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Yeah. Here : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...ies/regmon.mspx And here : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...sk/Filemon.mspx

Sun Java BHO perhaps. I found it interfered badly with opening of folders just as you say. What you want to do anyway is run filemon and regmon and look at what explorer does when you launch those folders or icons.

OK, thanks.

Is it not automatically recognized as a storage device when you plug it on ME ? My guess is that it normally should. NUSB is only for 98SE as far as I know (unless I am wrong as always) and it's purpose is to upgrade 98SE to the capabilities of ME with regards to plug and play of mass storage devices.

@erpdude I am quite curious as to the origin of all those build 3250 files in your Media Player 9 upgrade package. I can't trace their origin to anything I have.

I did it once but I lost data after I crashed the OS (by my stupid fault, nothing to do with diskeeper) while defragmenting a 250GB partition with something like 200 GB of data on it.. After I had recovered most of my lost data, which was apparently only what was being moved around by Diskeeper at the time the OS crashed, I decided to partition my 250GB disks into 2 x 120GB partitions, which I find more manageable, so I never tried again. Hence I can't be 100% sure it works properly. I would think so only.

Normally it is should possible I think but I have never done it. Infinst.exe from the Windows 98SE CD (in the reskit folder I think) is the tool you need. It's here as well : ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/services/technet/...reskit/INFINST/

@jaclaz (took me a little time to think about it) Glad you like it. I have been myself very happy when I found that. It's all nonsense IMO. MS themselves recommend using other tools than fdisk, ie, tools that allow to create several primary partitions on a disk which is the industry standard supported by MS OSes since DOS 5.0. So what of the above argument ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280737 No they were not, otherwise they would not recommend the above without a warning not to create several primaries. Can you specify by an example in which circumstances data corruption may arise and why ? As far as I can understand, a single boot system with a 9x system on it has a very primitive bootloader which is nothing else than some code in the MBR (of the drive the BIOS boots on) which parses the partition table (also in the MBR) for the active partition and then jumps to the said active partition boot sector which then takes over and loads IO.SYS. The only problem that I see could arise with several primaries are : Several partitions are flagged as active, possibly preventing the MBR code to jump to the proper partition or eventually preventing it to jump at all. This can be fixed easily with fdisk or any similar tool. Windows has been installed on a partition that is not the first of the drive and a new physical disk is subsequently installed. Here, as the 9x serie seems to number logical drives by listing first the first partition of each phyical disk and then only the other partitions (primaries or logicals on extended), problems may arise after IO.SYS has loaded the registry and Windows initialization files which will point to invalid paths as the drive letter on which the OS is installed is likely to have shifted (if no precautions have been taken ?), eventually preventing a full boot of the OS. Here, removing the added drive will immediately solve the problem. In both cases no data corruption is to be feared. If the 9x OS is installed on the first primary of the drive and there is only one partition marked as active, no problem at all with ever happen with several primaries. Could you please elaborate on this "tower of babel" thing and how it could negatively affect things in a different way than the above second scenario in a dual boot setup ? And correct me where I am wrong cause I am really no expert in that field.

Did not vote because I use (or rather have as I seem to spend more time gathering software than actually use them ) too many of them. I use Jasc PSP 7, Ulead Photoimpact 8, Corel Draw 9 and Photoshop 5 Lite for the payware ones. They just cost me £50 or so all in all and I am looking into buying Photoshop 6 on eBay ATM. I also bought PSP 8 but this one proved to be a big disappointment. I think Photoimpact should be included in the poll as it is one of the biggies and one of the best if not the best value/features for money IMO. If I had to keep just one, it would probably be this one over PSP 7. Gimp, Deep Paint, i.Mage and quite a few others for the freebies. (Full list on demand) As for image viewing/management, I way prefer XnView (with the mezich toolbar icons) over IrfanView but I am using both.

