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If I remember correctly, the Windows 95 version of MS Paint works best with the graphic filters package and that seems to be the combination recommended by MDGx and other gurus around. You may want to get documented on this and maybe put back the correct MS Paint package. Unfortunately I don't have any clean machine to test this whole package on and the Virtual PC (or whatever that was) went down with my dead PM9MS motherboard.

Thanks, but the simple font list is not useful in this case. What I meant was the list of encoding capabilities for each of the listed fonts (see the screenshot). If any of the fonts doesn't contain certain desired encodings, one may want to opt out of installing it. I would've cropped up a small proggie to create such a list, but since my main MSDN-library machine broke, it'd be no fun browsing the current online MSDN, especially under 9x, with an unstable browser and on GPRS. I may try with the little info I already have, however, but no promises. Dunno what the heck is wrong, but I just can't upload attach a simple png image, with or without the Flash uploader! I guess today is one of those days... or maybe definitely I'm living in the wrong country. P.S. The issue lies at MSFN, because I could upload the picture effortless to my AHK repository. (link in case image doesn't show) Also happens in Firefox 5 under XP so it's not a 9x thing.

In regard to fonts: it's a known thing that the more fonts installed, the slower a machine can be, in certain situations. Moreover, certain users (such as myself) may need font encoding(s) other than Western, which unfortunately is the only one available in many of the free fonts. For example, I would need a font that contains Central European encoding, to be able to use it with my native language. Therefore, it would be kind if the package provided a list of fonts and the encoding capabilities for each of them, so that anyone could choose whether to install them or not.

I'm not sure a value called "set comspec" would be correct (or required) but - all the same: [Version] Signature="$CHICAGO$" [DefaultInstall] AddReg=RegEntries [RegEntries] HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor", "AutoRun", ,"set comspec=%25%\command\cmd.exe" HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor", "CompletionChar", 0x00010001, 0x00000009 HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor", "PathCompletionChar", 0x00010001, 0x00000009 HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun", "set comspec", ,"%25%\command\cmd.exe" HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun", "CompletionChar", 0x00010001, 0x00000009 Note the field type 0x00010001 which is not mentioned on that .inf definition MS page I linked to and is the one responsible for creating DWORD values, as opposed to 1 which creates BINARY values. I put back "PathCompletionChar"; can be commented out through a semicolon, if needed.

My bad for not testing the .inf script before posting, but part of the guilt goes to Microsoft for not mentioning that the rule of "Quoting strings that contain spaces" also applies to subkeys. The following should work correctly: [Version] Signature="$CHICAGO$" [DefaultInstall] AddReg=RegEntries [RegEntries] HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor", "AutoRun", ,"%25%\command\cmd.exe" HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor", "PathCompletionChar", 1, 0x00000009 HKLM, "Software\Microsoft\Command Processor", "CompletionChar", 1, 0x00000009

What do you mean by "duplicate entry"? AFAIK, there can be no two identical registry entries in the same location. And if the same entries were already created by other package(s), that's completely out of our hand. Anyway, you wanted the respective registry values created and I offered a method to create them. If there's something wrong, then by all means, please elaborate.

No worries, it's all about personal preferences. Whatever suits you well. I've built myself a barebones audio player completely hotkey-based, without any GUI but a playlist (hidden by default), for any super-minimalistic users out there. It uses the default system MCI library. Can be found following the link in my signature below. Most important thing for us is to have a choice. If we don't, we should make it ourselves.

UN4SEEN is the home of BASS codec, hence the logical conclusion that XM Player is BASS-based. Trout is also based on the BASS codec so I can't see any difference in sound quality, unless some frequency compensation is used by either one or both. Differences however, may appear in additional features, GUI appearance and other stuff of minor importance.

CTRL+Up/Down moves files in playlist. Unfortunately, Trout has its 9x days counted. According to this post, Skwire may soon drop 9x support, due to basic AHK having been abandoned in favor of a Unicode fork AHK_L that he's gonna use. So, what's next...?

You may wanna take Trout for a spin. Its author (Jody AKA Skwire) has been kind enough to fix and keep 9x compatibility after a few chat sessions, some time ago. Trout is built in AutoHotkey and incidentally I'm part of the AHK community myself. While I started building my own media player in AHK , based on the same BASS library, I must admit the main audio player I still use is Trout. Admittedly, 1by1 is very fast, much faster than Trout, but as long as it sacrificed features on the Unicode shrine, Trout may be the way to go. Come to think about it, maybe we - the 9x community - should start building our own applications using whatever means at hand (VC6, AHK, etc) instead of counting the less and less applications that are still compatible. At least, I'm doing that myself (when possible). So grab whatever development environment possible and still 9x compatible and start learning how to code, or we'll soon be left out completely.

