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08 Jun 2021, 02:07
Forum: Site Announcements and Guidelines
Topic: Various changes to the board
Replies: 6
Views: 2428
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Various changes to the board

A few months after this forum was created, the Canadian bank BMO introduced an Eclipse credit card.

But I don't want to rename it already. RP doesn't matter that much anyway.
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22 May 2021, 14:38
Forum: Windows 10 & Server 2016/2019/2022
Topic: Forced Upgrades & Microsoft Coercion: How it becomes a battle
Replies: 11
Views: 3714
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Forced Upgrades & Microsoft Coercion: How it becomes a battle

If you want to see long support periods, check out Solaris. That will best even MS by a longshot.

But all I see is MS deteriorating, but not as bad as the competition. No desire to improve.
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21 May 2021, 00:10
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What's your LEAST favorite OS?
Replies: 6
Views: 2100
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What's your LEAST favorite OS?

I'd say that Apple is getting into a pissing match with MS for the title, especially now that Big Sur sends executable hashes to a server on application launch.
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21 May 2021, 00:02
Forum: Windows XP & Server 2003
Topic: Is XP x64 natively bootable from a USB?
Replies: 15
Views: 2699
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Is XP x64 natively bootable from a USB?

I had forgotten about this topic. But the Dell thing is quite important in this case. For NT 5.x setup to "find" the install USB, you need a modified NTDETECT.COM. My situation is a bit messy these days (temporarily moved and relying on a win10 machine for Internet access) so it will take ...
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05 May 2021, 23:35
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obscure facts thread
Replies: 18
Views: 3186
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Obscure facts thread

A page posted on the MS documentation site claims that Windows 8.1 does not presently support TLS 1.2, then goes on to claim that Windows 8.1 (2012 R2) does not support two TLS 1.2 ciphers. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/administration/authentication-errors-tls12-support Th...
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24 Apr 2021, 15:37
Forum: Community ISOs
Topic: Windows XP SP3 Volume License with SATA AHCI drivers and updates untill nov. 2nd 2013
Replies: 10
Views: 2719
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Windows XP SP3 Volume License (Product Key integrated) with SATA AHCI drivers andupdates untill nov. 2nd 2013

If ISOs are to be presented on Eclipse, all unattended product keys must be removed. This can be done by processing the ISO through nLite, and blanking the product key in the "unattended" section. NFOs and other files containing the product key should also be removed, though anyone making ...
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22 Apr 2021, 04:52
Forum: Windows Vista & Server 2008 R1
Topic: Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?
Replies: 15
Views: 3146
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Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?

Off Topic
I actually didn't know we had OT boxes in this forum.

Mind you, which update level are you at?
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19 Apr 2021, 06:57
Forum: Windows Vista & Server 2008 R1
Topic: Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?
Replies: 15
Views: 3146
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Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?

Have any of you checked the extended kernel thread recently? Sticky notes will take longer due to reimplementation of registry functions in kernel32, but calc and paint are working.
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11 Apr 2021, 00:53
Forum: Coding & Modding
Topic: Clean PE32+ Section Adding - my method
Replies: 0
Views: 1348
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Clean PE32+ Section Adding - my method

While it is considerably easier to place new sections in PE32+ files below .rsrc and .reloc, I realized that this makes any resource modding impossible as any expansion of rsrc and dislocation of reloc seems to enroach on any code below. Ximonite posted a similar method, though I had trouble replica...
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06 Apr 2021, 03:49
Forum: Windows 2000/NT
Topic: Windows 2000 (and probably earlier) adds OS/2 to boot.ini
Replies: 1
Views: 1477
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Windows 2000 (and probably earlier) adds OS/2 to boot.ini

Further testing resulted in another reinstall of win2k. I found out some more things: Perhaps the one-second timeout was a fluke, as the next install produced a standard 30-second timeout. The OS/2 LVM also causes Windows 2000 to freak out if changes are committed through it (moving the pagefile to ...
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05 Apr 2021, 05:11
Forum: Windows 2000/NT
Topic: Windows 2000 (and probably earlier) adds OS/2 to boot.ini
Replies: 1
Views: 1477
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Windows 2000 (and probably earlier) adds OS/2 to boot.ini

