. That's good to know. Did you mean "db" files, or was that a typo? Outlook Express mailbox files are 'dbx' files.

The Sourceforge site seems to work fine here, in 360Chrome, Supermium, and Thorium. At least the homepage looks fine. What are you actually trying to do there?

The Sourceforge site seems to work fine here, in 360Chrome, Supermium, and Thorium. At least the homepage looks fine. What are you actually trying to do there?

Good to have it confirmed that OE Classic does still work with Hotmail (and presumably Outlook) accounts on XP! I won't be using it because my entire e-mail history going back nearly 30 years is in my Eudora e-mail client, so I don't want to change unless I have to. Am I right in assuming that, like the original Outlook Express, OE Classic does store the mailboxes and messages locally in dbx and eml format?

A friend told me last night that he is still successfully using OE Classic with Hotmail on XP, so presumably OE Classic does include OAuth2 support, probably with a 'borrowed' token.

My understanding is that an e-mail client has to be registered with an e-mail provider for OAuth2 to work with that provider's servers. The client is issued with a token which has to be used. The proxy I'm using is actually using a token which was issued to Mozilla Thunderbird, and the Microsoft servers therefore think that it is Thunderbird. I gather that the mechanism for getting a token from Microsoft is quite complex, so 'borrowing' someone else's is a lot easier than going through the hoops to get one of your own!

Microsoft are enforcing mandatory OAuth2 authorisation on their e-mail systems. Basic password logins will no longer work, even with 'app specific' passwords. I'm surprised that the mechanism for that is even still there, I suspect that it won't be for long. Gmail will go the same way soon, I'm afraid, as will all the other major mass e-mail providers eventually, I suspect. The writing is on the wall now for any e-mail client which doesn't support OAuth2, I'm afraid. I use a proxy to work around the problem, but that's no help on Windows XP, where the proxy will not work.

@user57 This '64 bit' conversation is completely off-topic for this thread. Please start a new thread with an appropriate title, and I will move the relevant posts into it. Thank you.

Yes, they said it would happen on September 16th, it actually happened a week later, yesterday. I'm using an OAuth2 proxy to maintain access to my Hotmail account using Aurora (the successor to Eudora) and it works fine. Unfortunately, it won't work on XP, so I'm now having to boot into Windows 10 to access my Hotmail account, unless I use webmail of course.

There is no problem including paid software in this thread. Any software which still works on Windows XP now is worth mentioning. I would ask though that if software is not freeware that it should be mentioned in the relevant post.

FWIW my Windows temporary folder is also marked as read only, so I don't think that's your problem. If your temporary folder really was unwritable you'd be having a lot more issues, as many programs need to write to it all the time, including Windows itself.

Should do, yes. I have drives on my multi-boot system which I keep on FAT32 for compatibility with Windows 98!

Is the C: drive NTFS formatted? If it's FAT32, that's the reason. The security tab only appears on NTFS drives.

This is off-topic of course as we're talking about browsers on later operating systems, but could it be a certificate issue? Not working on 114, 119, or 115 because it's too new, and not working on 125 or 128 because it's too old?! For 122, 123, and 124 'just right' like Goldilocks' porridge!