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Rick Chauvin

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  1. and the sad part of Apple Quicktime 7.2 is that is requires at least WinXP SP2. Quicktime 7.2 will NOT install under Win2000 as I've tested this on my cousin's Win2000 machine. CURSE YOU, APPLE Inc. why Quicktime 7.2 had to drop Win2k support is beyond me well Rick, that's cold hard reality nowadays for Win9x users anyway I hardly encounter QT files on the web I don't fool with QT that much either erpdude, but do have v6.5.2 installed on W98SE, W2K and WXP as well, naturally in all cases with it unchecked in msconfig which goes without saying, along with not having any file types except it's own associated. I just don't use QT that much but it is there for that seldom needed instance. As for online viewing I always download the file I want to watch while never using any players on line that much at all, since most sites are not in my trusted zone therefore do not have access to activex to start them. I see I do have v7.03; v7.04; v7.131 saved locally for testing on 2K/XP but I've never needed the instance to test them yet.... someday maybe. Rick
  2. To remove the tvdebug.log file is easy when it gets too big, simply shutdown ZA from the task bar, and delete it. It will recreate itself fresh each time. It was always good advice to do the same thing once in a while, although less often, with the .rdb and .lbd files too. All of these files are located in the C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs folder. I don't quite understand the problem you are having? ..but first what version do you use? The last version of ZA for W98SE is v6.1.744.001 which is still available to download here: Free version: http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/info...aseHistory.html Pro version: http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/info...aseHistory.html FWIW, with this verson I never use and turn Off! the AntiSpyware, AntiVirus, eMail Protection, and the Privacy options on it. The only older version before this one that was nearly as stable, was v4.5.594, but that version once in a while would hangup/freeze and need to be rebooted, while in the process it would create those pesky ...tmp files in the above folder which after a while you'd end up with dozens of them; v6.1.744.001 does not do that but it does give those other product options mentioned above - which as mentioned I just turn them all Off in all the versions anyway. ymmv
  3. Do you really need to watch it in QT then? In other words just because Pinky offers it in QT format, however YouTube offers it in the elusive p.i.t.a flv format. To download an flv format you can do it a few ways, just one is if you go to this website: http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/ Then copy/paste this link below into the box there (it's the link from YouTube where you play it there) ..and then press GetVideo, and as it starts the download process here you can rename/enter it in for an .flv extension either before or after you download the get-video file, but either way it needs to be in an .flv extension - then when done downloading it then just open it with your VLC player and it will work fine. Another way, maybe even easier/convenient in many cases than fooling with flv files, is that this link below offers a little YouTube downloader program that you would paste that same link into its box, and it will auto-convert the file to a mpeg format even - which as you know every player plays that one. http://www.youtube-d.com/ ..there's even more ways to do it, and as always more than one way to accomplish a given task ..ps and btw - now that you mentionded it, yes it would be nice if there was a simple codec change/way to make v7 mov files work with a v6 player!
  4. YW... I wouldn't say it's flawless though in the sense that all of the options were never and are not entirely available to work when it's placed like that on Win98, however the basic and main portion of the program does work so that's the important part. All the versions works very well on W2K/WXP though and that's where they should really be run, and where I mainly run it.. just a fyi, I put v4.0.2693 release notes in with this version, since this (and some other) versions I noticed never came with release notes, and on some newer release notes they would leave out particular specifics of what was done on previous ones... so I used the v4.0.2693 release notes since it's unique to itself, and one can see in a round about way what they did just beyond it that broke W98's operation. Anyway, GE is a novelty to be able to run it on 9x too, so it's fun..
  5. Actually I found out that v4.0.2416 is the last working version for W98 which does not have the random data blur on 9x, however it (and All versions prior) do use a bit more system resources comparatively to all the versions After that... which is the tradeoff; iow, what they did to make it work using less resources is also what started causing the random data blur missing map data on 9x to show up. Anyway I had found out which was the last version working for 9x by downloading every version GE released and installed each one on WXP, and then copied them over to W98SE one by one to test them (having made hex edits to each base.dll, also adding the correct unicows and atl71 dll's) Here is the Link to the program files needed for v4.0.2416, it's all inclusive meaning you do not have to edit anything, or create any folders - simply place the included folder in your Programs folder (or anywhere really) and then shortcut the googleearth.exe to the Desktop for convenience. The moment you start it then it automatically creates any folders and registry entries that it needs to run all by itself.
