eidenk

Hi Eidenk, I'm well pass that I'm afraid !I need to know what I'm supposed to type in after I get the following prompt: "C:\>" ? Can you or anyone else help with this? VAN Sorry but as this thread is getting very confused I thought you had not formatted yet. You want to run setup now, is that correct ?

No problems with broadband.

Not really. All the graphic and multimedia subsystem is 16bit. The reason appears to be for faster performance as oscardog points out apparently. When those system came out, cpus weren't really beefy and 9x systems were gaming/multimedia oriented in contrast to their NT cousins and hence needed the fastest possible code for graphic and audio rendering. 16 bit code appears to run significantly faster than 32bit code. DOS is 16bit as well but each DOS application runs in its own virtual machine while all the rest runs in a virtual machine called system VM in which each 32bit app has its own memory space and all 16bit apps share the same memory space. Or so I "understand" it currently. The weird bit are 32bit console apps. The windows that are created by them do not have the DOS toolbar nor can you create a DOS shortcut to them. But if I run a 32bit console app by double clicking on it ( I use an app whose console remains opened in its "DOS" windows) and then run RemoveVM, this one shows 3 VMs : System, its own one (it is a 16bit DOS application) and one that corresponds to the opened 32 bit console app. A process viewer shows both the application and winoldap (WINOA386.MOD) running. I don't know if the NT internals are to easier to grasp but the 9x ones are sometimes (often shall I say) very puzzling.

Good luck, all the best.

You need to get there I think : A:\> format C:\

Program Files Folder Locator for Windows 98 Quick and dirty hta/vbs copy/paste hack retrieving program files folder path from the registry. There is another method using CSIDL I think but I could not get my head around it. Let me know if it does not work on your system.

What are you speaking about ?

There is no program who does it all I think and you won't get it sorted quickly even with the best programs who do each a bit of what you need IMO. And there is no magic program that will sort your music files by genre if they aren't tagged. Organize your stuff well (folders and subfolders in explorer you know) for a start. Then find good free proggies to help you go quicker for doing such or such task.

And it is also not good. I don't use an antivir at all but I upload suspicious files quite frequently on Jotti and clamwin barely ever finds something wrong with them when most of the other flag them correctly as malware.

Yeah that installer appears to be a total mess (no files were updated on reboot) but files themselves are good apparently. Worst part of the installer (which fortunately did not work) : WININIT.INI,Rename,,"DIRNUL=%31%\_RESTORE\TEMP" And : WININIT.INI,Rename,,"NUL=%10%\WININIT.LOG" This one did work and deleted my wininit.log Why are you doing this MDGX ? It is murder almost. You seek to delete the folder in which on Win ME, all files replaced on reboot by wininit are backed up and in addition you also delete the the wininit log file whichs logs all changes that have ever been made by wininit leaving the user no clue whatsoever as to what changes have been made on reboot on his system prior to running this installer. What is the rationale behind that ? @Fredledingue : You can probably fix it all by copying all relevant files to the sys dir and regsvr32 them. I also experienced issues with parts of scripts (css and jscript or vbscript) in html or hta after installing it and this fixed them.

Well there are tons of GUIs for UPX out there. Most of them support drag and drop of files onto its interface. That's a bad point for yours as it does not. The other bad point is that the range of options offered through the GUI is very small compared to some others. I am after a GUI for UPX that does the following in addition to the above : ALL UPX options can be accessed through the GUI. It must also be able to treat dirs (and recurse subdirs), compressing everything it finds, skipping automatically on errors, and creating a log file at the end of a batch process. If you do all this, you'll have the Number 1 UPX GUI in the world and it will draw some attention and fame to you (as well as suck dry your bandwidth probably, lol). Otherwise it will remain yet another standard GUI for UPX.

Runs on all Windows versions, supports all Linux filesystems, NTFS planned : http://www.chrysocome.net/virtualvolumes

Jetico 1.1 would appear to be the best 9x firewall. It is also free. Very lightweight, but quite akward to configure though. I use it since what seems ages now. If you'd bring this topic in the 9x forums you would certainly yeld more feedback than here I reckon. That's for everyone interested in firewalls in general in case it has not been posted yet : http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-p...sts-results.php

Recomended reading for anyone : http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-p...sts-results.php They haven't tested the Vista Firewall yet but I reckon it is going to fare badly.

Hey, clever. Pity that a desktop.ini per folder is still needed though.

http://www.download.com/Privacy-Guard/3000...4-10356336.html Won't delete the index.dat files but will erase all their content. And no need to reboot or to go in safe mode. ccleaner probably uses wininit to delete the files on reboot before windows loads and they are subsequently recreated by the OS.

Try to get a software that shows which files are opened in your system. I can think of sysinternals' open list (You can find it on the internet archive) or G. Topalla's System Information Viewer. Best way I know to see if you've got a rootkit. Well with those tools I found executables runing that were hidden from my process viewer apps and whose startup keys were not visible with regedit. You could also open your registry user.dat and system.dat files (preferably in another machine or in a virtual machine) with RegExport and inspect all startup keys with it, not forgetting this one especially : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components and its stub path entries. HTH

Sounds like you are infected by some malware.

Have you asked here ?

Have a look at LTOOLS, Paragon Mount Everything and Diskinternals Linux Reader. I can't vouch for any as I have tested none. I think there are others as well.

What is an URI ?

Make sure autopatcher does not tweak network/internet settings. I don't know whether it does or not.

Maybe that's the best thing to do then. Pitty that LLXX got herself banned really, as she could have certainly answered you better than me. Whether there are or can be issues when esdi_506.pdr is made to handle SATA drives basically.

Hi Charlie, You are not missing any font, it's just that I haven't translated everything in this executable. (I'll try to finish it someday but don't expect anything anytime soon). It halts probably because of what it calls "ghost" keys. By using the right options you can force it to ignore that. Alternatively you can run registrip on both dat files and look if it find problems in the report tab. You need to click on the small text icon for the report to display. At the bottom of the report will be listed the registry keys found to have "problems". It will be keys containing non "standard" ASCII characters. If you delete those keys with regedit, you should then find that regcon will proceed without errors with the default options. Use at your own risk and let me know if you encounter other problems.

Seems I have been wrong when saying that esdi_506 and the patch had NOTHING to do with SATA and your problems. Here is what I gathered going on MSI website : SATA is under the control of the ICH5 chipset There drivers are apparently the Intel INF Drivers : http://asia.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=down...amp;prod_no=150 They are only inf files (installation files) in the package, the drivers themselves being taken from windows. The only file installed by ich5ide.inf is esdi_506.pdr. So it certainly means it is this file who does access your SATA drive unlike on my own system. Certainly on such a system a patch is needed to use safely drives of more than 137GB. I wonder if the Intel Application Accelerator is not relevant to your system rather than LLXX's but I am not sure of that at all. Have you installed those Intel inf drivers ? Have you read the pdf manual and made sure you've set it all up as it should ? There are 15 references to SATA in it using the search in Acrobat Reader.