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SATA drives have special connectors. If you can plug them in your mobo it means that there are SATA drivers for your mobo somewhere normally. Usually on the CD that comes with the motherboard. If you haven't got that you should visit your mobo's manufacturer website, download them and install them IMO. At least that's how it works here. I have two 250GB SATA drives in my machine. They are using the Silicon Image Sil3112 SATARaid Controller. I found it on the the CD that came with my motherboard. Unless I am missing something...

This patch applies to PATA (otherwise called IDE) drives only as it patches esdi_506.pdr. This patch has NOTHING to do with SATA drives, nor with your issues consequently.

Mmmh, I downloaded them again an guess what ? I had extreme difficulties to extract regdoc this time (other was fine). Very weird shall we say. Anyway, I made a new archive that contains them both, a zip this time. It's here : http://rapidshare.com/files/69264407/RegAll.zip.html That's its MD5 checksum : 555d41086ae7225ad48ea5cf41a3ee24. So you can check for eventual corruption of the archive by Rapidshare should you experience problems with this one as well.

Open Expert and Fast Explorer are both free and will both allow you to do what you want.

If your mobo has SATA connectors, the CD that comes with it should have SATA drivers on it. Actually I wonder if it's possible to access SATA drives at all without them installed.

Is it a new addition to your home network or was it working at some point in the past ?

Glad Registry Concentrator is usefull for you. I am on Win ME and the cumulated size of my system.dat and classes.dat (which are the equivalent of 98SE system.dat) is nearly 10MB after all that cleaning so I recon your sytem.dat is pretty clean if you have DX9 and NET 2.0 installed. I thought I'd mention a method for cleaning the COM keys (CLSID, Typelib and Interface) at 100%. It actually consist of deleting them and then merging old clean ones to the registry. Of course for doing that you need to have exported those keys with regedit after installing Windows and updates (IE, DX, DotNet, MDAC, JET, etc...) and most common apps such as Acrobat Reader for example. If you don't have that and don't mind reinstalling updates and apps, there is still a way to do it if you have kept your system.1st file. As you probably know, when windows is installed it creates a system.1st and a user.1st files. Those are actually backups of the initial registry. If you stilll have those files you can open them with another marvellous free tool called RegExport and export any key in Regedit 4 format. (Mitec's Windows Registry Recovery app claims to be able to do the same but it does not work correctly here). When I cleaned the COM keys with COMView I actually deleted a bit too much stuff and some functions of IE turned out to be broken which I did not manage to fix by reregistering IE components with regsvr32 so I did resort to the above method of exporting the COM keys from a post IE 5.5 install dat file I had kept. Merging them to the registry increased it's size by about 100kb or so which obviously is what I deleted by mistake with COMview and could not fix with regsvr32. After doing that everything was working fine again. I think I have told all my secrets now. B)

Start Menu -> Run and type regsvr32 cabview.dll

What does scandisk say about drive J ? Has it been formated with Partition Magic or Windows ? Can you copy your files onto other partitions of that disk ?

I use puppy linux to replace system files. It works with FAT32 and NFTS (plus is a live cd) Thanks for the tip.

It's already nice to have tools that can read NTFS but sure that write would be even nicer. Some time ago I had tried some Live Linux distros (can't remember which ones they were now) that could allegedly not only read but also write to FAT32 (and maybe NTFS, I can't recall) in a quest to find an easy to use and free replacement to a Bart PE Live XP CD for doing eventual repairs the easiest way on my system but none was actually writing anything to FAT32. Invariably the files that were overwritten by the Linux distros on my FAT32 were 0 bytes files. I gave up looking into the Linux thing since then but I think a barebone and fast booting Linux distro, Live or not, with a working read/write to FAT32 and NTFS may be the sole realistic alternative if it does exist.

Are you using it yourself patchworks ? What's the usefullness of it ? Does it require ADS to be installed ?

Well I have the best registry cleaners I think as well as the best compactor I also think which is the one I posted above but those tools aren't enough to squeeze out all the junk that might be in the registry. As a matter of fact I removed more than 6MB from my registry by hand since I last posted in this thread (not counting the just above post). Roughly 2MB from the Software keys, 2MB from the MSI installer key and 2MB very fastidiously from the CLSID, Typelib and Interface keys with the help of COMView. Of course this has been done after removing all I could with Regseeker, Wise Registry Cleaner and Microsoft's Windows Installer Cleanup. Another key that can become huge is the UserAssist key. It's a key that logs by default in a crypted form everything you launch from the shell. Its subkeys which contain the logs can be deleted without problems. It can also be prevented from logging launches and thus from using registry real estate by setting it's NoLog Value to 1 under the Settings subkey. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist

I have downloaded with IE both those two archives I had uploaded and they open and extract fine with both 7-Zip and Izarc. Next time please avoid making three posts in a row for the same thing and append new material instead by editing your first post as I have just done with this one.

Just googled this topic earlier as I was looking for the same thing. *Possibly* a certain flags value under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719} may hide either or both New Shortcut and New Folder. By playing around a bit with it I only found out that if the DWORD flags value of this key is set to 00000002 and upper instead of 00000000 it forces the New menu to appear at the bottom of the folder background and desktop context menu. Finally I removed the New Shortcut menu with Reshacker by deleting Item 30318 in String Table 1895 in shell32.dll. This on Windows ME so Item and String Table numbers might eventually be different on other OSes but should not be difficult to find.

That kind of claim does not make ANY sense IMO.

winusb2.zip is indeed corrupted. I have tried to download it from different servers and it is always the same. I could not repair it with the tools I have.

Patchworks are you aware that generally open source projects don't support 9x oses anymore ? Examples : Gimp, Dia, Inkscape, Fillezilla, Scribus, Abiword.

As far as I know, no one has found a way to do that. An htt file is actually used for displaying the entire content of the window and not only the left pane. An easy way to do this is to use a desktop.ini file in the folder you want, as to force the folder to use a customized htt file which has the image or functions you want : [ExtShellFolderViews] Default={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262} {5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262} [{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}] PersistMoniker=file://yourcustomfile.htt I am not sure whether it is possible or not to add some script to the htt file that displays all folders so that it displays custom elements according to the path of the folder.

They could link it direct from their security bulletin really. If you start from there you are lost.

Some1 please send me a PM with all posts [exact URLs/links] you want to have moved to another thread/topic, and with the name of the new thread/topic you want created or the URL/link of the existing thread/topic you want me to move those posts into, and I'd be happy to do it.HTH IMHO this thread should remain as is, as a testament to the lady llxx along with petr, who`s efforts was an inspiration to us all. Along with rloew`s contribution (the guy has got to earn a living) and should stay "as is" to remind us all of what could have been before the politics began

FWIW I live very well without it and without the other one (can't recall it's name right now) that also adds a new exe as well.

Maybe it's thegun you want as a notepad replacement then : http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm

Forget about ZS4 on 9x really. Current version doesn't even initialize it's GUI here and older version are more than a tad buggy. Best freeware multitrack video editor is Wax IMO.