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I hate MS for what they did to people like Roffen. Poor guy.

nope I was thinking that, I was only talking about locating the hotfixes from the catalog. Applying them is going to require us to modify the hotfixes with somthing like ORCA or another utility abefore we apply them. Unless my Ultimate key will work on embeded i wont be doing this. I think it doesn't make sense for everyone and moving forward thats what will be important.

Maybe, but it's almost like everything XP slipstream and setup related has become less relevant as XP has become less relevant to the "general public."

It's good that we helped the OP, but I still want to throw my computer out the windows when I read this thread.

I don't see any reason why we couldn't search for updates the same way we do for POSready on XP and apply them to windows 7. You can do whatever you want but knowing what I know personally I wouldn't if it were me.

Ok like if you are unable to test Java, than chances are you don't need it in the 1st place.

I think you can probably just buy a new old usb scanner off of EBAY like a HP scanjet is fine. People used to use winfaxpro and that is both a server and client. But I don't know if that is still a thing.

windows 10 won't overtake windows 7 until MS stops supporting windows 7 thus forcing business users to upgrade. From a perspective of obsolesces there was no good reason for business users to upgrade to windows 10. As in proper thinking the life span on windows 7 would out live the life span of hardware. So it makes more since to just stick with windows 7 until it just dies then buy new machines preloaded with 10.

I tested that conclusion by using the Java app in RealVNC enterprise to connect using IE8, and it used java v162 so I can say it's a wrong conclusion.

The biggest threat to a computer are not its vulnerabilities, it's the person using it. Unfortunately there's no way to patch human beings.

I guess he figured it out but its really obvious what he was doing wrong. "The Display settings in Control Panel show: Resolution 1920x1080; LG IPSFULL(analog) on Radeon x85 Series; 32bit highest." analog doesn't support copy protection or HDCP.

Have it ever occur that some of these problems are issues with janky hardware and drivers. Some of them maybe with janky bios and buggy ACPI power states. I have nver had these kinda issues in this thread but here is my 2 cents stop using s4 and hybrid sleep and hibernate. For mpeople who are setting up their own computers, and installing windows and drivers themselfs, this isn't a complicated issue to fix. It very simple you install one thing at a time until it breaks then you know what your problem is and you never have any issues.

The reason laptops go to sleep or go to standby/shut off the monitor when lids are closed is because there is a hardware switch either in the hinge or on the bezel located above or around the top of the keyboard. When these switches are pressed laptops go into sleep or standby. In windows there are power options usually to disable these switches and sometimes there are 3rd party power drivers that can configure them. This behavior is controlled by the BIOS, and if the drivers do not control the BIOS properly this can fail. There are 2 factors here. 1 Is the Screen and if it turns off or not, the other is the hard disk driver and if it is put to sleep. Various other things like powering down other devices may occur. It sounds to me like the computer is going to sleep regardless of what you are setting it and not waking up. This is most likely caused by either misconfiguration of the BIOS, buggy BIOS, buggy drivers, or user error in configuration. The way I usually configure this is for my screen to turn off but not anything else. only screen no disk drive, gpu, keyboard or anything else. Troubleshooting problems are complicated and the 1st thing a person must rule out is user error, or fault of the user. These include user set configurations, user installed software and drivers and the opposite of user not configuring and not installing drivers. Once you rule out user fault the next thing to move onto is hardware fault. This is a huge step generally this requires flashing the computer BIOS, setting it to defualt, reinstalling windows and drivers sometimes so that we have a perfect vanilla image. When problems still ooccur at this state we blame hardware. This is the worst case scenario and we only do this when all else has failed in trouble shooting a problem When its a hardware failure you are very limited in what you can do without the ability to replace hardware, sometimes you must just disable the buggy hardware through hacks or just not installing it and disabling it. The specific hardware that is giving you problems is called ACPI. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface . I would suggest to you to study ACPI by googling it and using wiki. There are many different versions of ACPI, usually most computers have configurable ACPI through the BIOS and a person can pick different versions. There are problaby millions of differn't laptops out there so its impossible to say. You never gave us any information about the computer so all I can speak in is in generalities. It could aslo be possible that you are just no pushing the right buttons when you are trying to wake the computer up.

