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RP should decrease the resource usage, so it is more important to install it. I'm not sure if KernelEx deals with resources.

As I know, older version of ObjectBar provides such functionality. Not free, however, eats resources, a bit buggy.

My Canon Powershot SX120IS is incompatible unfortunately. Can MS MTP Porting Kit help in my case? Anyway, I've bought a card reader/USB hub already, but I'd like to know it.

96 Mb rar archive with music album. It took about 6 hours. That time I had a good dial-up - 5.3 Kb/sec - about 20 Mb / hour. As for now - dial-up is disappearing. Fortunately, we have cheap internet access in Ukraine, and there are many cable providers in my city. Now there are only 2 dial-up providers here and dial-up speed is only 3 Kb/sec at max. I'm using Download Master since that old days (early 2000s).

Some animated GIFs were displayed OK with 3.xx but were a bit buggy with 4.xx. Number of unique picture colors is no more in status bar. (may be it was removed even earlier)

Here is my software list for my Windows 98 PC. As I had only 1,7 Gb HDD, I've tried to choose not just the best software, but also the most needed and the smallest Video: As I use this PC mostly to watch non-HD movies and series, I have lots of such software. K-Lite codec pack (medium-size version, the latest Windows 9x compatible one), Crystal Player 1.98 - my favorite video player - I think, the most convenient one. Non-free, development is stopped. Support for 5.1 sound is buggy, and does not work on Windows 7 with true DirectX 11 video cards. Flash Movie Player - keep it only because it is tiny. GOM player - not very large player with internal codecs. It is useful to have such when system codecs don't work. MediaInfo - a small utility to view media file parameters and codec information. VLC Player portable - used it from USB memory stick to save HDD space. Useful when nothing else plays some video file normally. PotPlayer portable - for the same usage as VLC Audio: 1by1 - main audio player. Not the latest version. Winamp 2.95 - just in case. PicoMP3 - one of the smallest MP3 players. Keep it on USB stick just because it's tiny and cute Apollo - on USB stick, just in case XMPlay - because of nice skins Office: MS Office 97 Angel Writer - free RTF editor DocX to Rtf Spread32 - a very small , but feature-rich spreadsheet with XLS format support. PDF/DJVU: STDU viewer - the only XPS viewer, which works on Windows 98 (with KernelEx). Supports also DJVU, PDF and many other formats FoxIt reader (portable, on USB stick) Sumatra PDF Text editors: PSPad - a very good text/hex editor Notepad2 - don't know why I keep it AkelPad - small, but useful text editor (2 Mb with plugins). Keep it in case I need to uninstall PSPad to free more space. Internet (My Windows 98 PC is on dial-up): Opera 10.10 - default browser, best one for dial-up Latest Opera - portable on USB stick Firefox 2.0.0.20 - Was the default browser before I switched to Opera. Going to uninstall it soon when I backup passwords from it. Download Master - must have on dial-up QtWeb - a small, but fully functional webkit browser OffByOne - tiny fallback webbrowser with very basic HTML and CSS support. OperaCacheView CD/DVD stuff: CDCheck - utility for getting files from unreadable CDs. Can do multiple read attempts. CDSlow Usful Utils Disk Studio - small (3 Mb) application for burning data and audio discs. Saiteria - small CD burning program ImgBurn - one of the best freeware burning apps for older windows versions. Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - (portable, on USB stick, just in case) DAEMON Tools ISOBuster Archivers: 7zip latest Winrar 3.80 PeaZip (portable, on USB stick) ScreenSavers: Cannot afford to keep large screensavers because of the lack of HDD space, so I keep only tiny ones Particle Fire 1 and 2 screensavers - the best of the tiny ones. Very beautiful. Ants and Evolve - these two are also interesting and could stay as my default ones for several months. Games: Here I list only the games that are always on my HDD: Worms Armageddon - after deleting unnecessary sound files this game is less than 90 Mb Crimson Land Tanktics the impact Tank wars (bomb) - old DOS game SolSuite Oasis - nice casual strategy game SuperBalls - match three game Blobby Volley Unerasers: FileRecoveryAngel Recuva Math utils: Numlock Calculator - very nice and powerful calculator application. Not developed for a long time. The Calc Advanced Grapher - helped me very much during university years. Cleeners: RegSeeker CCleaner Other: IrfanView - the best image viewer Total Commander - the best file manager NNCron - the best task scheduler HexProbe - a very good hex editor Space Monger and WinDirStat - to know what eats space on my HDD - necessary applications in my case. JetStart 4.4 Freeware - global hotkey manager - for assigning global shortcut keys for most used applications and some actions QDictionary - old 1.2 version - a dictionary application. WinImage - tool for woking with floppy images. However my floppy drive already died, and may be it is not needed any more. TweakUI - powerful tweaker for Windows 98 Dev-C++ - smallest GUI IDE for occasional program writing UPX - to compress EXE files Filemon and Regmon some taskmanagers TinyResMeter - tiny Processor/RAM/Resource usage monitor Everest - last free version SisCont - for viewing SIS file information (for my Nokia phone) Autoruns Bear.exe and G.exe - tiny resource usage monitors Сaffeine - tiny apps that emulates SHIFT key pressing once in 59 seconds so that Windows did not go to sleep Norton Commander - for DOS And of course the latest KernelEx and Revolutions Pack, NUSB, Paragon NTFS driver.

Why 98? Nostalgie, old games compatibility, fun... Yes, before version 4 IrfanView got better with each new version. With version 4 it became controversial. I prefer 2003 It's more stable than previous ones.

I thought that mouse wheel does not work in Windows 95 unless you have a specific mouse driver for it. I remember, back in old days when I had Windows 95, a new mouse with mouse wheel came with diskette with such specific driver. There was a tray utility (may be the first tray icon I saw in my life ) that allowed assigning an action for the third mouse button from several available ones. Windows 98 SE works with mouse wheel natively.

YES! I had hope for this! Thank you very much Xeno! For a year I hoped that KernelEx would not stall without allowing new Firefox versions to run.

I use Daemon Tools 3.47 too - very nice program. Images are needed not just for cracking, my game CDs that I have bought in late 90s are barely readable already. Images are good way to backup them.

It would be interesting to read about your experience with hibernate in Windows ME. As for me, it was usable only in XP and higher. Even in Win2k it was buggy and unusable.

I'd like to add a few words about 1by1 - my favorite player. First, it supports playlists (*.m3u playlists), though this support is not obvious, as it's more folder-play oriented. There is the Toggle Playlist View button on the toolbar (or use SHIFT+F5). After clicking it you will see two tracklists - the current directory list and the playlist. You can switch between directories and drag tracks from the current directory list to the playlist. To create a playlist file, select the tracks in the playlist, right-click them, and select "Create playlist file with selection(s)" from the shortcut menu. Playlist files are displayed in a directory tree, so, to open a playlist, just select it in the tree. You may need to click the "(list order)" column header to sort the tracks in playlist order (the fourth column in the grid by default). As for me I like placing each album in a separate folder and listen to music by albums more than mess about with custom order playlist (though I've created some with 1by1), so this player I like the most. Hmm, no mention about Winamp I can also name Quintessential player, Foobar 2000, AIMP, XMPlay. Before 1by1 I have used KMPlayer for playing music, though it is intended for playing video. It's nice as an audio player too, though it requires KernelEx, does not support gapless mode (1by1 supports it, though it's not perfect), and, as I know, is incompatible with Revolutions Pack.

1by1 is my favorite player, but author wrote in the history that 1.71 may be the last version for 9x. So, it's still working?

May be this topic will help?

Sorry, may be I caused some misunderstanding. I'll try to say the same I've said before more clearly. 1. IE is the ONLY browser which supports copying something with PURE javascript. (for example by clicking some link). Masking Opera as IE WILL NOT HELP. Only IE-based browsers can do this. 1.1. SOME websites (where web developers take care about cross-browser compatibility) use flash buttons (sometimes invisible flash button over the link) to deal with this. Drugwash, it seams that is not your case, so the Copy link on this site will work only in IE-based web browsers. 2. When writing about masking Opera I've meant completely DIFFERENT cases, not this case. Masked Opera will not support copying with javascript. I have meant cases when some websites just don't send parts of their content to the Opera when they know that this is Opera. For example, Facebook Like button on New York Times or the payment page on the website of my internet provider. In such cases masking Opera may be helpful - in cases when website looks or behaves differently in Opera than in other browsers.

