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Hey, @PROBLEMCHYLD, I would absolutely LOVE to learn your secret!

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@PROBLEMCHYLD, if your machine is capable of installing from USB, you might try continuing to experiment using a USB key or drive, to not waste your DVDs until you can figure out what is going on.

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I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it. ( I haven't posted there in years) But the same is true for me. The site seems to work correctly, ie you can browse fine and it updates that you have read a thread or not, EXCEPT you can't seem to post, public or private. I have no idea what is going on. Chee...

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@GHOst and @harkaz, please read and post over here - Shutting This Down - then spread the word for others to do so as well. TIA

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We've missed you 5eraph! I hope everything is well with you. You too, Ryan. I understand your feelings about not much activity over the last year or more. It seems the same slump has happened at MSFN and Wincert, among other technical forums. I guess a lot of it is because the decreasing ability to ...

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Thanks harkaz, Yep, some of the individual links have gotten wonky, like the one that @maxtorix referenced above, but the folder itself, which has everything, is indeed there. Perhaps some post maintenance is in order? Those who are looking for the working link, scroll down in the first post until y...

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Hmmm This is the first I've heard about that. If nothing else, SP4 is available through either Major Geeks - https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_xp_service_pack_4_unofficial.html or SoftPedia https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Signatures-Updates/Windows-XP-SP4-Unofficial.shtml . Cheer...

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What do you mean by source code? Isn't uSP4 still available using the links in the first post? It was the last time I checked a couple of months ago. As to the tools involved, if you read the thread, harkaz pretty much tells you what all he had to do and much of the software he used, if I remember c...

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Please share if appropriate. If you're not sure, don't worry, we'll let you know it it's not.

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Abbodi's solution is definitely the most up to date for dot Net, but @trevor12 will have to check and be sure whether Abbodi's AIO_dot_Net installer and/or updater is fully compatible with non SSE2 processors. I don't know the answer to that question.

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Yep, Dietmar is the man! If he can't figure it out, I don't think it can be done. Glad you got it working.

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So what did you do in order to get it to work? And what is the benefit of using it?

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GH0st wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 20, 2019 12:31 am
Now if someone would make updated browser to go with it!

Have you tried any of the New Moon releases by roytam1? - https://msfn.org/board/topic/177125-my- ... on-for-xp/ I haven't but from what I've read they seem to be very well received.

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Welcome!

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Indeed, Welcome!

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Thanks GH0st. Everything downloaded fine.

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The way I understood it, and it has been a while since I've run XP, if you run sfc /scannow from within your running SP4 system, any files that are replaced are pulled from files stored during the OS installation process. If you installed SP4, then replaced files should be those from SP4. The only r...

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widhie75 wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 07, 2019 10:30 am
if i scan using sfc /scannow, then my SP4 will be replaced by SP3

Really? I've never heard that before. Why would that happen?

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Look above at Ghost's sig. Click the "WinXP Post uSP4 Hotfix Installer" link. When that opens, click the "abbodi86 AIO dotNet update installer" link in that post. That will take you to Abbodi's repository where you can download the file you need.

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I haven't checked lately, but I thought that most of the required files, except for the original XP x64 disk of course are available via torrent?

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I'm not sure I understand. By your "Hotfix installer page" do you mean the post in this thread that your "WinXP Post uSP4 Hotfix Installer" link in your sig links to? If so, I think it looks fine, but like I've said before, it has now been quite awhile since I've installed XP so I have no direct exp...

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Ii haven't tried to install it, but it seems to download correctly, at least for now.

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Still down for me.

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AFAIK, the only "Update-Pack" on this board that can be applied to an existing, running XP SP3 system is the Unofficial SP4 by harkaz. All others are meant to be used to install a new system. Good luck in your endeavors.

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I would assume that it's because of the code relation of 2003 to XP and the desire to get what was perceived as a "more advanced version of XP" since it came out later with a slightly improved code base (5.2 vs 5.1) and that the server version was sometimes thought of as "better" and more stable tha...

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Not that it can't be used that way, but relatively few folks use it that way, so there's just not much of a demand for a forum about it.

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The problem boils down to drivers for the newer hardware that will work in the older Windows OS. AFAIK, the Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs can be made to work with Win7. The APUs cannot. The integrated Graphics controller creates the problem. The same is true for any APU. You are usually much more like...

