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Hi, eidenk, Good that you remind me of that! But verifying system files doesn't help finding the reason for a crash. Ok if you notice it right after checking, not when the culprit file was changed 6 months ago. OLEAUT32.DLL has been mentioned once in my installed file checker reports. Here it is: That means it was replaced by a much more recent and smaller version in Kb (I should think of adding file versions in the reports) after I uninstalled a software called "PC Image Editor". (likely after installing and uninstalling this softare.) This, on Christmass eve 2008. Nice present from Santa!

Olé!... Up! My version was 3.50.5016.0. I don't know what instaled this version. So I reinstalled oleup32.dll with OLEUP.EXE 3-31-2008 OLEUP + ITOLEUP: http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#OLE New OLEAUT32.DLL 2.40.4520 from VB6 Q946235 (MS08-008): * Unofficial Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE/ME OLE Automation Libraries (DLLs) 2.40.4530 + OLEAUT32.DLL 2.40.4520 Update: http://www.msfn.org/board/ipb_seo.php?url=...2Fms08-008.mspx - OLE Update [600 KB, English]: http://www.mdgx.com/files/OLEUP.EXE- OLE Update [604 KB, Italian]: http://www.mdgx.com/files/ITOLEUP.EXE Problems solved! link

1/ "Find on this page" crashes IE. Error 35 Incompatible version of the RPC stub Then it offers to send a report (I decline) and reopens itself on about:blank. 2/ Can't open a link in a new window if the file is local. IE hangs. None of these problems when using Maxthon. HSCH(Hope someone can help)

Last version of Maxthon downloads a buggy UNICODE version (the version 2.1.5.5612). Maxthon installer for newer version still download the buggy and obsolete UNICODE version and there is no updated version for w9x so far. Let's hope there will be one.

reeko I don't know if there are stages but poeple quickely get rid of an OS when there is a new better one. It took two version for poeple to move massively out of w98. With XP poeple found an OS that didn't crash as often as w9x used to, it was a blessing network administrators and it offered a new colored interface with some more integrated stuffs (thought not as many as one thinks). Another thing: When XP was out it was a habit to install the newest windows, every two years or so, following a linear evolution. Today you have an entire generation who had known only XP and the olders don't even remeber how gray dialog boxes looks like. As of today poeple stayed 7 years with XP without any upgrade except Vista, which was a fiasco. Very few have been willing to lay $200 for a minor, mostly cosmetic upgrade. The reason why XP is so popular is because there has been no decent new version since. If w7 is as promising as what I'v read, you will see XP use tumbling very swiftly. I agree but 5 years old kids find them cool. Well, for the experiment it can be interresting. Totally untrue! Not totaly. If someone wants to make a protected pdf, it become difficult to copy-paste its content. Of course you can always do a print screen. Totally untrue!Most of official and legal documents and forms are in pdf, for a reason. Of course there are poeple using pdf for anything. It's one format which makes accidental modification less likely than say, Word. I'm not bashing pdf. I just find irritating when I have to download a pdf while they could have it on a webpage I can see immediately and with more interaction.

Thanks for these informations. However bear in mind that folders set as system folder won't be defragmented (at least on w98 ). So if you do that, temporarily reset the folder attribute to normal before defragmenting. Also doesn't read-only means that it's read-only? I mean that you can write in it?

No problem. I will be myself extremely busy and FFMC (far from my computer) in the next weeks. I hope this bug doesn't happen to too many and that the recent fix works.

