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I have installed the Oleaut 4526 update as well as COMCTL32.OCX build 6.00.8106 and MSCOMCTL.OCX build 6.01.9786. It seems OK so far here with those.

Has anyone an idea about the legality of the following. I have ME and 98SE (and 95). I currently have a single computer on which I use ME but I might recycle some of my (not so) old hardware to put together a second box and install 98SE on it. The question is : Do I need a second copy of ME if I want to use totally legaly 98SE2ME on that second computer ?

Does this make it now DOS compatible ?

Hi MDGx, How do you actually extract manually the files from Q886765.EXE ? Extracting from the exe is OK. But after, how do you convert the _sfx_xxxx._p files into the Oleaut runtime ?

Use Filemon and Regmon from Sysinternals to know where the installer looks to assess Office is installed on your system and delete accordingly. As well, next time, monitor your Office install (or any other install) with InstallWatch. See this topic : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49820

98 Lite is a commercial product. I think they offer technical support to their customers. Have you tried there ?

That's the CLSID for MSN on WinME : [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{88667D10-10F0-11D0-8150-00AA00BF8457}] @="Setup MSN Internet Access" Therefore I would try to add the following registry file to batch setup on WinME not to have the MSN icon : REGEDIT4 [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\88667D10-10F0-11D0-8150-00AA00BF8457] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\88667D10-10F0-11D0-8150-00AA00BF8457] [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{88667D10-10F0-11D0-8150-00AA00BF8457}] If the registry files that are added to batch setup are processed after everything else as it should, the above registry file should automatically remove the MSN icon from the desktop. Provided of course the MSN CLSID is identical on 98 as the one on ME. Otherwise adapt it. Try it and tell me if it works.

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Installing the DirectX Media 6.0 Runtime often sorted me out when I had various multimedia playback problems. This package can be found bundled with (old?) trial versions of Premiere or Ulead multimedia products and is a must have. It won't overwrite any newer files but will rewrite all the correct DirectShow registry entries. It is the only package I know who does this. As well, sometimes some software install a version of Quartz.dll that is not compatible with 9x and prevents proper multimedia playback. As the file is usually newer than in any packages MDGx quotes, it doesn't get overwritten when installing them and the problem remains (even reinstalling the OS on top of itself does not help I think as is the case when the Ole automation runtimes are overwritten on 9x with a 3.50.xxxx version which is only XP compatible). The solution is to extract the original Quartz.dll it from the OS cabs and reinstall whatever package afterwards.

All the special icons that appear on the desktop are specified in the registry by a GUID value corresponding to a CLSID key (which in turn specifies the icon and the context menu of the icon) under one of those keys : [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace] Automatically removing any should just be a matter of adding a convenient registry file to batch setup. Syntax should be (for removing) : [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\GUID Value] and/or [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\GUID Value]

Thanks MDGx.

If you'd monitor all what you are doing, you'd probably have your answers. See this post : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49820.

There is this tool as well that might be useful : Driver Cleaner

Erasing free disk space from time to time is a must as well I have noticed.

Those ActiveX Killbit fixes are valid in fact for any version of IE I think. Even if the specific vulnerable files do not exist on the system. They could be automatically downloaded by IE from a corrupt webpage for example. Has anyone information about the signification of other flags under this ActiveX Compatibility key ?

I've had that very problem several times. In fact each time I did upgrade my motherboard/CPU combo for another one. From an MSI/Duron to an MSI NForce2/Athlon. And then from that one to my current Abit NF7S/Athlon 2600. I did not manage to solve the problem when it occured and reinstalled the OS from scratch but I have dwelt on the question since. I think the key is a proper removal of the old drivers which I did not do well apparently. Removing all the Nvidia files (including infs) and resetting the hardware settings in the registry should theoretically send you back to hardware detection at the next reboot. Then it should be a matter of letting windows install the default drivers and then installing the specific mobo drivers. There has been some posts recently about how to reset hardware registry settings from safe mode but I can't recall where. I think that RegCleaner includes a tool which does it in just one click. Your problem should have nothing to do with dual booting.

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My bad then.

As always there is no download available for 98 and ME users so this should be the fix (Copy and save as whatever.reg. Double-click to merge in the registry) : REGEDIT4 ;July 12, 2005 ;Vulnerability in JView Profiler (Javaprxy.dll) Could Allow Remote Code Execution (903235) ;http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-037.mspx [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{03D9F3F2-B0E3-11D2-B081-006008039BF0}] "Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000400

Yes it is all properly alphabetically sorted now.

That is I think the most typical example. Many others are marked as non-sorted but appear sorted. Apparently those are only directories from which I have never modified any file (and in which they were created following an alphabetical sequence ?).

Regshot 1.7.2 Paraglider does output directly in REGEDIT4 format. You may want to try it.

In fact I must add /s and not remove /b to obtain I want (almost). Full pathnames list in LFN format. Just only it does list files in subdirs as well if any. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\FList2] @="Create File List with Paths" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\FList2\command] @="C:\\WINDOWS\\command.com /c dir \"%1\" /a-d /on /b /s > FileList.txt" Takes one second to list alphabetically (almost) 7594 files in my Windows folder but unfortunately several (Too many files, directory not sorted) messages on the list. Files are there but they aren't sorted if there are too many files in a directory. I've just tried it on drives. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\FList] @="Create File List" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\FList\command] @="C:\\WINDOWS\\command.com /c dir \"%1\" /a-d /on /b /s > FileList.txt" Took just a few seconds to output a 5.54 MB filelist (90.676 lines) of my C:\ drive but same alphabetical sorting limitation as above. Is there a way to output the results on the desktop ? Here despite I haven't changed the syntax for that, the output is not in the parent dir (there isn't any real one, it's My Computer) but in the root of the drive.

Very nice thank you. Do you know another syntax that would extract the full paths rather than the names only ?

Well Watcher Sea took some pain to explain he was highligting sysedit in Process Explorer to then retrieve in the lower pane the list of modules loaded by it. He explained it in details after I did suggest he was maybe not using Process Explorer properly. When you do this only modules loaded by sysedit are displayed, not the list he gives. So, as you confirm sysedit loads the list of MS modules I post in all cases I can only conclude that, for whatever reason, Watcher See deliberately and repeatedly lied as you cannot do a mistake there. When you highlight sysedit it's not a list all processes loaded by Windows + all programs/TSRs/DLLs/etc that shows up. Additionally, the list of all processes loaded by Windows + all programs/TSRs/DLLs/etc is way bigger than what he posts and is not something you can quickly grab like that in one single list with Process Explorer. You cannot ignore that MDGx.