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Hi,
Thanks for all advice.
I have done some research, using the links you provided as a starting point, and I have been able to install UPnP client together with a monitoring/control tool without having to resort to accessing Windows XP installation CD or a computer with Windows XP.
Here are the steps to achieve that:
1. Download "Unchecked Buffer in Universal Plug and Play Can Lead to System Compromise for Windows XP" patch in your language:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315000
2. Uncompress Q315000_WXP_SP1_x86_xxx.exe to any directory you like with WinRAR.
3. Run netsetup.exe from that directory.
4. You will be asked confirm installation and then to reboot.
5. After reboot you will be asked about connection type and computer name.
6. You will be asked to reboot again.
7. After reboot you should see a new icon in the tray - UPnP is installed and working.
I have tested this with uTorrent and it worked.
The file already contains all the updates.
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I have tried your links but unfortunatelly I couldn't find what I was looking for.
The first link contains only a tool to disable UPnP.
On the second there is a hotfix which needs UPnP to be already installed (see below).
And on the last there is a tool that doesn't work for me (Winsock error)
Is it possible to install this UPnP add-on without having to use WinXP files?These get installed when you start from WinXP and enable Internet Connection Sharing. You then can also optionally make an install disk for use with 98 or 98SE [ME and up already have UPNP installed independently, perhaps as an option, but clearly locally available as part of their own install].Once you use that disk on 98/98se, you now have installed the flawed upnp for 98/se and need to appy the above to fix same, etc. Note the files have the mark of WinME, thus versions of the form 4.90.300x.
Without the initial upnp installed, these hotfixes give errors similar to how Q329048 gives a complaint caused by not having 98 Plus! installed. The installer is looking for the previous files to upgrade, etc.
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Hi,
I have found UPnP to be supported by my router and I want to try it out.
So, how do I enable UPnP on Windows 98?
-Xeno86
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Well I have began writing an NTFS file system driver at the beginning of this month
But don't hold your breath. It's in VERY early stage and mostly unfunctional.
Some details:
It it based on ntfs-3g and plain 98 DDK. It is a protected mode (Windows only) driver. So far I have been able to integrate ntfs-3g into VxD driver and successfully recognize and mount NTFS partition. Drive letters for NTFS partitions are assigned and disk size is displayed. But that's all I have done so far.
The problem is that the documentation from DDK is not good at all. It lacks examples. Ioctl16 documentation is missing. There are many secret parameters which are not listed but used extensively in VFAT.
Therefore I have a request. I'm searching for this book in digital form:
Inside The Windows 95 File System, by Stan Mitchell
This book is out of print and is not available in my country.
Any other books about Windows 9x filesystems might also be useful.
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GreyPhound
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Windows 9x and lots of memory: Dotting the i's
@GreyPhound
I have a problem viewing images in the article. I get "403 Forbidden" error.
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Well, change 2 bytes twice is not much a patch.
Well first of all, not 2 bytes twice but 20 bytes. If I changed 2 bytes I would completely limit maximum cache size setting, while this fix leaves you the freedom and flexibility to set it to whatever value you want (max 800M). It only affects default (automatic) value.
Secondly, what kind of fix did you expect for this particular issue? I'm open for ideas and discussion.
If you can do better - prove it
It's certainly better than the "workaround" advised by Microsoft
Reduce the amount of memory that is installed in your computer to 512 MB or less.... and it can be easily slipstreamed into Windows installation CD.
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VCACHE fix attempt
This is an attempt to fix
"Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed problem
described in Knowledge Base article KB253912 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912
Description of the fix:
Normally VCache driver calculates maximum cache size based on the amount of memory present. While this works ok for computers with less or equal 512 MB of memory, on computers with more memory VCache allocates too much memory from system area and you can experience problems (see KB).
This fix limits maximum cache size allocated dynamically to 384 MB thus removing the need to apply any of the workarounds mentioned in the KB article.
Power-users however have the ability to set the limit to a different value (lower or higher) through MaxFileCache entry in system.ini file.
Installation:
To install the fix copy Vcache.vxd file from archive to c:\Windows\system\vmm32 directory.
Uninstallation:
To remove the fix remove Vcache.vxd file from c:\Windows\system\vmm32 directory.
Note this file is for Windows 98 SE (4.10.2222). The fix is available in english and polish translation.
If there is demand, I can prepare files for other systems too.
Please leave your feedback/comments on this fix.