I tried it several times and I always found it not to interact very well with other add-ons programs on my ME OS. At the moment I use Hyperionics' Filebox Extender to do most of what DM2 does. It's not open source but it is free now since 6 months or so.

It is the Operating System design that may (or may not in the case of DOS) allow for several primary partitions. It would appear that this is just true between DOS 3.3 (inclusive) and 5.0 (exclusive) : Best doc I just found : and : From the I-O Supervisor Guide for Windows 9x-Me. Sorry if I did sound rude or something, I did not mean to.

Where did I say that? Here : What do you mean by saying that FAT has partitions ? It does not make any sense, does it ?

I am a WinME user and I have voted XP Pro. I have tested WinNT4, Win98SE, Win2k, WinME and WinXP Pro under the same virtual machine on my AthlonXP 2600/WinME computer. NT4 is the fastest to operate. 2K, ME and 98SE are a bit slower but with not much visible difference between themselves. Maybe 2K is a bit slower than the 2 other ones. XP Pro is incredibly slow in everything. Nearly 2 minutes to boot versus just 20 seconds for ME. Several seconds to launch notepad, etc... Probably if I had also tested Vista in this virtual box it would have earned the palm instead of XP Pro. As for WinME being a pile of s***, which seems to be the opinion of 75% of posters in this thread, I think that what gives this impression is the stupid movie you are forced to watch when you install the OS and the horrible white logo. Maybe it's also somewhat buggy out of the box, I can't remember, but well updated and trimmed of the useless system restore, wmi, etc... it's pretty good albeit I would not recommend it on a much lower specs machine than mine.

Where you also have not been correct IMO is when you put FAT above all in the hierarchy and tie it to drive numbering. FAT is only a filesystem on a partition. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsWindows98.html The beeblebrox help file is also very good with regards to primaries/extended partitions: http://students.cs.byu.edu/~codyb/

It's certainly possible to do registry checks from batch files. Maybe the following code will give you some idea. A batch file I had made (using Tfind.com) for toggling view extensions in explorer. (Superceded since a long time by Spiritpyre's toggle extension executable) @echo off regedit /e Get.txt "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" TFIND /e "HideFileExt" "dword:00000001" GET.txt > RESULT.TXT IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO :ERROR1 IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO :ERROR0 :ERROR1 Regedit /s Show.reg GOTO :END :ERROR0 Regedit /s Hide.reg GOTO :END :END Del *.txt cls For file version check, I guess it is certainly possible to use a command line tool for extracting file versions and use it along a similar line. Maybe Verinfo : ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilprog/vrinf100.zip Edit : Oops I just see that I have been off-topic as this is the thread about inf files.

Multi Frontend : http://members.home.nl/w.speek/multi.htm

Is that possible ?

Make it much smaller if you can. I am currently loosely working on an Html driven Update Cd for Win Me and I plan to make use of it in many places but as it is big it quickly consumes lots of space.

Which ones ? I have disks with 4 primary partitions since years and I haven't encountered any problems so far. Nonsense sentence.

So you have errors just after applying the service pack but not anymore after it has fully completed, including rebooting. Seems to be working good besides being a bit glitchy on the first reboot. Which types of video files are causing problems ? All of them ? I have quickly looked at K-Lite contents and I am not sure all it's components are fullly compatible with the 9x platform. Notably the DivX and FFDshow builds it contains. Maybe you should open a new thread about those video problems as I don't think this is related to the service pack which does not update the Media Player or any codecs I think.

Try to also upgrade your Internet Explorer to 5.5SP2 or 6SP1 and see if it makes a difference. Report back if you still have those problems after doing that but please describe them much more precisely.

Thumbs up for this one. Thanks. Very useful.

Sorry I didn't read your post properly. Your error does not seem to be same at all as the other one which I am nearly 100% certain is down to missing unicows.dll.

Have you read my post just above yours, Rick Chauvin ?

DX10 cannot even run on XP though some people are working at it. http://www.fallingleafsystems.com/