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No; should I do so? I have partially good news: 1.) Blinking cursor - solved . 2.) But now new: I call it ... "34-minutes-error" :angrym: . See below. 1.) The solution of the problem with blinking cursor seemed to be to start the WinXP setup directly from internal HDD. I started at first smartdrv c+ (this increases copying speed drastically). And then I went to the I386 folder (which I had copied on internal HDD), and ececuted winnt. And now I got to the "next" screen in the WinXP setup after blinking cursor! I.e. the blinking cursor appeared still, but remained only for about 1 minute - and then I could continue setup . So this problem remained no longer, but I'm now coming to... 2.) After the first reboot during setup I can choose "WinXP setup" (or similar) from the (automatically installed) WinXP boot manager. The setup came up to the point where devices(?) are installed. But at this point the setup froze (also the blinking green lights down right on screen)! The setup says that there are 34 minutes remainung. I waited about more than 1 hour; nothing happened. You can see the frozen screen: Another update: I has now an effect if I change BIOS setting from IDE to SATA/AHCI (or vice versa). I tried changing only once; after first appearance of the 34-minutes-error I rebooted with SATA/AHCI-mode for testing. With IDE-Mode I get up to the point with the 34-minutes-error. With SATA/AHCI-mode I get the well-known bluescreen directly after selecting "WinXP Setup" in the WinXP bootmanager. So I think I should use IDE-mode for further tries. Could the 34-minute-error have something to do with nLite? I used ist again before copying the WinXP setup files to the Acer's internal HDD. But this time without creating an ISO file, but only "edited" the WinXP setup folder with nLite. I not included the AHCI_Intel_8.8.0.1009_XPx86XPx64_A.zip driver until now, because it seems not to be a textmode-driver (see the *.zip archive)?!

The additional problem which I had was the fact, that the Acer was not able to boot from its internal HDD. I could start 'format D: /Q/S' from the USB-Stick C:, that means on D: there were the 3 needed DOS-files io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com. But after that the internal HDD was not able to boot (with unplugged USB Stick). I always got "no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key". So it was necessary to use a program like Ranish partition manager: - to set the MBR (master boot record) of the internal HDD from somewhat like "undefined" to "Standard IPL" - to set the Boot flag to "active", That was not possible with fdisk and/or format. Only after that executing 'format D: /Q/S' showed an effect. I tried also this newer version. By using it I got not the described bluescreen, but instead a blackscreen with blinking cursor in the left. It seemed that meanwhile was loaded some setup data(?) in background, but I waited for ca. 30 minutes, and nothing happened. That means: The difference between v.1.0beta7 and 1.4 is only the colour of the screen when stopping WinXP setup... Or maybe I simply had to wait a little bit longer than 30 minutes...? The user littlebigman on http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/586065-xp-aspire-3810t.html had also set the BIOS setting to "IDE compatibility mode", with also no effect. Maybe the BIOS is broken by design. User littlebigman wrote furthermore that he integrated the said Acer's AHCI Intel SATA AHCI Driver (8.8.0.1009) with nLite[#], and had to set in BIOS the "IDE compatibility mode". [#]No idea how he integrated driver; maybe I integrated them wrong?! Tomorrow I can make a first try to install WinXP from the internal HDD by the method to start winnt.exe directly from I386 folder (on internal HDD). Until now: No, it has no effect. See also (as said) the link http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/586065-xp-aspire-3810t.html. The user there had a similar problem.

