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...or they are there as part of some "training"etc. for possible new developer...?

I'd häppily sign up but my C is non-existant, nor am I good friends with Windows. however I am very good at assembly it is sad to hear the development is not continuing anymore, at least not by you

I do have one problem with Opera, when I open some HTM or HTML file from explorer I get general protection fault in USER.EXE and this : http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/21/1876835/OperaHTMLproblem.png

I have been using Opera 11.50 for a while now and thigns seem to work very well, I have got some error+restarts but I cannot say whether they are because of a bad site or anything else, plus they weren't reproductible either.

I have been using an ALi chipset based RAID card with 1x IDE and 2x SATA and so far I have not had any problems. It presents drives as SCSI drives to the PC and you can use them without problems in Win9x. IIRC the drives were all accessible even in DOS mode but I got to check that part again. I am having 2x 40GB IDE drives in RAID0 on it for doing faster audio and video editing and SATA is kept in non RAID config with pair of 250GB drives connected. XP in my PC is not fond of that card though, it makes booting really slow for some reason...

15 minutes... that makes me think of bad sectors on the HDD. Does SMART say anything around reallocated sectors etc. ? Have you tried Scandisking the drive (works wonders on XP machines with slow/no boot) ? That GFX card works fine in some other machine ? It should solve that part, but if you're not going to have network / internet you're better off with no drivers active... less drivers, more RAM, faster boot

AC97 is mostly locked to 48KHz and all other sample rates are generated by the driver for you. Most of the "HD audio" things have most things done for you in software, many do not support over 16bit 48KHz. It is not unusual to see some oldass ISA or PCI sound card incapable of doing even 48KHz do 192KHz 32bit in Win XP and newer with the WDM drivers it may have. Lot of drivers also do software based noise reduction

When you have a LAN card installed but no cable connected you get about 30 seconds longer boot becuase windows waits for IP form DHCP and waits until timeout which seems to be 30 seconds. IF you are not going to use internet etc. then disable LAN card for significantly faster boot.

It may be worth doing a memory test on the machine. I once had similar problems on my PC, and one 512MB stick had couple of bad bytes on them. sometimes booted fine, sometimes failed

Most Sound Blaster 16s I have came across have been quite poor, the analog sides are monstrous don't improve anything much, more the opposite. Output is very hissy and muffled, sometimes having distortions at higher input/output levels. Mostly its all about analog side rather than anything else, onboard sound is plagued with wrong choice of filter caps so sound is muffled and power supply is not filtered properly and digital stuff runs close by analog things so you hear bus noise and other fun things in the sound. Some modification on the sound cards will help resolve some problems but not all of them....

I'm not sure if I got 10.3 installed or 10.2, but I'm using a Tualatin PIII and it only has SSE and so far things run... I recently had update happen this or last week so I think I got 10.3 installed, I got to verify it EDIT: I got 10.3.181.26 installed, and it works without problems on my Tualatin

Yes, the fix will most definitely be temporary, and sooner or later I'll get in trouble again. When that happens and /M switch clears the problem I'll be looking for at your way. Discount part got me interested aswell.

Seems I missed one link, thänk you ^^ EDIT: RegCon made the registry 2MBytes smaller

My registry is well above 8MBytes so these suggestions are not going to work out (USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT together are 15.6MBytes)... Anyway, Seems this is not a registry problem but something else. The software package asks me to install a driver afterwards for USB interfaces it can use to program the chips, and that seems to be where the problem comes. After installing the software I got same effect as before. So I quickly tried out the patch with /M switch and it had no effect. Bootlog showed "USB mass storage device" as the last thing in it as previously so I went into safe mode and removed all USB devices and restarted. I got to the desktop and after windows finished re-installing USB devices I did a restart again. And windows booted normally, then I did antoher reboot to uninstall the patch and everything is still in working order, and the software package seems to work too, albeit I have not got far enough to do any CPLD writing yet, I'd be using LPT based JTAG cable for that so I don't think I will have problems... but who knows. Also many links in the thread about registry are dead :/

