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  1. Took me a year and then some to find this out. Maybe I shouldn't have. Would've thought everybody was here, as always, him included. Would've thought everything's just fine. But there it is... One of us - another one - has left for a while; just for a little Eternity and a day, and then who knows, maybe there will be a full board up there somewhere... Useless to repeat all the good things that have already been thought of, written, and/or spoken about Den. We all know how he was and what he did here. We will all miss him dearly. May he rest in peace! 🙏
  2. You may get a few different replies here, each person may have their own favorite languages and tools. For me it has been AutoHotkey - derived years ago from AutoIt, mentioned above by @jaclaz. It's an interpreted, macro language, single-threaded so it has a few limitations in terms of speed, but it all depends on your goals. I've built my own tools years ago, and I still use a couple of them today under Linux Mint. So the language is pretty resilient at least for small scopes. If you decide to try it you should choose only version 1.0, which is the only one that can run on Win9x systems. It comes with its Help file - which is pretty well done but not exhaustive - and also its own compiler if you want to convert the scripts to executables. But on a machine with AHK installed correctly scripts can run as is, so one doesn't have to compile them everytime in order to test or run them. That's a plus when it comes to quick development. Incidentally I had already built a small tool that can compute hashes; it's geared towards media (video) files but file types are editable, it can basically compute hashes (MD5 and SHA1 only) for any file type. It's calles StorageMediaCatalog and it can be found in the large package linked to in my signature below. Hope the Dropbox repository is still reachable. Good luck!
  3. May happen for some reason. I managed to get the Translator script to correctly open the UTF-16BE files in both 32bit and 64bit mode and now it converts them to UTF-16LE automatically when saving. However nobody expressed their interest in the script so I postponed any further work on it. Guess it's much easier to translate by hand or through other tools.
  4. @Tihiy Hi, long time no see. Things have changed quite a bit around here since I last visited the boards. Got a technical question for you since I thought I should update the Translator that has long fallen into oblivion: are the SAB uninstall paths/keys in registry the same as with SiB, or do they have their name and/or path changed? I'm asking this because the script needs to retrieve the full path to StartIsBackCfg.exe (or is that name also changed?) in order to provide the option of extracting translations from the executable itself in case download isn't possible and no other templates can be reached. Glad to see you alive and well.
  5. Just earlier I downloaded a few recent translations in the idea of updating SiB Translator if necessary. While looking through those files I noticed the sl-si file uploaded by you, and the fr-FR file are both encoded as UTF-16BE, not UTF-16LE as the original one posted by Tihiy (and as requested by the comments inside the file). Not sure if that may be the reason for the mangled display in the resource editor/viewer but they may create problems for SiB itself and definitely do create problems in SiB Translator - the files won't load. Also nl-NL is encoded UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 but that one loads fine in Translator. Otherwise it appears the Translator does need to be updated, and a few things fixed or added. First of all the name: StartIsBack ==> StartAllBack. Then other minor issues I discovered just now when testing. Since my CloudMe account is long gone I guess nobody had a chance to try the Translator recently. Will update it and post a link for download. If anyone cares, that is.
  6. Thank you for thinking of me. I already knew about that attempt as well as about Keysharp, AutohotkeyX and others. See this comment in AHK forums for details. In a world where options are slowly (or quickly) being taken away from us I think we should refrain from second-guessing other people's choices as at some point they may even become our own choices. Don't forget: allergies are treatable with close to 100% success. Be well!
  7. I believe it's about WebComponents. A lot of sites are making use of that and as such older browsers became doomed. Even Pale Moon which is constantly being developed has difficulties implementing that. Strangely, the old version 9 of Midori does have at least partly implemented WebComponents, which allows log in and operations in WordPress blogs. For e-mail I am now using ClawsMail natively instead of POP Peeper which was used with Wine until about a month or so ago. That is in Linux. Win9x probably has much dimmer chances of getting something usable with respect to browsing and e-mail.
