glocK_94

Good luck finding a 6800 Ultra today ! : Hmmm. So you have IE and WMP problems... With the new driver or the old one? And most important question: have you tried any game (main reason I'd like getting myself one of these babies) ? About the shutdown problem, disabling everything Nvidia never solved it for me neither. Anyway thanks Analada! Well, hope you get things working one way or another.

Nah, this won't work. Usually, when you plug in a dedicated AGP card, the integrated card disables itself. On old mobos, you had to do the choice manually with jumpers but it was always the onboard card OR the AGP card. Never both. Sorry. If you want dual screen, you'll have to get a graphic card with two screen outputs. It's getting more and more common nowadays.

@bonestonne: Maybe I'm not a reference since I like blue lights but, the side looks really nice ! @awergh: ah... Amstrad CPCs... Now that was something. I still got my ol' 6128+ . It still works and it's still fun!

The 7800GS? Cool. Wish I had the money to get it. As awergh says, it's a general Nvidia problem. I've had it as well with a GeForce 6200... And I remember other people having this problem too. To shutdown the PC, select "reboot in dos mode" rather than "shutdown" and press enter when you reach the black screen. It's annoying but that's about it. Apart from this issue, please tell us how everything is working! I'm curious.

Welcome mitry! Yes, you should start a dedicated topic for that kind of problem. Anyway, I read somewhere that Asus has drivers for this. You might wanna check there...

Thanks a lot for the update! : I translated the new version into french. It can be downloaded here : win9x4ever.online.fr

The Win98 *.theme files are compatible with XP. So if you save the default theme, you'll be able to import it to XP (in classic mode like awergh said).

This is hard to find! All I found is a version 2.2 for developpement but it seems to contains runtimes: http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/...id=13&lid=5 If someone has a better link...

This is quite interesting. It would be cool to post here all drivers not designed for Win9x that work fine (brand/product/driver version) and update a list in your first post. Just an idea. :

I guess most people don't need to reinstall a pack at the moment but sure it will get downloaded! Anyway it's true that maximus-decim hasn't been thanked enough for this so here you go: Thanks a lot man !!! Keep the good work. :

hmm...Maybe try to re-register the dll for my documents by running regsvr32.exe -u c:\windows\system\mydocs.dll and then regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system\mydocs.dll If that doesn't work, you can still check your Mydocs.dll version. You can also delete "My documents", recreate the folder and then register mydocs.dll again... Hope that helps.

Actually Miranda includes by default the plug-ins needed to use the chatting protocols. You only need other plug-ins if you want more functionalities (emoticons and stuff...). However GAIM v1.5.0 installs correctly on Win98 so I guess it should work fine aswell. Give it a try.

Get lost. Lame excuses? Constructive discussion? You come in this Win9x forum, start a flame war and wonder why we're rude? What now, you're gonna post until this useless topic gets closed? Get the f*** out of our forum !!! Don't you understand? We don't want your 2k or XP s***. We like win98. We really should go to XP forum, start a thread named "why use XP?" and post about how bad it is. Would you like that? Yeah right. Or know where you put your stuff (like it takes ages anyway). Like indexing didn't take time anyway! When you can just use FAT32... No but that's one of the reason why I don't use NTFS anymore. Oh. Then it's fine if your privacy is violated ONLY when you view a blu-ray... Sure no problem. Wow. I've learned something today! ...yes it's already on XP. Like most other useless services that make it a bloated OS. Vista is just worst. Slower, with more bloat and less compatibility. Or you can just use Win98. Yeah yeah... Right. Experience shows this isn't true... Naturally??!?! Windows 98 by default has the following ports open: 137, 138, 139. I've just checked on a clean win98 install on a virtual machine right now. Want a screenshot of the "NETSTAT /NA"? Not in a real computer. Want a picture of mine? And one from XP to compare? "XP/2k/anyOS fan are allowed but we don't like people flaming or "I don't like Win9x" s***. So with people like you, ...yes we should have one. And close this useless thread. We've had enough to justify against other OS fans why we use 98. Wanna close the question? Leave.

