Fredledingue

yeah, the world of real coding is much more complicated than one thinks.

If you didn't see any mention of printer installation issues with Auto-Patcher in the Auto-Patcher's discussion, then odds are high that you are the first with this very specific problem. As I understand you have issues with the HP Officejet printer on other platforms such as XP SP1, 2 and 3. So it's maybe not a problem with Auto-Patcher but with one patch or update common to XP and W98SE. The only way to find which patch is the culprit is to install all the patches one by one, but it would be a debilitating job to do so. My suggestion is to uninstall what Auto-Patcher installed, or better yet, reinstall windows over (which is similar to overwrite windows files), and use another updater/service pack (like the uSP3) and see if you have the same problem. (don't forget to test your printer and its installation before on a fresh windows install to make sure it's not the installation CD in fault). One question: Do you think the msgsrv32(Not responding) issue is related to the HP printer issue? In this case replacing msgsrv32.dll with an earlier version may solve you problem. HTH

VirtualDubMod should work on w98. And you can select the track that you want.

Does that mean that if you answer "NO" to thequestion "Do you want to restart your computer now?" to all patches save the last one, all the patches will install successfuly? If this is true, then you only need a script which launch all the installation file sand click on "No" auomaticaly then reboot.

What happens when you reinstall your printer a second time? If you downloaded the autopatcher from there, then yes it's "our". And since the last update on the update is from december 2008, you may want to have a look at this: http://www.htasoft.com/w98se_post_usp4.php or this: http://www.mdgx.com/upd98me.php

Webpage updated with 7-24-2010 Update. +links to this forum fixed with the new addresses.

New version: Homepage - more infos Direct download What's new? 4.7 -Fixed: The folder being checked not properly showing -Fixed: New bug where folders didn't open from their link in the results page (bug in "Escape" method) 4.6 -New: Support for Windows XP and other OSes using the same DOS version. -New: Displaying system file versions (exe, dll etc) for added and modified files -Improved: Slightly faster -Improved: Option to shrink or expand table cells containing long names -Improved: Style (color, table, font etc) and better html code -Improved: Focus directly on the "comment" box -Improved: Displaying the folder being checked when this one takes a long time to do -Fixed: Potential mistakes when more than 50 files have been added or missing in the same folder -Fixed: White space preceding file names when the hour in the file date is followed by "a" or "p" (very minor bug) -Fixed: Main window hiding the taskbar when enlarged for viewing details -Changed: Location of the program's registry entries

Thanks, duffy. But I was talking about doing my own plug-in myself. You can do it if you know javascript and I do. But you also need to know how to produce a valid set of installation files for your script else it's useless. And this is very difficult with FF and I'm afraid it's the same with K-M. Of course installing existing plug-ins is easy.

Cure, Yes it's amazing how many websites, not only the K-M website, are out of date while the informations there are supposed to be crucial. Often the one in charge of the website is the least involved in the activity of the website eventhought he/she is a member in the project. When there is a forum, you can make sure that the guy who created the forum and owns it NEVER takes part. Duffy98, AFAIK and form what I have read, K-M uses the same core, the same engine as FF (FireFox). I was disapointed with FF by the lack of tools, possibilities and option out-of-the-pack. It's possible to turn it into an awesome browser but it takes time, knowledge and you need loads of plug-ins. With K-M you get, well, I got, most of the things I needed when I opened it for the first time. However K-M seems to use the same plug-ins as FF and FF plug-ins are quiet difficult to do. Doing a plug-in in itself is easy as soon as you know javascript, but to create the right installation files is a nightmare. It's extremely complicated, even if everyone seems to say that it's easy and simple. I spent 4 hours reading tutorials and didn't succeed. I'v given up but if I use K-M on a regular basis, I'll have to learn how to do that. On Maxthon it was quiet easy. There are a few plug-ins I did myself for Maxthon which I realy need in whatever browser I'll use. About my problem, I find out that K-M freezes the whole machine when there are GIF's in the news opened from the Yahoo! Finance page. The main page which certainly contains GIF's causes no problem, yet any news page opened from it does crash totaly my PC. Incredible. If they succeed in solvng that, they are the boss!

