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what a name... I find the NECs are good as well.

VNC?

Hmm... a black CD-R with some warez?

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I'm rather busy but I still haven't forgotten about the disk driver... thanks for the resources I'm not really "experienced" in Windows driver coding but I could manage

Impossible, unless you're running some exploitable services on your box there's nothing remotely exploitable in 98se. Unlike XP, which comes by default with many (exploitable, like RPC) services listening. Portscan your IP and see what you find open on XP, then compare with 98.

It's your folding app that's leaking the memory, not the OS.

64'C for CPU seems waaaay too hot - don't let it go above 40'C. You might want to check that the heatsink isn't filled up with dust and starving the CPU of air (that happened too me). If not, get a beefier heatsink and fan. Also, Check the thermal paste. Actually maximum temperature for your CPU is 70°C, but idling at 64° is much too high... and your +3.3v is suspiciously low (2.66v?)

...and you are not aware what much of MSFN is about? Know about nLite?

Ports need to be forwarded. Not sure which ones Shareaza uses though...

Batch file and PKZIP would also do the job of copy files and registering OCXs and DLLs.

Fast. Very responsive and excellent startup/shutdown times. (4.17GHz P4 user here )

That would be the firmware in your brain When? In the early 1990s. It's called Linux. Looking for an install monitor? http://www.devhood.com/Tools/tool_details.aspx?tool_id=432 - run it before every installation, and you'll find out exactly what was added to your system. I have heard of a software like this... "idea diagrammer" or similar. That wouldn't be an OS anymore, an OS is just a basic provider of services to applications. Large RAM disk (actual hardware, not the driver that uses machine's own RAM) and Ghost

I haven't had any problems with FAT32 either. In fact, if you enable write-caching, NTFS will also be easy to corrupt. FAT32 is simple, NTFS is complicated. Recovering data from a damaged FAT32 partition is far easier than from an NTFS one. Also, since there are less reads/writes to be done for each filesystem operation, FAT32 has a much smaller "critical window" than NTFS. It's a very simple principle, applied to many other areas of design: simple design, smaller failure points....and NTFS security/permissions are annoying and nearly useless for most applications of XP (single-user, client).

Expect a workaround for this very soon after release. "If there's a will, there's a way." M$ is certainly trying to "own" the user's machines... first WGA and now this... they always say it's for "better security". Same with the "protected audio path" and the requirement for all drivers to be signed.

A default install of 98se is only unsafe if the attacker has physical access, or if file-sharing is installed (don't install it! use a better way of networking). With XP, remote access is enough to exploit vulnerabilities in services that always listen to the network.

I only have 3 processes running at idle: Explorer, Systray, and Proxomitron. It's not going to get any faster. There are things called "message queues" in almost every modern OS, ever since win 3.1. Giving it more commands while it's still processing will just cause them to be queued, and processed when the processor is free. BTW, keyboards have (internally) a 16-key typeahead buffer as well. (Some newer keyboards I've tested only have 4 - 8-key buffers... but almost all of the older ones are full-sized)With regards to CRT vs LCD, I think it's more of a personal preference... all CRTs have a small amount of flicker no matter how high the refresh rate is, just some users are more sensitive to it than others. My own preference is LCD, since the pixels are exactly square and the image is very clear (at recommended resolution, of course). On a CRT, the pixels are more like indistinct blobs. But CRT vs LCD should really go into another thread. No, "clear type" IMO makes the text *more* blurry, perhaps to make it easier for CRT users that are used to seeing blurry text. I'm using an LCD and the text is as clear as it can get - you can even see the single square pixel that makes up the dot of this "i".

Try more cooling. Intel CPUs will slow down when they approach the temperature limit (Thermal Protection). Remove the stock cooler, clean it thoroughly, and reinstall it with some new thermal compound. I have the same CPU, but running at 3.2GHz with the stock cooler. Full load temps ~60°C. @Andromeda43: I think you need the DNS client service... otherwise it'll only resolve from the cache and can't resolve new domain names.

Tried a different version of MakeCab?

Strange, I have the whole Macromedia Studio MX 2004 installed and everything works fine... maybe it's just the newer versions?

Open the CLASSES_ROOT in the registry editor, find the file extension and select it, take note of the default value on the right. Scroll down until you find that default value, open that subkey and open the "shell" subkey, all the context menu entries are there. Delete the ones you don't want.

What are the temperatures? Intermittent freezing can be caused by an overheating CPU. Run a program like BURNP6 for a while, it will *really* heat up the CPU and if it freezes then it's overheating or memory problem. Use MemTest86+ to determine if the memory is failing.

It's called "Spectral Analyzer" and it's from 1995.

...except now he's named "Link19"... lol

This is just a corrupted icon cache, that's why changing the color depth fixed it - it refreshed the cache.