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...sigh... yup, I miss Farscape
(...and Firefly/Andromeda/John Doe/Angel/Buffy/....the list goes on, most victims of evil "reality" programming, I believe... )-but at least the 2 main chars of Farscape recently transplanted to StargateSG1, and it's great to watch their interaction there (w/the occasional "quip" pointing to Farscape
)...and it's nice to see Lexa Doig showing up lately, also in Stargate and The 4400...
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-have ya tried uninstalling & reinstalling the USB & modem drivers? If so, ya might want to try the manufacturer's website for latest drivers...
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-yet another cumul. update for IE5.5sp2 (winME) today:
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"Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-038
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (896727)
Issued: August 9, 2005"
(-only shows up in winupdate "Windows Update Catalog", not M$ Downloads, google, etc...)
...I haven't installed it yet, but unzipping shows at least some files are newer versions...
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Hi ,
can someone make me a rapidshare or whatever link for all the files for 98se2me, because the main site is down.
And i'm also interested to translate the program/files to german. I'm looking forward for an WinME Servicepack too.thx in advance.
--the link at the top of this thread works fine... (1pm EST)...
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-but critical updates (security included), like u know/said, are still being offered for IE5.5... that takes care of any security issues, at least for now... when M$ finally ends that, then I'll be forced to use* IE6 ("upgrade" sure didn't sound rite, there, had to backspace that and sub "use"....lol)... why suffer needlessly until then?
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(and a second plus to waiting: by then, more updates to IE6 will have come to pass, hopefully reducing *some* of the suffering, when finally being forced to switch...)
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(...sry if my sometimes-enthusiastic posts are bothering anyone... it's just meant in a joking manner... -looks like the other thread ("A Better Windows") has been closed completely... I was just joking over there about ADMIN blocking win-XP users... lol... now we're all blocked... ouch... -"thin line between genius & insanity": I've been dancing across that line a bit too much, lately... maybe time for a "happy pill" dosage increase...
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-yes, of course ya can't just zip-up all the xp files and distribute, was just asking about a list...
-I've looked at your "NEW: ADD WINDOWS XP SP2 FUNCTIONALITY" page, and the list of xp files there are listed as being related to IE6 or WMP9/10... -can any of them be used w/IE5.5? (IE5.5 is still getting Critical updates thru ME, which we of course also use on 98se, so it still isn't Mandatory to switch to icky IE6, just yet... I will hold out as long as I feasibly can! And I'm not sure about upgrading WMP7.1 to 9/10, yet: isn't it just more bloat, bigger RAM footprints, longer load times, more M$ crap? Any definitive reasons to upgrade? -I happily use MPLAYERC for all video, just WMP7.1 for mp3's...).
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[ps: I've just double-checked your IE6 page, went to all the links talking about IE6, and there wasn't a single thing that attracted me to using 6 over 5.5... and there are of course MANY things I don't like with IE6, including .NET (more unnecessary bloat; NOT needed for anything I've seen or used; just increases /WINDOWS size and slows down puter/surfing), "better" cookie management (? who cares! -cookies were NEVER an issue w/me...), windows xp theme/look (I hate that), netscape plugin support removed; MORE page faults than the current (fully patched) 5.5 (I never get IE errors anymore, w/5.5, but EVERY TIME I test out 6, on any puters, yup!), ...and the list goes on... ]
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[just for the record] nope, breaks scripting... gotta stick w/4522's (already in 2.01)
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winmx is file sharing client, like napster, kazaa, emule, etc... can find absolutely anything on there, if ya work at it... but huge files, like tv-shows (400mb) always have huge "queue" (people waiting in line for that file), usually 50-100 people in front of ya, can take several days straight waiting for your turn...and if ya lose the connection, ya start all over... and even when it is your turn, often the upload speed is small, takes all day to get the whole file... gotta babysit it, annoying, but it works... (especially when I forget to set my vcr for a show)
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I'm desperate to try to get rid of the last OS instability, and the most annoying: the famous WinMX memory leak
I highly doubt that system upgrades will solve problems of memory leaks in third party software. If WinMX leaks memory, then its develloper(s) must fix this bug. I see that this soft hasn't been updated since more than a year.
-yup, I agree... but it's also well known that w98se isn't that great w/memory handling, too (especially resources), so if any updates might help improve w98's handling, it might trickle down a bit to slightly improved winmx stability (or at least maybe delay the inevitable lockup a little bit longer, or maybe not so bad of a crash; currently, if winmx crashes with a long, huge file download in progress, it loses ALL the downloaded portion, as well, since it doesn't save it to disk until it's done (or until you manually browse to the file, and right-click "Properties" or copy it, access like that automatically saves the downloaded portion to disk, while it's still downloading... a little trick of the trade... but otherwise, it's all lost, sometimes days worth of downloading one giant file)...
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...A fullscreen popup appeared for a fraction of a second and then the ANTIVIR interfered.
