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Not sure this one will help though. But clean your registry as much as you can from anything useless there is in it, MRU keys especially and have the "Don't remember explorer settings" checked in Folder Options and disable all autocomplete features as it all this takes registry space, hence memory. Well look around that type of stuff.

Try this : C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll I have ME so I don't know for sure if it woks on 98. Also you can try to reduce to the minimum the file and directory caches. I don't know where the setting is exactly located right now but CacheBooster can do it for you. http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/cb.htm

Don't use any wallpaper as it will consume the equivalent of a bitmap of the size and bit depth of your desktop. A 16 color icon consumes 1 kb. A 256 color icon consumes 3.55kb and a 16 million color one 4.05kb. And reduce the iconcache size to the minimum you can as the entire iconcache is held in memory.

Best free icon editors IMO : IcoFX http://icofx.xhost.ro/ IconLab http://www.wildfiredesign.net/iconlab/index.htm AWicons Lite http://www.awicons.com/download.html

You could have avoided this post Petr, frankly. I thought we could be smart enough to avoid that : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=84629 Sadly, as with all self destructive social deviants, LLXX does not respond to sound arguments but only to the fear of the cop.

As LLXX refuses to adress any of my points I made to her by PM., here is an extract of the correspondence : First, what difference does it make between posting such links directly on the forum and trumpeting that those in dire need of MS OSes ISO images can PM you for that ? Second, if you wanted to act "privately" as you say, you would not need to advertise that in your forum posts. You'd PM directly the posters without writing anything about it on the forum. Third, don't you think that such a use of MSFN's PM system does amount to betrayal ? Fourth, don't you think you put this forum at risk of being closed by acting like that ? Your reasoning is senseless. You are quite certain of blahblah. You are not certain of anything. You don't have to remind me anything, especially when it is almost totally irrelevant to the subject at hand which is the illegal distribution of full MS OSes. I'd rather have a moderator tell me what to do, so let's leave it at that.

DOS Scandisk will always prompt you for anything it does, giving you details of the file/folder with a problem, unless you run it with the argument /autofix or /custom AFAIK.

Do you think what you are doing is correct ?

Any will do. If you carry on like that this forum will end up being taken down.

Me too Can I also have a PM LLXX ?

I think it is the default mode.

To my observation, unless you are in "automatically correct all errors" mode, scandisk tells you what file or folder has got a problem and presents you with several choices of action.

It doesn't break anything to improperly restart usually. I only shut down with the power button since years because it is faster. And of course I have disabled the automatic scandisk after bad shutdown.

Can you do all I have done above without a freeze with the patch ? I am almost sure you can't. Edit : I see you have answered above already.

I usually don't quote myself but here it goes :

You can't get any drivers for 98SE/ME for not even only the newest hardware which would still be understandable somehow, but also for the oldest ones on Creative Labs website. Try tro find 98SE/ME drivers for Audigy, Audigy 2 or Live! on their site. I have now begun to collect an archive for their 98SE/ME drivers from other sources. (Bidding for Audigy 2 cards on eBay ATM) For Audigy 4 there is no drivers at all AFAIK. I am not sure tweaking 2K/XP ones would do. Well I certainly would not know what to do if it was possible either.

I think 7z is very much optimized for handling huge archives with large number of files. It is in permanent devellopement also so any bug could get fixed.

When you export registry data to reg files, paths on disk are always represented with double slashes. So it's normal. Slashes are reserved in those files for the registry "folder structure" itself : key\subkey\subsubkey\etc... I would think you will not manage to run Quicktime 7 on 9x as the most likely (I haven't looked into it) is that the Quicktime 7 files have missing functions in dependencies on 9x and this is something you can't do anything about with reg files.

With all regards due to you, please refrain with such senseless (and dangerous) statements.A user who sticks to 98SE/ME is someone who does not buy XP or Vista. Not necessarily, I know a few other people [besides myself] that use 98SE and XP in dual-boot setups, and [like myself] own legal licenses for all their M$ OSes.On the other hand, use of certain OS files by people who don't own a particular OS license, is debatable. IMHO: From what I've seen, use of isolated files that fix problems with your [legally owned] OS should theoretically be ok, but then again, I haven't read all types of M$ EULA, so I could be wrong. HTH You are right MDGx. But my point was rather adressing the inflation of posts lately saying that, as MS does not support the 9x OSes anymore, everything is permitted, including redistributing the entire setup files to anyone.

all right, for people who are really desperate of getting the Win98 SE setup files and can't buy the Win98se CD online (and since Win98se is no longer supported by MS effective July 11, 2006), email me or send me a PM message and I will give you a list of sites of where you can download the actual setup files for Win98se. I won't mention the sites on this forum. I think LLXX and Eck made good points that 98se CDs are no longer being sold. What game are you playing dude ? You should be banned from this forum for saying stuff like that.

PS : Internet Explorer remained opened all along on that page of MSFN and remained unnafected just as the rest of my system.

nothing is running but mandatory system components i have a very lite system because it is a test machine for my other Win98SE systems.i have no 3rd party apps on my test machince I have only microsoft apps installed on my test machine. I have just done this on my Win ME IE 5.5 SP2 system. It's quite interesting, read on : Starting with system and user resources at 65% free, GDI at 75% free I copied one folder containing 56,493 files and 619 folders totaling 1.55 GB (1,668,057,987 bytes) and occupying 2.07 GB (2,223,521,792 bytes) of disk space. No freeze while copying. Resources didn't change of even 1%. I then enabled explorer view. GDI fell to 70%. I then copied over files and folders in several steps into the top folder obtaining 12383 objects (including 447 folders). GDI resources fell at 64% when I selected all objects. I dropped them into an empty folder but the window froze (but not the rest of explorer), instead of waiting a bit I killed and restarted the explorer from a batch on my middle mouse hook. I was back then with resource level I had begun with. I went again in the folder with the 12383 objects and did reenable explorer view. The resources did not change unlike above when I lost 5% of GDI doing almost the same thing. I did reselect all 12383 objects and tried to drop again in an empty folder. The window froze again but this time I waited and the files finally copied over. The GDI resources did not change unlike above where they fell by another 4% trying to do that. Only after everything was copied did explorer attempt to refresh the view. System and User resources fell briefly to O before jumping back to their normal value. GDI resources did not change but the entire explorer was frozen. So that the "classic" explorer freeze we speak about in this thread appears to take place when explorer updates the view for a large number of files. I killed and restarted it and was back to normal. I did reselect the 12383 objects by click and drag and then did a right-click. It took several seconds to diplay the context menu. I then did choose delete. When the deleting was finished, explorer did refresh the view of the folder and again System and User resources fell briefly to 0 after which the explorer was frozen again. The GDI resources did not visibly change at any point. I did then empty the recycle bin but without having it opened. During the operation, System and User resources fluctuated by 6-7%. Explorer did not freeze doing that but I am pretty sure it would have if I would have had the recycle bin opened.

It's very possibly one of them then. You must find out which one now by downgrading updated files one by one until you isolate the culprit. Post your results once you are there. Everyone will benefit. Oh yeah I forgot another question. How do you manage the amazing 99% of free GDI resources ? Any tips ?

Can you actually clarify whether you delete large files or large amounts of files ? You wrote : Or is it actually large amounts of large files ?