[M()zart]

Here is my software list for my Windows 98 PC. As I had only 1,7 Gb HDD, I've tried to choose not just the best software, but also the most needed and the smallest

Video:
As I use this PC mostly to watch non-HD movies and series, I have lots of such software.
K-Lite codec pack (medium-size version, the latest Windows 9x compatible one),
Crystal Player 1.98 - my favorite video player - I think, the most convenient one. Non-free, development is stopped. Support for 5.1 sound is buggy, and does not work on Windows 7 with true DirectX 11 video cards.
Flash Movie Player - keep it only because it is tiny.
GOM player - not very large player with internal codecs. It is useful to have such when system codecs don't work.
MediaInfo - a small utility to view media file parameters and codec information.
VLC Player portable - used it from USB memory stick to save HDD space. Useful when nothing else plays some video file normally.
PotPlayer portable - for the same usage as VLC

Audio:
1by1 - main audio player. Not the latest version.
Winamp 2.95 - just in case.
PicoMP3 - one of the smallest MP3 players. Keep it on USB stick just because it's tiny and cute
Apollo - on USB stick, just in case
XMPlay - because of nice skins

Office:
MS Office 97
Angel Writer - free RTF editor
DocX to Rtf
Spread32 - a very small , but feature-rich spreadsheet with XLS format support.

PDF/DJVU:
STDU viewer - the only XPS viewer, which works on Windows 98 (with KernelEx). Supports also DJVU, PDF and many other formats
FoxIt reader (portable, on USB stick)
Sumatra PDF

Text editors:
PSPad - a very good text/hex editor
Notepad2 - don't know why I keep it
AkelPad - small, but useful text editor (2 Mb with plugins). Keep it in case I need to uninstall PSPad to free more space.

Internet (My Windows 98 PC is on dial-up):
Opera 10.10 - default browser, best one for dial-up
Latest Opera - portable on USB stick
Firefox 2.0.0.20 - Was the default browser before I switched to Opera. Going to uninstall it soon when I backup passwords from it.
Download Master - must have on dial-up
QtWeb - a small, but fully functional webkit browser
OffByOne - tiny fallback webbrowser with very basic HTML and CSS support.
OperaCacheView

CD/DVD stuff:
CDCheck - utility for getting files from unreadable CDs. Can do multiple read attempts.
CDSlow
Usful Utils Disk Studio - small (3 Mb) application for burning data and audio discs.
Saiteria - small CD burning program
ImgBurn - one of the best freeware burning apps for older windows versions.
Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - (portable, on USB stick, just in case)
DAEMON Tools
ISOBuster

Archivers:
7zip latest
Winrar 3.80
PeaZip (portable, on USB stick)

ScreenSavers:
Cannot afford to keep large screensavers because of the lack of HDD space, so I keep only tiny ones
Particle Fire 1 and 2 screensavers - the best of the tiny ones. Very beautiful.
Ants and Evolve - these two are also interesting and could stay as my default ones for several months.

Games:
Here I list only the games that are always on my HDD:
Worms Armageddon - after deleting unnecessary sound files this game is less than 90 Mb
Crimson Land
Tanktics the impact
Tank wars (bomb) - old DOS game
SolSuite
Oasis - nice casual strategy game
SuperBalls - match three game
Blobby Volley

Unerasers:
FileRecoveryAngel
Recuva

Math utils:
Numlock Calculator - very nice and powerful calculator application. Not developed for a long time.
The Calc
Advanced Grapher - helped me very much during university years.


Cleeners:
RegSeeker
CCleaner

Other:
IrfanView - the best image viewer
Total Commander - the best file manager
NNCron - the best task scheduler
HexProbe - a very good hex editor
Space Monger and WinDirStat - to know what eats space on my HDD - necessary applications in my case.
JetStart 4.4 Freeware - global hotkey manager - for assigning global shortcut keys for most used applications and some actions
QDictionary - old 1.2 version - a dictionary application.
WinImage - tool for woking with floppy images. However my floppy drive already died, and may be it is not needed any more.
TweakUI - powerful tweaker for Windows 98
Dev-C++ - smallest GUI IDE for occasional program writing
UPX - to compress EXE files
Filemon and Regmon
some taskmanagers
TinyResMeter - tiny Processor/RAM/Resource usage monitor
Everest - last free version
SisCont - for viewing SIS file information (for my Nokia phone)
Autoruns
Bear.exe and G.exe - tiny resource usage monitors
Сaffeine - tiny apps that emulates SHIFT key pressing once in 59 seconds so that Windows did not go to sleep
Norton Commander - for DOS

And of course the latest KernelEx and Revolutions Pack, NUSB, Paragon NTFS driver.

[Tripredacus]

M()zart, on 22 November 2011 - 06:54 AM, said:

ScreenSavers:
Cannot afford to keep large screensavers because of the lack of HDD space,
//
IrfanView - the best image viewer

Ah screensavers isn't something I normally think of. Nowadays I don't bother with them and just use ribbons or whatever. But my 98 does have the Marilyn Manson screen saver that came on a single. It spells out DRUGS, which prompted many friends to call it "The drugs computer" rather than Shiva.
//
I've tried IrfanView, I remember needing it during college for some reason. My favorite is always the version of ACDSee that is on my 98, but it is impossible to find that version. But that's fine since in XP and up the Office Image Viewer is good enough.

[loblo]

I have too many software on my machine to be able to possibly list it all (unless I take a month or two for doing so) so I'll just give a list of software I have that actually require to be properly installed otherwise they won't run and which is all commercial.

Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Premium (Includes Photodraw v2, that's why it's "premium")
Microsoft Digital Image Pro 9
Microsoft Visual C++ 6 Standard
Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Learning Edition
Corel Draw Suite 9 & 11
Corel Wordperfect 9
Corel Ventura 8
Corel Painter 8
Corel Paint Shop Pro X
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 & 9
Adobe Photoshop 5 & 7
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2
Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro
Adobe Illustrator 10
Adobe InDesign 2
Adobe Golive 6
Adobe LiveMotion 2
Adobe Premiere 6
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Standard
Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 Plus
Adobe Framemaker 7
Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Macromedia Fireworks Mx
Macromedia Freehand 10
Sonic Foundry Soundforge 5
Sonic Foundry Acid 4
Sonic Foundry Vegas 4
Steinberg Wavelab 4
Syntrillium Cooledit Pro 2
Magix Audio Cleaning Lab Deluxe 10
Dartech DartPro32
Ulead Photoimpact 10
Ulead Cool3D Studio 1.0
Ulead Media Studio Pro 7
Abby FineReader 7 Pro
Xerox Textbridge Pro 9
Scansoft Omnipage Pro 12
Cakewalk Sonar 2
Cyberlink PoerDVD 6 Deluxe
Intervideo WinDVD 4
Fontlab TypeTool 3
Serif PhotoPlus 11
Serif DrawPlus 8
Serif PagePlus 11
Serif WebPlus 10
Serif MoviePlus 4
Serif PanoramaPlus 2
Serif DVDPlus 1
Serif ImpactPlus 5
Xara X1
Nero 7 Ultra Edition
Discreet Combustion 2.1
ACDSee 7
Norton Ghost 2003
Norton Partition Magic 8
Norton System Works Professional 2005 (not actually installed but so I have the IMO essential Disk Doctor which doesn't require to be installed to run)

And some more I probably forget right now...


Also somehow falling in the in the "installed category are the default apps for opening common filetypes so:

Default text editor: Akelpad (latest)
Default web browser: Opera 11
Default Mail client: Thunderbird 2.0
Default image viewer: XnView (latest)
Defaut audio player: foobar2000 9.5.6
Default video player: Ges Player

That's it for now. I may list some utilities and add-ons I consider essential later on.

[jaclaz]

As often happens a semi-random idea.

What about finding a "software inventory" tool that actually runs on 9x/Me so that the list of apps can be made "automatically" and in a "standard format"?

Something like this:
http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm
http://www.pxserver....all.html#sysreq

I have no idea if the above is suitable, though

jaclaz

[Tripredacus]

jaclaz, on 22 November 2011 - 12:47 PM, said:

What about finding a "software inventory" tool that actually runs on 9x/Me so that the list of apps can be made "automatically" and in a "standard format"?

jaclaz

Such an amazing tool would just take the fun out of it!

[jaclaz]

Tripredacus, on 23 November 2011 - 08:43 AM, said:

Such an amazing tool would just take the fun out of it!

I see very little fun in having half-@§§ed (NO offence intended to the posters that kindly provided them, mind you ) lists in text form, with various degreee of details/comments, but if you are happy with them it's allright, of course .

It's just like this thread here:
http://www.msfn.org/...r-windows-98se/
it contains lots of useful info, but it is pretty much useless, in the sense that by the time you can extract from it the info, you may have already tested yourself ALL versions of the apps you are interested in and find yourself which one works.



jaclaz

[Giant2011]

Software I have installed :

