Drugwash

Probably by booting a Linux Live CD and copying the new file from a floppy, a secondary optical drive or a backup folder.

You'd be better off checking the processes that run at startup, in some way. Put a shortcut to WinTop, Codestuff Starter or other similar tool in the Startup folder or just open it manually as soon as you get the chance after boot, see if there's something there that shouldn't be. Could be some software performing auto-update. Also run some malware scan as it may be an internet-dependant process that's waiting for the NIC to be initialized. [EDIT] Oh and now that I recall, some options when enabled in TweakUI could cause such behavior. Especially those that clean traces at startup, in the Paranoia tab.

I'm looking at eMule's Statistics page and right now it says it's been up and running for 4 days 7 hours and 5 minutes. People around have been saying eMule wouldn't last more than 2-2.5 days without crashing the system - oh well, maybe I'm the lucky one? Haven't been doing much else besides that though, mostly browsing (SlimBrowser takes up quite some resources), chatting/testing with Miranda IM (also had a few crashes in user.exe during testing), copying/moving files around, editing some office files... Anyway, resources are quite scarse right now, with the browser open: 12% System and GDI, 38% User. Processes running: 18, including Codestuff Starter, DSClock, DU Meter, FreeRAM XP Pro, eMule. All these on a 400MHz Pentium II, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128M running in 1024x768 dual-view with Win98SE. Also wanted to mention that lately this is a record, since the new ISP that took over our old neighborhood network is so lame that it usually drops connection every other day. Power failures during thunderstorms are also regular here and I can't afford a UPS. And heck, when there's such power failure while I'm sleeping, I wake up right away when the fan hum stops.

If you got at least a P III at 450-500MHz, you can try GOM Player.

Has anyone tried this sidebar on a dual-view system? It never worked (system frozen) for me on my main Pentium II 400 system with an 128MB MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 set to dual-view, however it works fine on a HP Vectra Celeron III 633 with an 8MB Intel 815 videocard (single display). Both systems run Win98SE with Uberskin, no KernelEx.

Could you try dencorso's advice (only one copy of riched20.dll, located in System) with v5.50.x.x? I wonder if there's a conflict between simultaneously loaded versions of RichEdit or if v5.50.x.x has issues. Also if anyone else has such a combination of RichEdit on their system, please post about your experience.

I thought MS Office used its own copy of RichEdit... I just performed a search and indeed found one at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office10\RICHED20.DLL Its version is 5.40.11.2220 and is most likely the original one installed by Office XP. On this occasion I found out that PhotoScape installs its own copy of riched20.dll in its main folder. Version is 5.30.23.1215. My system-wide RichEdit version (in the System folder) is 5.30.23.1221 and I chose that one due to some quirk with newer versions and the SpellChecker Miranda IM plug-in (issue that I've mentioned some time ago in these forums). At this time I wonder if RICHED9X replaces or not the original copy of riched20.dll in the Common Files folder and also if MS Office checks for a newer version of it in the System folder and chooses to use that one instead of the original copy in Common Files. With my current setup, I just checked and WINWORD.EXE loads the Common Files copy. Anyone who has a newer version of riched20.dll in System than the one in Common Files, could you check which version is loaded by Word on your system? (I've used Codestuff Starter for that)

Apologies, it was not my intention to stir the stinky thing. My point was solely to keep it as legal as possible, for two reasons: - not to harm the forum boards (indirectly) - to keep the project alive Remember: if we lose, it's not because they were better but because we made a mistake. So let's not make it.

Took me some time to read the whole topic. Good intentions, I see... if only they wouldn't pave the road to you-know-where. Remember what happened to the AutoPatcher project - the big one, not soporific's. Reason? "it could've, it' might've..." Don't even think for a split second that they wouldn't take this project down, should they feel threatened in some way. Now as I'm tired after a blank night, there's only 3 issues to bring up before going to sleep: 1. I can't access the domain at this time; is it supposed to be available already? 2. As 7-zip compression has been mentioned, has anyone thought about adding 7-zip (LZMA, etc) support to Win9x, the way XP has zip built-in? There's a Total Commander plug-in created by Adam Strzelecky; might not be that hard to turn it into a system plug-in. 3. Primary focus should be on a heavy collection of hardware drivers. As long as 99.8% of the currently available hardware does not come with Win9x drivers anymore, there's little point in keeping the OS alive: old hardware dies and OS will die too without new HW driver support. P.S. Get Miranda IM for realtime communication. Get accounts on any IM network you can, if you don't have them already. Or just get into a Jabber chatroom. I'm mr_drugwash @ jabber.org, just added my Jabber account in Miranda. Now I'm goin' to sleep. Good luck!

I'm afraid you're in the same boat as myself with the HUAWEI phone drivers (I have an earlier thread on this). The sys files in the Nokia driver package are all directly dependant on ntoskrnl.exe (and other XP-only files) and the dlls are mostly missing functions in setupapi.dll, kernel32.dll and others. I'd say they did their best to make sure Win9x is out of question.

