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eidenk

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  1. @jasinwa Apologies. I was all wrong. There is indeed a view button as well were you say in ME. I just never use those tools apart from scandisk. But all does this button is open the Temporary Internet Files folder. And everything gets removed exept from some cookies in this folder by using the built in disk cleanup. So I would say that jothro has probably disk errors and should run scandisk from DOS to begin with.
  2. you can click on one of those 'generic boxes' you mention (in this case, the one marked 'temp. inter.files') and then click on 'view files'...then the folders and files that are listed in the clicked box will be shown. It does not seen we have the same disk cleanup utility as I can't access any files like you say with mine. Maybe this is because I am using ME and you are using 98. due to my PC naivete, assumed that any files marked 'temporary internet files IE 5' could be deleted. There is usually no problem with deleting those files as there is there only webpages you have visited and some cookies. You can set the size of this folder in Control Panel\Internet Options\Temporary Internet Files\Settings and clean it up from there as well. Or you can open the Temporary Internet Files folder in Windows. Select all and delete. Also, a second question...through my quick-click blundering I have duplicated a folder on my C/ file tree (sorry, don't know the tech. name for this 'file tree') and when I try to right-click and delete the copy I get a refusal because it is a system file and cannot be deleted (even though there is an exact copy of it sitting right next to it). Is there a way of deleting a accidently duplicated system file without screwing things up?? That sounds extremely weird to me. What is the name of this folder that you have copied and can't be deleted anymore because windows tells you it is a system file ?
  3. @azagahl Stop complaining, there are plenty of choices in the market place. You can choose XP or XP N I haven't got myself a problem with that as I don't buy new computers. I just do upgrade the hardware when I need. Went from a Celeron 333 to an Athlon 2600 so far. What I meant is that the large sales of XP aren't really an argument as most people buying a PC in the high street won't even be aware alternatives exist.
  4. @prathapml They do the "trick" and "you think" ? That almost shows up how you aren't familiar with this. Firstly, its not a trick, its a science. Next, don't "think" - just look around this forum (uA for XP) - that's more than I need to say. Just haven't used those tools since a long time but I used them successfully in the past as I am saying above to bullet. 98 is more stable on a fast CPU? yeah right - why am I not surprised. But all that power is doing you no good with win98. As I have said it might be subjective but say you run your OS on a 486 machine. Your right click is slow and almost freezes so you type on some keys thinking you'll somehow unlock something but all it does is that you put more messages in a queue and finally you crash your shell. When the processor and the disks are faster those type of problems simply disappear due to the faster speeds. VLK editions abound, and then you forget that cracks exist. Really ? You will go to mandrake? Yeah right - seeing is believing. And yes, I'm saying this because I know it well - mandrake is not the best linux distro, nor as easy to use as win98, nor as bug-free as it. First time one ever heard of a threat of retarding instead of advancing. Get a full computer without OS and tell me which OS you are going to install which will allow you be in business with everything you need configured (including hardware drivers) in less than one hour even if you are a total newb ? Mandrake or any version of Microsoft ? For this last point - the XP sales speak for themselves. I need say no more. Have you got really the choice if you buy a new computer of which OS you will have on it ? No you haven't. XP is preinstalled on 99.9 of the machines.
  5. @bullet 1. You can disable the restart option, but even with it like it or not xp is still more reliable. Do you mean it just automatically shuts down ? Or can you disable the feature altogether ? If SFP is enable on ME then you are really asking for problems with that OS. I haven't really understood what you mean. What I was saying was that SFC is superior to SFP but doesn't exist anymore in the latest OSes. 8. When you can log on as one user, then customize the desktop and then log on as another user and not have the same desktop then let me know. I am not sure I understand what you mean here. With ME or 98 I can change users in one click without even loging off : Shell folder locations (including desktop and document folders), taskbars, color scheme, policies, everything. 10. You are laughing yourself about the built in XP firewal I understand. 12. You said it right "so far". Just wait Your only argument here is that Microsoft will be succesfull in bullying hardware manufacturers into stopping writing drivers supporting the 9x familly. I do not see this happening in the foreseeable future frankly. 13. You obviously have not tried an unattend on 98SE. Semi-unattend is as good as it gets. I used that when I begun experimenting with 98 and got fed up with reinstalling the OS. So far as I can remember it did work pretty well. Now I barely ever reinstall so I don't need it anymore. You can do deployment with it. 16. Get two identical laptops, put 98 on one and XP on the other. Then tell me which battery lasted the longest. I think there is a fix for that. I haven't got a laptop so I am not sure. Back to the thousand freeware/shareware apps. It is true that almost no Windows built-in tools are matching, and by far the best freeware alternatives. You can't contest that if you are serious about computing really. The only built-in tool I know for which there is no better free equivalent is scandisk. I think I have responded adequately to the other 12. Not really and azagahl adressed those I forgot I feel. You did not answer anything about the new points I brought in. So here it goes again : What am I doing with my XP CD if no one answers me in Redmond to give me a new serial number when I upgrade some hardware or does not want to give me one for whatever reason tomorrow ? Just because of that, I would not touch XP. Even if I would feel XP is superior.
