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As well as 911 already mentioned, grc.com spinrite is a life saver in these circumstances

Lowering the values of namecache, pathcache will also free more memory, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ FS Templates\ Server] NameCache = a9 0a 00 00 (Will store 2729 filenames) PathCache = 40 00 00 00 (Will store 64 folders) With regard to About the Vcache currently Im using: MinFileCache = 2048 MaxFileCache = 8192 I tried disabling Vcache but didnt find so much difference You will notice the difference after time when your free memory gets consumed and windows is unable to clear the filecache because the minfilecache has been set (the size set here cannot be freed best set this to zero), then the system will start to hit your swapfile, too high a value in maxfilecache can also cause low memory issues.

"the default exclusion list contains all known applications and DLLs that have been problematic in the past. This default exclusion list is in the registry location mentioned above." Thanks for the info very handy to know as jimmsta says it seems well worth a try, has anybody got a win2k/3 server to install the software and obtain the list so these known dlls can be built around

Try traymodule with liteshell, hopefully it will enable you to unplug your usb, also offbyone is a very useful minimal web browser "I doubt for long. Because disk activities will be slowed down. Your web browser probably will be slow. Reminds me of and is just like Windows 3.1 without SMARTDRV! On one PC with Windows 3.1, without a disk cache, Netscape literally took at least around 5 minutes just for it to load! LOL!" My system was with a 32mb, 133mhz cd rom only with no hd,it was an experiment in voice activation many moons ago and the mp3s would start to get jittery, breakup after being used for a long time with a vcache but would play fine with the extra free ram if off

No it does not "Curently my system was running without any startup process.. no system tray no vcache" the system will perform quite adequately with such low memory, in fact a vcache is unneeded in such a lite system until it is being pushed beyond its intended means, it cannot afford to

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"BLACKLIST (DLLs which are needed by some aplications exacatly at that address)" Would any of the dlls have problems after rebasing, I thought the os would intercept any calls via pointers to the stack, making the app unaware.

Deleting unneeded fonts will give you some more free ram, fonts are loaded at startup. Using analogx maxmem can also flush your ram use/adjust its max setting. I have ran a win9x mp3 player box on 32mb ram without to much trouble, but this was a minimal install very few vxd,drv, really just the sound card on the pci bus and very few system devices installed. Good luck

You can it takes a little fiddling around though.In your 98lite disable all unneeded apps on start up either via msconfig or in the registry. Turn off vcache and unload any finished dlls should give you some more free ram. Having a fixed decent sized swap file will also help speed things along as will replacing your shell with liteshell (enables you to remove systray from mem)

Take this with a pinch of salt but might it be that the api calls (stacks) are not being flushed causing multiple same dll calls as your program moves on resulting in memory issues , might be more than fragmentation.

Try http://www.winimize.com/about.html ideal for your memory situation, then look at the mindows threads here and have a play around with it

A rough check is to look for the presence of PCMCIA key in the registry and counting the number of subkeys, this can help to differeniate between a laptop and desktop. On desktops there are no subkeys, on laptops there are subkeys for each enabled PCMCIA slot. Checking also for multiple hardware configurations created if the laptop has a docking port etc can also be examined to narrow false positives. Lastly if you fancy diving into WMI, you will be able to discover the machines chasis type via its object browser

2) I have also discovered something weird. So, I've performed a fresh, clean install of Win98se with absolutely no updates or fixes. And the weirdness is the OS seems to want to store its Autoexec.bat file on the C drive rather than on the D drive which is what I expected. I use the autoexec.bat file to perform some Real DOS file replacements that you can't use the wininit.ini method for (ie Copy2Gb) and it took a few minutes to realise why it wasn't working because the code was looking for an autoexec.bat file on the d drive when its on the C drive ... Anyone know why this is? In such circumstances I use subst.exe for drive substitution c: ==)e:, takes care of a lot of os boot/file dependency problems. lfn after install I adapt the folders with no spaces, program folders, start menu etc to bypass any lfn restrictions and win9x adjusts. Keep up the good work, all the best

Eidenk nobody here is advocating piracy, if a few files which can be downloaded from websites can close exploits or improve stability of the os then all well and good. We have been left in limbo by ms, which will happen with win2k in a short time and most of winxp in 2 years time. People here are giving up thier free time being creative and using available resources to achieve that goal, Nobody is saying download a warez winme for the sole purpose to use that, the couple of files needed are widely available on the net. By its very nature win9x has got to evolve to be viable and sometimes the odd file might be needed here or there but that does not seem any different to winxp users borrowing files from server editions etc etc to do thier tasks. Are we going to be left with just the other os forums here?

