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  1. @Duffy98 ....

    Thanks, I found both versions over at MajorGeeks. There is a definite difference.

    It seems you guys aren't even able to use a filecompare utility!? :(

    But ok - be happy with your 'different' Rain 2.0 ... ;)

    LOL, gotta love it....

    A: Yes I did, with an ancient utility I had for Windows 95 ....showed 5 lines of code different

    B: Did I bother to reverse engineer it ...No

    C: Quote from MajorGeeks Page on Ver 2.0 "Version 1.0 is also available online as some have found 2.0 to be unstable."

    D: This stuff is over 12 yrs old....did it really go that long and nobody else noticed till now? Possible...???

    E: Did I dream the numbers I was seeing with Via harware monitor...no!

    One other plausible explanation ....the install of ver1.0 is corrupted....

    but I ain't gonna worry about fix'n something that ain't broke....

    Peace!

    Jake

  2. @Duffy98 ....

    Thanks, I found both versions over at MajorGeeks. There is a definite difference.

    Rain v1.0 would falter on heavy system loads after 15 minutes or so. Rain v2.0

    seems to have overcome this. it allows a slight increase of maybe 8 degrees or

    so and then levels off. One variation, I let it auto detect and both versions seem

    content with using the settings for a Pentium Pro. I have this Pentium III 933mhz

    overclocked to 980......and heat seems to be it's sole weakness.!

    Jake

  3. Kudos from the peanut gallery...

    Just took this for a test drive and was kind of amazed! :yes:

    It successfully grabbed all my Firefox 3.xx add-ons and

    offered to update as needed.

    Did you manage to import the FF bookmarks?

    Strange thing about that, i have been using an addon called Foxtabs

    (similiar to Opera's Speed dial) ..it grabbed that addon...Viola..my

    most used book marks where right there..I have not had time to play

    with it any more...

    Jake

  4. In Windows 98, install my Demo Patch, reboot, note the result and immediately uninstall and reboot.

    In Windows ME, install my Demo Patch in Safe Mode, reboot, note the result and immediately uninstall and reboot.

    Hi;

    Thanks for taking the time to reply...

    Under Windows ME, no apparent change...and Everest reported the usual 1024 meg installed...1023 meg System

    Under 98se ....patch caused everything to report identical Windows ME including in Everest...(both system property

    sheet and Msinfo32 reported 1024 meg) :yes:

    Thanks

    Jake

  5. Ah, good old Raymond Chen! :thumbup

    I think the 2 MiB less effect kicks in, when you're above some threshold but I saw it higher than you. Whatever it is, it does exist, and may be hardware dependent.

    BTW, What's the MaxFileCache value you used throughout your tests?

    If you didn't set it then, set it now to 524288, reboot and tell me what happens.

    Hi Den;

    Settings I used during testing....

    [vcache]

    MinFileCache=32768

    MaxFileCache=262144

    ChunkSize=4096

    Bumping MaxFileCache to 524288 had no apparent effect.

    One oddity I happened upon....

    If I use the setting MaxPhysPage=40000

    On the next reboot, under msconfig>advanced

    the setting for "Limit memory to 999 meg" is checked.

    But the system still reports 1022 meg.

    Under Windows Me, if that setting is checked, it reports 999 meg.

    Makes me wonder if something is amiss or a corrupted DLL?

    Jake

  6. Also that's the only case where

    Windows 98 system property sheet showed the Physical memory

    instead of the System memory.(1022 meg).

    How so? 1022 MiB *is* the System Memory, *and* Win 98 can use all of it without any patching.

    Now, the Physical Memory must have been 1024 MiB, or you do have a really unusual memory stick! :whistle:

    Hi ;

    first things first , thanks to you and rloew for taking the time to respond...

    The name thing was just a way to differentiate between what went from my hand in to the computer,

    and what Windows was actually reporting. The result was that Windows Me and 98se both saw the

    same thing until somewhere between 768 meg and 1024 meg. I had to 2 sticks of 512 meg and 4 sticks

    of 256meg which afforded me the luxury of several combinations, just in case one stick was a culprit... :angel

    Like I said from the start, this is strickly a matter of curiosity ...and it was fueled by this article on Raymond Chen's Blog.

