Dave-H

You can't just open wand.dat by double clicking on it. It does contain your password data, but not in any readable form, for obvious reasons! Only Opera can open it for editing. The notes and bookmarks files can be read in notepad as they are plain text. Good luck with the undelete!

@toughcustomer Sorry to hear what happened to you, I learnt the hard way too years ago that you should always back your computer up before making any change that affects the whole OS! There was, of course, no reason for you to think that installing KernelEx would wipe any of your Opera data, and I must say that I have no idea why that would have happened. Anyway, the files you need to restore are bookmarks.adr (if you want your bookmarks restored), notes.adr (for notes), and global_history.dat (for history). If you had passwords saved, they are in wand.dat. These files should be in your profile folder if you have Opera set to single user. Search for them and you'll find where they are on your system. If you're very lucky there may be backed up versions of them in the folder, which earlier versions of Opera used to make. If not, you could try an undelete program (just Google, there are good free ones around, some of which at least should work under Windows 98) and see if you can undelete earlier versions of those files from the drive. As with all undelete operations, the success will depend on how much free drive space you have, and how much you've used the machine since the problem happened. If you have little drive space free and have used the machine a lot, there is a much higher risk that the data you want will have been over-written. Good luck!

Doesn't run at all because of of a shedload of new missing functions in opera.dll dependencies and from what I can see it would appear that even Windows 2000 isn't supported anymore (opera.dll directly dependent on uxtheme.dll). And it wouldn't surprise me if 10.50 were to drop support for XP as to satisfy the behemoth who gives Opera loads of dosh for the bing search integration. Time to install Kexstub and see if it can do something but I fear that the missing getadapteraddress function in iphlpapi.dll has to actually exist to be able to use the network. Oh dear, that is very bad news. If 12.02 is the last version of Opera that will run on Windows 98SE that is very sad.

Yes, thanks PROBLEMCHYLD! You need to change the date in your signature, it still says the last update was Sept 23rd.

Never for one moment think that what you've done is worthless! Even if it does go no further, it's still a fantastic piece of work that you should be proud of!

I agree, it's then more accurately termed an Enhancement Pack IMO, which is a completely different animal.

Good for you PROBLEMCHYLD! I don't recall Microsoft offering any options in their OS Service Packs, you installed it or you didn't, end of story. If it broke things because of the type of hardware or configuration of your system, you sorted it out afterwards. There are always going to be a few people who will run into problems after a blanket update of system files, and you will never finish this if you try and take all their possible problems into account. People with problems are right to mention them of course, but if you decide that what's there is good enough to work in the vast majority of cases, and the flagged problems are not going to be widespread enough to modify the SP to take them into account, that is your decision and that should be accepted and respected.

The wrapper was introduced in Opera 12.00, supposedly to make the browser more stable by preventing crashing plugins from bringing down the whole browser. It's a separate executable in its own sub-folder within the Opera folder. There was a lot of adverse feedback on the Opera forums about it, especially relating to multiple copies running with excessive use of resources. This is why they have decided to temporarily remove it (the stated reason is stability problems, not excessive resource use, but most seem to think that's the real problem!) The trouble with Windows 98 is that the plugin wrapper program won't run under Windows 98, causing a crash in user.exe. There seems to be no way around this, all you can do is close the program after it crashes. Opera will then run OK, but with no plugin support. I've never had the plugin wrapper freeze or crash the whole operating system, I've always just been able to dismiss the crash message and carry on, but others have had worse problems with it.

Thanks, I was aware of that, in fact I'm using Opera 12.02 to send this! I'm really hoping that when they re-introduce the plugin wrapper, which I'm sure they will, they put in a user option to disable it and use the old method of loading plugins. I'm not holding my breath for that, but it would be really good if they did.

I'm not sure that "LICENSE.TXT" is the best place to put the instructions. That file would normally contain legal stuff, disclaimers and that sort of thing, not installation information. I would have thought that a "README.TXT" file would be more appropriate. Of course some people will not follow the instructions even if they do find them, but those that do wish to use them properly I would have thought would more expect to find them in a Readme file than a License file. Just a suggestion.

Hear hear! This is PROBLEMCHYLD's project, and I would hope that we're all very grateful for what he has done and continues to do with it. As it is his project, at the end of the day what he says goes. People are quite entitled to make suggestions, even to criticise if they think that mistakes have been made, but ultimately PROBLEMCHYLD has the last word, whether you agree or not.

Working great here, with all plugins and no crashes! I really hope they put in an option to disable the plugin wrapper when they reintroduce it, but I'm not holding my breath.

