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Is there a page of extensions, like a list of add-on's I can browse, I'm looking for something similar to Firefox 2's "new tab" extension. One of the flaws of Seamonkey 1 is that there's no toolbar button for creating a new tab. Any help would be appreciated.

I meant that Win9x is through, not exactly that my particular computer is through. Perish the thought. :-) Yes, it's like a good faithful toaster, but eventually I won't be able to adjust how "brown" I want my toast. By margins and stuff... I meant that the text didn't appear to wrap correctly, instead the line just continued to absolute edge of the page. It looked like something typed in Edit or another DOS program. It looked fine on my computer, but when people printed them on their newer machines, my resume looked like something from 1985. I never knew about that Word 97 - 2007 compatibility pack. That's interesting. I always thought Word 97 was the best. Cool, Dencorso, thanks. Is this file below all I need? Well, and Word 97 of course. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3 I'll give that open office a try sometime as well. thanks. Lastly, nobody knows if the default Abiword format (.abw) can be opened by MS Office? I guess I can just try this at the library sometime.

What are people's thoughts on this? Besides a literal handful of apps that I regularly check for updates, there's basically nothing "new" to add, or improve upon my existing system. The state it's in right now, is probably the state it will stay, until it eventually is not Internet worthy anymore. And then after that, if for some reason USB 2.0 storage devices go the way of the floppy disk, there will be even less I'll be able to do with this rock. I doubt using CD-R discs would be a practical way of exchanging files/documents or conducting any sort of business. So, until the last KernelEx browser is no longer safe, or until I can't use the USB 2.0 media, my computer is haning on by a thread. My computer is quickly approaching Windows 3.1 territory. And if anybody cares, the apps I'm still following for Windows ME are: 7zip, New-View Graphics Viewer, Trout Audio Player, ClamWin, XMPlay, Imagine graphics viewer, and PhotoFiltre. I've given up on IrfanView, FastStone, and XnView... at least on Windows ME... the previous versions seem to work faster, without all the useless bells and whistles. Sorry, sort of rambing there... Lastly, does anybody know if a document I type using AbiWord 2.4.6 (last version for Win9x) or Abiword 2.6.8 (KernelEx version), can it be opened by people using Microsoft Office. In case I need to send out resumes or some such thing. I'm in a predicament trying to find a word processor that at least can send nice looking documents, I'm not really worried about opening things though. I've sent resumes out using RTF format, using either wordpad, Jarte, or Abiword, but the margins and stuff never seem to come out right when printed. So I won't continue to use RTF format because it's lousy. I think Win9x uses an obsolete RTF version which doesn't translate well to newer ones. Anyways, all opinion are welcome from my fellow Win9x users. Okay, have a nice day.

thanks for the replies. I just realized that all that stuff is too complicated for me :-)

Hello, I'm wondering, and forgive my ignorance, but is there a way (using dial-up modems) to communicate to other computers without an "internet service provider." Can you by using just your phone line, set up some kind of Link, a way to communicate. I'm thinking ahead to when the internet is completely cloud based and you'll need the latest greatest, NSA-Back-Doored Windows Metro machine in order to talk to people. Is there a way I can transfer files, or send messages, or whatever, WITHOUT an internet service provider? For example, here's a page with DOS based "communication / web" software... would these apply under Win9x? http://www.reimagery.com/fsfd/comm1.htm

I remember the good old days of watching "Electric Circus" on Canadian TV and watching all the hot chicks dance around in short skirts. Good times. :-) The music was basically like techno and stuff. I don't think Techno music is around anymore... or even dance music for that matter. Techno must've been like the disco of the 90's.

