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Yeah, i've managed to compile it without troubles.

Try formatting it using fixed tools: http://www.msfn.org/board/Corrected-FDISK-FORMAT-t85573.html or other tools, from FreeDOS or other partition managers. FreeDOS format: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/...ormat-0.91v.zip

Disable Active Desktop (use normal background picture)

There's one way to boot 9x from NTFS: grub loader for DOS. It provides emulated hard disk or floppy drive image to boot from via int 13h, from FAT or NTFS. Then, in theory, some Windows 9x NTFS driver will load itself and disable int 13h hook. And on shutdown, it will write updated registry back into image. However, with existing tools, it is a hard and unreliable solution.

Drop RP7?

OMG I've never seen so much reshack in my life. But remember that quality and quantity are different things.

Wait, if it loads before GUI, then perform a Logged boot via F8 and check \bootlog.txt (\bootlog.prv) after unsuccessful booting.

With custom build of this driver and special patched shadow bios i was finally able to get my native 1280x800 resolution on notebook with 915GM! And holy crap, it works awesome, i was even able to watch videos. Still no audio, lan or wlan, though, but i'm sure that sometime i'll be able to solve this If author gives me permission, i'll release this version for 915GM, otherwise anyway sometime version with support for non-standard resolutions will come. Edit: here it is! I hope someone will find it useful! i915GM.zip

Not good. Modifying shell32.dll leads to crashes with RP7 (and maybe without RP7 too) very often (Lupus suffers from this crash, for example). That's why imageres.dll was born.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=105725 http://www.bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbe9x.htm very alpha for now, but reported to work for some cards.

If you're serious with this project, consider this solution: DEInf - deintegrate things from 98 SE distro It's forgotten now, and i have no source anymore But it can help you with some things. If i'll ever start creating my custom Windows, i'll use 'imaging' solution - minimal archived windows installation + apps separately. Consider visiting Reinstalling hardware after Windows installation Also, i should repeat, this project is already done (integrated/removed componets, updated files, IE6, included apps, etc). Unfortunately, only with Russian version: http://bust.narod.ru/98if.html

Well Colors look dull to me. It does not have to be shiny, but currently active/inactive windows look the same Maybe you can delay your skins a bit to polish them for new skinning engine?

Well, they're extemely awesome to my taste! If happens to be icon packs support for RP8, it will be the my first choice! I think i need you (in addition to marxo) for RP8 design. But if you could release those icons as icon set (for existing program like IconPackager, or standalone as ResPatcher), it would be extremely nice!

Can't you delete vbemp.drv (if i do remember correctly) from dos? Why do you need drivers when you have Catalyst?

Bad me! Sorry, but Radeon 9xxx has been already confirmed to work. So far, this driver has been confirmed working on the following chipsets not supported by Windows 9x: Intel 915G,GM,945G,GM,965G Other cards (except Radeon 9xxx) are mostly not working So i'm preparing release which will contain only Intel cards support... BUT WAIT! FROM THE AUTHOR OF LEGENDARY NT VESA DRIVER: Universal VESA/VBE Video Display Driver (for Windows 9x x86 Architecture)(very alpha for now) Check it out!

Run those commands (assuming you have win98 installed in c:\windows): cd \windows\revbckup attrib -r -s -h system.dat attrib -r -s -h user.dat move /Y *.* c:\windows cd system move /Y *.* c:\windows\system

Restore system files from \windows\revbckup under dos manually.

Well, of course. New topic, new site, new manuals etc. It would be nice if had more power over my topics...

I believe that Nero problems can be solved by using compatibility mode: right-click nero shortcut->Compatibility->Troubleshoot - Use compatibility mode (or "Disable LameSkin"). And yes, RP8 will solve problems for those who can't read. In the future, please, constrain from creating themes with RP questions not in RP thread.

In 2008 for sure

What's with the those threads "anyone who can answer it"??? I can answer. Ask me in RP thread or via PM. Why do you start new thread? Furthermore, your question is pointless since RP7 logo in \logo.sys and you can edit it with graphical editor like standard logo.

I'm sorry to say this, Elvis and others, but wmpband.dll won't ever work on 9x systems. [i was sure it has left the building long time ago?]

And why the heck are you asking here?! There is a RP main thread just a bit upper! They are not.

I've used both, and they're both heavily buggy. Paragon NTFS worked almost correctly, but completely hangs while initalizing on some systems (i dunno if it is related to SATA/RAID or LBA48 problems). Sysinternals works for me, but writing feature once corrupted my files, and reading is slow and can completely hang system in some cases. It may work better with some other NT/2K/XP file versions, through...

Looks very well and stable to me! When i'm trying to compile DLL under Delphi 7, there is LongBool/BOOL type mismatch in MyGetCharacterPlacementA and MyGetCharacterPlacementW. If i change them to Integer (as it should be i think), it compiles ok (137KB instead of 191KB), but crashes at startup. Is it your fault or my fault? What could cause those crashes with D7?