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True but it is most often better than nothing. I feel the same way. And, most often, with some editing effort, one can render the translation in good English. Online machine translators opened to me a window into many interesting Russian and Chinese pages, that I'd otherwise be unable to read.

Way to go, Tostis! Well, after you got it working, you might as well install usbbootwatcher to obviate the need to repeat steps 7-8-9. Do give it a try. please!

You'll find them and many more here and here.

William: if you want to look inside Autopatcher, do use the Universal Extractor, and then you can even submit it file by file to VirusTotal. But tone down, already! Whatever reason you may have, gets diluted by the beligerant mode you're expressing yourself. Listen to yourself: you're talking to people at least as experienced as yourself, if not more.

For anyone having problems with YouTube or the like, here is a simple way to change the user agent sent by IE6, using only the registry. In the attached file there are three .reg files: if you merge regIE8Vi.reg to your registry, IE6 will tell all sites it is IE8, runing on Vista; if you, instead, merge regIE7XP.reg to your registry, IE6 will duly tell all sites it is IE7, runing on XP. Don't forget to reverse the change, afterwards, by merging regback.reg to your registry, to remove the spoof, as some sites (like Windows Updates, for instance) need to know your true settings to work right. Of course, it all can be automated by means of batch files. There is no need to reboot, all you have to do is close all IE6 windows, merge the appropriate .reg, then reopen IE6 for it to work. Later edit: Original version removed. Download instead the updated version from post #148.

@Kube: Right! And only in case no one of the "if %Hello%==??? goto :#" comands are true then execution will reach the "echo Invallid command! and loop back because of the goto :5.@jaclaz: your solution *is* very elegant and beautiful. But, with all due respect to you, it sidesteps the precise question Kube had posed. I tried to cater for that specific question... Then again, I *do* like linear programming with lots of labels and GOTOs.

Hi, Kube! Your code is sound, for a NT-family OS DOS Box, however the if statement ought to be without the inverted double commas, like this: @echo off (...) :4 echo Good, What's your name? :5 set /p Hello="Type Your Name - " if %Hello%==Bob goto :6 if %Hello%==Kim goto :7 if %Hello%==John goto :8 if %Hello%==Gwen goto :9 echo Invalid command! goto :5 :6 :7 :8 :9 echo Hi,%Hello%! (...) The last two commands in the code snippet do function as the ELSE you're looking for. So, you've alredy found a working solution. In any case, the input will be case sensitive, so that Bob will goto :6, but bOb, BOB, etc, will not. And if you use @echo off on the first line, you don't need to add @ to the other echo commands.

Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple (on continuous loop for the last hour!!! ) for the next hour it'll be Salisbury - Uriah Heap. Yes, I'm in obsessive mode today...

Tripredacus, with 2 GiB RAM, you should read cannie's tutorial (How to install Windows 98 in modern motherboards using more than 1 GB) before you start. Sfor's thread on Asus Eee PC and Windows 9x should be much useful also. And, once things are running smoothly, your machine'll be a prime candidate for my own 9x/ME with > 1 GB RAM List. With an 80 GB HDD, a 10 GiB active primary partition should suffice for Win 98 and all programs you might decide to install on it. Be sure to make a partition image immediately after the system becomes bootable, so that you won't ever need to reinstall anymore, and can test various drivers without fear of damaging the installation. Once your 98 is already running, then we can select which further update packs to add to it. Welcome onboard!

So, my understanding is that no Series 8 or higher nVidia card has been found out to work with Win 9x/ME. If some user has actually managed to get any such card working with Win 9x/ME, please do come forward and share your findings! But, until someone finds a way to use the Series 8 and higher cards, if ever such a way will be found, I do highly recommend that you all consider the second-hand market as an option. I've never bought a brand new graphics card in my life, and had no problems with the various second-hand ones I acquired along the years. My most recent acquisition was a dead GeForce FX5200 (AGP, 128 MiB) given me by a client: it wasn't quite obvious, but the problem was just 5 bad capacitors, which I substituted, and it's now working like a champ again.