Drugwash, it's only IE who allows javascript to modify the clipboard (e.g. copy something by clicking something). Other browsers (not IE-based) forbid it by design - it's considered as a security hole (for example some script just pastes an unwanted URL to malicious website to the clipboard when you are copying good link, and you just won't notice it, and paste it to the address bar). I don't know whether this is a good or bad idea. Most web developers use flash buttons for this feature, flash is able to modify clipboard in all browsers supporting flash. As for enabling other scripts in Opera - I often see webpages with some parts not displaying in Opera. For example NYT - its facebook like button is not displayed in Opera. However (in later Opera versions) all works if you mask Opera as IE (Menu -> Settings -> Quick Preferences -> Edit Site Preferences -> Network -> Browser identification -> Mask as Internet Explorer). Website of my provider also does not allow to enter code of payment cards in Opera explicitely stating that Opera is not working, but when I masked Opera as IE I was able to enter code. And everything worked OK.

It's easy to add stubs in the KernelEx code itself (to the libraries that already are there, I didn't figure out how to add a functions to the DLLs that are not already there in the apilibs folder. May be I just have not tried well.) May be it's better to add stubs to KernelEx than to edit exe files?

I lived without AV software on Windows 7 and Vista for about 3 years. 3 times I was infected - once a year. All the three times I handled it myself without system reinstall. Once I just had to boot in Safe Mode and remove virus files from Windows directory and from Autorun in registry. Second was Neshta virus that associated itself with all the exe files and infected them. Had to write a simple program that launches the command line given as its parameters and replace the virus file with it to be able to launch programs. After that cured all the infected exes with Dr Web Cure-it and restored the exe association in registry. Third time had to use some AV tool that I don't remember exactly (like AVZ but not the AVZ) to get rid of a rootkit. Lost some application settings in registry but not so much. Now I'm using Outpost Security Suite that I've got from giveawayoftheday. Computer slowed down 50%, but I think, I'll live with it until my 1 year license is valid. Though I consider AV is not mandatory, you just need to be accurate. 2 of 3 times I got viruses just because I was too lazy to check a suspicious file on VirusTotal.

I recall that some versions of UberSkin (part of the RP that was developed first separately) worked on Windows 95 with IE 5.5 installed. At least somebody posted a screenshot on this forum.

As for me, OS is alive until there are actively developed software for it. As there are very few such projects, more and more ones drop the support, and KernelEx and Revolutions Pack are not developed any more, Windows 98 can be officially called dead or almost dead. Though I will keep it on my second PC as main OS until the PC is alive. And may be after its death I will keep it in the Virtual PC for old games, such as X-com 1, 2, and 3, and Worms 2, Worms Apocalipse, and Worms World Party, which are my favorite games.

OffByOne - yes, i remember it. I always have it on all my PCs as a fallback browser. Once after some crash it was the only working browser on my PC when I needed to download some file that should fix my system and it saved me. Jds, when I get to my PC, I'll install Bon Echo again. It won't be soon, now I'm on the sea resort, replying to the forum from my mobile phone. And this forum is quite heavy for the phone, Opera Mobile complains at not enough memory when more than two tabs of this forum are open, even with disabled images.

I have tried this build. It is much worse than 2.0.0.20. I don't remember exact details, but it seems more unstable, has more troubles with extensions, and doesn't work with flash.

Are you sure that it is not the bad disc or bad dvd drive? Have you tried the same ones with different OS/PC?

Actually, you may check whether Opera Turbo is active when forbidding these requests and when permitting them. Look at the Turbo status on the left of Opera status bar.

23 GB? I have 1,7 GB hdd on my Windows 98 machine, so even 1,5 GB would be enough for that.