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I really can't figure this guy out. More and more it seems that he's just a spammer and that all of his posts should be deleted and he should be banned. I could be wrong, and if so I apologize, but looking at all of his posts in total, they just don't make any sense. [And many of them, such as this ...

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I stand by my theory,

but in this case, I guess that shows what I know. [:-embarrassed-:] Thanks for being kind, 5eraph.

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True, but ... If you needed or wanted to use the files involved with the update, and you were content and were able to do so before the update existed, and applying the update caused something to break for you, then you are left with few options. You can choose to not apply the update, as 5eraph and...

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What does that app have to do with a VPN? It might be better to open a new thread with your question about that app.

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Surely you just put the appropriate country code in front of the number, exactly as if you were calling it? That's what I assumed. Maybe Dave and Trip could experiment to see what works, since they are both active and could even call each other until they are able to iron things out? EDIT: On an un...

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f anyone in the US knows how to send a text to a mobile number in Europe on an Android phone, LMK. Dumb question, but I didn't know that it would be any different than sending a text to any other number, such as to a US number, so what is different about sending to one in Europe? Cheers and Regards

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And now it seems to be down again? Or not. LOL Response time is so bad it's hard to tell.

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The forum is "working", but ever since the latest "incident" the forum response time has been terrible. Over the last day or so it is more likely to time out than respond correctly.

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Are you sure? Not for me.

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Site is back up now. From xper: Server crashed badly. They couldn't retrieve data from second (backup) HDD'a. We lost data for last 3 months. Luckily i had local a backup from Februar. I apologize for the inconvenience caused. So it appears to have been a "simple" hardware failure, and not something...

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NoelC's business site is http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com , his full name is Noel Carboni. [I don't think I'm sharing any sensitive info, since he's posted many, many places on the web, always using the same user name and often stating his full name and referencing his business.] Another forum wher...

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I don't know if it's been 24h yet, but if not, it's getting close. Any word? If not, I'll keep checking a few times a day.

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AFAIK, yes. From what I understand, the problem lies at MS in the MU/WU system for XP, dealing with superseded updates. This problem now has existed for many months, going on a year or more, and there is no indication that Ms has any desire to fix the situation, though they have been told about it o...

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@Mike86 and @mockingbird, EACH MONTH, first MANUALLY download and apply the latest IE cumulative update and the latest updates that apply to any version of Office that you have installed. After that and a reboot, when you next check MU/WU it should act correctly in a more timely manner. At least tha...

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I have installed todays updates, but it would not offer them thru MU until I manually installed the latest IE8 (kb4103768), then it would offer the rest. Remember, it is necessary to FIRST manually install the latest !E8 cumulative update EVERY MONTH to most reliably have MU/WU work effectively. Yo...

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Thank you!

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Thanks!

GH0st wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:48 pm
Link to security guide is in my SIG

DUH!

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I use "Big Pack Runtime Libraries by Wilenty 2018-03-24", does a great job with all the extra C++ and other stuff included there. Do you have a link, not only for the app, but also a "home" page? I think he used to be at MDL, but from a quick look it seems that he had a disagreement with the staff ...

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... just make sure it does NOT included KB4056615, KB4074852. ... I'll look into those, specifically. What do they break? @5eraph , if you do searches over at MSFN for KB4056615 and KB4074852, you will quickly find many posts explaining where several different things are broken by those two updates...

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These should be avoided: KB3213641 KB3213644 KB4011605 KB4011715 Tomcat also listed KB4011607 to avoid, but it did not show on my recent (today) install/update, guessing his list needs to be updated. Actually, that's not quite right. You might want to carefully read Tomcat's post again. While you a...

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Sounds like a setting in your VM is the problem.

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Have you tried my suggestion above? You should only have to manually install 2-4 updates then MU/WU should work as expected for any other updates available. MU/WU response should just be a matter of minutes, instead of hours or days, with no CPU core usage of 100%. Why not give it a try? I know it's...

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@GH0st , it's not you. The problem lies entirely with MS and their update system, and has existed now for quite some time. It seems the problem has to do with pending and superseded updates potentially causing MU/WU to take up several days for updates to finally get identified and installed. So the...

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