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Looks like the atmosphere is getting more tense. I'll try to add my point of viev. There are a lot of patches and improvements available. Unluckily not many of them are ment for the Polish language Windows 98. I'm not much interested in further improvement of the system at the moment. I would like to get some benefits from the current solutions in my own language, first. Theare are a few improvements packs available. None of them comes in a Polish language version (exception for the old USP 2.1b). So, they are useless to me. My support comes towards translation. A good point is, the improvements are comming from many sources and we do not have to make our own, because of the fact they are available, already. Yet, the programmers are unable to take care of the translation and multi language support, because a community is needed for that. So, I do believe, a community should focus on the task a community could not be replaced in. In my opinion the best improvement pack will be the one with the best multi language support. It is not necesary to make a new package. An old one with more languages will be just right.

This is not correct. Two examples: 1) Linux: USB stack is loaded using first BIOS USB with initrd/kernel (less than 5MB). Then the USB stack uses protected-mode USB 2.0 to exploit the hardware in high USB 2.0 speed. 2) XP/Vista: as with Linux, but without RAM disk in normal booting. This explains also slow boot on some machines with BIOS USB 1.x booting (although with USB2.0-hardware capable). Then afterwards the loaded OS will exploit the USB2.0 through drivers. We are speaking about Windows 98, here. The boot drive letter will not be accessible after protected mode USB driver start. Also, Windows 98 will not let to use the same drive letter for the USB device as the boot drive has, as the boot drive is DOS compatible mode driven. The finall result is hang during boot, in any case.

As a matter of fact I did install Windows 95 by running the installer from a FreeDos boot disk.

When you are booting from an USB drive, you are limited to what the BIOS is providing. A driver change will not make any difference, I'm afraid.

http://www.msfn.org/board/Enable48BitLBA-B...ier-t78592.html Also, there was a thread with the test of a Windows 98 installation on a 500GB partition, somewhere. It worked surprisingly well (with exception of the automaticaly sized swap file), as far as I remember.

SlugFiller. What makes you sure the installed SATA driver does not use standard ESDI driver file. The simplest implementation of a compatible IDE driver is to switch SATA controller to IDE compatibility mode, and to use windows generic driver. There were numerous posts about Windows 98 working very well with partitions larger than 137GB.

It is not possible to do. In order to boot from USB device a BIOS or DOS support is necesary. Also, it is not possible to use Windows driver and DOS or BIOS in the same time. So, in the moment Windows start's it's USB driver the boot drive stops responding. The conclusion is: Windows has to have USB support disabled, in order to be able to boot from an USB drive. Or, it will be necesary to make a ram drive and to boot the Windows from it.

Well, acces rights, user controll. This is a "military base" language designed for a war with the world. On the other hand Windows 9x is a "home like" system. We do not like to enter passwords in order for being able to change something in our homes, or do we? That's why the minimal internal security system is so pleasant to live with. If the communication software used in Windows 9x will be safe enough, the system will have good enough safety for most. So, changing the security system means to leave the "heart" of the design and to move from a household to a military base. As for the whole opensourcing idea. Replacement of the most bugged components is the most logical point of action. The OpenOffice project has a quite interesting bug tracking system. It's quite unpleasant to use, but it has a possibility to vote on bugs. It is possible to determine what users whant to change, that way. Such a system could be quite a nice start for a project aimed in improvement of an existing OS. My pockets are empty at the moment, but these few cents can be of some use, I hope.

Unfortunatelly, the application I mentioned starts Dial-Up connections by itself. So, making a connection from a batch will not work in this particular case. Because, the user would have to do it, instead of the application.

The Windows 98 boot cd does incluge a bootable DOS FDD image it boots from. Unluckily the CD-ROM drivers present on the image do not support all available CD drives. In some cases vendor specific DOS driver is necesary. So, there is no "discover" system in the Windows boot CD, as the Linux has. As a matter of fact there is no plug and play support, as well.