You know my style: "don't give'em fish - teach'em how to catch the fish". Therefore, here's detailed information on inf files structure; should teach you how to add/modify sections. Additional information (albeit being specific to Windows 2000) can be found here. Remember to use predefined variables for paths (see %25% below). [Version] Signature="$CHICAGO$" [DefaultInstall] AddReg=RegEntries [RegEntries] HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Command Processor, "AutoRun", ,"%25%\command\cmd.exe" HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Command Processor, "PathCompletionChar", 1, 0x00000009 HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Command Processor, "CompletionChar", 1, 0x00000009 darn typos...

I've been using HFS a few years ago when I was on fiberlink at the old address; currently, the GPRS connection at the new address seems to be shielded so that neither HTTP nor FTP servers won't work.. However, HFS should work on a local network, allowing (one way) access from Win9x to Vista/7+, since I could never access the share on the Win7 machine from my 98SE the classic way. With the proper set of plug-ins in Total Commander, one could avoid the need for many separate applications. Honestly, I'd be lost without it. BTW, Imagine by Chun Sejin (mentioned above) can work both as TC plug-in and as standalone app.

There are two inf files in the package: X2.inf and X360C.inf. First one is 66276 bytes and the second one is 71040 bytes. As you might/should remember, there is a 64kB limitation on inf/ini size under Windows 95/98. Meaning anything over 65535 bytes will not be recognized. Both files would have to be split and then run subsequently.

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Nice job moving my posts to this topic: reply subscription has gone with the wind and the topic slipped through the cracks of my mind. However, I have not worked on BootMaker in a long time, being busy with other projects and that crappy thing called "real life". Looks like the topic has not returned from the summer holiday though. I mainly posted now to make sure I get back the reply subscription, so don't sweat it.

There are lots of servers around the world, some of them may be slower in upgrading but eventually they all will. One link I saved from the Help page I used to be prompted with, is this link. However, it doesn't work when accessed directly, but only after accessing the Help page. Not sure it'll work for everybody though - your mileage may vary.

Strange, I can see the picture allright. If you go to the page: http://media.fakepos.../915z2sy162.jpg hxxp://media.fakeposters.com/results/2010/11/06/915z2sy162.jpg you should be able to see it, but nevermind, it was just a fun image in the context of Opera being faster than cooking potatoes.... Here is a better one http://2.bp.blogspot...vational_20.jpg (copy and paste with xx=tt if it is not "clicky") hxxp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/TKnQl8lvKeI/AAAAAAABpXU/bhfYQHADu0s/s1600/funny_demotivational_20.jpg jaclaz Winter's around the corner - I could use some real potatoes right now. Strangely (or not), the original button trick did work earlier and the image was shown. Possibly due to my bandwidth having been restored to a more decent speed. Nevertheless, Flash is still evil for me. I'm too tired for a witch hunt.

So I take it non-IE users browsing the AHK forums would have no idea that the Copy link is there? Hmmm, I might actually open a topic in the Generic section to deal with this. As I said, it's a matter of principle more than anything; nevertheless it's a welcome shortcut and means to avoid copy errors (codepage issues may also arise).No need for apologies - any information is useful and tests should be performed anyway, if only to discover any more such oddities. I could never agree with this kind of behavior where things get hidden from the user and there's not even a hint and a way to enable lost functionality, even by explicitly accepting responsability. Treating people as dumb will only make them dumber - but then again, maybe that's the whole point. I don't know... Anyway, I'd better stop here, because speaking freely (especially in my personal style) is not very much enjoyed worldwide (and many times even misunderstood). Thank you very much for all the help on this matter and if anyone feels it's something that could and should be elaborated upon, I'd kindly ask a moderator to move relevant posts to a dedicated topic, as we've unfortunately hijacked this one too much.

You're absolutely right, Steven W: the copy function does use Flash. All more mind-boggling, considering Flash is (or should) be disabled through Nir Sofer's TurnFlash. However, lately one of the browsers asked for an update to Flash and apparently it actually performed it, but it might've been v10 - never cared to check/test. Nevertheless, if anything, then it should be IE not to work, if Flash were to be borked. The same behavior is exhibited in XP with Firefox 6 on another machine. I was about to post the above when it occured to me I should actually test the Flash version that's installed on my 98SE. A random choice upon googling took me to CodeGeek.net. And here comes the interesting part: - IE6 (through SlimBrowser) reports Flash player 9.0.159 installed - K-meleon 1.7.0 beta2 reports Flash player 10.3.183 installed Now, I can't say that Flash 10 doesn't work at all on my system, because I went right away to some other random test page that loaded and displayed (sluggish, with the max 14kB/s download rate on GPRS) a video of alcohol in breath measurement. Somehow, the AHK code doesn't like Flash 10 (there's a version check in that code.js but admittedly, javascript is not one of my forte). But then again, wouldn't other forum users complain about that, now that almost everybody has version 10 installed? I've also enabled the clipboard thing according to the article linked above and restarted K-meleon, to no effect. SlimBrowser doesn't fake User Agent so the code should see an ANSI browser running under Win9x. K-meleon presents a Mozilla 5.0 Unicode Firefox 3.6 User Agent as running under Windows NT 5.1. I'm already tired of this thing, not to mention it's almost 7 AM here and today should be a busy day for me. Any more insights or suggestions are welcome, while I get some rest.

