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> For extensions, install this extension; it'll give you access to the archive of the classic extensions. I tried installing it. It says it's not compatible with FF 39.

https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/E6420-Lists-Both-Intel-GPU-and-nVidia-GPU-in-the-Device-Manager/td-p/5162478 ============= Google "NVIDIA Optimus". Basically, the system defaults to the Intel GPU in order to save battery life when there is no graphic-intensive work going on that would be enhanced by having the NVIDIA GPU active. In many systems it's also the only GPU physically wired to the display outputs. When the performance demand increases, e.g .when playing a game, then the NVIDIA GPU is activated and acts as a render-only device, doing the heavy lifting and then passing completed frames to the Intel GPU for output to the displays themselves. In general, this system works well (and it continues to get better with newer drivers), but there are times when the automatic mechanism does not select the desired GPU. In those cases, as ejn63 said, you can use the NVIDIA Control Panel to force a particular GPU to be used when a certain application is executed. You may also notice that if you right-click an application shortcut (at least on the desktop, not sure about the Start menu), you'll see an option that says "Run with graphics processor" and then allows you to select the Intel or NVIDIA GPU. That is a handy way to choose a specific GPU on a faster, per-execution basis as compared to storing a persistent profile in NVIDIA Control Panel. ============= I used to ask here, in the win-98 forum, if any video card higher than a 6200 would have better ability to decode or stream movie files on a win-98 system. I don't recall getting any concrete answers as to whether or not higher video cards (6800, 7xxx, etc) had any inherent hardware enhancements to do video-stream decoding, or if the hardware enhancements of those cards was only for video-game rendering. In this current situation, the Nvidia control panel does not offer the Nvidia GPU as the default choice for apps such as VLC, MP-Classic or Windows media player, so again I'm assuming that the Nvidia GPU has NOTHING built-in to enhance the decoding of video files (mp4, h264, h265, etc). Under the screen resolution advanced options, it shows only Intel HD 3000 graphics adapter. There is no Nvidia choice. This is consistent with the information posted above. Right now, resource monitor says I have 2763 mb in use, 221 available, 4096 installed. 1111 mb hardware reserved. I closed a IE10 (with 2 tabs open), a pdf viewer, VLC, Thunderbird, and now I have 2310 mb in use, 677 available. FF with 32 tabs is using 780 mb. Seamonkey (1 tab) is using 377 mb. dwm.exe is using 112 mb. These numbers are the "working set" column.

There are no GPU settings in screen resolution section. The only settings for graphics processor are found by running Nvidia control panel, and they seem to pertain to "3D settings" and are set based on the application. For all browsers I can set the GPU to be Integrated Graphics or Nvidia high-performance GPU. How that helps the browser performance, I don't know. For all media players (VLC, MP Classic, Windows Media player) the ability to select Nvidia GPU is removed. So if the Nvidia GPU has high performance video stream decoding, I can't see how I can put it to use. If, on the other hand, the Nvidia GPU is mostly for game playing, then that is of no use to me.

> Could you try GPU-Z to see the GPUs temperature. This is a Dell Latitude 6420 with I7 cpu. It has Intel HD Graphics 3000 and Nvidia NVS 4200M (I'm not exactly sure what it means to have 2 GPU systems or how I know when either one is in use). CPUZ says the nvidia gpu is 45C, the intel is 53C (same as the cpu). Both IE10 an FF39 are playing youtube video's just fine tonight (I just checked) but I've rebooted and restarted IE10 / FF since my post. I guess you can't leave browsers open for days on end on win-7/32 systems with 4 gb ram without some having some resource / stability issues cropping up. Does having win-7/64 with 8 gb ram work any better?

Want to post a list of your installed updates? wmic qfe list full /format:texttablewsys > "C:\hotfix.txt" (or some other suitable folder) Even if you don't post it, out of curiosity, do you have kb 958559 installed? You might want to look at this: ================== Posted September 20, 2018 (Weird "Item Not Found" Error) On 9/18/2018 at 7:41 AM, Radish said: Also found this. You need to read the whole thread. The fix mentioned there isn't discovered till Page 2: https://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/81527-need-help-unable-rename-move-folders.html The long and the short of what is being suggested there is that update KB980408 is the culprit. They do though propose a fix, see "HellGates" post.

I rarely browse youtube directly (I usually play youtube video's embedded on/from other websites) but I've been browsing youtube tonight and (unless it's my laptop) I can hear the audio just fine but I'm not seeing any video. The overlays and buttons for ads (like skip-ad) are there but I'm getting just a black screen. This is IE10. I see all the other content on the page (like comments and the list to the right of up-next videos with cover-image). FF 39 was worse in terms of seeing much on the site. Same with the current version of sea monkey. Do I need to reboot my laptop, or is known behavior? (I'm typing this on FF39 with IE10 playing in the background and msfn seems fine). I refuse to install / run Chrome if that's what you're thinking...

Take ownership of the folder, and try again? Indexing service? Is this the root folder of a drive? C drive maybe? (doesn't Win-7 have a hang up about what it allows you to create or do in the C root?)

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.