602PC SUITE Software602 Inc. (http://www.software602.com/) 4.1.04.0908
7-Zip 9.20
98/ME Smoker 1.2 WareSoft Software 1.2
a-squared HiJackFree 3.0 Emsi Software GmbH 3.0
ABC VideoRoll
Abexo Free Registry Cleaner Abexo
AbleSpeed 1.7 Bart Michel
About Calgary Power Command Center V 1.0 About Calgary
Absolute Uninstaller 2.5 GlarySoft.com
AC-3 ACM Codec
Acronis TrueImage Acronis
Ad-Aware SE Personal Lavasoft AB 1.0.6
Adapt-X Plug-in for Winamp/WMP 9 (remove only)
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Adobe Systems, Inc. 5.1
Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX Adobe Systems Incorporated 10.3.183.10
Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin Adobe Systems Incorporated 11.1.102.55
Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Editie 1.0 Adobe Systems, Inc. 1.0
Adobe Reader 6.0 - Nederlands Adobe Systems Incorporated 6.0
Advanced IP Scanner v1.5
Advanced PDF to IMAGE converter 1.9.9.5 IntraPDF 1.9.9.5
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00
AFPL Ghostscript Fonts
AIDA32 v3.50 Tamas Miklos
ALShow ESTsoft Corp. 1.5beta
AM-DeadLink 3.3 www.aignes.com 3.3
Amn Refrigerator 3.2
aMSN 0.98.4
AnalogX CacheBooster
AnalogX CookieWall
AnalogX DLLArchive
AnalogX FastCache
AnalogX ITR Client
AnalogX MaxMem AnalogX
AnalogX POW!
AnalogX PowerBrowse
AnalogX Proxy
ANIWZCS2 Service
Anti-Spyware Blocker 4.80
ArcSoft PhotoImpression
ArcSoft VideoImpression 1.6
Argente - StartUp Manager 2.0.0.0 Argente Software 2.0.0.0
ArGoSoft Mail Server Freeware
Arovax Shield 1.3.15 Arovax Software 1.3.15
Art Plus Download Assistant 3.0.0.110
AS3 Personal Firewall AS3 Soft4U 2.0
AsfTools 3.1 (remove only)
Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite 2 ashampoo GmbH & Co. KG
Aspell Dutch Dictionary-0.50-2 GNU
Aspell English Dictionary-0.50-2 GNU
Asperus WinRet
Asterisk Key
at32 Comedy Webcam Free
aTuner (remove only) aTuner 1.9.11
Audacity 1.2.6
Auto Gordian Knot 1.60 len0x 1.60
avast! Antivirus Alwil Software 4.8
AVCutty 2.3b 2.3b
AVIcodec (remove only)
AvirMail 1.70 rev. 5
AviSplit Classic Version 1.42 Bobyte software
AviSynth 2 (remove only)
AviSynth 2.5
AviTricks Classic version 1.54 Bobyte.com
Back4Win 3.4.6.5
Baku Pmcc 2.5.2700
Banana-boekhouding 4.0 - Kasboek Banana.ch SA - Lugano (Switzerland) 4.0.0.11
Bazooka Scanner Kephyr
BFilter 1.0.7
BJ-printerstuurprogramma
Boekhouding Easy-Disc 5.00.0000
Browser Hijack Blaster v1.0
Burn4Free 1.0.0.593 Simone Tasselli
Burn4Free CD & DVD 1.0.7.0 Simone Tasselli
Burning Tweaker Mental Works Computing Software 1.0
BySoft FreeRAM 4.0 BySoft 4.0
CA Yahoo! Anti-Spy (remove only) CA, Inc.
Cable e ADSL Speed
Cablenut 4.08
Calendar Magic V14.4 EuroSoft
cam2pc (remove only)
CamStudio eHelp Corporation 2.1
CamStudio
Canon iP1600
Canon PhotoRecord Cisra 02.02.03002
Canon Utilities Easy-PrintToolBox
Cascade DTP V4 Price Media 4.0.015
CCleaner Piriform 2.36
CD & DVD burnR deLuxe MAGIX 1.0
CD-foongids
CDCheck (remove only)
CFSC Chris Free Software Cleaner
ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.3 alch
Clean My Registry v4.6 Smart PC Solutions 4.6
Cleanersoft Free Registry Fix
CleanUp!
Clipboard Magic 4.00 CyberMatrix Corporation, Inc.
CloneSpy 2.41 CloneSpy
Cobian Backup 6
CodeStuff Starter CodeStuff 5.6.2.8
Conceptronic 54Mbps Wireless Utility Conceptronic
Conceptronic 54Mbps Wireless Utility Conceptronic
Conceptronic 54Mbps Wireless Utility
Conceptronic 54Mbps Wireless Utility
Converter
Crazy Browser version 3.0.5
Creative PC CAM 550 Handboek (Nederlands)
CutePDF Printer Setup
Cutter 3 M.Dev Software
DAEMON Tools DAEMON'S HOME 3.47.0
Daum PotPlayer 1.5.29996
dBpowerAMP Music Converter
De Wereld Browser 2.1 Final (2.1.2.4) Phoenix Studio
DebugMode Wink
DeepBurner v1.1.0.91 Beta1
DeepBurner v1.1.5.148
Defrag_to_shutdown 1.5
DFUeTweaker
DHE Editor 1.8 Lorenzi Davide
Digital Camera Enhancer 1.3
Disk Cleaner (remove only)
DivX DVD Ripper 1.1 1.1
DivX Player DivXNetworks, Inc. 2.6
DivX Web Player DivX,Inc. 1.3.0
DivXG400
DivxToDVD 0.5.0 VSO-Software SARL 0.5.0
Doctor Alex v2.04
Doctor Spyware Cleaner 1.1 Retina-X Studios, LLC
downloadhotfile.com Free Image Converter downloadhotfile.com
Dr. System [Da]-Software's 2.00.0019
Drive Rescue 1.9 Alexander Grau
DUTraffic SafHouse 1.5 RC2 build 36
DVD Hive amzayle 1.0.3
DVD RIP N BURN 5.0.0.1
DVD Shrink 3.2 DVD Shrink
dvdPlayer
DVDRIPNBURN 4.0
Easy Computing Herstel-Expert Easy Computing
Easy Computing Partitie-Expert Easy Computing
Easy Duplicate Finder v. 2.2 EasyDuplicateFinder.com
