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Here's another flash issue that I have. Once in a while (perhaps once out of every 10 or 20 times that I boot up this win-98 PC) I get this error message during boot-up: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program c:\windows\system\macromed\flash\flashutil32_11_6_602_171 plugin.exe R6025 - pure virtual function call (ok) With that error message still on-screen, I run CCTask and sure enough, the above-mentioned flash EXE file is one of the processes running on the computer. I open msconfig look at the startup list - and see no evidence that flash had somehow inserted itself into the list. I run regedit, and search the registry for all occurances of "flashutil32" and again I don't see how or why that program would have been running as part of the boot-up sequence. I dismiss the error and I get one final error about flashutil32_11_6_602_171.exe causing an illegal function call in module FPB.TMP. I do a search and find 6 copies of that file, each in it's own serialized subdirectory in windows\temp. Feb 22, March 13, 21, 28, April 4, 11. The files are all 468 kb in size, and appear to be .exe files. File info says: Description: Adobe flash Player Helper 11.6.r602 File version: 11.6.602.171 Any explanation?

On one particular win-98 system that I have, regardless if I try to run either of these programs: conf.exe 4.4.3345 April 23, 1999 636 kb conf.exe 4.4.3399 April 09, 2004 657 kb And regardless if I set the KernelEx file properties to "disable KernelEx extensions", I get the following two error messages when I try to run either one: The Netrap.dll file is linked to missing export ntdll.dll: RtlInitAnsiString (ok) (path)\conf.exe -> A device attached to the system is not functioning (ok) Something is telling conf.exe that the system is running something other than win-98, presumably some version of NT. Either of the above versions of conf.exe is able to function on win-2k because (I believe) it has an internal dependency for netrap.dll. Microsoft did not code a different version of conf.exe for win-98 vs win-2k. It's the same binary file. Is there any way to know what on my system (a particular file, a particular registry entry) is causing this?

I had JRE 6 Update 41. Works fine from what I can tell. This is on win-98 with kex. 10 minutes ago, I downloaded update 43 from here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23365262/jre-6u43-windows-i586.exe I unpacked it using 7-zip, but the MSI and cab files do not appear using that method. I ran the exe and (as mentioned) obtained the msi and cab file. I forgot what the exe did (it probably crashed). I right-clicked on the msi file and selected "install" - and it did just that. It installed without problems. I went to the c:\program files\java\jre6\bin directory and renamed the directory "plugin2" to "junk-plugin2". I then ran javacpl.exe (it's in the \bin directory) and under "Advanced", "Java Plug-in" I de-selected "enable the next-generation Java Plug-in". I then went to javatester.org and verified that update 43 was working (it was). So I don't see what all the fuss is about...

I was looking for something that would function similar to the unix "grep" command, and I'm finding that there appears to be a "DOS" command -> findstr, but that is not a valid command when you open a DOS window from win-98 (for what version of windows is there a shell findstr command??). Anyone know if there is a "grep.exe" or "findstr.exe" for dos? Edit: Apparently there is a "findstr.exe" on XP, but that file is linked to some function in ntdll.dll related to ansi strings that win-98 doesn't have. There is a find.exe that apparently does function soft-of like grep - except that it doesn't take wild-cards (like *.log) for filespec. Findstr on XP does take wildcards for filespec.

Strange. Even with a duplicate set of files, running netmeeting (conf.exe) on one of my win-98 systems doesn't work. It seems that conf.exe has a dependency for netrap.dll, but that dependency only kicks in if it thinks it's running under NT (probably win-2k). This confusion also happens during installation (running nm30.exe). I end up with an extra file (nmasnt.dll) on the "confused" system that is not present on the working system. Kex is running on both, so that can't be the issue...? I either have a .DLL or a registry entry that is making some software think it's running under NT instead of 98...

Strange. I was able to install Netmeeting on a different win-98 system without errors (both systems have Soyo 845 motherboard). Both have Kex. I'm going to copy the netmeeting directory over to the problem system and see if a straight file-transplant will work.

I've downloaded NM30.EXE from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=26c9da7c-f778-4422-a6f4-efb8abba021e&DisplayLang=en This is NetMeeting 3.01 Service Pack 2 (SP2), Build 3396 and is for all versions of windows except for 2000 (so sez Microsoft). I've set the KernelEx properties for nm30.exe to disable kernelex extensions. In the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion I've set "Version" to Windows 98 and "Version Number" to 4.10.2222 which is their original values (I have had them set in the past to Win-2k to install either flash or Java). When I run nm30.exe, the installation proceeds just fine up until what I think is the very end, at which point two error messages pop up at the same time: 1) Advanced INF Install Error Creating Process <"C:\program files\netmeeting\conf" -regserver>. Reason: One of the library files needed to run this application cannot be found. 2) Error Starting Program A required .DLL file, NETRAP.DLL, was not found. So why it's asking for netrap, I don't know, since that's a dll that's not normally found on win-9x, and it NEVER works even when you put it on a win-98 box. Is this program being confused and it thinks it's running on some NT version of windows? I dismiss the error messages and I'm left with a non-functional installation of netmeeting. Trying to run the "conf.exe" program does nothing. Any ideas? PS: I've gotten remote desktop sharing to work - I can log into a win-XP pro computer from a win-98 machine, but the bummer is that the XP machine is essentially non-functional for anyone in the vicinity of the machine (the screen displays a login screen). I would have wanted the screen to show it's normal desktop - ie to show what I see when I'm logged into it from a remote machine. I'm thinking that maybe netmeeting will allow that - assuming I can get it working...?

