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I notice there is abunch of 98se ones but no ME ones
That's because Windows Me is already perfect and doesn't need any. The Windows 98 users are in denial, but Windows ME is better.
**Runs and hides**
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I don't use any programs to "back up" my files, I do it myself.
For programs:
- I place the original installation files and zip archives of all the software installed on my computer into a designated folder, nothing else goes there.
- I create and edit a text file, which includes descriptions of each program and it's version number, in alphabetical order (just like in the folder itself, so I can quickly compare the contents of text file and folder)
- in said text file, roughly anywhere from 50-100 entires, alphabetized and with version numbers, and I use the asterisk symbol to indicate programs which need to be checked for updates. Since this is Windows Me, I don't have many asterisked programs.
For Games:
-I have a designated "game folder" for zips and the install programs only. Sub divided into categories for either DOS, Win31, Win95, Puzzles, Arcade, Qbasic, etc.
- I use UnzipThemAll to extract several hundred zips simultaneously, thus creating a simple directory structure. Takes only a minute to unpack several hundred games into folders using the same name as the original zip file.
My documents:
-I keep all these in "My documents", big surprise. Sub folders are made for resumes, guitar pieces I'm writing, letters, PDF files, recipes, old emails, etc.
Pictures:
-I organize them in folders, they're not scattered everywhere at random. They're all neatly organized (nearly 5,000 family photos that my mom took). Ready to be copied to CD at a moment's notice.
.... then, I just use Deep Burner* or ImgBurn* to drag and drop my folders to a data CD. That's it.
After I burn the CD, I format Windows Me, re-install, then copy the stuff from the data CD back onto the computer. Doesn't take more than 100 mintues. And most of that time is spent formatting the hard drive and installing the OS, so I don't have to actually be there while this is going on.
I prefer to do it this way, a clean install I mean. Because it reduces the chance of viruses being passed along, plus it fixes other problems too (registry, corrupted programs, bad system files, removes unwanted files, saves disk space, generally makes the computer faster, etc.)
I will never use any of those "online" backup programs. I'm not going to pay them to do a "service" that requires simply (1) Organizational skills (2) A blank CD (3) A freeware program such as DeepBurner. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if those online backup companies aren't a CIA or NSA front. Wouldn't be surprised if they mine your personal information and sell your personal data to the highest bidder. So much for privacy.
For example:
^ People actually pay money for that crap!
Why? You can buy a pack of CD-R's at K-Mart for $2.99. And they come in a cool assortment of nifty colors. My favorite is pink.Sure, I might use online backup. Only if my data was encrypted with a 200 character password of random letters and numbers (which i would store on a piece of paper under my mattress). You know, just to slow down their system for the fun of it.
*my recommendations for best backup programs
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Okay, I turned off images along with javascript. Super dooper fast now!!!!!!!
I just had an idea, and I hope that somebody has already thought of it. But I think it would make for the greatest dial up "plugin" ever.
What I'm thinking of is the ability to whitelist, or only allow certain websites to display images, while everything else is blocked.
That would be so sweet for all dial up users. I should Patent that idea and get rich. Whaddya think?
Anybody heard of such a thing?
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*I found this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-block/
Image Blocker 2.1
Unfortunately all it does is add a toggle button to the top right corner of the screen. No list for approved/rejected websites. Thus, every page you go to requires toggling the button. I suppose that ain't too bad. But having a list to modify would be better.
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*also found:
http://imglikeopera.mozdev.org/
"ImgLikeOpera (ILO) is useful for visiting graphics-intensive websites, when you have a slow dial-up conncetion, or when you have high priced broadband."
Now, that is what I'm looking for. You can customize you're own filter of web addresses. Only works on FireFox 3.6+ though.
Darn, I wish it would work on SeaMonkey 1.1.19 or Netscape 9. Hehe
I'll try it tomorrow with KEX, rite now I go to sleep. Laterz ya'll.
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If you can't beat them, join them.
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I'll give that FasTun a try, thanks.
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Paint Studio Lite 1.2
Here's the homepage:
http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/alfian/
Here's where you can download it:
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Eagles - King of Hollywood
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Hehe. That is true.
Wish Mozilla had a "turbo" option like Opera.
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Probably not many dial-up users here, but I'll ask anyway.
What can you do to strip Firefox down to get maximum speed, while still maintaining pictures and text? Everything else I don't really care about.
Here's what I know so far:
-turned off javascript
- turned off automatic Cache Management and set it at 75 MB (figure it uses more resources to automatically mange itself then not to)
- turned off "check spelling"
- turned off "automatic updates"
- tried turning off "submit crash reports" but it always comes back on anyway
any suggestions?
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Aurora = Firefox beta
Pale Moon = Firefox fork optimized for speed but incompatible with older hardware
Okay, thanks. I won't bother with Pale Moon then.
As anticipated they all run fine (apart from the bookmarks & history).Confirmed. I'm using Firefox 4 as I type this. Pretty much exactly like 8. So I might as well just keep 8.
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woohoo... another Windows Me user!
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.... do the intervening versions of FireFox (4,5,6,7) work using KernelEx 4.5.2?
What about the Aurora or Pale Moon thing I've heard bandied about? Is there any validity for using them? Do they require less processing power, RAM? Or are they irrelevant?
Basically, is there any benefit in using 4,5,6,7 over FF 3? Or should I go straight to FF8 and forget about the others?
Anyway, thanks for your work.
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Glad to be Unhappy
Billie Holliday
Enjoy !!!!!
VNV Nation - Radius^2
VNV Nation - Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgndSN32pgo
Bon Iver - Calgary
Phantogram - When I'm Small
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I got both KernelEx 4.5.2 and Firefox 8 working with:
Windows Me
Dial-up
384 MB Ram
866 MHz pentium 3
A few things I noticed:
-dropdown address bar doesn't work (same with Opera 11.5x)
-no stop button (only back & forward arrows)
-Flash Block 1.5.15 works fine
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NGView 2.0 (using kernel ex 4.5.1)
http://www.szamado.hu/ngview/index_en.htm
*Note* You have to register the program (it's free) and then inquire about updates. The author is nice enough that he'll offer the newest version 2.0 for free, even though it's not available yet for download.
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Sure, go ahead.
Just let me add a little disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. My opinion is my own and not anybody else's here at MSFN. I don't represent MSFN.
Consult your doctor if you have real medical problems.
(There, just some legal mumbo jumbo to stop the lawyers.)
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how do I do that?
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some us believe that WinME --> Win98se is actually an upgrade.
I remember that WinME was the testbed (and we were the guinea pigs) for System Restore. A dress rehearsal for inclusion in WinXP. Ummm, no thanks. Saving thousands and thousands of files in protected folders was yet another persistent infection vector waiting to be exploited either by malware, or Windows itself which is stupid enough to save an infected file into the _Restore area. Coupled with increased System File Protection (compared to earlier Win9x) it became much more difficult to remove an infected file if it got in.
The final straw was Removing DOS at Startup, removing the chance to delete a system file manually, thereby locking a possible infection in place. Three strikes you're outta there. Ordinarily with an infected system file, it is just reboot, F8 to DOS and manually over-write files from a safe location. This doesn't have to be about a virus though. Any tweaking or experimenting with Drivers and System Files is pretty much rendered moot by those three mentioned WinME advancements. Yes, you could just keep a startup floppy handy and boot to a DOS prompt to perform manual surgery, but this means the probability of leaving floppies in the drive and the BIOS set to boot from it, which of course opens another infection window. So what they really did to WinME is to make it unfriendly to the experts, the hackers, the experimenters that enjoy playing under the hood.
But they did tweak some parts okay. Scandisk works better in Windows, and Defrag in Windows seems to be perfected. USB was better out-of-the-box of course and many of the supplied drivers were newer. Memory management seems to have been improved since it looks like the maximum allowed RAM is higher.
