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Happy New Year to All. Anyone here know or tried to use mobile broadband internet or just mobile internet dongles with Windows 98/ME.....(Not Wi-fi). I was in a mobile phone shop and half tempted to buy a dongle but most including vodaphone, t-mobile, orange,3,said on the dongle cd pack you could only use upwards of windows 2000 or xp,vista,win 7 ....anyone successfully installed a internet dongle on windows 98/me and which mobile network was it and which version...?....how well did it work? thanks.

yep... "ReadAheadThreshold"=hex:00,00,16,00 isn't 1024 kb.. it's 1408 kb... i am confused now. what are the values to enter in the registry for ReadAheadThreshold? for :- 16 k 32 k 64 k 128 k 512 k 1024 k are the figures to be intered in the registry supposed to be hex, binary or decimal?

could you report how large file copy/paste operations on the same hard drive are affected? are they faster/slower/improved. i will do some experiments shortly by copy/pasting 1 gb files to different and same partition after adjusting the from 4k to 64 to 512 k to 1024 k and so on... i will report later. is your hard disc i/o operations improved?

Well? As you may know disk performance is impaired by a low setting for read ahead due to above reasons, causing more read operations. By storing the larger amount of info in ram, repeat returning to the hard disc for additional bits of the same file would would be reduced. i am amazed no one has thought of this. there must be a registry hack to increase the read ahead optimization from 64 k to a larger value. i did a Find search in the registry using REGEDIT using readahead as the search word. this is what i found:- "readahead thereshold 00 00 01 00" anyone knows what this means or we can change it?

i have turned the read ahead optimization in windows me to maximum which means it is 64 k now....but i want to make it read/cache even more into ram like a 1, 2,...even 20 megabytes to be stored in ramfor later use. how can i do this. microsoft went with the 64k figure as RAM was very scarce at the time....now it is not...i have 512 k ram and i want it to improve disc performance. is there a registry hack/modification which can increase read ahead to some other bigger value then 64 k? has anyone tried this?

Which again shows you don't know much about this... see Zxian's post. Nope! *ALL* cores @ 1%, and it's not misreported at all (see previous point). And you can find benches on the web, from various reputable sites, showing the exact same results too. But then again, feel free to believe everybody is wrong except you, and that it's a big conspiracy by the big and eeeeevviiiiiiilllllll Microsoft (which has us all fooled but you apparently) It seems you have been using HARDWARE decoders and therefore leading the discussion astray. can you not understand we are talking about Vista and NOT your graphic card's decoding merits. it is hardly surprising you are getting 1% cpu figures as the cpu is not doing anything. it seems you have deceiving the board by misquoting irrelavencies. Shame on you for this misdeed but your salvation lies in your admittance of your deception. it is OEM installed HP PC and has Norton and hp adviser.i disabled aero,differential file compression,windows meeting,etc. Even after tweaks above only another 10% improvement could be discerned. it is very slow....no drives issues exist. i click on firefox slow circle thingy spins and after 10 seconds interface is displayed.click on something else and it takes 15 seconds.. this is horrible. Someone suggested vista is too busy vetting my keystrokes to analysis for DRM protected content. it is a very horrible slow system. i am raging... i have a mind to erase it and install windows me on it. on my old windows me system i can run super encoder,2 bit torrent programs like azureous and bitspirit,dc++,firefox,soulseek and vlc...and still be able to surf the net,open and close windows with only a 1/2 second delay!!! yet on vista i can hardly do anything. Why?

