win32 posts
Second System 2.4 - D3D12 and Toast Notification Support Added!
Solution to Windows Vista Inno Setup Bug
Inno Setup installers are not functional on Windows Vista, even though they run on Windows XP and Windows 7. They fail to render most elements and do not respond to most input, even on the "close" ...
2026-01-05 19:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostSecond System 2.31: Photoshop 2025 on Windows 8.1!
With this intermediate release of Second System, it is now possible to run Adobe Photoshop 2025 on Windows 8.1. Additional functions and capabilities have been added from later versions of Windows ...
2025-12-23 20:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostSecond System 2.3: Windows 8.0/10/11 Support Added, Extra Qt 6 Support and More!
This new release of Second System extends support to Windows 8.0, 10 and 11 (pre-24H2). Windows 8.0 support (both release and some pre-release builds*) was added by popular demand. Windows 10 and 1...
2025-12-07 00:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostSecond System 2.2: BYOD (Bring your own DLLs!)
This release of Second System includes the following improvements:
-fixes to console handle duplication that affected some Python interpreter releases
-more user and kernel32 functions from W...
Second System for Windows 8.1
Second System for Windows 8.1 is now here! Run many modern applications including the latest Firefox, Google Chrome and Steam clients, productivity applications like Kdenlive and more! And limited ...
2025-10-14 19:39:37 +0000 UTC View PostSecond System 2.1: Now with Basic AVX Emulation!
Second System 2.1 adds several new DLLs to the package, including a D3D12 stub (for some QT 6 applications; although others like QBittorrent will need WinRT extensions that will be released separat...
2025-10-03 19:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostSecond System 2.0 for Windows Vista and 7
This is an updated, improved release of Second System for Windows Vista and 7.
Now, major streaming services such as Netflix work in the latest browsers running under Second System. This en...
NVIDIA Driver Patcher for Windows Vista x64
This driver patcher covers all Windows 7 x64-compatible NVIDIA display drivers, specifically 372.90 through 474.44. The patcher adds support for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 series, RTX 20 series and ...
2025-08-05 23:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostWindows Vista x64 Process Initialization Failure Patch for 4th Gen and Newer Intel CPUs
This ZIP archive includes a patch for the "logon process initialization failure" bug that occurs on Windows Vista x64, especially on 4th generation Intel CPUs or greater.
To ensure improved u...
2025-06-30 20:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostSecond System: The Ultimate System DLL Replacer for Windows Vista x64
Second System is the successor to the "Vista Extended Kernel" and it allows the following applications to work: -Firefox 128 ESR -Chromium 1
Second System is the successor to the "Vista Exten...
2025-06-11 21:36:14 +0000 UTC View PostManifest V2: The Future
I recently looked at the Manifest V2 support code and determined the following timeline for Google Chrome, standard Chromium and most other Chromium browsers:
Manifest V2 deprecation has ...
2025-03-25 17:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostSUPERMIUM WEBSITE REGISTRATION SUSPENDED OVER FALSE COMPLAINT
The registration for the domain that includes https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/ has been suspended after a c...
2025-03-15 19:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostCUDA for Windows Vista (NVIDIA 35x-37x Drivers)
There are two things that do not work properly on Windows Vista with later NVIDIA drivers: Vulkan and CUDA. And with OBS Studio and FFmpeg, CUDA is necessary to use NVENC, so that's three in some c...
2025-01-11 01:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostDX11, DX12 and DXGI are coming for everyone!
To help meet the needs of the Supermium web browser and ensure that all rendering features are available to users on older hardware and operating systems, in 2025, DX11, DX12 and DXGI will be avail...
2024-12-29 09:04:13 +0000 UTC View Postsafetensors library and bcryptprimitives.dll for Vista/7
Recently, I upgraded HuggingFace's safetensors Python library to the latest version, 0.4.5. It failed to work due to a missing DLL, however Python messages do not make it easy to find the offending...
2024-12-29 08:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostSupermium Plus Package - January 2025
The Supermium Plus Package for January 2025 also covers the Christmas period of 2024 and contains the following items: -Supermium 126.0.6478.260 R6 (x86 and x64) -The Supermium User Agent Override Too...
2024-12-17 05:35:02 +0000 UTC View PostVulkan on Windows Vista
Hardware accelerated Vulkan is now being tested on Windows Vista for the first time. NVIDIA drivers could not use Vulkan on Windows Vista under normal conditions due to missing GDI32/D3DKMT depende...
2024-12-13 03:49:26 +0000 UTC View PostWidevine CDM Patcher for Windows 7
In the following zip archive, you will find a command line script that will locate and patch widevinecdm.dll for continued usage on Windows 7 and Supermium (unfortunately there are other issues pre...
2024-10-14 23:40:22 +0000 UTC View PostSupermium UACH Spoofer Tool
This is the Supermium User Agent Client Hints Spoofer. This tool allows users to spoof User Agent Client Hints and is compatible with Supermium versions 124 R2 and up.
How does ...
2024-10-03 15:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostMicrosoft secretly made the latest DirectWrite run on Windows 7, and I made it run on XP
This means that all the GDI font rendering gremlins, including the lack of colour fonts and offset issues, are gone!
Supermium 124 Customization Features - Colours and Tab Shapes
In the latest release of Supermium, there is some "hidden" functionality - customization of colours and tab shapes.
Chromium is removing many parts of the old user interface code with version...
2024-07-11 01:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostLSC Application Compatibility Toolkit Used on D3D Compiler
The Supermium component d3dcompiler_47.dll is not intended to run on Windows XP. And because it was built by Microsoft and not as part of Supermium itself, it cannot be compiled to use progwrp.dll ...
2024-05-31 04:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostSupermium 122 R5 (security patch) Released
Use the LSC subscription portal to obtain the special portable version of this release.
2024-05-14 15:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostThank You to All LSC Customers
I would like to thank all customers and supporters of the Legacy Software Corporation for the support you have provided since January 2024.
The LSC subscription service has enabled som...
2024-05-02 06:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post