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Ok, I did all that, ran the MSI, and version 6 update 38 appeared to install without errors. Restarted. Java is missing from control panel. Found javacpl.cpl in CAB file. Ran it, turned off "Next generation plugin" setting. Restarted. Using FF 2.0.0.20, went to javatester.org/version, and got these errors: "The new java plug-in requires a recent version of the firefox browser (firefox 3 or later)" Click Ok, then get this error: "The plug-in performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart firefox." JRE 6 update 30 previously was working fine on FF 2.0.0.20. Any ideas to get this new update 38 working? Edit: Ok, I forgot to rename the "plugin" directory. It works fine now.

I have Opera version 12.02 running on this win-98 system (with kernelex). It thinks it's running on win-2k. I don't use it very much. I use FF 2.0.0.20 as my primary browser. PROBLEMCHYLD wrote: > > The only oddity is that semi-transparent GUI elements look wrong, but it's not a big deal. > That because you don't have MSIMG32.DLL 5.0.2218.1 from WinME I have the original version of MSIMG32.DLL (5.00.1693.1) in my windows/system directory, but I have version 5.00.2218.1 (KernelEx special version) in my windows/KernelEx directory. Should the newer version be in my /system directory?

Within the past 2 days, I've performed some maintainence on a handful of PC's (some running XP, some running 7) where I've discovered that Firefox's JAVA plugin had been disabled - and NOT by the owner of the system. (I've not seen this on any win-98 systems). Is anyone else seeing this? Is Mozilla doing this - or Oracle? (or Microsoft?) And how?

Of course I already have Kex (there's no way to install any version of JAVA version 6 without it). I'm asking if anyone has something more recent than Java version 6 update 30 installed. If so, are there EASY, EXPLICIT instructions for it. The threads for the DIY kex extensions ARE NOT EASY TO FOLLOW - they are very disorganized. In the past, I've tried to install update 31 or 32 but it didin't seem to work. Are you saying that a custom DIY Kex extension *is necessary* to install a more recent JAVA update?

The last version of Java that I've managed to get working on this win-98 system is version 6 update 30 (which is a full year old at this point). The most recent is update 38. Has anyone here been able to get any of the more recent updates working under win-98? If so - how exactly did you do it?

There are new warnings out right now advising everyone to disable or uninstall their JAVA jre (for those running Windoze or OSX). All I can figure out right now is that JAVA version 7 is being fingered, and there is proof-of-concept code out there (somewhere) that I'd love to get my hands on just to see if JAVA 6 running on Win-98 is vulnerable to this exploit (I'm betting it's not). Is anyone here looking into this?

How does a DSL modem connect to AOL? PPPoE? DHCP? Regardless - why wouldn't it be more ergonomic and straightforward to just have your router perform the dsl login into AOL (just like you'd do for any other DSL ISP) ??? And regarding AOL e-mail -> do you need special software to access AOL's e-mail server, or can any standard SMTP e-mail client be used? (Is there really anything better than the old Netscape Communicator 4.8 for e-mail / usenet?)

I've never used photo-shop. What I do use is PhotoPaint - which is Corel's photo editing program. I'm a long-time user of Coreldraw version 9 (didn't know that version 11 can run on win-98). The OP doesn't seem to be asking about photo-editing (but many of the responses here are focusing on photo-editing). The OP is asking about a drawing program (which naturally CorelDraw is). Does Photoshop also function as a drawing program?

Why do you even need to run any software to access the internet - or your AOL e-mail? Is this dial-up or DSL? (I've never understood how AOL works, or why anyone would still be using them...)

Yea, we used the SOYO P4 I845PE ISA for 6 years (must have bought about 100 of them at least). And we've repaired at least 20 of them so far (bad capacitors). When they went out of production, we switched to the Adek P4BWA (very expensive - $320 each, not including the CPU or RAM). I have 4 or 5 of those left, but only for legacy upgrades (we have fully changed our products to USB so our hardware is no longer ISA-based as of 2 years ago). I think all the Soyo i845PE-ISA boards (both types - with and without on-board video) will eventually go bad because of bad capacitors. If you get more than 3 years of daily use out of those boards - you're lucky.

My win-98se system is using SI3112r.mpd (version 1.0.0.51) and I'm not seeing any sort of file-corruption problems on any of the SATA drives I connect (500 gb, 700 gb, 1.5 tb). The only problem I have is that free-space gets out of sync and I have to run scandisk once every 2 or 3 months.

Yes it will, and Asrock even lists Win-98 in the specs for that board. Asrock apparently restarted production of that board (revision 3) a few months ago, but I have to wonder why. You can't really buy new socket-775 CPU's any more (only used) and the ram is also non-existent (DDR-1). (but I have 5 new-in-retail-box socket 775 CPU's to use for new systems) Asrock should have added at least one ISA slot to this board - because some industrial motherboards with socket-775 and ISA cost more than $300 (I have bought 10 such boards for special use at $dayjob over the past 3 years). I would easily have spent $150 for this Asrock board if it had one ISA slot.

=========== NOTE: If you have several thousand 0kb OEM*.inf files, delete those files first. If after deleting these files, the issue still exists, then apply for this hotfix. Use the following steps to delete any files found: =========== If I have several thousand 0kb inf files, I'd be p***ed off. How would I get those files back? And what caused them to have zero size in the first place? And what if I *DON'T* have any zero-size inf files? Will installing this hotfix screw up my system?