I have posted my crash story on KM's forum: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?3,111696

More specificaly it's activeX which is dangerous for you. Not only a threat to your privacy but for you PC too. ActiveX can be desactivated separately from javascript. but disabling javascript will disable activeX too because it can't work without javascript. I always disable activeX while leting javascript on. As a result, I'v never caught any virus, never been hacked. But I also never watch YouTube videos because Flash needs activeX to work. The YouTube video format is the single most dangerous thing on Earth, I mean on the internet, because it forces millions of poeple to be exposed to activeX threats. Instead of avi, mpeg or wmv formats which can be downloaded safely. Yes this forum can be used without javascript and it's great because with it it's terrible. For example, every time I click or right click on the text area, the warning message pops up 2 or 3 times! That means that everytime you click on it scripts totaling more than 150,000 words are triggered! And these scripts are... useless! No necessity whatsoever. And I'm talking about the "Fast Repply" form! :shock: Websites requiring javascript to post on their forum are checking the datas before they are sent to the server. This can be useful and may offer a gain of time to the user. Because if it's checked on the server the user had to wait the response and the page refresh. If it's checked by javascript it's processed on the user computer and the response comes instantly. But not every site need to check text datas.

Multibooter, www.nzz.ch is not bad at all as far as I'm concerned. FYI I set MaxScriptStatements to 50,000 (20,000 was way too low) and this website didn't trigger any warning. But I get cascades of warnings on this very website, MSFN.org, which before caused me a lot of trouble. I can even say that MSFN.org is the worse website as far as javascript statements are concerned. (I'm going to write a complain in the had oc forum soon.) This is about javascript statements not javascript duration (time out), which are two different things. Time out is perhaps more effective since it blocks what realy takes time while statements block large piece of code which are not forcibly slow. The statements setting does take in account loops, so it counts the number of statements executed and not merely the size of the script. So it's not minding real execution time but close to it and most importantly avoid hang-ups. Sometimes the statements setting fails to block slow codes (few statements but slow stuffs) maybe because it's waiting information from slow servers. I'v read that's sometimes the case. In this case a time out could be more helpful. It's amazing how much javascript crap some websites can contain. First because killing the long scripts while they run almost never change anything on the page and doesn't even change the functionaly of the page. Secondly because 50,000 statements is huge. Imagine, by 10 statements per line, you get a 5,000 lines script! Oh My God! And this is happening several times on a single page! Worse yet if the coder imagined loops which could run in the hundreds or in the thousands. This means realy bad encoding and even disrespect for the users at this point IMO.

I had been immediately impressed by the speed of K-M. And I liked the way I could configure it too. I'v been using Maxthon for years and I could find a few of the same ideas there (including turning off stuffs like javascripts). Finaly the javascript registry tweak solved the main problem I had with the internet, but of course I won't be against even more improvements. The problem I had with K-M was one page succeeded in crashing my whole system. One page but the kind of page which I could find very often, on a daily basis, so I couldn't take the risk of continuing with that. I tested several version back to 1.5.0 and also the 1.6a4. All versions behaved the same, including 1.6a4, which suggests that the beta (or pre beta) may work on w98se indeed. The crash I encountered was linked to a page on the internet, not on the use of the browser interface or tools. If you insist, I can reinstalll it and test it further to see if the bug is reproductible or if it was just a coincidence.

I don't know. Opera and FireFox use their own script engines, I think. So this is a question specific to these softwares.

Everybody knows how bloated and resource-sucking are javascripts on some websites. The more famous the website, the more junk they put in it. Javascripts, because they are poorly coded and redundant are responsible for most of the slowlyness on the internet. Sometimes it can be a true nightmare. They can even freeze your browser and let you wait forever unless you hit Ctr+Alt+Del. The radical solution to this is creating the followin key value in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Styles\MaxScriptStatements If the "Styles" key is not there, create it too. The "MaxScriptStatements" must be a DWORD type. (in regedit click "new"-->"DWORD value") Enter a number between 10000 and, say, 50000. (in regedit rightclick on the MaxScriptStatements value and click "edit", select "decimal", enter the number of your choice) This value means that after a certain number of javascript statements (commands), a warning pops up asking you to abort the script or to let it run. The lower the number the more often the warning pops up. Setting it too low might be annoying. I set it to 10000 and on some sites it's ok, but here, the forum became unusable so I may want to set it higher. As for comparison, in absence of any entry, the default value is 5 million, which is simply insane. Most of the time you can abort the script and it has no effect whatsoever on the content or even the functionality of the page, contrary to disabling scripts alltoghether. You can let it run when you think it could be useful, eg: when the page has is not yet displayed completely because some content may be script generated. At the very worse, you refresh the page. With this tweak browsing becomes all of a sudden a true pleasure. No more browser hanging up. Pages appear almost instantly. If a script threathens to freeze your PC, it's at the mercy of your finger! You are back in control! Thanks to JarC from the Maxthon forum.

version 1.5.4 crashed on some specific pages. Very fast but when it crashes it crashes the whole computer and I had to restart. There is no way to kill the task with Ctr+Alt+Del. I don't have KernelX installed. If it works fine for you, great because it's indeed a very fast browser and has abetter interface than FF, IMO.