-are u using the "AntiVir" antivirus software? If so, I used to use it too, until repeated testing showed several viruses that it missed, which other (free) A/V's caught... (plus occasional page faults, but those are prob gone since sesp201/98se2me...) Now I use Avast!, it has multiple scanners, is very good on speed/resources, and testing vs. other scanners was pretty impressive, especially for a free A/V... (only annoying thing is, it can only "clean" a file by first making a database-scan-backup of the whole system, which runs rather unobtrusively in the background, but is still a drawback)
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-testing the flaw: -any activeX website (IE) will show the flaw (won't even download the activex), and "safe" ones are at pcpitstop.com (one of my fav's; choose "full tests") or of course winupdate...
(those are pretty much the only sites I use IE for, otherwise strictly Firefox, w/the occasional IEVIEW-swap when FF chokes on a page... and pcpitstop has tiny downloadable script "AutoFixes" which are useful (and which will show the OLE bug), 3 I use all the time, especially for fresh installs: "IE cache fix", "Internet Speed" (set Receive Window to 32120, always doubles the speed for comcast cable modem users), and "Secure Sites Zone" fix, boosts-up your IntOptions security a bit, closes some holes)
-MDGx: -the regsvr32 batchfile: -yup, that's exactly what I did too, save some typing... I just wanted to ask you to make sure that I wasn't missing some recommended software installs/updates which would make use of those 6 "brand new" files from vb6sp6...
(ps: -any news about 98se2xp/2k3? I'm about ready to try the xp files which you mentioned in older posts, but I was wondering if there's an updated list, w/files added/subtracted? -I'm desperate to try to get rid of the last OS instability, and the most annoying: the famous WinMX memory leak... probably not possible, since the problem is within WinMX, but ANY potential stability improvement w/winmx would be nice... sux 2 B in queue for 3 days, babysitting it, for a huge tv-show file, and finally start downloading, just to lockup and start all over again...)
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-at least it's easy to fix: just unzip a vbrun60sp5.exe (from Micro$hit; google it) (7-zip will unzip it, and 7-zip is free), shutdown to ms-dos, and copy *.dll from it to \windows\system, overwriting all... (ya have to do it manually, for some reason it won't install right automatically)...
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(edit: I suppose ya could also use vbrun60sp6.exe, newer, just saw it's available at M$, but I haven't tried it yet; I unzipped the sp6 version, and it fixed the prob...)
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-turns out the vb6sp6 files were no prob, it's the Unofficial OLEUP.EXE file which MDGx offers to use after vb6sp6...
-I tried the OLEUP.EXE on another install of w98se, without the vb6sp6 files, and the scripting (activeX, too) was shot, just the same... u can go ahead w/vb6sp6 files (16 of em, unzipped from all those cabs inside), but let me know if u have any probs w/his OLEUP.EXE update... (try going to winupdate, after his OLEUP.EXE update, see if it still works... or any site with activeX, like PcPitstop.com...)
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(ps: ouch, dialup downloading that 60mb+ vb6sp6 file! And we only need 5mb (16 files) out of it... (1.5 mb zipped)... lol... -hey, if you'd like to save a lot of time, avoid all the unzipping and comparing version numbers, I can email ya the 1.5mb zipped 16 files... shouldn't be any license probs, it's freely available... PM me...
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(-while we're already on a bug-hunt, the 98se2me winoldap-at-reboot bug came back, as soon as ya changed your code back, a little while ago, but ONLY if option #3 isn't already installed... )
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---EDIT! DOH! -I spoke too soon (below)! -it IS your OLEUP.EXE, screwin the scripts! Everything was fine, after doing the vb6sp6 files again, then I ran your OLEUP.EXE (since it installs newer builds than vb6sp6), and BOOM! there go the script errors again! -Probably had nothing to do with those 2 exe's (see below) inside vb6sp6, after all...
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[[[-re: above post: -never mind, I figured it out:
-while unzipping vb6sp6, I ran across 2 .exe's which looked promising: vcredist.exe and vbrun60.exe... I took a peek inside each, they weren't big, looked harmless, like just more auto-update stuff, similar files to what we were updating anyway, so I executed em... -looks like they weren't harmless after all....]]]
[ps: any news about 98se2xp?]
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-MDGx: ...siiiigh... -after running your unofficial oleup and the vb6sp6 stuff, my scripting was screwed! -couldn't get any scripts to run from a file (pcpitstop autofixes, downloaded to HD), or on a website (winupdate, pcpitstop tests)... tried reinstalling wscript5.6, vbrun60sp5, xml, etc. and nothing worked (also tried reducing *all* security (enabling everything, everywhere), logging-off/on windows, etc)... also tried replacing the vb6sp6 files back to originals (which I backed up), unregistering/registering, etc... no luck...
-the thing that finally worked, was manually copying all vbrun60sp5 dll's to win\system folder, overwriting... now scripting works again... ???
? any ideas?
(I'll further test, if this disgusted feeling wears off, one step at a time, but I've already spent the last 3 hrs stuck on this...)