I heard that the XBox will only work if you connect it to the internet as least once every 24 hours. How stupid is that? When I was a kid I had a Nintendo and Sega Genesis. You didn't have to connect them to the internet to keep them working. In regards to the FBI wanting a back door into all your software... well, unless they feel like tracking down the source code to all my ancient DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows ME/98/95 software.... good luck with that. I'm a diehard Windows ME user. As I type this, I'm on dial-up and using Netscape 9 with no javascript. Newer operating systems don't exist in my world view. Everything is now designed to be accessible to outside parties, without the users permission. Technology and internet freedom reached it's peak back in the nineties. I remember surfing the web back in the mid nineties, when it was new, using Windows 3.1 and Netscape 1 or 2. THAT, back then, was the internet. You typed a word into Web Crawler or InfoSeek search engines and the results were mostly people's homepages, which were designed by actual people. Shock! Sure, the presentation was kinda quirky, but it was unique and fun. Well, now homepages are dead and gone, and you have stupid blogs which must be run according to the rules of Google/Wordpress or whomever, and they can delete them at will, without reason or notice. The internet back then was so exciting and fun. Everything was a homepage that somebody took the time to design from scratch. Everything now is swamped in consumerism, commericialism, and general BS. Sure, computers now are faster, but I thought the computers from back then were GOOD ENOUGH (mine is a Pentium III less than 1 GHz)... and I have fond memories of all the computer games from my youth. Everything now is just saturated in violence and bloodshed... it's sickening. I remember playing Number Munchers, the original Oregon Trail, and Carmen San Diego at school. Then as I got older I still played lots of DOS arcade games. I still got a few on this computer... if anybody remembers those PLBM Games by Kurt Dekker. He released all of them as freeware. I still play his Frogger and all those occasionally. I guess you could blame Doom or Wolfenstien 3D for the gore in games nowadays. Getting back to the back door in all software, I will keep using my ancient technology, and hopefully fly under their radar.

I think it wouldn't hurt to have a couple on-demand scanners for Win9x. But anything that scans real-time would probably be completely pointless. Clamwin, F-Prot for DOS, older version of AVG and Antivir. You can find them on Oldapps or Filehippo.com I won't be downloading any versions of Clamwin byeond 0.97.6. The brand new ClamWin is like 20 Mb bigger than the last. Huge jump in file size, and probably the memory footprint and the time it takes to scan as well. so, my computer has virus protection from the ancient DOS viruses (using F-prot) all they way up to newer viruses thanks to ClamWin. But I won't be upgrading them anymore because they never find anything anyway.

Just some things to ponder..... The .zip archive format has been around since the late eighties, or early nineties. When Philip Katz enhanced the .arc format for compressing files. He was then sued by System Enhancement Associates and so he changed the name from PKARC to PKZIP. Thus, the zip format was born. It's been the defacto archive format, universally supported every since... and that was oh, about, 1993. Sure, there's been rival formats, like LZH, ARJ, RAR, and now 7zip. But since zip is so widely used, and the format has a good speed to compression ratio, none of those other formats have been able to replace ZIP. Now, you could use zip in a DOS command prompt, you could use it on Windows 3.1, Win9x, and everything since. Sure, the zip format has changed a little (with newer Deflate methods) but it's still pretty much the same. I can use Info Zip's executables on any platform. I can still unzip a file made from Windows 7 or 8 and open it using DOS. Another thing is the picture formats have hardly changed. Jpeg format has been around like twenty-five years. They tried to "improve" it by creating the Jpeg2000 format. But it resulted in much larger files and not much noticeable improvement in quality. Might as well just use TIF or PNG formats. The majority of images on the net are using the same format that was around in the days of DOS and windows 3.1 MP3 format has hardly changed a bit. I can still listen to MP3's using any older Win9x program. Well, movie files are a pain in the butt with all the different "codecs"... this is definitely one area where older systems are at a disadvantage, but with the right software you can convert newer files into playable videos for DOS, Windows 3.1, Win9x. Also, proprietary formats like Microsoft Word documents and PDF files, both of which I don't like and try not to use, are part of the whole "planned obsolescence" scheme of forcing users to "upgrade" to the latest and greatest every few years. Just to make Microsoft and Adobe richer than they already are. I don't see what is great about any of the upgrades. When I was sending resumes to potential employers I sent my resume in RTF format. Does anyone know if MS Office will open Abiword documents???? I'd really like to know. Because I can do more formatting and stuff with Abiword than I can using a basic RTF or Wordpad document. But anyway, the point is, I could still send people my resume using Windows ME and they could still open it. In reality I could log onto Microsoft Word 6.0 using Windows 3.1 and type a paper or resume that looks just as good, and with all the options and features that most people use, as the latest "Office 2012." The former program was simple, elegant and efficient, and it runs lightly. The latter is just bells and whistles, bloatware, with useless hieroglyphic symbols to make it look newer. They both do the same exact thing. And I prefer the look of Word 6.0 to all the newer office programs. I can play audio CD's and burn them and rip them on my Windows ME machine. I can burn data CD's and iso files using Windows ME. The audio CD hasn't changed since the 1980's. It's the same piece of technology for the last 30 years. Why do I need a brand new computer from 2012 to read/play something that is technology from the 80's? Lastly, I'm not a computer whiz or anything, but I know how to and I'm comfortable with formatting my computer in DOS, and reinstalling Windows 9x. I also have Windows 2000 and I mess around with that OS as well. But because of "product activation" I've never bothered with XP and newer systems to reinstall the OS. But I guess that's beside the point. Basically, I grew up in the DOS and Windows 3.1 era, and I'm still actually living in it, LOL, seeing as how I'm using Windows ME.... and I'll continue using Windows ME. Because I think it is the zenith of Microsoft Windows. The most intuitive, easy, yet powerful user interface. I didn't like the newer version of Windows that I've tried..... (Windows 2000 was good, Windows XP was okay and I like it, Vista was bad, 8 is totally terrible, haevn't tried 7 because the stores around here don't sell it anymore. They only sell Windows 8. Blech..) I think it just boils down to the following... I'm set in my ways, I thought the newer versions of Windows were needlessly complicated, and I didn't like them. So I'm sticking with Widnows ME :-) Oh and, the internet is still decent if you turn off javascript. I'm using K-Meleon 1.5 and I can still check my Gmail and read the news. So that's good enough.

