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Don't be so cryptic and give some typical examples as to how one can mess up vmm32 then.

The article above is incorrect anyway as your experience and my screenshot shows. LLXX is also incorrect if you want to look at the screenshot again, particularly at disk 1. It's Paragon who created the partitions but it is Windows who detected them and named them like that on reboot.

I have never tried it so I can't say if it will work. Asio4All theoretically can handle several souncards and make them available to an application as if there was only one. Of course you need an app that supports that many audio channels. BTW I have found a SBA2_EAX4DRV_031031.exe in my drivers folder which is apparently Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Soundcard Driver 5.12.05.0441 For Win98SE/ME/2000/XP. Is that no good ?

Have you tried with TweakUI rather than with Poledit ? http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/dow...g/NTTweakUI.asp RegtickPro (it's freeware) allows you to do many things Poledit does but in a much easier way. It does not help with hiding drive letters though. http://regshot.blog.googlepages.com/regshot.html#h_regtick

Thanks for sharing that Eck. I am actually looking into buying and installing 3 Audigy/Audigy 2 in my machine for doing "advanced" multichannel audio and this will certainly come handy in the near future.

Actually you are wrong. I understand the good intent but if the freeware licence says "Not freely redistributable" it says so. And it seems sysinternals utils fall under that, deprecated or not.

ME installs the cabs on the drive and that's it. After that you just need at worst to point once the dialog to the windir/options/install folder where the cabs are located. For 98 just copy your setup folder from the CD onto the drive if you have got enough space and maybe edit the registry : REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup] "SourcePath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\OPTIONS\\INSTALL\\" REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\InstallLocationsMRU] "MRUList"="" "a"="C:\\WINDOWS\\INF\\" "b"="C:\\WINDOWS\\OPTIONS\\INSTALL\\"

AFAIK, there is no eBay ActiveX. My last winning bid was just a few days ago and I noticed nothing wrong.

Have you got any respect for this forum on which you so abundantly post ? I remind you that two threads got recently closed by moderators because of you. I don't get it. Why do you insist on sawing the branch on which you are ? Do you want to be banned ?

As far as I have seen it always behaves like that. First drive letter is the first partition of Disk 0. Second drive letter is the first partition of Disk 1. Etc... Regardless of primary/logical partitions. There is a tool to change letter assignments : http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/ Can't comment on it though as I have never let it install entirely.

Another little correction If it's for me you're saying that, please point me out where else I needed to be corrected as you seem to infer it is all the time.

What difference would it make ? As I have told you, I never came across any despite installing thousands of software of all sorts. If you want a counter measure, just check wininit.ini after you install something and delete from it whatever you do not want to be changed on reboot. Usefull not only for vmm32.

Batch 98 on your install CD I guess.

I am not sure Sysinternals would allow that. For what I have seen elsewhere, they have taken down, in the recent past, compilation archives of their free utilities that were meant to go as addons to Bart PE XP discs, etc... Might be worth asking them as it is stuff they abandon.

It would be nice if I could understand what you mean.

I have never seen any program or driver or MS patch or anything that touches vmm32.vxd through wininit and I have installed truckloads of stuff. So that IMO the misuse of vmm32 accounts for only an extremely small fraction of problems people have with their computers. Give your link.

I am not sure windows will load any vxd that is the system dir. I rather think it does load them only if they are also specified in the registry. Windows will load any vxd that is present in the VMM32 subfolder though, and those will supercede any vxd of the same name present in the vmm32.vxd file

Thanks for the correction.

It seems jscript.dll 5.6.0.8833 needs a version 7 of Msvcrt.dll and you can only run Msvcrt.dll version 6 on 9x.

I currently have 1.75GB in three sticks on my Abit NF7-S v2 board and I use them all without problems under Windows ME. Just had to set the Vcache value under 512MB as not to break DOS programs operation.

Well, I don't shut down while data is written to disk. And I do scandisk once a month or so. It finds a few lost file fragments which invariably turn out to be firewal logfiles and that's it. The only time I screwed a drive when shutting down with the power button was while doing a defrag with a third party tool. I had no other choice as the system froze and I could not do anything else. I have got a feeling that those crosslinked files errors besides the above scenario arise more when the OS has been reinstalled over itself several times. If you use a tool such as DriveRescue on such a drive where the OS has been reinstalled several times, you'll notice that it will find several lost logical drives on your disk, all of which it can browse. So that one of my regular maintenance operation is to erase Hard Disk free space as to avoid having data structure belonging to old installs, etc... present on the disk. But you're certainly right saying that it is better and safer to shutdown normally.

Have you tried ?

Thanks, I didn't know about these 3 icon tools.Appears that they are all free(ware). BTW: IconLab works just fine under 98/ME [with GDIPLUS.DLL], even if the author says it is only for NT4/2000/XP/2003. I did not try IconLab under Win95. I've added them here: http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#GRA You may want to check out these icon editors [all linked at URL above]: PixelToolbox IconShop Free Icon Studio SnIco Edit Icon Suite I know them all thanks and do not like them too much. Mostly I use Articons 2.2 that I have from an old PC Plus Cover CD. Microangelo Librarian is excellent I found when I tried the demo but that's all I fancy in it. I'll try to cook you a little list of very good and usefull freebies that I haven't seen listed on your site and that I find quite invaluable if you don't mind. BTW there is a clone of IconLab called Ilco : http://www.mintrasystems.com/products/mint...duct.php?p=iico I think it's because they are both based on the full source code of the application that is available somewhere on net. Code Project or similar site.

Try KHIconRewrite. I have been able to change icons in 16bits PE with it where I could not otherwise do it even with eXescope. It's free but it is in japanese albeit it is easy enough to use without needing to know any japanese. http://www.khsoft.gr.jp/software/iconrewrite98/

If scandisk fixes something else than simple misreported directory size or lost file fragments it usually makes things worst unless you knew exactly what to choose in the possible actions it prompted you with. It is better to skip repairs and backup the data when it comes to "exotic" errors. And attempt a repair after having done that only. It could be a nasty virus also. Or a physical error on the disk due to age... Buy a new drive, install it in your computer and set it as master drive. Set your old drive as slave. Install windows on your new drive and then try to see if you can simply recover your data using explorer as it may be intact and accessible. If it's not those free tools might help you : Drive Rescue : http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.html Unstoppable Copier : http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html Sector Editor : http://www.roadkil.net/Sectedit.html