  6. Sure but I don't have an account with them, however I will upload it to my website and send you the link via pm, and if you would upload it to your Rapidshare, thank you. The original 4.0.2091 installer can be had at FileHippo on the right side of their page.
  7. I know it... p.i.t.a fwiw & fyi I had noticed when I had downloaded that gearth9x.txt directly from his website before that the websites file date showed it was written on 9/30/2006 and I know for a fact he has stopped working on this project soon after he wrote that article, because he moved to WXP and never looked back. ...anyway my point is that I looked over the digital sigs on all my GoogleEarthWin.exe and noticed that for his test he must of been using v4.0.2091 since it has a dig sig of 9/14/06. (my thinking was he would of never wrote up that article if he knew it had the blurs if you know what I mean) So I deleted every single piece of Google file/registry off my test box for 2K and installed v4.0.2091, then copied all the files off of that, fixed the base dll and added the atl71.dll and then placed everything on my W9x test box just to see what I saw (btw, I placed the files per his gearth9x.txt including the res folder as suggested since I think eidenk didn't need it because he was using a later version which disregards that issue) ...anyway...guess what - the good news for those who are stuck with 9x using GE is that it does 'not' have that blur issue on zoom close at all and is very clear! just like we know it is with 2K/XP (kmz files will not work though and fatal error; proper kml files are fine) You know right away if it will have the blur issue just by clicking the 'Google Campus' tour that's on the very bottom of the Sightseeing tab's list on the left - and when it zooms in close it won't even render what's there right and it's blurry (v4.0.2091 is fine everywhere it goes zoom or not ) Anyway, my point is for anyone having that missing data (blur problem) on 9x with GE then you can at least use v4.0.2091 which is clear (Note though (for me anyway, and dtamonis too even with your 81.98 drivers you will have to apply the DirectX reg I gave before or it won't log in since it will not login with OpenGL enabled no matter what drivers I use.. of course, ymmv!) fwiw ...v4.0.2742 & v4.0.2746 (when starting from fresh caches on) do have the blur problem on 9x, and so manually placing v4.0.2091 at this point would be the only choice unless instead of manually placing it, someone was able to get the v4.0.2091 packed installer to work for 9x (as long as that process won't add other problems I don't know) ..but manually placing v4.0.2091 for 9x works well. Actually I will even leave v4.0.2091 on my 9x partition for fun, while having the later versions on 2K/XP to keep up with what's new..
  8. Yes it does install better now, it's not flawless as you pointed out, but nevertheless it does work. Thank you eidenk for your hours of efforts. Nice job. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ I found out some important things about GE today 'not related' to the work you have done. I've come to notice issues with GE on W98SE that I may have not realized before, where before I always copied my dbCache.dat , dbCache.dat.index & MyPlaces.kml saved from my own touring operations on W2K/WXP over to Win98SE everytime and then I just watched the tour, but this time in playing with your install I did not do that and started with fresh caches allround. I soon found out (for my 2 test setups anyway) that GE may seem to work just fine, but when it comes to you actually going somewhere on a tour I soon noticed as it downloaded data it left undownloaded data areas (blurry areas) randomly on whatever portion of the map I was looking at, and on zooms in seemingly random places it would not finish downloading final data to clear it up leaving portions blur'd (no the issue is not related to video drivers) This does not happen on 2K/XP so there must be more to running GE 'properly' on 98 than I had realized.. On successive tests I even installed the KernelEx to see how that was and yes it did let the install process work better for v4.1, but here too it does not solve the poor imaging operation of GE on W98SE that I just mentioned ..again this is on my setup(s) and so as always, ymmv. I've been using GE ever since it came out years ago and at that time I first installed it on my W2K partition... iow in time I've become fairly familiar with GE and how it works which is great on 2K or XP, but I've now come to realize that for me anyway, unless it's a transferred cache already made up, the touring and it's overall data cache imaging ability as compared to 2K/XP is very poor. I think I will just let it be as is working fine on my W2K & WXP partitions, but leave it alone for W98SE
  9. Still the same error and I don't have KernelEx installed either. Is that KernelEx this project link? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71476 Anyway, I won't install KernelEx but will wait till you work on it to run thank you
  10. Thank you, but same errors still though........ However are you sure you included the modified googleearth.dll - I don't think so since the date is still 5/24/07 on it
  11. Hey eidenk thanks for working the installer, nice work. Yes it does install on W98SE, and I see it installs the full registry needed for everything to work jusk like on 2K/XP, however unfortunately it won't actually run on W98SE when you try to start it - I just tried it on two different boxes, and it does the same thing it did before for v4.1 which is pop up these two errors straight away..