  6. support for transparency I mean like in 2000. Does this pack do this ? I have win ME. After doing this the only problem that remains is freezing the display when deleting moving or copying large number of files or emptyimg the recycle bin I haven't IE 6. What for ? Anyway I had this prob with 95, 98, and ME. Solved as seen above by the cache settings. Really the only serious limitation is the limitations in resources. I really would like to be able to open more apps or windows simultaneously sometimes. 64KB is a bit scarce.
  7. 1. At least 10 times more reliable (fully protected memory model) In case of "problems" XP shuts down and restart automatically. That's what you mean maybe by more reliable ? That instead of recovering your session like you can usually do in 98, the OS chooses for you and restarts the machine, not leaving an opportunity to probe what goes wrong ? 2. Ability to verify device drivers and roll back if necessary I hope you are not speaking of the frankly useless System Restore feature that can be found in Win ME as well ? 4. System File Protection (useful if you have stupid users) You've got that on ME as well. Quite usefull I agree but at the end quite useless for lack of customization options and flexibility as always. Is there any progress in XP ? Can you now add other files to be monitored by SFP for example ? Such as the OLE automation runtimes or quartz.dll ? Though I have SFP on ME. I now use System File Checker from the Win 98 resource kit as I can do those things with it I can't do anymore with SFP on ME. The only trick here is that you must recompress your cab archives from ME with a standard archiver otherwise SFC won't manage to extract files from them. Then you create a cab in which you put all the runtimes you have added to your system when you are satisfied by it. SFC + SFP and you are almost totally foolproof. Why is SFC gone to be replaced by an automated and far less functional system in ME and XP ? Can you do anything like that on XP ? 8. Ability to actually have more than one user Tell me again you can't have several users on a 98 box. You have got even poledit from the resource kit at your disposal. 10. Built in Firewall Better this than nothing at all I have read almost everywhere. I hope you don't too much count on this for your local security. 11. Better application compatability Of course you can't run some apps that contain XP or 2000 only API calls. I have several thousands apps for performing almost all tasks you can imagine in my ME box. So compatibilty is not really an issue for me. By the way many unique software exist only for linux. They won't run on XP. Same goes for the Mac. 12. Better hardware support Never experienced any problem of that sort so far. Hardware drivers for 98 are very well written. I doubt this will become an issue in the foreseeable future. 13. Unattended installs Infinstall and Batch Setup from the resource kit utilities do the trick well in 98 I think. 16. Better power management Hibernation feature for example ? You've got this on ME as well. When it doesn't work it is down to the hardware not to the OS. 15. File syncronization I suppose your are speaking about something similar to the Win ME briefcase. Not frankly superior. Many freeware utilities do probably a better job. In XP as well I have little doubt about it. 18. Offline webpage viewing I am not using that feature but I have seen it in my IE 5.5. Or does it work only on XP ? 19. Better file association handling In which way is it less crappy than in 98 or ME ? I doubt anyway that Microsoft came up with anything better than the freeware utilities WAssociate or Types Popup Free in this respect. I'll keep my ME and the day I'll really need to upgrade the OS I'll probably go for the latest Mandrake which I find is outdoing XP in many respects regardless of the price tag question. Anyway 32 bits 9x systems are said to perform extremely well under Athlon 64 so that my little customized OS has got a ten years future, easy. And I bet that within 2 or 3 years, 98 systems running on processors 20 times faster as those we have today will pulverize the performance of the latest .net 64 bits Microsoft OSes. I have noticed something weird as well but it might be subjective. I find that 98 is more stable on a fast CPU than on a slower one. And what if America gets nuked some day because of what they do here and there, what am I doing with my XP if no one answers me in Redmond to give me a new serial number when I change some hardware ? That's another trend that I do not like. When I buy a car I don't want to have to ask permission to Ford and General Motors when I change tyres or the exhaust ? I find it infriges on my freedom too much. I have heard there are OEM copies of XP with which you can't upgrade any hardware at all. When you want to upgrade those systems you must upgrade everything which means buying a new computer with a new OEM copy of XP. To sum it up I find 98/ME to be much more fun for the years to come despite its many shortcomings. I just speak for myself of course. You understand I am just an average end user and not a wisely advised corporate user investing in the functionality, security and stability nothing else but the latest Microsoft OSes can offer of course. What I find funny or even strange is that many people feel to come here in a corner devoted to 9x to fiercely battle for XP. Why don't they leave such retarded cavemans with their illusions and go their way to explore the new wonders of Longhorn/ Avalon. Is it generosity or is Bill Gates afraid of something such as not selling enough ?
  8. What does this mean ? There aren't any files or folders listed in the Disk Cleanup utility. There are just generic boxes to tick. I understand you maybe unable to delete some of the content of your recycle even after reboot. If that's the case you probably have got some disk errors and should run scandisk from dos and fix all the errors it finds. If this does not cure your problem you might have partition table or FAT errors. I don't know how to fix that besides wiping the drive, format with fdisk and reinstall the OS. If that's not your problem be more precise please.
  9. The cons about 9x-Me : Limited size of the resources. No support for transparency. After 10 years of Windows there is still not a color picker built in the color dialog in XP. Is this serious ? Is this the future ? The start menu has turned into a Mickey Mouse affair. You can't backup your registry by hand. You've got to put up with the administrator thing. You can't kill your explorer without it to restart automatically so you miss the ability to easily to change in one click (a small batch file) all your desktop environment including desktop taskbars. And if it's stability that is a concern, just remove from 9x-Me the file webcheck.dll from your system (provided you don't use the active desktop feature) and you'll see that your system never freezes again to almost a halt or crashes. (Stimon.exe and sti.dll must be removed from Me if you want it stable as well.) After doing this the only problem that remains is freezing the display when deleting moving or copying large number of files or emptyimg the recycle bin. It is solved by increasing the file and folder caches which are 0 by default. Use the super cache settings from MGX. Once all this is done you can empty the recycle bin from thousands of file while at same time deleting thousands of files and copying housands from one drive to another. All this simultaneously without any glitch or halt or freeze. I run my trimmed down Windows Me for up to seven days with the resource heavy eMule in the background without needing to reboot. Why would I need XP for ? What are really the pros of XP ? Frankly ? Not being able to change your hardware without being forced to give a phone call to Redmond ?
  10. If you have restarted windows and used IE and everything works as fine as always, you can simply empty the recycle bin. Have I answered your question ?
  11. That's not true. You can delete system.ini, win.ini and you wont restart your windows properly if at all without them. And there are many other files like this. Always know what you are doing unless you experiment of course. Are you a troll ? Do you want to f*** his system just for fun ?
  12. If it's the only problem you've got, disable automatic scandisk after bad shutdown in msconfig.exe and just power off your computer when you've finished with it. I mean until you find a real fix. The shutdown procedure is not really necessary unless you want to write to the registry the state of your desktop taskbars.
  13. Those files can be deleted from the recycle bin after you restart windows. They are safe to delete. index.dat will be recreated automatically by IE. I would keep those ones as they contain uninstall information. I am not 100% sure they are necessary though. Apparently yes but it should not go below a certain level if you use only Internet Explorer. What happens is that all resources for IE aren't loaded by Windows at startup but only after runing IE for the first time and won't entirely free when exiting because most of the windows dlls needed by IE (tapi32.dll for example) remain loaded (even you choose the option "always unload dlls") until you shut down windows or crash the explorer. Repeatedly shutting and restarting IE shouldn't deplete your resources further than the first loss. Then it depends on apps you run. Some might be leaking resources because they are not very well written (which means all the resources they use aren't freed on exit). It might be as little as a few bytes each time but soon can drain all your resources as they are of fixed size, 64 KB even if you have got one gig of memory. This is the most annoying limitation of the 9x familly of OS. Nevertheless I manage uptimes of up to 7 days of quite intense use without being forced to reboot because of too low resources.
  14. Are you joking ? Zone Alarm has logged nearly 28.000 (twenty-eight thousands) intrusion attempts on my Windows Me box in just one week.
  15. Just tried it. Those files get added : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KB891711\KB891711.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KB891711\Q891711.DLL And it runs as a service : [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices] "KB891711"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\KB891711\\KB891711.EXE" Does not touch anything else besides replacing qfcheck and writing uninstall information. BSOD my WinMe.
  16. I am running 1x256 2700 (SpekTek) + 1x256 3200 (Samsung) on an Abit NF7-S (FSB 166) without problems on Win Me. The same sticks have been working together on another mobo, an MSI (FSB133) under WinMe as well. I understand (maybe wrongly) that it is the BIOS that is dealing with that and that my 3200 stick performs only as a 2700. I had problems upgrading my 2700 stick with other 2700 sticks from other brands and I would meet with BSODs right after boot until I tried that 3200 Samsung. Ideally I'd like to have 2x1GB 3200 (I probably will) with one gig of ramdrive for the swap, temporary files and internet caches and 1 gig for the OS. If I manage to setup a ramdrive which is not an easy task. My system already rocks but this should make it rock even more. I have read that 9x does not support more than 512 MB. Is this another myth ? I had several people swearing to me that 98-Me does not support partitions of more than 80 gig and that was a good reason enough to upgrade to XP but it is not true as I have a 200 IDE and a 250 SATA drive in one single partition each spining under WinMe. I think they just had old BIOSes on their old mobos.
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