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M()zart

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  1. I have used even older drivers with my GeForce 2 MX100. I have tried versions since 10.82 or something like it (don't remember second number exactly). Optimal one was 45.something. It gave about triple performance as the latest unoficial
  2. Here is the ZuneFinal theme. ZuneFinal.7z Unfortunately I don't have the collection.
  3. Yes, actually this was the necessity to register, that stopped me from downloading. I just realized that I will use it too seldom to register. IrfanView with IrfanPaint plugin is mostly enough for casual graphic editing and I rarely need to perform some more complex editing.
  4. May be you could use regmon/filemon to determine which registry keys/files are actually accessed by the installer when performing this check.
  5. The translation is not perfectly accurate. The last line says actually more like "Only USB 1.1 devices work for me" Though, I'm not native speaker and not sure if "work for" here is appropriate.
  6. I had been living with clicking HDD for two years before it actually died. Clicking sound does not mean that your drive will die very soon. And before drive died, things become even worse, it started to hang my system for several seconds after click. Though I'd back up all important files from the drive in your case. One of my three HDDs started to click recently. However SMART (PC Wizard) shows drive health over 70%, and it is not degrading rapidly, so I don't care about it for now. Hope that it will live at least for two more years . Besides, I suppose, it may be caused by starting/stopping the drive, as it is not my system drive, and I have recently disabled pagefile on it, so may be it's just because it is powered off sometimes after 30 min no access.
  7. I thought, I had written about them somewhere. Yes, they are working perfectly with KernelEx and even display docx files (not so sure about xlsx).
  8. Well, just for the record, I think, it's possible to run XP on it. See here http://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini.htm.en I personally know a man who used XP on a PC with 128 Mb RAM, though I don't think it will be really usable. I've heard about boot floppy that then starts the bootable CD even if PC itself cannot boot from CD. May be you should search for such a floppy image in the Internet. I don't think your note is completely useless because in 2006 I still used my Pentium 133 with 16 Mb of RAM in my out-of-town house and then I completed the first Quake for the first time Of course I already had a more modern PC that time in my flat where I am living most of the time.
  9. Actually, it seems that fileinfo plugin for Total Commander does the job, and it shows which dependencies are delay-loaded.
  10. I'd like to have it, however I don't think it should be included in SP. Where can I download it?
  11. loblo, I have already mentioned STDU Viewer And I install normal version (it registers dlls) and then use portable one to avoid registering dlls manually. I think this way is easier. Recently I tried Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 - it can be run successfully on Windows 98 with KernelEx, no special settings are required. It even supports MS Office 2007/2010 formats, though I have tried only usual doc and xls - I didn't have any new office files to try. Seems to work greatly.
  12. If we are talking about bad CD's, I'll mention two nice pieces of software that I used back in that times. The are CDCheck - this utility allows recovering only selected files and it allows setting the number of read attempts for bad sectors. Sometimes if sector is not read from the first attempt, it may be read if you use enough attempts (though it takes time). Utility is shareware and it also provides some other functions. The second program is Virtual Drive 7. My friend gave me his 2 CD version of Diablo 2. The 13 percents of the second disk were unreadable (with game music). The game could be installed OK, but it required 2nd CD in CD-rom, and from time to time tried to load music from those 13 percents, and the game freezed. I've tried to make an image with Virtual Drive 7. It just tried to read the disk, sector by sector. Each sector from those 13 % was being read for a long time, but each sector was read successfully after all! Creating an image took more than 12 hours (first 87% were read in few minutes), and it just tried until it read everything successfully! I completed Diablo 2 with this image. Though I have not tried to read other bad CDs with it.
  13. This video card is completely compatible with Windows 98. I have the same video card and it works greatly. I use drivers from NVidia ver. 4532. These provide substantially higher performance (with this video card) than the latest official or unofficial Win 98 drivers. I've tried several versions, these seem to cause the least number of bugs in games (though I was told that earlier versions can provide even higher performance with this video card, they seem to be more buggy.
