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dencorso

Again, since Sep 11, 2018 my previous post above became outdated with the release of KB4457163 (for POSReady 2009, of course!), which installs shell32.dll v. 6.0.2900.7551... So I've decided to port, once again, Geoff Chappell's Missing Icons in Notification Area Patch to this new shell32.dll versio...

dencorso

Warning! For the POSReady2009 hack, delete from that .reg file the following lines: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\ProductVersion] "FeaturePackVersion"="SP3" They don't work anymore, and actually nowadays prevent MU/WU from working. Except for that, I second the...

dencorso

Warning! For the POSReady2009 hack, delete from that .reg file the following lines: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\ProductVersion] "FeaturePackVersion"="SP3" They don't work anymore, and actually nowadays prevent MU/WU from working. Except for that, I second the...

dencorso

That I can fix, AFAIK. Do please check whethter you can login normally now. If not, please let me know.

dencorso

I've just noticed it, too.

dencorso

What're the versions of your machine's NTFS.SYS and zipfldr.dll?

dencorso

Well, since roytam1 just provided us with a new repository for his XP browsers and since FF 52 esr is aproaching EoS, I think it's warranted to provide here a (rather crude) .pdf of mixit's classic 1st post on MSFN's thread "Enable MP4 (H.264 + AAC) HTML5 video in Firefox on Windows XP without Flash...

dencorso

@5eraph: Thanks for the info! I see Windowsfighter/heinoganda has posted on this thread now. Good. Well, for now, let's keep the fire burning and the hopes high!

dencorso

@Dave-H: Can you contact heinoganda and invite him here? Bersaglio also must be contacted, but I have no idea how. MSFN went down shortly after 8AM UTC on July the 1st. In case it remains offline after the 8th, we should then consider what next. For now, let's hope for the best.

dencorso

Roytam1, Tripredacus and harkaz are members here for sure, jaclaz I've never seen around, but I'm sure he knows this place. If you can contact greenhillmaniac and NoelC, please do so and invite them here. I do believe MSFN will be up again soon, but it's good to have a regroupment place to go when i...

dencorso

I saw a post by xper in reply to Dave-H's post about too many emoticons, shortly before MSFN went offline (it was online some 12h before now). My guess is xper took the site down to give it a general tune-up, considering there were some more issues pending fixing... and I do remember those things mu...

dencorso

Therefore, one can add a single entry to the registry and cause XP SP3 to receive POSReady 2009 updates, but there's no porting that tweak to 2k3, no way. Sorry! OTOH, 2k3 x64 updates were used to update XP SP2 x64, way back, but now both are EoL, so it's no use.

dencorso

I went there yesternight and it was up, all right!
Now, however, it's gone 404 for me, too!

Guess xper is still trying to fix the issue that was preventing anybody from creating new threads, since the site 1st went down, some days ago...

dencorso

bphlpt wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:36 am
The parent site https://msfn.org pulls up, with nothing newer than last August, but the board https://msfn.org/board/ seems to be unavailable.

+1 I get a blank page, not na Error 404, on any page except the News page, too.

dencorso

@automizzer: Awesome! Thanks a lot! You do rock!

dencorso

@automizzer: Is your site down?

dencorso

Neither does anybody else. It's down!

dencorso

I have v7.0.3790.4400 of msvcrt.dll and msvcirt.dll from KB955536 -v2. BuildDate is "Fri Oct 31 08:04:47 2008". For future reference, Ver.exe and WinVer.exe report XPx64 as "Version 5.2.3790". Changed the [img] to [url] for you. Screenshot is 808x675. It can fix handler 4 error. Using in xpx86 with...

dencorso

@5eraph: Friend, I've never see something like this happen before, but I simply cannot find you in the member database. However, I've asked xper to try and locate you on the backup. But if that turns out not to be possible, I guess you'll have to re-register and accept out deepest appologies for thi...

dencorso

@Acheron: My implementation of Geoff Chappell's patch uses just 2 minutes for the timeout. I never found a machine needing more than that, but I guess it also depends on number of cores, processor speed and amount of RAM available, so that YMMV. Glat to know it works OK for you, too. And with a 5x l...

dencorso

Again, since Oct 13, 2015 my previous post above became outdated with the release of KB3080446 (part of MS15-109), which installs shell32.dll v. 6.0.2900.6880 (that's the POSReady 2009 version, of course!)... So I've decided to port, once again, Geoff Chappell's Missing Icons in Notification Area Pa...

dencorso

Well, since March 10, 2015 my previous post above became outdated with the release of KB3039066 (part of MS15-020 ), which installs shell32.dll v. 6.0.2900.6752 (that's the POSReady 2009 version, of course!)... So I've decided to port Geoff Chappell's Missing Icons in Notification Area Patch to this...

dencorso

5eraph wrote:Had rvkroots for a few days now. I thought you were talking about rootsupd.