Easy Uninstaller
Easy-WebPrint
EasyCleaner 2.0.5
EasyCleaner 2.0.6.373
EasyFLV FLV Converter Ver 7 build 0.0.1 Aritrim Basu
EasyPhotoTools 2.2.0.0
Editor
EF Commander Free
Email Remover
EmAvi
EmC
Empty Temp Folders 2.8.3
Emsa Win StartUp Manager 1.0 Emsa Systems
EndItAll 2.0 Ziff Davis Media, Inc. 2.0
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
Evrsoft First Page 2006 Evrsoft
Faber Toys FaberBox 2.5 Build 240
FAST Defrag 2.03SP3A AMS Software
FAST Defrag Freeware 2.3 AMS 2.3
FastNet99
File Type Manager 2.0.1
FileWasher Pro 1.32 PC Anytime Edition Kairosoft.com
Find Unused Files Lite Sanjay Kanade
FinitySoft Memory Manger 4.0 FinitySoft 4.0
Finxoft File Copier
Fix My Registry v2.9 Smart PC Solutions 2.9
Fix Registry Errors 3.0 Blackhawk Software
FLAC Installer 1.1.0m (remove only) Mike Wren, Cyberial Multimedia 1.1.0m
FlashPeak SlimBrowser FlashPeak Inc. 4.12
FLV Player Ver 1.00 FLV Hosting
Forecaster version 2.0.62 Bruce Martin
Foto-en Beeldbewerking
Fotomozaïek 1.0
Foxit Reader
Foxmail
Foxmail 5.0 Boda, Inc.
FPSpellCheck (remove only)
Fraunhofer MP3 Codec Pro 1.263
Free Download Manager 2.5 FreeDownloadManager.ORG
Free eXPert PDF Reader Visagesoft 1.5.1040.0
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter v1.1 www.hellopdf.com 1.1
Free Window Registry Repair
Free Windows Cleanup Tool
FreeCommander 2008.06c Marek Jasinski 2008.06c
FreeMEM 1.2 The M&K Network FreeMEM 1.2
GeForceTweakUtility (remove only)
GFX Sound Enhancer
GGSearch v.3.7 P.J.Kraaima
GIMP
GlarySoft Utilities 1.1 GlarySoft.com
GNU Aspell 0.50-3 GNU
GOM Player Gretech Corporation 2.1.33.5071
Gordian Knot Rip Pack 0.28.7 Gordian Knot Development Team 0.28.7
Grab & Burn, Version 3.1.0 ( Build 2004-08-04, Win32, CSS ) Rocket Division Software
GSpot Codec Information Appliance
GSview 4.4
GTK+ 2.6.10-20050823 runtime environment Tor Lillqvist
GTK+ Runtime omgeving2.2.4 rev d (alleen verwijderen)
Guifications Plugin (remove only)
H.264 Encoder 1.5 H264Encoder.com
Hardware Monitor for Win9X
Helix YUV Codecs (remove only)
HijackThis 2.0.2 TrendMicro 2.0.2
HOSTS File Manager GEOSoft 1.0.1.2
HSLAB Force Down Lite Handy Software Lab 2
HTMLGATE FREE version 12.2 MPSOFTWARE
Huffyuv AVI lossless video codec (Remove Only)
I-Worm.Sobig.F Virus Stopper 1.0 ByteGems.com Software
Iceows V4.20b
ICQ Lite
IEtweak 2 1.0.2
iISystem Wiper 2.3 iISoftware
IM Commander
im4cam
ImageForge version 2.98
imageN 1.4b
ImgBurn LIGHTNING UK! 2.5.5.0
InCD (Ahead Software)
InCD EasyWrite Reader (Ahead Software)
InCDUDF Reader(ahead software)
InControl 2.5 Virtuoza
Indeo® Software
Index Dat Spy
Index.dat Suite Ur I.T. Mate Group
InstallSpy 2.00 MJLSoftware
Intelligent Mailbook - 3.1 FREE version - ENGLISH
Internet Explorer Q834707
Internet Speed Booster 3.0
InterVideo WinDVD 4 InterVideo Inc.
InterVideo WinDVD Creator InterVideo Inc. 1.0.87.97
IrfanView (remove only)
ITSDiag
iTweak
IZArc 3.5 beta 2 Ivan Zahariev 3.5 beta 2
IZArc 3.8 Ivan Zahariev 3.8 Build 1510
IZArc Command Line Add-On 1.1 Ivan Zahariev 1.1 (Build 140)
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1.5.0
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 22 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1.5.0.220
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1.5.0.60
Java Web Start
Jetico Personal Firewall 1.0
JetLinks Fa. Manfred Dahlhoff 1.2
jetMailMonitor 6.0
JLC's Internet TV
jv16 PowerTools 1.3
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.70 1.70
Karen's Computer Profiler
Karen's Replicator
Katarn Corp's Ignition The Katarn Corp.
KC Softwares SUMo KC Softwares
KC Softwares VideoInspector KC Softwares
KCPUCooler (remove only)
KernelEx 4.5.2
Kneson Imagener
lcs plugin 4 trillian Topweb Consulting 1.11.1
Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice American English TTS Engine
Link200 v3.2 Veign, LLC
LiveUpdate LiveUpdate 1.01
LiveUpdate
Local Port Scanner v1.2.2
Luckman's Anonymous Cookie
MAGIX playR jukebox MAGIX AG 3.2.0.0
Mail Inspector 2004 4.0.20.135 iDev.ch
MAST pdf ghostscript tool 1.2.1 MAST Hard- & Software
McAfee Utilities Network Associates, Inc. 4.02.1001
Medi@Show
Media Commander
MediaJoin Mystik Media
MediaJoin
Mediamanager
Meebo Notifier Meebo, Inc 0.98.4
MemMAX v1.1 (1.1.1.2)
Messer v0.992
Micromega Software System EasyScan
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Data Access Components KB870669 Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Office 97 Standard
Microsoft Outlook Express 6
