Fredledingue

I'v been working on a similar project: http://www.geocities.com/fredledingo/sysrestore.htm It's always interresting to share ideas. Here I'm using an archiver named arj to archive the files. It supports restoring long filenames in plain DOS (before/without windows started). You just have to put all the filepaths in list and ask arj to restore the files from this list. I'm not the author of arj. Only of the scripts which use it. At this stage, I did only the "back up" part of the program, not yet the "restore part". And it can be useful already.

If you tell me which files and which lines in these files to modify, I can do it in a matter of minutes.

I would like to thank MDGx for the updates... unfortunately, I'm sort of afraid and not sure how to proceed to test them since I have the old "installs" already installed.

Not sure what you mean. If it's modifying a sys or ini file, as suggested with the KUP installs no problem. But modifying hard coded version tags in exe files is impossible with vbs. Or if it is it would be very experimental. Vbs is not God.

Topic discussed here with solution.

consider installing an antivirus software on your computer, Fredledingue. don't surf the net w/out one First I'm not sure it was a virus, but rather a loosy, bloated installers. I can be a virus since neither Total Uninstall (which I always use to add or remove rograms) nor my Installed File Checker (IFC) detected any modification. The only way to hide modifications from IFC is to create afile of the same size and name and modifying the creation date to that of the original file. IMO,only a hacker would want to do that but there can be other and more honest reasons. I ran AntiVir (updated) and it didn't ddtect anything. It never detect anything on my w98 platform but almost always detect something on the XP platform. With all the freeware I tested it'sa miracle my computer is even booting up! Viruses are a secondary concern for me...

Shade, I indeed, always wondred why I had double menus on the right click on links. Thanks.

mplayer2.exe You have it already. Not sure if it's what you call an wmp9 replacement thought...

Yes, dleting the reg key is the way to go. Even after this update, my desktop icons were unchanged. Thought I'm surprised this update was in uSP2.1a... Copy-paste this codd into notepad and save it as "remove-arrow.vbs". Double-click the vbs file. Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WSHShell.RegDelete ("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\IsShortcut") WSHShell.RegDelete ("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile\IsShortcut") msgbox "Arrow on Icons removed"

Soporific I woould like to differ slightly fom what you said. For simple poeple, I'm fraid that "Unofficial Fix for Newer Cursor & Icon Format Vulnerability (Q891711)" isn't any more comprehensible than " Remove Unofficial USER32.DLL + USER.EXE Fix". At least with the second (and original) option, we know that it's some system files changed by this update. I agree that the white space at the beginning is "unfair practice". What if everybody did the same? Names should start with "Unofficial" or "Official". The word "remove"...can be removed. (If you uninstall, you forcibly remove them)." The word "fix" to be used for specific problems. The word "update" for package, massive changes. Anyway, it's good to have them on the list under any name, especialy when the readme file tells you to never use the add-remove program interface to remove the update!

Thanks to a geek named Rischip on VBS forum This script requires MS Word. I think it can work on every windows. Copy paste the code below into notepad and save it under Close_all_windows.vbs 'Author Rischip 'Home page [link=http://www.thegrimlinker.com]www.thegrimlinker.com[/link] 'This script closes all open windows on the workstation 'The script does not forcefully close applications 'therefore you will get a Save dialog on text editor apps and the like 'before they close 'This script requires Microsoft Word to be installed on your computer On Error Resume Next 'check to ensure running under wscript 'if we are not it would be possible 'for the script to kill itself in the 'command window that cscript would have open 'if we are cool, if not relaunch under wscript If Not LCase(Right(Wscript.FullName, 11)) = "wscript.exe" Then Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") objShell.Run "Wscript.exe " & WScript.ScriptFullName , 0, False WScript.quit End If 'create Word object Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") 'get collection of open windows Set colTasks = objWord.Tasks 'enumerate open windows 'checking for visibility 'verify task is not program manager 'otherwise you will get the logoff/shutdown/restart window for each objTask in colTasks If objTask.Visible Then If Not objTask.Name = "Program Manager" then colTasks(objTask.Name).Close End If End If next objWord.Quit

Does it mean that installer and uninstaller for GDI and EXPLORER and others have been fixed?

