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editing items (screen detail):

hmm, I see that both of you do better than me!

If M$ sold w9x again, fully updated as we have it (Not even a redisigned version), but just with modern hardware supports, I wonder how much they would sell...

The advantage of notepad alternatives is that they are as simple as notepad. They don't come with thousands of menus and setting like program editors do. And open instantly.

Jpeg123 converter makes 200 Kb only.

update: Direct download 4.5 -Improved: Configuration panel now reads old settings if any. -Improved: Use of registry (finished) and other minor things in the code. -Fixed: Configuration panel showing an "Ok" dialog box instead of "Yes No". -Fixed: Configuration panel not showing the Program Files folder

version 0.3 released: -Fixed item display bug when the item command line doesnt' contain "C:\\". -Fixed error when extention has no icon set at all, not even a default one. -Fixed fastExplorer.ini not found or empty while it's not the case

That's funny I reinstall Maxthon with their last version too and I also had no exe! I copy pasted the exe from a previous version, yet already a 2.x one, which i had fortunately and it works. Maybe we should tell them on their forum. Also the auto-update doesn't work. Official reason: "Because the server is in China they didn't have time to upload the last version for w98 upthere". Or something of that effect. Ok, but it's about a year now that the autoupdate won;t download the file beyond 80%.

Why don't you use a notepad alternative (metapad, the Gun, newpad, notehalf etc)? Using the original notepad today is like using Paint version 1995...

Try Jpeg123 converter. I uploaded it to my website for you...cuz it's nowhere on the nternet anymore. download here obsolete, abandonware, freeeware

Maybe wrong ESDI_506.PDR version for your large HDD. Or you connected Pata and Sata drives at the same time and it's not compatible toghether.

Rule 1: The system must be fully installed and operational as you use it everyday. No minimalist setting. Rule 2: Chronometer the time (with your cell phone for example) from the time you pressed the button on the case and the tme your desktop is ready without any hourglass left on the mouse pointer. Rule 3: Chronometer the time since you clicked on "OK" on the shut down dialog and the fan stops spinning. Rule4: You have the right to close all programs before shutting down and not to launch any program at startup, but don't disable anything for the test which is not an application. Rule 5: You have the right to cmment and mention unconventional items that you run on start up or that were running when shuting down. Ready? ________________________________ Here are my results: Booting: 54 seconds (desktop appeared with all the icons and the taskbar after 35 seconds but the hourglass last 20 sec) Turning off: 4.5 second every window closed, 9.5 seconds with internet still connected and Maxthon browser open.

When I reinstalled my windows98 afresh, before it even touched the internet, I made a copy of all the files (program files, and windows basicaly) on a CD-R. Uncompressed it took less than half the CD-D, program files included. Ok now, that I have installed MS Office and any other stuffs, I'm near a Giga, but the point is that my basic installation and basic softwares can be backed on a CD-R. Uncompressed. Then if something happen I can reboot in dos mode and with a one-line comand, using xcopy I can restore my whole system. It would take less than 20 minutes to do so. I can also insert anything I want in autoexec.bat. I stopped using antiviruses two years ago because they couldn't find anything ever. I run spybot once in a blue moon, and at worse, he finds three cookies.

No, no ,no You just have to remove the attribute with the arttrib command. see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-w98-on-L...40&start=40 Regards

That's fine. Ok, now me: Does anyone knows why I have the hourglass on my cursor (process going on) when the desktop is there and ready? The hourglass stays for about 30 seconds... It doesn't prevent my to open programs, but while it's there it's quiet slow.

geek, do you happen to wake up in the middle of the night, jump out of the bed and run up to the monitor, because the fan speed ncreased, signalig an abnormal surge in processor activity?

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Ok, some hints, I notice that it comes from my customized desktop color sheme (appearance). When I revert to a standard color sheme, the language indicator turns dark blue again after reboot. So, internat.exe picks its color from the desktop color sheme applied. Therefore I re-edited my personalised color sheme changing every item where this color appeared. I found it on one place: On "active title text". I changed this color to dark blue. rebooted, and... the light blue color was back! Eventhought there is NO white blue color in the new sheme! I realy wonder where it finds this color.

I can't read the language indicator on the taskbar because it's white on light blue background. Normaly it should be white on dark blue.

Yes but there are no animal my computer room... Spiders maybe...

No, but I don't think you would have any issue other than seeing some message box in english instead of your local language. I don't think it will crash your system because of language, for example. I installed it on a french windows and everything was fine.

Hi, denocrso! I always thought the oposite: that Windos cared more about attributes han dos, that dos can do everything... All right: I updated the batch script. Added attrib commands and also changed some "move" into "copy" to avoid the files to disapear in case we neeed them again. The attrib command should work if you restart from the boot option menu because it uses the windows installed files. Maybe not if you reboot from a floppy. Do you think tha a wrong IO.SYS could be the cause of a failed setup launch?

One small correction... The line above should read (note the M): DMABufferSize=64 Got it! thanks. Post updated. True: Computers don't have DNA, only humans have...

I talked a lot, and it was time to walk the talk... I installed w98se on a 400Gb had disk, on a 38Gb partition on it, with another 345 Gb partition left for multimedia stuffs. I still have the old hdd, with the full installation still intact, which is very useful. The funny thing is that the two partitions/drive letters of the hard disk are saddled on the old disk drive letter: C :, D:, E C and E belong to a same physical hard disk and D belongs to another one. Not very important, just to say that it can happen. First thing I have learned is: Do not use ME Bootdisk-Custom from bootdisk.com: It failed to porperly delete old partitions causing a hell of troubles. (full story here) After I realised that, I used fdisk and format from BHDD30.zip and it worked. Maybe other bootdisks from bootdisk.com work, I didn't test them. Then more problems! When launching windows setup I got this: Please wait while Setup initializes Scanning system registry... Copying files needed for Windows Setup... and then nothing happened. ==> I solved this problem by rebooting via floppy boot disk (original) in "Safe mode command prompt only". Then he accpeted to install windows. During restart, after the installer had copied all files, I pressed Ctrl and rebooted in dos mode to replace all files for supporting big hard drives, and to edit system.ini to support more than 512 Mb of memory. For that I used the batch script above. To my susprise, several files couldn't be copied because the location didn't existed yet or were not present in the directory where the bat file was. The latter is very surprising, but ok. Very cool was the edit command to add entries into system.ini. Unfortunately, Windows didn't want to start: Windows protection error. Pffft...! That's the worse error you can have because you can't load in safe mode. ==> The reason? IO.SYS had not been replaced by the bat script. In fact it cannot be replaced in plain Dos mode. That's maybe the only file on the whole system which can be deleted/replaced under windows but not under Dos. So, I reset the jumpers and the ribbon cables to get back to the old hardware configuration and restarted on the old hard drive. Then, I replaced IO.sys on the new drive, simply with windows explorer. (full story here) The question is: How to do without a second drive (<137 Gb) with windows already installed? I don't know, but I'v read that such error is rather rare. I hope I'v got all the "rare" errors here. Maybe a bad IO.sys on the boot floppy was also the reason why setup didn't start at first? Hah! Sometimes I think that XP and Vista users are lucky ones!

You shouldn't be so shy with updates: uSP 3 is relatively safe. Xplorer2 lite (free version) is realy a good one. I use it for years and never use the original explorer. You can also use winfile.exe from the windows folder. Not very sexy but you will solve your problem without any change to your system.