LMAO! Until you run into software that WILL NOT install because it's a server OS. The DRM system in Vista is ONLY activated IF AND ONLY IF protected content is opened. In the headers of protected content exists a flag that tells whether it's protected or not. If it's not, the DRM never kicks in. This behavior can be seen by running a kernel level debugger and attaching to Media Player and then opening protected content. I don't know how to write an OS, nor would I want to, but I know how debug and trace code and your claims are false. I thought that at one point as well. Me and crahak had a bit of discussion on it. See quote at the bottom. Technically, it's not. It only seems to be that large because all the files in the WinSxS folder are hard links to the files already in the System32 folder. Explorer or any other file manager sees those hard links as actual files and reports what it sees. But, you can rest assured that that 15GIGS you complain about is in fact not 15GIGS of used space. I can watch a full 1080p h264 movie (decoded with CoreAVC which is software ONLY) and barely hit 1% CPU usage. I can encode h264 content and barely even hit 5% CPU usage. I can hit 90+% usage (never hits 100%) on a single core and have the other 3 cores free to do other work. It's nice to do some 3D rendering, a movie encode, compiling a large project in Visual Studio, and be playing COD5, or some other game, and never once have my PC even hint at getting slowed down. I do it all the time. It's wonderful. My new computer has core duo with 3 gb ram.it has hardly installed any programs by ME. I EVEN TURNED OFF DIFFERENTIAL FILE COMPRESSION AND WINDOWS NET MEETING AS INDICATED ABOVE. I EVEN DISABLED AERO.AND ALL FANCY EFFECTS......IT ONLY MADE MARGINAL DIFFERENCE OF ABOUT 5%. IT IS STILL VERY SLOW.THIS IS FRUSTRATING. It is very slow.I click and have to wait 8 times out of 10. I have to wait for 3 seconds up to 1 minute for various simple tasks. the other day i converted a movie from matroska to mpg in 30 minutes on my old windows me on amd athlon 3200+ running at 1.8ghz....when i repeated it on vista it took 1 hour and 3/4 hours !!!!! THAT IS RIDICULOUS Cobra and Gunsmoke (AND CRASHAK) you are both wrong again. Your assertion that h264 is decoded in software makes no sense.What does the software run on? a hot mcdonald burgher? it runs on a cpu !!! your cpu usage monitor is reporting wrongly....when you say it is 1% or less cpu usage.... it is reporting the INACTIVE CORE!!! VISTA IS TRICKING YOU AGAIN.

Because you can't understand what others write doesn't make me wrong. CPUs use use more power with load indeed, which still won't double your computer's power usage (lots of it is coming from other devices in the first place), which won't nearly double your houses' total electricity usage, clearer now? You talk like running Vista is going to cost me $3000 in power a year. Whereas my CPU still idles at like < %1, and CPU consuming tasks, like watching 1080p H.264 movies (all decoded in software no less) still take no extra CPU power. Funny, but my electrical bill hasn't gone up by a single dollar. If anything, it's gone down, thanks to actually working power management! There's thousands more people that would say exactly the same. Once again you have evaded the question put to you.why can you not answer? You claimed the cpu uses only 5%. I asked you what happened to the other 95%...? now you evaded this question...again....your back is against the ropes and now you try to obfuscate badly by posting cpu figures which don't work on vista with any accuracy. your claim vista uses 1% while decoding h264 movie is impossible without using a cpu is suspect. this implies i can watch 100 movies at 100%. no system exists which would allow a 100 xh264 movies to be played simultaneously on a home pc... again your are being suspect in your claims. why is that we ask you? it is well known that xp tools misreport on vista. gunsmokers picture of processes proves nothing.it just shows some graph from any where.i can duplicate that graph too. your petty insults only confirm your fears against me. also i have been vindicated by the other poster grof luigi who confirms tilt bits and content protection by enable flags. i think you have had a case of blows with pete guttman which is why you hate him and besmirch his character without reason why are so chummy with ed bott? what has he done for you? if ed bott saw you lying in the gutter would he help you? do you know him?...have you met him?...do you visit him? you seem very fond of ed bott...why is that? i saw his picture...i saw that smirk on his face...he knows he has you.

no no... you misunderstand. i want to make this behaviour controllable....i want explorer not to display icons in either pane.