Grub4DOS can boot: replacing the MBR replacing the the PBR replacing a CD bootloader replacing NTLDR chailoaded by NTLDR using boot.ini from config.sys from autoexec.bat from the DOS command prompt and probably it can do other thing besides these. After it takes control, it will chainload various OSes, depending on what you tell it to boot. But I really cannot imagine how would it be possible to boot from inside an unbooted (=inactive) OS.

There is Grub4DOS. It can solve almost any wild boot project. It *can* boot from inside already booted DOS. It can be placed in the MBR. It can be lauched from Win XP boot.ini. It can use a private boot partition. If multibooting is in your mind, right now, loose no time and start learning about it. All other options are yesterday's news compared to it. Grub4DOS rocks!

Make a backup of the registry, before proceeding. Although some machines do not accept disabling IRQ steereing, most do accept it. Let's give it a try: Right-click on My Computer, Select Properties -> Device Manager -> System Devices -> PCI Bus -> Properties, select the IRQ Steering tab and uncheck "use IRQ Steering", click OK until you get back to the desktop and reboot the machine. After you get back check to see what IRQ are assigned to the various devices. If, however, the machine refuses to boot into windows, get into DOS, run SCANREG /RESTORE and return to the previous configuration. But I don't think you'll need to do this. Good luck!

Visit this place. You'll find many useful things there. Particularly, you'll need 3xstart to be able to run Win 3.x ontop of DOS 7.10. Good luck!

This is the subject of an already on-going discussion elsewhere: [9x/Me] Surviving Without a Virus Scanner

Did what for a reason? Dropped 9x, and without even adding .zipx browsing! jaclaz Yeah, but who? The Mozilla developers, of course!

@cooksy: what graphics card do you presntly have? A 7950gt as per the above post or a 7900gs as in this other post of yours? Or both? And how well do they work with the unofficial 82.69 drivers?

Yes. You're using the wrong keyboard selection. There is more than one that will show as "EN". I described the solution for this problem, for Windows XP, in this post. Since you're using Win 7, the exact details of how to solve it might differ somewhat, but I'm sure it'll solve your problem. Good luck!

@Queue: I think you've maybe hit jackpot! Look up in your motherboard's manual which slots share IRQs with which other slots. Then rearrange the cards, making sure the SATA, Sound and Video Cards dont share the same hardware IRQ (they are usually described as IRQ A, IRQ B, etc.). If you tell me which board and which SATA card you have I may get the manuals, take a look and propose an arrangement.

Version 6.1.9848.0 is at MDGx's for some time, already... its the unofficial Q932590 for 9x/ME

0. Back-up your system! 1. Update Shockwave to 10.2r22. Do not use a higher version. 2. Cross your fingers and navigate again to that NSFW site. 3. Let me know what happened.

OK. Now, which Flash and Shockwave do you have installed? If you're not sure, go here to find out. The Shockwave version is displayed below the logo, while to see the Flash version you have to hover the mouse pointer over the "About" tab in the Flash area.

Queue, I've been to the site you indicated, watched the whole movie preview (which loads automatically when you access the movie's page) and also whatched a "back-stage documentary" offered there. In both cases there were CPU surges up to 100% and it kept at 100% for, perhaps, one full minute, before coming down again. But my system didn't crash. So, there really *is* something with your system, all right. Let's pursue it: download and install CPUBurn. Its automagic install (direct download link) is the only file you need. Now let it taste some five minutes of CPUBurn, in high priority mode (while keeping an eye on the CPU temperature, of course... if it gets too hot, stop). I bet CPUBurn will freeze your system in a SFW way, while telling us your problem really is with the CPU or with overheating. Then open the machine's case and run it again with the case open, for us to exclude overheating, OK? But I sincerely hope it doesn't cause you to freeze!!!

Of course!

No, you're not alone. It simply still has too many bugs. And, BTW, himemx.exe is not bug-free either, but is already reached a very acceptable stability. Now, if you don't have any DOS EMS clients in use, I do strongly advise you to remove EMM386.EXE from your config.sys and not add any alternative in its place. Win 9x/ME can provide by itself EMS in a DOS box when requested. And Win 9x/ME is much more stable without EMM386.EXE or its competitors.