Here ist the whole bluescreen when using WinSetupFromUSB_1-0-beta7: I downloaded them directly from Acer, finding the drivers by typing the serial number of the 3810T. The guy at the link I've already posted http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/586065-xp-aspire-3810t.html used obviously the same drivers?! I read some of the links you posted; I think maybe there's somewhere the solution for my problem. Problem is that it's impossible(?) to find out the exact information about chipset from that Acer Aspire 3810T-354G32N because system analyzing tools won't run in MS-DOS. Of course I can not exclude that de HDD itself is (physically) damaged in any way. The reason for reinstalling ist/was malware; the previous OS (WinVista) was heavily infected. I recommended the user to use WinXP; he has no WinVista CD or USB-Stick. But I have another new information: I have accomplished it to install MS-DOS on the Acer! Here the instructions (i.e. my way to proceed this): 1.) Create a bootbable USB-stick with MS-DOS. You can use any tool for that; I recommend HPUSBFW_v2.2.3.exe. 2.) Download Ranish Partition Manager v2.40 and unpack it onto the USB-Stick. You'll find a DOS-program part.exe. 4.) Copy the DOS-files format.com, xcopy.exe, xcopy32.exe, xcopy32.mod on USB-Stick. 3.) Boot the Acer from USB-stick. 4.) Start part. In the following screen (from Ranish Partition Manager) select Harddisk 2 (the internal HDD), delete all partitions on it, set the MBR to "Standard IPL", create a new partition, format it (it can be done in Ranish Partition Manager), and (important!) set the Boot flag for the new partition. Save the new settings with F2. Exit now Ranish partition manager. 5.) Start format D:/Q/S. Here is D: the internal HDD, Q means "quick format", S is for installing MS-DOS files (from USB-Stick, which should be actually C:) to D:. 6.) Unplug the USB-Stick. 7.) Restart the Acer and set boot settings in BIOS to HDD. It shoult now boot MS-DOS from the internal HDD, which is now C:. I think this could be a possible basis for installing WinXP directly from the internal HDD?! I could copy all WinXP install files to the internal HDD, boot from HDD and try to start the setup directly from it. If this fails, so I can say that the problem is not the fact that I try to install from USB?!

I try to install WinXP on a Notebook "Acer Aspire 3810T-354G32N". By trying this I get only trouble . Problem 1: The Acer doesn't have a floppy- or CD-ROM-drive, which makes booting difficulty. I can only boot from USB-stick. I can prepare USB-Sticks with Rufus or WinSetupfromUSB to be bootable. Problem 2: If I use Rufus, so the USB-Stick will not be bootable on the Acer. But I can "solve" problem2 by using WinSetupFromUSB (I tried several Versions, 1.0beta7 and 1.4). What I already did with WinSetupFromUSB: - Made a USB-Stick bootable with FAT32 file format - created a USB-Stick with WinXP-install-files; thereby the files were copied directly from a WinXP-install-CD, not from an ISO-file. Then it is principially possible to boot from this USB-Stick; I get first this screen http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Ashampoo_Snap_2014.01.20_17h30m44s_001_QEMU.jpg and can select the WinXP Setup. The setup at the first starts fine, but after loading FAT file system I get - either a bluescreen with the 0x0000007B error (if I created the USB-Stick with WinSetupFromUSB1.0beta7) - or a blackscreen with blinking cursor in the top left of the screen. At http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/faq/ and http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/586065-xp-aspire-3810t.html there are described some workarounds. I have tried some of them: 1.) I have already tried a modified ntdetect.com Ntdetect.7z, with no difference. 2.) I changed the BIOS setting "SATA MODE" from "AHCI Mode" tho "IDE Mode" and back, with no difference. 3.) I tried to select "Auto-detect and use F6 SATA/RAID/SCSI Driver" like described in http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09, with no difference. 4.) I installed nLite on my (working) PC and tried to add following driver AHCI_Intel_8.8.0.1009_XPx86XPx64_A.zip, which also can be downloaded from Acer's website: http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/AHCI/AHCI_Intel_8.8.0.1009_XPx86XPx64_A.zip?acerid=633773721411807534&Step1=Notebook&Step2=Aspire&Step3=Aspire%203810T&OS=X01&LC=en&BC=Acer&SC=PA_6. But even 4.) had no effect :angrym: ! I get still the blue- or black-screen described above. Maybe I did something wrong? I think I have added the driver not properly into nLite. Could it have something to do with the fact that I would need "text mode drivers" (or similarly)? PS: I had to unpack the nLite ISO- file before creating the bootable USB-Stick with WinSetupFromUSB. PPS: Here is the *.ini-file created from nLite LETZTE SESSION.INI.

I just now tried to reproduce the output... With exactly the same result which I yet posted! Maybe we have different settings to execute batch files, or different versions of command.com?! Some modifications/notifications on my Win98 system which I can remember on the fly: I have here - Win98SE, version 4.10.2222A - actually KernelEx v4.5.2 installed - updated unicows.dll, version 1.1.3790.0 I saved it as echo.bat and started it by double-clicking on it. Following output: For some (for me unknown) reason the ampersand seems (here) not to produce an issue, contrary to your output. Could anybody other test one of the posted *.bat-files?