  12. Yes I get the same error as you on 9x but realize in context GE was not crafted to work on Wn9x and you won't be able to use many of the extra features on it like you can in W2K/WXP. kmz files are in essence zipped kml files that when GE is installed on 2K/XP knows how to extract/process and bring you to the target. Your Blitzortung.org fancy projects can not be properly seen on Win9x, however yes I can open them in 2K/XP and see it okay. However for W98 you can rename the kmz extension to zip, and then unzip them and the resulting doc.kml can on 9x ..sometimes.. be navigated, however your Blitzortung.org needs the full install of GE on 2K/XP to function properly afaict. I can see when tracking the install on either W2K or WXP that there are literally a thousand registry entries tied to itself besides the regular ones auto created when we do what we do by manually placing on Win9x and starting it - and so the hundred CLSID entries and the two hundred Interface entries, and more, that are not properly associated on 9x and so their functions are not active - and is why you can't use GE on 9x to it's fullest extent. You can use GE on W98 for standard searches and creating placemarks and making your tour just fine, and then saving your MyPlaces (myplaces.kml) to view your tour at anytime. GE is best used on W2K/WXP and is where I mainly use it myself really; I just enjoy playing with W98 at times too. Bottom line - GE v4.0.xxx works on W98 but with limitations, and is certainly not supported. That's my take on it..
  13. fwiw & fyi... ~I updated from v81.98 to v82.16 and GE still works okay, but the shutdown protection error is still there too, as well the Sachs SereneScreen Marine Aquarium still won't display correctly. Otherwise the drivers work fine for 9x and add more card compatibility. ~I then updated to MDGx driver version hoping for that to do better, but actually GE won't work with it and the protection error was still there as well Sachs still won't display right, otherwise the driver worked well and I saw the few extra settings besides what coolbits functionality we had before.. ~To confirm I went back to my original v77.72 drivers and now no protection error and Sachs works fine again, but GE won't work just like originally. I haven't decided which way to solve this little drama yet - but I'm done with for the week now.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now dtamonis this may interest you since you brought it up before about DirectX verses OpenGL on GE, and you know you had something there which I did not catch at first and I did try it, but I see that changing that setting to run GE on Directx Will let it work okay and log on with like for example with my v77.72 drivers installed, although it is true it doesn't render quite as fast, but yes it does work, and so if you can't get yours started to try that, if that's your problem, then use this info below and make you own reg file in notepad and you can set it to DirectX before you even open it... I've confirmed it works. ...this will turn OpenGL off and turn DirectX on GE on! REGEDIT4 [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Google\Google Earth Plus\Render] "RenderingApi"=dword:00000000 Alternately this turns it off and sets OpenGL back on. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Google\Google Earth Plus\Render] "RenderingApi"=dword:00000001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After I typed my above post I see now dtamonis you posted a new post about kmz files, which is just and icon file btw, and I don't know why it's prompting you for that non-issue. More importantly do you get Protection Errors when you shutdown you computer with v81.98 drivers installed? I'm back to v77.72 drivers at the moment, and I can now fully run GE with the DirectX setting turned on as mentioned above, and everything else works fine too unlike with the newer drivers.