Almost fell asleep too. You've got to be kidding. Stop posting in the Win98 forum if you don't like it! 1) ntfs has more security checks, has additional streams that can be used for example, like kaspersky does, to extremely speed up antivirus scanning 2) windows uses less ram to read ntfs drives because it doesn't have to keep all the structure loaded, like it happens with FAT32 What's the point since XP sucks up the whole ram anyway. 3) ntfs can use the MFT to speed up accesses to small files 4) ntfs supports compression and encryption without needing extra software 5) ntfs has a rollback system that automatically undoes interrupted operations if for example your pc powers off while the ntfs is being written 6) ntfs doesn't have to be checked each time you don't shut off your pc correctly because as I told before it can automatically rollback interrupted operations Tihiy allready answered that. 7) ntfs can have smaller cluster sizes on small (<= 8gb) hard drives 8) ntfs has a small storage of files data in the directory to speed up directory accesses making directory accesses faster because the OS doesn't have to read all the file record chains 9) ntfs supports sparse files that allows applications like emule to avoid allocating all the space for the files at once You said it yourself. Fat32 is faster so no point alleging speed improvements. 10) ntfs is optimized for indexing while fat32 is not Great! Another reason not to use it. Chkdsk is more powerful and all the extra security feature for data integrity in NTFS are used to enhance the filesystem repair. Also chkdsk needs a reboot because it needs write access to the filesystem and you don't have to reboot if you just want to scan for errors, you have to reboot if you want ALSO to fix the errors. Yeah. Very usefull to scan but your disk BUT NOT fix it... Well, this means you can't use it easily from any other platform. Believe me, everything I tried was unsuccessful. What do you think I do? ;p What can anyone say after reading that. If you're fine with all that crap, then you really shouldn't be here. Yeah, report to M$ function... Another kind of bloat will all wanna use! (I thought Vista was so stable anyway, why would you need to report your crashes...) You give the answer yourself: retrocompatibility. We can use DOS program or any old games. Xp can't. Besides, everything that makes 98 blue makes XP show BOSD despites you're beloved memory protection (which is far from perfect and is the reason for crashes as well). You didn't get my point. It doesn't need any since ports are closed naturally! XP is a danger out of the box. 30secs to get infected. Even yourself advise to immediatly disable most services by hand! Using nlite is an obligation if you don't want tons of risky bloat. And you don't need an AV on 98 more than on XP. Really. Enough now. This is a Win98/95/ME forum and other OS fans are not welcome to flood it. Do we trash XP/2k forums? No. Do we come to Vista forums to say how bad it is? You've made your choice? Fine. We've made ours and this thread is here to explain why. Not to read your 100 posts.

that's the problem, glocK_94. as swgreed said, you have to register to be a member of the Gravure-hebdo site to download files there. non-members will NOT have access to that site. try visiting the Gravure-hebdo site from somebody else's computer, use your friend's or neighbor's PC and browse that site. We misunderstood each other. The site was fine a week ago but now you get redirected to www.nuke-arcade.com when you try to access it. I tried to find some news about what's going on and it seems the site got closed (with no warning). Nuke-arcade's people are thinking about putting the downloads back on (maybe) but for now, no way to download Matze's translations anymore except from the link you gave.

Francesco. This is like your 20th post in only a few days. Now you even post several times in a row. You have to stop that. Again, the question was to understand why we stay with Win98 and you're not helping. Win98 is our chosen OS. We've explained why. You don't agree? Fine. But you've posted your opinion now so stop floading our forum !!! NTFS better than FAT? Nope. Power down with you FAT32 drive writing? Just run scandisk and you're done. NTFS crash? chkdisk is no way as powerfull and it needs to restart your computer. And when it really crashes, there's no way to recover (even Partition Magic can't even do anything about it). And as BenoitRen mentionned, it's a closed proprietary format even if unofficial programs exist to read it under DOS or Linux. DOS: "MS didn't remove DOS. MS removed from the NT the ability of applications to access directly to hardware like they could on DOS to increase stability." So you're ok with this M$ babysitting? Fine. Good for you. Obviously we're not. This was just the first step to Vista where you can't access anything without DRM checks. And the alledged stability increase? XP more stable? lol You're comparing it to the original 98FE without any update? Updated, I've never seen a BSOD on 98SE. But I've seen quite a few on XP. And then, you're good to reinstall. And personnaly, every program that made my win98 crash made XP crash the same way (bad programs are just bad programs). All the bloat that comes with XP is not good for stability anyway (Only a few features are usefull on GBs of install) XP safer? Install Win98 with just the internet and get online: no open ports -> No risks. Install Firefox and get a firewall and you're safe. Now install XP: millions of services and open ports begging for an attack. In less that 30 seconds you'll be infected. Sure, you can disable useless services, get a powerfull AV, use nlite to get rid of all the bloat that comes with XP, use BartPE instead of DOS... but if you have to do all that to make XP usable, what's the point? Unless you're forced to have XP (like I am for latest games), don't use it. This thread is getting really anoying. So we had a 2k fan, a linux defensor, now a XP lover? What next? an OSX friend?...

I don't understand what's going on. Gravure-hebdo was on a few days ago. I'm a member of this site and all Matze's translations are there! I'll try to see what's going on... Thanks for the link erpdude8. Anyway, ask me if you need other french packs you can't find online.

Cool! Will download ASAP. Merry christmas !

Well, if it's not recognized as USB audio then it probably won't work. Put a dedicaded sound card in and disable the integrated soundchip and you're good. You shouldn't have any problems with the DVD burners really. Apart from a jumper problem, I can't figure why they're not detected.

