looking for the lenovo t61 restore cds.

"t61_xp32_recovery.iso" and "t61_x32_startup.iso"

if possible the x64 version also.

I came across this on the K-Meleon Forum.  Might be worth discussing.

http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?12,141988

New British aircraft carrier equipped with Windows-XP

Norwegian text:

https://www.digi.no/artikler/har-utstyrt-splitter-nytt-hangarskip-med-windows-xp/396754

I have noticed that remote web fonts have made some web pages difficult to read clearly, and contribute to browser slowdown with font rendering.

If you follow the instructions in this link (credit birdie at TechPowerUp), you experience faster web browsing speeds, and (in my opinion) clearer text. I noticed a huge speed increase.

Disabling web fonts in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome

Some of us hate downloadable web fonts so here's how you can stop websites (including techpowerup) from forcing their glorious fonts down your throat.

1) Mozilla Firefox

Open about:config
Set "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled" to false.

2) Google Chrome
Right Click Chrome's launcher icon, click "Properties".

At the end of the launcher string add the following:

" --disable-remote-fonts" (without quotes).

You're done.

Before:

After:

Did some poking around on my PC at things I don't normally look at regularly and noticed that the single profile on my PC is 3.58 GB in size.  Did some Googling and saw advice about not downloading things directly to your desktop, temp files, Outlook Express files, and stuff in Local Settings in the user profile folder.

My desktop is 99% shortcuts and a few tiny text files.  Never used Outlook, ever. My temp files were redirected to another partition when XP was installed and are empty.  The entire Documents & Settings folder was redirected to another partition when XP was installed.  I just checked, and the Application Data folder is just under 200 MB, and Local Settings is just under 100 MB.

What else would account for my profile being so large?

Hello,
i have managed boot Windows Xp and Geforce 970, but i need also some Audio and Lan driver, and using USBtoLAN adapter as backup and without sounds gaming boring, i had MSI board MSI Z97 Gaming 7 where all these things working, but wasnt available, so i have bought Asrock Z97 Extereme 4/3.1

  Yes i could use also USB audio or soundcard, but switching is annoying.

Update:
Realtek HD 2.74 seems to work fine, so only LAN driver is needed.

https://help.eset.com/eset_tools/ESETEternalBlueChecker.exe

Hello,

i have this X99 MB -MSI X99S SLI PLUS with Windows XP SP3 32bit + Geforce 7950 GT PCI-E - all updates and 2x 8GB (3000 Mhz, Dual Channel) of DDR4 Memory, Aida64 see - 2 stick

In Windows i see only 912 MB of available of RAM, im used to 3.* GB or 2.9 or something like that what could be wrong?

  Part of cd image was some Firadisk driver i have such device in device manager. Im using IDE mode of Sata devices and some null drivers for unknow devices - but problem with RAM was right after installation.
  How to fix it?

  BTW im still looking for Intel 218-V driver for XP, sound and GPU acceleration is working so, if i fix RAM problem and LAN driver - XP for retro gaming could be great with this board.

I am getting less interested in building computers these days, the last motherboard I got doesn't work, I suspect a problem and am tired of trying to make it run.

But what commercial builds can I buy and expect them to run XP?

ASUS, MSI, Lenovo and HP machines are available here. I'd prefer ASUS but the most important feature is the ability to run XP.

Anything you could recommend?

Anyway, it looks like XP compatible hardware soon only will be a sweet memory.

Processor manufacturers will see to that.

I got a link to where we could get XP compatible USB adapters, and I ordered two of them. But something went wrong in tranaitt and they newer arrived here. So I'll have to order again. It is a pain to use a laptop and I can't use the stationary because it is not wireless for the  time being. I dont't have acces to cable connecction here.

Hope I can get some adapters and get properly back on the air again.

NOTE: I originally posted this in the 2000 forum, but it would also be useful duplicated here since XP has such a large user base.

As we know, most websites have artificial browser requirements for using their website. Firefox can be spoofed easily on Windows 2000 and XP. I don't recommend Chrome for spoofing, because 1) Chrome does not really work well on 2000, and 2) Chrome can only store user agent changes temporarily, while the Developer Console is open.

