jimmsta

Aw, cool. I've always liked the default Me theme over 98SE's default theme. It's definitley better than trying to mimic win2k's theme... Thanks for yet another cool addition to Win98SE patches!

You may have to check the amount of ram that's available. You'll need at least 400KB conventional memory available if you want to launch anything worthwhile... In other words, autoexec and config.sys editing are in order. I've found that the majority of these ntfs4dos apps require a good chunk of memory to operate, which is sorta a problem. In testing ntfs4dos, I found that if you try to use emm386, you will not be able to launch most setup apps. In Config.sys, be sure to REM out the EMM386 line, if you have it. I started my install from a DOS 7.1 cd, which has a bunch of extra apps installed, which are somewhat useless when it comes to memory management. I had to remove a bunch of useless bloat in order to get any ntfs driver to load properly, and still have enough memory left over to load setup. In my own experiments, I'm going to try again and see if I can get some 98SE on NTFS love going...

You should've installed Windows to the D: or whatever drive you were planning to convert to NTFS.Actually, if you could format and make an NTFS partition from DOS, why not let the Win98 installer (which uses 3.1 -> DOS routines for file access AFAIK) install directly to the NTFS partition? That's a much better plan. I was trying to use a VM that I had previously set up. Now that I have a working NTFS bootdisk, I should be able to get somewhere by reinstalling 98 on a new VM.

I'll happily try this out in a VM. I'd love to actually be able to use Win98 on an NTFS partition, just to see if no other modification would be needed. Edit: Big problem - when you go and mount your ntfs partition, it gets assigned to a drive other than C:. The registry and system.ini files expect Windows to be running from the C: drive, not whatever drive you're actually running it off of. I know that Partition magic offers a drive letter changer, and I might be inclined to try using that. Aside from that problem, I've managed to get Win98 to attempt to boot, Only stoppign when it was unable to load some files off the C:\Windows\system directory.

Pre-Emptive Multi-Tasking support Security Access Managers (NT/2000/2003) That's basically all we need to build into Win98SE... Lots and lots of work to do anything like that, but if accomplished, we'd be closer to a Dos-based NT than anything else.

Wow, multiple releases of useful patches in just the past 3 days... you're really pumping these things out, huh. I'm going to try and get the next English release of Win9xPP out this weekend, and will included all of your patches, maximus-decim.

I'm bumping this to add info about the latest patch, and a full changelog for all the updates. You can grab the latest update here: http://repository.jimmsta.com/patches/bht29123_patch.zip (32.3KB zipped, 110KB extracted) Just run the included updater file (in the sub-directory "AUP", called UniUpdate). If you're building off the original release, please choose option 1. If you're building off the latest Refresh release, choose option 2. Changelog is as follows:

First off, great app. It's really a great help when also using HFSLIP. Secondly, I'd love to use the app as a way to distribute my next version of BHT (See link in Sig). So far, my only gripes with the app are the following: No sub-categories. Is there any way to implement an item that is a member of more than one category? Or, is there a way to Nevermind, I figured it out. If it's ok, I'd like to distribute the latest version as the downloader for my compilation. Take a look at BHT - I make no money on it at all - it is, and will always be free.

I use VMWare Server to virtualize all versions of 9x that I use and test. The only downside is that 3d graphics acceleration is practically impossible, so if you're a gamer, you're screwed and have to use the system itself. At work, I've virtualized our server to run Ubuntu Linux 6.06.1, with VMWare Server running on top of it, with a converted image of our old server running on it (Windows 2003 server with apache/mysql/php4 installed). It works great, and is honestly more secure and efficient than running win2k3 on the box as the only OS. Search MSFN for the free P2V tools... or better yet, here's a link: http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?page_id=174 That's the guide I followed to convert our old server to a virtual disc image. On the plus side, this guide offers a completely free way to move an installation over to VMWare.

Thanks for the heads up

I haven't worked on the next version in a while. For the time being, here's a List Of Apps for those that wish to make translated versions: IE6 SP1 DirectX9 October 2006 Unicows Unofficial Service Packs for Win98 Gold, SE, and Windows Me. Microsoft XML libraries IE6 SP1 Cummulative Update Pack (Maximus Decim) MDAC Updater (Maximus Decim) Kernel Update Project (Xeno86) NUSB v2.3/2.4 (Maximus Decim) 98SE2Me (MDGx) RPLite 6PP (Tihiy) Windows Media Player 9 Windows Media Codecs 7zip Archiver KLCodec Pack 98SEWMP10 (MDGx) I'm still deciding on whether or not I want to use Sophoric's AutoPatcher Alpha or not. It's relativley large, and includes practically all patches for Win98SE, and works rather well (I've tested it on old systems, it's pretty sweet in terms of speed). Work will continue as soon as I'm not exhausted from work... Which will probably be after the holidays.

