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We've been talking that topic to death and and it does appear that contrarily to popular belief 9x doesn't run on top of DOS. I refer you to Matt Pietrek's excellent book Windows 95 System Programming Secrets and Microsoft's own online documentation about that.

I'll let you know how my ASUS A8V Deluxe (Revision 2) and Athlon 64 FX-55 fare some time next week if they are not faulty. I just bought those two things on eBay. I haven't received the CPU yet but I'll try to install the mobo this weekend anyway as it came with an Athlon 64 3000+ fitted on it.

I am not too sure about of the actual usefullness of it. I removed that WIA component from my Windows ME system quickly after I installed the OS because I found it buggy, intrusive, kicking in for no reason and affecting performance/stability when doing so. It's actually not more needed than the autorun feature for CDs I believe.

There should be no problem with installing those VC 2008 runtimes as they just need to be copied to the sys dir, isnt'it ? As for DirectX I think the easiest is to install the latest compatible installer and add separately the newest files. Is the current version of KernelEx stable ? I vaguely followed the thread and it seemed to me many stability and compatibilty issues with apps that were running without problems without KernelEx installed were reported so I didn't try it since quite some time.

Maybe the latest KernelEx takes care of those version problems and that imported function in MSVCR90 already then. I haven't got that one installed. If it does then it should for the D3DX9 as well I guess.

Ok so, as you may have noticed or not, it seems that executable files compiled with recent MSVC compiler don't run anymore on 98SE/ME even if all dependencies are satisfied and source code is identical to source code compiled with an earlier version. Symptoms are as follows : Here you can see that the latest version of Blender does not run anymore. It is actually very easy to fix : OS version and Subsystem version must be set to a value of 4 in the header of the file. That's all there is to it. You can grab PE Worshop here. It's the easiest tool I know for doing that. It can also be done rather easily using the structure viewer of Tiny Hexer. Right, if it works with exe files, it also works with dll files and so I fixed the MS D3DX9 runtime files part of DirectX 9 that didn't work anymore. Well they work fine now. You can grab them here : Fixed D3DX9 Runtime. Example : I can now run the latest version of MapZone which didn't work because it is relying upon D3DX9_35.DLL. Allright but what about apps who also rely on the vcredist 2008 runtimes files (all ending with 90.DLL) ? Good news guys, I also fixed them. You can grab them here : Fixed VCRedist 2008. MSVCR90.DLL also had a missing imported function in Kernel32.dll. Well I replaced this missing GetSystemWindowsDirectoryW by the closest equivalent I found in Kernel32 which is GetWindowsDirectoryW and it seems to work OK. Example : I can now run normally the latest Indigo Renderer which relies on MSVCP90.DLL and MSVCR90.DLL. I also fixed a couple of missing import functions in VCOMP90.DLL but I would not think this will work if an app is dependent on it and it is not tested on anything. My apologies if this had already been figured out and posted by someone else as I haven't followed the forum too much lately.

Here you have the last free version of Zoom Player with DVD support (around 2002). It's only an advanced front end for whatever DVD playback filters you have installed though but it might be helpfull. http://rapidshare.com/files/78509492/zoomp...r_2.90.exe.html

Have you tried using the Fraunhoffer DVD codecs ?

Actually there are other GUI tools for getting such information : PEView, PE Workshop, PE Informant, PE Viewer and probably yet some others. Fortunately they are all freeware so I am not going to be instantly banned by MDGX for speaking about them.

Doesn't work anymore. Killed by a virus. Maybe those rootkits I emailed you some time ago. Where is this picture from btw ? Quite intriguing.

Opening a church anytime soon ?

Think about the alpha channel, guys (LukeSkillz and chuckbourdeau).

You are not going to find a miracle application that is going to play DVD smoothly on a 333Mhz computer IMO.

a) LDID 13 is the Command folder if I am not mistaken. b)Installing a COM server (OCX or DLL) only consist in registering it. There is no correct place, or rather the correct place is wherever it is registered.

Haven't you got a mouse, guys ?

AFAIK there is no no correspondance between CSIDL folders and the special folders seen as numbers in inf files. Export desired key from regedit with the batch file, edit it and reimport it I would say. Maybe this could be of interest for you : http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/F...eg-To-Bat.shtml

Yeah, a rootkit could be doing that I guess.

My guess is you have a kernel mode rootkit installed which is responsable for that. It is very likely that your iexplore.exe process is the genuine Internet Explorer that has been launched by it, has been injected with so-called FWB code by it and serves as a backdoor server. Well, it is a possible explanation. You should look at your system with IceSword recommended above IMO.

Yeah and you can do it with TweakUI on 98SE/ME.

Actually, a rootkit is simply an executable who hides itself (and whatever payload it is bundled with and configured to hide) from the user. A file that is alterated on disk is by no means a rootkit IMO as it is not hidden. Alteration of files on disk is very easy to defeat as you've said, and is therefore barely used by attackers IMO as any decent firewall will block a modified executable that was previously set as trusted. Mine does. The current hype seems to be FWB (which simply stands for firewal bypass). It consists into injecting code into a running process that is usually set as trusted (aka IE). As the injected malicious code is terminated along with the infected process when the latter is closed, FWB would seem to me to be not not suitable for everything. Certainly not for backdoor server I would say, unless code is injected in explorer.exe (which is running all the time on 99% of the windows machines) which apparently quite many are doing despite the fact you would normally not allow explorer to access the network without a prompt at least. Not sure if all that falls under the FWB appellation works like that but I have certainly downloaded enough FWB uploaders, downloaders, backdoors etc... recently so that I can test the capabilities of those things by setting them up to do harmless things and run them on my machine. Which I will certainly be lazyly doing in the coming weeks. Edit : Uploaded a compiled FWB sample + source code I downloaded from I don't remember where. It does not seek to bypass firewalls, it just launches notepad, injects code into it in memory and exits. Notepad is opened with a dialog box that does not exist in it normally. http://rapidshare.com/files/77313778/fwb.zip.html

LOL to both win98 guy and herbalist.

How flawed is that : http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-p...sts-results.php

That's a huge list indeed. Seems to be working just fine with IE 5.5 SP2 as well.

A nice free open source alternative to Visual C++ with some nice tools even for those who are not programmers. http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download

hi bristols, unfortunately not I am afraid.