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INFs for these types of devices tend to differ from the one you linked to in the following ways (at least the other two I've seen): FakeModemCopyFileSection=12 is added under [DestinationDirs] CopyFiles is set to FakeModemCopyFileSection (so DriverCopyFiles.nt and DriverCopyFiles.NTamd64 sections are redundant) Based on these observations, below is a trimmed version of uniden_usbser.inf: ;-------------------------------------------------------- ; Uniden ; ; Communication Device Class ; Virtual Serial Port ; ; 1/1/2014 ;-------------------------------------------------------- [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" Class=Ports ClassGuid={4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Provider=%MFGNAME% DriverVer=01/01/2014,1.0.0.0 CatalogFile=%MFGFILENAME%.cat [Manufacturer] %MFGNAME%=DeviceList,ntamd64 [DeviceList] %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0016 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0017 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0018 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0019 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_001A [DeviceList.ntamd64] %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0016 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0017 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0018 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_0019 %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_1965&PID_001A [SourceDisksFiles] [SourceDisksNames] [DestinationDirs] FakeModemCopyFileSection=12 DefaultDestDir=12 [DriverInstall] include=mdmcpq.inf CopyFiles=FakeModemCopyFileSection AddReg=DriverInstall.AddReg [DriverInstall.AddReg] HKR,,DevLoader,,*ntkern HKR,,NTMPDriver,,usbser.sys HKR,,EnumPropPages32,,"MsPorts.dll,SerialPortPropPageProvider" [DriverInstall.Services] AddService=usbser, 0x00000002, DriverService [DriverService] DisplayName=%UsbSerial.DriverDesc% ServiceType=1 StartType=3 ErrorControl=1 ServiceBinary=%12%\usbser.sys [Strings] MFGNAME="Uniden Corporation" MFGFILENAME="Uniden_usbser" INSTDISK="USB2UART" DESCRIPTION="Uniden Serial Port" UsbSerial.DriverDesc="Microsoft USB Serial Driver" You'll have to turn on test mode to install it (or maybe not), afterwards, it should work with test mode disabled since only Microsoft's official signed driver file is loaded.

I don't remember the last time Firefox (up to 52.x versions) or its derivatives, namely Moonchild Productions' offerings (not aware of anything I'd consider better), haven't actually leaked memory, regardless of OS or hardware acceleration on/off. Good luck with "optimizing" and let us about the positive results, I think the failure has the high probability unless you're better than all the programmers that came before.

I run Win XP and therefor before the days of Aero. Whatever restores Aero restores Luna or whatever, at least as far as title bar is concerned.

DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) is pretty much all you need as far as I'm aware of.

Office 2003 with SP3 works as far as I can tell on Win10 20H2. But MS never made those suites portable. Normally, both 2003 and 2007 versions require activation as well unless it was installed with volume license product key or we're talking about hacked Office, latter sounds like exactly what OP has.

Coded a quick tool to read it, run it from DOS prompt. win9xinstdate.zip AIDA64 Extreme isn't free, but there's a trial version that reads it. Currently latest version 6.33.5700 still runs on Windows 98, but you need to download ZIP package.

Have you missed your favorite thread? It didn't go very far.

The place I waste my life at, they develop some stupid time attendance and access control web application (that never works right, I might add)...Internet Explorer 11 is probably the only reason it doesn't work only on Chrome and its imitators, for now.

Intel Celeron 2,00 GHz (eventually overclocked to 2,5 GHz), 256 MB RAM, eventually upgraded to 1 GB, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440, HDD - unknown Maxtor 60 GB, which eventually had to be replaced, got a 80 GB model then, this one died at one point as well, don't remember the year, but the entire timespan of that computer's service was 2001-2009. Thinking about it now, I don't think it was actually that slow, it might have been just my crazy expectations, probably that disk just couldn't fetch data fast enough for everything to open instantly plus there was this quirk, taskbar always remained frozen for at least a minute after startup. And we ran a freaking anti-virus then, first Norton AntiVirus 2002, then switched to ESET NOD32. The stupid old me surely didn't think of that, I was disabling services, even COM ports in Device Manager, but not an antivirus. Though NOD32 was supposedly non-intrusive. Anyway, the only speed related optimization that I'd do on XP is running TCP Optimizer. Windows XP and below are tuned for slower internet connections and there's no automagic function adjusting parameters dynamically. Find some website with higher resolution images and watch how fast they are appearing before and after.