No, I haven't. Nowhere. Ever. You're the one suggesting things here. You lookup "democracy" - it has NOTHING to do with arguments or the lack of them. Yes, people can have opinions, but they can often be misguided, uninformed, and sometimes just plain wrong, so not always useful nor insightful. You suggested people could only have "they steal our jobs" opinions and that's why they should leave it to the experts and I don't agree with that. Besides Right or wrong is subjective, and people, as long as they show arguments should be encouraged to express their opinions. But anyway, even if I don't agree at all, I don't regret standing for my ideas of democracy (even on forums) you heard my point and I heard yours. So I suggest we keep it there since we won't agree on that. lol... Oh, so now your treating me an i**** since you don't agree with you? Even if the heat went up, eveybody staid polite here. So don't fu****g get insulting or I will too ! Where did I say .NET was pure bloat and that I was against it ? I said it was a usefull language but that for the average user, having to download the frameworks (which is partly bloated) was a pain. I even said that's why it would get more popular with version 3 included in Vista. Just like DirectX people "forgot" about. My point was too make posters admit they can't blame people for not liking .NET as it is now and try to understand the reasons rather than state "they don't understand s****". You didn't read my posts and you dare judging... I could say "pointless arguing, closed-mindedness and refusal to accept that there are other opinions that count other then yours" but I won't... So...Bis repetita (talking about wasted time eh?) If I quote you: "What's the major complaint about people who rant about Norton? It's slow. Most people don't care (or perhaps don't even know) how much disk space it takes up, but what do they notice - the speed (or lack thereof)." Isn't that suggesting speed should be preferd over weight ? Except you can't buy a few hundreds of megabytes. You're bound to buy a big new HD and that's expensive (especially when you need money for the rest of the PC). There's a lot of points on which I agree but everyboy sees me as a .NET ennemy (which I'm not even)...

I find Miranda quite stable today (well, of course, it depends of what plug-in you use) but it takes some time to set-up if you want certain functions. Trillian uses (a bit) more resources but installs in just a few minutes.

Did you just realize that? Why do you thing so few people run linux? Yeah. That was...interesting. I'm logic. You're just not listening. I'm not saying people should troll debates. But the fact is everybody can have an opinion as long as they have arguments (democracy). And you're suggesting only experts can have one (well only you actually since nobody else except jcarle has the "required level" -check the thread-). Besides it's a known fact that most people at MSFN are absolute n00bs like you said. You're doing it again... (by the way, it must be my english but I didn't get the communist part) Don't get agressive. Same way it was easy for me to figure you love Vista. Before: XP's the best thing. It's just great. Vista's coming: XP was so bad I don't know how we lived with that. Vista rulez ! Newer = better! Bloat doesn't exist. All programs are so good and efficient. Why do people stick with older versions? Because they're n00bs. Anyway. No point talking with you really since you've got the absolute truth... Check the thread really. Quite "funny".

Not stupid. Useless. Propose for download the same program: one autonomous (?) version and one under .NET. You'll see what is the most downloaded. You quote me but you didn't read what I wrote. I said .NET was useful for programmers but that users won't install it unless they must to benefit from the programs they want. Otherway they don't download it since it's bloat (and this is partially true). And that's exactly what your exemple is showing. About drivers. Tell me the Catalyst Control center is bringing performance increase? lol (and now Nvidia is following the "exemple") But maybe you won't agree with that just because it is written in .NET? So do I. And they probably don't have as much money as yours because they care about space. And by the way, speed over space for antivirus? Don't tell me the blockbuster security suites are so big because they're fast... That's the elitist behavior I was talking about. Why democracy since there are experts who know better? And since you presume eveybody who dislikes .NET doens't have basic rudimentary programming knowledge, then you can look up on everyone. Ok. Makes sense. Absolutely! Without any doubt at all. If you believe Vista (the next plague OS really) is a great achievement then the discussion should stop. I won't turn this thread in a Vista discussion since they're no way we can agree on that and the Vista debate got closed...

Again, making statements about other people not knowing a thing. I've rarely seen people with such an high opinion about themselves. That's why I decided to post. And you're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say that. I even agreed with you about how insignificant can be a few kb. I just said it was a dangerous idea to believe programmers shouldn't care about the size because people got (supposably) lots of space. That's the wrong way of putting things. Yeah, it's not like because they have tons of new features, ship with far more content, or anything like that. They just decided to use more disk space for the sake of it. Right... You were yourself mentionning video drivers. Don't tell me it's not affected with more bloat every version. But eh, I'm sure you think Vista brings really amazing functionnalities that justify all this waste of space... Right... Again, you're stating from the fact that I disagree that I don't know what I'm talking about... And putting words in my mouth. I said FOR THE AVERAGE USER, downloading the frameworks means pain. Yes, downloading drivers is a pain too for most people. That's why so many just use default drivers. .NET is useful for programmers but the user doesn't see that. (And yes, it's 20mb to download but it's way more to install). You don't understand why people don't like it? I'm giving you one answer but you're not willing to listen. Indeed, with framworks included in Vista, you'll see that it will get much more popular.

Glad you solved your problems. : That's something everybody was waiting for. Your back! Hear that? Gape's back !!!