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@leocg Ok, thanks, looks like it's an issue with Opera 95 and Windows 7

Hi @bbildman, It will work with a windows abstraction layer for 32bits apps, WoW64, while Opera itself will use less RAM and loading time into memory will also be faster. I always prefer to use 32bits applications where ever possible.
The shortest reasoning is that most running processes don't require addressing more than 4Gb of Ram and the cost of doing it is to double the size of every single variable at programming level, which is quite expensive for things like "hypertext processing".
Have a nice day

@iggyfan said in Opera 95.0.4635.84's Menu Top Right Corner Has Turned Red:

@bbildman I've been having the same problem. Does the solution still work? If so how do you do it?

Worked for me. Add --disable-update to the shortcut::

"C:\Opera\launcher.exe" --disable-update

every now and again the red corner pops up again, and all I do is reload it and it disappears

@burnout426 Thanks a lot for you swift reply.

@bbildman Seems this is happening with other browsers also, will check for a clue on the Avast forum.

@burnout426 said in Downloading Updates???:

Delete everything in "C:\Windows\temp" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\temp" while Opera 95 is closed. Then, start it and check for updates. Does the download progress bar for the Opera 96 update that gets ignored jump to 100% really fast where the update is not really downloaded (check the temp folders to see)? Or, does the 96 installer really get downloaded?

I imagine that if the last build of 95 wasn't fixed to actually not download the update, Opera 95 might do that repeatedly where there'd be no fix unless a new 95 build was released just to fix it. But, that's just a guess. I would imagine that both Opera 95 (and previous versions) and the update server already have capabilities to totally ignore an update (including its download), but not sure. I guess we'll find out.

I would disable updates to break update checking anyway just for good measure.

Did what you said, Burnie (my name is Bernie, so I get to call you that. 🙂 ), both on Update and Recover...and Help/About. Both returned a "Version:95.0.4635.46
Opera is up to date" response, so that takes care of that.

🙂 It's all good. I'm going to continue with Opera 95.0.4635.46, and with Windows 7 (which I have been able continue to update with a work around and using the Microsoft Update Catalog). When and if thinngs get sticky, I will either start using a browser that works with Win 7 or update to Win 10.

Thanks for all the help, from you and Leo

Ok, I am really adverse to upgrading to Windows 10 - just so I can use Opera.

I have been testing Waterfox browser, and I like it, and am thinking I may simply switch browsers (seems that Waterfox will continue supporting Win 7) instead of upgrading my Windows 7 laptop

@leocg Leo, have any suggestions as to where to look and how to do it.

Couple sites that do that::

https://www.foxnews.com

https://nypost.com