I used to disable services many years ago on old PC that ran XP, but I wasn't impressed. Was much happier with results from overclocked CPU and GPU. XP appears inherently slow in some areas. Not long ago I was decompressing files from external USB HDD to internal HDD, some FreeArc packed stuff. The overall impact on computer responsiveness was great. Note that the destination disk wasn't even the one containing the OS. Was browsing the internet (at the slower pace, page loads being delayed by few seconds there and there) and when I wanted to restore minimized KeePass to look something up in my KeePass database, watched its window sloooooowly repaint (cca. 7 seconds). It should have been instant. Then there's Direct3D. Anything D3D that runs in a window will slow down as soon as a single pixel intersects with another screen that is not the one it was bound to. Maybe the D3D problem still exists on Vista/7 with XPDM graphics drivers? Don't know about that case. XP being XP I guess.

So this is what SMR means? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording Slow write speeds, suitable for backups/archiving, but otherwise behaves like any ordinary HDD? Link is dead.

I copy URL bar content and if I paste it back, the copied URL is pasted. But if I paste it in this very form, where I'm typing this message, the site title is pasted. If I use the link insert form, then URL is pasted in the URL field and site title is pasted in Link text field. Anyone got the name of this feature?

Do they still not let you access individual wireless network properties, also disconnected ones, like you can do with the old Manage Wireless Networks interface, where you can also change their order?

You mean "System" from Control Panel? You can open it through the context menu you get if you right-click on it. Or the normal way through Open-Shell start menu if you have Control Panel displayed as menu.

Yeah, those bars are stored as images in your theme's .msstyles files, so if you find a full Windows 7 theme and apply it, they'll change. You can modify your stock C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\aero\aero.msstyles with msstyleEditor and only alter those bars and save the file under different name. The bar images can be extracted from Windows 7's aero.msstyles (or any win7 imitating .msstyles file for newer OS that has ripped 7's resources, just have to find such theme on DeviantArt or wherever). When you save any theme in Windows, the file is created under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes where the path to .msstyles file must be adjusted accordingly and then tell Windows to reload it, but before that can be done, utility like SecureUxTheme is needed to be able to load non-signed .msstyles files. That's the way that doesn't involve paid software.

I tried RTSS on virtual machine this time as I'm not in native install ATM, I tried both May 2020 (your kernelbase.dll was revised with this update) and May 2021 cumulative updates and they don't seem to be an issue. I can try the native install next time with those updates, though I doubt it'll be any different. Didn't really do anything to get it working, it just works. OK, that is the log entry. I noticed I didn't add a link to documentation in my previous post - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wer/collecting-user-mode-dumps - that's how you get the dump file.

Yup, they're not older than 3 years. Well, crap...all seemed nice and dandy after February's mechanic visit.

True, but I was involved in an accident many years ago as a child. My mum drove then shiny new Volvo S40, a model made in 1999, we were going out from the home neighborhood and she got out on the intersection to the main road too early as the speeding Renault 5 was driving down the main road, the speed limit on that road is 70 km/h. The driver couldn't stop it in time and we were hit from behind. Not much was felt, there was just a loud bang. Renault was totally kaput on the front side, the driver was OK I think, Volvo only took slight damage. 2001 Volkswagen Polo with 1.0 petrol engine. I'm not sure about fuel consumption because I don't have information about its consumption history before I got it in 2017. Some guys from some not really car specific magazine gathered information about fuel consumption from approval tests of 25 most common cars around these parts in 2016, the consumption of the petrol cars ranged from 5.97 to 8.01 liters per 100 km. Mine is about 6.3 liters (only if we can assume petrol stations' pump gauges are trustworthy). My everyday routes are quite ideal though, mostly highway, so the engine can run at constant speed most of the time. The only oddity I noticed this spring, it happens occassionally that the engine loses its breath for a second or two, when the RPM goes down a bit. One time it happened, CHECK light also blinked. This car required replacement of ignition cables couple of times in the past, the current are about 3 years old, maybe it's happening again? Alright, I also read that light could mean many things, so I guess I'd need to buy one of those diagnostic tools and figure out where the heck to plug it in to get the exact code. Quick searching suggests it's somewhere under steering wheel.

