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What sort of graphics card are you using? Are all the necessary drivers correctly installed? Also check in MSCONFIG first page Advanced settings panel and make sure 640x480 mode is unchecked.

I've dualbooted Win98se and XP on a 4.17GHz P4 with 2Gb of (borrowed) DDR533. The 98se runs very smoothly with the 2Gb but XP (already considerably slimmed down) still feels sluggish. My machine now has 256M of DDR400, I've returned the other 1.75Gb. If I can I might borrow 3Gb of RAM and try that out.

Not without some extensive modification. It's an inherent characteristic of edit controls.

4 SATAII drives? "And maybe another 2"? I think you might want a bit more wattage... E.g. I've been using one of these: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=EC-P680D-NB for 2 years with no problem:

I usually keep the scripting off for the Internet zone to avoid the security implications. If a site doesn't seem to be working properly with it off, I'll take a look at the source code to see if there's anything potentially malicious in there, and if there isn't, I'll add it to the secure sites zone. Otherwise I leave the site and find a better one

Currently, there are no unpackers for the NSIS, but since it's open-source it shouldn't be too difficult to write one. Besides, the installer itself already contains the decompressor code. If you know the compression method used and have a decompressor for that method, it's possible to unpack the thing manually... and an automated approach shouldn't be too far off. I've unpacked many unknown installers manually this way.

See here for a detailed discussion of the 137Gb (actually 128Gb) limit: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=46752 You would need a suitably modified ESDI_506.PDR to use all that space. However, FAT32 can handle partitions up to 2 terabytes so that shouldn't be a problem. @travisowens: NTFS actually requires *more* overhead than FAT32...

You might want to consider .NET 1.1.4322.573 instead... it takes up less space than the 2.0. As for the WMP, I recommend v6.4 or 7 as those are much less bloaty.

If you can find an ME full version fileset you could compare the files with the upgrade version, to see which files are different. I doubt there are going to be many differences, so you should be able to figure it out easily.

Actually I'd suggest keeping the newer one; it might be an updated version. To be on the safe side, I'd keep both of them if they aren't causing any problems.

Remove that default value or change it to "open" and see what happens. If it doesn't help then you can change it back to "find". On my machine the default value is empty.

Why not just invoke a cmd shell with the appropriate command? No need to write your own copier...

ECS mobos aren't known to be easily overclockable.

WD's quality seems to be declining... Approximately a year ago I bought a WD1200JB (120Gb) that is still working. I am very satisfied with it. It's extremely quiet and vibration-free. It's almost impossible to tell if the drive is spinning or not. It does run a little hot, although a heatsink and fan solved the problem, keeping it below 30°C. Recently I decided to get another WD1200JB, thinking of setting up a matched pair. This one was completely different. It runs cooler than the older one, but it vibrates heavily. They've also changed the sound greatly - the older one spun up and down with a loud whine but was very quiet when seeking and idling, while this one spins up and down quietly but idles with a low growling and seeks like a snoring elephant. Perhaps they aren't balancing them well enough now. I'll see how long this one lasts... For comparison, I have a Maxtor 7245AT (230Mb) from the early 90s that still runs perfectly fine, quiet and fast.

Look under the default entry of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell, it might've gotten set to "search" instead of the default "open".

If it's a heat problem, you might consider opening it up and removing the large amounts of dust and other debris that have probably been deposited onto the heatsink and fan in the form of a thick coating. A P4 3.0HT is definitely not a cool-running processor. It requires plenty of cooling.

It will still work, it just won't take advantage of those extra features. However it should still be plenty fast without those features, since the recommended system specifications for 98SE are extremely low.

I don't think it can be done (easily). The 9x series and the NT series have completely different driver architectures.

Microsoft RegClean 4.1a. MS removed it from their servers, but you can still find it on the Internet.

I have a lot of air cooling. 2x 80mm rear case fans 2x PSU fan 2x 80mm front intake fans 2x 80mm HDD fan (one for each HDD) 1x 60mm fan on the GPU 2x 120mm fans on CPU ---------------------------- 11 fans total. The heatsink of the CPU was made from scrap aluminum heatsink material cut to fit. It covers the entire top half of the mobo. The two fans are mounted side-by-side and take up most of the space on the heatsink. It looks sort of like the dual-fan LeadTek video cards. CPU is P4 3.6HT overclocked to 4.17GHz. Runs at ~25°C idle and ~40°C full load. Don't know about the GPU temp or the HDD temp but both feel cold to the touch.

I don't use any firewall at all and have had no problems for several years now. There's basically nothing to exploit on my machine.

The real one is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProductKey The other two programs are probably not for finding the CD key that you already have, but *keygens* that *generate* unique keys instead.

innounp is one of them, it's quite popular since Inno setups tend to be very common. For other installers you'll have to use some other unpacker.Then you just find the install script and manually install whichever portions you want, following the directions of the script.

Electromigration also occurs at a faster rate with higher CPU voltage. "Electromigration refers to the gradual displacement of the metal atoms of a conductor as a result of the current flowing through that conductor" http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=MjMw

It might also be the hard drive, those can often be quite loud especially if they're mounted improperly and creating resonance in the case. An HDD damper will solve that problem. Fan speed can be reduced with an inline Fan Controller; there are many models available, recommend getting one from more well-known brands e.g. Zalman.