=============== Unofficial Windows 98 SE Q301540 IFSMGR.VXD 4.10.2227 Fix IMPORTANT: Install this Fix ONLY IF you have ANY 0 (zero) Bytes *.INF files! =============== Can anyone elaborate on that "zero-byte" inf file installation criteria?

Wow. I didn't know that Micro$haft was still fighting these FAT / FAT32 patent wars. Did MS go after Garmin too? Aren't we at the point yet where these patents have expired? Has Apple licensed these patents? (their products can read FAT/Fat32 volumes - can't they?)

The GPS unit has "Model 4EN42 Z1230" printed on the back . Based on web searches it seems that those numbers can map to several (or many) different TomTom units - Start 20, Start 25, Via 220 to name a few. Mine in particular (according to the box it came in) is a Via 1400. My XP pc has about 16 services running when it starts. Two in particular that I DID NOT have running were "Universal Plug and Play device host" and "SSDP discovery service". At the time (last night) I was seeing the TomTom showing up as an "Other" device in device manager. I went to TomTom's website and went through a registration process where it downloaded some files and via http interface it interactively communicated with the GPS and uploaded some software updates. This morning I no longer see "Other" in the device list. I do see two entries in Device Manager under network adapters: TomTom Remote NDIS / USB 802.3 miniport driver. Even when I start the UPNP device host / SSDP discovery service, and unplug / replug the GPS into the USB port, I see nothing in terms of new storage volumes. I scan for hardware changes and see nothing new. The "Other" in device manager is still gone. So is the presence of the NDIS drivers now preventing XP from detecting the device as an attached storage volume?

I've got a TomTom GPS that's about a year old that I've rarely used. I've been playing around with it lately and I plugged it into the USB port of one of my PC's running XP-SP3. Windows didn't know what to do with the device - so in trying to install a driver, I looked at the list of possible devices. Is it me, or am I wrong in expecting that XP should have a "GPS receiver" in it's list of possible device types? So ok, XP doesn't seem to have a generic GPS receiver driver. I did a bit of googling and found this statement on TomTom's website: "TomTom devices use the standard drivers for USB mass storage devices which are pre-installed on Windows Vista." So my next question is -> what are these magical USB mass storage devices that apparently Vista has, but XP doesn't ? Is there any way I can give XP this so-called "standard driver for USB mass storage devices" so that it can at least see the GPS receiver as some sort of attached drive or volume?

According to microsoft, the file 256015usa8.exe contains a newer version of Ifsmgr.vxd. Specifically (for win-98se) version 4.10.2223, dated 03/02/2000. On my system, I have version 4.10.2225, with a file-date of Sept 19/2000. So there is a more recent version than the one you're looking for.

I use nslookup.exe that identifies itself as: NSLookup Version 2.0 Copyright 1995 Global Solutions, Inc. File size: 17,920 bytes File Date: March 4, 1996 File Description: NSLOOKUP MFC Application It's a widows GUI application (it does not drop you into a DOS shell). You enter the name of a host and it gives you the FQDN, Alias and resolved IP address (or addresses) all of which you can cut and paste. If you enter an IP address instead of a host, it will rDNS and give you the host-name (if it exists).

As much as KernelEx is a definite plus for win-98, the OP's problems will not be solved by installing Kex or a newer browser. I run Firefox 2.0.0.20 as my primary browser and have no problems accessing and viewing 99% of the websites I surf to. By all accounts, the OP's TCP/IP settings are the problem. Set your DNS to 4.2.2.2 and see if that solves your problem. Otherwise, open a DOS window and type "ipconfig /all" and report the results here. > Today we connect to the internet with an ADSL router, not with "cable modem" anymore Not sure what you mean by that. If your internet service comes to you through a phone line (POTS line, PSTN, copper pair, etc) then yes, you will have an ADSL modem (which frequently also is a router). If your internet service comes to you through a coaxial cable-TV line (RG-6) then you will have a "cable modem" (DOCSIS 2 or 3).

I run the Abyss web-server on my machine. Any domain in my hosts file that points to 127.0.0.1 is handled by Abyss. I check the logs once in a while looking for 404 errors and I go out and download the offending files (the vast majority of them being .js files) and add them to my c:\inetpub\wwwroot tree (the tree served up by abyss). I examine these js files looking for internal links to what I consider garbage domains and delete them from the js file. I'll usually run the js file through an on-line "beautifier" to re-format the code in a more readable format. I'm not quite sure how to handle the php files (such as like.php) because Abyss doesn't run them, and the browser ends up asking what I want to do with the file "like.php".

What should you do with that old laptop? I think you should ask yourself -> will it blend? You probably think your laptop is too big to fit. Try this technique:

I'm trying to tell you that I have many entries in my hosts file that are there because I *block* the internet cancer that is facebook (or, as I call it, fecebook). Practically every website you visit has links to fecebook (and twitter, and about a dozen other web-metrics and ad-serving hosts). All of which is trivial to block with an appropriately-crafted hosts file.

I don't have problems with facebook. Because I have about a dozen facebook entries in my hosts file. Makes surfing the web so much faster...

The english version of the file (nusb36e.exe) worked. I had to answer "no" to the question if I wanted to keep the existing german .cpl file. How long has this english version been available? I think only the german version existed at the time I was looking...