Hi,
I set Interlink Mailnews as my default email client.
New Moon as default browser.
In the Start Menu New Moon is present, while Interlink MailNews is missing:
Why?
I added the client to the Start Menu, but it's not the same layout:
I found the link below:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/start-menu-reg
What do you think?
TH.
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.
NOTE: If you're suddenly unable to watch videos on Facebook (or any other site) even though you haven't changed anything re: Primetime, you may have to start spoofing your browser UA (user agent) string to work around this problem. See the posts starting here for the specifics. (EDIT October 30, 2017)
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.
QuoteThe 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 (be careful, all of these are cAsE sEnSiTiVe!):
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, not integer; 17; required for manual install now that automatic install is no longer an option)
media.gmp-eme-adobe.abi (string; x86-msvc-x86 (EDIT: x86-msvc-x64 for 64-bit XP users); 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)
Ignore this section and use the instructions for manual install after it. The instructions in here were applicable when the Adobe CDM was still available for automatic online install and are being kept for historical reasons.
45.x.x ESR users: also change media.gmp-manager.url or the Primetime plugin won't get downloaded for you. The default value is "https://aus5.mozilla.org/update/3/GMP/%VERSION%/%BUILD_ID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/%OS_VERSION%/%DISTRIBUTION%/%DISTRIBUTION_VERSION%/update.xml", change only the bolded portion as follows: "https://aus5.mozilla.org/update/3/GMP/46.0/%BUILD_ID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/%OS_VERSION%/%DISTRIBUTION%/%DISTRIBUTION_VERSION%/update.xml". The host in your default may be something other than aus5.mozilla.org, you only need to change the %VERSION% part.
52.x.x ESR users starting with a clean profile (or any other profile without an already installed Primetime plugin) should do the same, only replace %VERSION% with 51.0 instead.
After this, when you check your Plugins list, you should see a notice about the Primetime plugin getting downloaded shortly. If you don't want to wait, check for updates manually (from the gear button dropdown menu). The plugin files will be placed in the gmp-eme-adobe subfolder under your FF profile.
To manually install the actual Primetime plugin software, first download the ZIP package (backup link) 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:
QuoteFile: primetime_gmp_win_x86_gmc_40673.zip
CRC-32: 5c9b1c6f
MD4: a009006e1158e996d7aefc71e9d8beb3
MD5: 0ce9ca6bda8606e7cf3ee3b228a28b59
SHA-1: aef911a8f6c794a1a2f262601fb25fb78e5cf489
SHA-256: 80975242372357cb24686e788521a77c0d7e03831ff56f7a22ede752bab11395
To install the plugin:
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.
There was some discussion about this in the Chrome thread, but I thought it better to create a separate topic instead of having posts buried in a different thread. The most relevant parts are here: 1 (VistaLover), 2 (dencorso), 3 (VistaLover). Since it appears to have ended on a failure, I'm taking the liberty of restating some of what was covered by them. I don't mean to overstep or hog the glory by any means, so if the mods want to prepend those posts to this thread, I have no objection.
P.S. Hi everyone and thanks for the truckloads of useful information that's been posted here in the past. I've been lurking for about 1.5 years already and thought it was about time to contribute something.
Since 14 of april 2016 there is no longer possible to update MSE; after multiple attempts on several systems the result is always the same: error code 0X800700c1! My guess is microsoft stop porting MSE updates to XP version of MSE! What good AV can still be used with XP - good performance and low on resources?
To celebrate the year when XP will be EOL lets list feature that's not supported by/for Windows XP.
The list meant to be "technology enabler", so no end-user software listed here.
