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I am not a fan of these banners, and normally remove them, but I think that I could live with number 26.

I am not a troll, I have read all of the previous posts. Although I have not tried out any of the recent versions of the service pack, I have tried out some of the old ones. The two things that I disliked from the old versions of the service pack was the change of the Windows 98 version number which stopped me from installing certain software and the art work down the side of the start menu. It took me some time to figure out how to change these things. I am just saying that I hope that these things should be optional. Apart from that thank you for the service pack.

I hate to pour cold water on the art work customizations but I prefer a vanilla look to my Windows 98. I think that only the creators of the art work and the service packs like them. If you include these art works could you have a option not to install them.

Thanks, but I had no intentions whatsoever in changing it I also think that it is a bad idea to change the version number, Could not there be an option or utility in the service pack to change it back?

I would not want it on my system, Sometimes visual enhancements add to the feel of a operating system, but in this case I don't think that it adds anything.

In my opinion there is no point in adding a host file as it will become outdated and irrelevant in a very short time. This is a job for your virus checker or similar if you feel the need for one as the virus check is regularly updated.

I have recently been asked by a customer to provide a Windows98 SE computer by next Wednesday, would you say that the service pack is good enough to use on a non test machine?

It would be a shame if the service pack wasn't finished to provide a final update after all of the work that has been put into it.

Who in their right mind uses Norton?

I can confirm that myselfidem suggestion works for 64 bit Windows7 IE9 in changing the search provider by using this link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx It seems that Microsoft has made a drop off here. Thanks.

I can’t get Google to appear at all. I am a computer repair engineer and a customer asked me to change the search engine on Windows 7 64bit IE9 and to my embarrassment I couldn’t do it, so I tried to change the IE9 search engine on some other computers I have at the shop. On 32 bit Windows 7 I have no problem in changing the search engine but on 64 bit Windows 7 I can’t do it. I must be doing something stupid but I don’t know what.

Yes I know this I can do it on 32 bit windows fine, but I can’t get Google to be an option to select on 64 bit Windows at all.

On Windows 7 IE9 64 bit how do you change the search engine from Bing to say Google? I can change it on Windows 7 32 bit easy enough but not on 64 bit Windows. I understand that this is because you need a 64 bit activeX script to do it but where do I get a 64 bit active script from?

You can’t save a file in JPEG format in MSpaint only BMP. The function to save as a JPEG was only introduced in Windows XP.

I run a San disk 8Gig stick with NUSB3.3 with over 2 Gig of data without any problems.

Welcome back Gape I look forward to seeing the final service pack.

You added “updated: Sun Java 2 Runtime Environment 5 update 14” twice on the update list. Keep up the good work.

I have just tried out mesp202en-b9.exe update for Windows ME. I installed it on a clean copy of windows ME with the latest versions of Internet Explorer 6.1, DirectX and Media player installed. The only problem I saw was when the program had finished installing the updates and the computer was restarted the error message "Windows could not upgrade file %1 to %2 %3" flashed up briefly on this version of the updater, Windows update now works correctly and reported the following required updates. KB916281 KB837009 KB833989 KB917734 KB904706 KB828026 (not required) KB887797 KB816093 Microsoft Net Framework 1.1 Windows Automatic update Euro conversion tool

I just did a clean install of Windows ME, then I put on the latest compatible versions of Directx, media player and Internet Explorer, then I installed MESP202B8.EXE. The question is how do you get Microsoft update to work, if I try it all I get is a blank screen. Any advice would be appreciated.

I tried Auto-Patcher 1.8 for Windows98SE the other day and I have the following observations. When first run Auto-Patcher Said that DUN 1.4 was not present, but I thought that I had installed it with Gapes service pack, is Gapes version of DUN 1.4 not detected by Auto-Patcher? About a third of the updates weren’t installed because it said that “a newer version of the update was detected” is this message correct? I don’t believe that I have so many newer updates than Auto-Patcher. Should the message say “ the same or newer version of the update was detected”? Kb905495 "started to loop thru installation and so was not installed again" I then installed Auto-Patcher 1.92 and reran it, however no changes were made to my system, is this correct?

MDGx You state in your message:- I had no trouble installing February DX 9.0c on Windows 98SE.

When you installed Gape's SP2, if you haven't selected to overwrite newer USER.EXE + USER32.DLL files with older ones, this did not work.If re-installing SP 2.1a didn't fix this, you may want to replace USER*.* files manually, as quoted from READ1ST.TXT [the "98SE2ME.PIF COMPLETE GUIDE" section, under "* Option 2:"]: [url=http://www.mdgx.com/9s2m/READ1ST.TXT]http://www.mdgx.com/9s2m/READ1ST.TXT[/url The computer still doesn’t shut down with 98se2me installed. I have tried the above suggestion plus all the normal 98SE tricks including disabling system restore!!! Strangely the computer “system restarts” correctly. It hangs just before the message “it is now safe to switch off your computer” The computer is an AT type. Any more ideas.

I have just installed 98se2me option 1 on my system and everything appears to work ok (I enjoy playing Spider solitaire on a windows 98SE system) however one small problem I now have is that Windows now no longer shuts down. I have tried reinstalling SP2a as described in the FAQ but it has had no effect. Suggestions please?

The program nusb23e still doesn’t work with my PQI 1 Gig memory stick, although it works with my other sticks. The technical data for the memory stick is as follows Device Descriptor: bcdUSB: 0x0200 bDeviceClass: 0x00 bDeviceSubClass: 0x00 bDeviceProtocol: 0x00 bMaxPacketSize0: 0x40 (64) idVendor: 0x3538 idProduct: 0x0042 bcdDevice: 0x0100 iManufacturer: 0x01 iProduct: 0x02 iSerialNumber: 0x03 bNumConfigurations: 0x01 The fact that the standard Windows ME/XP drivers work with this device would indicate that the Maximum-Decim USB driver can still be improved so that it will work with any USB memory stick and be truly universal.

Hi Guys, I am new to this forum, where can I download the ME service pack? The links to beta 3 and earlier have timed out and I can’t find the link to beta 4, T.I.A