I have flash version 11.6.602.171 (most current version right now is 11.6.602.180). Adobe's flash player test page says my flash is working (the ball is moving back and forth). I can visit other sites (youtube) and flash seems to work just fine. I have disabled my hosts file, and tried this on FF2, Netscape 9, and Opera 12.02. I get the same results with all three. I have changed my browser User-Agent string on FF2 to a more recent version of FF - and it doesn't matter. On a win-XP computer, it works fine. What I'm trying to do is run the flash-based speed test located here: http://206.47.199.107/speedtest.swf When I go to that page, I enter some numbers for a phone number (9 or 10 digits, the numbers don't matter) and then select "begin test". It then displays my IP and something that looks like a tachometer and a cute diagram of a computer and server separated by a data pipe. After a few seconds I get a message saying "Unable to connect to the test server - A firewall or VPN might be blocking the connection to our speed test server. Please check and try again". I'm using neither a VPN, proxy, nor a firewall. For some reason, this flash app doesn't work for win-98se with Kex, but it does work for me when I try it from a win-XP computer. Does that speed test URL work for anyone else running win-98?

Well, this is a P4 2.5 ghz machine, so it can't be that slow. Just scanning through the entries I have in that list, there are 10,800 entries (!). Of which, only 19 are marked as "Allow" and the rest being marked as "Blocked". Some of the ones marked as "allow" make some sense to me, but I honestly don't remember ever manually adding any of these to this popup exception list, and I have no idea how all these Blocked entries got there. Last night I found a site that does an on-line pop-up check of your browser, and my FF2 seemed to pass all the tests (did not show any popups). But it seems that spawning a new browser instance (which is really what I'm complaining about) is technically something other than a pop-up.

Ok, what I'm seeing is a new browser instance being spawned (a new instance of FF shows up on the task bar). Is there an add-on or about:config setting that can control these "pop-ups" (or what-ever they're called) ?

Firefox 2 seems to have native ability to block pop-ups, but the interface is confusing. When I select Tools -> Options, I have "Block Pop-up windows" checked. There is an "Exceptions" button, and when I hit it, FF seems to hang, but if I wait, I get one of those "A script on this page may be busy or may have stopped responding - Stop script or Continue". I hit continue, and after more delay, an interface window comes up, showing a long list of domains in one column, and their status (seemingly all blocked) in the other column. However, if I sort by the second column, it turns out that there are 2-dozen domains that are listed as "allow". The interface window doesn't seem to allow you to change the status of any entry. So is getting a "busy script" error on this menu window common or expected? And if this is supposed to be a list of exceptions, then why is it predominantly populated with entries that are blocked, and why does it show the status (blocked vs allow) as if to give the impression that I can change the status, perhaps by clicking on it? There are some file-lockers that I visit that perform pop-ups (actually, not pop-ups but pop-unders, large ones) but because of hosts file entries they are blank. Why isin't FF honoring my "block pop-ups" setting in this case? Are pop-unders different than pop-ups? Is there such a thing as spawning a new browser instance, and if so is this different than a pop-up?

Firefox 2.0.0.20 decided to crash on me today, and threw up this error: Firefox caused an invalid page fault in module XPCOM_CORE.DLL I didn't even know there was such a DLL. I searched my system and found 3 different versions of it. Strange info in the file-properties: Version "Personal" 2/19/2008 Version 1.8.1.20: 2008121709 12/17/2008 (probably the one I was using) Version 1.8.1.22pre: 2009041504 4/15/2009 Copyright: License: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1. Company name is either Netscape or Mozilla. No file description. Just a fluke, or is there a better (more stable) version somewhere?

This add-on also provides the desired functionality for new tabs: NewTabURL 2.2.3 August 13, 2011 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newtaburl/ Select the default URL when new tabs are opened. The options are: "A blank page", "The home page", "The current page" or a user defined URL. When there is an URL in the clipboard, it is also possible to open automatically that URL in the new tab. It does function correctly for FF 2 running on win-98.