-Xeno86
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update 11.02.2008: added english translation
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I want to know to know if any virtual machine software is available which runs on winme.
this is so that i can run win2000 or xp in the virtual machine and in the virtual mahine create a ntfs file system to overcome the 2gb fat file size limit in dealing with largo iso files from 4 to 8 gb in size.
Virtual PC 5.1 should do the trick. It divides large hard disk images into smaller pieces. It officially supports Windows 98 and ME. And unlike Qemu it is accelera
ed so the performance is good. But it has also an annoying bug. If you leave the driver statically loading at boot your Windows will (in-)frequently fail to boot. The walkaround is to load the driver manually through Device Manager, and disable it when you've finished.
VPC 5.1 is the last version officially supporting Windows 9x. You can also try previous versions, it is possible that they don't have the bug I mentioned.
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Also you might consider adding this small program.
Sorry, Xeno86, but your program is just no good:
- Resident [processes are expensive]
- Not using message-loop [wrong design and thus CPU usage]
- Can cause deadlocks [timered send-message]
The right design will be:
- Load into explorer.exe as DLL [injecting, or better, using ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad]
- Hook list-view and update color only when needed
I can write such tool if anybody wants.
You're probably right. In fact there was a similar tool installed with the polish edition of uSP. I have written an enhanced version for myself, which monitors background color changes and keeps it always transparent, because it was annoyed me that it wasn't transparent after resume from suspend. I saw that english uSP lacks such feature and thus decided to share with my program. If you want to further enhance it then I can provide the source code.
btw. Wintop says that after 3,5h it used 1 cpu sec so it isn't THAT bad
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Wintop is a good idea!
Also you might consider adding this small program.
Info:Makes desktop icon text background transparent.
Features:
Keeps transparency after explorer crash.
Keeps transparency after resuming from suspend.
Download:
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And what about 48-bit LBA patch by LLXX (http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=78592) ? Are you going to add it to uSP?
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After installing uSP 2.1a I do encounter a problem:
When I insert CD in one of my drives and immediately open My Computer the whole system freezes (incl. mouse cursor) until the disc in detected. This also happens when I have Nero launched and insert a CD.
There is also another problem: sometimes when I remove CD from the drive, explorer 'thinks' that it is still inserted -> you can see the contents of the CD which isn't present. OR when I insert another CD I see contents of previous CD. But when I try to access anything on it I get a blue screen and system dies.
I have isolated the problem and it is related to CDVSD.VXD 4.10.2226 which is distributed with uSP.
The problem disappears when I install original CDVSD.VXD 4.10.2222.
The problem occured on 3 different computers on which I have installed uSP.
Thank you very much. I will try to reproduce it. I also should check that if there are other CDVSD.VXD versions such as 2225, 2224 etc.
I have CDVSD.VXD 4.10.2224 from KB265314.
Get it here :Download site
Hope this helps
weird, I don't have the problem Xeno86 is having on my next door neighbor's Win98 SE computer with cdvsd.vxd 4.10.2226 [this version is from Q274370 and the Q274370 patches are bundled inside the Intel Application Accelerator software). Xeno86 may have bad or outdated firmware for his CD drives.
Q265405 has cdvsd.vxd 4.10.2225 {KB article no longer available from MS support}
Well actually I was wondering what program has installed that buggy cdvsd.vxd 4.10.2226 on my laptop with Intel i830 chipset
I don't think that my DVD drives are faulty or have outdated firmware. They are different brands, and the problem also exists on a drive I bought this year.
So as I stated before - the problem occurs on 3 different computers with different chipsets and and different drives. With 4.10.2224 it works ok so far.
I also think that it is significant (quote from Q274370):
A supported fix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Apply it only to computers that are experiencing this specific problem.0 -
I have CDVSD.VXD 4.10.2224 from KB265314.
Get it here :Download site
Hope this helps
Xeno86, can you try this ?
As for now 4.10.2224 works ok.
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After installing uSP 2.1a I do encounter a problem:
When I insert CD in one of my drives and immediately open My Computer the whole system freezes (incl. mouse cursor) until the disc in detected. This also happens when I have Nero launched and insert a CD.
There is also another problem: sometimes when I remove CD from the drive, explorer 'thinks' that it is still inserted -> you can see the contents of the CD which isn't present. OR when I insert another CD I see contents of previous CD. But when I try to access anything on it I get a blue screen and system dies.
I have isolated the problem and it is related to CDVSD.VXD 4.10.2226 which is distributed with uSP.
The problem disappears when I install original CDVSD.VXD 4.10.2222.
The problem occured on 3 different computers on which I have installed uSP.