Well, there are cool games in flash, when they do cool stuffs that obviousely require something like flash, it's al right. What is wrong is when flash replace normal html/javascript code. Or when the flash application could easily be replaced by plain html or script, or a simple video file. In these cases, flash is less user friendly and less duplicable than html. PDF is duplicable but only as an entire ducument. The goal of PDF is to prevent modifying or taking parts of the original document. That's an hindrance in the propagation of the information. Of course it's often legitimate, but when there is no reason, it's a annoyance. Plain html or normal htlm generated by javascript should be the standard of the internet. Not flash or pdf. In theory yes. But in practice it realy sucks. First flash player (one of the last version) set the buffer to a ridiculousely small amount. Everytime I have to change it. Then, I realy have to wait the exact duration for enough download. It's impossible to predict when I can start watching it. The best is still to wait for the download to be complete, but I can't use a download manager. Not only when it's needed. When it's the case, it's fine but too often there are pdf stuffs where an html would be much more easier and would not cause any problem to anyone. IMO, there are paranoiac poeple who want to protect everything. Of course. But the flash diarrhea started with the spread of YouTube. We now see YouTube video on more and more sites where copyright protection is realy just a mundanity, if not totaly irrelevant. It's just so easy to tap YouTube bandwith instead of yours. And they just removed the webmaster e-mail address because of the constant flow of complain. Do you realy think that all the XP users have IE and flash updated? And what about all the Linux and Macs? They will have to race against the constantly evoluing and non-standard media? I don't think it will work like that. Too many poeple will be angry. If a website shows me a flash, and even if my computer is able to play this flash, I refuse intentionaly to view it. If they make a website, I'm expecting to see html. If I don't I consider this website as inexistant. That's THEIR problem NOT MINE! And if I can find an e-mail contact, I'll write to them, and say in a very snobish tone that I can't see their website and that because of security reasons I'm forced to disable Flash on my computer. It's me who refuse to see their content not them refusing me to show it, you understand. And I don't care about what might be on their sucker website. There are plenty of cool stuffs eleswhere. I can also not surf the web and buy a good book instead or do a jogging or another activity. They do what they want. I have no time wasting with the clowns who think that I will use the internet like a tv. They won't increase their visitor count or their pay-per-click revenue with me. Basta!

Indeed it's very useful. Version 5 always worked on XP, but I uploaded a wrong file on my website. I tested the uninstaller on XP and it works. Should work on w98 too thought I haven't tested it yet.

Edit PROBLEM FIXED. Please the same zip file from the same location and try again. Edit I'v made an unistaller! I haven't had the time to test, but it should work. Maybe the commandline with "\regsvr32.exe /S /U " should be modified, I don't know. I'll see that later. In the meantime, don't worry, these components have no effect on your system while unused.

Sorry for this error. Could you open checksystem45_html.vbs in a program or text editor? Line 37, find the line starting with Dim . Add ,ParentDir at the end of the line. Please tell me if it works. This is because it met a folder with irregular characters (russians?) and perhaps more than 2 irregular characters. A case that I never faced. That's why I never had this error. Edit: The file has been modified (but not tested). You can redownload the same zip file from the same location and try.

That's true: You will barely find a website without a flash console as the main content provider.This is utter non sens because plain javascript, or would I dare say, plain html is much more reliable, but what do you want. Professional designers wants to show their skill and to justify their salary, come up with something the client can't understand or duplicate. The only use for flash is to protect copyrighted content from direct download and duplicating. But just about everybody and their dogs use it now (usualy sharing video via YouTube). So Flash is a big part of the web. But that makes the web a less efficient and less attractive media than it would be with downloadable video files and right-clickable pictures and other simple stuffs. This also true for Vista users, and also when w98 support the flash as intented. Flash is a cancer for everyone, much worse than the PDF cancer. Flash and PDF defeat the original advantages of the internet: Sharing and duplicating content ad infinitum and for the largest audience possible, fast access and easy, intuite, human friendly interraction. They also conspire to allow viruses to infect your system. Flash is the main hindrance to the propagation of video through the internet, and the big stop to the web as a mulitimedia medium. YouTube is what induced the Flash cancer. YouTube alone successfully destroyed the concept of web based video by making video dependant on bandwith. No matter my OS, I can't watch any YouTube or Flash video because my dsl connection is too slow. My only option is using flash movie downloader, url sniffers and other half-legal hacking tools which only work a fraction of the time anyway. Talking about speed: A plain html (or with a short script, let's say) would display in a fraction of second. A Flash content takes age to ...load... . Not only on w9x machines. That will make all their websites buggy, unreliable, unattractive to new visitors. The 30% (and growing) of non-IE8+ users won't be able to watch their website normaly. w9x users will only be 0.00002% of those who will complain.

Exactely. I understand your concept of mature product. M$ has been knee jerking in a awkward manner to fnd ways to attract the clients. But they finaly understood that you don't create new product just by adding more bloat. If you look at the official w7 blog, there are amazing change in mentality and in conception. I have put my 2ct overthere myself. Hehehe. Of course they can't technicaly do a new w9x moder version, they have to continnue the XP/Vista line, but they seem to improve it the way we like, or at least better. Given the comment I have read, it looks good. Any more w9x user having tested w7? Talking about the web being not backward compatible is like saying asfalt on new roads is no longer compatible to old volkswagen cars. making the web w9x uncompatible would require modifying the source code of the one billion or so websites existing today. Sure theere are some script or css that won't work properly on w9x but it'snot what will make the site unreadable. In fact most sites displays normal with scripts disabled. the reasn is that most of the scripts are server side. And we are not even talking about the 30% of surfers using FF, Opera or something else, or who are on a non windows os.

