BenoitRen

How about mine? system.dat: 1.06 MB user.dat: 177 kB

Not to mention that defragmenting on XP takes forever.

IE3 was shipped with Windows 95B (and 95C) and installed along with everything else. But it wasn't integrated into the system.

There's nothing wrong with eye-candy. But the eye-candy I was talking about comes from Windows Vista. For a user bar promoting Windows 98, this is unacceptable.

Bulls***. It only includes IE4 on the CD-ROM, which is an optional install. My Windows 95 is IE-free, and still works fine. Anyway, I looked at this a couple days ago, and the hex lines on which the values that have to be modified are are identical between the German and Dutch explorer.exe. I haven't modified my explorer.exe yet, as in the end this modification would only affect the only icon that appears in the tray, which is AIM.

To who, and what, exactly, are you responding to?

Text like "98, the Best M$ Can Be." are best avoided, as they assert superiority. Not only could this lead to arguments on message boards where you would have that in your signature, it also alienates Win95 and WinME users.

Didn't anyone notice that the "Windows 98 Forever" user bar's picture is from Windows Vista's task bar? It's inappropriate.

Every time a WinNT fan comes in here it only leads to big arguments that amount to nothing, wasting our time. The way WinNT fans think it just highly incompatible with how most Win9x users think. Same here. It's not the least stable M$ OS at all. People who actually use Win95 surprisingly have good things to say about it. Like a friend of mine who has a Win95 laptop that is "surprisingly dependable". Preventing is better than healing. Read up on network security. One less open port is one less possible attack vector. Firewalls are meant to provide protection for ports that need to be open. The point is that WinNT is defective by design. There are much less vulnerabilities in Win9x. I care as much about security as I do about ease of use and compatibility. Linux is not Windows. I'd gain security, but lose the ease of use of Windows 95, and all the programs that it can run. And don't start about Wine, it's very slow, and if I would use it a lot, I might as well be using Windows. The context is different. Defaults are important, especially security defaults. It doesn't make sense that I should have to spend an hour configuring my system just for it to come close to be secure. That's bad design. It's not about effort. Good. Because we have seen the same kind of uneducated arguments already. It's always the same s***. "Win9x is insecure!" "Win9x is unstable!" I've never seen any advertising for DOS and Windows 95. Ever. I saw it on other people's PCs, liked how it worked, and chose it as my operating system.

I've learned that you can have 256-colour tray icons in Windows 95. Apparently all that is needed is some simple explorer.exe hacking as indicated by this page. It doesn't mention Windows 95C, but that's Windows 95B with USB anyway. Now, the problem is that my language (Dutch) isn't listed. However, the instructions for the German version talk about an explorer.exe that is exactly the same size as mine. So is it a fair bet that I would have to modify exactly the same values? Is there a way to confirm this? Thanks in advance.

Oh, the horror! A couple extra clicks! It would seem that the later they got into computing, the lazier people are. This is a trade-off that doesn't make sense, and shouldn't be necessary, so your analogy is not correct. Define "bloated". K-Meleon has many more features than Firefox out of the box, but it loads faster. I bet you call it bloated because it loads slower. Now this is a trade-off. Thanks to XUL, Firefox is cross-platform, and enables extensions to hook into the interface, but it will load slower. Yes, I pass by there regularly. Oh, no, another WinNT user who wanders into this forum to preach to us. IE4 installation starts after setup is complete and Windows 95 boots into the actual desktop for the first time. Don't leave the CD-ROM in the drive, and it won't happen. I discovered this by accident when I once let the CD-ROM in the drive. You'll still have IE3, though, but that's where the method described on ToastyTech comes in. Ah, the WinNT user is showing his true colours. Win9x has limited networking functionality. It also doesn't open ports for no reason, unlike WinNT. This makes it more secure out of the box. Use a secure web browser, and you're pretty much safe unless you're someone who blindly opens attachments. Various system components were programmed with the Intel segmentation model in mind. Heard about the ANI cursor vulnerability? In Win9x, this flaw never led to arbitrary code execution. You'd just get an "Illegal Protection Error", explorer.exe would restart, and you'd continue as if nothing happened. Thanks for the link, awergh.

