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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...

Not sure when or how this happened, but when I right-click on the "my computer" desktop icon and select properties, all the text in the various tabs is German (not how it used to be - english). Control panel / regional settings is set to US/English. When I plug in a new USB device and windows opens the "finding new hardware" dialogs, they're all in german. How do I change those back to English? Would nusb36a_de.exe have done all this???

That makes the error message go away, but now nothing seems to happen when foobar2000.exe is started. I started cctask.exe and set it to auto-update mode and tried foobar again. Foobar threw up a small menu window (start in safe mode, check online troubleshooter, start normally). I tried start normally, and foobar2000.exe was loaded into memory according to cctask, and it stayed there for about 8 seconds before it disappeared. I started foobar again, tried "check online troubleshooter", and again nothing apparent seemed to happen. Same thing happens when I select "start in safe mode". Any other ideas? Has anyone gotten foobar2000 version 1.1.x or higher runs under win-98? What is shared.dll? There is no Version tab when you look at it's file-properties.

I downloaded Kstub730.zip and Kstub822.zip and extracted both of them to my windows\kernelex directory. I modified core.ini to read: contents=std,kexbases,kexbasen,Kstub822 and restarted the system. It didn't restart properly the first time, but it did start ok the second time. When I run foobar (version 1, 1, 0, 0) I now get a different error: Shared.dll is linked to missing export SHELL32.DLL: SHParseDisplayName.

What version of foobar2000 is compatible with the foo_input_sacd.dll driver - and will run on win-98 with kernelEx? I can install the newest stable version of foobar2000, but it gives this error when I run it -> SHARED.DLL is linked to missing export kernel32.dll: HeapQueryInformation. An old version of Foobar (that I already had installed) doesn't seem to want to load the sacd dll file. Or - does anything else play SACD iso files?

I'm asking about FF2 here because (1) I feel it's still a very relevant (and very functional) browser for win-98, and (2) nobody in any mozilla forums wants to talk about old versions of FF. http://www.andrewlucking.com/archives/category/remember-mismatched-domains/ I installed the "remember mismatched domains" addon a while ago, but I find for the past few months that I have to keep dealing with dialog boxes for domains that I've already told FF to remember my instructions to ignore the domain mismatch. These seem to be for domains I've put in my hosts file. I'm not sure if it goes beyond that, but I do have Abyss web-server running on the local machine, serving up local copies of js files for these domains (such as apis.google.com). Does anyone here run FF2 (2.0.0.20) with that add-on? Are you dealing with the same issue? (in case you're wondering, I've tried FF3 but it screws up bit-mapped images on web-pages when you scroll them up and down, so I still use FF2 as my default browser).

This is really strange to see Asrock offering this board. =========== 775i65G User Manual Version 3.0 Published June 2012 Copyright©2012 ASRock INC. All rights reserved. =========== Intel 865/ICHR-5 chipset -> with socket 775 support ? And they list win-98/me/2k/XP as supported OS's ??? With XP to go EOL in a year? Asrock should have put at least one ISA slot on this board - it would have increased it's applicability into the industrial market segment where old OS's are running old software to control things using ISA cards. Asrock has (or had) a few boards with Via chipset and socket 775 that had pretty good win-98 driver support (one board had both AGP and PCIe slots).

I don't know to what extent anyone here is using (or trying to use) skype under win-98 - or if that's even a problem or issue these days with kernelEx. I thought I'd post some recent experience I had with it. Skype is not something I've ever used before, but on this win-98 computer I apparently did mess with it back in 2006 (version 2.5.0.141). But because some relatives of mine recently wanted to start using skype on their home computers (win-XP) and because I have this old Skype icon on my desktop - I double-clicked it last week - and it seemed to work just fine (?!). I had nobody to talk to, but I did call the test account to see if my audio (speakers, mic) was working, and they were. So yesterday I got skype working on a couple of my relative's XP systems (set up their account, downloaded the software, etc) and when I went back to my win-98 computer and started skype, it started but pretty quickly threw up a screen saying that I had to update my version because of a security issue. So I said ok, but the update process failed, leaving me with the old version still installed. So I unplugged my network connection, started skype (it starts just fine) and I set the auto-updated to disable. I then plug in the network cable and it seems to be working again. I call the new accounts I set up and it works, but when they try to call me, and I answer, skype crashes. So I read the following from this old msfn thread: ====== Posted 17 October 2007 - 08:16 AM My addition is Skype. I have version 3.2.0.175 working very well, so long as I remember not to try video. Skype announce a version 1.4.x as the last to support Win98, but go on to say that later ones might work, they just give no guarantee. ====== Ok, so I download version 3.2.0.175 from somewhere (oldversion.com?) and it works fine (but I think I did have to set the KernelEx compatibility option to win-98 for the skype.exe program file). Even video works great. The people running XP that are calling me have a usb web-cam (I don't) and I can see them just fine. And they can call me and I can answer and it doesn't crash. So I don't know if the current version of skype works on win-98 with KernelEx, but I can say that version 3.2.0.175 seems to work just fine - including receiving video from the caller.