Fredledingue

Ha! You are right. It must be my mind that needs debugging!

I have seen one small error more: some unchanged files, maybe one or two, are sometimes listed as missing then, as added again. I still don't know what is causing this error.

Make "Open", "Save", "Save As" etc dialog box bigger by defaut. Download it from my Webpage I posted it a few months, maybe a year ago. Now I made an installer... (in vbs of course.)

Do you think my connection will be faster if I had an ethernet modem Does DSL modem on ethernet connection exists? I mean simple modem, not router-modem.

Solved! Successfuly uploqded 450kb! GeoCities Control Panel Upload results REZTO3_portes.JPG - Uploaded successfully What's up? I re-installed the D-Link drivers twice before without any result. I downloaded the so called driver update from the D-Link site: their installation package did't work at all + the files in the update were identical to those on the CD. But they included a small uninstaller (not included in the cd) and I used it according to their instructions. Then re-installed the modem from the original CD. Something had to be de-installed. Thanks to all those who helped me

somewan, The two computers use the same modem but not at the same time (it's physicaly impossible). I have to manualy move the USB cable from one machine to another.

Warning to all! New version. Download the version 2.0 or above from my website because I detected an important error in Installed File Checker 0.9! http://www.geocities.com/fredledingo/vbscripts.htm Error description for version prior to 1.0: Sometimes the batch process will list files in a directory as unsorted. So if, in the result file, you see the line "Added: Too many files in directory. Files unsorted" then the following added and removed files are not true. If files are listed unsorted, previous versions of my script messed up. (fixed in v.1.0) Strangely, some folders will have the files listed normaly most of the time, then one time the files won't be sorted eventhought the content of the folder had not been modified. Thought this error has been fixed in the main vbscript, if somebody cam help me with a trick to avoid unsorted list from within the batch file, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your suggestion. I will try them.

Google Earth doesn't run on w98se. Does it?

Thanks for all these infos. Unfortunately I have no registry backup dating from the time it was working. And no internet related vxd entry in the ini file...

Because I didn't know this registry entry, I used in my Installed Files Checker (click my signature) I used this workaround: If not found then go to next 1/ checking for Program Files folder 2/ checking for Programs folder 3/ checking for a folder cntaining subfolders usualy stored in the Program Files folder such as Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer 4/ finaly asking the user where this f***ing folder is. HTH

eidenk, how do you do that? Anyway, I let the PC running for too many day with this problem to be able to roll back anything... test dhdfjdkhjdvkhdfhvdfhvjkfhdjk vhjkdfhvjkdjvhkjdnf sjdhsjhdjs jhsdjkfhjcn sjgcjsdgchsdjch

Yes, sorry I mixed up. Anyway, SFC is a basic tool to repair/restore files that have changed. Thus it tracks indeed file changes. But it will give only a fraction of the informations that Installed File Checker will give you. And as Eidenk suggested, the advantage of my script is speed and flexibility. For example, SFC has been totaly useless in regard to the internet problem I have at the moment... but it was cool to read that 0 files were changed...and that 800 were added! No. We realy need something for daily use. These are two different tools for different needs. One tracks and eventualy restores crucial files, the other gives you everything that changed since last time. TBS, with an extensive and tedious combination of settings, SFC can be improved. More interresting is running SFC to eventualy restore some files, after running Installed File Checker. Note that everytime I install a piece of software I use Total Uninstal (not freeware anymore ) that also "do the same job as my script (and MUCH more)". But again Total Uninstal is also for another use on another time. __________________

Does it list all the files including the system and the hidden files? Note that I'm not a DOS specialist. Yes but a batch file is much faster. I didn't make comparison tests but I feel it's faster.While in DOS you just have to add /S to get all the sub and sub-sub folders it takes 20 lines of code in VBS to get the same effect. Can you track files changes in SFC? AFAIK it's basicaly checking the file system for errors. The advantage of VBS is that you can easily modify the source for your own need.

