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joe tweaker

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  1. The only two modules that I had looping issues with were HTMLHelp, and the Aug 07 RootsUp. My Results log shows the DX_Media, KB937143, and Servic9x all installed successfully. I think I went with the default settings in AP except in the Tweaks, 3rd party Apps, and Optional Windows Components modules. I did turn off a few of those. Hope this helps.
  2. OOPS! You already explained why the scripting engine didn't update - even though I selected it! Looks like the cause is already known! So does this also explain the creation of the V4 folder on my C: drive?
  3. I set AP to install the Scripting Update. However I did bypass the CD File System update directly above it. In the AP Result log right after CDFS reports being set to "by-pass" the next line says "all titles have finished installing." I find NO mention of the Scripting Update in my AP Result log, nor can I find it in Add/Remove programs. The WSCRIPT.EXE file in my C:\WINDOWS folder is version 5.6.0.8825 - size 114,688 bytes - date 08/09/04. AP says the update should be version 5.6.0.8832. So I guess it didn't install, even though I set it to do so. Could this be due to my choosing to bypass the CDFS update?
  4. Well the Sun Jave Runtimes installed correctly into C:\Program Files\Java, so it seems that code translated %ProgFile% into "Program Files" while the Windows Update code did not. BTW I still have TWO Sun Java Updates (06 and 12) installed. Is it ok to take the 06 out now via the control panel "Add/Remove"? If so my C: drive could use the reclaimed space. Also, during the patching of my OS my firewall asked me to permit web access twice. I permitted it both times. I'm thinking it was during the setup of IE6 SP1 and maybe Windows Media Player, but I'm not 100% sure. Is it not possible to install all the updates without web access? I know the full IE6 setup is a huge file, almost 80MB if I recall correctly, but then the AutoPatcher August 2007 Full was more than 3x bigger (248MB). Was I correct in letting AutoPatcher thru my firewall? What if I wish someday to patch a computer with no net access? Would that require using the UBCD instead?
  5. The Windows which AutoPatcher patched is installed on the C: (98SE) partition, in the standard folders. However, I do have a boot manager, which permits me to swap the boot partition via a menu which appears during startup, and I also have Windows installed on the J: (98FE) partition of the same hard drive. However, the manager always boots to the C: (98SE) partition by default - unless I override it. If I override the default, it swaps the two in the partition table (so that C: becomes J: and J: becomes C:). But for the entire run of AutoPatcher I let it default to C: (98SE), and never booted to J: (98FE). However, I installed and ran AutoPatcher from the F: partition, which is a separate physical drive (because F: had over 30GB free space, and C: only had 800MB free). It didn't appear to have any problems running from F: instead of C: AutoPatcher found all of its modules on F: and wrote all of its reports there as well. The only logs that got left in C:\Windows\Temp were ENGSETUP.LOG, EngUtil.log, java_install_reg.log, and msievent.log. The only mystery is why "V4" was created on C: with only a cabfile and a text file in it (both named iuident). It looks like it was used to install something else, but not cleaned up when the install was finished. However I'm asking what to do before removing it because I could be wrong. When I rerun the report module, Autopatcher tells me all the modules I selected are now installed with only two exceptions: HTML Help, and the August 2007 Rootsupd, so I think everything else was correctly installed. I hope all this detail helps. Just let me know if you need anything else!
  6. No rush on fixing the remaining issues with AP. Whenever you get to it is fine. Just wondering if you have any thoughts on which patch/update may be causing Notepad+ to go weird on me? And the question on having two Java Runtime Updates installed at the same time? And what the purpose of the V4 folder is on the C: drive? Thanks! And btw... You rock!