I didn't report this in this thread but, the newest extensions broke portable qtweb 3.85 for me in 98se. I could only use vanilla kernel ex.

ty much better than the other things I read.

I can do it but can somone just make a detailed guide on how to do it that normal people can understand. If no Ill do it but pls.

Yeah you don't need to delete it, but if you wanted to delete it, you can only delete it, with offline registry modification. It's advanced, in that I think the average user cannot do this but I don't think it is hard to load a registry hive into another OS like by using winpe boot cd or somthing editing it and unloading it. you don't need to do this you just need to read the help people already gave you.

I only use SuperMicro motherboards for last 20 years and I have never had one fail on me or be unstable.

My win 7 box hasn't been restarted or shut down in over 6 months I don't run ms updates on it, and I play games and browse on it, run VMs and i literally treat it like crap. I have never experienced a windows 7 crash ever no matter what i do to it it doesn't go down. I have experieced application crashes and even driver crashes but thats never enough to bring down the OS. My experience with XP was pretty similar, on stable hardware it never goes down.

Run DOS and a superduper stripped down nlited 2000, that only operated off the bare essential files and services and you have the best of both worlds. I have successfully stripped XP down enough that it runs with less in less than 50MBs of ram I had it in the 40s with all drivers loaded, I think 2k can be even smaller than this possible in the range of 30 MB of ram maybe in the 20s. Of course this will depend a lot on driver bloat and hardware, and would require real hardware, like using a SB16 as opposed to ac97 or hd audio.

if its 810 then you can put 1000mhz 133 fsb. with the bios.

Compaq released bioses under the name ROMPaqs and softpaqs. You have to find the most updated bios for that computer and figure out if any new CPU microcode was added. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp17001-17500/sp17455.txt I see somthing that says Added CPU patch for new Coppermine D0 CPU (CPUID = 68Ah So you need to figure out what that is. I think your computer with the right BIOS and possibly jumper settings could take 1000mhz /w 100mhz FSB I think this is the latest BIOS for that computer, it SUPERSEDES: SP17455 http://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=349437&action=filfo Supports Windows Flash capability. The following were fixed in SP17455 and are also included in this SoftPaq: Fixed Chicony USB keyboard lockup during POST. Added POST message for missing keyboard. Added F10 Setup Detect Drive feature for IDE and floppy drives. Added quiet drive ATA6 acoustic management support. Enhancements to Power Loss Management feature. Added 48-bit LBA boot support to handle drives bigger than 128GB. Fix mouse loss on resume from hibernate. Fixed very slow boot with Canon BJ 870PFD USB printer. Added workaround for Logitech Quickcam hang during POST. Added CPU patch for new Coppermine D0 CPU (CPUID = 68Ah). Fixed Windows 2000 loa d hang. The following were fixed in SP15894, SP15675, SP14017, SP13520 and are also included in this SoftPaq: Enhanced USB legacy handoffs. Fixes USB mouse hang. Fixed nonfunctional LEDs on International Venice keyboards. Added support for SST 2M firmware hub. Fixed intermittent 102 System Board POST error. Fixed issue when PS/2 mouse is not connected, and other error conditions. Improved USB support in DOS and Windows safe mode. Shortened BIOS POST (Power On Self Test) time. Resolved several issues with 3rd party video cards. Fixed multi-monitor support for several 3rd party video cards. Enhanced boot options in BIOS setup. Added support for latest Processors. Updated video BIOS. Fixes an issue of system rebooting when shutting down by preventing USB enumeration by the Operating System at shutdown. Changes memory buffer strength for configurations of two double sized memory modules. Adds support for new processor versions, including the latest CPU patches from Intel. I am not sure if your board supports 133 mhz FSB or not but this bios supports that. Id say its 100mhz fsb without being sure,

