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For me 12 Alpha 1105 works great, but the new 12 Alpha 1155 is wearing me out with heavily reported bugs -- everything from distorted GIFs to pages that squash when I open my email to 12 Alpha misreading pages. Even the devs are not happy with this Alpha. The big problem seems to be a few typos in some ini's! 12 v 1155 is faster. Dave

Beware the latest build 1155 of Opera 12 Alpha that was JUST released. IT DON'T WORK. THE DEVS MESSED UP BIG TIME. Not a KernelEX problem. DAVE

Opera 11 & 12 running fine by the 7-zip + overwrite trick ya came up with. Dave PS: Since Opera 10, the native skin has been in want of want.

Opera 11.x alpha, beta and finals all have big problems on ANY OS for many users, not just 9x/ME, and 12 alpha is really giving many fits. So don't give up on 98 + KEX because of Opera and a few other browsers which are acting up. Dave PS: Ditto other apps rushed to final too quickly.

That's a new one on me. I never thought to look for such a problem, but then I rarely change resolutions. What resolution was the wrong one and what did you switch to? I'm not sure I even want to try to investigate that one without access to the actual PC. On my old HP which had built in ATI Rage graphics, changing the hardware acceleration level would change the autostarted programs. Above a certain level, an executable that was part of the graphics package was added to autostart. It's been a long time, but if I remember right, if that executable wasn't allowed to run, the PC became quite unstable. This is the only thing I've seen that comes close to what you're describing. herbalist, The res was 800 x 600 with a great many dead pixels. Looks like a monitor won't last even two decades, never that they would, but it was a favorite. Now it's a toaster. All those wiggly boarders ought have been a clue. I could scarcely see SSM to exit it. Well, perhaps I shall survive this loss. Dave

Just to confirm, you installed SSM free after Kernel EX? The conflict between SSM-free and KEX was fixed with the release of KEX 4.0RC1. On my PC, SSM files are using the default KEX settings, but SSM was installed first. Also SSM can lock up a system if it's not configured properly. If you set a password in SSM, it will automatically start with the UI disconnected and will deny any activity that you don't have rules to allow. If it prevents explorer from performing some tasks, that will lock up a system. I'll have to set up a test unit to confirm it, but I'd suspect that installing SSM after KEX might be the problem. SSM has its hooks into almost everything that happens on a PC. KernelEX could have caused it to incorrectly integrate with the system. Will try to get an answer for you as soon as possible. hebalist, you won't believe this one, but it's true. My SSM crashes were due to a bad monitor resolution setting. Dave

New to the forum, wanted to thank you for the great work. Is there any slick no-hack trick to saving my background color and theme prefs on reboot? Thanks, Dave

Hello, am new to the forum. Thanks for your great work. Very much appreciated. As per (security) apps not working with KEX, here are a few. System Safety Monitor Free for 98/ME causes EXPLORER.EXE to stop responding upon closing SSM and exiting and freezes Win 98/ME AVZ fails to read KEX kernel Apps working oddly: Fortego All-Seeing Eye works only in part owing to its dependence upon an event logger, otherwise OK. (It was probably a joke anyway from Fortego!) Also many apps are now refusing to install on Win98/ME + KEX because these new apps read version data from other files, and the vendors are doing this because they are aware of the KEX project here -- e.g. Opera 11.00 v 1111 BETA fails because devs at Opera emailed me this info, that it would be best to wait for KEX and Opera to get a bit more synchronized with respect to missing Documents and Settings folders as well as wildcard registry reading missing from 98/ME . (ResHack & modifify version info perhaps?) Hope this helps. Will try to come up with some ideas to participate better. Thanks, Dave (HAL)