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Years ago, I used to have regular problems with msgsrv32 process hung especially with hardware related access.
After fully updating my Windows 98SE, I no longer get these problems.
Have a look at Auto-Patcher 98SE: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=80800
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You could try the last Windows 9x Microsoft software.
Keyboard: http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/1...22EngALLMsi.exe
Mouse: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/8...12EngALLMsi.exe
When installing, you will have to select some model close to the one you have since it probably will not have the correct one.
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This may have been asked before but could find nothing by searching. Wolud the Autopatcher work on a Mellineum Edition install? I have to reinstall my ME and Autopatcher (used April 2008) did such a good job on my wife's 98SE, i would really like to use it.
DLSayremn, a grateful user of AutoPatcher.
Sorry, Auto-Patcher For Windows 98SE will not work on any version other than 98SE.
Most of the updates are very specific to 98SE...
But hey, you have to ask right? (The old saying: "If you don't ask, you don't get". But sometimes you don't get even if you do ask!)
Now there's a project: Auto-Patcher for Windows Me!
For those wanting something for Windows Me, there is the (beta) Service Pack for Windows ME: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61407
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Hi BogdanV,
The common DestinationDirs IDs can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790174.aspx
You will also find plenty of information there for constructing/editing driver INFs.
However, if you are taking a video driver from a Windows NT-type platform, then you will probably not succeed.
Unfortunately NT-type video drivers use a quite different driver type...
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Thanks whatever420!
And I did not even notice that the low three bytes of the ReadAheadThreshold value are the actual maximum number of bytes for the read ahead cache.
Although it's dynamic as I understand it.
The high byte must be some kind of flag maybe?
Since MDGx's tweak page uses 0xff000000, or 4080MiB... I think not... Therefore it must be a flag of some sort... Or a typo?
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The registry setting is ----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"ReadAheadThreshold"=hex:00,00,16,00
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This is the best setting for my machine, maybe to high for you. 16 = 1024
just change "00 00 01 00" to "00 00 16 00"
other settings are ---
64 = 4096
32 = 2048
16 = 1024 ------ this is my best setting
8 = 512
4 = 264
2 = 128
1 = 64
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You are using two different number bases here...
The registry key is using hexadecimal, where your list is decimal.
To find the correct value to enter into the registry use:
64 = 40 (0x40)
32 = 20 (0x20)
16 = 10 (0x10)
08 = 08 (0x08)
04 = 04 (0x04)
02 = 02 (0x02)
01 = 01 (0x01)
However, has anyone actually confirmed that values above 512MiB (08) do anything?
For some reason, the value for the above-mentioned key was 00 00 00 ff on my 98SE system.I changed it to 00 00 08 00 since I only have 256 MB RAM and will see the result.
The value "00 00 00 ff" is the one listed on MDGx's tweaks page (http://www.mdgx.com/newtip18.htm)
I cannot understand how this is a valid value since it does not correlate with the standard values...
Another factor with performance is the Write Behind (writeback) Cache.By default, this is enabled on internal, non-removable drives only (basically PATA/SATA/SCSI drives).
To enable writeback caching on all drives:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"DriveWriteBehind"=hex:ff,ff,ff,03
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DriveWriteBehind is a drive bitmap. Each bit represents a drive letter.
Bit 0 is A:, Bit 1 is B:... Bit 25 is Z:.
Set a bit to 1 to enable, or 0 to disable.
Remember that the byte order is reversed in the registry, so the number above is 0x03ffffff.
Actually the default value is "fc ff ff 03" which enabled on drives C: through Z: so it would appear that every drive except A: and B: are enabled...
However, if you tick the "Disable write-behind caching for all drives" option (00 00 00 00) under Hardware Properties, Performance, File System, File System Properties, Troubleshooting, apply it, and then untick and apply again, the registry value changes to "ff ff ff ff" that includes A: and B:!!!
This must be a bug?
Waiting 5 seconds won't make it safe as files can be held in memory and not flushed to disk for extended periods of time. You need to execute a file cache flush (there are free utilities that serve this purpose) or shut down your computer (Windows flushes the file cache before shutting down... obviously) to be sure. There might be other ways to trigger it, but those are two options at least. I don't believe the safely remove hardware system will flush the file cache; it will just tell you the drive isn't safe to be removed until it has.Queue
Using any available safely remove hardware option will always flush the write cache. It only gives a message if the volume is locked by an application.
The maximum write delay is determined by the three values:
BufferIdleTimeout, BufferAgeTimeout, and VolumeIdleTimeout
These are also in
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
But are normally not present and use the default values.
Anyone know what their default values are?
My understanding was that Windows will write stale cache pages within 5000ms.
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hey does this drivers work good????
Well, I've been using them for over a year and a half with no issues.
I do however have an older GeForce FX 5500 card...
If you have a 7 or 8 series card, then results may vary.
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Another factor with performance is the Write Behind (writeback) Cache.
By default, this is enabled on internal, non-removable drives only (basically PATA/SATA/SCSI drives).