Completely false. No facts to back it up obviously. Anyone with more than two brains cells would know it's impossible in the first place. Even if your CPU was peaked @ 100% 24/7, it wouldn't double your computer's electricity usage, which is only like 5% tops of total power usage. This holds no basis in reality, just like all your claims. You are wrong again.A cpu which is running at near full load must consume more power...this is fact... You are clearly lying when you say a cpu uses 5% of total power usage.What is using the the other remaining 95%? ANSWER ME. I have defeated you again. Any processing consumes energy... Vista is processing non stop so it must consume more electricity. Your attacks on Pete Guttman are based on jealousy.He has travelled to all the computers symposiums in front of computer experts and given these presentations in front of experts who have concurred and for you to cast aspersions on a well respected professional is wrong and morally reprehensible. He is fighting against the might of mega corporations to which you seem to be connected as they send you freebies therefore automatically putting on their side. This is standard practice by mega corporations to sway people their way. DID YOU KNOW THAT VISTA CHECKS THE OUTPUT PORTS 60 TIMES A SECOND TO SEE IF YOU RE STEALING premium content? This slows down the pc further.. A high definition video i make on a camera would not be playable at full resolution due to drm down grading the quality. Once again your assertion that a cpu uses only 5% of total power is clearly false.A cpu is the main consumer of power.

All right, slow down, run around the block a few times to get some air. Can you provide some evidence to support this ? Or do you mean the TPM chip that supports Bitlocker ? I don't have that and Vista works just fine. You can NOT be serious. Good for you, although you have confused a few things : a 3200+ is not running 1.8Ghz. Also for newer applications/games/hardware you're toast as they are no longer supporting the 98/Me platform. It's still going to take a bit hacking to get it running as a desktop OS. Are you going to pay for the license yourself ? To the topic starter : If you're now running 32-bit Vista, I don't see a reason to step over to 64-bit, unless you plan on using more than 3Gb of memory. I've recently moved to a new CoreDuo build with 4GB and chose to install Vista x64, while I ran XP on an older Athlon 64 with 2GB before. Suits my needs perfectly. And yes, like someone else said : an external drive is generally slower. Especially if it's on USB you'll feel that the drive is working. If you're working a lot with big files on an external drive, I'd recommend firewire. It's not going to be faster, but it'll keep your pc free to do other things. ATHLON 3200+ CAN RUN AT 2.6 GHZ but i use crystal cpuid to keep it running lower depending on load and saving energy. vista will double your electricity and contribute towards global warming.a cpu running at high l;oad will consume more electric current. no hacking is reqiured at all to get server 2003 as desktop...a forum exists.control panel adjustments take 10 minutes. renowned vista expert pete guttman confirms what i said about how single subsystem can slow vista if it cannot keep up with non-stop encrypting/decrypting of all bytes passing to and from it.... have you ever run a encrypting programme?...see how it slows down everything? vista is huge 15gb in size ...it spys on your every your key press...it is checking you are not stealing premium digital content without a licence from riaa/mpaa. just ask peter guttman the worlds foremost vista expert... pete guttman has stated how if a security systen is running vista then simply by feeding a a unlicenced/pirate copy of a DRM file you can get the vista system to reboot automatically and leaving security system disabled...that's how easy it is to disable a vista secuirty system...just feed it a pirated copy of something and it will shut down and reboot..giving thieves a free ride... vital national security systems running vista could be shut down easily using this method by hackers,foreigners and terrorists compromising national security.

you seem quite ignorant.the mpaa and riaa pressured MS to put this DRM crap in to vista. MS lost $28 billion in lost sales as a result. the results of vista depends on all hardware in the base unit....all that encrypting/decrypting takes cpu cycles....if any part is slow it will slow the whole box...you seem to be working for them... vista is crap...you can add 208 gigs of ram....it will not change anything as the cpu is busy checking your theft of drm content...and making sure you cannot siphon it off through a leak wire. checking checking...checking....vista will double your electricity consumption as vista keeps checking... even a schoolyard boy knows a busy cpu consumes more electricity... I USE WINDOWS ME...NO 3 SECOND DELAYS ..I CLICK AND IT WORKS INSTANTLY ON MY ATHLON 1.8GHZ ECS MOTHERBOARD WITH AMD 3200+ CPU. I plan to replace the vista crap with server 2003 configured as a desktop.Everyone reports excellent results. you are working for them to gloss over this piece of DRM riddled spyware. i will never install vista...NEVER.NEVER...NEEEVVERRRRRR. DO YOU HEAR ME?