No need to read my mind; you can just read page source when browsing that forum. Or just open a page containing a large codebox in IE and another browser of your choice at the same time and see the difference, if my screenshots weren't enough. Hover the Copy link in IE and look at the statusbar where it'd say javascript; Anyway, you've helped enough, thank you. @ bphlpt: I know there are workarounds, but look at it as a matter of principle, not only the narrow issue of not being able to copy some code (although there can be a lot of code in a codebox and one could accidentally miss part of it). One may actually miss important information on web pages when using such "smart" - or should I say paranoid? - browsers. @ jaclaz: your button works but there's no picture in the box; just some text referring to a picture (or maybe that's what's supposed to be). I'm not trying to bash, nor praise, any browsers here; what I'm trying to do is find something that does what I (and webpage designers) want it to do, and not what it thinks it should do. Preferrably without having to reinstall my 5-year-old system. Thank you everybody for your help.

Thank you so much, M()zart! Your detailed explanation above just offered me a couple of hints as to what I could try further. One thing I just don't get: if only IE allows that clipboard trick, then what browsers would all those AHK forum visitors use, to be able to see and use that Copy link? Obviously, according to your explanation, they would either use some version of IE or an IE-faked User Agent string in other browsers. This sounds a little unprobable, if you ask me. I have no idea how on earth I managed to survive for all those years with an IE-based browser, no firewall and no antivirus. Was it sheer luck that no virus entered my "realm"? I'd rather say it was caution, a good look at the statusbar when hovering a link and a lot of common-sense when choosing to follow any search result, for starters. On top of that, always having Flash disabled! You can see where you'd be going at when hovering a link, but - Flash buttons? - nope. Flash-based menus or entire sites built on Flash is what I've stayed away from, because one never knows what's behind it. You can't check what it's doing. You can't peek at the page source if something feels fishy. So - no Flash for me, thank you. And no virus in ten years or so. Opera has gone from my system as fast as I predicted somewhere above. Too slow, too graphically bloated, certain behavior unavailable, couldn't perform certain simple actions (see "can't attach images" in a post above). Back to K-meleon 1.7.0 beta although I'm not too happy with it either. Feels like we're sliding a bit off-topic, although it's still about Win9x compatibility, roughly.

Can anyone show a screenshot of any Win9x-compatible (KernelEx or not) browser other than IE6 (or any of its front-ends) that can display the Copy link for a page similar to the one in my two screenshots above? That link activates a short javascript that copies the code in the codebox to clipboard and I need it. I do not need any other browser that cannot do that and I definitely do not need the sarcasm of someone who recommends javascript-disabled browsers as a solution for the issue above. As for Google... I only believe my eyes. If there's any sh!t in the experience I described in post #636, then it's definitely Google's, not mine. And future will speak for itself.

All those browsers are a joke, from my point of view. If none of them can present the Copy link that I need, then what am I gonna do with them - admire their "skins" and all those bells'n whistles that I don't need or want? No, thanks. And BTW: it's been 1984 for a while already.

Do some reading on hooking window/system messages, subclassing, injecting a dll and you might get a vague idea. I hope Tihiy is safe and sound... We need his genial "magic".

At some point I did have some version of Opera installed, but I wiped it out long ago and there must be a reason for that. The only versions of Opera I have at hand (either on CD/DVD or HDD) are 8.02, 9.10, 9.23, 9.26, 10.62 and 11.50. Yet I've been with SlimBrowser for many, many years, due to a few built-in features that none of the other browsers offer straight up (or at all) and the vaguely similar plug-ins I could find are completely unsatisfactory. I'm downloading Opera 10.10 right now (5-10 kB/s average download speed!!!) but I feel it will dissapear from my system much, much quicker than it will take me to download it. If all that 21st century's world wide web has to offer me is advertising, viruses and greedy people dying to make a buck out of crappy software, then I'm better off offline anyway. P.S. There's one thing p!$$ing me off beyond imagination: why the hell both the Gecko engine (Firefox, K-meleon, etc) and Opera, block certain javascript with no way to enable it (at least not found by me)?!? Have a look at the screenshots below, taken on the same 98SE machine minutes from one-another; notice the Code (Expand) vs Code (Expand - Copy). Well, the most important thing which is Copy, gets cloaked by all these "advanced" browsers such as Firefox, K-meleon, Opera, etc. WHY??????? Oh and please, if I ever say "Opera" again... SHOOT ME !!! (can't even attach a picture with it!)