Me too Can I also have a PM LLXX ?eidenk these people are trying to work with the tools available to them, they are trying to make the os we know and love carry on for a long time into the future. If you can for one moment be creative and equal or surpass the work that these people here have achieved then kudos to you. If you can suggest alternative methods in which the above can be completed I am sure we will welcome it with open arms. I am not a friend of anybody here but feel we all have a common goal

The only way I know is to use filever.exe from a command prompt. E:\FILEVER\FILEVER.EXE [/V] [/E] [/X] [/A] [/D] [[drive:][path][filena me]] /S Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories. /V List verbose version information if available. /E List executables only. /X Displays short names generated for non-8dot3 file names. /B Uses bare format (no dir listing). /A Don't display file attributes. /D Don't display file date and time. >c:\version.txt before running your setup.bat Works from command prompt but not in pure dos ----- W32i DLL ENU 4.0.0.1111 shp 819,200 08-24-1996 shell32.dll

; The following settings determine the corrective action ScanDisk will ; take if it was started with the /CUSTOM switch and finds a disk error. ; The next five settings accept any of the following values: ; Prompt Causes ScanDisk to prompt you before fixing this problem. ; Fix Causes ScanDisk to fix the problem without prompting you. ; Quit Causes ScanDisk to terminate if it encounters this problem. try msdos.sys autoscan=0 and diy from command prompt with its switches

Yes it a minimal win98 with a soundblaster pci 128 installed, unfortunately the soundblasters Eapci4m.ecw file uses up a quarter of the install size and the control panel extensions plus others have not been deleted yet , I might drop down to the 2 meg ecw and I should hopefully be nearer 15 mb total size. Interestingly after adding a couple of files I was able to get vlc running to play videos. But i would need some graphics drivers to do it justice, and it is intended for my car so I will perhaps give it a miss.

Use fat32 get a hold of ndd (early version), update your win9x with the patches these ladies and gentlemen produce and you will not need such a product as checkdisk

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4834/screenshotmn7.jpg Qemu is handy for testing and adding to mindows/mini98s if your cpu is capable,my 366,96mb manages just., You will probably need directx for your gameport pads from the infs mentioned. Filemon and monitoring your reg/file additions/changes using snapshots as you add the card in a normal 98 install or changing your setup directory as windows looks for plug and play then taking a snapshot of your card install can also help. Above image for my car mp3 player pc booting from a 10meg rar via grubfordos not fully minimized,created in qemu. Good luck once you have your system the way you want, boot from the system normally to bypass any emulation foibles.

Very useful, thanks very much for the heads up

If you can take the sidecover/cover off and after discharging yourself to earth, feel the heatsink on your cpu, if it feels hot to the touch check your cpu fan is running constantly, examine between the fins for any particle ingress. Over a period of time they soon get clogged up and reduce the cooling capacity substancially, also clean the power supply input vent.After this if you can run the pc without the cover and in safe mode f5 and see if any improvement happens, ideally after the system has had chance to cool down. It would be nice to know the psu output voltages via motherboard monitor,speedfan etc as I have known power supplies on their way out creating quite a few gremlins. HTH

It might be worthwhile to use motherboard monitor and see what your cpu temperature is along with your psu`s voltages, see if they are within tolerance. Might be overheating. Take out all but 1 of your ram and run memtest if ok replace the ram and repeat, if the fault only occurs on 1 stick theres your problem If they are ok it might be advisable to run a full scandisk on your drives including surface test. Download a win98se boot floppy (hopefully you have a floppy drive) and type scandisk /all /surface.

Not to worry I have sorted it out

I know the older versions did but whether they support n70 might be a different matter (might be worth a search for them), I would try any suitable win98 phone software to see if it is actually nokia suite messing up ( which it did have a habit of doing). hidmaker helps making device drivers for interfacing over usb