  14. I run a very tight ship and so naturally on nVidia driver installs the first thing I always did is to remove the not needed NvMediaCenter & nwiz & NVSvc stuff out of Run & Run Services, and yes I had already noticed that whether I either just Restart, or Restart in MS-DOS it works fine and I can get out from there without the protection error, but Shutdown still gets it. I do not want to make this thread about this protection error though since it's good to keep it just about GE (and I'm not concerned about the protection error at all since I'm well capable of easily bringing that to a resolve one way or the other, but these 81.98 drivers will have to go because I remembered...and just checked again that they still break the famous SereneScreen Marine Aquarium 2 programs graphics, and we won't have any of that!..so the drivers imo are faulty on for me two counts, however they are blessed just for today though <smile> since they gave me the answer for running GE on 9x <g> I will update on another day to later than 81.98 drivers for 9x either with msfn's version, or anothers, and hopefully that will clear me from these two issues.. ..but GE works a charm <vbg>!
  15. Well Analada glancing at your driver version 81.98 reminded me why I never used that driver version in the first place since it gives me protection errors on shutdown - so I never left it installed and stayed with v77.72, but for the 'heck of it' I installed 81.98 again this morning... and I almost fell out of my chair to see that Google Earth works fine everytime online or offline now... (protection error on shutdown is still there but I will deal with that issue later, maybe even try msfn's v82.69 driver) I guess before for me it was the GE program hanging up with my system rather than what it was doing as shown in my beginning screenshots showing it hanging on server login, and so naturally I stayed with that theory since that's what it showed - and because of that who would of thought it was anything else.. ..I'm glad on a whim I checked it out nevertheless. Thanks Analada for your reply.. Anyway, since I already had all my GE v4.0.2746 files in place on W98SE so I just transferred my 250MB of saved GE tours data file (dbCache.dat) and also the saved places (Myplaces.kml) files from my W2K install and so my GE on 9x is all up to date with my touring cache and ready to go. (I still don't think the new GE 4.1 series will work on 9x though) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now dtamonis explain again what your system setup is, and what your GE is doing, and exactly what any errors are.
  16. I had a few hours to play with it, and tried all different v4.0.xxx versions and had better luck with some than others, meaning I can get some to work offline, and occasionally one to go online and work however only for that one session until they write data into the dbCache.dat and registry that debunks it on the next run and you have to keep reverting it.. grumble, p.i.t.a ..it's almost like they are intentionally trying not to let 9x run attempts to succeeded.. ..But for those of you who Today currently still Can get it to log in online, and you can run a fly around 'Each And Every Time You Log in' ...then more power to you because I cannot - certainly I would like to know what you have different on your setup than mine.. ..unless when I log in to GE servers on the east coast of the US they are different (more strict counter measures?) than where you are logging in..? Anyway, it works excellent on my W2Kpro & WXPro partitions and so this is not a big deal to me at all, it is just for the heck of it I wanted to put it on my Win98SE partition too.. (dtamonis, I use OpenGL since that works better 'for me' and I could clearly see it gives me more responsive/faster display rendering than DirectX with my graphics (nVidia GeForce 6600GT) ..but anyway for this 9x problem that does not seem to be the issue anyway since it's something to do with their login and acceptance parameters.. ..or whatever they are doing. GE is not as stable on w98 anyway and with each new 4.0.xx build shows that it gets fussier, and especially for v4.1 versions no one is going to tell me they can get it to work on 9x that's for sure since they've changed the setup even moreso..) I don't see anywhere that aluigi has done anymore with this other than this one article http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/gearth9x.txt http://aluigi.altervista.org/index.htm ..it's time for us to leave 9x anyway isn't it <g>