Microsoft Research Mesh Virtual WIFI Microsoft Corp 1.0.0
Microsoft Text-to-Speech Engine 4.0 (English)
Microsoft VGX Q833989
Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 VCM
Miranda IM 0.9.35
MMH Cleaner 2.1 MMH Soft 2.1
MMH Cleaner 2.1 MMH Soft 2.1
ModPlug Player Olivier Lapicque/MODPlug Central 1.46
More Control
More Properties 2.03
Movica SourceForge 1.6.1
Mozilla Firefox (3.6.24) Mozilla 3.6.24 (en-US)
Mozilla Thunderbird (0.6.)
Mozilla Thunderbird (2.0.0.24) Mozilla 2.0.0.24 (en-US)
MRU-Blaster v1.5 (Database 3/28/2004) Javacool Software LLC 1.5
MSN Explorer
MSN Messenger 7.0 Microsoft Corporation 7.0.0820
MSXML 4.0 SP2 Parser and SDK Microsoft Corporation 4.20.9818.0
MultiProxy
MV RegClean 5.0 English
MV RegClean 5.5 English
MV RegClean 5.9 English
MWSnap 3 Mirek Wojtowicz 3.0.0.74
My DSC
NASA World Wind 1.4
Nationale telefoongids
Neo Tweaker Profesional 2.1 Steel Dragon 2.1
Nero - Burning ROM ahead software gmbh 5.5.9.8
Nero Mega Plugin Pack MaCiO 2.0
Nero Suite
Net speed Booster 4.0.0.0 SoftDepo.com
Net Transport 1.91.271 Xi
Net Vampire 4.0
NetVeda Safety.Net 3.61.0002 NetVeda LLC 3.61.0002
Network Stumbler 0.4.0 (remove only)
nFLVPlayer Nikola Dachev 1.3.0.61
Noiseware Community Edition Imagenomic 2.5.0.1
Notesbrowser 1.5 Dirk Schwenke and Mevlit Daglar 1.5
NVIDIA Display Driver
NVIDIA System Utility
NVIDIA System Utility
NVT Malware Remover Tool v2.0.8b1 NoVirusThanks Software
NVTweak H4ck 3D 1.7.1
Nvu 1.0 Linspire Inc. 1.0
odf-converter-integrator
OE Tweaker
Online TV Player 4 Online TV Player.com
OpenOffice.org 2.4 OpenOffice.org 2.4.9310.5
OpenOffice.org 2.4 Language Pack (Nederlands) OpenOffice.org 2.4.9310.5
Opera 11.52 Opera Software ASA 11.52.1100
OperaAdFilter Dark Unicorn Productions v1.01
Optimizer XP Windows X 3.50.2003.XG
OrphansRemover version 1.8.9.36 DigiArch.org
Osirius SollicitatieGemak
OSS Internet Speed Booster 3.0.0.0 Onestopsoft.com
Outlook Express Q837009
Password Depot AceBIT 1.7.2
PC Accelerator 5000
PC SECURITY TEST 2005 AxBx
PC Wizard 2008.1.871 Laurent KUTIL & Franck DELATTRE
PC-Clean Netpia.com 1.20.0000
PCAnalyzer 0.1.2.1 AnyWay 0.1.2.1
PCMedik PGWARE 5.6.3.2003
PDF-XChange 3.0 Tracker Software
Pdf995
PDFCreator 0.9.8 Frank Heindörfer, Philip Chinery 0.9.8
PDFill for 98 and ME PlotSoft 6.0
PECompact2
Perfect Utilities 3.02 YiLong Software 3.02
PhotoFiltre
PhotoPlayer 3.2 (English) UniDream Marketing Technologies Inc.
PHP Designer 2005 ver. 3.0.2.2 MPSOFTWARE
Picasa
PicSizer
Pidgin 2.6.6
pidgin-otr 3.2.0-1 Cypherpunks CA 3.2.0-1
Pinnacle DV25 Codec
Pinnacle MPEG Realtime Codec
Pinnacle PCTV
Pixbyte AntiSpam Professional Pixbyte Development GmbH 2.6.0
Pixia 3.3b
POP Peeper Mortal Universe
POPFile 0.19.1
PopTray 3.10 Renier Crause 3.10
Powerbullet Presenter DDD Pty Ltd
Powerbullet Presenter 1.41 DDD Pty Ltd 1.41
Powerbullet Presenter 1.306 DDD Pty Ltd
PowerDVD
PowerStrip 3 (remove only)
Privacy Patrol v1.0 PrivacyPatrol.biz
ProcessPatrol
ProxyWay ProxyWay 3.1
PS Hot Launch VVL 1.1 PS Soft Lab
Psi (remove only)
PSP Video Express(remove only)
Q-Dir
Quero Toolbar 4.5 Win9x/NT Copyright 2008 Viktor Krammer
Quick ShutDown
Quick Zip 4.60.010 Joseph Leung
QuickDelete 3.1.0.9 Yeti-Soft 3.1.0.9
QuickTime
Quintessential Media Player Quinnware Build 117
Quintessential Player Quinnware 4.51
RahmanImager Bahrur Rahman 1.0.0.0
Ralink Wireless LAN Card RALINK 1.00.01
RAM Defrag (remove only)
RAM Medic 1.0 (Build 124) Iomatic, Inc.
RamAgent (remove only)
RamBooster RamBooster 2.0
Real Alternative 1.52 1.52
Realizer 1.1 for Winamp
RealProducer Basic 10
RegAuditor 2.1 Nsasoft LLC.
Registry Mechanic 5.0 PC Tools Pty. Ltd. 5.0
Registry Styler 99
Remove Unofficial Universal USB 2.0 Stack
RivaTuner v2.02
Sam Spade version 1.14
SBMAV Disk Cleaner Lite 2.74 SBMAV Software 2.7.4.3008
ScanDefrag (remove only)
SeaMonkey (1.1.19)
Secretmaker (remove only)
SecureWorld
Sentinel 2.0 Runtimeware
SharpReader 0.9.7.0 Luke Hutteman
ShutDown
Simple File Shredder 2.5 scar5 Software 2.5
Simply Backup CDRW
SiSoft Sandra 2001 Professional
Skype™ 3.6 Skype Technologies S.A. 3.6.244
Slawdog Smart Shutdown
Sleipnir Version 2.9.8 Fenrir Inc.
Smartalec CrashStop 2.0
SmartClose 1.0 BM-productions 1.0
SmartFix (remove only)
SmartFix Setup (remove only)
Solidata PDF Writer
Sonic MyDVD Sonic Solutions 5.2.3
Sonic Update Manager Sonic Solutions 2.9
Sound Blaster Audigy
SpamClean for POP3
Spamdelete 3.0.5.0 3.0.5.0
SpamItBack 1.023 SpamItBack!
SpeedItUp Extreme V3.75-Free
SpeedyMSN 2.0 Speedy_Kevin
Spy Sweeper
