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Cool, thanks for the feedback CharlesF (as the spokesperson of this large and silent crowd. ) I think I'll upload it to the Opera skin database in the coming days if no problem shows up with it. B)

Ok, a new update to the skin for the tens of thousands of people who downloaded the previous version (lol). Fixed some big mistakes I made and everything is skinned now as far as I can see plus the problem of the black borders around the speed dial dialogs who bugged me a lot is resolved. It's very nice now I think and I encourage you to download it and give it a go. Should be a final version or almost now (hopefully). http://www.mediafire.com/?ymjzntywz2mgqwd

Skin has been updated to fix a couple of errors: http://www.mediafire.com/?nkx2muuntkmj5z4

Fixes ugly black borders around drop down menus and tab thumbnails and has proper skining on all toolbars. For Opera 10.50/60/70: Standard Skin replacement to replace the original standard skin in your opera/skin directory : http://www.mediafire.com/?ymjzntywz2mgqwd#1 or Optional skin to go in your profile/skin directory and to be selected through the appearance options dialog: http://www.mediafire.com/?1hl6ok8vv8cp1vx For Opera 11: Standard Skin replacement to replace the original standard skin in your opera/skin directory : http://www.mediafire.com/?dldidaoppoywa9u or Optional skin to go in your profile/skin directory and to be selected through the appearance options dialog: http://www.mediafire.com/?clxhusbwq8fctfw Known issues: Widget skins aren't fixed.

It is really perfect! The Start bar is exactly the same than before. Thanks a lot! You should propose this fixed skin at the Opera forum, in the thread on Opera & Windows 98 : http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=633722&t=1278699879&page=1 I have uploaded a new skin fixing a few little glitches and with proper skining on all toolbars. http://www.mediafire.com/?ngli2yhxjmd2wvj All previous links have been replaced by this one I am opening a topic about it now so it's my last post about it in this thread:

I could fix this I think. Please try this new skin: http://www.mediafire.com/?ngli2yhxjmd2wvj

You're right! Special fix for Windows 98, very nice. Thank you. Cool, it works for you as well. Ugly black borders remain in the speed dial setting dialogs though, apparently it's not part of the skin but built into the software directly. I am not sure I follow here. Do you mean elements are lost with/because of this fixed skin? I made a first fix attempt which indeed screwed up a few things and perhaps I did upload that one by mistake... Let me know.

Thick black borders around tab thumbnails and drop down menus are gone, no?

Here is a somewhat fixed standard skin if anyone is interested: http://www.mediafire.com/?ngli2yhxjmd2wvj

As Opera.exe is less than 100kb and Opera.dll is around 3.5Mb, it's not difficult to figure out that most of the code by far is in the dll and that replacing the dll from 10.60 by a 10.54 one to have a 10.60 browser doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Very unlikely as the real time AV scanning engines run at low level in ring0 if I am not mistaken and KernelEX has nothing to do with ring0.

Here you've got a build with HTML5 audio and video that should work on vanilla 98: http://snapshot.opera.com/webm/Opera_1054_21868_classic-WebM.exe If HTML5 vids don't play in Opera 10.54 Final, you can replace the GStreamer folder with the one that is in this build and it should all work correctly.

Perhaps you'll get some luck renaming the webm files to .mkv as the webm container format is matroska AFAIK. The codecs needed are on2 VP8 for the video stream and Ogg-Vorbis for the audio. Correct me if I am wrong I haven't looked too closely into it. And I am thinking that MPlayer will soon be able to play WebM files if it doesn't already. GUI versions are generally 2k only but the command line MPlayer should run on vanilla 98 I think.

Yes it patches kernel32.dll but this is very minimal, just a few bytes I think, all the actual code being in the new dlls it installs. If you want to disable KernelEx from running at all after it's installed, you can just delete its startup registry key under MPRServices and the systerm will run on next boot as a normal unpatched system despite Kernel32 being patched, the patch of Kernel32 just provides an entry point for the new dlls as I understand it and doesn't affect its normal functionality if the KerneEx files aren't present or initialized.

I think you need Oleaut.dll 2.40.4520.0, which is the one I have on my system and I think is the one MDGx distributes, higher versions breaking things if I am not mistaken and 2.20 series are likely to be way too old. VLC 1.1 seems to run fine under that setup here besides the known problem it doesn't display texts in option dialogs, etc. I have only tested very briefly though, just to see if I could play one of those webm video file and that was OK.

AVZ Antiviral Toolkit 4.32 http://www.softpedia...l-Toolkit.shtml Well, there is a thread about that in which there is one guy who claims to be able to run it. Not sure he is to be taken seriously though... Anyway Operas 10.60 run flawlessly, including HTML5 WebM video, with KernelEx installed.

Ok, guys, anyone running Opera 10.60 successfully without having KernelEx installed apart from cdoublejj?

I can register quartz.dll and it seems to run fine, I have played a video with Windows Media Player 6 successfully after overwriting the old one and registering it. That was a good surprise and another benefit of having KernelEx installed as I am not aware any quartz.dll from 2K has ever run on 98/ME without it.

Yes, this is it, my mistake, and it runs flawlessly but I don't seem to be able to run it without KernelEx unlike 10.54. Are you running Opera 10.60 on Windows 98 or ME?

Thanks, I had been reading that. Latest Flash will run which is cool and it would be cool if the latest Java plugin could run as well. Btw, the problem I mentioned with the encode pointer and decode pointer stuf in the gstreamer files in Opera has been fixed by Opera themselves, I guess because HTML5 Audio/Video wasn't working on Win 2k which they still support.

10.60 only runs if KernelEx is installed on your system. Currently using 10.60 RC3 Build 3545 (latest so far) as my default browser.

Great to hear a new version of KernelEx is in the works. Hopefully it'll take care of the kernel32 encode pointer and decode pointer functions which I am thinking are now needed by any executable compiled with MSVC 2010 making those files incompatible with anything below XPSP2. The HTML5 video and audio stuff (all that is in the gstreamer folder) in Opera don't work anymore because of that since a few builds and since the last 10.60 build it is not even possible to use older gstreamer files anymore to play HTML5 vids apparently. Dunno if it can be usefull but there is a patch for Win2K in existence with source code taking care of them and a few others (ActCtx stuff which is seen quite frequently as well now in in new executables) in case you are not aware of it: http://win2kgaming.site90.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7 Wondering as well if VLC and what's compiled with recent QT toolkit will have the missing text in dialogs fixed, any scoop as to what is coming in the new version? Cheers.

Do you have KernelEx installed? I am asking because I just tried to disable KernelEx extensions for Opera 10.60 (which is upgraded over old install and is my default browser) and it fails to start with the error message mentioned by the OP after I have done this. Opera.dll has no missing static dependencies and profiling it with Dependency Walker does not seem to yeld much clue as to what is wrong. Well anyway installing KernelEx could solve the OP's problems if the Opera team doesn't do anything about it. (They don't seem too interested with fixing Windows 98/ME issues it seems to me unfortunately).

I don't have the slightest problem with Photoshop 5 and KernelEx 4.5 Beta 1 btw but as Tihiy has reported identifying it there is probably one only on certain systems.

It's not KernelEx who broke your html file associations and default browser integration. You certainly did it messing with installing Firefox 3.5. What you should do next is fix it. Do you have a registry backup prior to the problem occuring (in the C:/Windows/SYSBCKUP folder)?