  17. Yes absolutely it is the right version, and thanks very much noguru! I had searched everywhere for that blessed versions installer, even OldVersion.com, and hundreds of ftps all over the world ..but I could find no one with that particular version. It's wonderful because not only did your filehippo.com have the version I wanted v4.0.2742, but it also had the next and final build of the 4.0 series v4.0.2746 - and so it was double treat! I've always had GE installed on my WXP & W2K partitions but I will also once again attempt to get it going on W98SE - the last time I did it and you can see I posted all the details about it earlier in the thread, I could not get it to run and I'm pretty handy... I tried every single thing you or I could think of, I mean there's nothing I didn't do, port forward 80 on the NAT, then even removed the NAT completely just in case; also gave GE server rights via my SF.. and then even removed that too.. also had googles three servers in the Trusted Zone, and of course have unicows and the right atl71.dll, etc... I did everything but still no go.. ..I finally left it be then. I will try again on Friday and this time I will do the simple hexing myself, and manual file changes needed using my own files from GE which now I'll upgrad 2k/xp to this version too, so I will have that versions files first hand and do it meself... If I can't get it to work I may come back and post for final ideas before I shoot it <g>
  18. Thank you noguru but that's not what I was really asking for, I already had that package from sendspace back when the OP made his first post, but what I wanted and am asking for is the actual original installer file itself "GoogleEarthWin.exe" which contains v4.0.2742.0 As you know the download link direct from Google Earth to get GE has always been the same - which is hxxp://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthWin.exe ..and they continually update builds on the fly throughout the years but the link always stays the same, but that version v4.0.2742.0 was available between aprox 3-13-07 and for the next month or so after that before they went up to v4.1... Did anyone happen to download v4.0.2742.0 at that time? I want to get that original v4.0.2742 GoogleEarthWin.exe installer if anyone has it please, thank you.
  19. Does anyone have the installer file for this v4.0.2742.0? ..which as you know the filename is GoogleEarthWin.exe I see they are offering v4.1 now but it's v4.0.2742.0 I want (which I assume was/is the 'final version' of that v4.0 series, if not I'll take whatever the final 4.0.xxxx is but I think v4.0.2742.0 is the last one of the 4.0 series) I would like to get it please - anyone have it and can share, thank you. fwiw, I've searched the web for a few hours and downloaded about 50 of the GoogleEarthWin.exe file from all over the place and I have everything below that version number, but not it. thank you. btw, did anyone get this new v4.1 to work on W98?
  20. Yes of course I have the unicows.dll, and have other programs that require it too. I have GE installed on my W2Kpro & WXPro partitions and it always works fine, and so it does not really matter to me at all if it does not work on my SE partition and my post is only an fyi for the OP to know that in some instances it will not work for a stock W98SE.
  21. Whether that file is there or not is still the same, this Screenshot shows where it hangs at - which first it quickly prompts performing login, and then that prompt changes to say finishing login.. but that's where it stops and hangs, crtl-alt-del on the ge...exe is the only way to clear it. SF Firewall is off, however I sit behind a NAT if that matters but shouldn't. Maybe it works fine for ME or kristobal's SP 2.1a, but not for a stock SE anyway.
  22. I tried this 'numerous' times Exactly as indicated, and can not get this to work on my 'Stock' ms W98SE setup. It will not log on the the servers and just sit there forever and hang, and I have to end task on googleearth.exe to clear.
  23. Anonymous, The v4.72.3812.634 shell32.dll workaround may have changed how it presents itself 'on your test bed setup with your debug tools installed' but the hang still does present itself on mine, and once it hangs yes it does recover after you wait 15 or more seconds that is correct which it did not do before, but still while on the same boot it still will hang again for another 15 or more seconds on the next awaiting trigger event, and so on and so on - and in that sense it's still somewhat the same nuisance of explorer hang. I just had it hang again today on my setup simply by deleting selective stuff from my recycle bin, which prompted me to come back here to your post just now and reply again - but certainly not in a challenging way at all - but only in a positive fyi way to say what is true in my experience and to try and get clarification. This is how it is with a 'stock' W98SE setup, not just on mine, but on the 3 others that I have access to now - however if you are talking about an SP2 or 98SE2ME modified install setups then I don't know how it's on that...which I wanted to ask you do you have those options installed? Now wait for a minute, I just sat here re-reading your posts words very, very, carefully, a few times, and when you say this. I think you are saying once the hang happens the workaround will recover without having to reboot now and recovers by itself, if so - yes that is very true I do notice that whereas before you had to reboot to completely clear it. (log off/on sometimes worked but had occasional caveats) What I've been saying is that the actual trigger still presents itself and hangs, and can hang repeatedly 15+ seconds each time it does - but yes it still will recover each time that it happens without a reboot. It's this 15 second 'explorer hang' that occasionally gets triggered and still keeps presenting itself that I'm speaking about - are you saying different?...are you saying that it does not trigger and hang for 'your' setup 'at all' anymore?
  24. *As far as the Explorer hang issue, when I say that it's still there although shows itself in a slightly different presentation for before/after - I am being straight since I see it still happening in different ways, and having had co-existed with it for too many years to know it's not another issue; however not having the tools to present the exact debug details, then I do certainly understand that anonymous want's the in-hand proof. It may have more meaning to you though if you see it first hand since seeing is believing and the fact you'll have your familiar tools in hand to debug it; realize though if you readily use your WXP partition all day long and don't exclusively use W98SE throughout the day for All various tasks - then you may not notice it show up/happen so easily like those that do since giving it the full opportunity to present. The trigger in some ways is somewhat different now, and it doesn't necessarily trigger anymore by a specific quantity near 2500 file delete, although not as often but yes still does present by some of the other same varying ways (I see epidenk noted it too in his last post) that it did before although I say it's somewhat morphed in a few instances; for one of a few examples is that when it hangs - then just like I had outlined in the beginning when you go to rename a file it still hangs but now a morph is that after it hangs for the 10 seconds it will recover whereas before it wold not - so in some ways it's different yes, but yet the core cause is still there. Swapping out the browse*dlls just like before gets around the problem giving another indication it still exists. Remember as you said before the original IE6 problem is not in the shell32.dll itself but was just that you creatively found a unique way to 'work around' the explorer hang issue while also curtailing resource usage via the shell32.dll, which worked great thank you. I'm saying that the original Explorer Hang problem (not originated in shell32.dll or anything you did) still exists and can still somewhat show/manifest itself aprox 10% of the time (other than what you uniquely did to workaround it in the shell32) is all. I'd be glad to do whatever in my time constraints to give you debug information if you supply the debug software and details of what to do; otherwise I have no problem with leaving it just as it is while booting to and staying with W2K/WXP going forward, since the reason I had been staying booted lately almost exclusively to my W98SE partition at home is because at the time when I joined the msfn group was to in some way try to be a help to you to put the Explorer Hang issue to bed once and for all, if possible. It's come a long way, thank you for that. I do wonder why epidenk is the only other one 'so far' who has brought it up that the problem still exist; maybe epidenk could help to give you the extra input you seek as well. If I could see into the future and knew for sure there was never to be another update in any form to solve the rest of the Explorer Hang issue though, then without much ado I would press 5 at my dos prompt to put the v5.5 browse*dlls back in place since taking All aspects of the situation into consideration, to me it's still the best most convenient resolve around, and afaiac, does not have any 'less than' security issues, and the convenience of much faster bulk file deletes along with 99.9% freedom from any original Explorer Hang irritability's means the most to me. YMMV. I do honestly hope though that you will get the debug info you need to see the rest of the underlying story, because I believe you have the know how to fix it - we just need to put the root cause information in front of you, or have it happen on your own setup, so that you can see what we see - and then you will be able to figure out how to resolve it. *Note though as compared to many others here at MSFN, I do not have any version of W98SE SP2 nor 98SE2ME installed either, which may or may not make a difference to this explorer hang problem. For me except for the 3 anonymous created updates my W98SE partition is pretty much a stock SE install using all original MS updates, fwiw.
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