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Microsoft finally admits its default Windows 11 25H2, 24H2 action broke key legacy component by Sayan Sen Microsoft last week released Windows 11 KB5094126 and KB5093998 as the latest Patch Tuesday updates. Following that the company also published the accompanying dynamic updates under KB5094149, KB5095971, and KB5094156. So far the company has acknowledged two known issues that have popped up after the release which include bugged-out Office apps as well as the Recycle Bin; though there could be more at play too. Speaking of bugs and issues, Microsoft seems to have finally acknowledged a problem that probably has been around for close to a year. That's because back in July of 2025 the company made a default change to the latest Windows 11 versions, wherein it switched to JScript9Legacy on Windows 11 24H2 and later releases. Hence following the release of version 25H2 in October 2025, JScript9Legacy also remained default-enabled. As a result there has been a compatibility issue ever since then. For those wondering, by switching to JScript9Legacy Microsoft intended to improve the security of modern Windows PCs by reducing vulnerabilities tied to legacy scripting like cross-site scripting (XSS), among others. XSS exploits can allow cyber-attackers to attach malicious code onto legitimate websites and use them to execute the code when a potential victim loads such a website. Hence the new JScript9Legacy engine enforced stricter execution policies and improved object handling, which should help mitigate such attacks. Microsoft today has published a new support article detailing the problem. Neowin spotted it while browsing. The company says that JScript global definitions and execution context may fail to persist across scripts, potentially breaking older dependent apps and web-based components that relied on this legacy behavior. In the article Microsoft has confirmed that the issue stems from its move away from the older jscript9.dll engine in favor of jscript9legacy.dll. As mentioned above, while the newer engine was designed to address vulnerabilities and strengthen security it also changes how JScript handles execution context. As a result functions and definitions loaded by one script could no longer remain available to subsequent scripts once execution ended. The company notes that some applications worked correctly on earlier Windows versions because the older JScript engine automatically retained global definitions and execution state between scripts. Under the newer model though that behavior is disabled by default causing certain legacy workloads and polyfill-dependent scripts to fail. Microsoft says it addressed the problem via the KB5077241 update though the fix had not been enabled automatically in the following updates. As such admins must explicitly turn on persistent JScript execution context using a Registry setting that the tech giant shared today. The configuration can be applied to individual processes or system-wide through the FEATURE_ENABLE_PERSISTENCE registry key. The steps have been outlined below: Run the following command to create the feature control registry key: reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ENABLE_PERSISTENCE" Under this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value. Configure the value as follows: To enable persistence for specific processes only: Set the value to 1 for each target process name. To enable persistence for all processes: Add * as the key name and set its value to 1. You can find the official support article here on Microsoft's website. -
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By Copernic · Posted
VidCoder 12.20 by Razvan Serea VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows. It uses HandBrake as its encoding engine. Calling directly into the HandBrake library gives it a more rich UI than the official HandBrake Windows GUI. VidCoder can rip DVDs but does not defeat the CSS encryption found in most commercial DVDs. You’ll need the NET 8 Desktop Runtime. If you don’t have it, VidCoder will prompt you to download and install it. The Portable version is self-contained and does not require any .NET Runtime to be installed. You do not need to install HandBrake for VidCoder to work. Feature list: Multi-threaded MP4, MKV containers Completely integrated encoding pipeline: everything is in one process and no huge intermediate temporary files H.264, H.265, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP8, Theora video Hardware-accelerated encoding with AMD VCE, Nvidia NVENC and Intel QuickSync AAC, MP3, Vorbis, AC3, FLAC audio encoding and AAC/AC3/MP3/DTS/DTS-HD passthrough Target bitrate, size or quality for video 2-pass encoding Decomb, detelecine, deinterlace, rotate, reflect, chroma smooth, colorspace filters Powerful batch encoding with simultaneous encodes Customizable Pickers to automatically pick audio and subtitle tracks, destination, titles and more Instant source previews Creates small encoded preview clips Pause, resume encoding VidCoder 12.20 changes: Updated HandBrake core to 1.11.2. Download: VidCoder 12.20 | 47.0 MB (Open Source) Download: Portable VidCoder 12.19 | 89.3 MB Link: VidCoder Home Page | Github | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware -
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I work on the side for an organization that wants to create their own platform, or at least have that as an end goal. I'll list the various stages of the project that they want, but I'm looking to see how much something like this might cost us, and how many people would be needed to do this? Apologies if this is in the wrong forum.
The first thing that the owners of the company want, is a site they can upload videos to, preferablly automatic. The current proof of concept idea is using vimeo to upload videos to, and then linking/embedding those into a wordpress site, but if there is a better way to have this fully automated (meaning they stick an sd card with movies or something into a pc, and it pulls the files and posts them automatically) the better. We're looking for something like youtube, where people could comment on videos, people in the videos could be tagged, etc. The video content is training and competition videos for a gym. The site would also need to be able to have some form of login system, as well as billing, so that members could be charged for the content.
The second part, is more involved. We're looking at turning the current company webpage into a full hub for member information. The idea being users can log in, see their history, update their billing information, signup for a membership, etc. This can evolve over time, but at some point we'd like to link it to the video site above so that users could see training videos they were tagged in from the home site. we don't have any design ideas in mind, but something possibly like a cross between fitbit's dashboard, and a porn site (for videos, membership info, etc). This is for a gym, so they are asking for members to be able to see their match history, workout routines, performance, the gym's schedule, etc.
I don't want to release our budget yet, but It is mid 5 figures max. I'm thinking we probably would need at least 2-3 developers to come up with this, and help integrate with the current SDK we're using on the mobile app (Parse.com)
The third part, is mobile. I've been working for the last year on an android app for them, but we'd need to hire an IOS developer to port the code to iphone, as well as possibly another developer to take over the android portion (I simply don't have enough time to dedicate to working on it anymore now that I have a full time job). The app needs to again, integrate with Parse, since we've decided to use that for push notification and as our backend, but other than that...this can come later.
Hopefully there are some people on here that have done such projects and have an idea of what this might cost to source. We are meeting with web developer on Tuesday to discuss the video site, but As I've never done something this involved, hoping to get some $ figures on what to expect, as well as time.
Thanks as always guys!
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