Dave-H

I can't remember which one it was, but the discussion about it is in here somewhere! IIRC someone patched it, but that eventually turned out to be un-necessary as MS released a fixed version themselves. If you've installed all but the last few months worth I'm pretty sure that one would have been in there as it was quite some time ago now. If your fonts are OK, i wouldn't worry!

Well none of them have ever caused me any problems, with the single exception of one that messed up the font rendering, which was quickly replaced by a fixed version. I would say go for it, but it might be better to do them in batches rather than all at once with that many.

Assuming that "rp88" isn't actually you, there's someone else here with the same problem. Unfortunately the general consensus there seems to be that certain updates just cannot be uninstalled. For what it's worth, when I had Windows 10 briefly on my netbook, one of the first things that put me off it straight away was that the first block of tiles on the start menu was named "Life at a Glance". "Not my life" I immediately thought!

Opera 12.02 is running fine here on 98SE with Windows 2000 SP4 mode on opera.exe, with the latest 4.5.2015.10 KernelEx DLLs. I'm using it to post this now!

Yes, I guess this is "by design" for some reason unknown to anyone outside Microsoft.

Opera 12.02 is still working fine for me on YouTube, the videos still play perfectly after installing the new 2015.10 KernelEx DLLs. I'm using Flash 10.2.159.1, with the YouTube Center version 2.1.7 extension installed. My only niggling problem with Opera 12.02 is still some text apparently appearing in Greek characters at certain zoom settings (including the normal setting unfortunately!)

Well I am certainly an administrator! I'm pretty sure that the first user set up on any new Windows system is always an administrator by default.

My system is fully patched. As far as I know this problem has always been there, so I have to assume that it's by design, but I can't think of a single reason for it to be this way! I switched off the dog in the search settings BTW, I didn't delete any files!

Yes it is. As I said, all other Explorer windows do remember their settings, including the columns selected and their order in Details view. The Search window is the only one I've found that doesn't remember and always reverts to its default column settings.

My search window always opens in the details view anyway, which is remembered, and the headings are Name, In Folder, Size, and Date Modified. I can change the headings, and re-order them, but none of that is remembered. If i do the same on any other Explorer window in details view, it is remembered. Why should the search windows be different?

I've come across this as well, as I'd like the search results to include the file versions. As you say, you can add "version" to the columns displayed, and it works fine for that session, but it isn't saved, as it seems to be for every other Explorer window in details view! Very annoying, and I'd love to know if there is any fix.

That RyanVM link seems to just redirect to the login page if you're not a member, so it looks as if you do need to register to go any further.

If you mean on-board capture hardware, then as far as I know the ATI AVIVO system was unique to them, there was no Nvidia equivalent.

Please don't apologise, your English is a great deal better than my German! That's good to know that your program should work to download later certificate updates as well as the current ones. blackwingcat's update file is a modified version of the MS original update patch by the look of it, so only contains the current October 2015 certificates. What made me wonder was the version numbers in the inf files, which I thought would change and prevent it working with later updates.

Thank you! I ran it and it worked fine. Presumably it has installed the same certificates as blackwingcat's file, as they are the most recent? I looked at the contents of the installer, and I think I understand what it does. Am I right in assuming that a new version of this will be need to be made every time the certificates are updated?

@blackwingcat Thanks. I've over-ridden the warning, and it seems to have installed fine! @ heinoganda I've just downloaded it thanks. Does this do the same thing as blackwingcat's file I've just installed? Presumably it doesn't enable future certificate updates to happen automatically, I would have to implement the procedure you outlined before to do that.

@blackwingcat I just tried installing your October 2015 Root Certificates Update and Trend Internet Security blocked it as a "suspicious file"! Presumable it's really OK, but I'd just like some reassurance......

Here is a list of rekoved certificates from Windows XP to New installation and running "rvkroots.exe" (Security Advisories): Based on the lists, you can look in the Certificate Manager and make a comparison. Well I have 566 trusted certificates and 60 untrusted certificates. Some, but obviously not all, match those in your lists. Should I be worried about this?

I was wondering about this too! My machine is still regularly putting "crypt32" entries into the Application Event Log that say "Successful auto update retrieval of third-party root list sequence number from: <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootseq.txt>". Is that doing what it should do anyway?

Thanks guys. I no longer have the X700 card, I returned it to the eBay seller for a refund as there was a hardware problem with it. Not with the graphics section, which worked fine apart from the crashing on Windows 98, which I expected would probably happen, but the VIVO Rage Theater on-board video capture hardware, which would not accept any drivers, with a "device cannot start" error in Device Manager on all three operating systems. The capture hardware works fine on the X600 and did on the X800 and X850 cards, so I had to put it down to a hardware problem on the X700 card, even though the seller tried very hard to convince me that it couldn't be that, and had to be a driver problem! Well, I tried many different drivers, and not one worked, so back it's gone. If they get it to work I'll be very surprised! All the cards certainly all worked fine with the basic MS driver, although only at a very low resolution of course. Next time I have the machine apart I will temporarily put back the X850 and see what memory range resources it's using on Windows 98, and then do the same with the X600 card. Maybe that will provide a clue.

Yes, it is very strange. The only reason I tried earlier versions of the ATI card was because I was having system temperature problems, and I wanted to try a less powerful, and therefore less heat producing, card. My graphics card intensive work like video editing and rendering is all done now under Windows 8.1 with the Nvidia Quadro card, so I don't need a powerful ATI card as well. The ATI card is only really there at all for Windows 98 as there are no 98 drivers for the Quadro card of course. All the ATI cards I've tried have had the same amount of graphics memory on them (256 MB) and are using the same driver (Catalyst 6.2, the last Windows 98 version) and yet the X800s and the X700 crash, and the X600 doesn't! Maybe there is something different about how the X600 uses memory or something, I guess we'll never know. I wasn't expecting the X600 to solve the crashing problem, but I'm obviously pleased that it has!

Not a gratuitous bump, just wanted to report, for anyone that's still interested, that I now have an ATI X600 card installed, and it doesn't crash! I had tried an X700 card, and that did crash the same as the X800/X850 cards, but going all the way back to an X600 (the first ATI series that had PCI-E versions) seems to have finally fixed the problem! Cheers, Dave.

I thought I'd spoken too soon after my main machine updated fine. When I did the updates on my netbook it all seemed fine too, but when I went to MS Update to check afterwards, it did not work, although it was apparently still working on the main machine! I tried a few more times, and without changing anything, it started working again on the netbook too, so I guess it is a server problem at Microsoft's end. It does say "Error 500 - Internal Server Error" at the top left of the error page, and I guess that's exactly what it was!

All still working perfectly here too after installing the same five updates.

And again this afternoon! I guess they are being immediately removed. Certainly that removes all doubt about the messages being spam, they are all identical, but all apparently posted by different people!