Because.... the newer computers I used were barely any faster. Sure, the CPU speed a lot faster, but actually doing things on them doesn't seem any quicker. If you account for the bloat, and general poor user-interface of newer Windows versions, I can get things done easier and faster on Windows ME.

Thanks you guys... I will try it when I re-install Windows ME again... which will be soon. :-)

try using less RAM, or different RAM. if there's two sticks of RAM, try taking one of them out. then see what happens. for something that old, could require pc100 low density, not pc133 ram... even though they say pc133 will work and that they're interchangeable... which i think is a crock.

I have a dilemma. I purchased a US Robotics PCI 56k modem for my computer. I opened the computer and installed the modem. Upon rebooting, the "Add New Hardware Wizard" appeared and asked me to specify the location of the drivers. I selected the CD-ROM in the D: drive. The installation was successful. Modem worked fine. The problem is, I reformatted my computer and re-installed Windows. The modem wasn't automatically detected during windows setup.... so I figured I'll just grab the CD-Rom with the drivers, then install them. Unfortunately the program that automatically runs when the CD-Rom is inserted doesn't have an option for installing the drivers. There's only some "accessories" software to install, which I don't need, and the user manual. But no option to "install" the modem drivers. I clicked on my control panel and looked inside the "Add New Hardware" icon. Windows doesn't detect the modem, and I don't know about the "devices" or whatever. So anyway, what I did was..... I reformated the hard drive again, removed the modem, then installed Windows again. After installing Windows, I turned the computer off and put the modem back in. I turned the computer back on, and Windows detected the "New Hardware" and I followed the directions, placed the US Robotics cd into the drive, then my modem worked again. I'm just wondering.... for future reference, is there a way to get the drivers off the cd..... or evertime I want to re-install Windows I have to take the modem out beforehand? Silly question I know.... I don't mind taking out the modem every time I want to re-install Windows. Just wondering if there's a less involved way.

http://www.navsoft.cz/products.htm for DOS, but work on my Windows ME machines.

Bahamas - "Lost in the Light"

I've never played that game, so I can't be sure. maybe the game settings need to be adjusted... I remember in Warcraft II there was a way to adjust the mouse and keyboard sensitivity, so that the screen wouldn't scroll way too quickly to one side. Perhaps one of your computers is a lot faster than the other? There could be lots of reasons. have you tried going into the options menu?

all free stuff: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/tiny-personal-firewall-2-0-9 Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.9 http://www.clamwin.com/ ClamWin Antivirus http://www.sac.sk/files.php?d=1&l=F F-Prot Antivirus for DOS download file #78 "fp-316f.zip" extract to directory of your choice... then download & extract the file #79 "fp-def.zip" to same directory, overwrite older files when prompted to start program, you need to type into the command line "F-Prot /old" ...just so you know, the Windows version of F-Prot was never free, but the DOS one was http://www.oldapps.com/ Zone Alarm Firewall 3.7 version 1.0 is free, which can be found at Oldapps.com

I'll try that out, it seems to work fine right now however... :-)

that link to "cusser.net" didn't install right... but then I went to "see complete version history" and scrolled down to version 0.3 and it worked!!!! Yay. So much less annoying now :-) thanks

Can anybody provide a download link for the extension that allows new tabs to automatically go to your homepage? if you make a new tab it's always blank... I'd like it to go to Google instead. everything out there seems to be for newer firefox versions.

