jaclaz

Try here: ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/G-202/driver/ ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/G-202/driver/G-202_2.0.2.5.zip And maybe you need a "fixed" ndis.vxd: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/243199 jaclaz

Weren't they all in the same package? https://web.archive.org/web/20040805192136/http://www.atheros.com/pt/AR5005GS.htm What is PCI/DEV of your card? However, it is strange that *all cards*, even those for which you found the Windows 98 drivers result in a Code 10, it sounds like there is a "common issue" somehow related to the PCI bus or to some other subsystem. jaclaz

Then I believe you just add the drivers to Make_PE3\PE3_mod\WIN7_drivers\x86 (or \amd64) and build normally. jaclaz

I don't think that a PE 3.x made with Make_PE3 is particularly different form *any other* PE 3.x, you should be able to add the drivers "normally" via DISM *like*: http://www.pixelstech.net/article/1419908117-Install-Windows-7-with-USB-3-0-ports-only or you can use (if the "target" is also Windows 7) win7drv.cmd: http://reboot.pro/topic/12660-produce-their-own-pe3/?p=117562 or you mean that you want to re-build a new PE with those drivers added? jaclaz

Usually scanners use a "TWAIN" or "WIA" source, but the HP drivers[1] should provide/set that properly. Have you tried the "HP Print and Scan Doctor for Windows" ((under Utility Diagnostic tools)?: http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-ENVY-7640-e-All-in-One-Printer-series/6617267/model/6617268 Typically you open a graphical program, enabled to scan, and try to scan, if the scanner is not present as source there is an install problem of some kind, if it is available, it will either just work or provide an error that may help to troubleshoot the issue. Usually HP provides also a few programs that can acquire an image, something like "Printer Assistant". Basically the issues can be related to: 1) drivers (not properly installed) 2) WIA subsystem not started or corrupted It could be also a connection problem, how do you have it connected? jaclaz [1] Generally speaking the HP drivers are a mass of bloat squeezed by a decerebrated IT guy into an automagical install package (which still is a huge mass of bloat) that almost never works properly on real world machine and that needs every kind of tweak/unusual sequences/partial reinstall/what not to (sometimes) install properly.

That is not a solution, it is a workaround. jaclaz

I don't think you can do much form a Guest account, if you have a Windows 8 bootable media (the install DVD) or you can make one, there is a procedure to bypass the login, or - still IF it is a 8, depending on version PassPass (shameless plug) might work fine to the same effect. The good ol' utilman trick: http://reboot.pro/topic/17872-reset-a-windows-8-password-without-using-any-third-party-software/ unfortunately the images have been lost in the interweb, but here: http://reboot.pro/topic/17872-reset-a-windows-8-password-without-using-any-third-party-software/?p=171014 I posted links to the same approach for the previous systems, the idea is exactly the same, this one particularly is simple and clear enough, and though it is for 7, will work the same for 8: https://www.technibble.com/bypass-windows-logons-utilman/ And this is specific for 8: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/reset-password-windows-8.htm Maybe (but I doubt it) you can do the same from the guest account, otherwise you will need an install media or a PE. If you don't have one, PassPass may be used as long as you have a USB stick that you can format and setup: http://reboot.pro/topic/18588-passpass-bypass-the-password/ You may want to use Stever6375's version that can be inegrated in his E2B nice tool to make the USB boot stick: http://www.easy2boot.com/ http://rmprepusb.blogspot.it/2014/09/passpass-for-win-81-x64.html jaclaz

That is something dating back to Windows 2000, corresponds to alternative shell, just like you can set CMD.EXE as shell, at the end of the day it is a key in the Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Shell And typically you would use a dedicated program, such as Carapace or ShellOn: http://blackbox4windows.com/index.php?/topic/40-how-to-install-blackbox/ There are not that many alternative shells available, though good ol' BlackBox/BBlean (now BBzero) is reported to work fine, at least on some versions of Windows 10 (cannot say speciifically latest ones/AU): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows jaclaz

Well, to be fair to the good MS guys , they have made it so all your customers will soon also have no way to fine tune their screens colours, so they won't notice that, they are actually doing a favour to you... And soon everyone will get used to the dumbed down settings and looks, unfortunately, and the few guys that know what they are doing and that still resist will likely become - before or later - so overwhelmed by needing to periodically re-revert the changes that MS reverted to default that they will leave the UI to the stupid, ugly default. Also, listing everything that is wrong with Windows 10 would make a looong list, maybe it will be easier to list what they got right. jaclaz

Hanlon's Razor to the rescue : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor jaclaz

On the Biostar site there are 2 models of U8668-D 7.x, the 7.1 and the 7.7: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/support/download.php?searchmodel=U8668-D The LAN drivers for BOTH the above models point to the SAME file: http://download.biostar.com.tw/upload/Driver//LAN/VIA/LAN.zip So it is very likely that even your "unknown" version use the same set of drivers. Have you tried that file http://download.biostar.com.tw/upload/Driver//LAN/VIA/LAN.zip (and not any other one)? What happens with it? The archive contains a DIAG.EXE DOS diagnostic program, have you tried running it (in DOS, before loading Windows)? About the Network bootdisk, you shouldn't "assume" or "invent" ways to burn it, there is a page dedicated to creating the floppy disk (or floppy disk image): http://www.netbootdisk.com/building.htm and one about burning it as a "floppy emulation CD": http://www.netbootdisk.com/bootcd.htm if you need further instructions or assistance just ask for it, the tutorial is about using Nero , but you can use IMGBURN (freeware) to the same effect: http://www.imgburn.com/ jaclaz