After my win2k install on my ThinkPad T41 fell apart, I reinstalled after installing OS/2 Warp 4.52 on a FAT16 partition. NTLDR picked up on OS/2 and added it to the boot menu. Both OSes are working well. Windows 2000's multi-booting documentation only mentions DOS, NT 4.0 (though NT 3.51 is also kn...
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22 Mar 2021, 01:48
Forum: Coding & Modding
Topic: A Good Authenticode Stripper
Replies: 0
Views: 1269
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A Good Authenticode Stripper

To remove the Authenticode certificate block from the end of a PE file, I found this tool works well. https://github.com/jschicht/RemoveCertificate At first I was using a CLI-based tool (with a shortcut to make it take advantage of dragging-and-dropping target files), and when I started to write thi...
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17 Mar 2021, 05:47
Forum: Coding & Modding
Topic: Windows Debugging Symbols Availability
Replies: 0
Views: 1415
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Windows Debugging Symbols Availability

I am quite pleased with the availability of Windows debugging symbols. The MS Symbol Server even has them for build 6519's HAL. Windows symbol packages also seem to be the only source for debugging symbols for third-party drivers (as shipped with the OS, and I believe MS may compile some of them), a...
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01 Mar 2021, 21:35
Forum: General Software & Hardware
Topic: VMware WS 10 Install Issue (and solution)
Replies: 4
Views: 960
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VMware WS 10 Install Issue (and solution)

I also tried 10.0.6 and got the same error. 10.0.7 was released in July 2015, so it would have been too early for that.

I had to get off 10.0.1 because I was getting occasional BAD_POOL_HEADER bugchecks upon returning from standby with that version.
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01 Mar 2021, 16:56
Forum: General Software & Hardware
Topic: VMware WS 10 Install Issue (and solution)
Replies: 4
Views: 960
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VMware WS 10 Install Issue (and solution)

I didn't bother posting the log because it said little more than "procedure "InstallMSI" failed".
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26 Feb 2021, 14:41
Forum: General Software & Hardware
Topic: VMware WS 10 Install Issue (and solution)
Replies: 4
Views: 960
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VMware WS 10 Install Issue (and solution)

I had difficulty upgrading from 10.0.1 to 10.0.7 today on Vista. The MSI would fail if run with the normal installer, but it worked after copying the vmware temp folder somewhere else then running msiexec.exe /i vmwareworkstation_x64.msi EULAS_AGREED=1. I haven't changed my extended kernel install m...
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16 Feb 2021, 19:11
Forum: Microsoft Office
Topic: Which is the best version of MS Office in your opinion?
Replies: 75
Views: 56966
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What's the best version of MS Office in your opinion?

Application Verifier is an offshoot of Windows compatibility shims. You can use compat mode on XP x64 to install Office 2010 x86 if setup.exe is set to "Windows XP". The method for 2010 x64 requires setting appverifier to Vista/7. There's actually one component of 2010 x64 that doesn't wor...
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11 Feb 2021, 22:45
Forum: Gaming
Topic: cs-go
Replies: 20
Views: 4949
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Re: cs-go

Cities: Skylines cannot launch through Steam on XP x64 since 2017, but it can be launched through "other" methods.

Perhaps CS:GO is in the same boat on Vista.
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09 Feb 2021, 13:55
Forum: Windows Vista & Server 2008 R1
Topic: Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?
Replies: 15
Views: 3146
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Re: Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?

I believe the Sticky Notes, much like InkBall come from XP Tablet PC Edition 2002. Even some of InkBall's UI elements remind me of the silver Luna skin.
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08 Feb 2021, 05:27
Forum: Windows Vista & Server 2008 R1
Topic: Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?
Replies: 15
Views: 3146
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Re: Backporting the Win7 versions of some apps to Vista?

If you go to Snipping Tool options and uncheck "Show selection ink after snaps are captured", the red border disappears. As for the reason why most built-in win7 applications do not work on Vista, it is because they call several telemetry functions not present in Vista. I do plan on adding...
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04 Feb 2021, 22:30
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Introduce yourselves here!
Replies: 89
Views: 44226
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Re: Introduce yourselves here!

