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I will add optional NTFS Read support to 98 SE Service Pack 2.0 dutch

In Windows XP you can also get Driver Versions through the WMI interface. You can try that

I am able to play Games like Need for Speed Underground 2 of from an NTFS partition under Windows 98 with Paragon NTFS reader and didn't notice anything strange

Defrag your HDD partition after installation. Mine is often more than 10 % fragmented after all unattended stuff is installed. After that all performance issues are gone.

Nice package Gape P.S. Can you tell me which new hotfix you added this time? Thanks

I used Windows 98 at home on a Intel Celeron 333 until I got my own PC with TV-card. Windows 98 SE ran fine showing tv-shows and recording them to HD, unless I didn't do anything next to it. Multi-tasking in Windows 98 wasn't quite good, so i got framelosses etc. I got even more framelosses because uncompresssed AVI-files must be split up to avoid the 4 GB file limit on Fat32. That's why I switched over to Windows XP SP1. I must confess Windows XP SP1 with default all services on feels slower than Windows 98 and consumes loads of memory. There were also lot's of security issues every week or so until SP2 came out. Now it's my favorite OS. Since nLite is available I run a very minimalistic XP SP2 installation and all programs run even better!

I reverted the changes, setting the Manfucturer as the drivers dir has no effect on the detection of drivers during Windows Setup. For all you people having difficulties to get the right driver files, you can try to back-up your installed drivers with DriverGuide Toolkit or similar software. After that you can compress the files for use on your unattended cd.

Attaching Network printers unattended during installation is not easy. I'll use this to install the driver: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /K /m "Samsung ML-1200 Series" /h "Windows NT x86" /v 3 /f %cdrom%\Install\Samsung\SSGS1.inf and this after it to add the printer to the system: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n\\PC\ML1210 /q /u where %cdrom%\Install\Samsung\SSGS1.inf is the path to the driver inf and \\PC\ML1210 is the path of the Networkshare. type rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /? for more information / switches

Gape, why don't use a bytepatcher for that? BTW, don't use MSI for the webfolders update but write your own inf. Then I'll be able to put it also in Dutch Service Pack. This weekend I'm away, so no more questions from me until the final (RC?). Please write that tutorial for translators (about patching files etc.)

Thanks, now it's a lot easier for me to pick files B)

EDIT: Those files are specifies in layout1.inf and layout2.inf. Sorry for the trouble.

Way to dificult, why do you include office update with it? What happens when the newer 1.0.3 file gets copied to the system when no office 2000 / XP is installed?

And can you be more specific? What is the difference between the two files? What is the slipstreamsupport? Can I just copy sp2 to my cd or what? You don't have any documentation released yet about the sp.

What about msdaip.dll in rbupdate.exe? Why do you include 3 versions of a single file? Why don't you just remove the whole rbupdate part of installation

Meaby I overlooked, but the following files in SP2.cab seems not to be specified in the infs to copy to the System: msdaipp.dll msadco.dll msadcs.dll Meaby some others too. Please take a look at it Gape.

For complete localization you need the following files from the Windows Script 5.6 update: jsnl.dll sconl.dll scrrnnl.dll vbsnl.dll wshnl.dll where the bold is the language code. The files goes into the Windows\System folder, you have to specify these files manually in scr56.inf

Slipstream support would be fine. Defenitely something to work on. BTW, I will include Paragon NTFS Read Support with Dutch Service Pack, not sure why Gape didn't do it.

Gape, while I was looking for some Dutch patches, I noticed you included patches for Windows WebTV. Please note Windows WebTV is not included with localized Windows 98SE versions! I'm going to remove it from the Dutch pack, ok? The files: annclist.exe ENHTRIG.DLL NABTSFEC.SYS

NTFS Read Support

Does Microsoft have these updates localized? For Windows 98 SE Dutch I need a lot of those fixes, but I don't know if they are available anymore in Dutch. Nevertheless I found exescope: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA003525/Eindex.htm Way better than Resource Hacker, so I'll change the entries manually Translated to Dutch so far: user.exe (4.10.0.2231) mprserv.dll (4.10.0.2224) vfwwdm32.dll (4.10.0.2223)

I downloaded this one, seems more stable than previous releases. I examined your package and found this hardcoded path in both spupdate.inf and spuninst.inf: [CustomDestination.Section] 49001 = ProgramFilesDir,5 35353 = CommonFilesDir,5 [ProgramFilesDir] HKLM,"%CurrentVersion%","ProgramFilesDir","","C:\Program Files" [CommonFilesDir] HKLM,"%CurrentVersion%","CommonFilesDir","","%49001%\Common Files" Have you tried yet to change this to: [CustomDestination.Section] 49001 = ProgramFilesDir,5 35353 = CommonFilesDir,5 [ProgramFilesDir] HKLM,"%CurrentVersion%","ProgramFilesDir","","%24%\Program Files" [CommonFilesDir] HKLM,"%CurrentVersion%","CommonFilesDir","","%49001%\Common Files"

P.S %var% as in SET VAR=var: Examples: %systemdrive% %systemroot% %windir% %programfiles% %temp% %path% For a full list type SET in a command prompt.

I have an old 486 DX 66 MHZ, 20 MB of ram for my Mom. It runs 98Lite 4.7 sleek with no problem. She just types letters and read mail with it. I'm happy with that.

Sixpack, look this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Delete on reboot\command] @="CMD /E:OFF /C REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Currentversion\\RunOnce /v \"Del %1 OnNextReboot\" /d ^\"cmd.exe /c DEL /F /Q \\\"%1\\\"\" /f\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Delete on reboot\command] @="CMD /E:OFF /C REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Currentversion\\RunOnce /v \"Del %1 OnNextReboot\" /d ^\"cmd.exe /c RD /S /Q \\\"%1\\\"\" /f\"" No more need for cmd files on hd. This works on all files, even at those with special characters. Only exception for files and folders with %var% in it.

So far my knowledge reaches Gape's SP 2.0 version won't be localized when it's released.