To enable writeback caching on all drives:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"DriveWriteBehind"=hex:ff,ff,ff,03
However...
WARNING: Do not remove 'removable' or external media until at least five (5) seconds after the last drive activity.
Doing so could cause corruption from pending unwritten data - the same effect you would get if you pulled a flash drive out while writing a file to it - with the difference that the copy/write will appear to have finished from Windows' point of view.
As long as you following this warning, then you can expect external media to improve in performance - especially during writes of many smaller files.
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-cubase sx2 and sx3 does not work in Windows 98 when it puts loading menus it leaves a window error in target and later the system becomes unstable
-portable programs of VMware ThinApp do not work either
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How about some specifics like the error message text?
Please post more information...
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Hi Tihiy,
My Explorer menu bar is using ClearType, but the drop-down menus are not using ClearType except the Favorites menu???
Also, the address box in Internet Explorer is not using ClearType.
So far, all drop-down menus and menu bars in other applications are not using ClearType.
As mentioned earlier, my windows title bar is not using ClearType, nor is the start bar or start button, but the clock is...
however, some people have these using ClearType as seen from their screen shots. Perhaps because they use UberSkin???
It's been working really well on your current build.
Thanks Tihiy!
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Hi mossrack. Welcome to MSFN.
This topic is four years old and about a problem in Windows 98SE.
It is probably unlikely that your problem is related to this one.
The original discussion was for an immediate system hang upon inserting the adapter or booting with it in.
Your issue varies, and being Windows XP, is a different set of drivers and system files.
Note at what times the hangs happen and what level of traffic there is over the connection.
It appears to be a traffic related problem.
Can you use a flash drive in the same USB port and transfer lots of data back and forth without a hang?
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Why is Java 6 Update 7 is like 15mb but install 58mb of stuff?
Firstly, the Java installer is compressed, but also it dynamically generates many data files during install.
Have you noticed the time it takes to install Java?
However, this is typical of any highly compressed installer.
Take for example, Adobe Reader 9.0 (under Windows XP).
The initial file is 34MiB which expands to 104MiB of install files, that in the end makes the Adobe folder a total of 198MiB...
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Hi krimmy! Welcome to MSFN
It looks like you de-installed the Dec 2007 install files before installing the Dec 2008 installer.
You need to leave the Dec 2007 installer installed, since the Dec 2008 upgrade changes the Dec 2007 installer files to create the full Dec 2008 installer...
Think of Dec 2008 upgrade as an incremental update to the Dec 2007 install files.
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I have removed Windows 98/98 SE/ME from Java 6 supported OSes.
MDGx, Java 6 Update 7 (http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/6u7/index.html) works with no problems under 9x.
It's only newer updates (10 and 11) that will not install...
The method of starting the install and then running the MSI from the Temp folder does work for Java 6 Update 7.
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Where in the BIOS do i set a SATA drive(s) in IDE mode on an ASrock 4Coredual-SATA2 R2 board?
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Here are the manuals for your board: http://www.asrock.com/mb/manual.asp?Model=...0R2.0&s=775
Normally you would need to select the SATA Operation Mode as IDE mode...
But on your board you will need to select RAID mode (IDE Configuration, SATA Operation Mode=RAID)
Here's the technical reference information from ASRock: http://www.asrock.com/support/qa/TSDQA-31.pdf
See question 3, answer a.
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Here's another interesting one:
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\[cryptic name]\[cryptic name]\Offline\[various folders and files]
I have not included the cryptic names, but used [] where they would be.
I've seen this on every install of Windows 98SE that I can remember...
Perhaps they are linked?
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hi all~
my biggest question is that,how to see that the new driver file is working successfully?
and to setup it,just copy the file to the direction "iosubsys" in the real dos mode?
thanks all~
That's pretty much it.
Copy the updated ESDI_506.PDR to x:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS (x:\WINDOWS is your Windows boot folder, normally C:\WINDOWS).
I don't think the file is locked by Windows, so you can probably copy it in Windows and restart.
Although, as with any file replacement, take a copy of the old one just-in-case!
Something to be aware of...I found out that even though I copied the updated file into IOSUBSYS, Windows was actually loading an older version at run time from C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS!!!
I found many drivers that were loading this way. Even some 98SE2ME updated files were actually loading old 98SE official Microsoft files from OPTIONS\CABS instead...
I copied all the newer files over the old ones in OPTIONS\CABS.
I searched the registry and could not find or understand WHY Windows would load some files from OPTIONS\CABS and some from WINDOWS\SYSTEM and sub-folders...
To check, go to Device Manager, Properties on the device - for example Primary IDE Controller, Driver, Driver File Details.
Then look at the path for each file.
If any are loading from a different location, then either update that file, or delete it (with caution!).
I would suggest checking all devices in Device Manager since I found a scattering of wrongly loaded drivers.
EDIT: Weird! I have found some files that are loaded from two different places by two different drivers???
Does this mean that there are two images of the file in memory? - Resource wastage!
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Does anyone know how to disable (Reg key) the original network connection icon in the system tray ?