OS Builtin (Microsoft):
4Kn AF Drive
AHCI generic (ongoing support by UniATA)
AR and VR
AVX
CODEC for modern multimedia formats (support by e.g LAVFilters)
DirectX e.g DXVA2, Direct2D, DirectWrite >= 10 (partial suppport by Wine)
.NET >= 4.5 (partial support by Mono)
ETW
GPT (driver supported by Paragon)
HTML5 (ongoing support by Maxthon and Seamonkey)
Input Language for Indic and few others (Support by MS Indic or Google Input Tools or Free Keyman Desktop 8.0)
IPv6 partial support missing DHCPv6 (use dibbler as alternative) and PPPv6
KASLR (partial support by Ozone/Wehntrust)
KPTI
Media Foundation e.g. WASAPI
MultiTouch/Gesture (also check this)
NDIS > 5.1
ODBC > 3.51 (most BigData vendor provide JDBC alternative)
PAE > 4GB (note: VM is up to 16TB, detectable RAM up to 2^37 and usable by Gavotte RAMDisk as multiple 4GB pagefiles)
PowerShell > 2.0
SSTP
StorPort
UDF >= 2.5 (HD-DVD driver by Toshiba / Bluray driver by Panasonic)
UNICODE (uniscribe) >= 5, Incomplete 4.x, and missing some unicode fonts (newer version available as part of Office Viewer 2010 with VistaFont Pack)
USB 3 generic (driver supported by e.g ASMedia, NEC)
WIC at same level as Vista (additional codec by older and free FastPictureViewer)
WIA (incomplete, available as separate install? see this)
Windows Installer MSI > 4.5
Windows Store / UWP
WSSAPI (separately bundled in InTune)
3rd Party:
10GbE Ethernet (Many drivers support Windows 2003 but not XP specifically, some old 40Gb/s Infiniband NOT ethernet might supported by OFA driver)
CUDA > 5.2
Dokan (FUSE) > 0.6
Electron (The popular way to make "App", usable alternative by NW.js 0.14.7)
HEVC/AVC HW Accelerated Encoder
JavaVM > 8
NVMe (OFA driver port)
Oculus VR (apparently older runtime SDK did support, but the device driver never support XP, so maybe other vendor?)
OpenGL >= 4.6
OpenCL >= 1.2 (AMD/Nvidia Driver only have OpenCL 1.1 interface file for XP though they may bundle OpenCL 1.2 runtime)
SATA/SAS 12Gbps
Steam ?
Surround Display per GPU (support by Matrox pre-radeon chipset)
Thunderbolt
UHD 60Hz Resolution, DisplayPort >= 1.2, HDMI >= 2.0
Ultrium LTO > 6 (note: XP never support LTFS)
Vulkan, SPIR-V
I'm sure missed a lot so please add more and correct me too.
Just wondering which antivirus xp users here like & use. Thank you.
The title pretty much says it all as usual.
I've tried disabling secure boot and enabling legacy boot as well. However, a rufus pen drive will not boot!
Any suggestions?
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.
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.
Hello, I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with a Pentium 4, 3.06 Ghz, 1.5 GB RAM, and a Geforce 6200. The Bios on this computer is A09, however, this version of the bios doesn't support hyper-threading, an older version of it did (Dell took down the hyper-threading bios soon after the release). On the link above, users mention a place I could find the bios at, but they didn't post a link, and just refer to the site as "Spongebob's website." Does anyone know where I could reach this site, or does anyone know of another way I could get this bios?
-thanks
Branched from this topic:
My attempt of installing Windows XP on a Bay Trail-M CPU has been hampered by the ACPI.sys file. Luckily, a kind user had updated that file here
Unfortunately, I must format the file to an LZX:21 archive then change the extension to "SY_" if I want to manually include the updated file in a Windows XP installation CD...an attempt of sending a compressed folder with the extension change made the installation warn that the file was corrupt and aborted.
Does anyone know how to compress to LZX? I tried looking but found no archivers that would compress to that format...
All
A while ago I discovered that Amazon Prime Video stopped working on Windows XP. Attempting to open it in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox fails with "Unsupported Operating System."
Additionally, spoofing the browser as Firefox 53 or newer on XP will then tell you that Firefox is missing a DRM component.
However, today I discovered that Amazon Prime Video works perfectly in SeaMonkey on Windows XP. Using SeaMonkey forces Amazon to use Silverlight, and it works flawlessly!
This is very surprising to me since Silverlight has been mostly deprecated across the web. I'm surprised Amazon Prime Video is compatible with it.
To download Silverlight 5.1.50907 (the final release), you can download it from my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/Silverlight5.1.50907.exe
To download Sea Monkey 2.49.4, you can download the full version on my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/SeaMonkey Setup 2.49.4.exe
Finally a snake is caught .