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/14/54640.aspx

    Cheers

    Jake

  7. ok ....

    Was doing some tinkering here...using Everest Ultimate.

    It (Everest) shows two different ram reports...one they call

    "System Memory" and the other "Physical Memory". System memory

    always reflects accurately what is installed, both in Windows 98

    and Windows ME.

    I tryed 256 meg increments...(ie 256, 512, 768 and 1024)

    In each case with both versions of windows,Physical Memory

    showed 1 meg less than System memory till I reached 1024meg

    where Windows 98 showed 2 meg less. Also that's the only case where

    Windows 98 system property sheet showed the Physical memory

    instead of the System memory.(1022 meg).

    One thing that surprised me, booted to Dos and used the mem

    command...it reports 1,048,2xx K....with somewhere around ~300k

    in use. The last 2 digits are trunciated so I used the /debug

    switch just see what it was reporting.

    I know, I know...but just had to satisfy my curiosity

    Jake

  8. I don't have an explanation for it, but mine does the same thing. I have 1GB RAM, 100MB of which is used for a ramdrive, loaded via autoexec.bat. The property sheet on mine reports 922MB. I never paid any real attention to this so I've no idea how long it's been displaying a low value or if it always has.

    Phew, thank you, Kind sir for the confirmation. The whole time

    I was typing the original post, the thought kept coming to me,

    "Nobody is gonna believe this".... :unsure:

    Jake

  9. Hi;

    This is not a matter of any great consequence, just trying assuage my curiosity.

    Happened upon a couple sticks 512 meg ram for my DFI Ca64-en mothboard.

    Bumped it to 1 gig ...which it happily acknowledged without complaint. I dual boot

    98se and Win ME, this is the weird part. Bios, SIW, Everest ultimate and Windows ME

    all report 1GIG ....WIndows 98se reports 1022k., both on the property sheet for My Computer

    and Msinfo32. ...Any body offer a clue?

    Jake

  10. Hi;

    Opera 11.50 working here with no apparent problems (including printing)

    The only problem I've encountered at all is with an occassional FLV video

    fighting wth my SB100 card and hanging the system...have not been able

    to pin done the culprit yet....just a loud sqwak from the speakers and it goes

    unersponsive....

    Thanks for the great work...

    Jake

  11. Just for my own peace of mind.....

    Tryed all 3 versions of the dsclient install on my 98se system

    with ie6sp1....all 3 produced the same "export" version of Secur32.dll.

    Next stop was grab the high encryption pack and checked the included

    Dll's against what was resident on my system, The only thing missing

    of 3 jaclaz pointed out was sch128c. dll. So I copied that into the Windows

    System directory , ended with same results.

    Next stop is to find out if that DLL needs to be registered, also going to

    roll back my registry to a pretest state and try again.....

    any other suggestions would be welcome???

    Jake

  12. @triger49: in what regards Win 9x/ME files, curb your marvel, because, by now, almost anything already is tough to track, and it'll get worse...

    LOL, aren't you just a ray of sunshine.....seriously tho, look at the big picture.

    Right here on msfn, we have MDGX running a virtual Windows National Archive

    We have Jaclaz who will earn a place on Wikipedia for his Bookmarks library.

    Yourself, you have probably forgotten more than most of us will know about 9x.

    Xeno, Tihiy, Rloew literaly reinventing the wheel and showing us what MS$ could

    have done. The List goes on and on, erpdude, LLXX, Gape, Maximus-Decim.

    The point is, as a rule of thumb somebody around here has "been there, done that"

    How this silly little DLL slipped under everybody's radar just amazed me.

    Jake

  13. @triger49

    Seemingly the file at:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q267972/

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98/update/9766/w98/en-us/266772usa8.exe

    contains two different versions of the "Export" version also, renamed as secur32.98g and secur32.98s

    jaclaz

    Hi Jaclaz;

    I saw that, which is why I put in quotes "suppose" to be. I marvel that

    a DLL as widely used as this one appears to be is so tough to track

    down concrete information on.

    Jake

  14. I'm not sure but maybe you can do it with Avidemux (2.5.3) but in that case you need to install KernelEx.

    Thanks for the suggestion, but 2.5.3 reports a page fault and 2.5.4 reports one of those "something-or-other is missing in Page Export whatever ..." messages - so no luck. But thanks.

    I've tried VLC streaming - but that doesn't work either. Weird.

    At least for me, VLC is cranky with certain VOB files (Ver 0.86i)

    The way I got around it, was to play it VLC while saving the stream

    to a Microsoft .asf format. That has worked everytime. Then I use

    Oxelon Media converter to get where I wanna go.

    http://www.oxelon.com/media_converter.html

    Kinda like going around your elbow to get to your thumb,

    but it works and produces good clean files.

    Jake

  15. Does anyone know how to remove the floppy icon in windows explorer, the reason being i don't have a floppy drive so I don't need it.

    With TweakUI (v1.33, for Win98, digitally signed 29-Aug-2000 by MS, no idea where to get it now) you can prevent any drive letter from being displayed in My Computer, but not in Windows Explorer.

    Since WinBoost (I just checked with old v4.6 of 2-Sep-2003, v4.9 is the current version at http://www.magellass.com/index.html ) can hide selected drives in both Windows Explorer and My Computer, there must be a way to hide the floppy drive letter with a registry patch. WinBoost requires a reboot after hiding/unhiding drive letters, TweakUI doesn't.

    Hey Multibooter, how you doing?

    Have had no experience with Winboost, but using Tweakui to

    hide drives causes parts of the right click context menu

    on the start button to be grayed out....

    http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows98/troub-05.html

    Also causes shutdown / reboot to hang in some cases, but

    I did not write in my notes where I learned that from. But

    I just tryed it here and it still does it...

    Winboost may circumvent all that...

    Jake

  16. Adding printing too but that did not help. I pulled out an old Netgear 614 router and used an unencrypted wireless connection and met with no success.

    Just a passing thought, disable the router firewall.

    If all else fails, try and find a cat5 crossover cable

    and see if you can get working that way first.

    Edit; just read in your post where you cannot see

    yourself in network neighborhood....

    http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/net2pc/intro.htm

    Jake

  17. Instead of starting a new topic I just dug up an old one because it suits my question.

    Does anyone know how to remove the floppy icon in windows explorer,

    the reason being i don't have a floppy drive so I don't need it. Thanks

    Yes, this would be of interest.

    The cheap and dirty way is simply to go into device manager,

    find the floppy drive controller, bring up it's property sheet

    and put a check mark beside "Disable in this profile". Of course

    that leaves an ugly red 'X' in your device manager window. But it

    works....

    Jake

  18. dencorso,

    I have an update.

    I copied EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS over from my Win98 tower to the 3.11 PC (I renamed the old files in case I need to bring them back), and rebooted.

    Rebooting went fine, which was a relief. Then I tried to run the installation program for IE5 -- and I got the same message as before about not running on less than 4 megabytes.

    For good measure, I then also tried to install IE4, and I got a different but related error: "There is not enough memory to start the specified application. Quit one or more applications, and then try again." (I didn't have any other programs running.)

    What can we do next? Maybe I'll try the EMM386.EXE for DOS 6.22 that triger49 suggested. Anything else?

    --JorgeA

    No. Keep the files from 98. You problem lies elsewhere. And, as I was already suspecting, it's related to *too much* memory. See MS KB239550 for the workaround. This should allow you to install IE5.01... Afterwards, do let me know whether it worked or not.

    Cheers to both you and Jake!

    Good find.....

    Jake

  19. Jake,

    Maybe I should try this idea (to get the emm386 for DOS 6.22) next. Grafting the two Windows 98 files onto the 3.11 system didn't crash it, but they didn't help with the installation of IE5 (or IE4), either. Unless there's some other tweak to try first.

    I repeat once more how delighted I am with this forum, where folks pitch in to help with the most esoteric and obscure problems that people run into!

    --JorgeA

    Hi...

    Somewhere in Win 3.1x itself is a mem command, I would be interested

    to know how much memory Windows thinks it has?

    Also, there are a truckload of switches for emm386 which use to be

    a source of consternation for everybody. I think MDGX has them

    documented on his website...I'll see if I can find them and post back.

    Cheers

    Jake

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