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I boot 98se when I want to play my old games like TIE Fighter. Also like Tim, I install it for people on P-II and slower machines where XP would not run to it's potential.

Thanks for info. worked great. Is there any way integrate the post-sp3 updates into Office 2000?

Someone finds Foamy the Squirrel "disturbing". Hope they don't watch the news. This thread is more fun than climbing trees and eating acorns.

with some self extractors you can just do it with winzip or other archiver. if not, run the file until you get the first messagebox then look in the temp folder for extracted files and copy the folder, then cancel the install.

what exactly are you trying to do. develop a webservice? for that you would use soap. do you have soap toolkit? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en if you are just parsing xml try SAX API of MSXML. http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Articl...6115/16115.html http://www.topxml.com/conference/wrox/1999...ext/mohrasp.asp

without comments in your code I'm not going to try to figure out the purpose of the formula you are running, but I can tell you it never equals zero. Your code is fine, it's your math thats wrong. Just try set done=0; and loop ends fine. If you need help with the math ask a math wiz or explain what it's supposed to do.

@un4given1, I put together some code to launch app at intervals. One is a service and one an application. As I was playing with the service app I realized it might not be appropriate for launching outlook. In order for a service to be able to interact with the desktop it must run in the context of the local service account. Great for backup programs and generic apps, but not so good for apps that read user profiles like outlook. Don’t know if there is a way around this but I am curious. I attached the code anyway just in case you might have a need for it or just want to look. It is very generic and could be used to make any kind of service. AppKicker.exe is the service, and AppKicker_ctl.exe is the control panel to install the service. If you use it to launch desktop apps, after you install but before you start the service you must go into the service properties/logon tab and check “allow service to interact with desktop”. Noting this deficiency I threw together a simple app, AppTimer.exe that will run with no interface, taskbar or tray icon, but appears as a running app in task manager. Both of these programs will run a batch file located in the app directory in hidden mode at 10 minute intervals. The service runs “AppKicker.bat” and the AppTimer.exe runs “AppTimer.bat”. You can put your code that checks for outlook running and launch (or anything else) in this file. All of the code is in VB6 if you want to play with it. Hope you can use it, but even if not it was good to dust it off (the code and the brain cobwebs). dman applaunchers.zip

this is a off-topic, but if you do a lot of print screens you might find Gadwin PrintScreen handy.... http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

Maybe I misunderstand the question since the answer seems so simple. Is there not a Mic input on your MB?

Why waste your time here then? I am assuming most are here because they get some value out of it. In short, no, I couldn't disagree more.

Of course there will always be power users like ourselves that want the best available, and I agree, win98 is certainly not going to power devices of the future, that is mainly going to be embedded Linux. It is already making its way into cell phones, dvr's and even the Mars Rover. Vertical appliances are also likely to replace the PC entirely for many. Win98 certainly doesn't meet all of my needs (Some of what I do is write NT Services, not even possible on 98) but I fire it up in real-mode dos to play TIE Fighter, so it is still useful to me. "Better" is a subjective word that encompasses many variables like price, available hardware and peoples prejudices. If win98 adds up to "Better" for some then I am not going to argue with them, I will just continue to use XP and linux with the occasional game on 98 and be happy.

OK, small gripe about excellent forum. Come on, it's "M"SFN, not "B"SFN. Delphi is great from what I hear, but it's not MS, and nothing is better than VFP (well, C++ for heavy duty production apps). It should be (C++, VFP, VB, etc.) let Delphi be the "etc." (ok Delphi users, flame me!) Just my 2 cents....

@Mutahir since you can write regular c with c++ builder, but not c++ with turbo c, you might as well get c++ builder. In any event you will have to learn c first before you get into the OO aspects of c++.

@bullet, I just told you "I" run all kinds of OS'. I love the latest and greatest. The point is "average user". What makes you believe that these people will suddenly care about their OS? Sure, computers are going to do more and more, but the technical guts will be well hidden from average Joe.

Tim was talking about the average user, and he's right. Many people that call me for computer service don't even KNOW what OS they have, they just want to open the pictures the grandkids sent or check their stock prices. The OS is just a tool, like the engine in their car... as long as it works. Me, I triple boot XP, 98se & LinuxFromScratch (home compiled Linux), cause I'm a geek and like to have my fingers on everything techy, but 9 out of 10 just don't GAS.

My advice would be to not update drivers for anything that is not causing you problems... put it on the "ignore" list.

read this thread.. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43064&hl= short answer... get winsockXPFix http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

Any hotfixes not on the list above are not needed for post-sp2. That is a list of everything since sp2 was released.

Don't know the answer to your question, but why don't you just download the original packages and use those instead or reinventing the wheel? Here is a list... http://xpcreate.com/current.htm

Are you sure the macro isn't being disabled by a firewall content filter?

No, this is what "repair connection" does http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289256/EN-US/

If your system is working OK just let xp pro upgrade your windows xp home installation. Should be painless.

chip, No, it is not the same thing, although the effect is the same. A problem that can fixed by rebooting is likely a simple hardware lockup. netsh command changes registry settings. The ipconfig /renew command might be able to help, but don't use netsh unless you have a software based problem.

Matrix... add antivir to your list of free antivirus. http://www.free-av.com/ found out about this using ubcd4win version of bartpe. lots of great free tools on there.