I agree that Windows Help is notoriousely useless. But thanks for your help

Thanks for this new beta update, MDGx! To save time, I tested it immediately without restoring my system (I have no software to do so at the moment and it would have to be done manualy) and as a result, well, your new installer didn't change anything from my previously corrected set of files. But that's normal since it's supposed to reproduce it. So I recommand another test on a clean or semi-clean install. Reproducing the problem is easy. You just need to open any HTA application. The error if any will appear immediately. The only change I noticed with my Installed Files Checker 4.6c, was: ADVPACK.DLL 99,840 08-04-04-3:56a ==> 6.0.2900.5512 99,840 04-14-08-12:00a I didn't see this file in your list in the readme. Does it belong to this package or not? If not I wonder where it comes from because I didn't install anything else.

The only changes between installing src579x and re-installing src569x by keeping new files are: C:\WINDOWS\WSCRIPT.EXE 118,834 06-26-01-5:53p --> 5.6.0.8832 114,688 02-17-07-6:04a C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\CSCRIPT.EXE 102,450 06-26-01-5:49p --> 5.6.0.8832 98,304 02-17-07-6:03a C:\WINDOWS\HELP\WSCRIPT.HLP 8,847 06-26-01-3:55p --> 8,847 06-26-01-2:55p MISSING from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM: CSCRIPT.EXE 114,688 12-10-07-6:00a WSCRIPT.EXE 135,168 12-10-07-6:00a src579x adds in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM: CSCRIPT.EXE 5.7.0.16535 114,688 12-10-07-6:00a WSCRIPT.EXE 5.7.0.16535 135,168 12-10-07-6:00a WSHCON.DLL 5.7.0.16535 36,864 07-21-08-12:26a IMHO, two explanations: 1/ HTA (IE) looks in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM for WSCRIPT.EXE and doesn't find what he's looking for because of its location not being in C:\WINDOWS. The cause might be found in the registry or in some settings but I can't give any help about that. To test that one could move version 5.7.0.16535 of WSCRIPT.EXE to C:\WINDOWS and see. 2/ WSCRIPT.EXE 5.7.0.16535 or 5.6.0.6626 is faulty. (I don't think CSCRIPT.EXE and WSCRIPT.HLP have any influence here) Please note that src579x install version 5.6.0.6626 of WSCRIPT.EXE and CSCRIPT.EXE while src569x installs a newer 5.6.0.8832 version. That the latter version works well. HTH

My command line in autoexec.bat is: XMSDSK 131072 /t /y It works fine and it's the same version as yours. Can't help more... :-(

SCR579X (script engines update) cause HTA application to show a box asking to download the script engine. When you download it, it works fine but... it asks it everytime you open an HTA application. If you select "don't ask any download anymore" (OSOTE) then it will never ever work again. So this is not usable as is. I solved the problem by 1/ installing SCR579X 2/ restarting 3/ installing SCR569X 4/ pressing "keep new files" for every file that is newer 5/ restarting This way you get the combination of the new files with the old files and the settings that work. (Not tested on the long term yet.) The problem doesn't affect VBS applications. Regard.

KernelX won't install without KernelX!

I understand that you realy want to encode your own chatroom yourself. Still, you may save a lot of time by adopting an already available chat application, possibly freeware or not so expensive.

To do exactely what you are asking you will need to use javascript and CSS and modify CSS styles through javascript. e.g. document.getElementById('mypic').style.width = 100 Here are a few examples of passing such datas into avariable usable in javascript: onload = function() { ScreenHeight = window.screen.height ScreenWidth = window.screen.width ScreenAvHeight = window.screen.availableHeight ScreenAvWidth = window.screen.availableWidth // blah } But you don't need to go that far! It's not with SharePoint or FrontPage that you will learn javascript... So I'll suggest building elements which adjust their width and position automaticaly by defaut or by % using only CSS. This would be already 3/4th of what you need to look pro on the web. Here is an example of CSS properties which adjust without the help of any script. <style type="text/css"> div.banner{color:orange; font-style:italic; font-size:xx-large; font-family:'Comic Sans MS'; float:top; text-align:center;} div.leftcol{width:20%;background-color:yellow; color:orange; font-size:medium; font-family:'Comic Sans MS'; float:left; text-align:center;} div.rightcol{width:80%;float:left; text-align:center;} </style> http://www.w3schools.com/ HTH