It seems https://catalog.update.microsoft.com is working again on Windows XP with TLS 1.2 updates. It used to be that https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com was the one that worked. It is working for everyone else too? It also seems that the activex control/plugin is also working again, but on www it did not. https://ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=update.microsoft.com This website seems to only support TLS 1.2, but also supports POSready cipher suites. 

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Over TLSv1.2 

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0xc030) 

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0xc02f)

TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0x9f)

TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0x9e)   

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 (0xc028)

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 (0xc027) 

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0xc014)

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (0xc013)  

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0x9d) 

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0x9c)  

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 (0x3d)  

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 (0x3c)  

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35)

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (0x2f)

TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA (0xa)

But, in March, it was like this, 

Edited January 15, 20224 yr by xpandvistafan

I mean, I wouldn't want to open Internet Explorer with a six foot barge pole nor install an ActiveX control, so I never really bothered to check...

... that said, wasn't it working over plain HTTP anyway? At least the dates aren't broken anymore without the ActiveX control since a while ago, that was genuinely irritating.

can this auto install device manager drivers that is marked as unknown device, etc thx