Principially the same error like if I try to print. Several (long) URLs are not passed(?) correctly to the command line, shorter "easier" URLs are passed correctly.It is not (only?) a problem with "special" characters, because I get the same error, if I manually produce a long URL *without* special characters, like C:\aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\test.txt, open this with firefox and then try to start my extension. It is not shown correctly in command line. I tried several versions with quotes; no success. It seems that the parameters must be completely inside the delimiters [].If I use following fire.bat: @ECHO OFFECHO http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&as_q=kommandozeilen+interpreter+win98&as_epq=127+zeichen&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=nicht+nach+Lizenz+gefiltertPAUSE then I get the following output: You can see that the (long!) example URL contents many special characters, which are shown correctly in the command line output. So in my opinion it is obviously the problem how to get the URL variable, "created" as String with the command gBrowser.currentURI.spec, to the command line. Maybe I should find another way to get the URL "outside" of firefox, e.g. into a temp *.txt file. But for that I would need also the command line...?! I already use this extension; "my" extension is actually based on it. Doesn't work. It will be printed the first page which firefox "sees" when accessing C:/temp.htm, and this is a blank page. Maybe it could work if firefox somehow "waits" some seconds before printing.

Yes, I mean the Win98SE command.com. Yes, the problem concerns too long URLs. I have the following code in one of my extension files: function progstart(exe, parameters) { if (!parameters || !parameters.length) parameters = []; var datei = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"] .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile); datei.initWithPath(exe); var proz = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"] .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess); proz.init(datei); proz.run(false, parameters, parameters.length); } function FirefoxPrintA() { var a = "/k firefox -print " + gBrowser.currentURI.spec + " -printfile C:\zzw.png"; progstart('C:\\windows\\command.com', [a]); } function FirefoxPrintB() { var c = gBrowser.currentURI.spec; progstart('C:\\fire.bat', [c]); } I tried to use either function FirefoxPrintB or FirefoxPrintA. Both work fine while the URL got by gBrowser.currentURI.spec is not long. If I use FirefoxPrintB I additionally use a file called fire.bat with following content: D:\Programme\Mozill~2\firefox.exe -print "%1" -printfile C:\zzw.png The mentioned error message looks (in german) like this: If I change the content of fire.bat for test to D:\Programme\Mozill~2\firefox.exe -print "http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&as_q=dos+command.com+long+parameters&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=nicht+nach+Lizenz+gefiltert" -printfile C:\zzw.png so it works (with the long URL you can see). I can see in the "DOS-Box" after executing fire.bar that the whole URL is inserted. So I think it must be a problem while copying(?) the URL to "%1" in the first version of fire.bat. Possibly I should try to copy the URL directly into fire.bat, i.e. change fire.bat, while executing the firefox extension?!

While trying to write an extension for firefox 3 for Win98SE it's needed for me to include a certain *.bat-file (or directly execute command.com). I'm running into problems with long parameters/arguments to pass. I will explain the problem with a more simple example: I have a *.bat-file C:\notepadtest.bat with following content: c:\windows\notepad "%1" Furthermore I have a *.txt-file C:\testfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfile\testfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfile\test.txt with content test (the content of the *.txt-file plays no role). If I now try to execute C:\notepadtest.bat C:\testfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfile\testfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfile\test.txt, so it will not work! . (It will be shown a stupid error message instead of executing notepadtest.bat.) It has definitely to do with the (very) long parameter C:\testfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfile\testfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfiletestfile\test.txt. With shorter parameters the notepadtest.bat works correctly. But long parameters (concretely: URLs) would later be needed for the firefox extension. Is there any known way to pass long parameters into a *.bat-file? (Or alternatively to pass long parameters directly to c:\windows\command.com, using the /k commandline option?)

I tried Firefox 3.0.19 with Fireshot 0.76, and still got the error "There is no default printer currently selected". @farfigs11 I'm not sure how to add the mentioned KernelEx stubs 452 and 822. I modified the following line in core.ini: contents=K452stub,Kstub822,std,kexbases,kexbasen Furthermore I copied the files K452stub.dll, K452stub.ini, Kstub822.dll, Kstub822.ini into the KernelEx progrm folder. Was this correctly?