FYI: WinSxS is Windows Side-by-Side, which has nothing to do with .NET. It contains different versions of system files, so that older applications with older dll's will run properly without overwriting newer dll's. Surprisingly, it works perfectly, however, it takes up a good chunk of disk space. It's either that, or have severe problems with dll files, like we had years ago with Win9x. I thought they were more linked. But I guess all .Net framework 1, 2, 3 files can be found in winsxs. dotnet 1 was 150MB, dotnet2 was 250MB and dotnet3 I don't know. And anyway, I don't think a 1GB folder is needed nor wishable. What would be the worst thing you could get ? Error such lib was not found ? Google and that's fixed within one single minute. It's a good feature that needs fine-tuning. I'm sure that if Microsoft implanted the ability to check for previous versions of a DLL before just making a copy and sticking it into the WinSxS folder would save some space. I believe, however, that they create a folder with the files based upon the GUID of the program using that/those dll files. This is the reason why the WinSxS folder is so large. Cross-linking files (or Symbolic linking) would also be a viable enhancement for the WinSxS folder, especially for Vista, since SymLinks are now possible. This would further reduce the size of the folder. But, in Microsoft's defense, storage is cheap, so why not use it? My answer to this is that an OS should not take up at minimum, 6GB of hard drive space, excluding SWAP and Hibernation files. All in all, I'm on your side of this argument... sort of.

FYI: WinSxS is Windows Side-by-Side, which has nothing to do with .NET. It contains different versions of system files, so that older applications with older dll's will run properly without overwriting newer dll's. Surprisingly, it works perfectly, however, it takes up a good chunk of disk space. It's either that, or have severe problems with dll files, like we had years ago with Win9x. I'm really not sure if Readyboost is worth its weight. I've been running Vista Business at work for the past few weeks, and have not been ABLE to get Readyboost to work properly at all. In terms of which edition to get, I'd say, get a copy of Home Basic, and customize it with vLite. I'm sure that you could get it down to Windows 2000 specs, which is perfect for gaming, and internet use. There's really no reason for Aero, aside from added flashiness, which has already gotten on my nerves.

I've been running Vista Business at work for the past 2 weeks... It's got all the bells and whistles that Vista Home Premium has (although, no Media Center). For a business OS, it is not tuned correctly, IMO. vLite will be a key tool to use when my shop starts deploying Vista Business onto Client PC's. We don't need Aero or any multimedia functionality for Business customers. Thank you, nuhi! This tool is perfect. I hope further development goes well; I'll be following development of the app closely, as it should provide to be very useful in the future.

Java Runtime Environment v5 update 10 Switchless Installer MD5: 04A2DD1DAA75B0B825BC9376A172E917 Java Runtime Environment v5 update 10 Switchless Installer with Update Check MD5: C4627AE04E2CC78C4739990A0073FC7B These are based off of the update 9 installer found on RyanVM's main page (ryanvm.net/msfn/). They have both been tested to work properly.

Thanks for this list - it makes my job of finding all the files for W9xpp v4.5/5.0 much easier.

It's not dead, I assure you. I'm just probably going to drop the whole Patch idea, as a patch will be well over 50MB in size...Expect v4.5 within the next month. I'm still actively working on the project (ok, somewhat actively). At the moment, I'm working on the official website, which will be located here: http://www.win9xpp.org (registered, Joomla is installed, but there's no content, and no template).

This is well needed. Thansk a lot for creating a self-detecting addon. Now I can test my installs with peace of mind, and not have to worry about installing the VMTools package. Very cool.

I bought a lifetime license to PerfectDisk. I have used Diskeeper for years, and though it was doing a good job... However, when I would do cpu-intensive things, it would engage its defrag engine, and start chugging away, even if I was in the middle of doing something. PerfectDisk does not do this. It waits until there's been about 10 minutes of inactive use on the system before attempting to engage its defrag engine. For a freebie, I use PowerDefragmenter GUI + Sysinternal's Contig, which defrags files individually, then runs the Windows Defrag engine to move contiguous blocks around the drive. Download: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-D...ragmenter.shtml Contig: http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Contig.zip (New link through Microsoft's site) That is the worst piece of misinformation I have ever heard. With the average computer racking up hundreds of thousands of files, what you're saying is ridiculous. If anything, there is a bigger need for intelligent defragmentation software now then there ever was. I keep hearing this crap from other techs around me... I've done tests, and I can honestly say that NTFS still gets fragmented, and this causes the hard drive to seek more in order to complete file operations. I still believe that defragmentation is a requirement for all filesystems. Hell, even ext3 and reiserfs have defrag programs out in the wild. There's bound to always be some sort of fragmentation, and it DOES slow your system down... Especially when you have a bunch of games on your drives...

I'd use the RyanVM silent .NET 2.0 installer, if I were you - it doesn't require a reboot, and works fine on 9x. Download here: http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/

I just noticed that a few days ago, while looking for something else.

That looks like someone's customized GUI... the official 7Zip SFX addon is here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzi...ar.bz2?download

I for one, will take your package, and compress it with 7zip, then wrap it with 7zip's SFX extra addon, which will make the package self-extractable to the 'C:\Windows\Temp' directory, and execute the script. This way, you can distribute the package on CD, and still have it work properly. Many of my patches are deployed in this way. (IE6 SP1, DX 9, both on Win9xPP v4.1).

Exactly my thoughts. I tend to use a small app that requires NO installation, called Restoration: Download: http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html Freeware, works on all versions of Windows, FAT/FAT32/NTFS. edit: and apparently, I had a very old version of it, as seen in the screenshot. Doesn't seem to matter, though, as the screenshot is showing deleted files on an NTFS partition that was formatted in Vista RC2.

I've released an updated package, here: http://repository.jimmsta.com/msfn/dx9cOct06.exe (approx 30MB). It has been tested on Windows 98SE, and Windows ME machines. It contains 1 new file since the August release. All NT files have been stripped, to reduce the file size.