Sure. I was talking about rootsupd.exe, of course.
But I thought the fact rvkroots appeared on a Security Advisory six days after patch Tuesday noteworthy...

dencorso

It appeared in a Security Advisory from Mar 16 <https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/3046310> and the link to the actual file is in the corresponding KB3046310 page...

dencorso

Latest rvkroots.exe is KB3048051 < http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/7/637A3274-6E67-4F9B-B68D-C6742C6198DE/rvkroots.exe >. It needs fixing the registry, just as the previous one... But, before fixing, this one is Ver 007 and has been signed on Tue, Mar 17, 2015 3:16:13 PM, so it's the late...

dencorso

I'll refrain from deploying it on the machines I administer.
The worse part of it is that those updates are cumulative, so probably even the next win32k.sys will also be a problem, unless MS explicitly states it has been fixed... which ought to happen... eventually.

dencorso

Down again. Database connection fails.

dencorso

Heads up! xper's latest post at MSFN (less than 2h ago) contains the following statement: We figured out whats causing it. Server primary HDD is in pretty bad condition. Bad sectors, etc. I will need to take server down, swap primary HDD and do OS reload. I will do that today or tomorrow. So... expe...

dencorso

For me, too... and sure I'm glad it's back! But xper's most recent tweet is worrysome (less than 1h ago): Bad news folks! Server HDD crashed. We are trying to get most recent backup from HDD. Time to fix server will take at least 24h. So, check to see whether your latest posts are in place or need r...

dencorso

It was up some 4h ago.
About 1h later, xper tweeted this:

MSFN have some server hardware issues! Please be patient.

That said, this bunch of outages is becoming really disruptive.

dencorso

I do wonder why it's so, too. In the past, MSFN went down very rarely...
In any case, it's back on once again!!!

For the record, now is exactly midnight GMT.

dencorso

Jan 12 2015 08:49 PM GMT... Don't look now but... MSFN is down again...

Here's hoping it's not another DDoS, but just some transient quirck of the internet.

dencorso

bphlpt wrote:The site appears to have been down for the last 8 hours or more.

Yeah. I was logged in at the time, it became very slow then stopped responding altogether...

There's a tweet from 4h ago, about server issues, so it seems xper is already working on it. Let's hope MSFN'll be back online soon.

dencorso

I'm also getting the Error number: 0x80248015, as of tonight. Last time I used MU previously was on the 15th, and it just worked, as always. I think maybe the MU/WU site is overwhelmed by the flurry of anxious users trying to get the out-of-band update MS14-068. Maybe tomorrow it'll be back working ...

dencorso

Then again, the good old Lvllord patcher is able to correctly patch tcpip.sys v. 5.1.2600.6643, all right!

dencorso

The infamous "driver error" is back! It's been 6h already since the last time I was able to login...

Later edit (about 6 h later):
xper managed to get it working OK again... the database had suffered some bad damage, but, I'm glad to report, it has been recovered without any data loss.

dencorso

Good news! It's back on! Just managed to login! Yay!

dencorso

Still down... (aka I cannot get in either).

dencorso

The same problem occurs with the latest http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/rootsupd.exe (direct download link) However, in this case the GUID is EF289A85-8E57-408d-BE47-73B55609861A, and the sought after version 40,0,2195,0 In case the version is not corrected,...

dencorso

New update KB2982792: rvkroots.exe http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43672 Thanks, acus! :) However, after applying it MU starts offering me KB2917500 (the previous rvkroots.exe, from Dec 10, 2013)... :? It turs out that the new KB2982792 has VERSION set to 6 (and Ver still 00...

dencorso · And back again later today (Jul 19 10:15 PM GMT)!

And back again later today (Jul 19 10:15 PM GMT)!

dencorso · Down again today (Jul 19 8:00 PM GMT)!

Down again today (Jul 19 8:00 PM GMT)!

dencorso

Just to provide an alternative, since these are uncommon tools and it's always good to have alternatives, there's also Jupiter's ImageRemCert, at Woodmann's, for the same purpose, and it does not require VS 2008 C++ runtimes for working.

dencorso

Thanks! Great tool. You do rock!

dencorso

A long time ago the great Geoff Chappell found out the never officially fixed Missing Icons in Notification Area bug and described a fix for it. MDGx still provides an implementation of Geoff's patch for SHELL32.DLL v. 6.0.2900.6018 (from KB2286198 ), which is nowadays quite outdated. Although I've ...

dencorso

Yes!

That's the good news!

The bad news is all posts from 24/08 (if any, I'm aware of just one, not mine, but there may have been more) were lost in yet another database-rollback...

dencorso

MSFN is down again today Aug 24 since at least 21:15 h (UTC), if not before. It was online 18 h ago.
For a brief time it reported it is in "maintenance mode", so I think it was taken down by xper for tweaking, instead of just crashing, like in recent past.

dencorso

KB981792 , despite the KB article saying (in the "Applies to" section) it applies only to WES 2009, is a Win XP Hotfix, too, but it'll not install as downloaded, because there's a IsWinEmbedded condition in the .inf... Repackaging after removing that condition is required to create a Win XP hotfix,...

dencorso

All seemed normal on Aug 10... then it went offline. I was completely taken by surprise, too.

But it's great to have a place to exchange news about it!

dencorso

Are you all aware that KB2498072 , despite the KB article saying (in the "Applies to" section) it applies only to WES 2009, is a Win XP Hotfix. too, and it'll install as downloaded, because there's no IsWinEmbedded condition in the .inf? Sorry if I'm stating a widely known fact, I found it out 5 day...

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