The Polish authorities released a new version of application designed to make and send reports and declarations over the internet. The application is compulsory. Only small firms with less than 5 workers do not have to use it. The newest version has a problem while working in Windows 98 enviroment. The application is checking if proper certificates are installed in the system storage. This procedure works fine on newer systems, but in case of Windows 98 it tries to contact some certain internet servers. The servers are not responding, so the application waits for the time out. With many certificates to be checked, the application freezes for several minutes. (Strangest thing is the Windows 2000 and XP do not contact the servers to verify the certificates). The best solution is to delete the default route (with the ROUTE command) and to set own route entries excluding the IP of the servers used during certificate checking, so far. It works quite well in the LAN with an internet gateway enviroment. In case of a Dial-Up connection it is necesary to run the route change script manualy, after starting each Dial-Up connection session. So, I'm looking for an automatic ways of running a batch script after connecting through a Dial-Up. Still I'm quite interested of what is so unique in the Windows 98, so the certificates are verified in a different way, than in Windows 2000 or XP.

I think, such a project will require a proper database. It will be a good idea to keep track of some information about projects in one place. The database could contain - is the language independant? or what languages are supported - does it depend on some other updates necesary to be installed first - the list of files/components and their version numbers - the location/URL one can download it from - information about how to contact people mintaining the project - some properties about general purposes (update, enchancement, critical,...) A database can be used to create an installer able to download files from multiple sources, or to combine all necesary elements in just one single package. Also it will help to join forces while working on the same subject or issue.

Long time ago I've downloaded Intel Indeo 5.11 codec pack directly from the intel site. The intaller and codecs were working both on Windows 95 and 98. I never used Ligos Indeo codecs, as I have the Intel version installed, still.

It happened to me to move the mouse by a point during the right button clicking. So, the safest would be to press the shift, then the context menu key (right click) on the keyboard.

Indeed it does work. But, if the cursor is moved after holding down the shift key, right click brings wrong options. So, it is necesary to point hold the shift down, then right click. If by an accident mouse moves by a point, wrong context menu will be displayed.

I think the easiest way is to delete the current file extension entry. Then o open a file of the deleted type. Explorer will ask what application you want to open the file with. Choose the right application and enable the checkbox for the explorer to remember the selection.

There is no certain answer for your question. You did not said what do you want to do with your computer. And yet more important question is why your computer is not sufficient for you, any more.

You should look at the View - Folder Options - File Types in the Windows Explorer window. I had to translate the function names from the Polish language. So, the real English names could be different, I'm afraid.

That's strange. According to the 98lite documentation the Windows 98 explorer is replaced by Windows 95 explorer in order to get rid of the IE. Since the explorer is the system shell, the 98lite changes the shell to the one taken from the Windows 95.

I'm using IE 6 SP1 with AFP 9,0,47,0. The buttons are working correctly.

Archived Flash Players available for testing purposes: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewConten...6&sliceId=1 The only problem is you have to download all flash player releases in one download. In case of the Flash Player 9 it gives 74.7 MB.

The weakest point of the current Windows 9x related projects is the language. It is true the english language is a perfect choice for a community like this one. The problem is the resulting projecs are comming just in english language versions, as well (other languages are rare). More languages will draw more users and more tallented people. A skilled professional will not put an effort to a projest without some benefit to the systems in the vicinity. In my case just a few of the solutions available here can be used by me. I do have some ideas of my own, but the results are just in Polish language, as well. If you want the community to grow, start from making projects multilingual. Such a task will require a lot of cooperation. As the result, the projects with the best multilingual support should become the best around. The first step could be to collect informations about other language support forums related to the Windows 9x systems like this one. It would be much easier to find group of support in a particular language. Also, such a database can strenghten those groups and stimulate flow of ideas between the language borders.

The Intel Application Accelerator is not necesary, but it does a few nice things. It prevents windows default IDE driver from destroying data on LBA48 IDE HDD drives, by adding LBA48 support (over 137GB). It enables DMA transfers, as well. The default DialUp connection setting tries to login to the server. In most cases the PPP protocol does it, and additional logging in is not necesary. So, it tries to login, when it is logged in, alresdy. It wastes some time, that way. I'm using a localized Windows version, so I can not say exactly, what is the name of the option. But, you should switch off something called like "login to the network".

You need a correct Intel graphics controller driver. Because, the chipset update package does not contain the graphics controller drivers. The intel chipset utility packages are taking care of almost all the chipset related hardware. The exception is network cards and graphics controllers. These drivers are too big to fit in a small chipset utility. It would be a waste of time to download a huge chipset utility for a board without an integrated graphics controller. ---------------------------- Oh here it is: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Fi...x?ProductID=798

Recently, I've tested the Shell32.dll fix with and without the browser DLL fix. Looks like the Shell32.dll does not solve the problem completely. The same goes to the browser DLL fix. But, when both fixes are applied the result seems to be a perfect one.