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There must be a difference between Win 98 and Me as to what gets displayed in the top file version field I guess. You can have a look at the version info resource with Reshacker and you'll find the 6.5.1.914 value in the second and third line: And this is what I get in Explorer:

That's the right one CharlesF, if you look at the file version entry at the top of the version tab of the properties page you'll see that the file version is 6.5.1.914. And to answer you previous question, it seems to be working without issues here.

I don't think so as display drivers aren't WDM drivers AFAIK and they require vxd and 16bit drv files for working on a 9x system, both of them being non-existent in 2K/XP only drivers.

Rloew wrote a decompressor for WinMe's IO.SYS: http://rloew1.no-ip.com/prerel.htm So I guess it should be possible to make a patch for it without too much difficulty. I've never seen phantom drives on my ME system, perhaps because, since I encountered those ugly things in my distant win95 days, I always zero a drive before (re)partitioning it (with Paragon Partition Manager 2000 if that's relevant).

Good to know, so far I was using that old FreeWheel program as background app for that purpose. I guess I can get rid of it now.

Yeah I am suspecting that as well. I think RP is fixing some resource leak with the Flash plugin if my memory serves me well.

The free Paragon NTFS for Win98 appears to the best/most reliable solution for reading/writing to NTFS volumes under win9x. I am not sure what that WinXP file stuff is actually about though.

Win ME + KernelEx and Revolution Pack playing 8 Youtube vids simultaneously in one instance of Firefox 8.0 using Flash plugin 11.1.102.55 without problems. This uses about 400MB of RAM and there is no apparent consumption of User or GDI resources. So what's wrong with your system? Give us a bit more details about your software setup.

The free Paragon NTFS for Windows 95/98/ME seems to work very nicely. I haven't tested it extensively though but I recently bought several 640GB WD drives on eBay which were all NTFS formatted and had no problems whatsoever writing a few megabytes of files on them before I partitioned them to FAT32 volumes. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-win98/

Megaupload still uses Flash to upload as far as I can see so it might just be that your older Flash plugin (if I am not mistaken) isn't supported anymore. I have the latest Flash plugin (11,1,102,55) installed.

Of course javascript works in FF 3.6 as well as in any other version of FF, it's the java plugin which has nothing to see with javascript who doesn't work on versions from 3.6 upwards. And FWIW I've just tried uploading two 15MB files on Megaupload with FF 8.0 and had no problems doing it.

Perhaps...

I am working on a fully updated skin for Opera 11.60/12.xx. Should be done in a few days. B) I'll put some before/after screenshots for ya once it's done this time shae.

I don't think there is anything to fix, Opera does lots of things but, as far as I know, it isn't an FTP application, aside from browsing/downloading files from FTP sites like most other web browsers do of course.

Mp3val finds no problems with my 320kbps CBR Mp3s, all ripped directly to Mp3 with CDEX 1.70b2. Your version of CDex is very old and so must be the bundled lame encoding dll which might not output files fully complying to the mp3 standard. There has been lots of bugfixes and improvements in lame since 2000. Anyway mp3val should let you know what the problem is that it finds with your files, which is?

IMHO, the integration of WMI into the SP is perhaps not worth the effort since I don't think it offers any desirable addition to the operating system and is even perhaps a security risk since, as far as I know, it installs a runtime that allows your hardware to be probed from a web page through scripting and wmi.exe which runs as a background app/service might well be exposing your machine hardware from being probed or worse from the network. If someone knows better, please chime in. WMI stands for Windows (Hardware) Management Interface and WBEM for Web Based Enterprise Management btw if I am not mistaken, and might very well be synonymous with spyware IMO.

I am not sure where you found those switches but they seem rather self explanatory. Be aware that not everyone likes to have WMI/WBEM installed on their machines so its install should be made optional IMO if you integrate it in the SP.

If, like here, first extraction doesn't work with 7-zip you can use Reshacker instead to extract wbemcore.exe from wmi9x.exe by saving the RCDATA/101/0 resource as binary file. Then, as per CharlotTheHarlot post, a WISE unpacker should extract from it all those WISE00xx files as indicated. You'll have to figure out what they actually are by doing some forensic examination on them. There is no other/better method I am afraid.

Here it's in WINDOWS\Application Data\Opera\OPERA\cache for 11.52 and there are multiple subfolders containing temp files, not only sesn. The vps, opcache, application_cache and PSTORAGE folders also seems to store some volatile data as they can all be deleted without incidence apparently.

Somewhere under Windows/Application Data/Opera for a standard install but some of it can be relocated (cache folder especially) to another drive/location by editing the operaprefs_default.ini (which should be placed next to opera.exe) as to avoid constant writes from Opera to the system drive for example. See this post attachment here for an operaprefs_default.ini sample:

I don't think MS source code for any OS will ever be released as, AFAIK, there is absolutely no legal obligation to do so. All that falls automatically in the public domain after a certain amount of time (20 years I think) are industrial patents, and patents only describe a methodology. As for the 87 years I guess this refers to the 100 years after which rights of artistic works fall in the public domain and this won't apply to an operating system IMO.

Well, some applications such as MS Office 2000 programs or Corel Painter won't start here if there is no swap file, no matter how much RAM there is and even though they never need to use it.

Using a RAM drive you should be able to put the swap and temp folders out of the Flash drive but you'll remain with constant writes to the registry dat files which as far as I know cannot be relocated from the windows dir.

That's what I would try to do. I'd try to precisely identify those unwanted drivers with Driver Magician Lite, backup them up and physically remove the inf file that's responsable for installing them. Then I'd remove those drivers from Device manager, reboot and reinstall NUSB and see if it works like that.