By visiting Citibank's website with Firefox 48 (last working on Windows 2000), it says the browser is out of date and not supported.

So, we go into about:config , create a string value called general.useragent.override , and make the value Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0

This tells the browser to report Windows XP, and Firefox 53.0. Again, we know that XP cannot really support Firefox 53.

After saving, reopen Firefox and go back to Citibank's website. The outdated browser warning is gone. This proves an artificial browser warning.

Also, if you visit a website to check the browser, it reports that it is Firefox 53 on XP, even though we know we are running Firefox 48 on Windows 2000.

This trick will also be useful on XP, since Firefox will not be updated past version 51 going forward.

Mine is below . Please share yours

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"IoPageLockLimit"=dword:00020000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="100"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\stisvc]
"Start"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoRemoteRecursiveEvents"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AlwaysUnloadDLL]
@="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile]
"IsShortCut"=-
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile]
"IsShortCut"=-
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut]
"IsShortCut"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour]
"RunCount"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour]
"RunCount"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000
"{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000
"{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000
"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:000000FA
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:000000FA

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
;"ThumbnailSize"=dword:00000020
"ThumbnailQuality"=dword:0000001E

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001
"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Connection Wizard]
"Completed"=hex:01,00,00,00
"DesktopChanged"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Error Dlg Displayed On Every Error"="no"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Enable Browser Extensions"="yes"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"="0"

;Created by Vishal Gupta for AskVG.com

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="8"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"
"LowLevelHooksTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"MouseHoverTime"="8"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
"LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveSearch"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveTrack"=dword:00000001
"NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="2000"
; Set CPU Priority
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl]
"Win32PrioritySeparation"=dword:00000026
; Disable User Tracking
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoInstrumentation"=dword:00000001
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tomasz had modded the Windows XP x86 ntkrnlpa.exe so that it would support more than 4 gigs in PAE and it recognized all 8 gigs, my question is, how do I do that in XP?

This is my current boot.ini file:

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XPSp4" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

The first “multi” line boots a hard drive with a plain XPSp3.

The second “multi” boots the first partition of a SSD drive with XPSp4, which also is the default option.

I want to add another line with the option to boot the Windows 7 Home edition already on the second partition of the SSD.  

Please show me what the line should read, I tried but didn’t get it right.

No one was updating the other two topics, so I've decided to take this into my own hands. The top sections list browsers which receive updates.

Windows XP 32-bit
Gecko-based Browsers
Firefox ESR 52.1.2 ESR
Cyberfox 52.2.1 ESR
Iceweasel 54
K-Meleon 75.1
SeaMonkey 2.46 (Will stop supporting XP and Vista in release 2.49)

Chromium (Webkit-based) Browsers
Slimjet 10.0.13.0 (Backports Chrome 50)
Comodo Dragon 50.0.0.2
Maxthon 5.0.3.4000

Webkit-Based (Non-Chromium)
Midori 0.5

Presto-based
Opera 12.18

Qt-Based Browsers
Dooble 1.56c
Otter Browser XP

Other
Avant Browser 2017 Build 5
Lunascape 6.15.0

Windows XP 64-bit
Opera 64-bit 44.0.2510.1457 
Waterfox 46

Does not receive updates on XP anymore
Opera 36.0.2130.65
Qupzilla 2.0.1 (Not officially supported)
Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112
Chromium 49
SRW Iron 49
Torch 49
Vivaldi <1.0 (Chromium 49)
Pale Moon 24.7.2
Pale Moon Atom/XP 26.5.0

No longer works
Firefox 53+
Google Chrome 50+
Chromium 50+
Qupzilla 2.0.2+
Comodo IceDragon 50+
Pale Moon 25.0.0+

Unsure
Yandex Browser
Slephiler 6

Italics - Infrequent updates, not likely to receive any more

Inform me of any errors or newer browsers to include!

TL;DR, there's now an easy way to enable MP4 (H.264 + AAC) HTML5 video support in Firefox on Windows XP using the Primetime Content Decryption Module plugin by Adobe (distributed by Mozilla). Meaning, you could get rid of Flash (with some caveats). The irony of course being that you'd have to use another thing by Adobe , but at least it's something not as prone to security problems.

