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Quote from LLXX: "[...] we don't see any "Why continue to use Windows XP" threads in the XP forum even though there's Vista out there." Although you're right about this discussion turning into a "who got bigger balls" thing, regarding the above quote I have to mention the big differences between 9x and XP: • 9x official support from MS ended; XP is still being supported • 9x support from hardware/driver manufacturers ended in almost all cases; XP is still being supported • 9x support from software developers (commercial, freeware and open-source altogether) is rapidly ending; XP is still being supported Taking all the above into consideration, you see there's no need for a "Why continue to use Windows XP" discussion, because nowadays it's still a viable operating system with full support. The 9x series has been cut off: their usage is being limited to older hardware and older software versions, which will become deprecated sooner rather than later. It has a past, it may have a present but it definitely doesn't have a future. And people wanna look towards something that has a future. That's all. Have a wonderful year, everybody!

Search 1 vs. Search 2 vs. Search 3 vs. Search4 . Show me the confusion, please, because I'm... uhm... confused: where is it??? Maybe your target audience can't even google for the right name...

I asked precisely about the IE6-SP1 additional languages issue in some other thread around (I believe it was "seven years later" thread). Personally I install all possibile additional languages display support in IE, so it wouldn't popup that annoying message when I go to a web page that needs some Asian fonts or whatever. I would expect that every package that installs IE6-SP1 would either allow user to customize items to be installed in IE, or install all of them by default, to avoid further nagging.

What were you thinking? It's like walking into BG's office saying "hey, I got a project called Windoves, it's a small operating system for laptops; do you mind if I advertise it here?" I definitely don't like their approach on the matter, but it's like you asked for it; sorry for being so blunt. Who gives a sh!t on the name, anyway? Only stupid people "buy" the brand name, the others read the label. So scr3w them with their "branded" name.

MediaFire is extremely unreliable. Me and a few others around here have been unable to get a 4MB file off of that host. eD2k may be a bit slow, but it's reliable enough, I got my copy of the Autopatcher just fine, although it took me some time as the queue was pretty full.

Look at my signature. Miranda IM is not cross-platform, it uses pure Win32 API. I've had my share of troubles with the old versions (always testing alpha builds), but I can say now that it has improved a lot compared to 0.3-0.4 versions. While the stable release is currently at 0.5.1 and a 0.6 stable may be released soon, alpha builds are already one step ahead, the 0.7 branch being stable enough and adding lots of features, more or less visible for the common user. Most of my tests as well as common usage were done on a 200MHz PentiumMMX with 64 MB of RAM, so if that's not resource friendly - I don't know what else could one ask. And please note that it was loaded with extra plug-ins, not a bare out-of-the-box installation. But that's talking about the ANSI build, as I was (and still am) running Win98SE on both the old and current boxes. There may still be some work to do in the Unicode build which is relatively young, but it appears to work OK as well.

Yeah, I figured it'd be a b!tch to find out. Oh well, it's been a while since I haven't got any conflict, so I hope the admin (I called him eventually) taught him/her some manners. Thanks for the help, hopefully I won't be needing to perform any such tasks anymore.

OK, I think I found the issue: something in the log-in page has definitely changed. I suspect the autologin was erroneously "clicking" the Search button in the Google ad instead of the Login button in the log-in form. I had to extract the log-in form again and manually set the focus on a different page object, so the data would be extracted correctly. So, my bad - there's no popup, it was just a page reconfiguration that screwed up the auto-login form. Glad to have fixed it.

My automatic login isn't working anymore since you bundled that useless google search popup. Next time I'll be visiting this board only after I get an e-mail from you stating there's no more popup. Good bye! Fixed below. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks but besides the fact that I don't understand any of those explanations, upon a quick look it appears it can't do what I need. ARP seems only able to resolve IP address based on MAC address, but I don't need the IP, because I already know it: it's the same as mine, that's why the network conflict occurs! What I need is something that would be able to retrieve at least computer name by scanning the IP class (or a wider range, if needed) for a given MAC address. I can only send a net send message based on computer name (and that only if I'm lucky).

cro-man, I'm sorry but you didn't pay enough attention to my post. I downloaded that file three times now, using FlashGet (a download manager), because direct download from within the browser would have never worked. The download page advertises "multiple simultaneous downloads" and I tried with 5 jets per file, then with only one jet per file, which would simulate an ordinary browser download except that it has the resume capability (which is also reported as available by the site). That HTML code snippet posted by me should in no case appear in the body of a downloaded file. The only explanation would be that the resume feature is broken or the site has some timer that cuts out connections. Anyway, somehow 7-zip managed to extract the damaged file from one of the zips and I could read the procedure. It seems extremely simple now that I figured it out, but there's a show stopper: ResHacker cannot open 16-bit NE. And guess what: sysdm.cpl in Win9x is 16-bit NE. So that's about it. However - thank you for the well documented procedure, it may prove useful for editing some other 32-bit PE libraries, sometime. One word of advice: drop that host, it sucks. Happy holidays!

There have been times when I had dozens of crashes and/or system freezes daily, while testing alpha builds of a certain application. Pushing the Reset button was a common task. Power outage was also common at that time. And guess what: my Win98SE is still there, with no format/reinstall/recovery, after 25 months. Do that to an XP machine and you'll switch to Linux in less than a week. An operating system is a frame. I need my system to run my chosen applications, not the OS and nothing else. Even if the hardware allows XP or 2k, I'd rather use the resources swallowed by the imperative antivirus and firewall on an NT system, for the running applications instead. Yes, I don't need AV nor firewall, and I'm connected to the Internet 24/7 and on a LAN. No, no router. Can you believe that? Why should I give up my freedom in exchange for a life of terror? MS know that. That's why they're doing everything they can to force users abandon 9x and "upgrade" to 2k/XP/Vista. They made a mistake: offered freedom to ordinary people and now they wanna take it back.

I thought RapidShare was the worst possible host, but I was so wrong! I downloaded the darn tutorial twice, with FlashGet (otherwise I would have retried it a few hundred times with IE). It took me about half an hour each time (I know, my connection is bad these days, but still...). And after that, I get unpacking errors. FlashGet never got me corrupted files, even with hundreds of retries at one file. On the other hand, what the heck did you put in that rtf file to make it 36MB?! Here's what I found in the zip body (several occurences) instead of the actual data: Server: MediaFire-HTTP/1.038700 Connection: close <html><head><title>Loading...</title><script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function changecolor() { document.vlinkColor='BLUE'; document.linkColor='BLUE'; document.fgColor='#000000'; return; } //--> </SCRIPT> </head><body bgcolor=#FFFFFF text=#FFFFFF link=#FFFFFF vlink=#FFFFFF onload="setTimeout('changecolor()',5000);"><div name='loading id='loading'><B>The browser you are using does not support redirects...</b><BR><BR> Please click <a href='http://www.mediafire.com/error.php?errno=10&did=myiifjb2bs'>here</a> to continue. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.mediafire.com/error.php?errno=10&did=myiifjb2bs"></div></body></html>

Hi there. Sounds like the right place to ask my question, if you'll excuse my reviving this old thread. So, here it goes: I would like to install (as a multiboot) Win98SE, WinServer2003 and Linux (K/Ubuntu, openSUSE or similar) all on a 160GB HDD which is already split into 4 FAT32 + 1 Linux partitions. The BIOS (AWARD 6.00PG on a Jetway630CF board) would only "see" 137GB out of 160, due to bad (or no) implementation of 48bit LBA, chipset incompatibility or whatever else, and it's not gonna be fixed by the manufacturer (I already contacted them months ago), but that's not a problem - I can live with a few GB missing. For easy recovery/interaction between partitions, I would like to keep the Server2003 partition as FAT32. If anyone could offer a simple but thorough guide to accomplish such task, I would very much appreciate. Thank you.

Excellent! I hope those links will be useful to more users, not only me. Thank you!

• Foobar developers already scrapped Win9x support in latest builds. I'd stick with Winamp 5.x, which keeps up with the times while still keeping Win9x compatibility. • Daemon Tools 3.47 is the last version working on Win9x. Any 4.x version will not install. Preferred software: - Chun Sejin's Imagine -> Basic image browsing and editing - FreeRAM XP Pro -> Memory manager - Dependency Walker -> Application debugger - DM2 -> Windows enhancements - CDR Identifier & DVD Identifier -> Reports real CD/DVD manufacturer (useful to track fakes, if you value your backed-up data) - ScreenGrab -> Screenshot utility - Ad Aware -> Malware cleaner - Spyware Blaster -> Malware prevention - CodeStuff Starter -> Advanced Startup and Task Manager - TZ Connection Booster & TCP Optimizer -> Network connection improvement - Angry IP Scanner -> Network scanner - GSpot 2.52 b1 -> Video files analyzer, codec reporting - FlashGet 1.73 (1.80 has bugs under Win9x) -> Download manager - SlimBrowser -> browser; IE front-end - Nir Sofer's TurnFlash -> Enable/Disable Flash in webpages in one click - MP3 Tag 2.32a -> MP3 ID3 tag editor - Metapad 3.51 -> Notepad replacement The above are all freeware or open-source that I commonly use on my system.

Slightly off-topic, please excuse me. It's been happening in the past a few times and since last night it's happening again: some guy on my LAN is spoofing my IP (trying to). Windows has been giving me a dozen message boxes, in time, showing his MAC address. My question is: how could I find his computer/user name based on MAC address, so I could at least try to send him a net send message? I tried Angry IP Scanner, but that one's based on IP scan and it doesn't catch the offending machine. Our admin is not in town right now and it gets annoying to see those message boxes pop up every now and then. I'm running Win98SE, so I hope someone knows some tool that works on my system. Thank you.

Would that be possible in Win98SE too?

Please excuse my slightly off-topic request. I would like to install Win98SE, Server2003 and Linux (K/Ubuntu, openSUSE or similar) all on a 160GB HDD [...] [EDIT] As suggested by McTavish below, I posted my request in this thread. I welcome whoever may offer some help on the matter. Thank you.

Thanks, still downloading; low bandwidth now, during holidays. One suggestion, though: could you somehow add an eD2k download link for the package? Personally I'm sick'n tired of all the advertising choking this world. Besides, the download page requires javascript enabled - which some people might not like - and a certain amount of time to wait until one can actually start the download. As I run eMule almost 24/7, it'd be much easier to add the package to the downloads list with a single click, than go through all that - let's say - trouble. Thanks again and have a Merry Christmas (or what's left of it, considering timezones).

If you perform a simple search, you'll see that Intel 430 chipsets only support 128MB of RAM at most, EDO or FPM (some boards do have at most 2 SDRAM slots); PC133 sticks just don't fit. Next issue is that eBay is not accesible to me here for various reasons. Again, searching would reveal that SiS630 chipsets have integrated graphics (SiS300). Added to this, the mobo has no additional AGP slot (Jetway630CF). And yes, I got the latest available drivers, which are dated sometime 2004. Regarding Linux fonts, I may try your antialiasing tip someday, but as I have a CRT monitor here, I don't think it would help much, if at all. Lastly, keyboard layout... maybe I'm the only romanian trying out K/Ubuntu after a long Windows experience?! Because I've been searching those forums (very chaotic boards, if I may) and couldn't find anything remotely related to that. Also similar requests for different layouts were left open or received cryptic answers.

Yeah, I just installed XP on a spare PentiumMMX @ 200MHz with 128MB of RAM (Intel 430TX chipset) and it runs very well... not. What do you say, should I do that for my other 200MHz MMX with only 64MB RAM or the Pentium 166MHz with 32MB RAM (both Intel 430VX chipset)? I bet they would fly... out the window. I had Win98SE and Server2003 dualboot on this current machine (Pentium III @ 800MHz, SiS630 chipset) before my old HDD crashed. While 98SE was literally flying, 2003 with most services disabled (which took me a lot of time for searching documentation, applying and testing) was crawling. One application at a time, otherwise I would've brought it to its knees. Guess what I'm running now on my new 160GB HDD... Yeah, 98SE only. Regarding Linux, I played around for a bit with Ubuntu and Kubuntu 6.06 in live mode. While Ubuntu was freezing after some time while doing nothing special but tweaking some settings, Kubuntu has been running fine for hours, after tweaking the very same settings. But there are two major drawbacks that I see in Linux: 1. Fonts are absolutely crappy, I mean I couldn't find not even one font that would largely resemble what I'm used to from Windows, and that Firefox browser... ugh, it makes me sick the way it looks and works (no flames intended) with those ugly fonts. 2. I couldn't for the life of me get my Romanian keyboard layout to look/work exactly as in Windows. I've been using the RO layout ever since Win95 although it was a pain to set it in the version of 95 I had here, and I expected to be able to have it work identically in Linux. However, that was not possible at all. And this made Linux a no-no, for me.

Try playing with TZ Connection Booster and TCP Optimizer.

Here are some screenshots for the tests in Miranda IM. They are self-explanatory. The options on the settings page were exactly the same for both tests. First test was run with riched20.dll v5.30 installed in %system%, while for the second test I just dropped riched20.dll v5.40 in Miranda's main folder.

Not being a programmer but merely a tester/user, I couldn't offer specific technical details, but during testing one of the plug-ins created for Miranda IM - namely spellchecker - I noticed that the wrong words that should have been marked with red wave, dotted, thick or other kind of underscore were only marked with thin line having the same color as the font. Replacing RichEdit v5.50 with v5.40 exhibited the same behavior. Downgrading to v5.30, the underscore immediately started to behave normally as selected in the plug-in's options. So this is not a problem of wrong characters being displayed, but rather one of missing/wrong features. One other issue that I noticed was in the official eMule client: on the Servers page, at the bottom, there's a tab called "Server info". In there it's a link called "Click HERE to check for a new version" (or similar). With RichEdit v5.40 or 5.50 installed, the link was not clickable, there was only a line of simple text. Downgrading to RichEdit v5.30 fixed that issue too - the line became a link again, that would open the project's main page in the default browser. Bottom line is that it may be possible to be a bad implementation of some features in certain applications, where programmers have used only RichEdit v5.30 (at most) to test them. But it may also be that RichEdit versions above v5.30 have different implementations of some functions (or even bugs, why not?) that make them slightly incompatible with previous ones. After all, if those versions would have been 100% safe and compatible, I suppose MS would have shipped them as system upgrades. Instead, they preferred to ship them only with the Office suite, which may offer a clue regarding their limited compatibility. Anyway, this is just a supposition of mine, so if anyone knows better, please disregard my posts on the matter. Petr: Miranda IM is open-source and so are it's plug-ins (with very few exceptions). You're welcome to test it in any combination you wish, to confirm or deny my allegations. Please note that some of the alpha-staged plug-ins can only be found in their dedicated forum threads. Personally I've used a nightly v0.7 build for testing, available from the Development page.