I would be careful to play with that. Such manipulation could damage your processor and the power saving may be minimal.

Molecule, That's a fantastic finding you have here. I thought the only generic driver was Maximus Decim's one and it doesn't work with the Kingston sticks. It means that other poeple are working on w98 outside this forum (we are not alone in the Universe!) I don't know how you couldn't install your stick while I managed to do so. Maybe we have different sticks, I dunno, but I will certainly try this generic driver the next time I reinstall completely windows. I hope MDGx will include this generic driver in his update site and thread.

Now I remeber I had to do something like that too but it worked (I don't know after the first or the second attempt). try this: according to their instructions, what is supposed to happen is: (don't insert stick) run expanded DTI.exe, reboot, w98 rebuilds device db and get message "insert datatraveler at any time" (INSERT instead of don't insert), click finish to reboot, then use datatraveler. also dokhdc.inf, 0 bytes, today's date dokusb.inf, 0 bytes, today's date are empty files add cannot work...? Also update windows. My w98SE has always got all the last updates (or almost), at least uSP2.1a should be installed. Normaly the usb key should appear as a new drive, just under the cd or dvd drives in Explorer.

Normaly the CPU use and therefore the fan noise, should be reduced when no cpu use is needed. (you can check it with a resource meter) When you do nothing on your computer, CPU use should show between 1 and 20%. If it shows more than 35% it means that some program, sometimes unwanted, are running in the background or that some windows process are buggy and take useless resources. For example my CPU always showed 4~5% when I did nothing, now, a few days later, after messing up with the system it shows 40%... Now I'll have to reinstall or find the reason for it.

All you need is the driver. I downloaded this driver from their site. Althought it says w98 is not supported, it works on my updated w98SE++. W98 is even better than XP because you unplug anything off the USB hub without doing the "remove hardware" nonsens from the XP task bar. There is no risk of losing data or damaging the device on w98. There should be no problem assigning a drive letter neither. Here is the file I downloaded from Kingston. (Sorry I lost the link) Note the Maximus Decim USB universal driver didn't work in my case. HTH

Please fix the in/unstallers. Thanks!

Great release this time: 4.0 -Added: HTA graphic interface to display results and a progressbar -Added: Summary display (also works without the HTA interface) -Completely new comparison engine (more use of the memory), which means: * Much faster for large numbers of file change. * Speed is more consistant, more predictable. * Smaller and simplier code (the last one became a monster after all the fixes) * More reliable -Fixed: Won't restart the batch file anymore (if that ever happened to you)

Ok, I improved my script in the way we talked above and I (partialy) checked the result manualy. Here is what came out as "missing" from your list ( obsoletes and renamed have been excluded fom this list) I added the link when I had it. As you can see, the list is much shorter. 50COMUPD_DLL5-80PATCH ? ACTIVEXSCRIPTCONTROL1-01-0-0-8825 ? ADDREMOV http://www.mdgx.com/files/ADDREMOV.EXE DCOM98UP ? DIRECTX_OCT2006_REDIST look here: http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#NFR DISKMIND ? DX9CPL http://www.mdgx.com/files/DX9CPL.EXE EXPLOR98 http://www.dr-hoiby.com/TrayIconIn256Color/ FLASH9-0-45-0_W98 look here: http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#SHFL FLASHPLAYER7-0-63_WINAX ? IE6UPD http://www.mdgx.com/spx/IE6UPD.EXE IE813451 ? IE834707 http://www.mdgx.com/files/IE834707.EXE IE890573 http://www.mdgx.com/files/IE890573.EXE IE922760 http://www.mdgx.com/files/IE922760.EXE IE925568 ? INSTALL_FLASH_PLAYER_ACTIVE_X_8-0-24 Look here: http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#SHFL INSTMSIA ? JAVARUNTIME-1_5_0_12-I586-P http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp MDIE6CU http://www.mdgx.com/spx/MDIE6CU.EXE MDPOSTCU http://www.mdgx.com/spx/MDPOSTCU.EXE NUSB30E look here: http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm#NUS Q222930 ? Q817914 http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q817914.EXE Q909363 http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q909363.EXE Q920213 http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q920213.EXE Q927978 http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q927978.EXE RUNHELP http://www.mdgx.com/files/RUNHELP.EXE SETUPAPI http://www.mdgx.com/files/SETUPAPI.EXE TOOLS9X ? TTFPAK http://www.mdgx.com/files/TTFPAK.EXE

Ok, I see... I will add codd to the script to look for the number if the name is not found. That way we will have a tool to compare lists faster.

