[paoloapaolo]

We recommend using KernelEx 4.5 RC 4, use DirectX mode, my system is fluid in his movements, E5200 cpu 6800gt graphics card. The stability is not comparable to the 4.3 version but has made a big step forward. The version 5.2 does not work. Maybe it's an argument for Xeno86

[egrabrych]

What is wrong in my computer that Windows Explorer still sorts the files in order (for example):
1.txt, 10.txt, 2.txt (and not: 1.txt, 2.txt, 10.txt) ?

MS Windows 98 SE + KernelEx 4.5RC5 + Revolutions Pack 9.7.0 (with unselected option: "Don't use natural file sorting")
Explorer.exe 4.72.3612.1710
Shell32.dll 4.72.3812.634
Kernel32.dll 4.10.2226

In Windows register:
in key [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] - not exist value "NoStrCmpLogical"
in key [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] - exist the value "NoStrCmpLogical"=dword:00000000

What else can have influence on file sorting in Windows Explorer?

[Tihiy]

Seems that natural sorting fails to work with SeparateProcess turned on. Thx for reporting.

[Dandee]

t6ti00, on 03 November 2010 - 01:53 PM, said:

- Updating icons to XP/Vista-style, only "My Documents"-icon will be updated, but "My Computer" and "Network Area" icons will stay old. I guess this doesn't happen with English version of Win98. (I have Finnish-version.) (Of course they can be manually updated, but of course the program should update them all automatically after changing.)

Copy below text into a file and execute it. Then change themes to refresh.

REGEDIT4

; Alle computers in het netwerk weergeven
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\shell32.dll,17"

; De inhoud van uw computer weergeven
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]
@="explorer.exe,0"

[Dandee]

Dandee, on 26 November 2010 - 03:41 AM, said:

Copy below text into a file and execute it. Then change themes to refresh.

I forgot to say that the file has to have the extension ".reg".

[Steven W]

Tihiy, this is so minor I'm almost embarrassed to report it:



Unfortunately, I have one of those cheap Intel 82810 graphic cards built-in to the motherboard. It's max setting is 24-bit, but I have to keep it at 16-bit or some problems occur with VLC (version 1.02) and some old DOS proggies. Under RPConfig I have icon-quality set at 16-bit. That's really the only "problem" I've noticed. Obviously, I've blacked out the name.

[CharlesF]

Tihiy, on 25 November 2010 - 02:32 PM, said:

Seems that natural sorting fails to work with SeparateProcess turned on. Thx for reporting.

Tihiy,

'Natural file sorting' doesn't seem to work here too:
 NaturalFileSorting.png (693bytes)
Number of downloads: 3

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer -> don't have such key

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer -> don't have the value "NoStrCmpLogical"

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced -> don't have the value "SeparateProcess"

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer -> don't have the value "DesktopProcess"

This post has been edited by CharlesF: 28 November 2010 - 02:50 AM

[Prozactive]

Thanks Tihiy for your excellent work and continued development of Revolutions Pack. It has been working very well on my Win98 SE systems with one persistent annoying bug starting with my initial installation of Revolutions Pack 9.6.5 and continuing in every updated version since. For some reason, the Recycle Bin icon no longer accurately shows its status (empty or full) especially within Windows Explorer. The Recycle Bin icon on the desktop seems to behave more normally most of the time (vs. the Windows Explorer Recycle Bin icon) but I don't think it's 100% accurate either. The Windows Explorer Recycle Bin icon is almost 100% inaccurate after the first filling/emptying of the Recycle Bin (i.e., shows it as empty when it is full and vice versa). I've Googled this problem and tried a host of possible solutions without any luck. It's not a showstopper but it is quite annoying, and it became immediately obvious after my initial installation of RP 9.6.5. Any help or possible solutions would be greatly appreciated!

This post has been edited by Prozactive: 30 November 2010 - 12:17 PM

[egrabrych]

Prozactive, on 30 November 2010 - 12:15 PM, said:

(...) For some reason, the Recycle Bin icon no longer accurately shows its status (empty or full) especially within Windows Explorer. The Recycle Bin icon on the desktop seems to behave more normally most of the time (vs. the Windows Explorer Recycle Bin icon) but I don't think it's 100% accurate either. The Windows Explorer Recycle Bin icon is almost 100% inaccurate after the first filling/emptying of the Recycle Bin (i.e., shows it as empty when it is full and vice versa). (...)

I know that is not a discussion thread about this, but I just ad vocem; see here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137591

This post has been edited by egrabrych: 30 November 2010 - 02:19 PM

[egrabrych]

CharlesF, on 27 November 2010 - 06:48 PM, said:

Tihiy, on 25 November 2010 - 02:32 PM, said:

Seems that natural sorting fails to work with SeparateProcess turned on. Thx for reporting.