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The problem exists
CMR2 caused an invalid page fault in
module CMR2.EXE at 0197:004be74e.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0197 EIP=004be74e EFLGS=00010282
EBX=000008e8 SS=019f ESP=00a9fbbc EBP=00000002
ECX=0000bb40 DS=019f ESI=006592b0 FS=1b4f
EDX=00a9fbd8 ES=019f EDI=00659338 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 ff 11 6a 51 53 8b 44 24 18 50 8b 08 ff 51
Stack dump:
00000000 005104a4 00a9fbd8 00000280 000001e0 00000000 bfc0573d 84490a54 00000000 004a7f96 006592b0 000008e8 000001e0 00000010 bfc0573d 00000280
You are lucky because I wanted to play CMR2 today too and have written this patch.
http://x86.neostrada.pl/files/CMR2_patch109_dualhead.rar
This patch fixes the problem where Colin Mc Rae Rally 2.0 crashes at startup with invalid page fault error on Windows 98/ME with dual-head graphics cards.
This patch updates your game to version 1.09.
Hope this helps
-Xeno86
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you may have a look here:
Win9x: More than 512 MB of RAM?
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=59765
Win98 with 2G RAM
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=96699
Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Subforum
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I installed the 82.69mod drivers on a Windows 98 SE. For now, all seems to work (relatively) fine. The system is:
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3. Yes, I can't shutdown the computer anymore too!
Have you tried the shutdown supplement? Also check if you have "assign irq for vga" set to "enable" in bios.
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I am searching for newer drivers for Windows 98/ME. Currently I'm using official Catalyst 6.2.
I'm especially interested if a newer Atio9xxx.dll OpenGL library than 4.14.10.4454 exists.
Why do I need this?
I'm trying to make run Enemy Territory Quake Wars Beta Client on Windows 9x (see KernelEx project on "Unofficial Win98 SE Service Pack") and I'm stuck at this level:
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ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features: GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
********************My graphics card does support this extension but that old and buggy graphics driver doesn't
Any help will be appreciated.
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As far as I remember, I had to create a Fat32 partition on it using Ranish Partiton Manager (on Windows) and format it and it would become accessible. Remember to select the the player as disk (F5) and save partiton table (F2) and reconnect the player after creating partition.
Hope this helps.
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Menu->Settings->USB select MSC and press center button. Don't use WMP, it should be available through "My Computer".
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Has anybody tried if Diskeeper Lite 7.0.418 (freeware) works past 137GB ?
I am currently using it on my Windows 98 and I must say that's a lot faster than MS defrag.exe.
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I have just looked into MSI 3.1.
You can safely extract WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe using WinRAR.
Msi.exe + msi.dll doesn't require too many new apis:
MSI.EXE
Kernel32:GetUserDefaultUILanguage -simple xor eax,eax ret should do the trick
Ntdll:NtQueryInformationProcess
advapi32:ConvertSidToStringSidW
but on the other hand... in update\langspecific\ there are update.exe and spuninst.exe which require 40+ new exports
. Are those files needed for MSI 3.1 to work?nicke85
If you wanted to fool MSI based installers you should add the following entry to C:\WINDOWS\KUPVER.INI:
[Override]
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSIEXEC.EXE=winxpHowever this doesn't seem to work for me:
The Windows Installer service could not be accessed. Contact your support personnel to verify that the Windows Installer service is properly registered.Do you guys have any clues how to make MSI 2.0 work in NT mode ?
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I have installed IE6SP1 yesterday and now Dependency Walker reports unresolved dependencies for shlwapi.dll (required by most apps):
OLE32:CoWaitForMultipleHandles
SHELL32:SHBindToParent
APPHELP.DLL - file missing
USERENV.DLL - file missing
I have found this http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1006296639 on google but no solution
Anybody knows how to fix it?
I have also tried reinstalling SP2.1a but it didn't help.
My OS is Windows 98 SE PL.
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Topic moved - please post here:
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. Are those files needed for MSI 3.1 to work?
Problems with 1 TB RAID
in Windows 9x/ME
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I also had problems running scandisk (not enough memory) but on a smaller partition - 80GB, created with ranish, big FAT, too.
The ME scandisk from MGDx seems to be either incomplete or there are wrong files because it doesn't work any faster and even though I installed english files (from MGDx's scanfrag.exe package) scandskw was still in polish
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No offence MGDx.
Anyway - you might give Diskeeper Lite 7.0 Build 418 a try.
Also you might try to play with options in DiskMinder because it worked for me very well.