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Hyperlinks should be fixed in beta 2.

I've researched this issue and - that may sound stupid - it's really mimicking XP behavior. SHParseDisplayName check they added in some security update actually may fail to process mailto: links. Nevertheless it's a serious issue and it will be fixed soon. And if you want printing, what you wanna print?

I'm not sure how ntkern really works. But 98 kernel has (K32_)NtCreateFile which calls ntkern one and takes unicode strings. So no, your idea is not working. You have to call ifsmgr directly somehow.

I've tested and unfortunately it's a failure. Calling NtCreateFile with unicode characters just turns them into underscores (any non-english char).

Yet to be tested. I'm afraid it's not that easy. Only those which "win32 services" are registered for. Not much for ntkern. 9x already has hideous support for NT device namespace. For example, you can do CreateFileA \\?\C:\file.txt and you'll receive handle for file opened with NT minikernel. This handle is limited to only certain apis so reimplementing whole certain apis and kernel driver will be required.

IE bugs and other reported crashes were all confirmed and being fixed, don't worry.

Set Enabled=0 in [Crash Reporter] section in application.ini located in firefox folder. Then post crash message here. (use wordpad or some other pad to open that ini file)

Photoshop crashing. Not sure about FF3 shell integration, you may ask someone else. KernelEx 4.0 Final 2 doesn't have photoshop crashing bug so you may try it meanwhile.

This bug was reproduced and will be fixed in 4.5 beta 2.

Could it be that your CPU is just not supported? Try kex 4.5 with flash 10.1 also.

drwatson.exe is built in windows. Autoruns can be downloaded from microsoft, but you need older version or kex installed. All you need is click File->Save (txt file) and attach it here.

Well, sorry, take your time. Downgrading Firefox from 3 to 2 can be problematic so create profile backup. You can make your list of resident programs with Autoruns or Dr. Watson. I have tested Photoshop 5.0 and didn't find any problems with it and KernelEx 4.5. Could be your/98 system specific.

Well the situation with FF3 printing is complicated. Whole printing algorithm was replaced when they moved onto Cairo graphical layer. It's very complicated now and uses a lot of NT GDI extensions as well as printing/postscript improvements. With the scaling emulation added into Final 2 FF3.0 was able to print, however, it was very hardware dependant since printing creates various undefined situations which some drivers don't handle, and one error stops whole printing. Plus, images can be incorrectly positioned. Plus, you can leak all your resources out while printing lot of pages. FF3.5 started using unicode print functions which weren't implemented until kex 4.5 (and they're far from perfect now). So the situation isn't improved yet and i'm not sure if/when it will.

I don't recall it to be fixed. If it prints, results are comparable to FF3.0 (bad).

1) Try removing KernelEx 4.5 and installing 4.0 Final 2. 2) Remove Norton/Symantec apps. List other resident apps you have. 3) If you want proper shell integration, you need to install Firefox 2, make it default and then upgrade it. Also, can you try Photoshop 5.0 in windows safe mode?

Huh? Well then extract DLLs out of that exe into \windows\system or app directory.

You need to install Visual C++ 2008 (VC2008) Redistributable for Windows 9x/ME [1.43 MB]: http://www.mdgx.com/files/VC_R_9X.EXE

It automatically sends "enable unicode" messages on dialog creation and window query which should cover most apps. Newer (SVN) version has completely overhauled unicode window layer which should cover all unicode windows.

x64igor, they're already implemented since IE5.5 afaik. You need to sent CCM_SETUNICODEFORMAT to control or support WM_NOTIFYFORMAT. KernelEx does (did) both.

Where is it taken down? It's still available from regular place: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

You don't need DLM (and nobody does) Adobe is constantly breaking Flash Player install, but i believe you still can get .exe installers from here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

This is retarded. IE5 and up come with NT API emulator which implements all missing APIs required for IE on 9x platforms (mostly Unicode functions). No, IE is not tied to NT security model (at least before SP2).

Taskbar is broken in UberSkin since shl8.dll checks shell32 DllGetVersion. The different behavior with Win95 taskbar is one window message. You may fix it roughly by hexing out "DllGetVersion" string in shl8.dll.

You can install RP9 bare-bones (no 32-bit icons, skins) but to win over Opera resource leaking you need GDI Heap Extender which stuck in beta. And on 32MB of memory newer Opera is extremely terrible; can't you use older versions?

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