Soporific, I compared your Monster List on the first page of this thread with the list of files I have downloaded. And 237493USA8 and 249973USA8 are definetly not there. (but q237493 is there) I made the comparison automaticaly, through a script. There can be some mistakes, but I can tell you that 237493USA8 and 249973USA8 are not on the monster list on the first page. ===>Maybe you have another list? The other thing is that some files are named differently. My files came from the "direct download" links posted by MDGx and usualy I don't rename them. IMO it could be a good idea to add all the known names. Here are a few name change my script dtected COPY2GB UCOPY2GB CRYPT9X UCRYPT9X DXM9XIE5 DXM9X IE6-0SP1-KB918439 KB918439 KB891711-V2 KB891711 KB917344-X86 KB917344 KB917734_WINDOWSMEDIA9 KB917734 KB918547-SLV KB918547 NUSB NUSB31 ROOTSUPD ROOTSUP I also improved my script to avoid error (thought errors came only in the detection of changed name, I think) I will redo a list comparison later.

Re-Boot Crash with KB918547 and EXPLORER.EXE 4.72.3612.1700. So I ran these updates (separately) and the computer showed the message "problem loading ....exe, you must reinstall windows" then shut dow. I fixed the problem by restarting in dos mode and copying gdi.ori to gdi.exe and gdi32.ori to gdi32.dll. Same with explorer.exe except that it came after uninstall. Looks like there is a defect in the installer... shouldn't be difficult to make a proper dos command to move xyz.ori to xyz.exe thought. Just one thought, does the installer uses the default "Temp" folder to store files to be moved before rebooting, by any chance?

Soporific, I don't find in your list 78 items released since uSP2.1a, and which were mentioned on MDGx's thread (98 FE + 98 SE + ME updates + patches + (hot)fixes) (All these files have been downloaded from this thread.) 237493USA8 249973USA8 50COMUPD_DLL5-80PATCH 908519FX ACTIVEXSCRIPTCONTROL1-01-0-0-8825 ADDREMOV COPY2GB CRYPT9X DCOM98UP DIRECTX_OCT2006_REDIST DISKMIND DTI DTI_V2 DX9CPL DXM9XIE5 EXPLOR98 FLASH9-0-45-0_W98 FLASHPLAYER7-0-63_WINAX IE6-0SP1-KB916281 IE6UPD IE813451 IE834707 IE883586 IE890573 IE905495 IE918899 IE922760 IE925486 IE925568 IE928090 IE931768 INSTALL_FLASH_PLAYER_ACTIVE_X INSTMSIA JAVARUNTIME-1_5_0_12-I586-P KB917344-X86 KB917734_WINDOWSMEDIA9 KB918547-SLV KLCODEC281F MDIE6CU MDPOSTCU NUSB30E OE911567 OE923694 OUTLOOKEXPRESS6-0_PATCH911567 Q222930 Q816362 Q817914 Q824220 Q834158 Q886677 Q891711F Q893627 Q896156 Q909363 Q912919 Q918547 Q919587 Q920213 Q920670 Q923689 Q923694 Q924191 Q925398 Q925672 Q926247 Q927978 Q929120 Q931836 ROOTSUPD RUNHELP SETUPAPI TOOLS9X TTFPAK U891711 U918547 VC6REDISTSETUP_ENU VCREDIST_X86 Note that there is also 136 items from your list which I DON'T have!!

The link below refers to Java6.0, according to Sun, only version 5.0 is compatible with w98. Here is the link: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp