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I'm thinking of getting a NAS box. Anyone have any first-hand experience with file-access between a NAS and Win-98? Does it work? No problem with any NAS? Or maybe just some?

Yea I forgot to mention Java. I also found that youtube video playback on the 45.9 version horrible. Some kind of weird, spastic stuttering effect was going on. I reinstalled my 39.0 version and everything came back, including the addons, so I'm happy again. For some sites that don't seem to work (and I don't want to mess with my noscript settings to see if I can fix it) I do run Seamonkey (2.49.4). One thing I don't like about seamonkey is (a) the lack of a dedicated search box beside the address bar, (2) can't add or remove tabs as easily as in FF. I didn't mention I have 32-bit Win-7, and I'm thinking that (and anyone with first-hand experience please confirm or deny this) that to increase performance and stability of a browser with a couple-dozen tabs open that 8gb (or more) ram makes a difference and hence that's one advantage of win7-64 over win7-32 (with 4 gb). I'd need a compelling reason to basically throw away the DIMMS in my Lattitude if I went up to 8 gb if I wanted to put win7-64 on this thing.

My version 39.0 FF got stuck in starting in safe mode, and the only option was for me to continue starting it in safe mode or "refreshing" it - which means nuking all my addons (so it says). I didn't want to do that, but I found no instructions as to how to force it to start normally. I looked through the FF version history and decided to download the 45.9.0 ESR package, and I ran it, and it now starts fine, and my short-list of add-ons is intact and seemingly functional. My addons: about:addons-memory 2016 noscript nuke anything enhanced remove it permanently session manager stylish user agent switcher But I find this 45.9.0 version horrible. It doesn't render the content of some pages - it leaves big black sections that I can make to appear if I drag the FF window off-screen and bring back on-screen. So is there any consensus as to the "best" version that maintains good compatibility with old addons yet gives acceptable screen -rendering performance?

DMABufferSize in 386 section of system.ini was already set to 64 kb. In device manager under disk controllers I see that I have a problem with the Secondary Ultra ATA controller. It say the device is either not present, not working properly, or have all the drivers installed. This is the 4'th (and last) item listed under hard disk controllers. I have only 1 IDE drive in the system, and nothing is connected to the second IDE port - I assume that's what the secondary ATA controller is for? The first item is Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA storage controller - 24CB, the second item is Primary Ultra ATA controller, the third item is Realtek USB disk controller. Those 3 items are showing ok. The realtek driver is for a drive-bay multi-card reader. I go to the secondary controller properties and select Update Driver. It finds 2 INF candidates - one is the original win-98 mshdc.inf and the other is intelata.inf (dated 10-15-2002). I select that one. It then asks for iata98.cat. I have two - 7/6/2001 (1 kb) and 10/30/2000 (8kb). I guess I should have one dated 2002? I select the 2000 one. It's happy with that, and finishes the install. Wants me to restart. I restart - and I don't have the problem any more (see first post). I go to device manage, and see that there is no issue with the Secondary Ultra ATA controller, but now there is an issue with the realtek USB controller (either not present, not working properly, or does not have all drivers installed). I look at driver details, and it says it's using intelata.mpd (october 2002) and ios.vxd. I have a 9/13/2000 version of intelata.mpd. I boot into dos and swap the files - but windows doesn't start with the '2000 version. I swap it back. With the realtek controller showing a problem, I can't access the multi-card reader. If I fix this Realtek USB controller issue (by reinstalling driver) it works, but I'm back to having an issue with the Secondary UltraATA controller. The realtek now shows it's using rtport.pdr instead of intelata.mpd. So at this point, the problem I described in the first post is gone, the multi-card reader is working, device manager says there is a problem with Secondary UltraATA controller (which doesn't bother me). Oh, one other thing - and I think I noticed this before I did any of this. Bring up file explorer, right click on any drive. I get a "this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" message. Details say invalid page fault in Kernel32.dll. If I dismiss the error, the message goes away, explorer does NOT close, and the right-click context menu appears as if nothing happened.