IMPORTANT: The Primetime CDM plugin can no longer be downloaded from Adobe servers, which means that attempts to automatically download the plugin through Firefox GUI will fail even if you edit the download configuration URL per the old instructions below. From now on, you will have to manually install the plugin for all new Firefox installations and any new profiles you create; see the new instructions below. If you already have the plugin installed, you don't need to do anything. (EDIT July 18, 2017)

If you're here because MP4 video has stopped working after you upgraded to Firefox 52.0, see this post. If you still have problems, make sure you have all of the required preferences listed below and their values are set correctly.

Quote

The Adobe CDM doesn't work for EME on WinXP, and we were trying to get it working for unencrypted decoding of MP4/H.264/AAC files on WinXP, but it has a bug that causes it to crash on some systems. So we turned unencrypted decoding via the Adobe GMP off. Adobe have decided that they aren't going to support WinXP furthermore, so they're not going to be fixing that bug. We don't want to use unsupported decoder for unencrypted decoding.

Technically, this plugin has been added to FF for DRMed HTML5 video, but it can be used to play non-DRM as well. It's not officially supported on XP, but hey, neither is XP itself, right? I've been trying it out with FF 46 (later also confirmed with 45, 52 ESR and 47-52) on XP Pro SP3 x86 (with POSReady updates, though I doubt that matters any) for about a week now, and the experience has been pretty encouraging. The vast majority of HTML5 videos have worked without a hitch; ~5% have had 1-2 temporary freezes (the video stops, the audio continues with some crackle), which can be easily worked around by moving the video position slider back a bit and then forward again to where the freeze happened. I've seen only one (1) case of a show-stopper error message about "corruption or unsupported features in video" (quote not verbatim) that couldn't be worked around by jiggling the slider (not a crash, just an error message and the video stopped). You may not necessarily be as lucky, though, as the reason the plugin is not included by default by Mozilla is its reported crashing on some high profile sites.

(If you're interested in getting this to work on Windows 2000, be sure to read @blackwingcat's post below in addition to this one, and why not his blog posts (1, 2, 3) as well (in Japanese, but with screen shot images).)

To be able to install and operate the Primetime CDM, add and/or set the following FF preferences in about:config :

media.gmp-eme-adobe.enabled (boolean, true)

media.gmp-eme-adobe.forceSupported (boolean, true; FF 49.0+)

media.gmp-eme-adobe.forcevisible (boolean, true; FF 45-48, no longer used in 49.0+)

media.gmp-eme-adobe.visible (boolean, true; FF 49.0+)

media.gmp-eme-adobe.version (string, 17; required for manual install now that automatic install is no longer an option)

media.gmp-eme-adobe.abi (string, x86-msvc-x86; not required, you can set it if you want to more closely mimic automatic install)

media.gmp-eme-adobe.lastUpdate (integer, 1500000000; not required, you can set it if you want to more closely mimic automatic install)

media.gmp.decoder.enabled (boolean, true)

media.eme.enabled (boolean, true; defaults to false if you downloaded a DRM-free version of FF; thanks @heinoganda for pointing this out)

To manually install the actual Primetime plugin software, first download the ZIP package from @sdfox7's site (he has plenty of other useful XP stuff there as well, definitely worth checking out!). You can use the following checksums to verify package integrity:

Quote

File: primetime_gmp_win_x86_gmc_40673.zip
CRC-32: 5c9b1c6f
MD4: a009006e1158e996d7aefc71e9d8beb3
MD5: 0ce9ca6bda8606e7cf3ee3b228a28b59
SHA-1: aef911a8f6c794a1a2f262601fb25fb78e5cf489
SHA-256: 80975242372357cb24686e788521a77c0d7e03831ff56f7a22ede752bab11395

To install the plugin:

1. Open your FF profile folder. An easy way to navigate to it is by opening about:support in FF and clicking the Open Folder button next to Profile Folder.
2. Inside the profile folder, create subfolder gmp-eme-adobe and open it.
3. Inside gmp-eme-adobe, create subfolder 17 and open it.
4. Unpack the Primetime ZIP archive into folder 17.
5. Folder [your FF profile path]\gmp-eme-adobe\17 should now contain three files: eme-adobe.dll, eme-adobe.info, eme-adobe.voucher.

