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What's the problem??? When it asks for update, it downloads latest 7.0 version from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en which is compatible with 98 and is 100% working.

Well, i gonna repeat again: this is a not real fix to the problem. It helps only with 768Mb-1Gb memory. With 1.5Gb, for example, you'll need to limit VCACHE to 128Mb, and with more memory you're certainly doomed. Remember that Windows ME works with same 800Mb limit well up to 2Gb, and 98SE with rloew's patch with 512Mb limit well up to 3Gb or more.

Well, pardon me, no offense meant. For me, it is useless to have more than 384MB of the cache, even 256 or 128 is too much; note that M$ notes in VCACHE articles that "setting vcache size more than 32 mb wasn't tested and not recommended". The problem is, limiting VCACHE size does not cure the real memory problem! It limites the memory that VCACHE uses, but not allocation issue. It helps only to cure issues that prevent MS-DOS applications or drives to work when their memory maps are overlapping with VCACHE because of high 1Gb memory shortage. So the real patch is rewriting VMM memory manager to properly allocate memory/swap/dos arena memory with more than 1-2Gb. There is a very good article about 98 memory problems: Windows 9x and lots of memory: Dotting the i's (unfortunately, it is in Russian, and no online translator was able to handle it) The solution is to reverse-engineer VMM to find the ways to work around it. And i'm still unable to find 1GB sticks for my computer

Well, change 2 bytes twice is not much a patch.

Can't you just reinstall/fix IE? The correct order is Win98->Service Pack->IE6. You're horrible sadist.

Hey WildBill! It's interesting too see that you're trying to implement skinning. Would you like to explore/port my LameSkin code? It could be very useful for you. Plz contact me via PM/mail/ICQ etc. if you're interested!

Hi MDGX. In fact, i found that vb scripts [like msgbox("Hello World")] do not work anymore. Haven't tested JavaScripts. Moreover, CScript.exe is now in \windows\system (was in \windows\command), but registry entries weren't updated to point to \windows\system (because your registry update flags indicate 'do not overwrite') and thus "Program Not Found" dialog pops up.

I did a quick review of 3.0a7 code and was shocked with Gecko developers' laziness: In fact, nothing prevented them to make absolutely 98 compatible version: they even have own GetGlyphIndices wrapper, there still a hell lot 98-compatibility code, and SetWorldTransform() is used only for scaling. It does not seems hard to make 9x-friendly version, i think it is harder to understand their creepy build system

Sorry, Xeno86, but your program is just no good: - Resident [processes are expensive] - Not using message-loop [wrong design and thus CPU usage] - Can cause deadlocks [timered send-message] The right design will be: - Load into explorer.exe as DLL [injecting, or better, using ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad] - Hook list-view and update color only when needed I can write such tool if anybody wants.

Thanks for release, Gape! Changelist looks promising and solid. Problem: infex.ini: [RunPost] shell.inf,SHELL32.W98 shell.inf: Explorer.exe,,,4 Shell32.dll,,,4 Oh why the heck? Forcing installing explorer.exe and shell32.dll looks extremely wrong to me. It instantly breaks Revolutions Pack or 98SE2ME Option 3, why'd you do that? That'll also break 98Lite as well. Or that is supposed to run if shell32.w98 is NOT present? Looks like wrong way. Those files should copy only if shell32.dll version is 4.72.*. One more [minor] thing: infex main window hangs while installing INF. I think just disabling window and checking if process still running (via timer / GetProcessVersion/GetExitCodeProcess or directly in message loop) will be right thing.

Hiya, man, sorry but there is no way. If there were a way, i would certainly provide it, yea? Unfortunately RP7 taskbar skinning is tied with WinME' patched explorer.exe, and whole skinning system is tied to RP dlls. You may try RP6++ instead of RP7, but if you've already installed RP3.6 (heck where'd you get it) you may need to reinstall your system because all RP<5 are flawed with bad uninstaller . I hope RP8 will address your issues with more componentization and stability.

Right click taskbar -> Lock Taskbar.

And why not you? I've tried oa2k.dll from VB6-KB924053-x86-ENU.exe (update for 2000) and it seems to work.

Welcome back, Gape! I'm glad new uSP is coming. I still prefer good old uSP2.1 over AP. Sorry, but won't you consider removing old IE5 updates included? Anyway if IE5 is used somewhere, it is still buggy and vulnerable with or without these updates. Also, All: there is newer msvbvm60.dll (6.0.97.98, kb930828) available, for example here. There is newer kb934602, but is is not available yet [i've tried to request it].

VIPv3 works flawlessly for me, just return explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe from backup after installing.

No. RP7 does not run such a program and does not include any 3rd party programs. What is "XP method"?

This request should go into RP thread. RP does not support DBCS systems, and won't support them since i don't have any.

Win95cmd.exe - excellent find! Does anyone have consize.exe? As for solution, command.com and cmd.exe can be merged so command.com will work under DOS, and cmd.exe in Windows. I'll try to do that.

^^ Oh that's crap. And you won't succeed if you're unable to overcome limitations. What is "invisable borders"? You can just tweak scheme to make border size = 0, and make border bitmaps with the same color as window color. Because your caption buttons won't be resized, you'd better use AeroButtons=1 and tweak AeroButtonsTop and AeroButtonsMinRight. You may also need to convert those bitmaps to 32-bit color ones with alpha channel.

In fact, i hope you still can launch everything except explorer.exe You can 1) try to launch explorer.exe from \windows\revbckup 2) try to reinstall RP in both cases, you still must be able to run programs via ctrl-alt-del->run program or with some other trick, like specifying winfile.exe instead of explorer.exe in system.ini [boot] shell=

^^ You've messed up your system seriously after RP. You should restore your explorer.exe file from ME CD or reinstall RP.

Oh my god. Disable and kill Active Desktop with fire plz. Update video card drivers, set 32-bit video mode, disable everything from startup, and then install RP. That's what i can say for now

In latest NVidia drivers, i experienced bad performance in 3D and movie playing until - i switched "monitor synchronization" from auto to something else This may help.

Someone should slice off your head for this 5 MB of graphic s***!!! :realmad:

Well, it is interesting but too unpolished: - Boring color scheme - Small caption buttons - Taskbar buttons bug - Active/Unactive windows use same color NoPremultAlpha must be =0 in all themes one want to make. NoPremultAlpha=1 is used only in Vista basic skin because Microsoft made bitmaps in Vista msstyles purposefully with pre-multiplied alpha channel. There is no tool to pre/de-multiply alpha channel for images, so that switch was made.