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Huh? Windows 9x does not have an original network connection icon...
Are you using Windows 9x?
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Well in that case, welcome, welcome!
So you are using 98SE... I would assume that SystemWorks 2006 is running on a dual boot Windows 2000 or XP?
SystemWorks 2005 was the last to install in Windows 98SE.
I use all versions of Windows, even the beta of Windows 7... But I prefer 98SE!
This forum and it's contributing members is a life saver for 9x
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This may have been asked before but could find nothing by searching. Wolud the Autopatcher work on a Mellineum Edition install? I have to reinstall my ME and Autopatcher (used April 2008) did such a good job on my wife's 98SE, i would really like to use it.
DLSayremn, a grateful user of AutoPatcher.
Sorry, Auto-Patcher For Windows 98SE will not work on any version other than 98SE.
Most of the updates are very specific to 98SE...
But hey, you have to ask right? (The old saying: "If you don't ask, you don't get". But sometimes you don't get even if you do ask!)
Now there's a project: Auto-Patcher for Windows Me!
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I have NDD32.exe from SystemWorks 2006 (it reports as version 19.0.0.48) and it still chokes and blue-screens on a 500 GB partition. It's a real shame; it's a jillion times faster at scanning my smaller drive (and my old drive that the 500 GB one replaced) than Scandisk.
Queue
Hi Queue, what version of Windows and service pack are you using?
Well, it looks like Symantec may not have addressed this problem...
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Hi Tihiy, what did you change in update 4?
My system seems even faster on the screen draw...
It's quite nice in fact! I liiiike it!
The only change in resources, I noted, is a 2% drop in USER resources, quite good really!
ClearType is one feature of newer XP-Vista-7 that I really liked.
Now it's coming to 9x!
Tihiy The Systems Enhancement Guy
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Here's a useful Windows 9x system tweaker:
Windows Utilities
LAST - FREE - WareSoft Software 98 / ME Smoker 1.2 --- http://www.xp-smoker.com/98smoker.html
More tools:
Hard Disk Utilities
ONGD - FREE - Disk Investigator (1.4) --- http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html
ONGD - FREE - Svend's Findpart Partition Utilities --- http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm
File Recovery
ONGD - FREE - Recuva (1.22.384) --- http://www.recuva.com/
Virtual Machines
ONGD - FREE - DOSBox (0.72) --- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=46709
CD/DVD Authoring Programs
ONGD - FREE - Active@ ISO Burner (1.7) --- http://www.ntfs.com/iso_burner_free.htm
Connectivity
ONGD - FREE - RealVNC Free Edition (4.1.3) --- http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/index.html
ONGD - SHAR - RealVNC Personal Edition (4.4.3) --- http://www.realvnc.com/products/personal/index.html
ONGD - SHAR - RealVNC Enterprise Edition (4.4.3) --- http://www.realvnc.com/products/enterprise/index.html
9x is the best!
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Java:
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#JAVA
New releases:
* Sun Java Runtime Environment Standard Edition 32-bit includes: Java Virtual Machine (JVM) + Java Applets Plug-ins and Microsoft, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape + Opera 32-bit web browsers (multilingual):
- Java Standard Edition (Java SE) 6.0 Update 11 for Windows 98 SE/ME:
Direct download [15.4 MB]:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/
Ignore "Warning: This is not a supported Operating System!" error message!
Install requires Microsoft .Net Framework Redistributable (NFR) 1.1 or newer (free):
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#NFR
FIX: Run Java SE 6.0 install executable -> stop at "Welcome to Java" screen -> open Windows Explorer or File Manager -> browse to %windir%\TEMP [default is C:\WINDOWS\TEMP = see your C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT or C:\CONFIG.SYS SET TEMP line for exact location if different than default (Win95/98/ME) or your TEMP environment variable (WinNT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008)] -> run .MSI installer!
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Doesn't work...
The listed method of installing Java 6 Update 11 gives the same failure message as if trying to continue with the installer.
I don't think anyone has so far got Java 6 Update 10 or 11 working in 9x
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Something to be aware of...
Last Versions of Software for Windows 98SE
in Pinned Topics regarding 9x/ME
Posted
There's plenty of software out there that works with 98/Me...
It's just finding the time to compile the list (and search this topic for already existing posts)...
Anyway, it will trickle through...
I would say this is the best single application for video encoding/converting.
Media Players + Encoders + Codecs
ONGD - FREE - SUPER Video Encoder/Player (v2009.build.35 Jan 5, 2009)--- http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
File Recovery
ONGD - SHAR - Ondata RecoverySoft (3.2) --- http://www.ondata-recoverysoft.com/
Rock on 9x
Windows Me looks like... Windows 98SE with some unfortunate add-ons...
Windows 2000 looks like... Windows 98SE...
Windows XP looks like... Windows 98SE with UberSkin...
Windows Vista looks like... MacOS... or Windows 98SE with UberSkin...
Windows 7 looks like... KDE 4 (!)
So... The only "real" Windows is 98SE!