Yep , Vista users (all three of them ) will be extremely happy ... jaclaz

Translated, you half-@§§edly did something that was not intended to be done and didn't work as expected or planned by you, which of course has no meaning whatsoever... Example: I tried boiling marshmallows, but the roasted ones were crispier ... @BudWs Mercenary! jaclaz

And risking to be actually appreciated for making (for once) something intelligent and making customers' life easier? Naah, everyone would have said it was the exception that confirmed the Rule. jaclaz

Well, then it CANNOT ping it. And I presume that this is symmetric, i.e. pinging the laptop from the W98 machine results as well in destination host unreachable. If the router has DHCP enabled, try setting IP acquisition on the W98 machine as automatic. Which hardware is the W98 running on? Can you try booting an alternate OS, like a DOS: http://www.netbootdisk.com/ or a live Linux distro? The issue here is understanding if the cause is: 1) TCP/IP configuration (or mis-installed protocol) 2) Network card driver/software (again mis-installed, even if seemingly OK) 3) Network card hardware (defective) Since the machine can "ping itself", and given that you double checked all settings and that they are normally seen in winipcfg, #1 should be OK. Trying with another OS would exclude #3, although (anecdotal at it's best) it happened to me that for *some reasons* a network card worked in "pure DOS" but had issues in Windows NT. The Realtek RTL 8139 is a very common card, but there are like a zillion models of it, maybe the driver is not the "exactly right" one? Is your Windows 98 , "plain" Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE? Which EXACT version of the driver are you using, and where specifically you downloaded it from? jaclaz

You cannot AFAIK, but you can unregister zipfldr.dll. You can get searchmonkey from Sourceforge, in case: https://sourceforge.net/projects/searchmonkey/files/Searchmonkey2/ jaclaz

There is a whole lot of "tentative procedures" to overcome that stupid error (or similar ones) with the stupid Update 1, noone AFAIK ever managed to pin down the exact reason why the update is failing, generally speaking it is a "mis-configuration" (in the perverted minds of the good MS guys) of the system, most "tricks" revolve around checking and "repairing" the system and services before starting the upgrade. Here is a (possibly) complete set of steps: https://www.petri.com/windows-8-1-kb2919355-installation-update jaclaz

Can the laptop and Win9x machine ping each other? Of course you need two cables (and I am assuming that the router has more than one port). You could try (just as a test) temporarily set the Router to enable DHCP and see if the WIn98 machine can get a dynamic IP address. jaclaz

Well, if you cannot ping the router the issue is "from the start", it is very likely that you are either using a "wrong" IP address or a "wrong" net mask or - more simply - that the network driver/card is not working properly for whatever reason... Can you ping 127.0.0.1? Can you ping <Win98 Machine IP>? (almost the same of above but checking the actualassigned IP instead of the generic "home" one) If it is not a secret, can you post the actual IP address you assigned to the machine, the net mask and the router IP address and net mask? Do you have another device that you can connect to the network to check if the router replies to ping? (all routers do, but it is possible that - again for whatever reasons - it is stuck), as well with another device you can cross ping the two devices and determine if the network connection and/or TCP/IP stack is working and configured correctly. See also here: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/trouble/Troubleshooting-Basic-TCPIP.html jaclaz

Can you ping the router? Have you set the gateway properly to the router address? Can you ping a known server (as an example 8.8.8.8)? Can you access the router (standard configuration) from the Win9x machine? Did you set correctly the net mask? What does Winipcfg.exe show? jaclaz

Peter Bright seems like trying to convince us that after all the MS flawed approach to updates could be fixed by using the Google Chrome or Mozilla approach: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/kindle-crashes-and-broken-powershell-something-isnt-right-with-windows-10-testing/ Either he has not re-read his article after having written it or he is intentionally failing at it. A whole OS is very, VERY different from a browser, and an approach (which BTW it is not IMHO particularly good ) for the latter SURELY cannot be adopted for the former. jaclaz

If I get this right, you have a misconfigured "My Documents" target/redirection. or key in the Registry: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/tech-tip-redirect-my-documents-to-an-alternate-location-in-windows-xp/ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/221837 http://windowsxp.mvps.org/redirectfolders.htm jaclaz

Maybe (coincidence) the newly named PC-BSD (now TrueOS) will fit the bill: https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/ jaclaz

What is "botched" (just so you know) is the XP "Search", it is a known issue, it simply doesn't do what it is supposed to do. For "pure" file searching (by filename/extension) given that most XP's work on NTFS formatted volumes, NOTHING can beat a "Pure" $MFT parser, such as: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/ There are of course many more, some were listed here: If you want to search for text inside files, apart the name, searchmonkey is IMHO not-so-shabby (though not "perfect", as an example it only does a volume at a time): http://searchmonkey.embeddediq.com/index.php The good thing is that opens in a lower pane a preview of the selected file with the line where the match was found. I wouldn't use it as "everyday tool", but when I need to really search for some text into files, it is handy. jaclaz

I have to disagree. I am pretty sure that there are still quite a few very capable and talented developers at MS (though possibly a few less than they used to be) but they are seriously mismanaged and given foolish or pointless objectives. The problem is all (as it happened before and not only in MS, but everywhere) in the decision-makers and in management, not in the actual people that do things. jaclaz