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look here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=123092

Flash memory is slower in actual reading and writing, especially with larger files, but access and seek times are lower. That's the idea behind readyboost. However, this will only be really beneficial on systems that are relatively low on memory. Most "modern" win98 installations have huge amounts of memory compared with what Win98 was designed for. A win98 system with 256MB+ ram and "conservative swapping" enabled will hardly do any swapping to disk anymore so what's the point of having something like readyboost. Vista has readyboost because it's memory hungry (or starving if you like , I say who cares, 2gig is ok and it's cheap). Win98 doesn't need the cheap trick readyboost.

This new monitor should be plug and play and win9x can recognize pnp monitors. See if pnp monitor detection is enabled in display settings. You can also install the pnp "driver" manually the same way how kwibus described to install the standard VGA. With your monitor standard VGA will probably work fine too, but in case you run into refreshrate problems pnp might be better. On my system I have a additional VGA 1280x1024 @75 Hz option. I guess that without the @75Hz it will use the adapters default, 60 Hz in most cases. This is also fine on your new screen but will be horrible on a CRT.

Older win9x compatible and still free version: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page35.html#Fraps

Yes they are. It's mass-production and that's not perfect. If production was perfect then AMD would not sell the Phenom X3 but only the X4. The X3 is just a imperfect X4. A failure. Every harddisk has a few errors. In the old days, when you could still do a real low-level format yourself, you had to use the "defect-list". A list of bad sectors that had to be put into the low-level format utility. Nowadays the internal logics of the drive itself take care of that. But bad sectors that arise after production are always really bad, unless you are very sure what might have caused the problem. Like some power problem like you say. In all other cases bad sectors usually become more bad sectors. Since your drive is only three months old there is only one thing to do. RMA it. Samsung's own diagnostic tool finds serious errors so there is no debate about that. This is a bad drive.

Ashampoo burning studio free 6.7.1. Free and very complete. Burns cd/dvd/blue ray, audio cd burning and ripping, video-dvd and (s)vcd. Also iso burning/creating. Even includes a back-up utility, all for free. The only thing it doesn't do compared with commercial suites is video encoding, you'll need a ready video-ts folder. But there are tons of other freebies that can do that. GUI is simple and clear. Not much buttons and options, see it as a Nero Express clone. With the main difference that it doesn't take a few hundred megabytes on your harddrive and doesn't cost +€50,-! (who ever said that Vista is too expensive?) I tried many free burning softwares, if not all and this is absolutely one of the best. Download here: http://www.download.com/Ashampoo-Burning-S...4-10776287.html

It gets a 5.8 at least. I have a X3 8450, the slowest, so you can't get any lower. Seems unfair because there are plenty dual cores around that are faster. Useless indeed.

On this universal sata driver site I read this under the plans section: "Win 9x/ME support (now we have separate build with some limitation, thanks to Xeno)" So who knows what is to come. Perhaps you could contact the developer for this version. (Btw, sounds familiar, Xeno...)

You already answer your own question! For IE6 updates I recommend Maximus-Decim's MDIE6CU 2.3 http://www.msfn.org/board/Maximus-Decim-In...-Co-t97816.html

I assume you installed proper drivers for the network card. If the card is working ok then go to your control panel. Go to internet options and choose the connection tab. Select "never dial a connection". Now it should work.

I agree with the others, don't punish yourself by installing Vista when you have a PC that was made to run XP. The size of HD's is currently also several times bigger then when XP was rolled out. You need SP2 to go over 137GB... Besides, filesize and performance don't have that much to do with eachother. Most of the space is not used by real actual files but for swapfile, prefetching data, hibir.sys file, search indexing, file virtualizations and offcourse up to 15% total space for system restore points. All things that improve performance and make your system more reliable. Most of these features can be disabled if they don't work for you. On any 32bit Vista this means 2GB in dual-channel. You can't use 4GB so that's pointless anyway and 3GB won't run in dual-channel what will cost a lot of performance. If you really need more than 2 GB then go for x64. Sure, with the current memory prices it won't break your bank when you buy 4GB and just use 3 of it, but I don't see the need. Vista runs fine on 2GB for me.

Downside of method 2 is that it's not available for Vista Home users (basic and premium), these versions don't have a gpedit.msc. This leaves only option 1, to disable UAC. Not recommended I think. But there is a third option, Smart UAC: http://www.replaceuac.com/ This is a UAC replacement, it works exactly the same as the original but offers more options including remembering your preferences. So now you only have to allow an application only once instead of every time again and again and... It also has the option to scan for malware but this can be disabled in case you already have other software for that. It's free too. So use this, don't turn UAC off.

Here's an old topic where people got things to work: http://www.msfn.org/board/PCIe-with-Win98SE-t63727.html But now in 2008? First you need win98 mainboard drivers too in order to get your pci-e port work. If not your GT8600 runs in pci mode. Better stick with your agp card in that case. And why you want the GT8600 anyway? It's not that much faster than a x850xt. Core speeds are about the same. Mem is faster but all 8600GT's I found have a 128bits memory bus. Your 850xt should have a 256 bits bus. DX10 or openGL2? Not on your win98 machine... Where's the gain?