What processor? I never had a problem with 2GB and Core 2 Duo. However, I just upgraded to 6 GB for virtual machines - I didn't see a performance gain but I can run virtual machines without a problem. i just bought a NEW duo core 2.8 GHZ pentium for my child with VISTA HOME PREMIUM. it is very slow. click wait 3 seconds for a folder to open. click wait 3 seconds for another action. click wait 3 seconds or longer to play music. it is maddening. VistaIS constantly checking you are NOT playing PREMIUM CONTENT without PAYING TO THE MPAA/RIAA and all info between the the computer subsytems is ENCRYPTED and DECRYPTED CONSTANTLY.This means higher electricity bills and all your processing power gone to this checking. it also has tilt bits ready to shut down if any internal voltages changes. you can add as much memory as you like but the cpu are busy checking for premium content infrinfement. it i like a virus scanner running constantly at high priority IT IS CHECKING ON YOU ALL THE TIME THAT YOU ARE NOT PLAYING PREMIUM CONTENT WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT.IF IT DOES IT DOWNGRADES THE QUALITY.THIS MEANS PROCESSING CYCLES LOST CONSTANTLY TO DRM. Vista is horrible. it is so slow. slow and frustrating and it keeps updating with endless patches. i will not be installing this EVER. CLICK AND WAIT 3 SECONDS. ARRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

you can kill explorer in task manager.it usually comes back and releases the memory hogging for which it is guilty of usually.

I USE WINDOWS ME. After running some memory hungry applications i noticed that explorer stopped displaying icons next to the filename as it normally does. i.e it seemed to have turned into a text based explorer. it was just displaying the file names in both panes. also it was very snappy and very responsive with zero lag presumably because it di not have to fetch/display/generate the icons associated with folders and files. the question is can this behaviour be made permanent? For example if i deleted the icon cache? also does a text based explorer as described above exist or can it be written? I suppose it would be easy to write a simple file text based explorer which would only display filenames without icons or memory intensive requirements. If the behaviour of explorer can be made permanently like as explained it would improve 9x systems even more in that the memory hogging done by prolonged/extended file operations would not occur. perhaps some simple bat file patch could switch on/off this behaviour of explorer. i think the icon cache perhaps could be renamed or moved. could you please experiment and report here?

While I was in bed it occurred to me that a lcd phote frame used for displaying pictures costing about $20 for a 5 inch frame could be easily adapted to be a book reader like the Amazon Kindle book reader which costs a whopping $500.For that much you could buy a laptop or a desktop pc. I see no reason why a picture LCD photoframe could not display text if it can display color pictures/jpegs. Therefore I ask you to either spread the idea about this or make it happen. Only a very simple basic program either linux or windows would be required to act as an operating system or even run it from a flash drive which would store both the pdf,rtf,txt,ebooks. The idea is that a cheap disposable lcd picture photo frame could be used as a replacement for the very expensive kindle book reader. This could finally revolutionise the reading of books due to low cost. There are many clever,smart and intelligent people on this board who could easily implement this. _________________

i suggest you use a duel ide to sata adpter and plug in the ide to sata adapter into the ide socket on the motherboard and connect the sata cables to sata drive... these duel function ide to sata / sata to ide adapters cost only 1 or 2 pounds plus postage on ebay.. if you do this then your problems will vanish as the adapters take care of the problems and you will not a have a driver issue either. thats is what i did as sata drivers for win98/winme don't really exist. could you read your inbox message please.

the 750 gb drive is a sata drive but to make it work i have connected an usb adapter to it so it functions like an external drive... i was hoping that software would automatically split the input mpg2 into 4gb chunks...so i dont need to format to ntfs which i hate anyway. i would love to get a hard disc recorder but i hear they break down very quickly after only 1 or 2 weeks and also the hard drives are only 80 gb to 160 gb and that bigger hard drives push the cost to £600. hard disc recorders seem very fragile and keep breaking down after only a week or 2 and cannot be repaired or are too expensive to get them repaired. also you cannot replace the hard drive without complicated formatting. also they are very delicate and breakdown or freeze for no reason...due to heat in the hard drive box...

use free from google gag and or smart bootmanager...both very good...they come with uninstall option too unlike bootmagic which does not work on 400gb hard drives and fails to load operating system on 500gn or over hard drives...

