tomasz86

The portable version seems to work OK in Windows 2000. Have you tried it?

Thank you

My opinion is: Internet Explorer - not recommended unless you need ActiveX support Firefox - a lot of extensions, very customisable, stable but quite slow Opera - user friendly, many useful functions integrated but often unstable SRWare Iron - a better version of Chrome, very fast but uses a lot of memory, mediocre extension support Originally I was a diehard Opera fan but it's become very unstable, especially when using Flash content. The most annoying thing is that when there's an error the browser crashes and has to be restarted. It's different in Firefox where you see an error about plug-in malfunction but you don't need to restart the whole browser. Because of Opera's instability I started to look for other browsers. Firefox is very nice when it comes to customisation as there are plenty of extensions available. On the other hand, it's much slower than Opera and Chromium based browsers. SRWare Iron, while not being very well known, is a very good alternative to Chrome. It uses exactly the same engine but doesn't contain any spying "features" which are present in Chrome. You can install Chrome extensions in it. The problem is that the browser (and it's no different in case of Chrome) cannot be really customised, the options are very limited and extension support still far from ideal. The number of available extensions is also not very large. The browser itself is super fast but requires a lot of RAM (as each tab runs in a separate process). The conclusion is that I use four browsers simultaneously depending on what I want to do and I think it's much better than limiting yourself to just one of them.

I've finally managed to finish sorting all updates. I just need 1-2 days more to prepare a full list

@PROBLEMCHYLD Unfortunately I can't test the files as I haven't got access to Windows 98 SE. I just listed those that *might* (but may not) be compatible. I've also found in SP 3.1 a few newer files than the ones I had here so I want to say thank you

Unfortunately not yet I'll let you know if I manage to prepare something.

Updated list from #1423: Filename U98SESP3 Win2000 ASYCFILT.DLL 2.40.4530.0 2.40.4534.0 msjet40.dll 4.0.9511.0 4.0.9514.0 OLEAUT32.DLL 2.40.4520.0 2.40.4532.1 RICHED20.DLL 5.30.23.1230 5.30.23.1231 T2EMBED.DLL 5.0.2195.7348 5.0.2195.7349 DISPEX.DLL 5.7.0.16535 5.7.0.16599 JSCRIPT.DLL 5.7.0.16535 5.8.6001.23259 MSADCE.DLL 2.81.1117.0 2.81.3010.0 MSADO15.DLL 2.81.1128.0 2.81.1145.0 MSADOMD.DLL 2.81.1128.0 2.81.1145.0 MSADOX.DLL 2.81.1128.0 2.81.1145.0 MSJRO.DLL 2.81.1128.0 2.81.1145.0 ODBCBCP.DLL 2000.85.1128.0 2000.85.3009.0 SCROBJ.DLL 5.7.0.16535 5.7.0.18066 SCRRUN.DLL 5.7.0.16535 5.7.0.18066 SQLOLEDB.DLL 2000.85.1128.0 2000.85.3006.0 SQLSRV32.DLL 2000.85.1128.0 2000.85.3009.0 VBSCRIPT.DLL 5.6.0.8838 5.8.6001.23141 WSHCON.DLL 5.7.0.16535 5.7.0.16599 WSHEXT.DLL 5.7.0.16535 5.7.0.18066 http://www.evernote.com/shard/s144/sh/5b1f1a16-df65-48bb-bd61-a4418ef6afee/bcdfed00f8a08f60be6d06286b2243af

I've compared some of the files from SP3.CAB with the ones I have in my system. I don't know if they are compatible with Win98SE but this is what I found out: ASYCFILT.DLL 2.40.4530.0 => 2.40.4534.0 msjet40.dll 4.0.9511.0 => 4.0.9514.0 OLEAUT32.DLL 2.40.4520.0 => 2.40.4532.1 RICHED20.DLL 5.30.23.1230 => 5.30.23.1231 T2EMBED.DLL 5.0.2195.7348 => 5.0.2195.7349 You can find them here: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s144/sh/5b1f1a16-df65-48bb-bd61-a4418ef6afee/bcdfed00f8a08f60be6d06286b2243af I also don't know about the compatiblity of the MS VC++ libraries but I think I may have some newer versions in UURollup.

Mim0, I'd like to suggest changing this line in HFSLIP's script: SET SW1=/quiet /norestart to SET SW1=/q /n /z /q = /quiet /z = /norestart The two are the same but the last one is /n = /nobackup This is slipstreaming so there's no reason to have uninstallation folders created in %systemroot% directory.

512 MB is pretty low to surf the Internet nowadays (unfortunately ). W2K itself needs more memory than W98 so it's not surprising that your system runs low of memory after opening 5-6 tabs in the browser. Personally I'd recommend K-Meleon which requires less memory than other "modern" browsers like Firefox/Opera/Chrome, etc. but is still perfectly usable. You may also try to disable unused system services as there are probably at least a few of them that can be safely shut down. It helps a lot on an older machine without tons of memory.

BlackWingCat seems to be right I've managed to unpack the archive using WinRAR and run the command: qemu-img create c:\test.img 20M The image file was created without any problems. I use AMD Athlon II X4 631.

Hmm, I can't extract the archive It says something about a "not supported compression". I tried with two different archivers but no difference.

It's 2000 Server

It seems that SRWare Iron automatically enables ClearType for ClearType fonts even though ClearType itself is not turned on in the system. I'll probably just use it to view the problematic sites until a better solution is found.

Thanks bphlpt. It looks very nice. If there's no objection I'll use it for the USP 5.2.

By the way, here you can see how different these fonts are rendered when ClearType is switched on and off. It's a part of the M$ site: 1. ClearType off: 2. ClearType on: As you can see the fonts on the first screen shot are hardly readable And lastly, the same thing but now the default font is overridden by Arial: 1. ClearType off: 2. ClearType on: It may not look very good but at least in both cases they can be easily read.

The topic is now sticky in the Firefox Builds section

1. WMP11 - Some websites use WMP to stream videos so if you use them then maybe having the newest version may be worth it. Otherwise it's not really necessary. 2. Malicious Software Removal Tool - I personally find it useless 3. .NET Framework - once installed it doesn't really affect the system in any negative way so I prefer to have them all installed just in case some applications may need their files. I can't say anything about Microsoft Security Essentials because I haven't really used it. Aren't non-M$ free AV solutions like Avast, AVG or Avira better?

How about using an Explorer replacement where you can choose to automatically sort or not?

Actually the cards I used were ATI (integrated) and Matrox (external). Not that it really matters... AMD ceased support for Win2k earlier than M$ did it.

Have you actually got an original Windows XP CD? Is it an untouched CD or maybe a one modified by ASUS?

I created a topic on mozillaZine forums about Win2k & Firefox: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2482475

Actually I had Windows 2000 installed on Foxconn A76ML-K 3.0 (AMD® 760G + SB710). I didn't experience any problems related to graphic cards (I used two - the integrated one + external one). You may want to try installing UURollup-v9b. I doubt it will help in solving this particular problem but it's the easiest way to install almost all unofficial updates at once. If it doesn't help then at least you'll be sure the problem is not related to system updates.

I wonder what you think about re-using this icon: It was used by Gurgelmeyer in his signature linking to "http://www.willsdownloads.com/blog/win2ksp5.php" which is not online anymore. The icon itself seems to be made originally by a person called Aegis. He was banned here long time ago so unfortunately it's not possible to ask for his opinion on it. Do you think it would be (in)appropriate to use it for USP 5.2?

Just as a side note - it works in Windows 2000 too.