I put the Unofficial Windows 98 SE Service Pack 2.0 beta 3 on Softpedia.
enjoy all.

BETA 3 Features:

- NEW: More than 10 new hot-fixes.
- NEW: "Dos Prompt Here" as optional feature.
- NEW: 98lite Sleek support.
- NEW: Fixed REGEDIT.EXE.
- FIXED: DCOM98 registry problem.
- ADDED: USB Mass Storage Device support (same with 1.6.2).
- ADDED: Better Notepad, 256-color tray icons features.
- ADDED: Uninstallation.


http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enh...vice-Pack.shtml



Thanks Gape for this version.

would it be wise to install this overtop 1.6.2?

Thank you very much!

I recommend to folks that they select Romanian Mirror 2, it's several times faster than the US one, which just crawls along....

thanks again DanyBoss & Gape!

ty i will do that

All,

I recommend that you should try this BETA on a test system, or on VirtualPC, or on VMWare.

Especially, I couldn't test 98lite Sleek support and Uninstallation support very well.

If you install it with or without problems, please write on this topic.

Please, don't write any new feature request for this version. All new feature requests should be for 2.1.

Special thanks to: MDGx, erpdude, CLASYS, Tarun, safir, hp38guser, DanyBoss, swgreed, egorz, sybesma, Rob, DuckDaffy, and all other contributors. If I missed your name, please PM me, because I will add a "thanks" section into 2.0 FINAL.

I downloaded this one, seems more stable than previous releases.

I examined your package and found this hardcoded path in both spupdate.inf and spuninst.inf:



Have you tried yet to change this to:

*testing*

looks very promising so far!
good job

I'll update the German version to 2.0 as soon as possible!

error

everything seems to be much more stable and faster after applying this beta 3 of sp 2.0
can't wait till official 2.0
and under add/remove it shows unnofical windows 98 service pack 2 Beta 3

It installed fine for me and I have yet to see any problems, cept for my usb storage, but I explained that in a different topic.

Installed fine for me also....

VDDZ.... i looked at your other post......

i'm sorry to report that sleek and 98micro shell swap of 98lite v4.5 keeps crashing explorer.exe on 98se/spanish/32mb ram.
everything else, seems to work ok, and the start button text now is in the original languaje (spanish)

maybe the languaje? or the version of 98lite? it will be interesting try the v4.7... if anybody could help me

btw, which tweaks are for ¨minimun 64mb ram¨?

i don't think you can use 98lite on anything other than english
thats your problem

that's not true. the same version (v4.5/en over win98se/sp) worked fine, before applying any of the SP's, in every shell swap option.

thank for your reply

@cozetti

2.0 (BETA 3) has lots of new hot-fixes. Maybe some of them are not compatible with Spanish version.

What is your installation order?

Win98 -> SP2.0B3 -> Shell Swap?

I think, Win98 -> Shell Swap -> SP 2.0B3 should be better.

Another mirror:
Unofficial Windows 98 SE Service Pack (SP) 2.0 RC1 [15.1 MB, English].

Service Pack 2.0 beta is very good. My PC working stable and very fast

Good Job GAMPE

Gape: ALL version of your SP (since 1.5) worked fine with my spanish version of 98se.

The problem seems to be with the 98lite using the shell swap.
I' ll try the shell swap b4 installing the SP.

btw, which tweaks are for ¨64mb ram minimun¨?

Thanks for your reply

the MAX CACHE SPEED tweak:
Another Windows 95/98/ME limitation squashed! 1 down, 1 zillion to go... Ouch!
Forget what I told you about setting your Windows 9x/ME File System cache to "Network Server", detailed in "NETWORK SERVER", also in REGISTRY.TXT [part of W95-11D.EXE]. Those are only the maximum ALLOWED values from: Control Panel -> (double)-click System applet -> Performance tab -> File System button -> Hard Disk tab -> "Typical role of this computer" box -> "Network Server", and respectively "Read-ahead optimization" slider -> Full -> click OK twice -> reboot. This setting (highest available) allocates about 40 KB of RAM to cache the last 64 accessed directory paths and the last 2729 accessed files.
But you can further increase these settings BEYOND the Win9x/ME GUI limit, to the next level, otherwise unavailable from the System applet, to have your computer cache up to 3 (THREE) times more files and directories, and speed up hard disk performance substantially.
The only disadvantage is that this way Windows will allocate up to 3 times more physical RAM to the file cache, which is taken from the available memory pool, normally used by applications/games. Therefore I recommend doing this ONLY IF your system has at least 32 MB of installed RAM. This works best on computers with 64 MB and up... and who cares about RAM "shortage" if you happen to have 128 MB or more? :-)

Direct link to above reference

Gape, while I was looking for some Dutch patches, I noticed you included patches for Windows WebTV.

Please note Windows WebTV is not included with localized Windows 98SE versions!
I'm going to remove it from the Dutch pack, ok?

The files:

annclist.exe
ENHTRIG.DLL
NABTSFEC.SYS

OK. You're right.

