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It works fine here, and for other MSFN members. For me there's only one noticeable problem, which is that there is no flashing cursor within input boxes (such as the one I'm typing in now) to mark your place within text. This is a bit annoying, certainly, but not anything that prevents me using easily the best browser currently available for Windows 9x. No. Opera will detect your 'Firefox', non_IE Flash installation, and will use that.

Free Uninstaller 1.1: http://www.pazera-software.com/products/free-uninstaller/ More like what you had in mind?

So we have at least three fixes: Vektor's, the LinkIconShim, and now one provided by WildBill. Which to use? I don't know how to decide. Can anyone vouch for any of these? Can anyone help allay any default scepticism / suspicions regarding the trustworthiness of any of these patches? For example, who is Vektor? These kind of reassurances will help me decide.

1.2.908.0, I believe. You can get it from here.

Without wanting to sidetrack you from your investigations (and provide irrelevant information): is the file usbccgp.sys present in your system (in %windir%\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS)? RetroOS found that he required that file from XP Service Pack 3 in order for composite devices to work: Windows 98SE (with 98SE2ME) and a recent USB composite device The file can be found in the USB 2.0 Stack installer at MDGx's site: http://www.mdgx.com/files/USB20DRV.EXE

Gosh! Who's to say what's better for the original poster's circumstances and requirements? mst3kpimp didn't ask about the shortcomings of one OS compared to another. To help better answer his/her question, you should read around the 9x forums a bit - Day-to-day running Win 9x/ME with more than 1 GiB RAM.

Not sure whether or not this will work; but if you haven't already, try this for your DIVs: text-overflow:inherit

I don't know about you, but I've never seen a portable PC (laptop, netbook, etc) that had win-98 drivers for it's built-in wifi radio. Wouldn't know. I use a Cardbus Wi-Fi card. It has a 98 SE driver.

You're worrying too much!!! The simplest solution is to use a router to translate IPv6 to IPv4. It just works! While that would a solution, I guess it's likely to be the only one. It would be a pity, I think, that to all intents and purposes our 9x systems would be tethered to one location (our routers with IPv6 to v4 translation). No more public Wi-Fi, for instance. More hardware to buy and contend with. Am I underestimating here how widespread IPv6 to v4 translation will be in routers? Does anyone know whether or not that translation automatically occurs to clients that do not present themselves as IPv6-capable?

Seconded! Added to the Windows 2000 SP4 Hotfixes page.

Hey jinjou, Ah, sorry about that. Exceeded my message quota, apparently... You're quite right about the mistake there on the Hotfixes page. Thanks for the tip-off. I'll amend it and send it along to FDV. I will see PMs, whereas there is a (small) chance that I will miss a note left here in the forums. But just as long as I see your message, it really doesn't matter how. No, thank you for contributing!

Thanks erpdude8, but why don't you want to talk about these fixes and the issues they address? This evasiveness makes your own service pack sound shady...

The Windows 2000 hotfix page has been updated: http://www.vorck.com/windows/hotfixes_2000.html Thanks to My2GirlsDad, stephan_bauer and Parseus for their suggestions (given directly and indirectly). Please PM me with any corrections and suggestions for the lists.

Do you know how this happened? Were your production machine(s) infected?

The addition of USBCCGP.SYS 5.1.2600.5512. RetroOS found that it was required to get a USB composite device to work.

I would dust down my Windows 95 B box and test it, certainly.

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Excellent. Thanks very much dencorso! Would it also be possible (and advisable) to patch Flash 7.0.73.0 to 9.0.262.0?

If I recall correctly, a few months ago the minimum Flash version for the BBC iPlayer became 9.0.115. Or maybe 9.0.151. The iPlayer Help pages seem not to specify, and instead just encourage users to update to the latest version. Edit: check this thread on the BBC iPlayer message boards for a relevant discussion...

Thanks for doing this. Just a couple of things on first glance: 1. Flash is now at version 9.0.262.0 2. Some existing unofficial 9x updates, which update files found in Gape's USP3, themselves now contain out-of-date files. If I knew how, I'd package these updates myself. Unfortunately, I don't, but I also can't guarantee that these updated files will work in 98 SE. For example: - 961371's T2EMBED.DLL has been superseded by T2EMBED.DLL 5.0.2195.7348 (from the Windows 2000 972270 update) - SCR579X.EXE's VBSCRIPT.DLL and JSCRIPT.DLL have been superseded by VBSCRIPT.DLL 5.6.0.8838 (from the Windows 2000 981350 update) and JSCRIPT.DLL 5.7.6002.22145 (from the Windows 2000 975542 update) - USP3's JSCRIPT.DLL 5.6.0.8834 and MDGx's SCR569X.EXE's JSCRIPT.DLL 5.6.0.8835 have been superseded by JSCRIPT.DLL 5.6.0.8837 (from the Windows 2000 971961 update) Please note: Gape's USP3 has VBScript and JScript version 5.6 updates (which are still being produced for Windows 2000/XP). Many of you will know, but I should also just mention that in the past Gape has sought to keep the service pack faithful to the task of providing Windows system updates. He deliberately did not included updates that are strictly not Windows system updates, such as Flash, Java, etc.

Looks like the WSH 5.7 packages Microsoft released back in late August 2007 now have expired & broken digital signatures. That would explain why MS made the KB955360 hotfixes to resolve the problems. Took MS a while to recognize and fix the problems with their original WSH 5.7 packages by making hotfixes for them in late August 2008. Except it seems that a similar 955360 hotfix to correct Script 5.7 for Windows 2000 wasn't released for that OS. JScript and VBScript 5.7 updates for Win2k have been released since, but as far as I can see, nothing for the other Script components in the Script 5.7 package from August 2007. Has anyone used Scripten.exe 5.7 in HFSLIP for Windows 2000 successfully?

Great spot. I had known that my coverage of Script updates was incomplete. Thanks gubwy. Made it easy for me.

Indeed, I did (I usually try to find out myself, and only ask when I'm not satisfied with the answer ). (Aside: Most of my time at MSFN has been spent around the 9x forums. Observing people there get to the bottom of various problems (sometimes in spite of conventional wisdom) has lead me not to take everything I read in Microsoft Security Bulletins and Knowledge Base articles as gospel truth. It's just my impression, but the information Microsoft publishes in bulletins and KB articles seems to get sloppier, the older (and closer to EOL) that the system in question is.) Thanks for clearing up 980858 (Windows Media Service). Hmm, thanks. The bulletin for 977816 seems to confirm that, but it says also that the codecs are delivered via WMP: I just find that confusing. Right, neither did I. SMTP service has not been installed on any Win2k Pro system I've seen. Black Viper brings some clarity: It is installed by default with Server, I believe; just not with Pro. When I have more time I'll look further into including the last version of DirectX 9. If anyone has any advice, please post!

MDGx made a patch for Windows 2000 that delivers the update via the registry. I understand that the settings (in the .reg file contained in the update) are taken from an up-to-date Windows XP SP3 Pro. The update is here: Time Zone update (Windows 2k) (and also, separately: Time Zone update (Windows 9x)) More information here: Windows 2000/XP DST Update ReadMe MSFN (9x forum)

Hi all, The Windows 2000 Hotfixes page at FDV's website has been updated with April 2010's patches, and a few other changes (see under the "Last update description" heading near the top of the page). Thanks go to Parseus for his help with some of these. Any issues, then please post here (but please PM me to make sure I reply promptly). Thanks, bristols