I'm not sure whether fireshot uses Firefox's intern printing engine. Fireshot seems to work like a graphic program, which takes a screenshot (like Alt+PrintScreen buttons pressed). Fireshot has own *.dll's: fsaddin.dll, Sss.dll, SSSLauncher.dll. Are there other known extensions for firefox, which work similarly? Maybe it could even be possible to create an own printing extension, but that could be very tricky... Yes. The error message"There is no default printer currently selected" seems to be sent by the file sss.dll, which belongs to fireshot: After that I get the following:

A long time ago I asked here whether somebody was able to print directly from Firefox 3.* under Win98SE with KernelEx. It seemed that nobody has/had a really satisfiying solution. Some days ago I found an extension called "fireshot" which could(?) be a possible solution, because it seems that it has its own printing engine(?). But its printing function doesn't work: If I try to print I get an error message: "There is no default printer currently selected." But I have a default printer! So the problem seems to be that fireshot can not find my printer. I added some registry hacks, but with no success. Is anybody able to print with Fireshot in Win98SE? Furthermore I found another extension which could maybe be helpful; called "Capture & print". But this does (generally) not work with Firefox3.*. Could it be possible to edit its source code to make it compatible with Firefox3?

Because this (old) topic concernes primarily the printing problem with SumatraPDF. (Which was by the way quiet successfully solved.) This new topic now was "planned" for Firefox and/or K-Meleon.

As I tried Firefox 3.x with KernelEx on Win98SE some time ago, the printing function did not work. It only worked randomly. This is - as far as I know - a known and unsolved issue. Now I tried to test the browser K-Meleon 1.6. With KernelEx 4.5.1 K-Meleon generally works, but if I tried to print I got the same(?) behaviour like with Firefox 3.x: It sometimes worked, but often I got an error message "invalid page fault in kernel32.dll" and K-Meleon crashed. So printing is a random experiment , just like with Firefox 3.x. Is there anybody with Kernelex and a working K-Meleon 1.6 on Win98SE which is able to print?

Write a better dialog box function instead of reusing PrintDlg. A PrintHookProc could help. Or as a stop-gap measure, I can probably enable the "Selection" radio button: if it's selected upon return of PrintDlg, an additional MessageBox can be displayed that asks if you actually want odds or evens (Yes/No), or the document selection (Cancel). I opened a the original Win98SE-comdlg32.dll with reshack and discovered the print dialog shown by Sumatrapdf (see attachment comdlg32_98SE.png). Then I opened a comdlg32.dll from WinXP, found with reshack the same print dialog - and the additional "part" of the print dialog, where I could choose options "print actual page" "print pages 2, 5, 7 [or other] only". See the attached screenshot comdlg32_XP.png (next to the Comdlg32_98S-Screenshot): Some questions for a better understanding: - Do you think that it would be useful simply to copy the corresponding resource (using reshack) from the XP-comdlg32.dll to the 98SE-comdlg32.dll? (I suppose not.) - Is it fact that the XP-comdlg32 contains all information about the printdlgex function (or is it not so)? So that it maybe could be possible to "copy" this information anyhow into the 98SE-comdlg32, or into a completely "new" *.dll. Furthermore I've discovered the advanced print dialog in the sumatrapdf.exe file (with reshack). See attached screenshot SumatraPDF_advanced.png below. So it's a fact that this dialog is a part of SumatraPDF and not of any comdlg32.dll. I suppose that it could be possible to call this dialog in any other way than "wanted" by sumatrapdf. But I suppose reshack is not enough to realize this (or any of the other ideas)?!

I stupidly had "forgotten" this thread for a long time , but I can report that the newest(?) COMDLGEX.DLL (from March 25th 2012, 02:32:34) lets appear the print dialog in many SumatraPDF versions . That means that now newer SumatraPDF versions are usable . The print dialog is the same like in SumatraPDF 0.8.1. The dialog appears not in SumatraPDF versions 1.3 and 1.4. The dialog appears in SumatraPDF versions 0.9, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6, 1.8, 2.1.1. (I have to mention that I not tested other versions, especially 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.) I put the COMDLGEX.DLL into the SumatraPDF program folder and "hacked" the file SumatraPDF.exe with HexEdit by replacing the string COMDLG32.DLL by COMDLGEX.DLL (I hope that this was a useful method?). It isn't a big problem that those 2 versions (1.3 and 1.4) do not print, because there are enough other versions which could work. But one small issue I noticed: It is not possible to use options like e.g. "print even pages only", "print odd pages only", "print pages 2, 5, 7 [or other] only" and other, which are probably hidden in some advanced features. I know that the Acrobat Reader 4.0 provided this print features, even in Win98SE. So I suppose that it should theoretically be possible that SumatraPDF provides this options, too. But how?

