Jump to content

Nomen

Member
  • Posts

    656
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Donations

    0.00 USD 
  • Country

    Canada

Everything posted by Nomen

  1. To add more info: I have "Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider" service set to Disabled, Volume Shadow Copy service set to Manual, and Windows Backup service set to Manual - I see that it's current status is "Started" and Volume Shadow Copy is not started. Does anyone know, or can give an explanation, as to the inter-relationship between those 3 services - in terms of what am I really missing if I disable all 3? I have never initiated a Windows Backup on this system nor have I knowingly configured Windows Backup to do anything on a schedule nor do I intend to. BlackViper has one or more of those services disabled under a bare-bones configuration, but for a Tweaked config they are set to manual. Is there an explanation as to what a "volume shadow copy" is or why I would want/need it, and why are there 2 different "shadow copy" services anyways? What do they do / what uses them / do I really need them?
  2. Win-7 ultimate, 32-bit. I'm seeing many instances of these two events in pairs in Application event log: ------------ Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error creating the Shadow Copy Provider COM class with CLSID {65ee1dba-8ff4-4a58-ac1c-3470ee2f376a} [0x80070422, The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. Event ID 12292 ----------- Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {65ee1dba-8ff4-4a58-ac1c-3470ee2f376a} and name SW_PROV cannot be started. [0x80070422, The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. Event id 13 ------------ Volume shadow copy service is set to manual startup. Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Backup and Restore says "Windows backup has not been set up" If something is trying to happen based on system scheduler, how do I check (and disable) said item? Otherwise, what is causing these events? Edit: I also notice this event ID happens in conjunction with the above 2: --------------- The VSS service is shutting down due to idle timeout. event ID 8224 ----------------
  3. I've got a win7 laptop (core i7) with a wifi connection speed that's at least good for 10 mb/sec download (according to speedtest.net). It has a mapping to a shared folder on a win-98 system. A file-copy test of a large file from the win-98 to the win-7 system runs at 430 - 440 kbytes/sec. I try the same test from the 98 system to a win-xp netbook (intel atom) and the file-copy speed is 1754 kbytes/sec. The XP and 98 systems are hardwired (ethernet) to the lan, while the win-7 system is wifi connected to the lan. Anything I can do to increase file-copy speed between the win-7 and 98 systems?
  4. There was a web page with 4 embedded videos - 3 from youtube and 1 from twitter. One of the youtube videos just sat there with a swirling circle (like it's buffering to play but doesn't end up playing) and the video from twitter doesn't play (puts up a message "we cannot play the video in this browser. please try a different web browser". This is firefox 39.0b7. I then went and installed Avant browser (most current version) and all 4 video's on the page played.
  5. Thanks. Setting the kex ignore settings for child processes for outlook.exe fixed the problem.
  6. Assuming there might be a consensus on this, I ask what "the best" browser is these days for win-7 32-bit. I generally try to use the oldest version of Firefox that will do what I want (like render embedded video's in web pages) but I'm finding that the last version of FF 39 that I recently upgraded to has some issues. Something that will allow me to enter an IP address and /or non-standard port-number for a URL, and will work sites with Java content and not have SSL or other protocol issues, Any thoughts on this?
  7. I'm not sure if this is a kernelex issue or not (and if it is, is this the place to ask) but here goes. On my win-98 system, when I double-click on an .mp3 attachment in an email while using outlook 2000, I am asked if I want to save the file or play it. The file is rendered with a VLC icon in the email, by the way. If I select "play the file" I get a message window with the Title-bar "Error Starting Program". The message says "The libvlccore.dll file is linked to missing export kernel32.dll:CreateTimerQueueTimer." In all other instances when I want to play something with a VLC icon (say, from explorer) there is no problem. I have VLC version 2.0.8 and KernelEx version 4.05.2016.17. Any easy way to fix this?
  8. Go to one of those sites that will display your user-agent and post here what it says about your Opera user-agent string.
  9. I note that when Ironman69 shows the Opera version in the video, the OS is shown as Windows 98se. I was under the impression that for Opera 12.02 to be installed on Win-98, you had to set a couple of registry keys to indicate the OS was (at least) Windows 2000 (indeed, that is what Opera shows on my win-98 system). And I just checked, and no, my Opera 12.02 still can't play youtube videos, although I've messed with a lot of files and I'm probably running the 12.18 Opera.exe with 12.02 Opera.dll so I can't be sure if not being able to play youtube is my fault. Has anyone else with win-98 and Opera 12.02 been able to duplicate Ironman69's claim? Edit: Or it could have been that installing some recent version of Flash, you needed to set the registry to indicate Windows 2000 or higher? But that would have been years ago.