(ps: I manually registered the 6 vb6sp6 files which weren't already existing in \system... then unregistered & removed em during troubleshooting... no effect)
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-MDGx: re: vb6sp6:
Several of these new files don't already exist at all on my system, so does that mean we need to regsvr em? (just to be safe, I WAS gonna register em all, but it'd be nice to know if it's necessary or not, and if so, do ya need to include that step on your links page? I'll hold off 'til u say yea or nay...)
:edit: -? and a couple of these files have exactly the same version #'s in all places, yet different dates and slightly (1k) different sizes... ?
-thx again,
your humble and unworthy follower PsycoUnc >;]
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-MDGx: re: your vb6sp6 update link page: typo in version # of MSVCP60.DLL:
6.00.9782.0 should be 6.00.8972.0 (as shown in both "version places" in the newest file in vb6sp6)...
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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 ?
-well, if ya ask the Evil Greedy Thought Police (Micro$hit), then yup, ya need at least one more copy, better yet 3 or 4, just to be safe... B) Technically, any part of the ME OS can only be on one puter at a time, is how M$ would see it... The way I'd (like to) see it, is that you have a total of 3 legal OS's, so ya should be able to use any combination of the 3 on a total of 3 puters... but I'm sure M$ wouldn't see it that way... but I wouldn't worry about it, M$ has pretty much written off those old OS's by now...
(I would include more here, about using X-SETUP to help ensure your Privacy in this matter, but I believe the Forum Gods would frown upon such details...)
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-yup, Micro$hit will sue u just for thinking about it! Best to leave such things out of public forums...
(ps: so ya might wanna edit that post, make it M$-safe...)
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-mdgx: Rescue "OS-on-a-CD":
-not sure about smartdrv, but the way that rescue works is ya make your own win98se install, anything ya want, as long as the entire os fits w/in 650mb or so... then it copies it and modifies the registry to work from a cd and w/in RAM, & updates links, etc, then burns it to cd... so I *think* 32-bit access is running, as long as I had the driver originally installed, which of course I did...
I'll double-check, tho...
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(btw, it's "Rescue v1.2", I think, nagware screens show up on cd-boot, annoying, but hey, it's free & it works! Instant win98se, any way ya like it... -except fast... lol)
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-re: 7-zip for dos mode:
-no need, I've got that "Rescue" CD working (98se-OS-running-on-a-cd thingy), so anytime I totally lose all windows on HD, I can just pop in cd, win98se boots up AND RUNS COMPLETELY from the cd (and in RAM, of course), not using any HD space, and I instantly have win32 environment to use 7-zip to restore a backup to HD...
-works pretty good, tho VERY SLOOOOOW..... thinking about trying some tweaking, like loading most of it into RAM first, running the OS mostly from RAM instead of entirely from CD... -again, motivation issue...
-so, no REAL need for real-mode stuff, always have that OS-CD available... tho it takes FOREVER and a half to boot, so real-mode tools are preferable...
(oh yeah, I also keep an ancient 1gb HD with emergency safe win98se OS on it; more than once I've plugged that in, here and at friends' houses, actually quicker hooking that up as boot-drive than waiting for dam OS-CD to boot!
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-yup, tested 7-zip (that's my preferred zipper, too, use it all the time), and yup, it fails too... but my main gripe w/7zip, is that I haven't been able to get it to work in real-mode dos... ???... always says it needs to run in windows... and I think I was using the rite command-line version... ?...
-about "experimental": I'm building a "primary" (safest) backup os, from scratch, backing up every major step of the way (up to backup #7 rite now; next one oughta finish it), so in the future I'll only have to restore a backup, instead of goin thru this full-fresh-reinstall crap each time, so I'm only putting in VERY safe stuff; therefore, I don't want any potentially experimental stuff in it, so I guess I'll stick w/the previous version of 98se2me... (or, if I miraculously find the motivation, I'll just pick apart your current version and yank the experimental stuff; it's only 2 files, is it?)
-ps: let me know if anybody has been able to get 7zip to work in real-mode dos, and if so, what was my dumb-*ss error?
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(btw, 7-zip is sooo awesome, I can zip-up ALL 7 backups (together, 7z, 8mb, 16word) into 2 files (progs, wins) which together fit on a single cd! gotta luv that! 44,100 files! 3.3 gb orig! and it includes counter-strike 1.6, which BY ITSELF is 717mb orig!)
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(...and Firefly/Andromeda/John Doe/Angel/Buffy/....the list goes on, most victims of evil "reality" programming, I believe... 
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And i'm also interested to translate the program/files to german. I'm looking forward for an WinME Servicepack too.
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Posted · Edited by PsycoUnc
-well, I used to run AVG on two win98se puters a yr or 2 ago, and kept getting Invalid Page Fault errors, & limited options (? can't turn it off w/out rebooting, maybe?)
-maybe it's better nowadays, and maybe the page faults would be gone now thx to sesp2/98se2me installed... but after testing AVG, Antivir (not bad, but misses a lot of viruses I tested on it), and Avast!, I found avast to be most stable, leanest resources (won't slow ya down), good options, and good catch rate... (tho it's method of cleaning can be annoying, it has to create a recovery database of all your clean files first...)
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-again, haven't tested AVG w/98se2me, maybe it's finally more stable now...