This is really useful. I downloaded and installed the zip file (mentioned in the older thread, modified the .cb file as described, and restarted my system in safe mode. My screen came up as 1024 x 768, 256 colors. The screen-resolution slider bar was fixed at 1024 x 768 (I couldn't change it) and 256 was the only color choice. This is with an Nvidia 6200 AGP video card.

Over the past few days, I've been setting up a new install of win-98se on a clean drive on a 3 ghz P4 Soyo i845 motherboard. (And I've installed 98 SE SP 3.18 just prior to installing KernelEx). Something I noticed is that I wasn't able to install any version-11 version of flash, at least not as the first version the system had ever seen. I eventually got some version of Flash-10 working, and then was able to get the most recent Flash-11 working. So for someone working with a new install of win-98, you might have to install flash-10 first before trying flash-11. Oh - yea, I might as well mention that even though Firefox 8 does install and run, I don't see the point of using it when the bookmarks and recent-history don't function.

I'm not sure if I should have asked this as a new subject under > Windows 9x Member Projects or (like I'm doing now) adding it as a reply to the > 98 SE SP 3.18 thread, but... Here's a dumb question. What is the suggested (or required) starting point when installing 98SE SP 3.18? I mean, after installing 98se on a virgin computer, and installing all drivers (motherboard, video, etc), what else should I go out and install *before* I run 98SE SP 3.18? If I intend to have IE, should I go and get IE6sp1? What about Directx 9c? And KernelEx? Are any of those included in SP 3.18, and if not, do they get installed before or after SP 3.18? Also - does SP 3.18 include all of the updates / patches that I would-have-gotten from WindowsUpdate server (if it were still running) ?

You know, I realize full well that I'm going to have to open ports (and I know how to do that), and it might be a bear to set up. All I'm asking is if it's been done, or has anyone done it, does it work, etc. And if it does work - then what software (out of a small handful of possibilities) am I looking at. What about net meeting? This came with win-98, didn't it?

These answers aren't helping me. I want to control / manipulate / access the desktop of a XP-sp3 system FROM a win-98se system. Which system is the "server" in that situation? And will TightVNC do what I want? Will anything do what I want?

I know that remote desktop sharing is common between NT-based systems - can I do the same between a win98 system controlling the desktop of a remote win-XP system? If so, what do I install?

There apparently does not exist a sound font that simulates the SB-16 (FM synthesis, aka "OPL3") sound-cards that existed prior to wave-table synthesis used in AC-97 sound cards or integrated sound devices. If such a sound font did exist, then it could be used by software like Fluidsynth (or vlc) to play old midi files such that they would sound *exactly* they way they did 10 - 15 years ago (when they were created).

I was using import patcher to see if I could get Adobe Audition 1.5 to run. I ran Audition.exe through Importpatcher.37 and then ran the modified file (auditio#.exe) and got the error "Error loading language module". Looking at the import patcher logs, it seems that I'm missing apphelp.dll. I obtained that file and placed it in c:\windows, c:\windows\system, and c:\windows\system32, as well as the directory where I have import patcher (IP). I ran IP again, and this time it created apphel#.dll which I'm not sure what to do with. Auditio#.exe still gives me the same error. Looking at auditio#.ini seems to indicate something is wrong with ntdll.dll (lots of entries ending in "=") and some entries for Kernel32.dll [KERNEL32.dll] BaseDumpAppcompatCache= BaseFlushAppcompatCache= BaseCheckAppcompatCache= BaseUpdateAppcompatCache= So am I supposed to replace apphelp.dll with apphel#.dll? What do I do with ipstub.dll? Is there any hope of getting audition.exe (or auditio#.exe) to run? (yes I have KernelEx installed).

That's the thing - I'm asking which VM gives good audio support to win-98 running as a guest. As your links indicate, other people have asked, and haven't found workable solutions when it comes to midi support (as far as I could find).

Looking for a solution where win-98 can run in a virtual machine (under XP on i7 hardware) that is emulating AC-97 audio - with a functional midi interface. Seems that most emulators only provide SB-16 sound device - which does not have a midi player. Looking for known solutions or hard information, not "did you try this" or "did you try that".

Still doesn't explain how FF 2 was coded back in 2008 to know that when loading the flash plugin, that it should search for all NPSWF32_version_number.DLL files and choose the most current version - when Adobe wouldn't even start creating/distributing NPSWF32_version_number.DLL files until 4 years later in 2012. I guess whoever was coding FF2 was just so clever to anticipate that method of flash file naming 4 years in advance, and build it into FF2 eh?

From here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash They describe this change when the file-name for the flash plugin began to include the version number. This started with flash version 11.2 (March 2012). How it is that Firefox 2.0.0.20 (released Dec 2008) has some "awareness" that when it loads the flash player, that it must search the specified directory according to a pre-set pattern, interrogate each file that matches the pattern, and load the newest version of NPSWF32_version_number.DLL ? Or is there some other "middle-ware" piece of software between FF and NPSWF32*.DLL that is doing the searching / loading?