The link's also at the bottom of all PROBLEMCHYLD's posts, but there doesn't seem to be anything available to download at the moment.

Hurrah, I will be able to use Opera plugins on Windows 98 again! I really hope that even when they re-introduce it, as they inevitably will, there will be an option to switch it off or on.

IIRC if you add "DisableLog=0" into the [options] section of your MSDOS.SYS file you will always log on every boot, without having to enable it manually every time.

soporific's Autopatcher produces very comprehensive logs of its actions, and that is based completely on batch files of course.

I also told you some time ago that if videos were working on YouTube it was almost certainly html5 at work, not Flash. Anyway, I haven't tried this, but one way around the QuickTime plugin problem might be to set Opera to open the videos in the QuickTime Player, rather than using the plugin. Try putting this into handlers.ini in pace of your present [video/quicktime] section- [video/quicktime] Type=Viewer Action=3 Application=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe Application Description= Web handler Plugin Path=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\Plugins\npqtplugin.dll Plugin Name=QuickTime Plug-in 7.7.2 Plugin Description=The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the <A HREF=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/>QuickTime</A> Web site. Save To Folder= Extension=qt,mov,mqv Flags=128 That's what is written into my file if I set it up to open QT files in the player on XP. Change the paths if you need to for your system of course. You never know, it might work!

I suspect that the reason the plugin information was missing on your installation but not on mine is because I have a dual boot system, and use the same installation of Opera on Windows XP as I do on Windows 98SE. I think that the plugin wrapper program, which works on XP of course, had scanned for plugins when I was using Opera on XP and had written the necessary information into the ini file. As you have only used Opera on 98, where the plugin wrapper program won't run, you never had that information written into the files. I suspect that things like the QuickTime plugins will never run on Opera 12 under 98 because they now need the plugin wrapper program to be detected and loaded. Even though it all works fine on XP, when I run Opera on 98 I get no plugin information as the wrapper program isn't running. It would be good if Opera could put in an option to revert to the previous behaviour of Opera 11, which didn't need the wrapper program, especially as many people have complained about its excessive resource usage, but they show no sign of doing that I'm afraid.

Yes, that's probably it. Off topic, but just to mention that Rudolph Loew says there is no point in upgrading from Patchmem 7.0 to 7.1, as functionally they are identical. Incidentally, my memory spec in post #2 says - Memory: 4 GiB (4x 1 GiB DIMMs; 3583 MiB available to Win 98SE); 3071 MiB available for Win 98SE The memory available to 98SE is there twice with different amounts quoted. Is that a mistake or is it of some significance?

My "Add" button does bring up the dialogue box, but when you change things and press "OK" nothing happens. However if you exit using the "x" in the top right corner, and then go into it again, the changes appear to have been saved! Very strange behaviour. The information in the downloads tab of the Opera advanced preferences seems to now be saved in a file called "handlers.ini" in the user's profile folder. My file has this entry for QuickTime files - [video/quicktime] Type=Viewer Action=6 Application= Application Description= Web handler Plugin Path Plugin Name Plugin Description Save To Folder= Extension=qt,mov,mqv Flags=128 I haven't had a chance to experiment with editing it, but if you do have a go I'd be interested in the results.

Just also noticed that my specs say I'm running PatchMem version 6.0. I'm actually now running version 7.0. I've now realised there is a 7.1 so I've contacted Rudolph Loew about an update. Interesting to see that loblo's second machine is using the same graphics card and driver that I am, but with the AGP aperture set to 64 MB. If I do that with my system Windows 98 won't load the desktop and just sits permanently on a flashing cursor after the splash screen. I guess that's probably down to being a different motherboard, or possibly because he's running ME not 98SE.

No offence meant, but I'm sorry I don't consider my observations to be "sloppy error reporting"! I will certainly investigate Kexstubs as it looks very interesting anyway, but as loblo says I'm not holding out much hope that it will do anything for this specific problem.

Is there no "Add" button on the Opera preferences>advanced>downloads dialogue? If you're seeing Flash apparently work on YouTube it's probably using HTML5 mode, which it does on my system too. I guess this doesn't use the Opera plugin helper.

The QuickTime mime type is listed under the extensions "qt,mov,mqv". It's "video/quicktime". I have had no luck getting the QuickTime plugin to work in Opera 12 under Windows 98. The fact that that the new plugin helper program crashes because of missing dependences in user.exe seems to be insurmountable unless KernelEx can be updated to add the missing dependences. Sadly it doesn't look as if this is going to happen.

Happy Birthday PROBLEMCHYLD!