Spy-Ad Exterminator 2.01 www.OreWare.com
Spybot - Search & Destroy Safer Networking Limited 1.6.2
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4 Safer Networking Limited 1.4
Spytech IntegrityCheck
Spyware Begone Free V8.15
Spyware Begone V10.00 Free
SpywareBlaster 4.4 Javacool Software LLC 4.4.0
SpywareGuard v2.2 Javacool Software LLC 2.2
Ss Registry Fixer 2.0 Ss-Tools, Inc
Ss Uninstall Manager 2.1 Ss-Tools, Inc
Startup Control Center
Startup Delayer v2.3 (build 130)
Startup Inspector for Windows v2.08
Startup Mechanic 2.7 2.7
Steganos Security Suite 5.06 Steganos 5.06
StopRun 3.0 Malacandra Software
Streambox Vcr Suite 2 The Streaming Media Recording Forum
SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition SUPERAntiSpyware.com 3.5.0.1016
SVCDCorder (remove only)
Sweepi 5.4.00 YooApplications 5.4.00
SXBandMaster 0.91
SymmTime
System Safety Monitor (remove only)
System Security Suite 1.04
System Tweaker 4.1.0.0
The Proxomitron Ver. Naoko-4.5
Totally Free Burner DanDans Digital Media
Trace Zapper WinCleaner N' Optimizer 2.6.0.1 TraceZapper.com
Traceless 2003 Vantarakis Software 2003 (Build 1.14)
Tray Commander Lite 1.2
Trillian
TuneUp Utilities 2004 TuneUp Software 4.1.2318
Turbo Internet Booster 1.2.0.0 TurboInternetBooster LLC
TVSwitch OMyGad Technologies 1.0.0
TVTool
TVTool 8
Tweak Revisited 3.2
Tweak UI
Tweak-Me GOLD
TweakAll 3.0 Codeforge
TweakDB 2.1a (Beta)
TweakDB 2.2
Tweaker
TweakNow RegCleaner TweakNow.com v2.0.9
TweakNow RegCleaner Standard TweakNow.com v2.8.1
Types Evgeny Strunnikov 1.9.3
TZ Connection Booster 2.6 TrackZapper, Inc.
UBT 1.1.0 eBunda 1.1.0
UltraExplorer 2.0.3.1 Mustangpeak Software
Unforgiven Organizer 26 Carmelo Faraci
UniDream Power Batch PhotoWatermark.COM
Uninstall
Uninstall Startup Inspector
UPX GUI 0.1.16 octopod.org 0.1.16
UPX-Graphical 1.38 (remove only)
URL Finder 1.1 SK Lab
URLBase 5.1 Personal Edition Terria Development 5.1.0.721
V 2006 D-Plus+Software
Vallen JPegger Vallen-Systeme GmbH V4.52 (Build: 4.0903, 32 Bit)
VCDEasy delphi.stuff@wanadoo.fr
Video Caster 1.6 Webtech Developers Pvt Ltd.
VideoLAN VLC media player 0.8.6b VideoLAN Team 0.8.6b
Vidomi (remove only)
Vilma Registry Explorer Vilma Software
Visual CD Budy Setiawan Kusumah 2.0
Visual Vision IPER_ONESITE_LITE_E
Visual Whois 1.2 Atory Tools
VobSub v2.23 (Remove Only)
VP6 VFW Codec
VSO Inspector 1.0.7b VSO-Software SARL
W Memory Info v3.01
Watcher minuscule v1.10*
WebCam 2.2 Personal Edition
WebCam Monitor
WebRifle
WebSoftware HotHTML 2001 Professional Edition WebSoftware Systems Incorporated 1.05.400
WebWasher webwasher.com AG 3.3
WhoIs Winsock
Winamp (remove only)
WinBackup Uniblue Systems Ltd 1.86
WinBoard
WinCatalog Light (remove only) WinCatalog.com
WinCleaner Memory Optimizer Version 5.2 Business Logic Corporation 5.2
WinCooler
Window Washer
Windows 98 Q840315 Update
Windows Administrator
Windows Installer Clean Up Microsoft Corporation 2.05.00.0000
Windows Media Encoder 7.1
Windows Media On-Demand Producer
Windows Media Player systeemupdate (9-serie)
Windows Q823559 Update
Windows Registry Guide 2003 WinGuides
WinGet 1.6
WinGet 1.9 Indentix, Inc. 1.0.0
WinMX
WinOverBoost 2.1.1 beta ENG PCalMeglio.com
WinPatrol
WinPatrol 9.7 BillP Studios 9.7.0.2
WinRamTurbo Free 2.6 Dale Robbins Copyright © 2002
Winsonar 2008 Ultimate Edition - build 8.02.01 - If an older ve Zancart Software 8.02.01
Wintercooler v4.4 Liveye, SDC
WinTricks
WinVorbis v1.51 Ross Levis
Wise Disk Cleaner 5.71 WiseCleaner.com
Wise Registry Cleaner 5.8.9 ZhiQing Soft, Inc. 5.8.9
WiseDocManager 1.42 wisedocmanager.com
WorldWebcams Jeremy Akins
Wtts
x264vfw - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec (remove only)
XMPEG 5.0 Eric CHAUVET 5.0
xp-AntiSpy 3.8 Christian Taubenheim 3.8
XPlayer Micatoge 2.2.6
xplorer² lite Zabkat 1.65 L
Xteq Systems X-Setup 6.3 Xteq Systems 6.3
Xteq-dotec X-Setup Pro 6.6.300.Final1 Xteq Systems-dotec 6.6.300.Final1
Xtrimsoft PackIt Xtrimsoft Sdn Bhd (Zach Saw Joo Heng) 1.0.1
XYplorer 4.50 Donald Lessau 4.50
Y.A.M.C.! - Yet Another Mail Client (remove only)
Yahoo! Messenger
Zero Traces WinCleaner N' Optimizer 2.6.0.1 ZeroTraces.com
Zilla 4.0 ZillaFTP.com
Zilla Anonymous Surfer 3.0.0.3 ZillaSoft.ws
Zilla CD-DVD Rip N' Burn 5.0.0.3 Zilla Soft, Inc.
Zilla Connection Accelerator 3.0.0.1 ZillaSoft.ws, Inc.
Zilla TuneUp-Optimizer 2.1.0.0
Zilla Win Cleaner N' Optimizer 2.5.0.0 ZillaSoft.ws
ZNsoft Free 2007 Douali Nassim 2007
ZSoft Uninstaller 2.4.1 ZSoft Software 2.4.1
Zwei-Stein Video Compositor 3.01 (Beta 2).

