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No, I got the right one, it is the installer version: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cdexos/...de.exe?download I do not have a unicows.dll file on my system, where do I get it? I also put the lame encoder in the audiograbber and it can be chosen from the list and used to do the conversion. I still want to compare the 2 converters though. Thanks again

Thanks for the replies, I downloaded Audiograbber before I got any replies. This seems more complicated with all the settings than I care to deal with. I then decided to try bristols suggestions and downloaded the Non unicode version of 1.70b2 and replaced the lame dll. The problem is that when I go to change the Settings button I get an error message saying that "The Microsoft layer for unicode failed to initialize" Please reinstall. It then closes CDex. I thought that this did not need unicode. What am I missing? Thanks

Just getting into this, I am using Windows Media Player 7.1 which does not have CD ripping software included as far as I can tell. Would anyone like to recommend some separate CD ripping software that works well with 98 and is light. I do not need anything fancy as all I intend to do is transfer CD songs to MP3 for my MP3 player. Thanks

This site has lots of good info, use the tweak tool: http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks Not sure about getting 20 meg, but I have up to 7M and routinely get >6.

Outpost Firewall, old and no longer supported, but not as complicated as most. Has some ad blocking features. Also low on system resources. http://majorgeeks.com/Outpost_Firewall_Free_d1056.html Help site: http://www.outpostfirewall.com/guide/

There are no drivers. If you cannot see the drive in device manager, then you should install nusb3.3e.exe which will update the device in usbstor.inf. That should make the device visible in device manager. I have a my book 320. Even after all of this you will not be able to double click on the drive and expect it to open. You will get several error messages. However, you can right click on the drive and choose "Explore". That will get you into the drive where you can do anything you want from there. You should have no trouble copying files to the drive as you would on any other drive using copy/paste or send to.

The nusb3.3 patch worked for me, but I already had it installed. I cannot access the drive by double clicking on it, but if I use the explore command all the contents are visible and accessable. I can also write to the drive by just pointing to the drive letter. As usual, this drive was not meant for 98.

Thanks for all of the help guys, Google is your friend, but not always.

Will that work on 98SE? It is only supposed to work on 2000, XP and Vista. Every link I found that says 7.1 turns out to be 9. The camera software I installed said to get version 7.1. I only have Windows mediia player 6.4 with codecs for WMP 9 installed.

Anyone know where I can get this without having to pay someone? Thanks

Device Name: ++USB Mass Storage Device(USB Disk) PnP Device ID: VID = 1058 PID = 1100 Serial Number: 57442D574D41543132313632343931 Revision: 1.65 Device Type: Standard USB device - USB2.0 Full-Speed (USB1.1) Thanks thydreamwalker, the lastdrive statement clued me in on what I did years ago when I played DOS games to save a small amount of memory. I was at lastdrive = J. Changed it to K. Thanks again for the help guys.

It is a a Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 320 GB USB 2.0 drive. It says it is only for 2000/XP/Vista. It is supposed to be detected automatically by these systems and no driver disk was included and I could find nothing at the WD website. My computer reports it as a WDC3200AAJ. I have my hard drive partitioned into 6 partitions C-H. The 2 CD roms come up as I and J. I am only able to choose from these 2 drive letters in the drop down box. If I boot up with the WDC3200AAJ attached, it takes the I drive and bumps the I CD rom into the J position and the J drive disappears and does not work when a CD is entered even though the drive lights work. I know that there is some program where you can control the drive letter assignment, but I cannot remember the name. I do not have a seperate USB 2.0 add in card installed. My motherboard controller is listed as SIS 7001 PCI to USB host controller. Thanks for all the help.

It appears that I am using the 3.3 usb update. The drive is 320 GB and not 3.2 GB. The drive takes over one of the CD rom drive letters and moves the first one down a letter. The second CD rom although listed in device manager, does not work and is lost from the list of drives in my computer. I was not expecting this to work, but when the drive was recognized and given a drive letter, it seemed more promising.