I will try this test page. But I can already tell that download is great and upload is nearly zero. So far I used only IE6.0SP1 and Maxthon. The problem already existed with IE5.5 before I upgraded. Both reacts the same way. I can't connect to my e-mail provider with OE neither. Also something that the other machine does without problem. _____________ No. What registry should be backed up regarding the internet? I would have loved to. But I started writing this script after and indirectly, because I had this problem. Yes they both use the same physical device: an USB D-Link200. It worked very well before with the same device.

Please Help! It can't UPload data to the internet, at least not more than 500 bytes or so. I can download anything I want, even multimega files, but posting a message on this board or uploading a small file on my perso website or even sending data to a java-scripted webpage is impossible. When IE tries to do so, my CPU turns on all cylinders at 100% until I press the stop button. That happened with IE5.5 and upgrading to IE6SP1 and quickely reinstalling w98SE qnd the uSP2.1a and running clamwin antivirus didn't help. On the other computer that use the same USB/removable D-Link DSL modem, it works normaly.

MDGx Unfortunately there is no way to tweak that in VBS (that would require installing eventualy autoit3x.dll etc). I don't understand. as long as the dialog is there, this script will be waiting for somebody to click on a button and it can wait forever. So you can't materialy "close the script" unless you killed the "wscript" task on the tak manager. And even doing so, will have the same effect as pushing on a button in the dialog if there is one visible and then after that you will see either the next dialog or nothing at all. (FYI. You can kill a VBS running only if it doesn't respond. If in a script there is a loop that pop up a dialog all the time without being able to stop it, killing the task won't kill the task! Or it will sometimes do it after 2 or 3 minutes. That's a bug from the task manager. That's why some geek put a WSH timeout in their registry. ) One possibility is that timeout of yours is back in your registry. Another is that you ran the script twice. Another is that due to a bug in my script or a file being not there, the config script is launched. I can't say what it is now. Again, I need more information about what the dialog are saying and when they appeared. Posting a snapshot was perfect but the text only is already very useful. For the moment I can only suggest to run it from a shortcut, all windows minimized... If things goes well I will remove the beta-warning dialog, and maybe another one too in the next release. That will be less annoying. Maybe a totaly silent version that can run from the startup menu with the bat part included in autoexec.bat. So that you will have everytime you start your computer a report before windows is running. But that's just ideas. HTH

MDGx, Thanks for the infos on ICS. In fact, as soon as you own two computer it's wise to run this patch just in case one day you decide to share the conection. About your site, I refered to the "Already Installed!" notes that we can seen from time to time on your lists of upgrade... What does it mean?

MDGx, What the ICS Client is. It's something most of w98 users don't use, right? On your site, it's unclear what is already included in the last uSP. Or "Already installed!" means that? I think you should add a uSP logo or something...but that's a lot of work.

Eidenk Never mind. I ran my program yesterday and stumble across an error too. Thought I knew this error could happend, it didn't when we tested on the Windows Directory alone. One minute ago, I uploaded the version 0.9 that fixed the error I got (I hope it was the same error for you). download here Do you remember if there was a red circle with a white cross symbol in the message box? No? You realy don't remember that? ________________ MDGx, Keep on trying my scripts: One day will be debug your whole computer!

miko, the comparison site dismissed OffBy1 http://offbyone.com/offbyone/ob1_download.htm I agree this browser is a litle bit barbarian, but it has the huge advantage to be stand alone, safe and very fast. It doesn't enter the category of the serious browsers, but it's worht a look. It's the "Notepad" of web browsing.

To sort your start menu go to Start, Settings, TakBar &Start Menu. Click "Advanced". Or go straight to C:\Windows\Start Menu

Even that I don't use Opera or Firefox, I don't care too about M$ updates. Maxthon is my IE update for a while.

psKill is for NT/2000 does it work on w98? CodeStuff Starter can view and kill process too. I will try this 'System Information' application...

Eidenk, You deleted a folder with 2000 files in it? Right? Do you remember what the error was saying? "Out of range" or "Out of file" something like that? I will see if I can reproduce the error. It's a very difficult script.