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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.

I'm not sure if this is related to my continuing problem with win-98se not remembering my folder-view settings, but when I use explorer (my computer) to browse to my c:\program files directory, I get what looks like a listing of font (ttf) files. Exactly the same thing as if I browsed to the c:\windows\fonts directory. The program files directory looks normal if I bring it up in a DOS window. Running scandisk from dos doesn't change or fix this (it found no errors on the drive). Any ideas? Remember, I've been messing with htt and desktop.ini files (moving them, deleting them, etc) in an effort to fix the folder-view issue. Would be nice to find a good description of how critical these files are to win-98, and if there's any in-built function to restore / rebuild these files to their "normal" or default structure.

Pressing (and holding) the control key while closing the explorer window does nothing for me. If I configure the folder-view to be what I want (details view, and NO web-page view) and select "like current folder" and then hold the control key while closing the window, the system does not remember my view settings upon the next re-start.

The driver I'm using did seem to function correctly when I select Shutdown-Restart, but didn't work for Shutdown-shutdown or restart in DOS mode. I tried to deactivate the driver by removing the "exists in all profiles" checkmark in device manager - but that didn't seem to do anything. (?) Last night I installed the earlier driver (77.72) and all shut-down modes do seem to work properly. But even still, windows explorer defaults to large-icon view upon re-start. I really don't have any idea as to how the desktop.ini and the htt files are supposed to work -I thought that maybe mine were messed up so I moved or re-named them thinking that windows would simply re-generate new ones. Am I wrong about that? What about webvw.dll? Can win-98 function without that file in terms of remembering my Details-view setting?

But wouldn't a shut-down and restart also do the same thing? What if I "hid" some desktop.ini files by renaming them? Specifically 3 of them located in \windows, \windows\system, \windows\system32? (I have a handful that aren't re-named, located in \fonts, \favorites, c:\my documents, and c:\program files. Should there be one in EVERY directory?) And moved all the .htt files and webvw.dll? Does win-98 re-generate any desktop.ini or htt files that it's looking for if it finds them missing, or re-generate them when you change folder-view settings?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer In the above 3 locations, the value NoSaveSettings was present, and was already set to 0. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer The value NoSaveSettings was not present in that location. I added it and set it to 0. (edit: adding this key had no effect). HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions In both of those locations, I don't have a sub-path or tree for "Program Manager". The only path that exists under CurrentVersion is AppCompatFlags.

Ok, just so I'm clear on this - does "Universal Extractor" run on win98/Kex? I'm finding that it seems to hang while giving the message "Testing 7-Zip installer" when I try to process the flash-player-install exe file. It also doesn't seem to process the msi file without throwing up some sort of error that I can't figure out. If the Universal Extractor method is not the method that you were indicating in post 76, then the (only?) alternative is to watch for someone to post a file-locker link to the flash DLL file.

It works fine. This new .268 DLL is exactly the same file-size as the previous .265 file, but file-compare shows more than 10 byte-differences. Is there any way to get the 10mb MSI file (flashplayer11_3r300_268_win.msi) other than by downloading the "archived" 100mb developer file (fp_11.3.300.268_archive.zip) ? Does Adobe give a direct link to the MSI file? I run the MSI file, get two errors which I dismiss, then go to the \SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH directory and rename the new DLL file (remove the version info from the file name) and that's all. Is running the MSI file necessary at all? Can you just obtain the new DLL file and copy it over the old one? I've unpacked the MSI file with 7-zip, and then unpacked the single .cab file inside it, and then used 7-zip to unpack the single .exe file inside the cab file, but after all that I still can't end up with the DLL file. Where is it?

I've done that many times already. I open "my computer". Click View -> select Details. Click View (again) -> select Folder Options. Folder-Options dialog window opens. Radio Button is already set to "Custom, based on settings you choose". Select View tab. Click the "Like Current Folder" button. Get the "Set all the folders on your computer to match the current folder's view settings (except for toolbars)?" message. Click the Yes button. Click the OK button on the Folder Options dialog window to make it go away. Close "my computer" (explorer) window. Open it again - and all drives and folder contents ARE displayed with Details view. Close "my computer" and open it again. View is STILL set to Details. Great. Restart the computer, open "my computer" and I'm back to large icon view.

Everything was ok as of about a week ago (I had "details" view, and no "view as web-page") but something happened (don't know what) and since then the system always reverts to "view as web-page" and "large icons" upon startup regardless what I do to change it. So I moved the file WEBVW.DLL and all the .htt files (and some desktop.ini files) I could find out of the way so that win-98 can't find them, and that solved the "view as web-page" issue. I want explorer to show "details" but it is defaulting to "large icons". I've tried every combination in Folder Options but nothing sticks when the system is re-booted. This system is broken in so far as it's running an Nvidia driver (4.14.10.8198) for the past few months that prevents the system from shutting down properly, so I've been using "restart in MS-DOS mode" which the system shuts down to the point of showing a black screen at which point I switch the power off and that accomplishes the shut-down. So what-ever mess this creates with any system files should be considered in formulating an answer to "why can't I get Details file-view to stick"... Can the "VTCP.386" update (236926usa8.exe) or 243199US8.EXE (ndis.vxd) play a role here?

Why do you have these registry entries? Generally there is no need. In individual cases it can be necessary to fake the OS version for a setup. It's recommended to delete the string "CurrentVersion 5.1" afterwards. CurrentVersion=5.1 is to fake windows XP. I thought it was standard procedure to have to always change the "version" info in the registry (as in the above keys) to make the flash installer believe it's running on some version of NT (win-2k in this case). I didn't think it was possible to install any version of flash 10 or higher unless you did that. Am I wrong? (but if I'm wrong - why was it necessary in this case?)

When I run the install_flash_player_11_plugin.msi installer from the \SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH directory, and if I have winhttp.dll also located in that directory (as well as my windows and \system directory), I get this: =========== Error Starting Program The flashplayerupdateservice.exe file is linked to missing export advapi32.dll:ChangeServiceConfig2W. =========== After dismissing that error, the installer runs to completion and says flash was installed correctly. At this point, the following new files appear in the \system\macromed\flash directory: FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_Plugin.exe FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe NPSWF32_11_3_300_265.dll The file FlashInstall.log also appears, but it has a size of zero bytes. At this point, FF2 has lost the ability to play flash (but it does not crash when attempting to play flash). the Adobe "find version" page indicates no flash version or functionality. There is nothing new or different in my \Mozilla Firefox\plugins directory. If I copy the file NPSWF32_11_3_300_265.dll to that directory, nothing changes. If I rename that file to NPSWF32.dll, nothing changes. However, if I rename NPSWF32_11_3_300_265.dll to NPSWF32.dll in the \system\macromed\flash, then bingo - flash is now working. But I think I know why it is working even though I've done all this before. What is different this time is that I made sure I had the following in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion "Version" = "Windows NT" (*) "VersionNumber" = "5.1" (*) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion "CurrentVersion" = 5.1 (**) (?) "Version" = "Windows NT" (**) "VersionNumber" = "5.1" (**) (*) These values were changed (**) These values were not present at all so they were added (?) I don't know if this is a valid or necessary value The previous values for Version and VersionNumber in the \Windows\CurrentVersion registry key were for win-98 - not win-2k. I'm guessing that the file winhttp.dll is not necessary at all for the flash MSI installer to work correctly.