Maybe this is an old / legacy thing or maybe I'm the only one who sees this. I've got a fair amount of icons on my win98se desktop. Every time I open explorer (my computer) and select a drive, the contents of the drive will be displayed, and I might start scrolling down to a folder of interest, but in 1 or 2 seconds the screen does some sort of refresh where the explorer view is set back to the top of where I was scrolling and all the icons on the screen go through a wave of being re-drawn. After that, I can scroll down again and select the folder I want, and continue to explore other folders, and I don't see this screen refresh again. It only happens the first time I open explorer and start browsing a drive. Is there any way to stop this behavior?

VLC 3.0.4 says (in the codec tab) the video resolution is 2304 x 1296, buffer dimensions 2304 x 1312, Planar 4:2:0 YUV, Mpeg-H Part2/HEVC (H.265). The file is 5 mb (5.156 mb) and 25 seconds. The video is black and white (was taken at night in IR mode). VLC will "play" the video (time cursor will move along the bottom) but only the first frame will show on the screen. This is on Latitude e6420 laptop (core i7) windows 7 (32-bit). This same video file will play fine on a dumb win-7 (64-bit) desktop PC with some socket-775 CPU and onboard graphics (intel I think) with same version of VLC. I was just wondering if it would play on a win-98 system because I think it needs VLC 3 minimum.

I think starting with VLC version 3 you can play HEVC H.265 files. Don't know about Mediaplayer Classic. In any case, can Win-98 play these files, using any method or program? Even though I installed the latest VLC yesterday on a i7 Dell Latitude (win-7 32 bit) with nvidia accerator, it won't play one of those files - it just shows the first frame as a still image. The file is only 5 mb - it's a 25 second clip from a 4k IP camera.

I don't think it can be added. From what I read, FF2 was the last version to have built-in DOM inspector. FF3+ has it via add-on - the oldest version I can find says it's for FF3 and higher. I add it anyways, but it doesn't appear to work (it comes up, but it's empty).

Regarding Retrozilla-2.1 (Firefox Community edition) - is it just me, or has the DOM inspector been removed?

After I posted the original post I did some searching and I think I found a few things to change (although the discussions I found about them really didn't indicate they would really work or be that effective). Anyways, I just did a re-test. Same setup as the first post in this thread. Win-7 laptop (on wifi) was tested (speedtest.net) and was good for the full bandwith of my internet connection (30 mbps down, 5 mbps up). File-copy (410 mb file) from win-98 to win-7 came in at 413 seconds (1,024,605 bytes / sec). File-copy (same file) from win-98 to XP was 329 seconds (1,286,206 bytes/sec). I'm trying to figure out how to get win-7 to see a shared folder on the XP pc so I can repeat the test between win-7 and xp.

On 10/25/2018 at 12:56 AM, NoelC said: > A Haswell-based system running Win 7 and serving as a small server is working perfectly. > And when I say perfectly, I mean it doesn't even log anything more than an informational > message in the System Event Log for months at a time. I have two NT4 servers that have been running since 1998, originally both using Gigabyte BX440 motherboards (but one became flaky a few years ago so I moved the drive to an i845-based board which was probably made in 2004/2005). Hard drives for both cloned somewhat infrequently. Used to run some corporate version of Symantec anti-virus, but that was at least 10 years ago, so there is really no "security" software running on them. One handles our accounting database and CRM and email, the other is just for our website. They just sit in the basement and do their job until I have to restart one of them because it ran out of licenses.

I don't intend to install any specter-related patches because (a) my system (most systems) will take a performance hit, and (b) is there even an active threat going on with this (for single-user home/soho systems)? Regarding SMB, I take it that kb4012212 is what I want, which I can get from https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=kb4012212 and there should be no other MS spyware/telemetry in that - right?

Are there any single-issue (or vulnerability-specific) KB updates that are available (somehow) for win-7 that have been issued during the past 2 years -> that are not part of a roll-up package that contains god-knows what-else? If so, what are the KB numbers for them?