  14. Previously I had some differences in behaviour when plugging USB drives before and after boot. As I recall they were shutdown issues. I thought that it was caused by KernelEx. After some reinstallations and updates of KernelEx and NUSB the problem gone. However, I'm not very sure it's your case.
  15. I didn't have a PC that time, but I've seen Windows 3.11 on my friend's computer. He had a computer with 486 processor, 8 Mb RAM, and 200 Mb HDD with DOS. Our favorite game at that time was Sid Meier's Civilization. When we got Civilization II, we were disappointed - it required Windows! But already well-known Windows 95 (it was about 1995-1996 year) was too large for 200 Mb HDD. But some day my friend discovered Windows 3.11 - less than 12 MB HDD space, and Civilization II was satisfied with Windows 3.11! So, we used this 'OS' only to play Civilization II - Other games of that time were mostly DOS or at least had DOS versions, and Windows analogues were too slow for this PC, and we didn't have any other Windows 3.11 apps. Then in 1997 I bought my own PC - already with Windows 95, and my friend also upgraded his one...
  16. About system freezing when connecting USB drive to USB 1.x port - may be that occurred because Windows 98 needs to read FAT table and freezes until the FAT table is read completely. USB 1.x has low speed and reading FAT can take some time. I had the same issue. My 320 GB USB HDD freezes my system for more than 3.5 minutes. My 4 GB flash drive freezes my system for 3-4 seconds. However after this time span system works OK and I can read/write files on my USB drives. I have USB 1.1 ports. I have tried many things - rebooting, reinstalling NUSB, etc. - before I learned that I need just to wait for a few minutes. USB 2.0 is much faster, so FAT table is read almost instantly with it.
  17. As I know, Windows 98 mspaint saves only BMP, not JPG.
  18. My main Windows 7 PC has three HDDs - 40 Gb, 200 Gb and 2 Tb, and there are no more place in the case for them, though there are free SATA slots. My Windows 98 PC has two HDDs - 1,7 Gb and 4,7 Gb (which I recently got for free). Its motherboard is not that old - before I bought my current main PC in 2007, the 200 Gb HDD was used with it and everything was OK.
  19. Actually, I think the same operating system can be running for a very long time without reinstalling it. I could live without reinstalling over 5 years with XP. And my current 98 system is getting close to it (I reinstalled it over the previous after putting my HDD into another PC). You just should be careful and not to screw up your system yourself as I did with my first Windows 95 system Since that time I was careful enough Though, I should say that my current Windows 7 system is slow. It takes up to 7 minutes to boot completely, though running applications after that is not so sluggish (in first several days after reboot).
  20. I'm exactly the opposite kind Since 1997 when I got my first computer, I have made a clean install 4 times. Plus one on my secondary PC with Windows 98. Other times I installed OS over the previous instance. My Windows 7 was installed over the Vista (keeping previously installed applications) that was cleanly installed in early 2007, and my Windows 98 was installed approximately in the same time. On my main PC I have much longer list of installed applications, as I install almost everything from giveawayoftheday and rarely delete installed applications. Of course I'm trying to keep only really necessary apps in autorun. On my Windows 98 PC the list is so short because of lack of HDD space. However I'm going to buy another 1,5 - 2 TB HDD and place it instead of my 200 GB HDD, that will go to my Windows 98 PC.
  21. As I heard, winternals' one is unstable. Though I've tried only the Paragon's one.
  22. About icons - maybe the ICL plugin to TotalCommander will be useful. Pack icons to icl file with it and rename it to dll.
  23. Same problem with Firefox 9.0.1 under windows 7. It does not depend on browser or java or OS, only on the size of browsing area. My Firefox gives me the same with sidebar displayed, even when maximized in 1280x1024. That's definitely a forum design bug.
  24. winhlp32.exe from XP (don't know exact version). It adds support for mouse wheel for scrolling, which is rather convenient.
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