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Queue

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  1. Export AppCompat, delete all the entries, then make sure you can reboot. If you never run into any issues, you have your answer. Regardless, you've got a backup so you're fine either way. Queue
  2. Checking or unchecking that seems to have no effect. It has always been checked on this computer and I never got a disk grind (again, the issue is a grind the first time an Explorer window was opened after a reboot), though I have left it unchecked now that I know about it. Queue
  3. 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
  4. My SystemCertificates section (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates) is 2.2 MB by itself. Do I just have a truckload of expired certificates? I'm prefacing this next paragraph with the information that my 98SE machine has seen constant use since it was built in early 2001 and has never had Windows reinstalled (or been formatted for that matter) so quite a bit of old things are left over from computer use 5+ years ago, even though the system has undergone numerous optimizations and is in fantastic shape. When doing some HKLM cleanup (mainly uninstalling software I'll never use again) I ran into an interesting side-effect of a common (and often maligned) program: InterActual Player (commonly installed at AutoRun of commercial DVDs) prevents a floppy drive grind that occurs the first time you open Explorer after a reboot. I discovered this when, after uninstalling all DVD playing software (I just use VLC now) the first time I opened Explorer I had a pause and floppy grind and had to wait a moment for the drive listing to populate. I had kept difference listings of registry changes made during the uninstallations and InterActual had a few interesting "API filters" listed so I figured I'd give it a shot and see if it was providing this perk; I restored the deleted files and loaded a registry backup from earlier in the day and then uninstalled (and then rebooted) one program at a time until the floppy drive grinds started happening, and confirmed that it was InterActual Player providing the benefit. So, my question now is, is it normal for your floppy drive to do a disk check the first time Explorer is opened after a reboot, or is my computer weird for needing InterActual Player to remain installed to prevent it? Queue
  5. Wow, REGSEEKER is really aggressive (and fast). I use Norton WinDoctor primarily (it typically can repair erroneous registry entries by pointing them to a relocated file as opposed to just deleting them) but REGSEEKER found a mound of things WinDoctor doesn't. Some of the entries, primarily the ones it deems obsolete, actually aren't, so there's no way I'm going to just delete all that it finds, but it does do a good job of digging into CLSIDs. Contrary to popular belief, a bloated registry doesn't automatically hamper Win9x performance; it largely depends on which sections of the registry are bloated (particularly parts of the registry than Windows itself has to enumerate often). I have a 9MB+ system.dat file and easily achieve week+ uptimes (without even an Explorer restart) and have a boot time of under half a minute; responsiveness and multi-tasking capability are fast and solid. A sincerely large part of my LOCAL_MACHINE hive is taken up by signed file certificates (why they store such large data blobs in the registry is a mystery to me). It's my goal to trim the fat a little and get it back down under 8MB. Queue
  6. My root certificates (well, and non-root ones as well) take up more space than your entire system.dat file Dude1111. =O Queue
  7. I have a set of NU files with version number 22.0.0.52 (all Digitally Signed) that I can NOT get to work on Win98SE. They are (apparently) files from SystemWorks 2009. Bad news, I know. =/ Edit: 21.0.0.67 also doesn't work on 9x (and when you try to run them they specifically say they're not compatible with the current OS). Queue
  8. I did a little digging and NU files with a version number of 19.0.1.8 are the last that seem to work on Win9x. Version 19.0.1.8 of NDD32 still chokes on very large hard drives. Queue
  9. Not dual-booting; this machine is 98SE only. I have other machines for XP. Some (if not all, I didn't really test) of the SystemWorks 2006 Norton Utilities run on 9x. I didn't install it, I extracted files manually from the CD. Queue
  10. 98SE, all official patches. Only unofficial stuff I have is large hard drive support (BHDD31), UberSkin (for taskbar locking), IE6 SP1 (all of which I got within the past 24 hours). I have a very slighty modified (only a few bytes hex edited) explorer.exe to handle better system tray icon colors, but I got that back in 2000 or 2001, long before I knew of this site. My primary drive is IDE 127 GB, secondary is SATA (via a PCI card) 500 GB, which is why I grabbed the large hard drive support package, so I could scandisk the 500 GB drive (since NDD32 kept choking on it). This place is amazing by the way. I love my old 9x machine; I'm shocked so many others still love 9x as well. As for my join date for these forums... I must've registered to download a link months ago... Queue
  11. 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
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