[Beatrice]

Man, that's an amazing list you got there.

[cyberformer]

It's "The List" !!!!!!!!

The program list to top "ALL" program lists!

This post has been edited by cyberformer: 31 January 2012 - 05:56 PM

[Foxbat]

It looks like that list is from the Add/Remove Programs, at least the ones that do have installers. I suspect Giant2011 may have installed and removed at least twice as many programs to get to the current list of about 450. What would the registry look like?

I may have to start a feasibility study on the maintenance requirements and level of organization necessary to handle this many programs in case I ever turn out like this. And I'm the kind that formats from scratch every year.

[loblo]

Foxbat, on 01 February 2012 - 03:42 AM, said:

I may have to start a feasibility study on the maintenance requirements and level of organization necessary to handle this many programs in case I ever turn out like this. And I'm the kind that formats from scratch every year.

I just searched my C drive for exe files and I got 11250 hits exactly.

What I can say is that maintenance requirements are low but organizational skill level has to be rather high to manage such an amount of programs. I haven't installed/reinstalled the OS since I think 2005.

[Giant2011]

System.dat is 18.6 megabyte and user.dat is 6,07 megabyte

[M()zart]

Foxbat, on 01 February 2012 - 03:42 AM, said:

And I'm the kind that formats from scratch every year.

I'm exactly the opposite kind
Since 1997 when I got my first computer, I have made a clean install 4 times. Plus one on my secondary PC with Windows 98. Other times I installed OS over the previous instance. My Windows 7 was installed over the Vista (keeping previously installed applications) that was cleanly installed in early 2007, and my Windows 98 was installed approximately in the same time. On my main PC I have much longer list of installed applications, as I install almost everything from giveawayoftheday and rarely delete installed applications. Of course I'm trying to keep only really necessary apps in autorun. On my Windows 98 PC the list is so short because of lack of HDD space. However I'm going to buy another 1,5 - 2 TB HDD and place it instead of my 200 GB HDD, that will go to my Windows 98 PC.

[Giant2011]

Well I think you only should install the software you need. I have installed this list over a long period of time. It is only an example. I would like to remove much of
this list, because most of this software I do not really need at this time, and probably also not in the future. Some questions to discuss about. How do we keep
the registry clean ? How do we remove all these shortcuts ? How do we optimize the system with so much applications installed ? And how long can we keep the
same operating system running ?

[M()zart]

Giant2011, on 03 February 2012 - 03:41 AM, said:

And how long can we keep the same operating system running ?

Actually, I think the same operating system can be running for a very long time without reinstalling it. I could live without reinstalling over 5 years with XP. And my current 98 system is getting close to it (I reinstalled it over the previous after putting my HDD into another PC). You just should be careful and not to screw up your system yourself as I did with my first Windows 95 system Since that time I was careful enough
Though, I should say that my current Windows 7 system is slow. It takes up to 7 minutes to boot completely, though running applications after that is not so sluggish (in first several days after reboot).

[mrsk565]

Many people have said most programs were tested for win9x and not for ME. Which can increase instatability? Well I believe its true just from running ME and using programs. It can BSOD, or it can just freeze completly with no way out unless you hold your power button down and kill the pc or unplug it (whatever).

I like the idea of having a system restore but not one that would cause problems. I used Nlite a couple of days ago with XP pro sp2. And now I have a good XP system thats good and lean, I chose to keep the restore service and defragmentor because I like the extra tools I need.

I'm sorry to those working on win9x because recently I had to go back to XP. I had crashes and freezes which just plain ticked me off. But still I will be a tester for packs and updates because 98SE was fast as hell but still unstable.

Stable OS rating
1. Xp
2.WIN2000
3.98se
4.98
5.95/ME
98se is third in the list and has pretty much stayed there for some time. ME is alike 95 with being instable. Since most of us agree ME had more issues then 98. XP/win2k are in the lead in being stable, Many things could be taken from these OS's to make win9x better. Because Hybrid 9x + Stable = New windows 9x hybrid with speed, power, and performance. I think from what i've seen is that we are all wanting to go this way and thats cool because it shows we all have the same passions for computers which is making them better for us the user, not microsoft.

This post has been edited by mrsk565: 03 February 2012 - 10:22 AM

[Arminius]

M()zart, on 22 November 2011 - 06:54 AM, said:

As I had only 1,7 Gb HDD

M()zart, on 02 February 2012 - 06:10 AM, said:

However I'm going to buy another 1,5 - 2 TB HDD and place it instead of my 200 GB HDD, that will go to my Windows 98 PC.

You have a 1.7 GB HDD installed? Are you sure your Windows 98 PC's motherboard will recognize a 200 GB HDD? If it doesn't you can probably get a used 20 GB or 40 GB drive for nothing. At least you would have more elbow room.