I want to get my old pal secam VHS videos transferred to a gigantic 750GB hardrive using a cheap USB FROM EBAY costing £10. in mpg 2 format. examples:- http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trk..._nkw=usb+video+ i have about 60 to 100 tapes and intend to use a setting of ABOUT 50 megabytes for 3 minutes of VHS this will translate to 1 gig per hour.each tape carries from 3 hours short play to 6hours long play of video. i intend to leave IT playing at night and record whole tape to hard drive which will also be plugged in via USB. I see a few problems though.the hard drive will HAVE to be formatted in NTFS due to 4 gig file limit in windows me. the operating system will be widows me. it will have 48 bit LEXX patch to address large hard drives.does it really need this patch? but i take it even though the input will be from usb vhs to usb 2 750 gb ntfs hard drive it will not be possible to record unless you use a win2000/xp? i would prefer to use fat 32 on 750 gb hard frive but the 4 gig file limit prevents me unless the software breaks them automatically to 3.5gb etc... also i note the software for usb to video capture is always win2000/xp.... can i use different software to capture usb video stream like virtual dub etc?? also is the encoding to mpg 2 done on usb chip or by cpu....? i want to have basically about 80 X 6 gig mpg 2 files which i can store without burning them to dvd until i have more time for editing/burning. vhs tapes are decaying. can anyone help? thanks.

thanks to all who have replied. still i find it odd that in a win98/me forum people are not using AMD boards with sata hard drives and hence sata hard drives. however fewer and fewer motherboards are being fitted with ide slots and and ide hard drives are being phased out. i must admit i am not a fan of sata anyway as they seem to offer marginal improvement outweighed by the hassle of getting them to work and worst of all the sata connectors on sata drives are only guaranteed for 50 insertions due to their delicacy!...i wonder what moron was responsible for such idiocy.

well i was expecting some help but no one seems to be interested. i mean there must be someone with sata amd board running winme... ANYONE? CAN YOU HELP ME PLEEESSEEEEE!!!

I HAVE A ECS 482 version 1.0 AMD MOTHERBOARD but they only supply sata drivers for win2000/xp. this means i cannot use winme on a sata hard drive. i was wondering if there are any generic sata drivers you can use for winme as otherwise i either get a windows protection error bsod or it runs in dos compatability mode whe i try to use the sata drives. emails to MSI AND ECS fell on deaf ear and their website dont offer sata drivers for winme or 98. at the moment i am using the ide hard drives and cannot use sata drive due to above reasons. anyone know of generic sata drivers which works on a 9/winme system for this motherboard. thanks.

i have 2 sata hard drives and 2 sata to ide convertors. i want to connect the sata to ide convertors to the ide motherboard ide socket but i can only do this for one sata hard drive.the only other way would be to disconnect the ide cable from cd-rom from the second ide socket on motherboard which i do not want to do. normally on a ide cable you can connect TWO ide hard drives on the same cable...the black and grey 40 pin connectors. i want to know if i replaced the 2 male 40 pin ide connectors on the ribbon cable with female 40 pin ide connectors would i then be able to plug in the male 40 pin connectors from the SATA TO IDE convertors attached to the sata hard drives. once again can i replace the male 40 pin ide connectors with female connectors then plug in the male connectors from the sata to ide connectors one into black and one into the the grey? would this work? would the computer be ok or would it blow up. is it dangerous?

many win me apps work on xp machine after upgrade.at least 90%. i have not tested them all as i have 2348 programs on it covering every possible application. also MANY of the applications are STANDALONE APPLICATIONS.THAT MEANS THEY DON'T WRITE TO THE REGISTRY. it used sp2. i have at work a workstation with xp and that too is sluggish even with the applications on a network server. i resent your assertion that i am b*********. i assert my right to free speech and demand a decent os from ms.