I think Wubi (Windows Ubuntu installer)is a very easy way to create a dual-boot system. It uses a virtual partition. No need to (re)partition your harddrive. But you wil still have a fully functional OS, not like a live CD! Downside is that this virtual filesystem is a bit slower. But installing and removing is so easy. So Wubi makes it possible to give you the full Linux/Ubuntu feeling without having to change anything on your existing system. All you need is a few gig's free harddrive space. Other downside, when talking about a Win98 dualboot, is that these opensource guys and girls claim that (Linux) Ubuntu supports FAT32. But when they roll out a new kernel they don't ever bother to test it with FAT32 volumes. Since 5 kernel updates I only found 1 to be working with FAT32. There are issues with Ubuntu and FAT32. Nothing too serious but still. I run a Win98/Ubuntu dual boot myself. Just for fun mainly. I have a mp3-player that won't work under Win98 so it's nice that Ubuntu sees it. But I got more hardware that's working fine under Win98 but not under Linux. I don't understand why XP and Vista are no options for upgrading but Linux is. What do Win98 and Linux have in common? Nothing, they are both lacking WPA, perhaps that's a reason for some. If you like Win98 because it's simple clear and open, because you have almost full control over it, because you can backup or restore your system in no time, because you don't need to download 40-50 megs of updates every week and many more reasons like this..........then Linux will disappoint you! It's nice to have as dual-boot but I personally never considered removing Win98 for more than a few seconds

I will be installing NUSB v.3 to the newer computer when its turn cometh; But this here machine will never have USB 2 capability! Does NUSB v3 install on top of NUSB v2 easily anyway ? (There does not seem to be an uninstaller for NUSB2) I'd still like to get the answer to : is the explorer.exe update needed for NUSB version 2 ? Is seems to work well enough without it! -- Ninho When you update to nusb ver. 3, I suggest you download the French translation : www.technical-assistance.co.uk%2Fkb%2Fusbmsd98.php At least you will get a french explorer and user.exe. But you can also restore you old explorer if you prefer. I installed english nusb on a dutch windows and put back a dutch explorer.exe and user.exe because the owner didn't like the english. It works ok.

Yes you can. No problem. Just make sure you install the right language-version. But there's a special topic for nusb: http://www.msfn.org/board/Maximum-Decim-Na...ers-t43605.html Why not ask your question there? If you would have read through this topic you probably found the answer yourself. Cheers!

No I don't think so. This seems to be a old problem, I-frames in javascripts are not new. IE6.0 does not work but FF2.0 or K-meleon (both Gecko 1.8) don't have any problems with your link and I assume they never had. So this must already have been the case when IE6.0 was still supported. And it is still supported, updates are still available! Not for Win9x offcourse but that's a different matter. This is the choice (read error if you like) from the website's creators. Similar case, some site's don't work in FF because of activeX. Does this mean that IE is required? For these particular sites the answer is yes but you can't blaim Mozilla for that. And I wonder if we need I-frames in javascript more than activeX

Thanks for the response people. Good to know that I'm not alone, saves me from more pointless troubleshooting. I didn't find this particular problem on the opera forums but a lot of general complaints about instability, (very) high memeory usage and frequent crashes. It seems that Opera 9.50 has some serious issues. The latest beta claims to have fixed the GDI leaking transfer-screen. During downloading Opera can hang and freeze the system. But that's just one of the problems.

Your are most welcome! But I start to wonder if it has been real help because I find this opera 9.50 totally useless after playing with it for a few days. It eats up all my GDI resources. When I have 5 tabs open it's below 60% already and with every new tab I open, even after closing others, it's gets lower and lower until it's 0%. It doesn't free any resources while it's running. And then everything stops. .. bang boom crash. The only thing not locked-out is the reset button. I tried to lower resource use by using the native Windows skin and disabling favicons and not opening pages that contain Flash items. But it's no help at all. The only way I can run this is to have some resource meter open all the time and close/re-open Opera before it's too late. Maxthon+IE6 SP1 rarely gets below 70%. With Opera 9.27 I never had such problems and I used a non-native skin and had favicons enabled. Anyone else who can confirm this?

msimg32.dll here: http://uploaded.to/?id=bx4i65 Put it in your \windows\system under DOS (reboot tot dos-mode), please backup your old msimg32.dll first, just in case. edit: It also works if you put the file in the opera directory. No rebooting to dos needed and no risk of breaking someting.

I'm not sure either, it will replace user.exe, but extracting msimg32.dll manually and putting it in your system directory won't kill your system and can be undone easy. Extract the mdcu300.exe inside the zip manually. Inside the mdcu300.exe there is a mdcu.cab that contains the msim32.dll. Thanks for the advice ElectricString, I downloaded some msimg32.dll versions scattered around the internet but none of them worked.

"Nobody" doesn't include a good backup. Blame yourself for not having one if the data is valuable to you. The right-click format option is horrible. Should not be there in the first place. To easy to make a mistake, one time I tried to format my c:, thinking I was clicking yes to something else.

Floppy discs are usually pre-formatted. Check the box for any notice of that. Also check the write-protection clip on the disc. It's one of those things you forget about.

Win98 loads winoa386.mod to run a dos-prompt, a win32 app. This is just as much true dos as XP's command. Celtish, why is true dos so important, do you really need it? With XP/NTFS filesystem is not very usefull anyway.

If the HDD comes from a system with Nvidia videocard and the new sytem has an Ati then Windows might not boot. To be on the save side I would uninstall drivers for chipset, soundcard and videocard first.