BenoitRen

Please note that there is a difference between a partition and a drive. A HDD is a drive. Segments of that drive are partitions.

That's great for homebrew, but for anything else it's copyright infringement. Buy the games you like.

You can use PROtab.

WinXP on my laptop and secondary PC boot fast.

This is a misleading error message. It means that a DLL function dependency was not met. It is usually accompanied by an error message noting the function it didn't find in which DLL.

It would be great if they could release the source code for the APIs that they have created replacements for.

You'll need to boot it without a mouse at least once to check to checkbox that makes it not tell you about no mouse again using a keyboard.

Windows 2003 is based on Windows XP, so the fact that you can network it with Win9x doesn't say much. :/

You could also look in win.ini for vserver.vxd

Actually, if you're going to do it that way, use an FTP server instead.

Funny how you're talking about this but don't say a word about the cooling needed. http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/12/epic_integrated_graphics/ Well, mine sure doesn't! It's got a SiS one. Not like this onboard stuff will last long anyway. Sure, built-in chipsets of today are better than a SoundBlaster 16 PCI, but my argument was that instead of buying something decent as a separate card, which meant you could actually decide what you wanted, it's now all on-board as cheap low-end chipsets. Which is just an example of how you can. Of course you can. But such a rig is not everywhere, and it's not the standard. Of course. The Core Duo series is based on the Centrino architecture. But there's more than Core Duo out there, and generally the heat rises exponentially the more cores you have on a CPU, which means more cooling, which means more power consumption.

AJAX isn't always that resource-intensive. Flash, however, is a pain even on systems assembled in the past 5 years. It doesn't belong on the Internet in the first place. I surf without Flash, thank you. Yes. And this is because of the catastrophe that is X-Windows. Of course I'm not expecting that. But the fact remains that it is what I want to run, and recent hardware doesn't really give me the option to do it well. That's where open source comes in, obviously. Unfortunately Windows 95 is not open source. Stop spreading this FUD. I just talked to that hardware friend of mine, and outside of a couple CPU series like the Centrino, generally newer CPUs ask for more power, generate more heat due to getting more complex, and need more power for cooling. If market share actually meant something, Linux would never have had drivers. Try talking to people who actually work with the hardware. Like game programmers. Especially Intel chipsets are to blame. Also, since when do all motherboards come with Realtek audio chipsets?

You missed the point. Upgrading still means getting rid of older parts. Well, duh! The "we" I refer to are exactly the people talking about those! I know, that's why I said "computer parts" and "entire computers". According a friend of mine who's busy with hardware daily and quite the expert on it, this is not the case. In fact, the motherboard of my secondary PC got busted after only a half year, and had to be replaced. I'm from Belgium, actually. Since most people only really need the Internet, I doubt it. Also, I doubt it will last 15 years. I used to think the same about 5 years ago. But people always need more power. It's like saying "640k ought to be enough for everyone". I also want to point out that while newer hardware may consume less energy, it's not necessarily what we want. Motherboards of today come with crappy graphics and sound cards. I'm happy with my Sound Blaster 16 PCI, thank you. Also, I wouldn't be able to run Windows 95 on that hardware with supported drivers. By the way, that failed motherboard I mentioned was one from ASUS.

Have you thought about the environment? We don't throw away computer parts every 3 years. Recent hardware is also less durable, mostly because you're going to upgrade before it breaks anyway.

Would be nice to compile a list of everyone's times for reference. System: Pentium II 233 Mhz with 160 MB of RAM running Windows 95 OSR 2.5 Boot time: 35 seconds (of which exactly 20 seconds are occupied by the BIOS) Shutdown time: milliseconds shy of 3 seconds For those of you wondering what happened with my boot time of 29 seconds, previously I started counting when my BIOS made its beep.

Ah, yes, that particular feature never worked well. In fact, that's the very reason that option was removed from Firefox 2's options window. There is one type of pop-up that SeaMonkey doesn't block. If you follow a JavaScript link that opens a new window, it can open an extra pop-up window. I imagine it's hard to decide programmatically what's a pop-up in that case and what isn't. All new windows open in new tabs, so I haven't had pop-unders, but they still open in a new tab. That idea was flawed from the start. No page should get less security. They should all get the same level. I use Adblock Plus with a list of filters of my own that blocks most ads. I agree with the sentiment, as I live in Belgium, were we also have capping. Though the biggest advantage to me is not having slow page loads because of a slow ad server.

This is false. I've used it a lot, and it works great, allowing you fine-grained control. It's more probable that you don't know how to properly use it. The pop-up blocker works well. It's insecure by design. Microsoft even admitted it. It's also quite unstable and hungry for resources. I haven't had any nasties just by switching to SeaMonkey. No locking down needed. No hosts file blocking needed. I get the full experience without a crippled web browser. I'd argue SeaMonkey is easier to lock down because its preferences window is organised instead of the mess that IE calls its options.

Hello Andrew! As a fellow Windows 95 user without IE, I had run into this issue when testing SeaMonkey 1.1.3. I filed a bug for it and helped out with its resolution. I even posted about it on MSFN back then. In short, IE3 installs CAPI, the cryptography component, which is why we don't have it. You'll need to extract RSABASE.DLL and SIGRES.EXE from the cab files to the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and register RSABASE.DLL using regsvr32. That should register the base provider and resolve the issue.

This thread is 9 months old. You missed your chance. Let it rest.

I tried Winspector the other day, but boy was it slow. Now I finally tracked down Spy++. Wordpad never displays a horizontal scroll bar, actually. So I looked at NotepadEx, and it uses a bunch of EM_GETLINE messages followed by EM_CANUNDO ones, and a lot of unknown ones. I don't know what to make of this. Saving the output to logs seems to require some magic tricks, so I can't paste it here. By the way, that file SPYHK50.DLL kept denying access when I wanted to move and then delete it. I removed it from pure DOS.

You wouldn't need a tool to watch your back if you didn't use an IE shell.

Of course your IE will fail. It may have all the updates available, but it's still very outdated compared to the latest IE version, IE7. At least we can all agree on that.

You'll have to give us more details of your situation. We're not psychic.

Hey, that's Andrew T.'s weblog post, reposted on Bink for some reason. EDIT: Just read all the comments. Amazing how people can be so closed-minded.

IE, especially older versions, have always been crash-happy.