Any bugs found in 2.0b3 yet?

i.e. does 2.0b3 == 2.0 final?

I install Service Pack 2.0 beta 3 and I have old notepad.!!!! Where is beter notepad??? It is a bag???!!





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For complete localization you need the following files from the Windows Script 5.6 update:

jsnl.dll
sconl.dll
scrrnnl.dll
vbsnl.dll
wshnl.dll

where the bold is the language code.

The files goes into the Windows\System folder, you have to specify these files manually in scr56.inf

i don't have any problems,mkjp install 1.6.2 then beta 3 and you won't have that annoying wu bug

Meaby I overlooked, but the following files in SP2.cab seems not to be specified in the infs to copy to the System:

msdaipp.dll
msadco.dll
msadcs.dll

Meaby some others too. Please take a look at it Gape.

kewl. i saw the role type, to change it back, thank for the rest.

that's it!

now running with 98micro shell + firefox. thanks a lot!

Ditto mkjp-- though i got the new 'pad from the SE2ME....

@azagahl: 2.0 Beta 3 is quite stable, I have found some minor cosmetic bugs so far.

@cozetti: Good!

@hp38guser: It is not a problem, they are installed by other files (for example: MSDAIPP.DLL is installed by RBUPDATE.EXE). For slipstreaming support, they are in the SP2.CAB, too.

@mkjp: Do you have English version? Are you using 98lite?

Yes I use english version. I not use 98lite.

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Gape were is Unofficial PowerArchiver 6.11 Update????
I can not download it???

PowerArchiver 6.11 Update is now useless because of new RAR (v3) and 7z formats. I recommend some other freeware ZIP suites such as TUGZip, IZArc...

About Notepad problem: SP only patches Notepad.exe if it is original "Notepad.exe". Perhaps your Notepad.exe has different from original Windows 98 SE English Notepad.exe.

What about msdaip.dll in rbupdate.exe?

Why do you include 3 versions of a single file?

Why don't you just remove the whole rbupdate part of installation

Rbupdate has a detection utility and two different versions of MSDAIP.DLL. It installs proper version.

SP2.CAB contains one of them for semi-slipstreaming support.

And can you be more specific?

What is the difference between the two files?

What is the slipstreamsupport? Can I just copy sp2 to my cd or what?

You don't have any documentation released yet about the sp.

OK

RBUPDATE has two versions of MSDAIP.DLL. One of them is for Windows 98 SE with Office 2000 or XP installed, the other is for Windows 98 SE without Office 2000 or XP installed.

It contains a detection utility for installing the proper version.

Semi-slipstreaming support (as I explained before, nothing changed) is for slipstreaming most of the hot-fixes into Windows 98 SE setup. If you extract the contents of the SP2.CAB into your Windows 98 SE setup folder, Windows's setup will use these fixed and newer files during installation. I called it "semi", because it only contains the hot-fixes only, not contains all features of the SP.

Way to dificult, why do you include office update with it?

What happens when the newer 1.0.3 file gets copied to the system when no office 2000 / XP is installed?

Why not?

I don't know what happens if newer file gets copied. but Microsoft made this RBUPDATE, I didn't make it

EDIT:

Those files are specifies in layout1.inf and layout2.inf. Sorry for the trouble.

Newest MSDAIPP.DLL build 11.0.6715.15 [brought up to XP SP2 version] from:
Microsoft Windows 98 SE/2000/ME/XP/2003 + Internet Explorer 4/5/6 Web Folders Update adds support for Secure Socket Layers (SSL), non-ASCII character encoding + additional security enhancements:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...82-987622ed1d64
Direct download [1.71 MB, English]:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/7...B892211-ENU.exe
More info:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=892211

Obsolete MSDAIPP.DLL build 8.102.4004.0 [without MSO] or 8.103.4004.0 [with MSO] from RBUPDATE.EXE:
MDAC for Windows 9x/NT4/2000/ME WebDAV Requests MSDAIPP.DLL Security Vulnerability Fix:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/ms01-022.mspx
Direct download [408 KB, English]:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win...US/rbupdate.exe
More info:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296441

Why ddhelp.exe have real time piority???

Thanks, now it's a lot easier for me to pick files

Thanks MDGx,

So, I will remove RBUPDATE, and I will add this newer update for 2.0 FINAL. (Expected release date 1-2 February.)

I have a question for all: I think I'll add new desktop icons feature as a seperate DLL, and it will be optional. What do you think? Is it OK?

Gape, why don't use a bytepatcher for that?

BTW, don't use MSI for the webfolders update but write your own inf. Then I'll be able to put it also in Dutch Service Pack.

This weekend I'm away, so no more questions from me until the final (RC?).
Please write that tutorial for translators (about patching files etc.)

what are the icon choices?xp? me? let the people choose . anyway im sure itll be ok reguardless .keep on keeping on.

Good idea about the choice of icons...

Because modifiying icons change the size of the file, and that prevents to make the patcher.

Why not to make a ResPatcher in Restorator?

Restorator is a commercial (not-free) product.