After this, check the Plugins in your Add-ons list and you should see the Primetime plugin listed and ready for use. If you don't see the plugin there, make sure you've set all of the required preferences as described above and put the files into the correct subfolder. Restarting Firefox to complete the manual install isn't usually required, but try it if the plugin doesn't appear, (Also, remember that if you have more than one Firefox profile, you'll need to repeat these steps for each of them individually.)

Set the Primetime plugin to Always Activate, Flash to Never Activate (not strictly necessary, but better for testing), and go to Youtube HTML5 video player check page. Both H.264 and MSE & H.264 should have blue checkmarks. You may want to try this test page (kindly suggested by @dencorso) or some Twitter videos to quickly make sure H.264 really is working (with Youtube you can get fooled by WebM getting played instead).

In theory, you could uninstall Flash at this point, but realistically it's probably wiser for now to leave it installed and disabled in the browser. Personally, I installed the FlashDisable extension to quickly toggle Flash on some of the sites I frequent that don't support HTML5 video. Some of those insistently serve Flash video to desktop FF without even checking if it can do HTML5 video or not. That can be worked around by faking a different user agent string, but for now I've found it more convenient to just temporarily toggle Flash back on for them. FlashDisable supports the Ask to Activate setting, so you don't have to worry about other sites if you forget to turn Flash off again.

Based on what Mozilla devs have been saying on Bugzilla (Unhide Adobe GMP on Windows XP, Hide Adobe GMP on Windows XP in Firefox 46 and 47, Make Adobe GMP available to Windows XP users in Firefox 45 and later) it seems quite possible that this plugin could soon (FF 48+) be made available without having to use any tricks (or pre-release versions), but I suppose it's also possible that the current situation will continue indefinitely (or even that the plugin will eventually be made more difficult to access under XP). (EDIT July 18, 2017) As you've likely heard, FF 52 ESR is the last version of the browser that's going to work on XP (unless some intrepid person forks a special version for us). In a way, this is a blessing in disguise, as Primetime support has been completely excised from FF 53 and Google's Widevine CDM doesn't have our helpful side-effect (and doesn't work on XP), but ESR 52 will be supported well into 2018. So, why not make use of it while we can, right?

Note that HLS streaming is not natively supported with this plugin. It does work on sites coded to use some JS library or player to work with HLS, but not for directly playing .m3u8 video sources. You may want to keep an eye on developments with hls.js in general and firefox-hls in particular if a favorite site of yours falls into the latter category.

Hello,
i quite often have to edit drivers section of autoruns - remove ghost driver of old devices and software - which werent properly untiled i do it through Autoruns, problem is that i dont know how to quickly save and restore setting changed by Autoruns, so often in end with Bluescreen in boot process even into Safe mode and i dont know how to fix it.. in other way when restore whole installation backup - and thats is very time consuming.

  I have Create restore points and after - use Last know working configuration option, but it doesnt working to this sort of crash.

  Lets assume that i have on same machine some other working windows installation to edit files on partition which in booting  after change right know.

  So working ghost driver remove would be nice too, but i know its complicated..

Welcome to the club "Windows XP Spotter", a club which aims to collect pictures of running Windows XP (or XP based, like WES, WePOS, POSReady2009 and Server 2003) machines during these days. I'm gonna start:

London Victoria Station, Ground Floor, McDonald's uses Windows PosReady (XP-based) tills, but I didn't manage to get a pic of them (yet).

In the meantime, I got a supermarket (running XP):

And a friend of mine living in Italy, Ivo, sent me this:

Ok people, go out and conquer the world shoot pictures of running XP (or XP-based) machines.

Does anyone know where I can find stpboot.bin as referred to in this thread?

Make your own NT OS Loader (NTLDR+SetupLDR)!

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5880

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The link used in the thread appears to be dead