Thanks for the help. I got my backups on flash drives and CD-R's. No "expert uber-utilities" either, LOL. Just some old DOS games :-)

Thanks, Charlotte. You've helped me better understand all this router stuff. And you've confirmed what I've suspected about my ISP. Yes my connection is 56k. I tried running the "GRC ShieldsUp" test using Opera and K-Meleon, the results were the same. Same ports were closed and everything. As far as when I get attacked, it's never to the visibly closed ports (#0 and #1), but instead to port 1050 or some high number like that. Whenever I'm alerted to it, I immediately disconnect. I used to get pinged more often, like once a day, but I created a preset rule in the firewall to automatically ignore them. Tried other firewalls that are Win9x compatible (Sygate 5.x, Zone Alarm 3.7, Outpost 1.0), and while they completely 100% stealthed my system, they also slowed my internet down. The bigger the program, the slower my internet was. Now getting back to the viruses.... I keep the final version of F-Prot for DOS around, just in case I need to scan a possible "payload" as you put it. It's old, but I figure whatever Win9x malware is out there, that program will detect it. I might put ClamWin back on my machine... my paranoia may get the better of me.... I never bothered with the real-time ClamSentinel though. Don't have the RAM for that.

Metropoli BBS is back up, was down for a few years. lots of old stuff burried in there. http://files.mpoli.fi/ http://files.mpoli.fi/software/DOS/

LAST - FREE - FastStone Media Player 3.2 http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page36.html#FastStone%20Player System requirements Win98, 2000, XP 64 MB RAM Directx 9? Windows Media Player 9?

Yes, my internet is on "plain telephone wire" I presume. I just plug my computer in the phone jack in the wall. If somebody tries calling, then they get a busy signal :-) Thank you guys for the great responses. Charlotte, regarding the GRC "Shields Up" Firewall test.... maybe you can decipher the results for me. After reading what you said, I don't believe my ISP (netzero) does any filtering "down stream" to my computer. The reason why is because I have run the GRC test multiple times, and the PC Flank test from another website, with and without my firewall activated. When my firewall was acitivated it said my computer was secure and the ports were either closed or stealthed. When I retook the test without my firewall, everything was open and I completely failed the GRC test! Needless to say, I turned Tiny Firewall back on! I'm definitely no expert at all about this stuff. I'll just report what I do know: I use Tiny Personal Firewall. Upon installation it prompts the user whether or not to share NetBIOS access. Every time I've installed it, I always check "NO. Don't share my files." I then have proceeded to taket the GRC test. Results are always the same: "File Sharing: unable to connetc to NetBIOS on my computer. My computer is well hardened against internet attacks." Or something to that effect. Next up, I do the simple port scan then the advanced port scan. The results are always the same, "All ports tested are stealthed." A curious thing though is that ports zero and 1 are merely closed, not stealthed. So in that regard my computer is visible, it always fails the "True Stealth" test. Because I have a couple ports that are closed instead of stealthed. No big deal I figure. Anyways, sometimes, randomly while surfing the web I'll get a pop-up screen telling me that "Somebody at address xxx.x.x.xxx wants to Connect to SeaMonkey using port x.xx...x Permit or Deny." I always choose deny. Sometimes I also get pinged. I've looked at the internet address in my logs to see who pinged me. I then do a google search of that specific IP address and it's always from China. So, if my ISP was protecting me before sending me data, then in theory I shouldn't get random people trying to connect to my ports or ping me, correct? The only reason I think I never got hacked before I started using Tiny Firewall two years ago, is that Windows ME by default has file sharing turned off... contrary to Windows 98 which is on by default. I still don't understand what file sharing has to do with having "open" and "closed" ports though, because back then I wasn't using a firewall at all but I still never had any visible signs of computer hijacking or mysterious glitches. Which is why I think the entire concept of Dial-up security is completely neglected. I did research this issue a couple years ago, and after reading some articles by alleged "computer professionals" I came to the conclusion that I at least should have a "software firewall" installed.... even on dial-up. Another thing is, if Netzero actually did filter or block or whatever the data going "downstream" to their customers, I wonder why they'd bundle the Norton Antivirus software free with their Netzero software. Basically, the whole issue of 9x security is one giant foggy no-man's land to me. Who know's what works and what doesn't. Again, I appreciate the replies.