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I don't know if the file NPSWF32_11_3_300_265.dll was there (it's not here now - but I might have renamed it when I first saw it). I uninstalled version 11.3 and re-installed 11.1. I don't care about Opera. I want to know if install_flash_player_11_plugin.msi works with FF version 2.0.0.20. On one win-98 system I did get 11.3.300.262 working just by copying the DLL, but that method didn't work on another system (see post #77).

Where (in what post) was this method described? I downloaded this: http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/win/install_flash_player_11_plugin.msi And ran it. I got a pop-up box saying "A required DLL file, WINHTTP.DLL, was not found". I have this file as part of a kb patch I downloaded (kb890830-v2.8) but I don't know why I have the patch file (I never deployed it). In spite of that "dll not found" message, the above flash-player installshield wizard ran to completion and said that it has "successfully installed adobe flash player 11 plugin". I restarted the system and ran the Flash Player app in control panel. It crashed, saying "plashplayerapp caused an invalid page fault in module unicows.dll". I went to this page: http://www.codegeek.net/flash-version.php and it said "Javascript is enabled in your browser. You have Flash player 11.3.300 installed." This page: http://www.playerversion.com/ said the same thing. However, no movie is visible when I to go this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html and basically I can't get any flash videos to display on any page. What's odd is that in my \SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH, there is no NPSWF32.dll file (!). I tried replacing it with several different versions but nothing worked. I had to go to add-remove programs and un-install Flash Player 11 and then run install_flash_player_11_plugin_32bit_11.1.102.63.exe to get flash functionality back.

Sorry guys. Man, do I feel stupid. I booted into DOS and ran scandisk on the drive. It took 1/2 hour, it found no real problems - except that the free space wasn't being reported correctly. I let it fix the free space and then when it was finished I ran chkdsk. It now tells me there are 3 (three) free clusters on the drive. (!) Booting into Windows and looking at the drive in explorer - yup - 96kb free space. So I think this issue has been solved. Just for the record, I did download v2.1.0.0 of JD Design Space Patrol, and I did disable "operating system's built-in low-disk space checking facility", but naturally this was of no value in this case. So - time to get a bigger drive...

"APPLIES TO * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition" So it doesn't apply to Second Edition? (or is this typical MS being sloppy with their details...) Does it also apply to win-ME?

Well, here's something interesting. When I bring up the properties for the Recycle bin, click on the tab for D drive, It displays this: Size of drive: 1.99 GB Space reserved: 61.4 mb This is when I set the percent-reserved for the recycle bin to 3%. Now why it's thinking that the drive is 2 gb in size is strange. It is underestimating the size of the drive by a factor of 350. If I take that 61.4 mb and multiply it by 350 I get about 21.5 gb - about the amount of free space on the drive. My gut feeling is that even when the "Do not move files to the recycle bin" box is checked, something is still trying to reserve 3% of the drive space. That "something" is getting the math wrong and it thinks it needs to reserve 3% and not 0.1% as you indicate it should for a drive of this size.

The 700 gb SATA drive in question is the second physical drive in the system (logical drive D). The first physical drive is an 80 gb IDE which is partitioned into 2 logical drives (C and E) - each being 32 gb (yes, there is some un-allocated space on that drive). The OS and all apps are located on C. The system has Norton Systemworks 2002 installed on it, and that comes with Norton protected recycle bin. I've changed the settings several times, including complete deactivation of the recycle bin (or so it says) and this had no effect. I came across some mention on the web of this registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket - "Percent"=dword:0000000n - "UseGlobalSettings"=dword:00000001 - "NukeOnDelete"=dword:00000001 But they also had no effect. By the way, this "Bitbucket" key has a long list of hex parameters for logical drives C through M, as well as "Purgeinfo". Does anyone know what those parameters are for?

I thought that saying the drive was 700 gb, and had 22 gb free was sufficient information. Please accept my apology if I didn't say that it was a SATA drive being controlled and used in native SATA mode, and that it was formatted as a single primary FAT32 partition with 732,395,680 kilobytes total disk space, 23,095,744 kilobytes free, 32kb cluster size, 22,887,365 total clusters on disk, 721,742 available clusters. Is there any other information that is necessary in order to arrive at an answer to my original question? Or perhaps nobody here has encountered this phenomena before?

Ok, I'll completely re-edit this. System 1 has KeX 4.5.10.1 (2010-12-30) and Flash 11.2.202.197 System 2 has Kex 4.5.12 (2011-11-14) and Flash 11.1.102.62 I obtain NPSWF32.dll (version 11.3.300.262) and just copy that file over the existing files on both systems. This works for system 1(all flash content is viewable on firefox 2.0.0.20) but FF crashes on system 2 when attempting to view flash content. Comments? What do I need to do to get Flash 11.3.300.262 working on system 2?

The registry key "DisableLowDiskSpaceBroadcast" is probably used by the Disk Cleanup utility. Mine is currently set to 12 - indicating drives C and D are not to invoke the cleanup tool upon reaching the low-disk-space criteria. I currently have the cleanup utility deactivated on those 2 drives, but win-98 will still generates "disk full" errors when I try to copy files (even relatively small files) from the C to the D drive.

This is a SATA hard drive connected to a SiL 3512 controller, using the driver file SI3112r.mpd. I thought it was common knowledge that win-98 is fully compatible with most SATA-1 controller hardware and that no special drivers are needed because those controllers came with win-98 drivers, allowing them to be used in native SATA mode (not IDE emulation mode).

Win-98 seems to have a hard-coded threshold of 3% free disk space that I can't find any way to reduce or disable. This is not the same as changing the settings for the Disk Cleanup tool. Disabling the activation of that tool when free disk space reaches the 3% mark does not seem to prevent the OS from generating "disk full" messages when you want to copy files to the affected drive - or when applications are attempting to write to the affected drive. I came across some mention of this Explorer registry value: NoLowDiskSpaceChecks (set to value 1) But my win-98 system doesn't seem to pay any attention to it. I've got a 700 gb drive, and it's got about 22 gb free, but win-98 won't allow any more files to be written to it. Ordinarily, you would think that having 22 gb of free disk space wouldn't be a problem... Is this a known issue for win-98, and is there a solution? Or must I simply live with the fact that 22 gb of this drive is unusable?