Purchased an WD 3.2 GB External USB hard drive mostly for use when backing up newer computers. I tried installing this on my 98SE machine. The drive appeared to install and is seen in device manager and says it is working correctly. It did displace my 2 CD rom drives and now one of the drives does not have a drive letter associated with it. Have not tried the CD drives. The computer upon boot found the new hardware and installed a driver using the file usbstor.inf. When I try to access the drive, I get an access violation in WDsetup.exe which is not on my C:\ drive, but may be installed on the USB drive. Clicking through several of these, leaves me back where I started with no apparent ill effects except the drive not working. I tried transferring a small file to the drive and did not get any errors, but cannot tell if the file transferred. Any way to get this to work with a different driver. I installed nusb.exe several months ago. Thanks

disable it in BIOS both presence and floppy seek. OR Use TweakUI to remove the drive from showing up in My Computer. Remove the floppy disk controller in safe mode from device manager.

Alexa? If you have Adaware SE, it will remove Alexa, that would be my guess. This is a low threat search helper.

Exactly, the parent locks up or freezes and takes a long time to reconnect to a new site. The child links open and close without any problem. I tried for months to remedy this and have posted on this and other NGs. Works much better now with either the DCOM or the increase in max connections. I am guessing that it may be the connection setting. As far as the registry thing goes, I guess I just assumed that a lot of registry data would be written.

If you have broadband, I got considerable relief from this. I have installed most of the IE 6 SP1 updates from the mdgx site. One of the updates I believe added some connection settings to my advanced Internet tools menu. I used to be at 20 HTTP 1.0 and 10 HTTP 1.1 connections from a setting in TCP optimizer. I found a setting in my advanced Internet tools menu that increased it to 32 HTTP 1.0 and 16 HTTP 1.1 connections. This setting was not there before on of the mdgx updates. I think you could also make this change with the optimizer or another tweaking tool. I also installed the DCOM update around the same time. I still have some lag in the system from parent windows that were left open, but it is way better than before when on some sites, the parent window would lock up almost immediately upon opening up a link from it. This only seems to happen on some sites. My registry is already big enough, I do not want to increase it more by installing a firefox based browser in addition to IE.

If you have a newer, faster drive, then you OS should be on that drive. Partitioning you drives will speed up the defrag as it takes less time to do a smaller drive. A faster drive will take less time to defrag than a slower drive. I have 8 GB reserved for 98SE, you could put games and apps on another partition. It takes me around 2 minutes or less to defrag the C drive. The Win ME defrag works much better than the one that comes with 98. I often disable the swapfile and then do the defrag after the reboot. Once the defrag is done you can re-enable it. Result is a fresh swapfile that is not fragmented. If you are going to move the swapfile be sure to put it on a different physical drive and not just another partition on the same drive. When I am installing a program upgade that requires me to uninstall the old program, I defrag the drive after the uninstall so that the new release gets a fresh space.

This has happened twice now in the last 2 weeks. Computer tries to boot and get XMS driver errors. Also himem.sys and emm386 not loading. Sometime I can get to a blank windows desktop but am usually stuck in DOS. If I do get to the windows desktop, there is a message about no mouse found. In all of the failed boots, there is no mouse or keyboard loaded in DOS or windows so I cannot do anything but push the reset button. After probably close to 10 restarts, it boots up and runs like nothing was ever wrong. A boot disk does not help. I am virus and spyware/malware free. This computer is 5 years old, but the hard drive is newer. Any help appreciated.

Oops, sorry about that. I vaguely remember installing it years ago so I thought it was a program. Now I remember that it was part of the Win95 powertoys. Most of these were installed by the inf files so if you can find the cabview.inf file and right click on it and choose nstall, that should also work. I use Izarc which does not do a half bad job with cab files.

1. Find a cab file 2. Hold shift key down and right click on the file 3. Choose "open with" 4. Scroll down the list until you find cab file viewer 5. Be sure "always use this program IS checked 6. Click OK or Reinstall cab file viewer This in not Microsofts fault.

Does anyone have this printer working with Windows 98? Website says XP and Vista, but how many ever say 98 anymore? Site also says USB 2.0 recommended, would the USB patch work for this or would I have to get an add in card? I currently do not have USB enabled as I have not needed it for anything yet. Thanks

Try doing the defrag in safe mode.