And also, remember this forum guideline:
-All posts must be in the English language.
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03 Feb 2021, 03:41
Forum: Community ISOs
Topic: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x64 VL 2019 Slipstream
Replies: 0
Views: 1454
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Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x64 VL 2019 Slipstream

This is a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x64 VL ISO featuring all updates to April 2019, IE8, WMP10 and Intel SATA drivers covering up to the 300 series.

https://archive.org/details/win2k3_x64_slip
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01 Feb 2021, 20:15
Forum: Windows XP & Server 2003
Topic: Extended kernel for Windows XP?
Replies: 18
Views: 5187
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Re: Extended kernel for Windows XP?

There have been a few projects, like BWC's extend kit for XP/2003, Dibya's ExtendedXP, the XomPie wrapper package and the only active one is Samuka's One-Core-API (not much activity in the past few years, though there was a commit in November and then claimed in January that he was getting WDDM supp...
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31 Jan 2021, 05:01
Forum: Gaming
Topic: cs-go
Replies: 20
Views: 4949
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Re: cs-go

donnie6232 wrote: 31 Jan 2021, 04:57 bet you cant play this on vista
Fact-check in aisle I please.
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30 Jan 2021, 00:32
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: some suggestions
Replies: 12
Views: 2939
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Re: some suggestions

2) You seemingly figured that one out already, the only difference here being is that stickies aren't split between tables. I feel like phpBB might have such an option to allow stickies to be 'highlighted' as stickies better (putting them in a separate table if I'm remembering rightly), so it's cer...
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28 Jan 2021, 23:50
Forum: Windows XP & Server 2003
Topic: Is XP x64 natively bootable from a USB?
Replies: 15
Views: 2699
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Re: Is XP x64 natively bootable from a USB?

You mean installing Windows XP x64 from USB? I do that all the time with WinSetupFromUSB. I prefer USB installs of NT 5.x for the most part, and if the drive is formatted NTFS it will be considerably faster than from CD/DVD. The only caveat is that it seems to fail with non-ACPI HALs, but those aren...
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25 Jan 2021, 21:28
Forum: Community ISOs
Topic: Windows XP Professional x64 SP2 VL 2019 Slipstream
Replies: 9
Views: 2721
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Windows XP Professional x64 SP2 VL 2019 Slipstream

This is a slipstreamed ISO of Windows XP Professional x64 SP2 VL, containing all updates through April 2019. For the convenience of users, an Intel SATA AHCI/RAID driver covering up to the 300 series is included. You can use nLite to slipstream other AHCI/RAID drivers. https://archive.org/details/xp...
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15 Jan 2021, 06:06
Forum: Operating System Customization
Topic: My Plan for a Custom Windows XP ISO.
Replies: 5
Views: 1918
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Re: My Plan for a Custom Windows XP ISO.

August 2018 would be the first with incompatible updates. Pentium Ms have SSE2, but I do have a Pentium III desktop where I quickly noticed SSE2 instructions being called by a certain usp10.dll from W7 (scrolling over folder/file icons in a standard explorer window). Athlon XP users should also be a...
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15 Jan 2021, 01:40
Forum: Memorial
Topic: Windows 2000 Professional VL 2013 Slipstream ISO
Replies: 8
Views: 3027
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Re: Windows 2000 Professional VL 2013 Slipstream ISO

What exactly are you waiting for me to finish? I would like to know so I can prioritize those things. If possible, I'd like to see the addition of GetRawInputDeviceInfoA to user32 so PCem/86box will load. It doesn't rely directly on win32k IIRC. I was also thinking of the SSE stuff. Maybe a patcher...
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14 Jan 2021, 19:08
Forum: Memorial
Topic: Windows 2000 Professional VL 2013 Slipstream ISO
Replies: 8
Views: 3027
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Re: Windows 2000 Professional VL 2013 Slipstream ISO

BWC uses a customized installer, which put the hotfix in an IExpress (and now VBScript) wrapper. His extended kernel installer also offers a myriad options, which doesn't make it suitable for slipstreaming. He made HFSLIP packages that do integrate kernel/core, but they are outdated and come with ac...