I'm experiencing quite a similar effect myself in Win98SE. However I have a Lexmark X1150, not a HP and I'm using Miranda IM with 8 simultaneous protocols (AIM included). Every time it has to play a sound for a received message, the whole system freezes for .5s to few seconds (depending on CPU/resources load) and after the sound plays (sometimes normal, sometimes choppy), everything goes back to normal. Thing is, the printer is disconnected and the drivers (or whatever they may be) are disabled from being loaded at startup (using Codestuff Starter for that). But my browser (SlimBrowser) always fires up the spooler and with it the printer drivers. However, all in all I couldn't swear it's the printer drivers causing this temporary hang effect but so far I couldn't put the finger on the issue and it's quite driving me mad. So it would be very nice if someone could offer some deeper insight on what the problem may be or at least ideas on what to try next. BTW I've changed soundcard drivers, reinstalled DirectX 9.0c, to no avail. Soundcard is XtremeSound PCI by Diamond Multimedia with drivers v5.12 by C-Media while Lexmark drivers are v8.29 (latest I could find since they stopped distributing Win9x drivers for their devices).

To disable Task Scheduler, right-click its icon, choose Open, click Advanced and then click Stop using Task Scheduler. It will not bother you anymore.

I just checked www.flashget.com a minute ago and it was up. My advice would be for you to try the last version yourself and compare with any older version you know. Classic 1.73 is still available for download too.

1.73 is the last in the 1.7x series and AFAIK was still available for download on their site, a month or so ago. It's strange that their site is down... However, I'm currently using the very latest available version, which is 1.9.6.1073. Apart from an issue with falling into a loop when it's set as default download manager and a downloadable link is clicked, everything else is working fine. It does use resources intensively, though. The search bar and other gimmicks can be turned off and there hasn't been any advertising in in since one of the 1.7x versions, IIRC. If the site won't come up soon, I could upload both 1.73 and 1.9.6.1073 to some temporary host if there's request.

Is it any better than FlashGet that can work as BT and eD2k client too, besides being a classic HTTP/FTP download manager? I've been using FG for as long as I've known the Internet and had very little issues with it.

It takes more than 10 minutes for eMule to get fully loaded with all sources and UL/DL connections. I've always used FreeRAM XP Pro memory manager on my machines (and still do, as I only have 256MB RAM currently). Never had eMule crashing for lack of RAM but also never had it running for 3 days or more in a row - system gets slown down for as much as having Windows system clock running hours late.

Got the same 403 error last night checking on MDGX's page after reading a similar report on this board.

1. If you want safe internet browsing, forget XP 2. If you want true DOS - for whatever purpose - forget XP 3. If you want quick startup/shutdown, forget XP 4. If you want efficient resorces usage (RAM, HDD space - considering compulsory A/V & firewall on XP), forget XP At most, if your old HDD can take it, you may stuff a dual-boot on it, installing XP on a secondary partition, for extreme situations (no drivers for certain hardware, incorrect behavior of certain apps under 98SE, etc). Otherwise, stay with 98SE and keep the XP HDD in a safe place as the last resource. Just my ¢2.

That'd be an extreme situation. Driver Cleaner Pro can take care of such uninstallations, if needed.

If the call to INT16 is useless anyway, why not just jump it altogether? Use JMP <past the JNZ> instead of MOV AH, 1. Wouldn't that be feasible?

Personally I've moved the HDD from one machine to another a few times with no major problems. I've had the CPU fried or gotten a new mobo, anyway... hardware issues that made me do the move. Thing is, apart from Windows requesting the drivers for the newer hardware (in case they dont' match the old one), I've had no problems with that. I'd say, if possible, backup (for safety purposes) your active drive onto DVD (Windows, Program Files, My Documents), prepare the HDD for the transition by copying the drivers for the new hardware somewhere onto the HDD (unpacked, if possible, so Windows could be pointed to the respective folders when needed) and then move the HDD to the new machine. Also keep the Win98SE CD at hand or simply copy the Win98 folder from the CD to the HDD (recommended) so in case Windows requires some files from the setup kit before the CD driver is loaded, you'd be safe by pointing it to the HDD location. The ONLY major issue would be if the HDD is larger than 137GB and there's BIOS incompatibility with 48bit LBA in any of the machines (my current situation). In that case, you may lose all data, which would be quite unpleasant, especially if you haven't backed it up previously. So please make sure both BIOSes behave identically regarding large drives (either they both support 48bit LBA, or not).

To rule out hardware problems, try to boot to a live Linux CD and play with resolutions/graphical applications. If the test comes out clean, then it's purely Win98 <-> driver issue. But if you already have a dual-boot system (you mentioned it works in XP) and everything's OK in the other OS, then there's no need for a hardware check.

Just tried it in Win98SE. Basically it works, sort of, but it has issues with multi-monitor environments. Windows from secondary monitor jump and stay on primary monitor when minimized to 3D. Otherwise it's a neat application. And sources appear to be available, compilable with Borland C++ Builder as mentioned on the home page. So maybe someone could play with them.

If I'm not mistaken, the Regedit5 files are also in Unicode format, so they would not be recognized as valid unless first converted to ANSI format (Metapad can do that in a blink of an eye). I suppose someone could create an interface that'd first check the version, do the conversion internally when needed and then call regedit to merge the information into registry. The only issue would be to associate .reg files with that application, in case it was created as a standalone and not as an API hook.

Thanks for looking into it. I'm not familiar with those terms - CDC, MSD - but bad news is indeed I needed that driver for data transfer. Although the phone is a 'cheap' one - no .MP3 .AVI .MPG support, no camera - at least it allows one to set personalized ringtones (.WAV format) and background pictures and that's precisely what I wanted to do. The application - HUAWEI PC Assistant - installed about fine here and might work if it could find the driver to connect to the phone. Maybe Th3_uN1Qu3 is right and it's not worth the bother...