RainyShadow

Try MSHTML.DLL

Maybe make it like most Linux distros? With a single installer app and some kind of packaging system, including dependencies and stuff...

Try starting it directly from the DOS prompt. If You're using qGui you can copy the command line parameters shown at the mottob of the window and modify them until it starts working. btw the "embed QEMU inside QGui window" option doesn't work on my PC. Try disabling it and see what happens.

Some drivers from the Acer site might be multi-OS bundles. Have You checked what is inside the archives?

About the BSOD, try forcing APM mode ( setup.exe /P:I ), it worked on my Dell laptop. More info here.

I'm using Another Task Manager as a cpucooler, it's a great program to have. The only drawback is that it's shareware.

Marius '95, I followed nearly the same removal procedure as the one described by You, but after windows installed the old driver there were the same problems as with the Via driver (Nero tools, Feurio and some other programs can't detect my CD-RW). After deleting some registry parts the VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers failed to install... I had to make a separate installation of Win98 and get the correct registry entries from it, only then the original driver started working fine. Seems that the Via IDE miniport (AKA Busmaster) driver writes some switches to registry which don't get undone after the uninstall, and this leads to further misbehaving of drivers installed afterwards. Still glad that I managed to fix this, because a reinstal of 98 would be a grand disaster for me and a lot of work to restore all the modifications done for 2 years

Well, it can be uninstalled without a format, but that's a lot of dirty work. I accomplished this by extracting some registry entries from another 98SE instalation. ( yay, Nero Tools work again ) Still not sure which exact entries are responsible for that uninstall saga. REG files included as attachment. device_regs.rar

You have a PM

Run some partition manager (PQMagic, fdisk, etc.) and unhide that partition

Try to find the INF file for the bad driver, delete it, then remove the device in safe mode, restart and reinstall the old driver. Hope this helps. P.S. Have you looked for port settings in the driver properties ?

You can control the desktop PC using your laptop. There are many programs for this task, try Remote Administrator or (if the desktop is on XP) Remote Desktop. Btw. the circuit is very easy to build, i've done one some time ago. And the parts are pretty cheap, mine costed about 2$. P.S. Google shows some useful ads at the bottom of this page

Normal remotes wont work with Irda port receiver. You'll need to build a simple COM port receiver. Look here for more info.

Here's a way to add the "Unplug or Eject Hardware" icon to systray: 1. Install "PCIC or compatible PCMCIA controller" driver, restart. 2. Remove the driver, restart. The icon should show up after plugging a USB device.

About msgsvr32 crashes... is there any driver which you always install, even in vmware? might be a driver for a virtual device too, like a software midi synth,daemon tools,etc. Does it crash before installing all needed drivers and applications? If not, try to find which driver/app causes this crash and switch it with another version. Hope this helps

Just get Cacheman, it's a nice program for optimising these settings, contains wizards, and the help file is explaining every option available. btw. look at its license policy : Wish more programs were licensed this way

Well, I had to use 8-bit OS a couple of times during last year I needed to reorder the data in a text file. And as i know Applesoft BASIC much better than x86 programming languages, i just started an Apple2 emulator and got the job done in not more than a hour B) btw. i still have a working A2 clone in my closet

lol, i used to reinstall drivers countless times, restored system.ini, win.ini and the whole registry from the backups until it worked... thanks for the info

Would you check the language of BROWSEUI.DLL and BROWSELC.DLL in wupg98en.exe please. bugfixen.exe contains german versions of the files!

What means "good quality 32-bit operating system" for you ? Just a simple fact: on a clean install of XP Pro, after a visit to Windows Update site and a web-based mail site, i got at least 5 spy/addwares added to the system startup. This never happened to me while using 98SE. Not to mention the countless cryes from my friends, like "My XP system is sluggish like hell, un/installing a single app takes ages to finish, even startup/shutdown lasts 15-30 minutes. Please come and see what you can do about it..." If you call this "good quality", then...No, thanks!... you can have it all. I'll keep my "low quality" P.S. I'm reffering to XP/NT only. Linux and other mentioned non-MS OS-es are fine

Actually (if my memory serves me well) NT platform was not intended to replace 9x. There were supposed to be two different OS lines, NT (Daytona) based OS for server applications, and 9x (Chicago) based OS for client-side. But then M$ decided to megre both (probably to reduce development costs) and made one bloated OS with just cosmetic differences between client and server variants. This was the point when all this sh%$t started... If there were still two separate OS lines developed, our computing experience would have been much more efficient (and simpler;) )

Try looking for some jumpers or DIP switches on the mobo with such a function (very unlikely but...)

Well, using all interfaces you mentioned can test compability of different PC/OS parts What i mean: use direct hardware access to test the HDD controller; then use BIOS INT13ex to test if BIOS itself supports properly LBA48; then try DOS interfaces to test DOS-level compability; and last, use Windows interface to test the actual drivers currently installed on your beloved OS btw. splitting this to few programs depending on the interface which each use would be fine too, if required. P.S. I have very little experience coding on x86 platform, so correct me if I'm wrong ( almost all of my coding experience is on Apple 2 clones )

Maybe some fellow coder here could make a simple testing utility which performs the following procedures: 1. Write to each sector on the drive its LBA number, starting from LBA sector 0 til the end of the drive. 2. Read each sector and compare value stored in it with the actual LBA value used to adress it (starting from LBA 0 till the last sector) 3. If wrapping is detected (adress and stored value for any sector are not equal) , repeat 1. and 2. but in the range from LBA 0 to the 1st few wrapped sectors ( this is to detect double/triple/... wrappings on very large drives ) Of course, using such a program will erase all data on the drive, but should be very usefull for extended compability testing

Look for "BootMenu=1" in MSDOS.SYS and change it to "BootMenu=0"