There are hints that the time may come when old cars just won't be acceptable anymore due to emissions. Regarding safety, do they mean crash resistance? Renault 5 does fall apart rather easily. What about the bulkiness of many modern cars? Is it all about safety standards, something about being easier on the unlucky pedestrians if they're hit or are there other reasons? Does anyone have an experience with CHECK light? Mine's been on for years, it was said there's nothing to worry about. It stays off for a day or two after yearly mechanic visit and on a very rare ocassion, when it may decide to stay off for few days. It seems not a single year passes when the mechaninc doesn't find anything to fix. I didn't get around asking him what he thinks about that light though. So the manual says it's about emission control system and the description that something's wrong with the system for driving the engine and that the car should be taken to official manufacturer's workshop. Then I read on some site that the most radical and expensive solution might be replacing catalytic converter and one of the easier solutions that could work was to pour in a can of Cataclean fuel additive and eventually reset the warning light, which you can supposedly do by unplugging the battery for several minutes. Now I wonder if that Cataclean is actually good for something. Also, the gas stations here all have the text on the pump that says their fuel cleans the engine.

Source: https://www.theminimalists.com/screens/ Relatable, isn't it?

For anyone that might be interested in the possibility to continue using partially defective RAM, I have one such module in my laptop. I figured from Memtest86 results (addresses) that the faulty parts are somewhere near the end, somewhere in its last 40 megabytes. There's just one 2 GB stick. So one can tell the OS to not use the last 40 MB by running this in the Command Prompt: bcdedit /set {current} removememory 40 If there's 2x 1 GB sticks for instance and those 40 MB would be in the one in the first slot, it would be a good idea to swap their places as cutting whole 1064 MB isn't desirable. Those addresses in hexadecimal notation address the bytes, so one has to convert to decimal and do some math or use some (online) conversion tool to get the megabytes and calculate the difference from that point to the end of the module. If I remember correctly, I actually put the result in the {globalsettings}, not {current}, so that way, it works for the recovery environment and other Windows versions booted through that Windows Boot Manager instance, not just the running OS from which bcdedit was run. There's also truncatememory that can be used instead of removememory, which accepts address, but I've never used that option (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/boot-parameters-to-manipulate-memory). In case someone has very minimal faulty bits, they can be more precisely mapped out using: bcdedit /set {badmemory} badmemorylist PFN1 PFN2 PFN3 ... Individual 4 KB blocks (pages) can be mapped out of action this way, so whatever addresses Memtest86 gives, they have to be rounded down to the nearest page (so one gets the multiple of 0x1000) and then the last 3 zeros have to be cut from the result to get the Page Frame Number that Windows accepts in hexadecimal notation with a 0x prefix. RAMMap can be used to verify that bad pages are no longer on the list. Got this from Super User. Also, badmemoryaccess doesn't have to be explicitly set anywhere, it already defaults to no if not present; with default configuration, it's only explicitly added and set to yes on the entry for launching Windows Memory Diagnostic, so parts marked as bad are accessible and can be tested.

It might, but definitely not on vanilla Windows 98. No need to (at least not for me), it's more like a passing curiosity. Haven't had a Win9x compatible computer in over a decade.

Is there anything like f.lux for 98? Supposedly some old f.lux build from 2016 works on it with KernelEx.

What about web browsers? I settled on Via.

If your motherboard's BIOS actually supports ACPI, Windows should have been installed by invoking the setup program in win98/win9x folder on the installation CD from the command line like: setup /p j You can't avoid the message to turn off the computer if your hardware lacks ACPI support because such computer can't be turned off by software.