Unfortunately I was not able to print from SumatraPDF-versions higher than 0.8.1 or from Firefox 3 with KernelEx 4.5.1 till now. 1.) In SumatraPDF I suppose the following problem: In older versions one can find the command(?) "PrintDlg" with a hex-editor in its code, which seemed to be replaced by "PrintDlgEx" in newer versions (e.g. SumatraPDF 1.3). Simply replace the string "PrintDlgEx" by the (older) "PrintDlg" with the hex-editor does not solve the problem. One can find in the Google-code-search SumatraPDF "code history" that the new command was introduced some time ago, see e.g. here SumatraPDF at code.google.com. Is ther any known solution for the printing issue? Maybe it could be useful to "transport" the (old) PrintDlg-function from SumatraPDF 0.8.1 to a newer sumatraPDF-version (and replace PrintDlgEx); but I have no idea how to do this . 2.) Has anybody ever found a solution to solve the printing-problem with Firefox 3 with KernelEx? (Maybe transport the printing-function from Firefox 2.0.0.20 to Firefox 3). Sometimes(!) printing worked with Firefox 3, but it was randomly.

DVDFab Passkey is supposed to be able to remove this kind of thing. It won't work on 9x tough. This is software running in background for copying DVDs. But I want not copy the DVD. I thought that is would be maybe possible to hack the firmware from the DVD-Drive with any tool? I know that there are tools to do something for other hardware components, for example video cards (see Nvidia BIOS Editor as example). I have also revision 82. I also tested revision 107, which seems to be the latest "non-home-cinema"-version for WinXP - it worked with KernelEx. I could not notice any major differences between this 2 revisions. Both show exactly the same (not)-DVD-playing effect with the problem-DVD. Relying to the MPC version from the notebook: I copied this version from my PC to the notebook some time ago; so it's the same version . The mystery is, that the same version works on one computer and not on the other one. I suspect the DVD-Drive now (in combination with the file qdvd.dll), becaus the DVD-Drive in my PC has RPCM-ability (unfortunately), but this one in the notebook not. Maybe I should swap both Drives... I turned off all internal codecs in MPC. But it still uses the MS-built-in DVD-Navigator... PS: I copied manually the qdvd.dll for Win2000 to the system directory, but this version doesn't work. It can not be registered by regsvr32.exe, and MPC does not play any DVD with it. So this qdvd.dll seems to be indeed incompatible.

I tried this. Even registered all PowerDVD filters. You can see them inside MPC here: The "Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder" is your suggested CLVSD.AX. I can indeed get it to be used by MPC to play DVDs. But even if I activate all Cyberlink Filters from PowerDVD, I still get the error message "Copy protect fail". I have still no solution for the problem, but I have now a idea what could cause the issue: While I played a "no-problem-DVD", I looked at the used-filter-list. I noticed that MPC used the "DVD Navigator" from Microsoft, although it was blocked(!) and i hat set the priority of the "Cyberlink DVD Navigator" to high. I could not get MPC to use "Cyberlink DVD Navigator" instead of the Windows built-in "DVD Navigator". I found out that the Windows "DVD Navigator" is hidden inside the file "qdvd.dll" in C:\Windows\System. I did the following test: I temporarily deleted this "qdvd.dll". Then I inserted the Problem-DVD and tried to start it with PowerDVD itself. Result: It started. That seems that PowerDVD makes no use of "qdvd.dll". Then I tried to play dhe Problem-DVD with MPC. Result: I got an error message "Failed to query the needed interfaces for DVD playback" before the "Copy protect fail" message could appear. So I suppose this qdvd.dll could be the issue. Furthermore I found a website at Microsoft with descibed the possible problem. But I can not install the linked patch there?! Furthermore I found out that my DVD-Device is CPRM compatible . But the DVD-Device in the notebook which plays the DVD with MPC under Win89SE is not CPRM compatibly. This would explain why the DVD plays not in my PC, but in the notebook - with exactly the same system settings. Any hints how to "delete" the CPRM compatibility from my DVD-Device? I dont't want to by a new (or old) one.

This doesn't seem to work. I think I know why: [puretext homepage] PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY [/puretext homepage] And I can not paste text manually into Notepad copied from SumatraPDF. I already have unicows.dll on my computer. It's version 1.1.3790.0. Probably this file has nothing to do with text formatting .

