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I get that error all the time when trying to drag and drop files from 7-zip, and I'm not really sure what's causing it. You need to select the file, press Extract, and then choose where to extract it to.

Something I hate about the forum is that it tries to guess whether your're on a mobile platform or a desktop platform based on the browser window size. So, basically when I don't have my browser maximized, I get a mobile version of the site, even though I'm on my desktop. By the way, here's a bloat comparison: MSFN (Invision Power Services): http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dagmCE/http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174208-windows-10-deeper-impressions/ Betaarchive Forums (phpBB): http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/buWyMx/http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=24392

There's an annoying bug with the forum software that I've run into. When browsing a topic with multiple pages, there are buttons on the top and bottom of the page which allow you to navigate between pages. However, clicking one of those does not load the page immediately. Instead, I get this "Loading" tile, and the page stays like that indefinitely without loading. I have to actually refresh to get the topic's page to load. Every modern browser I've tried seems to be affected: Palemoon 25.8.1 on Linux Mint 17.3, Firefox 45.0.2 on Windows 7, Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7, Palemoon 26.2.1 Atom/XP on Windows XP, and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Phone 8.1. Here's a screenshot of what happens.

schwups, you are correct. According to Device Manager, it's an 845 chipset, not an 810, though the problem that w2k4eva described seems strikingly similar. rloew's RAM limitation patch did not fix the issue. OpenGL games still freeze up. I have plenty of free space. I have a 120 GB hard drive with two partitions. The first is a 48.3 GB FAT32 partition with 36.8 GB free, which holds Windows 98 SE, and the second is a 63.4 GB NTFS partition which holds Windows XP Professional. submix8c, what exactly do you mean by timing? I don't know too much about RAM, but both are 256 MB PC-133 SDRAM (no DDR). Here are the stickers on the two RAM modules. I haven't updated my BIOS, mainly because I'm paranoid that something would mess up in the process leaving me with a bricked computer.

Normal native applications built with Visual Studio 2005 do not depend on .NET at all. If you mean that running Visual Studio requires .NET, I don't really see how that's an issue. All you need is a computer with Windows 2000 or later (or even Linux with Wine). There's also the possibility of using Cygwin and MinGW to build Firefox, but I'm not sure if it would work with the older build system used by Retrozilla.

Do you need to use VC6? All versions up to Visual Studio 2005 support Windows 9x and NT4 as targets.

I tried swapping the RAM slots, as mentioned before, but it didn't make a difference. Changing PCI slots around doesn't do anything, either besides making Windows reload the drivers. The device manager lets me view the details of the resource usages, but I can't change them. I've also tried numerous combinations of IRQ assignments in the BIOS and fiddling with AGP aperture size, but to no avail. I wonder if it's possible to do some low-level diagnostics and debugging and see what's actually happening when the system freezes. I'll give Rudolph Loew's RAM patch a go and see what happens.

Every wireless card I own that has drivers for Windows 98 and 2000 comes with a utility that supports WPA2 on those systems, so I'll list them. My HiRO H50069 (RTL8185) card supports it on Windows 98, my D-Link AirPlus XtremeG card support it on Windows 98, the builtin Atheros AR5007EG in my Eee PC supports it on Windows 2000, and my D-Link DWA-130 USB adapter supports it on Windows 2000. All of those configurations are able to connect to my brand new AT&T U-Verse router.

It would be a bit more helpful if you posted the actual text of the error messages. According to the system requirements, that game is not compatible with Windows 95. It requires at least XP. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/905588 It's possible that although the game allows you to switch renderers, it's still linked to DirectX libraries and requires them to be present. You may be able to get it running on Windows 98 using KernelEx, but I doubt there's anything that can be done on Windows 95.

Sorry for the late reply. I've been quite busy these past few weeks. Unfortunately, reducing MaxPhysPage and MaxFileCache did not fix the problem. I've gone all the way down to 5000 (80 MB of RAM) with MaxPhysPage, and 65536 with MaxFileCache, and OpenGL games still freeze the system with both RAM modules installed. I do notice that my RAM modules are of different brands. One is made by Samsung and the other is made by Crucial Technology. Could they somehow be incompatible with each other in a way that Windows 98 doesn't like.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. It says it supports Windows 9x and ME right on the box, so it most probably does.

Here are my computer's specs: PC: Dell Dimension 4300 Chipset: Intel i810 CPU: Intel Pentium 4 at 1.5 GHz RAM: 512 MB SDRAM at 133 MHz Graphics: ATI Radeon 9550xl 256 MB Sound: SoundMax Integrated Audio Network: D-Link AirPlus XtremeG DWL-g520 wireless 802.11b/g OS: Windows 98 Second Edition I have a strange problem. I recently installed the ATI Radeon graphics card and the D-Link Wi-Fi card into my system. Both work very well, except not together. When the Wi-Fi card is enabled and I start up an OpenGL game like Quake 3, Neverball, or Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, my entire system locks up and Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't even work. If I remove the Wi-Fi card or disable it in Device Manager, the games work fine. However, I removed one of my RAM modules today, reducing it to 256 MB, and surprisingly everything worked. I was able to play Quake 3 online through Wi-Fi. I originally thought I might have some bad RAM and ran Memtest86+, but it didn't detect any problems. I also tried swapping the RAM sticks and trying both slots, but the result was that it always worked with one RAM stick installed and froze with both installed. I've heard of 1 GB of RAM causing problems with Windows 98, but I thought 512 MB should work. 256 MB is okay, but I'd really want 512 since I dual boot this with Linux which needs the extra memory. I'd really like to know what's causing this problem and if there's any way to fix it software-wise.

I've just run into an issue with the new Wi-Fi card. Trying to run any OpenGL application with the Wi-Fi card installed completely freezes up the system. The program will start up and run for a few seconds and then lock up. This happens with all OpenGL programs like Quake 3, the 3D Windows screensavers, and even a simple spinning cube demo I wrote myself. DirectX applications aren't affected, though. Disabling the device makes everything work again. It seems strange that a network card would cause problems with graphics. For the record, I'm using an ATI Radeon 9550xl 256 MB graphics card and a D-Link Airplus Xtreme G DWL-G520 Wi-Fi card.

Is there any reason why this usb package installs the Windows ME version of sysdm.cpl? I'm not too crazy about the system properties displaying "Microsoft Windows Me" when I'm actually using Windows 98 SE.

Another fun fact about Windows XP that you might not know is that the original retail installation disc had quite a bit of free space, and the guys at Microsoft were wondering what to do with it. What happened was that they took Microsoft Bob, encrypted it, then filled up the unused space with that data. So if you have an original XP disc, you have an encrypted copy of Microsoft Bob.

It's also worth mentioning that I couldn't get the Realtek card to work at all on Linux. Trying to bring up the card's network interface would always freeze the system. I tried multiple distros with varying kernel versions, all with the same result. There's a possibility that the card is partially damaged, causing problems on both operating systems. I really would not recommend a Realtek based Wi-Fi card on any version of Windows before XP. The bundled utility is buggy, wastes CPU resources, and interferes with power management.

I've solved my problem by using a different wireless card. You won't believe how I found drivers for this thing! So I have this D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DWL-G520 wireless card (hardware version B3). I wanted to install this card a while back. I don't have the CD, so I downloaded drivers from D-Link's website (ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/Products/dwl/dwl-g520/driver_software/DWL_G520_drv_revB_v4_70_Build923_S0032.zip), but these were only compatible with Windows 2000 and higher. Today, I downloaded the driver again just to make sure it wasn't compatible and noticed that the release notes file had Windows 98/ME listed under v4.40 of the software, and I had downloaded v4.70. I opened my browser to ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/Products/dwl/dwl-g520/driver_software/, the directory where the file was, and noticed a index_info.txt file there. The file mentioned a DWL-g520_drv_revB_Version-4.40.zip file, but it wasn't in that directory of the website. I googled that filename and found this site http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/ftp.dlink.de/dwl/dwl-g520/archive/driver_software which had a working link to that file. So, the card really is compatible with Windows 98, but D-Link removed support for it in the latest driver version, and moved the older driver versions to a hard do find place.

I thought about that too. I first installed the latest version from HiRO's website, which was unstable. Then, I uninstalled that, and installed the utility from the CD, and it was just as unstable. Both are from 2008, I believe. I'll try searching for an earlier version than that.

Whoa, I don't know what happened with that screenshot I uploaded! Looks like it got corrupted or something. Anyway, it's now displaying the desktop version of the site correctly. I don't know if someone fixed something, but it works. I'm not blocking ads. Don't know what you mean by that.

If you really want to create your own Linux distro, there's Linux From Scratch to help you get started with that. However, I wouldn't recommend doing that unless you have almost professional level Linux experience. If you're new, or even have a moderate knowledge of Linux, LFS isn't worth it. You'll need to be your own package maintainer and system admin, and it will be very hard to find support if you have trouble. What I do recommend for extreme customizability is Arch Linux. With Arch, you install Linux manually from the ground up, and learn a lot in the process. You can install whatever you want and customize everything to your liking. You don't need to build packages from source, unless you use AUR, and that's done automatically done via some scripts. Arch also has a large user base, so you can get help easily.

On Opera 12.02 (last version of Opera for Windows 2000 and Windows 98/ME with KernelEx), I now iincorrectly get the mobile layout of the site instead of the desktop layout like I should. This is my user agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02

Where do I even start with this turd? I recently got this HiRO H50069 Wireless PCI card for my Windows 98 machine. It has a Realtek RTL8185 chipset, and the drivers are listed as "compatible" with Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista. The card works fine in WinXP, but under Win98SE, I'm forced to use Realtek's crap wireless utility since Win98SE doesn't have WZC like WinXP does. The driver and utility installed fine, but it has problems. The utility has a 50% chance of crashing at startup. Whenever I change networks, it crashes. Whenever I resume from sleep mode, it crashes. Whenever I try to reset my internet connection, it crashes. Whenever I look at it sideways, it crashes. Sometimes, when it starts up without crashing, it will give me a key mismatch error even though I gave it the correct WPA key. Clicking "ReNew IP" a few times fixes this, as long as it doesn't crash. Only about 1 in 4 times I launch it, I am able to successfully connect to my wireless network, and then it may crash afterwards. I originally thought KernelEx might be interfering, but I booted in "step by step confirmation mode", and disabled KernelEx, but it still crashes. My computer also doesn't enter sleep mode automatically while this thing is running. On top of that, it runs this EAPWake.exe process that constantly consumes 20-30% CPU usage. I've found that killing EAPWake.exe has no negative impact on the utility or my wireless connection. Does anyone have tips on dealing with this horrendously buggy software?

Can someone tell me how to upgrade from a freshly installed KernelEx 4.5.2 to 4.5.2015.12? I haven't been keeping up with the development and would like to test the latest version.

I suggest making an image of your hard disk before wiping it. Put it in a different computer and use backup software or the Linux dd utility to dump all the data of your hard drive to a file. Better yet, you could buy another IDE hard drive and swap the old one out and keep the data. Hard drives are extremely cheap these days.

Thanks. I never knew Microsoft released iso images containing security updates. It's great that you've got an archive of these updates for old Windows versions. I'm getting this error when I try to install the IE update. Setup could not verify the integrity of the file Update.inf. Make sure the Cryptographic service is running on this computer.Does anyone know how to fix this? I do not see any cryptographic service in the list of services in the management console. Is there some way to install the service?