Tihiy,

'Natural file sorting' doesn't seem to work here too:
 NaturalFileSorting.png (693bytes)
Number of downloads: 3

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer -> don't have such key

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer -> don't have the value "NoStrCmpLogical"

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced -> don't have the value "SeparateProcess"

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer -> don't have the value "DesktopProcess"

When writing my post, I thought that I am "guilty" of no "natural sorting" in RP 9.7. In truth, I expected the requirement of cooperation with the relevant Windows files in their respective versions, but I did not know with which files and in which versions.
"SeparateProcess" I really did had turned on, not even remembering about it - but disabling this option, and even complete removal from the Windows registry key, did not help at all.

Which is a injury, because it makes contents of the folder more readable (I know this from Windows XP).

This post has been edited by egrabrych: 30 November 2010 - 03:16 PM

[Prozactive]

egrabrych, on 30 November 2010 - 02:18 PM, said:

I know that is not a discussion thread about this, but I just ad vocem; see here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137591

Thanks egrabrych. I did not see that particular article but one of the steps I did try was to reassociate the Recycle Bin full and empty icons without any success.

[t6ti00]

Dandee, on 26 November 2010 - 03:41 AM, said:

t6ti00, on 03 November 2010 - 01:53 PM, said:

- Updating icons to XP/Vista-style, only "My Documents"-icon will be updated, but "My Computer" and "Network Area" icons will stay old. I guess this doesn't happen with English version of Win98. (I have Finnish-version.) (Of course they can be manually updated, but of course the program should update them all automatically after changing.)

Copy below text into a file and execute it. Then change themes to refresh.

REGEDIT4

; Alle computers in het netwerk weergeven
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\ DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\shell32.dll,17"

; De inhoud van uw computer weergeven
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\ DefaultIcon]
@="explorer.exe,0"

Hi, Dandee,

That fixed the problem. Thanks.

CharlesF, on 23 November 2010 - 05:46 PM, said:

Hi t6ti00,

if this bug is still boring you, look for the keys:

• For 'Network Area':
  HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Classes\CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
• For 'My Computer':
  HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
• For 'My Docs':
  HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Classes\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
• For 'Recycle Bin':
  HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

They are overwriting RPConfig settings.
If you find them, you will have to delete them (Backup FIRST!) or at least the related key:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ ... }\DefaultIcon

HTH

Thanks for your ideas, too.

[CharlesF]

@ t6ti00:
our tricks are almost the same.

You should try to delete the keys (after backup) because you are not suppose to specify a value if it is the Windows default value.

Those regsitry keys are usually used to indicate a different value for system icons.

If it is not working, do a right-click on desktop -> Properties -> Effect tab (or 'Plus! tab' ?) -> click 'Default Icon' for each one you want.

HTH
Charles.

[dw2108]

New to the forum, wanted to thank you for the great work.

Is there any slick no-hack trick to saving my background color and theme prefs on reboot?

Thanks,
Dave

[Tihiy]

Quote

Is there any slick no-hack trick to saving my background color and theme prefs on reboot?

Just save them under same name.

[Prozactive]

I wanted to report a probable problem/bug in Revolutions Pack. I'm currently running RP 9.7.0 on my old Win98 SE Toshiba laptop and the system is extremely stable. However, yesterday I suddenly started experiencing multiple spontaneous BSoDs immediately after a single beep from the system. These BSoDs would occur at random times not associated with any particular action or software (one BSOD occurred with the system totally inactive) and they were all exactly the same:

Fatal exception 0D at 052C:00000218

The only system change I made shortly before these BSoDs was to change the display resolution from 16 bit (High Color) to 32 bit (True Color). I had set the default resolution to 32 bit a long time ago and was surprised to see that it had somehow changed to 16 bit. These BSoDs rendered the system almost useless. After running a battery of hardware tests on the system RAM, CPU, and HDD (all of which passed with flying colors), I changed the display resolution back to 16 bit and so far the system has been stable again with no BSoDs. *knock on wood* I strongly suspect there is some issue associated with RP 9.7.0 and the display resolutions. Does RP 9.7.0 have to run only in 16 bit mode? I also got these BSoDs in 24 bit display resolution while trying to troubleshoot the problem. Thanks for any info or advice.

BTW, my laptop display adapter is ATI Rage Mobility AGP.

[dencorso]

Tihiy, would you please consider looking into LDT garbage collecting, or some form of LDT salvation, please?
I've been looking into things like this too often for confort, of late:

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[Tihiy]

Quote

Tihiy, would you please consider looking into LDT garbage collecting, or some form of LDT salvation, please?
I've been looking into things like this too often for confort, of late:

Well red circles are frustrating but that's how it is.
Windows has LDT cleanup (not really effective though) which is triggered when system is out of segments starting a program. RP calls that cleanup when LDT is lower than 20%.

This post has been edited by Tihiy: 12 December 2010 - 12:02 PM

[Tihiy]

Revolutions Pack 9.7.1
http://tihiy.net/files/RP9.exe

- Fixed: natural shell file name sorting didn't work in some cases.

[Dandee]

Bug report: After installing v. 9.7.1 icons are no longer skinned.
Setup : Win98 FE, IE6

Some icons work, but most icons are reverted to their Win98 versions.
Anyone else who has this?