multibooter IMO, the time when an independant dealer would spend 2 hours fixing a bug on your machine is gone. The horror is the OEM distribution. M$ made the huge conceptual mistake in attempting to make the PC a mature product like a a refrigerator or a washing machine. The fact is that it isn't. Even if you don't install anything yourself, your PC changes overtime. Moreso if you do. It's a as modelable as clay. It's like you buy a small car and 6 months later you have a pickup (fully loaded with crap of course). As soon as it hit the internet it start morphing. After one year it's beyond recognition. A PC is a life organism. An electronic one, but living as certainly as I'm here typing. It's way too complex to have 5 buttons and here you go. That's what M$ tried to do, but they only created a monster even worse.

Right click on the desktop, "properties", "Settings", adjust "Screen Area".

Interresting. The US losing the PC culture... It's true that in Europe we have a large choice of computer ublications from "Hackers" to "PC Games". Many special editions too. Many stuff about Linux. It's not rare to find a complete, free Linux distro packed with a PC mag. But major pC magazines are very boring. It's all about the last Windows version, photo and video. The most revealing is the tips they write now and the tips they wrote 10 yaers ago: Almost the same. Just as if there had made no improvement in the OS... "How to make your PC faster", "Which memory stick do I need", "Defragment your HD", "How to make your own movies", "Manage your pictures" etc. They repeat the same things again and again. Also how many new apps (free or commercial) are issued everyday (or almost) to tweak, customize or maintain XP or Vista. How many new picture, video or mp3 managers per day? It's an endles flow of new apps and they all do the same things moreless. So much time, money and energy spent on redoing the same things again and again. But Microsoft will never do once and for all a clear interface to do these stuffs. (Try to configurate IE in Vista, good luck! It takes you at least one hour unless you know exactely what you wanna do.) M$ should fix the problems once and for all, instead of letting third parties fix it for them. An anti-virus shouldn't be needed on an OS, period. It's not so difficult to make a fast and reliable system restore/backup, especialy when you can boot in Dos. Unlike the XP that takes ages to make system restore point but will almost always fail to rrestore your system when you need it.

The same commercial source that tries to infect your computer with unwanted stuffs, to remind to buy their products or semi-legal datas miners. This is quiet possible. With newer version of windows it became harder and harder to make manual changes in your system. But viruses still d as they please. With my Installed Files Checker, I started developing a full system backup/restore application, but I dropped developement because for w98 it's simply overkill. I just do a back up of all the files on a dvd (would fit on a single CD if not for a few large softwares in Program Files), and if something happen I'll just have to restore manualy the files that has changed. Or the whole thing. But still didn't have a virus for ages since I disable activeX and flash when I surf the net using Maxthon. I also flat out disable scripts when I'm visiting potentialy dangerous places or when I just want it to go faster. I also disable html and suspicious attachements in OE. And I never use WMP which is a worm hole IMO. We don't need all these stuffs. Flash movies and YouTube suck anyway.

Which patches/updates have you installed so far?

Me too and I hate its search box with a passion. But everybody is free to use what they like. Deos anybody has a patch to install UAC on w98?

It's worse than that: It's admiting that w98 is not superior to XP.

Don't be too optimistic: Stats are bad and do look like the Dow Jones circa end of 2008. It's sad that so few poeple see the advantage of using w9x, and that nobody in the industry ever recognized these advantages. Morevoer, w98 is perhaps the most hated OS ever by the so called NT-based OSes users. On every forum where dropping or keeping w98 is discussed there are XP fanboys coming out to destroy w98. Everytime. And I suspect that commercial websites like Lexmart who remove w98 drivers do so because of these XP fanboys. It's an incomprehensible hatred, like racism or schizophrenia. It's absolutely incredible. This is even more bizzare since XP is not known for being a success technicaly. It's rather the failed experiment of the new window generation, like w3.1 was to w98. Vista was a slight improvement in some way, wondows 7 should be the real fix. Nevertheless I'm still very pleased with the activity of this board and all the ongoing projects we can find.

I agree with bristols that working, say, on KernelX is perhaps more useful, but everybody does what he can. I'm sure many w98 users will like it and if it doesn't look too much like the XP menu I may like it too. Tought I don't want to influence your choice.

Personaly, I don't want my w98 to look like XP (otherwise I would be using XP) but I'm all for encouraging such projects. It shows that w98 is still alive. Good luck.

Skype and Gimp should work without kernellX. At least version from 6 months ago did.

I posted my 2ct there! It's stunning the agressivity some poeple have against w98... realy what did we do to them?