  10. I've downloaded the Security9 file, and I'm downloading the 95-XP file now (3.6 gb) - but it's going to take 6+ hours. I'll post a directory listing for both of those later (unless there's an objection to that). I don't intend to get the 6 gb of Vista files. Edit: ok, here's the file listings for WinUpdates_95-XP32.iso and Security9_enu_15.iso. If there's any .txt files you see in there that you'd like me to attach to this post, let me know. WUFLOS.txt Security9.txt
  11. I notice that archive.org has a collection of ISO files called "Windows Updates for Legacy Operating Systems (95-Vista)" or WULOS that is showing a publication date of 2018 (January 25, so just a few days ago). I don't know if posting the link here would be approved of. I guess I'm wondering if there's anything there that is new or useful vs what we already know or have regarding those operating systems.
  12. > With all due respect, there are NO issues whatsoever with having a Windows 7 in a .vhd Yes there are. (1) I don't want to have buy 8 gb of new ram (2 x 4) to replace the 4 gb (2 x 2) that are in this particular laptop to be able to run win-7 in a vhd without the hard drive thrashing all time and (2) running any OS in a virtual environment is a huge comprimise in terms of not being able to access and utilize fully the hardware of the host machine to it's fullest / best capability. And then having to wait for the host OS to boot and then boot the desired virtual OS every time I want to use it. And I don't even know if the particular version of win-10 on the laptop in question supports vhd. > Multibooting Windows (any version) on a SAME partition has never been supported, and for the reasons That is not the situation I am contimplating or wondering why MS doesn't / can't support. I am fully prepared to carve a second partition out of the existing hard drive and have win-7 installed on it. I am just wondering if I will end up with functional dual-boot machine if I do that, and if not, what I'd have to do with the boot record or mbr in order to get dual-boot win-10/win-7 working. I stand by my supposition that wanting to install win-7 on a machine that came with win-10 pre-installed (while keeping the win-10 installation) can't possibly be a rare thing.
  13. I just can't believe that a situation where someone acquires a pc/laptop (as in my case, a refurbished Dell 6230) with win-10 pre-installed (and no win-10 install media) and wants to install win-7 so the pc is dual-boot - I can't believe that isin't a more common situation than it appears to be, and hence the process of doing that wouldn't have been worked out by now, with youtube video's, etc. I would think that we're way past the ancient days of "you have to install the older OS first because the older OS is really dumb and is *really different* than the newer OS. I can't believe that Win-7 would find a win-10 installation so foreign or strange such that even if win-7 were installed to it's own empty partition that it couldn't make it self compatible in a dual-boot way with a pre-existing win-10 install. Why on earth would MS not anticipate that situation (for power users, developers, etc) and not bestow that ability on win-7 and later versions? (installation interoperability and compatibility I'm talking about). If MS wants to really push win-10 adoption (even on older PC's as in this case) then why make it hard or impossible to seemlessly install win-7 (for those that have the media and key and insist on running it) on a system that already has win-10 (to give a working dual-boot configuration)? Because the alternative is (apparently) to give the user no choice but to wipe away the win-10 install when he's installing win-7 - and thus the pc is now win-7 only (because the user either doesn't really care enough about win-10 or even have win-10 media and spend the time to put win-10 back on). So MS loses - the system is now win-7 and they've lost a win-10 system (with it's app store and future potential revenue stream).
  14. If I've got a win-10 system and I want to install win-7 from a bootable thumb drive, will the win-7 installation process correctly configure the (single) hard drive for dual-boot and preserve the existing win-10 setup? Would I have to create a new partition on the existing hard drive first to do this (and can that be done from win-10)?
  15. That's what I figured. So why wasn't everyone running around back in 2000 - 2006 screaming that hackers were going to be stealing passwords from win-9x kernel memory back then? For a typical single-user windoze system (9x or NT) - what's in the kernel ram that is such a big deal to get your hands on? In the bigger picture, what does this say about the whole concept of having a separate admin (or root) access level vs user-level access to a system (again, thinking only of single-user, non-enterprise systems)? Given all the hundreds of ways that separation has been shown to be faulty (on Windows NT systems) over the years, what has that basic design idea actually accomplished in the windows PC world? I know it has led a a great deal of frustration (you don't have the rights or permissions to do this or that) so what did users get in return? Looks more and more like nothing.
  16. I don't know if there's a thread anywhere on MSFN discussing the recent Meltdown and Spectre CPU-related vulnerabilities, but I thought I'd post here a question about how this might affect (or not) win-9x/me. Would code (ie - code typically executed by or in a browser) be able to perform Meltdown memory-scanning activities on a 9x system?
  17. I was looking at this DIAX soft-phone: http://www.oocities.org/tdanro/diax/diax.html Specifically, diax0915a.zip - the current version. The program file (diax.exe) seems to be dated to June 2005. I tried changing it to run under XP-SP2 compatibility, but got the same error.
  18. I'm wondering if XP/7 performs multiple simultaneous file-copying instead of single, linear copying and the end result (for a FAT32 file system) would still be a fragmented file system on the target drive. This could also be a function of file caching, sata drivers maybe? I'm wondering this because XP/7 seem to have a hell of a time hammering away at this source drive, trying to defrag it, after so much time.
  19. I've connected (slaved) a 750 gb sata drive (single FAT32 volume, 80% full) to PC's running XP and 7 and have used Window's native defrag as well as trial version of O&O defrag and let the defrag process go for up to 4, 5 days straight and still the process doesn't seem to be over. So here's what I want to know: If I copy files from what could be a slightly fragged or very fragged FAT32 drive to a brand-new, newly-formatted SATA FAT32 drive, will the files be placed on the new drive in an "un-fragged" manner, or will the placement of the files somehow aquire some degree of fragmentation by nature of how windows (XP or 7) moves/copies files between drives?
  20. Windows 7, 32 bit. I'm trying to run a program and it's throwing up a runtime error 339 and saying something about mscomctl.ocx either missing or not being registered. I apparently don't have this file on my system. Is mscomctl.ocx normally found on a win-7 system (that does not have office or visual studio) ? Does MS make this file available for download?
  21. Over the past few days I've had a 750 gb sata hard drive connected to an XP system and have been trying to defrag it, but even after a day or two of what looks like solid activity I don't even see a progress bar. I see that it's saying the drive is being defragged, and a graph showing the layout (where the fragmented files are). I've free'd up about 150 gb of space on the drive (because defrag complains when there is less than 15% free drive space) but that doesn't seem to make things go faster. Is XP defrag the wrong tool to use on large FAT32 drives? Is there a better program out there? (edit: should I try defragging it while connected to a Win-7 system?)
  22. I downloaded the win-me boot disk and booted ME-dos from floppy. Oformat apparently *is* happy running under ME. But I tried to format a drive and got "Your program caused a divide overflow error." Tried this on two different systems (same target drive). The drive is a 1 TB sata with a 250 gb primary partition and 750 gb extended partition containing 3 logical partitions of 250 gb each. Partitioning was done with fdisk 121. After not being able to run oformat, I formatted the primary partition with win98 format.com (worked fine). Was trying to format the second partition with Oformat after booting ME-DOS. Can't do it (divide overflow). What do we know about large drives and oformat.exe (7/17/2004)? Bonus question: Is there a dos-mode format program that will let you specify cluster size ? I think as of 5 or so years ago the answer was no - was wondering if that has changed.
  23. I was going to use the oformat.exe program on a win-98 system (booted into DOS) but got a "incorrect MS DOS version" error. I used setver to create a setting for oformat.exe and set it to 8.00 and rebooted and verified the setver setting but oformat still complained about the dos version. Format.com from win-me does seem to need a setver setting of 8.00 to run on Win-98 dos (7.10). Has anyone run this oformat.exe program, and did you use setver?
  24. I'm just going to ask a simple question: Of all the updates / patches offered here by user 98SE, which ones are not available through the various update packages (Problemchyld, etc) or available on MDGX?
  25. Opera 12.02 is the last of the 12.xx versions that "we" have managed to get working under win-98/me. And that's with using KernelEx. I've been exploring if Opera 12.18 can somehow work under 98 and have gotten some partial success (I've created an opera.dll that is a switcher or re-director to the functions in the real opera.dll (versions 12.02 and 12.18) and have discovered the function that is causing issues).
×
×
  • Create New...