Current state of Steam on Windows XP
Steam stoppped supporting Windows XP back at the start of 2019 and there was a workaround by patching an old version to run but that has gradually become more and more broken. I'm the guy who has made...
View ArticleTRIM for XP
Hi, is there an easy test, if any tool can make TRIM successful on any SSD or nvme disk? I ask this, because I checked a lot of tools under XP SP3, but still I am not sure, if TRIM works on a nvme...
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Project Saphire Dragon: Port LLVM and Clang
Windows XP/Server 2003 requires a Overhaul of it's outdated compiler tool set, @user57 & I have successfully managed to port LLVM 16.05 & LLVM 17.01 to WIndows XP along with CLANG. CLANG...
View ArticleWhere i can download ACPI 2.0 drivers (ACPI v6666) for Windows XP?
I trying to install XP from USB i added every driver but i cant find anywhere the ACPI driver
View ArticleXP and drivers.
I have a nice new XP install, to run a few older programs I still use occasionally. It is XP-sp3 and, I believe, some of the POS ready updates. The first program installs its own USB-serial driver. It...
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Startup Managers under Windows XP
Quick Startup is a stand-alone Startup Manager from Glarysoft. It cleans up the autostart function under Windows. The free tool identifies those programs that are started when Windows is booted or...
View ArticleMonkey Scripts
Out of curiosity and being new to the world of Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey/Violentmonkey, what userscripts are users here using?
View ArticleSolidworks 2012 Installation Problem
Swede here, trying to (re)install Solidworks 2012 on an HP XW4400-computer, SATA SSD wouldn't run, I had AHCI drivers fixed last time (some years ago) but I had no recollection of how I used it. It...
View ArticleCan an unsigned Lower Filter driver be forced to load in Windows XP SP3?
Hi, I make a lot of tries with the Lower Filter driver iusb3hcs.sys which was originally introduced for Win7 for to enable USB3 on Haswell boards and below. This HC Switch driver was modded by...
View ArticleWinXP HEVC/HEIF/HEIC Image Encoder/Decoder
as promised .heic is brought to windows xp closing the gap for xp having a very new image encoder and decoder the resulting image is even better then the one on wikipedia...
View Article4 GB discussion
the EIP is for instructions (instrution pointer) (and useally is connected to a segment called the CS segment (or Code Segment) but a executable is not only made of instructions (buffers for example...
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Windows XP Spotter (the club)
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...
View Articlesystray manager (to hide icons in a folder within the tray)
Somewhat related to @ntfoxy's systrayutil at https://msfn.org/board/topic/183027-my-xp-programs/?do=findComment&comment=1205826 So far, the only way to prevent the systray from showing all icons...
View ArticleXP/Vista-compatible clients for modern email services?
I recently needed to find an XP-compatible email client for Micro$oft 365. Initially I asked about it in an odd place, @roytam1's browser thread, for two reasons: In addition to XP-compatible...
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General and specific solutions for problems regarding AU/WU/MU in Windows XP
General and specific solutions for problems regarding AU/WU/MU in Windows XP List of used abbreviations: AU = Automatic Updates AV = Antivirus IE = Internet Explorer KB = Knowledge Base MDL = My...
View ArticleLatest-ish MPC-HC ported for XP
Hi guys, Currently running MPC-HC.1.7.13.32 but can't download any subtitles. I googled for a newer version backported for XP and couldn't find any. Any ideas? Thanks!
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On decommissioning of update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019
XP Updates2.zip ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It's here, right on the 1st post! All linked to wayback machine in this post. instruction thanks to @xpandvistafan, @maile3241 @AstroSkipper Based on...
View ArticleGnuPG does not communicate with key servers
I happen to find I cannot upload my key to ANY key server. The problem is odd that of two gpg branch, 1.4.23 works, but 2.2.27 (the last version on WinXP) do not work: 1.4.23>gpg -vvv --keyserver...
View ArticleXP and new CPU
Planning on upgrading my CPU from a 2 core to a 4 core one. Are there any settings in XP that need to be changed, or will it just recognise and use the new cores?
View ArticleAMD iCafé Unified Driver for Windows XP 32-bit
Since Dec 2014, AMD has released several iCafé unified drivers for China's internet cafes. Latest XP driver(9.000.300.3010) supports R7 360 and R9 370. Unfortunately, there is no device ID for R9 290....
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