I have 278 installed KB's. When sorted the first and last 4 are: KB976902, KB982018, KB2479943, KB2491683 (...) KB3172605, KB3177725, KB3178034, KB3179573 This is for Win-7 SP1 Ultimate, 32-bit. Of the 9 kb's mentioned on the previous page of this thread, I have these installed: KB3020369, KB3033929, KB3071756 and do not have these: KB3045999, KB3046049, KB3035131, KB3063858, KB3067505, KB3177467 I do not check for windows updates (not for more than a year anyways) and my current system has actually never installed any updates - what I have is what was rolled into my install image as of August or September 2016. My application log is filled mostly with VSS event ID's 8193 and 13. I don't believe (but who knows?) that these are the result of any kb's I have or don't have installed.

I've created an SSL certificate using letsencrypt but can't figure out how to install it under IIS4 (system running NT4 server). Particularly when the key manager is asking for a password. And I might have to transform the files I got from letsencrypt into a different form / format that IIS4 is expecting? Anyone here done this?

I'm gonna be hitting the sack - will check on this in the AM (about 10 hours from now)...

I downloaded KexBeta.18.7z and backed up the contents of my existing kernelex folder and then copied the contents of the kexbeta into the kernelex folder while booted into dos. I restarted and got this message: Kernelex was unable to find its kernel driver counterpart. Please reinstall kernelex. My previous working version was 4.05.2016.17. And if it matters, I have windows 98 installed in c:\win98 (not c:\windows).

I find micross.ttf on this win-7 system (sp1, 32-bit, ultimate) and I don't remember adding it, so I have to assume it came standard. From what I've read, micross.ttf is a standard (default) font that installs with win-2k and XP (and in my case I'm assuming 7 also) but not 98. I copied this file (638 kb, 6/10/2009) to my win-98 system and used the above-mentioned registry entry, and MS word and Coreldraw both now show Microsoft San Serif. I have hundreds of installed fonts on my 98 system (perhaps close to 1000) because so many came with Coreldraw 9 (that I installed many years ago). This micross.ttf file is odd or strange - because it is so large compared to 99% of my other font files. And it's odd because it does not contain italic or bold or underline versions (which it should, given it's file-size). Edit: I spoke too soon. For the hell of it, I rebooted with bootlog and yup, micross.ttf wasn't loaded. Error code 16 I think it said. So I'll poke around and see what other versions I can find.

Here's what I found. FFCE = Firefox Community edition (Roytam's version) FFBE = Firefox Bon Echo edition aka 2.0.0.22pre (what I've been using for years) Differences and similarities (FFCE / FFBE) TLS 1.3 no / no TLS 1.2 yes/ no TLS 1.1 yes/ no TLS 1.0 yes/yes SSL 3 yes/yes SSL 2 no / no Server Name Indication (SNI) Yes/Yes Secure Renegotiation Yes/No TLS compression No/No Session tickets No/No OCSP stapling No/No Signature algorithms (FFCE): SHA256/RSA, SHA384/RSA, SHA1/RSA, SHA256/ECDSA, SHA384/ECDSA, SHA1/ECDSA, SHA256/DSA, SHA1/DSA Signature algorithms (FFBE): none listed? Named Groups (FFCE same as FFBE): secp256r1, secp384r1, secp521r1 Next Protocol Negotiation No/No Application Layer Protocol Negotiation No/No SSL 2 handshake compatibility No/No Cipher Suites (in order of preference) Both list same ciphers, but different order

I downloaded this (Retrozilla-2.1 with TLS 1.2 support: https://o.rthost.cf/gpc/files1.rt/rzbrowser-tls12-20180504.7) and unpacked it and ran it. It appears identical to my FF 2.0.0.20 version except that it calls itself "Firefox community edition" or something like that. I think it says version 2.0.0.2. I don't see TLS 1.2 in the security options.

Does a technet subscription still get you a bunch of licenses for Win-7 (and a bunch more other stuff)?

Have a look here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/176381-win-7-renaming-folder-item-not-found-when-just-create-mess-after-october-updatesrollups/?tab=comments#comment-1134596 I have found that kb 958559 causes this behavior on Win-7 SP1 Ultimate 32-bit: - not showing (not having) any Libraries - not being able to create new libraries, and - giving an "Item not found" message when creating new folders or renaming existing ones.

I'd like to know if win-7 and XP is also vulnerable to this - and how exactly does this thing get into/onto a system in the first place. https://betanews.com/2018/09/05/windows-task-scheduler-bug-malware/ It's a little over a week since a vulnerability in the Windows Task Scheduler was revealed. A patch for the 0-day has been released by third party security firm 0patch, but there's bad news for anyone who hasn't secure their system against the security threat -- malware writers are already taking advantage of the flaw. The exploit was partly facilitated by the fact that the source code for a proof-of-concept exploit for the ALPC LPE vulnerability -- as well as a binary -- was published on GitHub. Now a group that has been named PowerPool has been spotted using the code in a malware campaign.

Starting in, I guess it was spring 2016 I got serious about making a win-7 install image using RT7. My focus was 32-bit win-7 ultimate. I started with win-7 SP1 installation disk and acquired a ton of individual KB's, and separated out the "bad" kb's (win-10 nags, telemetry, etc). By mid to late August 2016 I had my "final" version, which was SP1 + 281 KB's rolled in. The last kb (numerically speaking) was 3179573. The last kb I was keeping track of (but not installed) was 3173040. So at that point it would have been early September 2016, and that's when (I think) MS changed to a monthly cumulative rollup - a single update that contains god knows what. At the time I was asking if anyone was taking those things apart to get at (and maybe evaluate) the individual kb's but my impression was (and continues to be) - no - nobody is doing that. So that's when I stopped caring (because with MS there is no trust) so on the handful of win-7 systems I either use or manage, I've not done any updating on them AT ALL since August 2016.

Schtasks seems to search for tasks by looking through system folders? Odd. I would have thought that scheduled tasks were stored in the registry or a centralized file, not helter-skelter like this. I take it that for the following list, the root-level folder is c:\windows... For these folders: Folder: \ Folder: \Microsoft Folder: \Microsoft\Windows Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Media Center Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\PLA the response is: INFO: There are no scheduled tasks presently available at your access level. Given that I'm running this at admin level, and given that that this is a windows-NT-based operating system, I am therefore not confident that I am getting a list of tasks that I would think should be "presently available at my access level". But taken at face value, I'm being told that there are "no" scheduled tasks located in those folders. (why tasks should be organized by folder is beyond me). For the following folders, the "next run time" is either disabled or N/A and the status is either Ready or Unknown: Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Active Directory Rights Management Services Client Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\AppID Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Autochk Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Bluetooth Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\CertificateServicesClient Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Location Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\MemoryDiagnostic Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\MUI Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Multimedia Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\NetTrace Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\PerfTrack Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Ras Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\RemoteAssistance Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Shell Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Task Manager Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Tcpip Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\TextServicesFramework Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\UPnP Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\User Profile Service Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\WDI Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Windows Filtering Platform Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Windows Media Sharing Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\WindowsColorSystem Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Wininet For the following, they are showing a specific next-run-time. I am showing the taskname, next run time, and Status: Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience AitAgent 7/13/2018 2:30:00 AM Unknown ProgramDataUpdater 7/13/2018 12:30:00 AM Unknown Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program Consolidator 7/12/2018 6:00:00 PM Could not start KernelCeipTask 7/19/2018 3:30:00 AM Unknown UsbCeip 7/14/2018 1:30:00 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Defrag ScheduledDefrag 7/18/2018 1:46:48 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Diagnosis Scheduled 7/15/2018 1:00:00 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Maintenance WinSAT 7/15/2018 1:00:00 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Power Efficiency Diagnostics AnalyzeSystem 7/17/2018 8:33:11 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\RAC RacTask 7/12/2018 11:14:00 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Registry RegIdleBackup 7/17/2018 12:29:18 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\SystemRestore SR 7/13/2018 12:00:00 AM Unknown Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\Time Synchronization SynchronizeTime 7/15/2018 1:00:00 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\WindowsBackup ConfigNotification 7/13/2018 10:00:00 AM Ready Folder: \Microsoft\Windows Defender MP Scheduled Scan 7/13/2018 5:33:06 AM Unknown I am seeing defrag events in the event logs, and they are indicating that defrag ran fine, no problems. But I think it's running too often and it's probably something that I'd like to run manually instead of automatically. Other than that, I see one item above (Consolidator) that could not start. And I see that system restore and windows backup are set to run on July 13 even though the control panel settings have them disabled (I just love NT-based Windows!). Other than that, it's not intutive for me to see if any of these other various tasks would involve shadow copy service.