Nice, glocK_94. I like "Happy Windows 9x user". I think it sounds better than "Still using Windows 9x", which depending on someone's mood, could be interpreted as "I'm being contrarian, muaha.".

You mean regmon and filemon? Just download them from Winternals.

Optional? I wish. Pentium IV processors are getting faded out, as well as single-core AMD processors. Just like you can't buy 32-bit processors anymore except for the Pentium IV. They're trying to mass-market their latest advancements as usual. Companies don't bother optimising their programs and making them run efficiently anymore. Then we get people complaining about how slow something runs, and instead of blaming the software, they blame it on the hardware not being fast enough. It's sad, really. What is also often forgotten is that the processor isn't the only thing that determines the speed. In the case of 3DS Max, a good graphics card is a must, not just a good processor. A friend of mine can tell some good real life stories about this. Note also that I said for most people. I think it'll be quite hard until the source code is available.

It's not hard to right-click on the HDD and choose Properties to get a nice pie graph. That's fine. But I don't want multiple icons taking space where my task buttons should be. Wasted vertical estate. As I think I said before, I did try it back when I had Win98 FE. It's the same shell. I didn't like it at all. I won't try it on this PC because it comes with IE. Choice is good, as long as it doesn't come forced with other s*** that I don't want (IE). Does that make it right? No. It just means that a lot of geeks have based their shells on Windows/IE's poor design. Many of these geeks aren't usability experts or even designers, they're programmers. Less is more, even on the desktop. Too many menus and buttons confuse users and clutters things. An AT 286 with DOS and Tandy DeskMate that my dad bought. I soon knew it better than him. You take that back. There's no comparison. The Windows 3.x shell didn't make sense. No task bar, Program Manager, and... Not much else, really. No, I'm not. Got a link? Hah! If you don't use something, you remove it! It's only logical. Besides, updating IE3 to IE4 will tie IE into your system, rendering it more vulnerable and unstable. That's when you should update IE for increased stability and holes. But why bother? Just remove it. Note that the retail versions of Windows 95 didn't come with IE. Only the OEM versions did.

Generally it will run faster, because it's less demanding of your system. I don't. Dual cores are overrated. They're another component of the plan to keep up the perpetual upgrade cycle. Single-core CPUs are fast enough for most people already. It's like they're trying to push a Ferrari to everyone when a regular car is just fine. In any case, it is not possible to make Windows 98 recognise the two cores, unless someone can modify the kernel and who knows what other components necessary. SATA hard drives are a problem most of the time, as Windows 98 doesn't have drivers for it. However, if your BIOS has an option to provide IDE compatibility, you may be able to use it anyway, just not with the advantages of SATA. Windows 98 will not be able to read/write past 137 GB until you install the fix developed by LLXX. Note that this is a drive limit, not a partition limit. Partitioning your drive into five 100 GB partitions (is that even possible?) will not fix it. That depends on if your BIOS supports that much. There have been many reports of people using more than 512 MB RAM, and for some it works, others have to apply a work-around for part of the RAM.

Yes, I could, if anyone actually bothered to tell me what skills I need, and how I should start.

I'm not a mindless hater, I have good reasons. No one should use any IE version older than 7, because of bad web standards support and because it's full of security holes.

What's that supposed to mean? If you didn't know, IE6 wasn't updated for many years not because of how great it was, but because M$ had as good as achieved a monopoly on the web browser share.

You shouldn't use that piece of crap in the first place.

So? That would mean that it would actually be easier to find the spot that needs a check for the return value of USER32.DLL!

NOTE: You said Win9x. Media Player Classic does NOT work on Windows 95! It has a dependency on GDI+, which is Windows 98 and newer. Older versions than 6.4.8.0 do not use GDI+, but they require a couple Win98-only APIs that other Win9x software checks for, but doesn't require. Sadly, the executable is kind of weird, so you can't edit out the checks. AbiWord Version: 2.4.6 Type: Word processor KUP: No Comments: Though it's also slow to start, it's still a bit faster than OpenOffice, and just a text processor. Works fine on Windows 95 and newer, though it crashed my system today the first time I wanted to print a document (it happened about a month back with Wordpad too, so it may be a printer driver issue).

How about this driver? http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html

Wow, a beta of it came out? Might be nice to take a look at with VMWare.

You can also get the Shutdown box by pressing Alt+F4 at the desktop.