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On 12/3/2019 at 8:16 PM, Sampei.Nihira said:

Sorry to say: The PE patched SumatraPDF prerelease executable locks up after using it for a few minutes in Windows XP. The latest release build 3.1.2 does not have this problem.

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Last version of Spotify working with XP is version 1.0.20.101.ge6957e14.
Download here (drag directory to %appdata% folder): https://drive.google.com/file/d/17k5C7tcYBtZS6LR9y3_OKv-CXLUXBC0X/view?usp=sharing

Latest versions of WinSCP and Dosbox work fine.

Last version of Rainmeter working is 3.3.3: https://builds.rainmeter.net/Rainmeter-3.3.3.exe

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Looking around the page below (I use fileoptimizer every now and then), saw this thing:

https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=PatchPE

Supposedly, " PatchPE is a patcher for PE executable headers, that could make them compatible with older versions of Windows. Additionaly it enables LAA (Large Address Aware) attribute to the EXE, so it can take advantage of allocating more than 2 GB. of physical memory. Recent linkers, use to add latest versions on the headers, so, you can find programs that are marked to work only on Windows 10, but once patched, they can work in Windows XP, or even 2000 or NT."

Has anybody tried it?
 

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On 12/31/2019 at 9:41 AM, dmiranda said:

Looking around the page below (I use fileoptimizer every now and then), saw this thing:

https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=PatchPE

Supposedly, " PatchPE is a patcher for PE executable headers, that could make them compatible with older versions of Windows. Additionaly it enables LAA (Large Address Aware) attribute to the EXE, so it can take advantage of allocating more than 2 GB. of physical memory. Recent linkers, use to add latest versions on the headers, so, you can find programs that are marked to work only on Windows 10, but once patched, they can work in Windows XP, or even 2000 or NT."

Has anybody tried it?
 

OK, I have jush finished to test PatchPE 1.30 (why not version 1.31, see below) with hexdump for Windows https://www.di-mgt.com.au/hexdump-for-windows.html

By default, hexdump doesn't works on XP:

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So, I have patched hexdump with PatchPE 1.30 and that's works :w00t::

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I have used version 1.30 because version 1.31 doesn't works on XP ! :wacko:

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BUT, if you want, you can patch PatchPE 1.31 with PatchPE 1.30 and it will works again on XP :blink::

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There is only one disavantage with the version 1.31, now PatchPE need a computer that's support SSE2. It is not the case with the version 1.30.

 

It seems that PatchPE can be useful in some situations. :w00t:

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3 hours ago, genieautravail said:

I have used version 1.30 because version 1.31 doesn't works on XP ! :wacko:

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BUT, if you want, you can patch PatchPE 1.31 with PatchPE 1.30 and it will works again on XP :blink::

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Sure, fine, you can use that, but why don't you just use xompie as you can automatise it through a bat and it's not only gonna replace the header but it's also gonna try to relink the programme to use a patched version of kernelxp.dll in order to redirect calls that have a different name but that can still work with the XP implementation of them thus increasing your chances of getting programmes to work? Xompie has been available for years now...

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6 hours ago, FranceBB said:

Sure, fine, you can use that, but why don't you just use xompie as you can automatise it through a bat and it's not only gonna replace the header but it's also gonna try to relink the programme to use a patched version of kernelxp.dll in order to redirect calls that have a different name but that can still work with the XP implementation of them thus increasing your chances of getting programmes to work? Xompie has been available for years now...

Perhaps more simple to use, especially with command line tools.

I Use a lot of them for my scripts. :hello:

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On 1/3/2020 at 11:17 AM, FranceBB said:

Sure, fine, you can use that, but why don't you just use xompie

that tool from github contains a trojan. why don't github files get scanned ?

 

 

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1 hour ago, caliber said:

that tool from github contains a trojan. why don't github files get scanned ?

 

 

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False positive. I'm pretty sure that if you scan the file in virustotal, the positives will significantly outweight the negatives.

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17 hours ago, IntMD said:

False positive. I'm pretty sure

a false positive should not infect Windows whatsoever.

this trojan makes firefox based browsers @roytam1 almost unusable unless you delete the profile folder or start them in safe mode.

then you run the anti virus to clean up the trojan ET VOILÀ ! problem solved.

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56 minutes ago, caliber said:

a false positive should not infect Windows whatsoever.

this trojan makes firefox based browsers @roytam1 almost unusable unless you delete the profile folder or start them in safe mode.

then you run the anti virus to clean up the trojan ET VOILÀ ! problem solved.

Are you sure that it's Xompie itself that wrecks it up instead of something else that might cause any incompatibility? The author of this project has been in this community for at least 10 years, so those are bold accusations. (also have you tested it on a clean profile before installing xompie? I'm not aware of anything that might mess with firefox or roytam's browsers). Also the source code is on github, so anybody can review it for any malware behavior, and so far nobody has said about it being malware. Have you used the latest master build (clone the repo, save as zip, launch the install cmd), whether this happens with that too?

Remind you that Malware.Gen and other Artemis detections may happen to be false positives, so be sure that what you say is really true.

I'll let these virustotal results be posted to research 'em (not just look at the summary results):

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/24f612ee3e13fdb5cd3273159e49a9072ae4cc330fb473e633224f19f5ce6d01/detection - Xompie 0.6a (23/69 = ~33%)

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7505068ee4fe4a7d809b84271494201aa2b1c353ec302dfd58bfb743b104daac/detection - Xompie master build (zip clone repo from github) (19/64 = ~29-30%)

I've scanned these files with Windows Defender/Security in Windows 10 1909 (18363.535) with latest definitions, and it hasn't detected anything.

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