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It says that the Application Layer Gateway service provides support for third party protocol plugins for Internet Connection Sharing and the Windows Firewall?? But is it needed for just using the Windows firewall without any third party plugins or using the Internet Connection sharing feature? The reason I ask is because the Application Layer Gateway service runs an extra process ALG.exe where as almost all other services depeend on the same process. So it would be good to disablke it to have one less provess running. I have disabled it before, and I didn't appear to have any problems. But then I did a search on it, and I found things that said it was required for the Windows Firewall?? But the Windows Firewall seemed to work fine with it disabled. So, is he Application Layer Gateway Service really needed for just using the Windows Firewall? Or is it only needed if you use one of the computers to provide Internet Connection Sharing to all other computers on the network or use third party plugins??

Does removing Dr. Watson and Error Reporting only create problems in the latest version of nlite?? Or does it also happen in 0.99.9 as well? I use 0.99.9 because it seems to be less buggy than version 1.0.

What do you exactly mean? Do you mean that some printers depend on Dr. Watson and Error Reporting, and you receive memory errors when trying to install Printer drivers if you remove them?

I hate Error Reporting. If there is anything I want to remove the most, it certainly is Error Reporting. Is Dr. Watson just a part of Error Reporting?? It mentions that it is part of the Windows debugging engine?? Is Dr. Watson needed for anything else besides Error Reporting?? Is it needed for Windows to create log files for crash dump data?? What is the memory error that has been encountered by removing Dr. Watson and Error Reporting?? WHat happens and what are the symptoms??

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Very well said!

Actually, aren't Windows 2000/XP completely different internally than Windows 98/ME. If that were the case, it would seem programs would probably run better if they were written for 2K/XP only. And they would be more stable. That is why I argue over this. Again, I know there are a lot of machines out there that use Windows 98/ME, but they are probably older machines. So therefore, high end games and applications should NBOT support those POS operating systems!! Only programs that aren't even somewhat resource intensive or complex should support Windows 98/ME!!

Actually, I think the nlite forum is the most active out of all the MSFN forums!! Nlite is a great program, and yet it only supports Windows 2000/XP2003. What do you think that says.

I won't be writing a post like this in the futre about XP. WIndows 9X has always been a complete and utter POS, even in it's heyday. Maybe it was good enough to do what most people needed to do, but it was a completely unnacceptable OS compared to what we could of and should have had had it not been for Microsoft's anti-competitive practices that gained their monopoly. Microsoft is NOT ahead because there products were superior, they are ahead because they had a superior marketting strategy. Windows 9X arte based on old DOS code and aren't even true 32-bit operating systems. Had Microsoft not unfairly dominated the OS desktop market, we would have been running real 32-bit operating systems for the last 10 years on the home PC. Only because of MS, did we have to deal with such POS opertaing systems that constantly crashed and forced you to reboot your PC 10 times a day. Windows NT was a fine OS back in it's day and still is today in many ways. Windows 9X is NOT!! I have a hard time believing your running Windows 9X stable on an Athlon 3200 with 1GB of RAM. Windows 9X can't even address more than 512MB of RAM. So how in the heck are you running Windows 9X on a system with more than 512MB of RAM. And Windows XP may be bloated, but use Windows 2000 if you hate XP and think it's bloated. Windows 2000 is still a qaulity OS as it is based on real 32-bit code, and not some piece of junk emulating 32-bit GUI on top of a DOS shell. That is why I think Windows 9X and 2K/XP are completely different. Developers shouldn't have to spend the extra effort ensuring compatibility with both OSes.

But I bet most of the people using Windows 98/ME have computers with a CPU of 600MHz or slower. Do you think high end software and games that require a 1GHz or faster CPU and 256MB or more RAM should still support Windows 98/ME? I don't think so!!! Maybe they should still be supported, but the support for them should be minimal at most. Like only simple programs should still support them. But in no way should even somewhat complex programs support them that are written today!

You don't use any of what? It would be nice if drivers were universal, but it would probably take developers too much time to have to write drivers for all opertaing systems because all operating systems are so much different. I think hardware and software developers should start looking to make things compatible with Linux, rather than continuing to support such POS operating systems like WIN98/ME!! WIN 98/ME are dead utter horse manure and should be wiped out all together!!

Do you think Windows 98/ME should still be supported by hardware and software manufacturers? Why or why not. Share your views on this topic. My opinion is that Windows 98/ME are piece of junk operating systems and should no longer be supported by hardware and software manufacturers. It ought to be a Windows 2000/XP/2003 only world by now when it comes to Microsoft operating systems. I think support for those piece of junk operating systems in Windows 98/ME should have been ditched 2 years ago!!! I CANNOT believe thatr to this day most high end games support those piece of junk operating systems!! Maybe Windows 98/ME should still be supported, but it should be minimal at the maximum, and IN NO WAY should modern games and somewhat complex applications support those TURD operating systems. The whole IT industry would get a boost by dumping those operating systems for the most part!! Applications would probably be easier to write and would have better perofrmance if they were written to run only on an NT based platform when it comes to Microsoft OSes. Of course other non-Microsoft operating system should be allowed and deserve just as muhc of a chance. It's just that Windows 98/ME are falt out pieces ok junk and they should be wiped out all together, or at least for the most part!! What do you think?