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98FE/SE has a better, unique startup sound. ME is lazy and uses the Win2000 one, that's one reason enough for me Transplanting what's good of ME into 98SE is the best option.

What about secure websites, banks, logging in to anything? This is just a gimmick.

Or in other words, (some) pinned topics are out of date.

My IBM ThinkPad T40 is similar to the D600, it runs nLited XP SP3 rather well, just need to find the right browser that will be the fastest for JS and 240p YouTube. Firefox ESR is OK, but can get slow.

Anything compiled for never Visual C++/Visual Studio will not work. Don't get your hopes high.

Here are older drivers than 6.2 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=45116

Use HIMEMX.EXE from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/himemx/ Put the EXE in the Windows folder and type this at the beginning of the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEMX.EXE \MAX=1048576 (or 524288 if you still have problems) Also use the Vcache patch from here: Remove any MaxPhysPage and everything from the [vcache] section (MaxFileCache etc.) from the SYSTEM.INI. Tell us if this fixes stuff. Also try using ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 and DMABufferSize=64 in the [386enh] section. Also try older graphic drivers.

Win9x is one big workaround anyways, if you really think about it So were programs such as DOS4GW.

For battery I found something crude, but it's better than nothing: http://exodusdev.com/products/monitor-win32-power-management-events As for Screen brightness adjuster and maybe color, you've tried PowerStrip?

Can't CSM be emulated in bootx64.efi kinda like PLOP boot manager?

Did you try PCem-X? 86Box?

I use AMNHLTM. http://toogam.com/software/archive/drivers/cpu/cpuidle/cpuidle.htm It's a simple VXD file that you install and forget about it. Can't be simpler than that!

QEMU has some audio options: (per official documentation) - Creative SoundBlaster 16 sound card - ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370 sound card - Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio compatible sound card - Intel HD Audio Controller and HDA codec - Adlib (OPL2) - Yamaha YM3812 compatible chip - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card - CS4231A compatible sound card It emulates these VGA cards: -Cirrus Logic GD5446 (good for DOS, useless for 3D, maybe good for 2D Win95 games) -Standard VGA card with Bochs VBE extension (probably like VirtualBox) -VMWare SVGA-II (weird, right? ) Do you really need Windows 98, or would Windows 95 be sufficient for your games?

Well, you can try PCem (or any of its forks), or QEMU under Linux using KVM.

I think everyone needs the rloew's free PATCHPAR.EXE patch from his website to fix IO.SYS bug with partition corruption when using other partitions(NTFS/Linux) alongside FAT32 on the same drive when using 98SE. I use Paragon's NTFS driver, and I'm happy with it.

I simply take 4 files from the NUSB package, USB2.INF, USBPORT.SYS, USBHUB20.SYS, and USBEHCI.SYS, and install the USB controller manually from the INF. Then I install rloew's 98SE USB Mass Storage driver from his website when I plug my USB flash drive for the first time. Just don't unplug the flash drive too fast before file operations are done, you'll get a non-destructive BSOD (you can go back to the system, so nothing scary) like with good old floppy disks if anyone remember those struggles The flash drive will not be damaged in any way And no, hotplug never worked for me. It's an universal solution for any USB 2.0 controller and any USB flash drives without tinkering with system files in any way, been doing it for years now. No need for this hotplug, systray, user32, sysdm updating system files nonsense, why making life more difficult? And no, modern motherboards from Skylake and above, and Ryzen uses USB 3.0 hardware ID exclusively for all USB ports, so no USB drivers for it, you'll need a PCIEx1 USB 2.0 controller.

Remove/rename ESDI_506.PDR from WINDOWS/SYSTEM/IOSUBSYS. This will make 98SE use slow 16bit compatibility mode disk access, and you can keep the enhanced mode for other OSes. Now, you can experiment with XHDD from here to possibly(?) speed up the compatibility mode: http://optimizr.dyndns.org/dos/drivers.html Or, buy rloew's SATA patch, or the new AHCI driver. Of course, since there's no Intel SATA drivers for 98SE for 865, ASRock fools 98SE by making SATA look like IDE to the system, that's the only choice they had.

I use XMPlay: http://www.un4seen.com/ It's still supported and developed, can play FLAC with the free plugin on the site, it works without KernelEx. \ I highly recommend it! i use it even on my main Win7 PC. Although it won't work if you change/mess up the msvcrt.dll file.

Would be nice if you could provide the exact EXE file. Try using Windows ME's bootdisk for OFORMAT.COM. Setver never helped in anything for me A nice question to add while on this topic, is why IO.SYS forces loading SETVER.EXE while starting 9x? What is it used for?

I bought the AHCI driver, however, it doesn't really work. I didn't have the time recently to troubleshoot it further with rloew on email, everyone will know if it finally works And it's Kaby Lake, not Skylake, the chipset in motherboard is Skylake (H110), the CPU is a Kaby Lake Pentium G4560.

Not all (un)official patches are available for Polish version of ME currently. I could transplant ME files myself, but what about newer files than on the CD? Wayback Machine can only help so much. People focused on the English version (which I understand), so that's why I'm slightly irritated about that. Besides, totally off-topic, I do not really like MDGx's writing style about anything, extremely convoluted! As for the main topic, in the span of just three(!) years, M$ released 5 OS's! (98FE, 98SE, 2000, ME, XP) No wonder one of them could have failed, they were busy back in the day, there was only so much time for quality assurance, not to mention consulting with the PC component manufacturers and suppliers at the same time, it was crazy, I'd imagine.

That's an untranslated string from the original Japanese version, saying that using this program may ban you while playing online multiplayer games. Other things are translated to English. There is a version where this string is translated, but it doesn't work well on 98SE. It's a really nice utility for those games that work under 98SE that do not have windowed mode built-in.

Nice app you've found, @jumper! I can't find a way to sort processes by clicking on the columns, but one thing I've noticed, that it shows files used by a process in real time, this is cool especially in games like in this example: https://imgur.com/a/EaHzc I think Process Explorer/AIDA64 can't do that.

98SE2ME would be great, if it supported other languages of 98SE, not just English.

AIDA64 shows memory usage, CPU usage and programs in memory. For a true task manager, use Process Explorer 11.11 (latest for 9x) As for VCache settings, try http://www.thpc.info/dload/swp160up.zip or http://www.thpc.info/dload/cacheman.zip