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Use Opera guys, it prints fine.

Yes this dialog is accessible through the menu which pops on right-clicking the columns headers. Those column settings are on a per folder basis and become system-wide only if using the Folder Options command "view all folders like current folder". I think the View settings are stored at HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams and perhaps also at the sibling StreamMRU key. Optional column items can be provided by shell extensions and are generally specified in the registry at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\ShellEx\ColumnHandlers. The default column items do not have entries there and I don't think they are specified anywhere in the registry apart eventually in the view settings stored in the above mentioned Streams and StreamMRU keys. The text strings that appear in the default columns are supplied by Shell32.dll and are located at String Table 562 in the resource section of my version of shell32. So I would suggest to regsvr32 shell32.dll and/or mess-up with the above settings and keys to get your columns back.

Here tsukuyomi must be put in 2K mode to work and the open/save works just fine. Comdlg32 5.50.4134.100 (I don't know if this one would work on your system) Windows ME with IE5.5 SP2 here btw.

I told you that if you've WMP9 installed "fixing" msdxm will not solve the problem because, as far as I am aware, msdxm won't be used at all for displaying MS vids in IE. It will be the WMP9 components that are going to be used and it is those ones you should look into/register IMO. Perhaps one of them has been overwritten by a more recent build incompatible with your OS. Why don't you install DirectX 9 btw ?

I think this website is as badly optimized as the girls' breasts, peaks at 50% CPU here in Opera, as for the silicone there is probably one ton of it alltogether, explaining the CPU load

Well I have certainly seen Z-A sort order in non-Details views but they were always due to having exited Details view with such a sort order. If I were to open Folder Options and choose the option to view all folders as the current folder on such a folder then I guess it could become the default behaviour system-wide. Not tested, just a thought.

Cool, thanks.

EyesOfaRaven I don't want to be a prick and we appreciate your willingness to help by testing and reporting bugs but you have a running thread that you have just opened yesterday or the day before because your system regularly crashes in all corners, notably IE...

I think you can be proud First time I did run the loader it crashed in kernel32 but the dll was injected properly nevertheless it seems and then suddenly Opera was horribly garbled and full of graphic glitches. I thought OMG and I closed Opera. The rest of the system seemed fine so I launched Opera again and it was all fine apparently. Then I opened more than 50 tabs with a different webpage each and free GDI resources dropped from 84% to 66%, no glitches or errors, everything OK. I saved the session and rebooted to compare the GDI drop of that session without the expander. Without the expander free GDI resources dropped from 84% to 35%. Subsequent loading of the expander went without error this time and reloading the 50+ tab session resulted in the same drop (84 to 66) as the initial test. Stability of the OS does not seem affected at all. I'll leave it always on from now and report if an eventual problem shows up. Great job dude

If Windows Media Player 7 or 9 is installed on your system it is not reregistering msdxm.ocx which is a component of Media Player 6 which will solve the problem. Best version of msdxm.ocx is the one you originally had. Versions numbered 6.4.9..... are for NT systems and don't work properly on 98 if I am not mistaken.

Cool, I'll be testing this ASAP. I'll report promptly all the many bugs I will find of course

Do you mind uploading your msvcrt.dll for testing purposes ? It is version 6.1.9848.0 and I have never seen this version before. I have 6.1.9847.0 installed on my super stable system.

None of course

Come on, you make sentences in which you to treat the file format spec as a cause of a possible incompatibility, read yourself. Other than that I understand now that you are saying there is software that is not (or will not be) compatible anymore with the 9x platforms, but that's nothing new to anyone here.

See how you tie the implementation of the zipx spec to possible incompatibilty. This does not make sense. The only data file format that could be incompatible with 9x I can think of would be a format whose spec specifies that the filesize must be at minimum bigger than the maximum file size a 9x system can handle. Other than that I can't see anything that would make a data file format intrinsically incompatible with the given system.

Well if you are so frightened just upgrade to Windows 7 which is due to be out soon. Best advice I can give you

Cool but I'd like a crash log for explorer as well if you can as you say it crashes a lot. Btw this does not seems like a crash log to me but only a snapshot. A crash log is a snapshot that is automatically generated and saved to disk by DrWatson when an application crashes. You need to run DrWatson as a backround task for this to be possible to happen. After that I'll suggest several optimizations, checks and fixes (I have a few precise ideas already) and hopefully we'll be able to fix your system.

I don't see why it shouldn't. Currently 7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org/ jaclaz I don't know why you posted this again, we do know that 7-zip works for windows 98, but it don't work for the new zip format .zipx, so I don't see the point you are trying to make. I think you don't understand that a file format is not OS specific. It's just a file format. Whether there is going to be a software implementation for it on different platforms is another story. As Jaclaz said there is good chances Igor Pavlov is going to implement the zipx spec in 7-Zip which is 9x compatible.

Yeah that's it, I use Jetico 1 not 2.

You've lost an occasion not to say something very stupid IMO. Shall I tell you the stories of the several occurence of zero-days downloaded and executed on my machine without my knowledge and consent through browser exploits and that my firewall blocked from connecting to the net/uploading whatever they were meant to thieve on my system ?

I was glad the day I dumped ZA for Jetico, what a resource hog that was. No regrets.

Btw if you could run DrWatson and upload a crash log for both Internet Explorer and Explorer it would be nice because we would know what modules are loded when the crashes occur. You may have more modules loaded at that moment than what you've snapped with current process.

Allright, we'll come back on that later. There are quite a few differences in what runs on my system which is rock stable and yours and if your system was now mine I'd check out a few things from closer perhaps. Do you have an idea when your troubles started ? Have you been running registry cleaners and if so which ones ? Have you applied explorer or browser related registry tweaks ?

We are going to attempt to solve your browsers stability issues. For a start, can you provide a list of all the modules in use by explorer.exe and iexplore.exe (internet explorer) ?