With any later OS? Or any other OS? NT is as old as 9x as well as older distros of Linux and Unix and actually supports multiprocessing. windows 2000 was conceived and was being developed during the same time ME came out. in 1996 Linux supported multiprocessing. I can't think of a single supper computer that runs windows 98. They all run Linux or Unix, Like I said it's fine that people run 98 because they want to, but in lieu of facts opinions don't make supporting arguments true. If we are going to make a case the 9x can be faster at certain things like I/o over Rs232 that is fine or whatever. But it's flat out wrong that it is faster at 99% of other things in 2018, or capabale of getting past it's limitations to even have a chance of competing in certain benchmarks, or could even run those benchmarks. You are thinking but ya if I could make 98 get past those limitations than it would be faster because i love 9x. But you can't despite trying and succeeding to get 9x to run on some sata 150 that is good but it doesn't run from M2 so it will never be faster read and write performance. Thats just example M2 is not even the fastest right now. You might get it to run from a sata but you are not going to get full AHCI, You may get it to run on a board but you are not going to get the chipset recognized to fully use all of the speed improvements and technology. You cannot get past this in 2018 I know that you wrote an API for 9x that will allow very limited Multiprocessing, but I have seen no evidence at all that 9x with your hacks could perform faster than another Operating system with SMP in a wide range of various benchmarks. On hardware not of your choosing, but on hardware the 9x wont even run on properly. 2018 hardware. which is what my point it. Taking some very specific hardware that you can get to work that in all fairness is old tech by todays standards and running 9x on it is not what the argument is. Back when this thread was started it might of had a shred of merit but not now.

This is a really bad necro and I don't think all of the talking points used by detractors to justify the use of 98 on "new computers" are any longer justified. The only talking point still valid is because they want to. I am a strong believer and supporter in peoples right to do whatever they want on their computers so we can just end it there. But at this point I think as far as we have come in 2018 with ryzen and latest gen mulitcore technology anyone with a strait face can say because its faster and "insert various absurd excuse about software and hardware compatibility in 2018 can be justified.

TBH I don't know for certain that intel FSB chips are not effected by atleast 1 varient of spectre. It seems reasonable to me that all intel CPUs are effected by 1 variant of spectre. aka meltdown. It is not clear to many people that we are talking about 3 different kinds of attacks here. To exploit each attack requires different methods and not all CPUs are vulnerable to every kinda of vulnerability. I mean that there are many architecture changes between for example a p4 and a I7. It could be that theoretically a p4 can be attacked the code and the means in which to exploit that architecture is different than the I7. Many people are familiar with the way people write viruses. You pick the most common operating system and write some code that will effect the most people. If it is true that the code needs to be different to attack a P4 than a I7 how many people do you think are going to write a virus for that knowing that probably no one isa P4. Where I got this idea was from intels own white paper where the disused that the differences about how a CPU with hyperthreading couldn't be attacked the same way as a CPU without hyperthreading for example. Example in the white paper for Branch Target Injection The ability to interfere with the processor’s predictors to cause such a side channel is highly dependent on the microarchitectural implementation thus the exact methods used may vary across different processor families and generations. three variants, known as a “bounds check bypass,” “branch target injection,” and a “rogue data load,” all of which use slightly different methods of attack Currently MS has pushed out a patch to all computers to disable their previous patch becasue its buggy. I think it really doesn't matter. If anyone is good at compiling code or running linux go here and you can check if your CPU is actually vulnerable by running sample code. Instead of all the BS software people keep posting that only tells you if you are patched and is a waste of time. Here are POC links proof of concept so you cna run real code to test. https://github.com/raphaelsc/Am-I-affected-by-Meltdown https://github.com/crozone/SpectrePoC https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown/