It now pops up at startup with an MS-DOS prompt window saying "Insufficient memory".

How can I fix this?

Use the unofficial one located somewhere in this Forum.

How much RAM have you got ?

256 mb

I thought it could be related to having more than 512MB and no vcache value set in system.ini.

Have you got a clue as to what you did before it begun to happen ? Installing some new software or something ?

no I don't.

It might have something to do with AVG free

I installed it, then I restarted, and when it has started, the AVG welcome thing appeard. I accidently restarted my computer, and it did the kb891711 error

Official KB891711 from M$ is flawed.

You may want to use unofficial U891711 instead:

* Windows 98/98 SE Cursor + Icon Handling Security Vulnerability Fixes (English):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/ms05-002.mspx

Install only 1 of these fixes:

- Microsoft Windows 98/98 SE Q891711.DLL 4.10.2222 + KB891711.EXE 4.10.2223 Fix [150 KB]:

http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...443b0208e0e.EXE

- U891711: Unofficial Windows 98/98 SE/ME Q891711.DLL 4.10.2223 + KB891711.EXE 4.10.2227 Fix [76 KB]:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/U891711.EXE

Read U891711.TXT FIRST:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/U891711.TXT

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: U891711 provides the BEST Fix!

HTH

Official KB891711 from M$ is flawed.

You may want to use unofficial U891711 instead:

more accurately, original M$ KB891711 patch from March 2005 with v4.10.2222 of KB891711.exe caused BSOD errors on some Win98/ME machines. MS revised the KB891711 patches in April 2005 which had v4.10.2223 of KB891711.exe that fixed most of the problems.

but yeah better off using the unofficial U891711 patches (please download latest release if you didnt get one or have an earlier release)

So I can uninstall the KB891711 update that came through Windows Update and then install U891711 instead?

WELL?

U891711.EXE uninstalls M$ official Q891711/KB891711 [MS05-002], no need to uninstall it yourself.

Please see U891711.TXT for complete details:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/U891711.TXT

HTH

but yeah better off using the unofficial U891711 patches (please download latest release if you didnt get one or have an earlier release)

Unofficial patch [u891711] is better than M$ official patch.

Please see U891711.TXT for complete details:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/U891711.TXT

HTH

Is it possible that U891711.EXE, working "as a service" is freezing my dsl internet connection during one or two minutes, in a random but frequent manner?

Ok I installed the U891711 Thing, but it didn't uninstall the KB891711 update. I then tried uninstalling the KB891711 update manually and reinstalling U891711, but it says in Windows Update that I need the KB891711 update. WHAT IS WRONG??

Is it possible that U891711.EXE, working "as a service" is freezing my dsl internet connection during one or two minutes, in a random but frequent manner?

Probably not, but I don't have DSL connection to test this.

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Ok I installed the U891711 Thing, but it didn't uninstall the KB891711 update. I then tried uninstalling the KB891711 update manually and reinstalling U891711, but it says in Windows Update that I need the KB891711 update. WHAT IS WRONG??

U891711 is not an official patch from M$, therefore is not listed as a Windows Update.

That's why WU [Windows Updates web site] doesn't "see" it on the list of installed patches.

Only official M$ patches should be on that list, of course.

HTH

Is it possible that U891711.EXE, working "as a service" is freezing my dsl internet connection during one or two minutes, in a random but frequent manner?

Probably not, but I don't have DSL connection to test this.

This is a mystery for me.

I will need to tsest the "desactivation" of the patch for a week or so, because I can't reproduce the situation intentionaly. I can just see if that happens as ften or not or never.

Edited November 18, 200619 yr by Fredledingue