Does not work here. This is independent of the used compatibility mode. Immediately after opening any video file, MPC-HC 1.5.1.2903 crashes. Even if I only try to change output options I get a crash; see the screenshot above. But maybe there is something other wrong.

OK, I have found out some new "mysteries": - the DVD plays in WinXP with MPC 6.4.9.1 (I told this yet) - the DVD plays not in Win98SE with MPC 6.4.9.1 (I told this yet) Then I tried, just for testing, PowerDVD-Version: Now the DVD worked! But I don't want too many programs; I wanted it get to run with MPC (if possible). So I manually registered the PowerDVD filters and choosed them inside of MPC: A none-copy-protected DVD worked with this filters (used by MPC). But the "problem-DVD": No way! - the DVD plays with PowerDVD filters and PowerDVD - the DVD plays not with PowerDVD filtes, used by MPC. Then I inserted the problem-DVD into an old Notebook, which has the same MPC-Version (6.4.9.1). Result: It played immediately, without any "hacks" or settings changed! What could be the remaining problem on my PC: - DVD-drive (I don't think so, because it works in the same DVD-Drive with PowerDVD) - MPC-Version (6.4.9.1) (I don't think so, because it works on the notebook) - Win98SE & KernelEx (I don't think so, because it works on the notebook)? Maybe it has to do something with DirectShow?! Is PowerDVD an application which uses DirectShow? If so: Is it possible to convince MPC not tu use Directshow? That's all very mysteriously, in my opinion.

Your suggestions seem to work (OK, I tested only the tool at codeguru). But then I have to do even more "user interaction" if I want simly copy text from SumatraPDF to its own search-field,... as if I would type the searched text manually. Maybe I could get the tools to work by Autostart at each boot time, but that's overkill in my opinion (only for the requested purpose). I thought I could maybe "replace" the Win98SE clipboard by a modified version (like the WinXP clipboard). But this doesn't seem to suffice. In which format does Adobe Reader copy text; plaintext? Maybe it's possible to "hack" the copy-function of SumatraPDF so that it does no longer uses UTF8-format?!

I have here a certain original DVD, which shows the following issue: If I try to play it with the Windows Media Player (WMP) as well as with the Media-Player-Classic (MPC, Version 6.4.9.1), it starts without problems. If I try to play the same DVD in the same computer even with the same programm MPC 6.4.9.1, but under Win98SE, it does not start. Instead of starting I get an error message in MPC "DVD copy protect fail". I must say that I have installed Nero under WinXP, but not under Win98SE. Could this be an explanation for that mystery? Or are there other possible explanation, maybe any WinXP-built-in DVD-codec, which is missing in Win98SE? PS: I suppose that the Toshiba DVD-drive has a hardware-built-in region code "2", and the DVD is also region "2".

I have found out that the copied text ist also "insertable" into MS Word(!) and into Mozilla Thunderbird. Unfortunately it ist not insertable into the search function SumatraPDF itself . This is a comfortable feature in Adobe Reader: Copy a piece of text (from any opened *.pdf-file), insert it into search-function and search for further occurences of the selectet text. Is there any way to copy text from SumatraPDF (from opened *.pdf-file) into SumatraPDF (search function)? Is it maybe needed to modify Win98SE or its clipboard?

I want possibly replace my old Adobe Acrobat Reader as standard *.pdf-reader by any version of SumatraPDF. The reason is that SumatraPDF reads "newer" *.pdf-files, and it has an similarly (good) rendering quality as Adobe, and it's small and fast (contrary to new Adobe versions (and Foxit?). With KernelEx even newer versoins of SumatraPDF seem to work. But there is one problem (which Adobe Reader doesn't has): I can not properly copy text from any *.pdf-document to the Windows clipboard. If I copy text by CTRL+c or by right-clicking into the *.pdf-file and select "copy", so the option "insert" is greyed out (almost[*]) everywhere where I want to insert the text, especially into SumatraPDF's own search funktion. It's the same problem with severel SumatraPDF versions, including the newest 1.8. [*] Surprisingly I can insert the copied text into any box within Firefox! But that seems to be the only program where I can insert copied text from SumatraPDF. Has anybody got SumatraPDF on his/her Win98SE system? And could you tell me please whether the copying of text works?