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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?

When I try to install the Extended Kernel v2.6b2, I get a message saying I need IE6SP1 Cumulative Security Update MS12-052(KB2722913). Is there any place I can find updates like this one? It seems to have disappeared from Microsoft's website.

How did you get that to work? Doesn't that game require Steam? Or was there some other way it was distributed?

I just wrote this really simple C++ program, assigned a keyboard shortcut to it, and it does the trick! #include <windows.h>int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow){ if(!SetSystemPowerState(TRUE, FALSE)) { MessageBox(NULL, "Could not enter standby mode.", NULL, MB_ICONERROR | MB_OK); return 1; } return 0;}

First of all, don't use VirtualBox for running Windows 9x. It's not supported, and you're not going to get all of the integration features. The best VM program for Windows 9x guests is Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. VMware also supports Windows 9x, but lacks the drag and drop functionality. There is a special build of DOSBox which emulates a Voodoo 3dfx chip, but I've never tried it and don't know if DirectX and OpenGL will work properly inside of it.

I know that you can use "rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows" to shut down the computer, "rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec" to reboot, etc., but I haven't found a way to make the computer enter standby (or sleep mode as it's called in Vista and later) through a batch file. My previous keyboard had a button for this, but since that one died on me, my new keyboard lacks a standby button, and I find it a bit inconvenient to open the start menu, click Shut Down and select Stand by from the drop down menu.

Did you update to DirectX 9.0c? Some games may require hardware accelerated 3D graphics to run, which VirtualBox does not emulate for Windows 9x.

I have a Dell Dimension E510 desktop from around 2006-ish. It has an Intel 945G chipset and a 82801 controller hub, a 2.6 GHz Pentium D processor, and 2 GB of RAM. I have compatible PCI cards for the graphics, sound, and network, and I can downgrade the RAM to 1 GB by removing one of the modules. I'm just wondering if there are Windows 98 drivers for the motherboard, and if anyone else has had luck with Windows 9x on 945G motherboards. I tried searching for the drivers on Intel's website, but I keep getting dead links.

Yeah, it looks like the controls aren't processing the WM_SETFONT message properly, so you're getting that default Windows 3.x style font, rather than the usual GUI font. I get similar font issues with some of the dialog boxes in Irfanview on Windows 98 for some reason. It might be possible to fix the font using Resource Hacker if the program uses a dialog box template rather than a standard window, but I wouldn't bother if it's purely an aesthetic issue.

The latest versions of MinGW support C++11 and I've made programs with it that run under Windows 95. Granted, I mostly use C, so I have no idea how compatible the C++11 language itself is with Windows 9x. I think a useful thing to try would be to borrow some code from KernelEx and use it to make a static library which implements functions missing from Windows 9x. That way, you could build newer software and link it with that library and have it run under Windows 9x without KernelEx. I'm not an experienced enough programmer to try this myself, but just a suggestion.

If you want to make a straight, raw image of the hard disk or a partition, you can use the Linux dd command. It will be very slow, though, depending on the size of your hard disk.

I did turn off KernelEx extensions for the utility, but that wouldn't have affected anything because the utility starts after the desktop has loaded. I don't know if KernelEx even applies to .sys drivers. However, I also had problems with Ollydbg locking up the system when trying to debug a multithreaded program, which I don't now.

Wine on DOS. That's interesting to say the least! If you have Windows XP or earlier, here's a nice guide to creating a MS-DOS bootable CD. https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=158 Alternatively, you can download FreeDOS (open source DOS) here. http://www.freedos.org/download/

I believe I've found the cause of the problem, but it seems rather unrelated to the WiFi adapter software. I did a step by step confirmation startup to see if any VXDs were the culprit and found out that disabling the Sysinternals NTFS driver that I was using to read my Windows XP partition allows the system to boot normally. I know that that driver loads a lot of Windows XP components to read the filesystem, and some part of it seems to be conflicting with the WiFi adapter driver during load time. After disabling the NTFS driver, my system boots normally and the wireless utility no longer crashes every minute!

Yes, I installed the drivers from exactly that zip file. Device Manager says that there are no devices which conflict with the card, though I don't know much about IRQs and that kind of stuff. I can try booting it again and post some logs if that would help. Also, the wireless utility is very unstable and crashes frequently, but this really isn't a problem since I don't have to change settings all the time. It is strange that the device would work once, then prevent my PC from booting afterwards, which seems like malware behavior. Are there any good virus scanners that still work on Windows 98?

I just obtained a HiRO H50069 Wireless adapter, and installed it on my Windows 98 SE machine. I installed the driver and utility, and the device works fine after a reboot, and I am able to connect to the internet. However, if I reboot after having the adapter work, I get a BSOD on the next boot, and every subsequent boot after that results in an endless splash screen and it never gets to the desktop. The only way for me to fix this is to go into safe mode and remove the device from Device Manager. If I reinstall the driver, the same thing happens. Machine works fine for one boot, then BSOD, then no desktop. How can I troubleshoot this?

I've been using SoftMaker Freeoffice for quite some time, and I really like it. I used to use OpenOffice a lot, but it was always a bit slow for me. This thing is small, fast, and starts in an instant. It's also available for Linux and Android. I don't think the ribbon interface is bad, but it's used in the wrong places. In something like a word processor, I like having as many of the commonly used commands as possible right in front of me. What I really think the ribbon should be used for is a replacement for the option dialogs and property sheets. I love having it in Windows 8's file manager, since the controls simply fit right there on the main window instead of the "Tools->Folder Options" modal dialog box that blocks my view.

wget is what I use all the time on Linux, and is also available for Windows. The -c flag, which resumes a partially downloaded file, is especially useful. If you tried to download something with 'wget http://foo.bar/baz'and it failed, or you killed the process, you can simply resume the download with 'wget -c http://foo.bar/baz'.

KDE is pretty awesome as far as customizability and user friendliness is concerned, but I've always had problems with it crashing or glitching out. My favorite desktop environment for Linux is Xfce. It's very lightweight, customizable, and has a very XP-ish feel to it. Do you get any error messages when trying to set up your dial-up connection through the Zorin interface? "Big" Linux distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, Debian, etc. usually include kernel modules for all hardware that they expect a user to use with the system, so it's likely that you already have a driver installed for that modem. Unlike Windows, Linux users rarely need to manually install drivers. If you have problems, run the "lsusb", "lspci -k", and "lsmod" commands and post their output. We can diagnose the issue if we know what hardware the system detected and has drivers loaded for. MSFN is mainly about Microsoft products, so you might also want to ask in a Linux-specific forum if you want more help.

Another option is to use Hirens Boot CD, which has a mini Windows XP live system, among other tools, which you can use to reformat the partition. All you need is an extra CD or USB flash drive to boot it from.

Not really sure what you mean. You can pretty much install any desktop you want on a Linux system. The desktop on Linux is like any other program. It can be installed/uninstalled.