Aw ****, I knew it was one option but not the /M one... but I am sure the problem will emerge again when I reinstall the CPLD software so I'll try out (I am fairly positive I got a temporary fix, and I made another backup of the registry after I got stuff show up again so I should do fine when it happens again). I don't have a Gbit LAN card, in fact I removed it just because of one of the threads Herbalist linked to, and because my network is 100Mbit, and my 100Mbit Intel card performs better I do hope the /M switch works, it would pretty much give me a good reason to finally get the patch. A bit off topic but can I use it on multiple computers ? I have more than one machine in my household In any case I am reading through the Registry cleanup thread and stacking up on the listed programs

I was installing Xilinx CPLD development software and same thing happened as what happened to me last time when I installed AutoCAD to finish off some school work.... the error is different but in both cases Safe Mode worked and SYSTEM.DAT is larger than 12.5MBytes. In both cases uninstalling the software does not help... And my last registry backup is too old to be used. Last time I got VFAT error, this time it is just "Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer" Bootlog.txt does not seem to be helpful, I only saw DOS stuff in it, no windows stuff... Is there any good registry scrubbing software that may help ? I have some programs but their automatic methods don't yeld much loss in size, only few KB. Other programs let you delete whatever you want at your own risk and I'd avoid doing that, its near same as going blindly into registry with regedit and deleting things randomly.... I have not yet tried RLoew's RAM limitation patch demo, it was suggested last time but I managed to kill the setup so it would no longer boot into safe mode so I could not have tried it. Getting files to and off 98 in safe mode is not so fun, flash sticks don't work and only floppies I can find right now are 360Kbyte 5.25" ones Sometimes I think I should just torture my laptop with XP instead for big behemot programs... I hate laptops EDIT: RLoew's patch had no effect. EDIT2: Bootlog.txt is now full of stuff, last things being USB related things. I will try to remove USB devices from device manager in safe mode EDIT3: Removed all USB devices and other junk I no longer have and I saw desktop again

My first 98SE setup was on a 166MHz Pentium with 32MB of RAM. It was not too great, but with 64MB of RAM it became much more responsive. Win95 will rock your socks on that laptop.

Notepad will complain if the TXT file is larger than 64KB so perhaps these are related ? I once tried to use XP notepad but it will load all files blank (probably related to unicode)

Try running something like Photoshop for a while and some other programs aswell, particularly internet browsers

Yesterday I installed Spybot S&D 1.6.2 just for fun on my PC and to my surprise it worked fine (I did not install TeaTimer or the other addon thing), I did some immunization and spyware scan and I got no errors etc. I don't know if my PC boots though now, I went to bed after scan and there's quite a few hours left until work ends ^^

I once got W32.Funlove.4099 virus from a computer repair shop, I infected every single windows executable (EXE, DLL, OCX, SCR etc.) on all the drives I had on the PC... Norton 2005 DOS part saved my machine, and managed to clean every single file form the virus, that was in ~2005, and since then I have not had any virus outbreaks. I don't run any protection software, but I do scan my drives couple times a year at work, and so far I have not found anything.

I install Norton 2005 and update it form time to time, so I can get virus signatures to be used in its DOS component NAVDX. Works wonders and has saved me lot of headache in past. I usually run no protection measures whatsoever, only scan the HDD few times a year. AVG is something I strongly advise against using... I'd rather have viruses than AVG... in both cases you lose performance, and AVG is probably even more annoying than viruses are..... lot of bad experience with it that still carries on at my work where I see virus ridden machines running AVG...

Ha, I'm first

I wish I had more time, finally learn C and improve my x86 ASM skill (I like 68K, Z80, SuperH much more ) and help with KernelEx... Thank you for new version i'll be testing it out when I get back home

I had no problems with 3 GFX cards in Win98. I had one card on ISA and 2 on PCI. I had to set jumpers on the cards though so cards would not fight on becoming the "master". On some mobos I could even use onboard video along with PCI or AGP video