  8. You can say that again. There's too much to be said but unfortunately nothing to do.
  9. One or more missing libraries may not have anything to do with KernelEx. Newer applications can be linked to various libraries that may not be native to Win9x, so one would have to search for them in newer OS versions (or on the web, there are sites that provide various DLLs) and attempt to port them to their system. Some may work, some may not, depending on whether they work standalone or require other dependencies themselves. All this requires quite a bit of work. If you mentioned which library/ies exactly you're missing maybe someone could help further. Usually the latest...? As far as I know the latest was v3.66. In view of recent reports below it may be prudent to avoid v3.66 and try an earlier version - maybe v3.65 as suggested below. I just checked and the SP3.cab package inside uSP3 v3.66 contains unicows.dll v1.1.3790.0 so you shouldn't have to download it separately. Nowadays' Linux is fairly easy to deal with, some distros provide a Windows-like feeling and the GUI has evolved pretty well. Unfortunately a lot of them only provide 64bit versions of the distros but there still are a few that provide 32bit for whoever doesn't own a 64bit machine. Some distros are quite small i.e. Puppy Linux. There is a learning curve though and it depends on each person how welll they cope with that. Personally I switched to Linux about three years ago when 98SE + XP couldn't deal with the web in an acceptable way.
  10. Someone mentioned before installing the correct version of unicows.dll if you have anything different than that or none at all. It may be best done in pure DOS mode or Safe Mode if it requires replacement. Also other updated system files provided by AutoPatcher or uSP3 may prove useful along the way. Either should be installed prior to KernelEx, so if you already have KernelEx installed you'd have to first uninstall it, then update the system with either of the aforementioned packages. I believe uSP3 does install the correct unicows library too so you may not have to perform multiple steps. Installing KernelEx 4.5.2 - the original version - should be straightforward. If you are unsure you may visit the related topic and see if there are any specific advices there. If all goes well with installing KernelEx the somehow complicated part is setting the proper compatibility for each application that requires it, and sometimes for some of its pertaining libraries. To find out which executables and/or libraries require higher compatibility I use Total Commander with the FileInfo plug-in which displays the missing or incomplete dependencies, it's very easy to check each file that way. Thing is, your KernelEx installation may not even be broken - maybe you just didn't set up the correct compatibilities for the required executables and/or libraries. In POP Peeper only the main executable - POPPeeper.exe - and the database convertor - PPconvert.exe - require higher compatibility due to missing APIs while all the libraries, including the SSL ones that it downloads during installation, are fully compatible with Win98. Setting XP compatibility for the two files should fix it. (right-click the file, choose Properties, go to KernelEx Compatibility tab and select XP).
  11. For what it's worth here is my own recent experience with searching for a truly free e-mail provider: link Do check out the link quoted there to get an idea of what has become of the freedom of communication today. They do not mention mail.com though. No idea how they go lately, I had my account created a few years ago without the need to provide a phone number. It has been working fine in POP Peeper. You should really fix your KernelEx installation, it may be required for much more software. I just checked POP Peeper 4.5.3 yesterday in a virtual 98SE setup and it only misses three APIs that should be easily fixed through KernelEx. Also uSP3 might provide additional help, but make sure it's installed before KernelEx. If it's of any comfort I couldn't wrap (pun intended) my head around WinSSLwrap either, and without false modesty I do consider myself fairly knowledgeable. We may just have a completely different way of understanding things which requires a different approach in explaining certain procedures.
  12. You could try POP Peeper (the free version) but I'm not sure if it works on a vanilla 98/SE or it needes KernelEx. I did use it a few years ago on my 98SE machine but it did have KernelEx installed as well as other system library updates. Also used it until a week or two ago in Linux Mint under Wine 5.14 (later Wine versions have a problem with displaying HTML messages).
  13. There used to be a plug-in for Total Commander that could read NTFS partitions. Never had any luck myself with any full-access (read/write) NTFS tools under 9x.
  14. Can be useful in an emergency situation. If set to only act manually there would be no interference with running applications at possibly unwanted time. For most available operations - including copy/move files and/or folders - I have only ever used Total Commander. For the copy operations the large files option was enabled in its settings. I really can't remember how Explorer looks like.
  15. Or there's MemPanel in my package that displays RAM, swap, total system load, and CPU usage. There was a utility for freeing memory, I think it was called Free RAM XP Pro or something like that. On occasion it did clip some of the used memory as well leading to problems but most of the times it did its job well.
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