I'm glad that Windows Me had improved USB support. I probably would've never bothered learning about "thumb drives" if it required more than simply inserting the device into the computer and automatically getting detected. I used to make multi-volume archives on floppies with a DOS program called "Sky Compressor." It was easier than doing it with more complex programs such as ARJ and Pkzip. I'm not a power user by any means. Slow learner, keep it simple is my motto.
I can see your point though about Windows 98 being better for power users, and the people who like to experiment and tweak their systems. No wonder everybody dislikes WinMe.
Interestingly, one other major change was in RegEdit, where they were apparently toying with the NT idea of separate hives, but not exactly. They uniquely decided to break the CLASSES tree out of HKLM\Software and store it separately on disk. Which made for three files instead of two, and SYSTEM was now smaller. Looking back now it was an odd idea because NT always separated the root keys, not a piece of a key. I think what happened is that it was simply a stop gap for the increasingly bloated registries causing instability and which could no longer be /c rebuilt manually anyway. One thing is for sure, never use the RegEdit from WinME on earlier versions!
If it were possible to completely remove System Restore and revert System File Protection to it's former benign self (only protect a few files but not automatically replace them), and of course fix the IO.SYS problem with DOS, then WinME would be an upgrade. IMHO, of course.
What I do, is immediately after a fresh format and installation, I turn of system restore.
Turning off Hibernation support, and the rest of those annoying energy saving features also helps things go more smooth.
Well, there are a few ways to get back the DOS.
http://www.dewassoc....me/real_dos.htm
http://www.reocities.../mfd4life_2000/
The SFP:
http://support.micro...kb/253571/en-us
has a re-known solution:
http://www.mdgx.com/me1.htm#UPH
http://erpman1.tripo...rent/sfpoff.htm
additionally it seems like the list of files is in a file sfpdb.sfp and system.cat
http://support.micro...kb/267282/en-us
I presume that given there is enough interest in it (which I doubt) someone could use the same kind of tricks were used for 2K and XP WFP and have a "limited" amount of checked files.
Turning off System Restore:
^ cool links, thanks.
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You're right....
this thread is a waste of time
Now, where can I find an illegal copy of XP?
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problem solved, sort of...
I found a great freeware program that can convert .WMV files to Mpeg.
http://www.eusing.com/free_video_converter/video_converter.htm
It's from 2010 and it works under Windows 9x and ME without Kernel Ex. I highly recommend this program. It's capable of converting between an insane amount of video formats.
I'd say this is a must-have program for any Win9x user.
It can be quite confusing trying to sort through video codecs if you don't know exactly what the issue is, however this programs simplifies all that.
If it still doesn't work after that either upload the file or post a MediaInfo report.I appreciate the input, but I can't upload any kinds of movies while on dial-up...
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unless you mean in a long time from now.
A long time to Microsoft is about 4.5 months. There's too much money at stake for Microsoft to allow potential Windows 7 and Windows 8 users to remain in limbo using XP until they're computers break. Profit wise, it would be advantageous to force those people to buy a newer version. Think of all the money they'd lose by not killing XP for good.
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doesn't seem to be a problem for those using a legal version.
I don't use illegal copies of ANYTHING, I'm that moral. I don't rip people off like Microsoft does by building in obsolescence to their system.
You know how many times I've installed my LEGAL copy of Windows Me? Probably close to 50 times, on more than one computer.
I've installed my LEGAL copies of Windows 3.1 and DOS lots of times as well. Never had to beg Microsoft's permission.
Windows XP will be more useless than 98 in the coming decades, it will sink like a stone to the bottom of the obsolete OS heap. Do you really think Microsoft is going to continue to allow people to activate XP down the road? Say, ten yeas from now? I bet you $100 dollars they won't. Once XP is unsupported, they'll will pull the plug on activating it.
Windows 2000 and older, will live on forever on old computers.
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I never said all people with mental disorders are ugly.
I was merely suggesting that Americans are more prone to blind optimism and self-delusion in regards to their lot in life. Whereas in China, they blatantly discriminate against anyone perceived as being "different" or "mentally ill."
I probably should've worded that differently.
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Why? You can buy a pack of CD-R's at K-Mart for $2.99. And they come in a cool assortment of nifty colors. My favorite is pink.
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