Python37_WinXP_20181128_105126167.exe
https://www114.zippyshare.com/v/FBBJz5vw/file.html
Special thanks to Samuka since I stole his API implementation.
Special thanks to FranceBB for making installer for me .
I believe it will help Https proxy development too.
Hey, as I was browsing my options for a windows xp installation, I noticed there was not a single offline installer for Chedot.
Is there a way I can create offline installers with web browsers in general? I saw a tutorial on doing so for Chedot by using Resource hacker and makesfx.exe
I'm not programmer either but would it be difficult to backport newer Chromium tarballs to Windows XP, given this archive?
https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromium-browser-official/?marker=chromium-50.0.2625.0-lite.tar.xz.hashe%40
Hi to all MSFN members.
CCleaner considers New Moon as Firefox.
We would expect it to be the same for Thunderbird and MailNews.
But is not so.
However, I noticed that after starting Thunderbird there are 3 areas considered by CCleaner.
1) Internet Cache
2) Cookies
3) Session:
I have verified that the files / folders are almost identical for Session and Internet Cache.
While I do not detect Cookies.
I added these 2 settings to the custom folders / files to be cleaned:
I'm asking some MSFN members to check the above.
And if there is any mistake to help me correct it.
Thank you.
Is it true that update servers are being decommissioned for 2000, XP, and Vista as of July 2019? This might warrant a dedicated topic, no?
(I've duplicated this in the Vista and Windows 2000 sections too)
Hello.
I was looking around for browsers for Windows XP today and apperantly I dug quite deep because I found a chinese browser called Extreme Explorer 360 (Chrome 360) or something like that. It was advertised as Chromium 69 based so I decided to give it a try and to my biggest surprice it actually worked. 
At first I thought that there was absolutely no way that it is based on Chromium 69 but after serveral tests it seems like it was infact based on Chromium 69 which has been somehow backported to Windows XP and probably even Vista too.
The one thing that really bothers me to say the least is the fact that it is developed by a chinese company. Can I trust it?
Also, if they did actually get Chromium 69 completely working on Windows XP, isn't it possible for someone to maybe backport the original Chrome 69 browser too? 
Here's why I do bellieve that it is in fact based on Chromium 69:
This one might not be as a solid of a proof as it is just the user agent but WhatIsMyBrowser.com reports that it is infact Chrome 69 running on Windows Server 2003 (XP x64)
So what are your thoughts on this guys? I am really confused whether I should just keep using it as it seems to be a much newer version of Chromium than any other browser on XP but is it actually safe?
Hello nice people!
Should the XP user community have a thread about the latest version of applications (and runtimes and so on) that run on well updated but unmodified XP sp3? As inspired by
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/133014-last-versions-of-software-for-windows-2000/
because more and more software editors drop the XP compatibility, so just now would be the right time to write it down.
This might need someone who maintains the thread for readability, maybe to keep a front page with the raw information.
What do you think?
Since nothing came up today (EOL), I make listing to recap the updates of XP and .NET framework after last Service Pack applied.
XP SP3 (no MCE/TPC)
.NET 1.0 SP3
.NET 1.1 SP1
.NET 3.5 SP1
.NET 4.0
Hello,
i made XP working with Z370 with your help (i had to heaviely modify ISO, insert Fernando and Network drivers, setup network, PS/2 were not working at all, so i had to make machine working through remote desktop..,), now its working quite good - LAN/AUDIO/Video/USB2/3.. except no ACPI automatic shutdown (im not able to boot with ACPI machine type, i had to use MIPS multiprocessor type of machine) and probably not too much power savings.. but i still have some mess in device manager, some devices with exclamation marks + on unknown device, i hope that you will help me to fix it, or at least tell for what these devices are for.. and what means that they are not working.
Error is always code 12 - Device not found enough of resources (this error was typical for WIn 98, but for XP its strange..)
Because is still not possible insert picture from Google Driver/ Dropbox public link.. Here is zip with pictures..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/19retj8fescgl38/WinXP-Z370-drivers.zip?dl=0
Some info in the articles below:
To check if the Service Workers is active in your browser:
https://browserleaks.com/features
Pale Moon and Basilisk by default does not support Service Workers.
Also I.E.8 does not support Service Workers:
