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Nero 7 indeed does not work. However, recent versions of Nero have concentrated on 'multimedia experience' (video encoding, everything-MP4, fat media players). Burning has not changed considerably since v6. There is a ready installer of Nero 7 Lite if you really need it for some reason. Instead of compressing NERO.EXE right away, first have it deprotected (there is a tutorial somewhere on the Internet) and delete unused Bitmaps from it using Resource Hacker. Under Windows 98 you'll also need to copy NEROCD95.VXD to IoSubSys directory and reboot, otherwise Nero will display a msg on every startup. Also some of these registry values might be required for audio en/decoding to work. Here's the complete REG-file I have to install Lite Nero (12.5 MB). REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Info] "User"="" "Company"="" ;; HIDDEN BECAUSE OF MSFN RULES "Serial6"="0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000" ;; REPLACE THESE PATHS [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ahead\Shared] "AudioPlugIn"="d:\\apps\\nero\\CommonFiles\\AudioPlugins\\" "NeroAPI"="D:\\apps\\nero\\Nero" "Lib"="d:\\apps\\nero\\Common Files\\" "AudioPluginManager"="D:\\apps\\nero\\Nero\\" "OutputPath"="D:\\apps\\nero7\\Nero 7\\Core\\MyMusic" "EnabledOffers"=dword:0000000f

EDIT: Please delete this offtopic thread. It was indeed one of the hard drives.

That does not make sense on a CRT monitor. Maybe color convergence is off on that display. This would make text extremely difficult to read. DELLs should have controls for aligning the colors. If you previously have reset all settings on the monitor, most likely also convergence correction values were dropped.

I haven't tried safe mode. The problem manifests itself after the computer has worked for some time. Didn't want to take the computer offline for that long. The Event Viewer is full of "disk" Warnings, and "i8042prt" messages under System. They have the times of about when the problem last appeared. No properties are available. Maybe it's because my system is heavily nLite'd. A failing harddisk?

I'm not sure in which subforum would this issue fit actually. I am running WinXP SP1. Recently my server computer (always on) started acting up. Occasionaly it locks up for few seconds so that nothing works – no mouse input, no audio playback, as if time suddenly stood still for my machine. In a few seconds the computer resumes and works normally for 10 or 20 seconds; then it pauses again, etc. After I quit two heavy applications: Direct Connect and eMule the problem disappears. But soon after those programs are launched again the trouble comes back. This configuration (OS + apps + same hardware) worked flawlessly before for weeks w/o reboot. I can't guess what I did wrong. Only major changes I performed was set the priority to "System cache" and "Background services" in System CPL applet. I also ran a couple of programs that were in High priority and consumed all CPU for a few hours, before I noticed. I noticed a similar effect on my other computer running same set of software. On a few occasions a single virtual core (Hyperthreading P4) would consume 100% cpu; mouse pauses for a moment once about every 4 seconds. It happened only a couple of times, but that comp does not run for more than 10h ever. Has anybody seen this? Any explanations?

http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176 Writing currently from a USB system.

- Paint Shop Pro 7 (for editing) - IrfanView (for viewing). - ACDSee 3.0 (for viewing on slow old computers) Looks like I'm gonna learn basic operations in CorelDraw 9.

Windows will later require the CD every time you touch the network settings, just press Cancel. But the first time you really need the CD. Doesn't SE CD work? See your PM box. Why do you expect this to display higher resolutions than 640*480? @ ShadeTreeLee You can try HzTool, an application for Windows 98, which allows to save refresh rates for every resolution, so you can have higher "Optimal" frequency for say 800*600 and lower "adapter default" for 1024*768. You can adjust refresh rates without switching to the respective (perhaps unsupported) resolutions at any time. This application will not work under WinNT.

This requirement is most likely set by your installer. Can you install the modem driver by unpacking it and selecting its INF via control panel?

You need an icon editing software, such as ArtIcons. It is critical to have all common icon sizes in one file, the most commonly used sizes (apart from XP/Vista/Nero7 nightmare) are 16x16 (Explorer detail's view) and 32x32. To import an icon into an exe file, you need Resource Hacker. Take care and test your program with the modifications. To change Explorer shell icons, such as My Computer, Directory, and Hard Disk, you need to edit the Registry. Various software exists for changing these icons, but all they do is edit this same registry key. I've used this valued in this key to restore the original sharp icons in WinXP. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons The (possibly inacurate) list of changeable icons: 0 (Explorer) Unknown File Type 1 (Explorer) Default Document 2 (Explorer) Default Application 3 (Explorer) Closed Folder 4 (Explorer) Open Folder 5 (Drive) 5.25 inch floppy 6 (Drive) 3.5 inch floppy 7 (Drive) Removable Drive 8 (Drive) Hard Drive 9 (Drive) Network Drive 10 (Drive) Network Drive disconnected 11 (Drive) Cd-ROM Drive 12 (Drive) RAM Drive 13 Entire network (globe) 14 ?? 15 (Explorer) Networked Computer 16 (Explorer) Printer(s) 17 (Desktop) Network Neighborhood 18 (Explorer) Workgroup 19 (Startmenu) Programs 20 (Startmenu) Recent documents 21 (Startmenu) Settings 22 (Startmenu) Find 23 (Startmenu) Help 24 (Startmenu) Run 25 (Startmenu) Suspend 26 (Startmenu) Docking 27 (Startmenu) Shutdown 28 (Overlay) Sharing 29 (Overlay) Shortcut 30 (Overlay) ?? 31 (Desktop) Recycle bin empty 32 (Desktop) Recycle bin full 33 (Explorer) Dial-up Networking 34 (Explorer) Desktop 35 (Startmenu) Settings/Control Panel 36 (Startmenu) Programs/Program folder 37 (Startmenu) Settings/Printers 38 ?? 39 (Startmenu) Settings/Taskbar 40 (Explorer) Audio CD 42 (Explorer) Saved search (.fnd) 43 (Explorer & Startmenu) Favorites 44 (Startmenu) Log Off For example to change the icon of floppy diskette, you create a String value called "6" that contains the full path to your new icon, such as "c:\icons\floppy_drive_3-5.ico,0". The zero digit at the end indicates the first icon in case the target (DLL, EXE, CPL, etc) contains multiple icons.

Does DOS work in your configuration with more than ~800 MB of RAM? Although on my machine Win98SE booted successfully with 0x40000, DOS box could not be started.

Thank you. I installed "Hide OE" and it seems to do the job.

I believe there is no difference between this subforum and its parent. Both forums should be merged.

i915P appears to support Win98SE too. (i915G might work w/o the crap graphics controller.) I have good experience with ATI X300/X550 on PCI-E bus. Others listed on Catalyst's release notes page might work.

My colleague is using Outlook Express that comes with MSIE 6. She asked me if it is possible to enable a tray icon that changes as new messages arrive in inbox. She claims that in the old configuration before reinstall there was this functionality. I couldn't figure out if you can do that in Outlook Express, because I am not using it myself due to security reasons (nLite'd out for good). Is it possible?

I meant files at least 20 MB of length, for example music files in lossless format. Files bigger than 4 GB may be stored split into several parts (like it is on Video DVD). I was trying to point out that not everyone needs small clusters.

Microsoft wants you to believe that NTFS is the only reasonable choice. XP's performance with FAT32 should not be taken as indication of the quality of FAT32. 1. Which filesystem to choose for a disk depends on how you'll gonna be using that disk. Small cluster size, for example, would only slow down operations with the disk and provide no benefit, if you only store large multimedia files. 2. There is also no place for Unicode characters in filenames. You cannot possibly expect for every networking protocol or removable disk filesystem you're gonna be using (or software that operates with these disks) to support Unicode. Having special characters in filenames will probably render them inaccessible in future. 3. You might not need security permissions at all.

I agree. My record is 4 viruses. And that's without any special security software and numerous visits to warez websites. I've read reports that antivirus would terminate long batch jobs (video encoding), and disallow installation of tools that optimize the operating system.

I believe XP should have come with Win98 as the secondary startup option by default. Maybe they were afraid about "political" consequences of another "DOS-based" system, even if it would only load DOS when required. I have setup my machine this way and now I have zero incompatible software, and if my WinXP wouldn't boot for some reason, I start up Win98 and fix the problem. I can also backup each operating system from the other one (boot disks require drivers). I've Googled up an article a while ago. It claimed that WinVista will refuse to install on a FAT32 partition, but would boot if copied to one manually. The article said you need MacOS and an USB harddisk, but basically you only needed another OS (such as WinXP) and be able to write the boot area. I haven't tested that myself due to lack of and need for a copy of Vista.

The only password I have is BIOS password. I've setup it for the only reason so that the computer wouldn't boot to Windows automatically, and I could turn it off calmly or enter BIOS setup. My personal FTP server has a password, so that I'm the only one on the Internet who can use it. No one is allowed to touch my computer physically without my permission.

I totally agree with you about FAT32. 4 GB is indeed a very pressing limitation. There is a standard that extends FAT32 by allowing a few more bits for file size. It's called FAT32+. But I have not heard of any practical implementations. For now I could suggest that you create an NTFS partition for the large files you will be working with. This is what I have done: 3 HDDs, one of them in NTFS.

I'm not so sure about this. I experienced data corruption when writing to a drive connected via a RAID controller in dos mode.

Try the Native USB mass storage drivers: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605

Input the new network configuration, press No when asked to reboot. Go to Control Panel and disable your network adapter. Enable it back.

You can use PDDLGHLP.EXE, a part of PowerDesk Utilities 3. Install it by putting a shortcut into your startup group. The settings of Open and Save As dialogs will be preserved. Send me a note if you would like to download this program.