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Hrm... maybe ImportPatcher?

As I said above: I run XP on FAT32, which means "everybody owns everything".

Boot Porteus from a CD, log in as Root and delete from there.

See also this other thread:

@Dave-H: You were on 8.1 update 1, just before it, right? Do you think the update was worth it, after all? I know you have long experience with every Windows from at least 9x, and is not liable to be "blinded by novelty" at all. Now that suffiocient time has passed to understand what MS means 10 to be, what's your personal evaluation of it? As of today, of course!

KB2952664 has reappeared many times before... and it's not the only one, BTW... So, the question should be "when", not "if"...

7 has about half the market. That's impossible to ignore.

I believe you're right! I do remember @BenoitRen, @Marius '95 and @Andrew T. as 95 die-hards, too, but I've not seen any of 'em 'round here for a long time already... so we don't really know whether either still uses 95 at present.

The Microsoft Update Catalog now works also with Opera and Firefox, but I'm not sure the old versions able to run on 9x/ME are enough to browse it, nowadays.

You cannot. But you can patch yours yourself. Search or the string: FCFFFF8D8534FCFFFF5068***006A*8D8520FCFFFF, where * may be anything. YMMV, this is for ENU. Then replace: 5068 A00F00 006A 03 8D8520 to become 5068 C0D401 006A 01 8D8520... You may have to adapt things to your case, but reading Geoff's article should be enough to dispel any doubts. Don't forget to correct the PE checksum at the end. Good luck!

What IE8 barely does, if at all, IE6SP1 probably cannot do anymore at all... then again, read this thread (<link>) in full and see whether something on it can be of any help.

Read this, the this, please.

I didn't say that. You said it stopped reading DVDs after you installed "much/most of U98SESP3"... and that means you didn't even install it properly, because there isn't anything like "installing much/most of U98SESP3": you either install it fully, the way it was intended to be installed, or not. And if properly installed, it shouldn't remove your system's ability to read DVDs. At that point you should either have redeployed a previous backup and retried to install U98SESP3 properly, or decided to avoid it for the moment and let it to be tried again later. Failing to do so was the main problem. Anything can go wrong during installations, so that proper backups are of paramount importance between each major new installs. Else one gets back to the start. Plenty. Both CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT ought to be blank (0 size) or non-existent. Windows 98SE actually does not need either at all !!! Even so, in case there was any good reason for having a CONFIG.SYS, it most definetely must *NOT* have any line loading MSCDEX.EXE, nor any CD real-mode DRIVER, like OAKCDROM.SYS or whatever. Please do keep in mind I do mean no offense at all.

Or... give NTVDM64 a try!

Because, with all due respect, IMO your current installation is FUBAR, so there's no point in trying to rescue it.

Take care and cling to your MSKB Library CDs/DVDs because soon they'll be all that remains! Try the current KB237840. Now see what it used to look like in the past: KB237840 (from mid 2009).

Reinstall but skip U98SESP3. You should install NUSB33E or 36E, though, in order to have USB2.0 support. There's no alternative DVD driver for 9x/ME.

While regedit, when launched from the CMD Box generated by TIdo.cmd retains the TI credentials, other programs may not. Windows Explorer never does, it seems to be due to the fact that it was started at login and each new instance of it inherits the same credentials from the one that contains the login session (or some reason like this). Now, it seems that regscanner64, even if run as TI, does not propagatr the TI credentials to the processes it spawns, from what you said. This is a non-documented area we're in so the only guide as to what happens is experimentation (besides crystal balls and haruspices, of course!).

The best solution for e-mail is, hands down, any good web-mail server (I don't like Gmail, though...). Tey usually have good anti-spam measures and the messages remain out of one's machine, together with the attachments. Only those attachments one downloads willingly will actually enter one's machine. I dont like "the clouds" for most uses, but for this one I think it's great! Of course, those are just my 2¢, and YMMV wildly...

Try Recycled Goods ... even if they don't actually have it themselves, they may be able to point you the right way...

Yes. I think those keys should be set to "Full Controll" by TI anyway, so you may change to that and not change back at the end. As it is, it seems nobody has currently "Full Control" of those keys, which is odd, to say the least.

I don't know. I posted all I know about it, already. Sorry!

From the TI.cmd window, you'll be running regedit as TI, so I think just taking ownership should be enough. then again, Gitanes ought to work better, because they do taste better!

69 is about 50% of 137! We'd betther try again as Trump on Steroids, for all I know!!! Wow! Problem is not even Bill Gates on stilts should be higher than the TI...

Trojan.Gen.2 = "Generic Trojan Whatsoever"... What do you think the heuristics of an Antivirus would think about a program that impersonates the TI? Of course that's a false positive... anyway, RunAsTI is just a variant of those proggies I pointed you to plus the batch file I provide you all thrown together in a single .exe... it works the same but it's even more prone to trigger false positives from paranoid enough heuristics... relax: no reason to be alarmed by that, at all! \m/ (see? I'm back to my old self! Yay!).