  7. I just located this new info on Notepad+ here: http://www.mypeecee.org/rogsoft/problems.html "On systems with the MS IntelliType and/or IntelliPoint software installed (which come with the MS Natural Keyboard and MS Mouse), text can not be added after switching word wrap mode. It's hard or even impossible for me to cure this problem, since it seems to have to do with a conflict with the Rich Edit control and the Intelli.. software. All the word wrap switching function does is call the Rich Edit control and tell it to switch word wrap mode. The actual implementation is done by the Rich Edit control itself. I have send a bug-report to MS, but haven't received an answer. Also limited to some specific systems is a problem with the Find function. The problem seems to happen at least on systems with Microsoft Pointing Device Software v. 11.01 (pointer.exe) software installed. I've had reports that the Find function wouldn't highlight the string that is searched for, or that the Find function doesn't work beyond 32kB of text. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem (I've tested the Find function extensively on documents up to 600kB in size). Since I use the internal Find function of the Rich Edit control, the same answer applies here: I can't fix it since it's the Rich Edit control that does the actual searching. I only call the Find function of the control with the search string and the position to start as parameters, and the found position is returned." Could this be the reason my Notepad+ stopped working? My Notepad+ was working correctly before I patched, and broken afterwards, and AFAIK, I have NONE of the hardware or software listed above as being known to cause this. Has anyone else seen this behavior appear in Notepad+ ONLY after fully patching 98SE? Is it known WHICH patch or update "breaks" Notepad+? Is there a patch I don't need that installs MS mouse/keyboard software, or which modifies this "Rich Edit" control the author of Notepad+ refers to? Is there any other solution (other than ditching Notepad+) that makes it work again? Maybe going on to install 98SE2ME? I can't think of any other utility that has provided more value to me than Notepad+. It really hurts to see it behaving so poorly now. It's like watching a good friend die, and knowing my action (patching 98se) may have caused it.
  8. After reading this entire thread, I downloaded and ran the August FULL Autopatcher on my 98SE computer. For the most part it worked beautifully, with a few minor exceptions: Prior to Autopatcher I had never installed any browser other than Firefox, but I allowed it to install MS IE6 SP1 in order to fully patch my system. FireFox itself is still working fine, but other programs seem to have forgotten FireFox was my primary browser. Since running Autopatcher, whenever I click on links in Eudora and Thunderbird, they now open Internet Connection Wizard instead of opening FireFox. I assume MSIE must have taken over as my default browser when it was installed. Could someone remind me how to make FireFox my default again? Do I have to change settings in Eudora AND Thunderbird individually? Or is there a master setting somewhere that resets all other programs at once? Also, should I setup a connection for MSIE first, for windows update or other apps, even though my intent is to continue using FireFox as my primary browser? Second, before running Autopatcher, I was using Rogsoft Notepad+ 1.11 as my Notepad replacement. I noticed you had an Unofficial Update for Windows Notepad in your Critical and Recommended System Updates Module, but as comments here implied you were checking files for version numbers, date stamps, sizes, etc, before applying your patches, I assumed Autopatcher would leave my replacement alone. To my horror, Autopatcher replaced my Notepad+ replacement with Windows Notepad! I tried reinstalling Rogsoft Notepad+ 1.11 after Autopatcher finished. I followed the directions and recopied the original Notepad+ back over Windows Notepad. Now Notepad+ is reinstalled, but in files > 32KB the search function is broken. In larger files, after about 32KB of text, instead of finding the next match, it moves the cursor to the end of file, or to some random position. I also have Notepad+ installed on a system running 98FE, and on that computer searches in Notepad+ work correctly regardless of file length, the same as they did on this system before the Unofficial Notepad Update was installed. Can anyone tell me what else the Unofficial Notepad Update changes? Or how to make Notepad+ work correctly on files > 32KB on this system again? In hindsight, I should have looked at your batch files first, and should have deleted the UNOTEPAD section in HFSYSTEM.BAT before running Autopatcher. Perhaps in the next version you could make that section OPTIONAL? Or put it in an OPTIONAL module? More important, we/I need to understand why it breaks functionality in Notepad+ after being installed, as it would not be an issue if all I had to do was reinstall Notepad+. I also had looping problems and could not install the HTML Help or August 2007 RootsUpd, no matter how many times I ran Autopatcher. I've seen this mentioned in a few other posts, so I know both of these are items to be fixed in the next release. Lastly, I noticed some strange leftovers after Autopatcher was done. There's a new folder named V4 on my C: drive whose only contents are a cab file and a text file, and a temp subfolder with another copy of the same cab file. Do these serve any purpose, or are they junk I can safely delete? I assume log files in C:\Windows\Temp can also be deleted. Am I correct on this? Also, prior to Autopatcher I already had Sun Java Runtime 1.5.0 Update 06 installed. Update 12 just created a new folder under C:\Program Files\Java, without removing Update 06 first. So now I have entries for both updates (06 and 12) in Add/Remove Programs. Can I just remove Update 06, without causing any harm to Update 12? Or should I remove both, and then run Autopatcher to put Update 12 in again? Thanks again for creating Autopatcher, and for any help on the points described.
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