[herbalist]

My old HP with 98FE has a list similar to Giant 2011's but not quite that bad. It hasn't seen a reformat in a very long time. I have no idea where some of those apps and files even came from. It was built over a very long time period. When the HP was my only PC, I wanted it to be able to do everything, open anything, etc. Quite naive considering it has a 366mhz Celeron. Since then, my approach to equipping a PC has changed. Now I equip a PC to do what I need. It not only cuts down the overhead, it reduces the attack surface. I don't have to worry about NetFramework or WMP exploits. I don't have them. I can't remember the last time I had an app that needed them. GIMP is another example. Nice program that does just about anything you could want with image files. Except for playing with it, I never used it. My system.dat is 2117KB and the user.dat is 401KB.

Regarding:

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How do we keep the registry clean ?

The link in my signature shows an easy way that requires no additional tools.

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How do we remove all these shortcuts ?

I make a backup of my system before installing anything. Instead of uninstalling, I just restore the system. An install monitor like Inctrl5 will show you every file, shortcut and registry change and install creates. Clean as you go and don't let it become a mess to start with.

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How do we optimize the system with so much applications installed ?

I separate the users data from the OS, each on its own partition. The swap file is on a dedicated partition. The browser cache and temp locations are moved to a ramdrive. This makes the system drive quite small and fairly static, save for new installs. This really cuts down on the maintenance.

Quote

And how long can we keep the
same operating system running ?

In theory, indefinitely. We might be able to run the very latest apps but then we don't really need to either. As long as the OS runs the software and interfaces between the hardware and the user, it's viable. The rest is bloat and not needed.

M()zart,
Do you have room for 1 or 2 more drives in that case? My old HP came with a 5.1GB and wouldn't recognize a 10GB drive. I added drives stripped from older units, varying from 2 to 4GB, which gave me room for a dualboot system. What helped the most was the addition of a USB 2.0 card. Originally, all I wanted was more USB ports. Everything I'd seen said 98FE wouldn't handle USB 2.0, which proved to be totally false. With the Orangeware drivers the card used plus NUSB, it was completely USB 2.0 capable and allowed me to hook up a much larger external drive. The USB was fast enough that I could run apps from the external drive. The built in USB wasn't 2.0 capable enough but the card made all the difference.

[duffy98]

Been reading through all the posts about the various software that people are using. Several programs are new to me and I have tried some of them. In 2006 I decided I had better start hunting around for all the Windows 98SE software I could find and get it all downloaded and burned to cds/dvds since some programs were already starting to disappear ... with links that didn't work anymore or had plain just disappeared off the radar. I already had a nice collection of software archived but I found many new programs that might be worth saving over the next few years ... maybe to use at a later date. I tried most all the newer software I found and most of the time decided I really didn't need it on my computer ... but I still kept it in the software archive. I have to agree with herbalist about liking a "slim running" PC. I use Memload to check one program with another. For instance, I use RAMpage v1.6 to keep track of RAM and free up RAM, if I should need to do so. I tried FreeRAM XP Pro that was mentioned in one of the posts. It's a nice program but RAMpage does exactly the same thing and just looks a bit nicer ( my opinion only) ... but when I check both programs in Memload for memory usage, these are the figures: FreeRAM XP Pro uses 1.5 M and RAMpage uses only 29.1 K ... a really big difference to someone with an older computer with perhaps not much memory and such. As for myself, I have plenty of memory these days but I still like to find the the best programs (that I like) with the lowest memory usage. I really don't have many multiple programs on my computer except for a few registry cleaners. I have used RegSeeker v1.55 for many years as my main registry cleaner, I have the others as "backup" cleaners but usually RegSeeker does the job complete so I really have no need to run the other cleaners. I didn't see any mention of anyone using RegSeeker ... I could have missed it, so many programs listed ... so I mention it, it also has a "Tweaks" tab with some nice extras it can do.

RegSeeker v1.55

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

RegSeeker is a perfect companion for your Windows registry !
RegSeeker includes a powerful registry cleaner and can display various information like your startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much more ! With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS ! Now RegSeeker includes a file tool to search for duplicate files, bad shortcuts and more !

RegSeeker is FREE for personal use only !

...

This post has been edited by duffy98: 05 February 2012 - 01:05 PM

[M()zart]

Arminius, on 03 February 2012 - 08:18 PM, said:

You have a 1.7 GB HDD installed? Are you sure your Windows 98 PC's motherboard will recognize a 200 GB HDD? If it doesn't you can probably get a used 20 GB or 40 GB drive for nothing. At least you would have more elbow room.

herbalist, on 05 February 2012 - 09:55 AM, said:

M()zart,
Do you have room for 1 or 2 more drives in that case? My old HP came with a 5.1GB and wouldn't recognize a 10GB drive. I added drives stripped from older units, varying from 2 to 4GB, which gave me room for a dualboot system. What helped the most was the addition of a USB 2.0 card. Originally, all I wanted was more USB ports. Everything I'd seen said 98FE wouldn't handle USB 2.0, which proved to be totally false. With the Orangeware drivers the card used plus NUSB, it was completely USB 2.0 capable and allowed me to hook up a much larger external drive. The USB was fast enough that I could run apps from the external drive. The built in USB wasn't 2.0 capable enough but the card made all the difference.

My main Windows 7 PC has three HDDs - 40 Gb, 200 Gb and 2 Tb, and there are no more place in the case for them, though there are free SATA slots.
My Windows 98 PC has two HDDs - 1,7 Gb and 4,7 Gb (which I recently got for free). Its motherboard is not that old - before I bought my current main PC in 2007, the 200 Gb HDD was used with it and everything was OK.