[Nomen]

Over the past few days, I've been setting up a new install of win-98se on a clean drive on a 3 ghz P4 Soyo i845 motherboard. (And I've installed 98 SE SP 3.18 just prior to installing KernelEx).

Something I noticed is that I wasn't able to install any version-11 version of flash, at least not as the first version the system had ever seen. I eventually got some version of Flash-10 working, and then was able to get the most recent Flash-11 working. So for someone working with a new install of win-98, you might have to install flash-10 first before trying flash-11.

Oh - yea, I might as well mention that even though Firefox 8 does install and run, I don't see the point of using it when the bookmarks and recent-history don't function.

This post has been edited by Nomen: 07 March 2013 - 08:35 PM

[oc_dt]

I got a problem with the new FP 11_6_602_180. That's my scenario:

It was working fine with KernelEx v4.5.2 + FF 3.6.28 + FP 11_6_602_171. On 17 Mar 2013, the system refused to start due to the notification of FP 11_6_602_180.
Then I installed the FP 11_6_602_180 msi and renamed NPSWF32_11_6_602_180.dll to NPSWF32.dll. FP 11_6_602_180 failed to function.
Then I tried ways to uninstall, including the standalone FP uninstaller. The uninstaller failed with R6025 pure virtual function call.
Luckily, I was able to uninstall by right clicking uninstall on the msi, and then able to install FP 11_1r102_63.
Now, FP 11_1r102_63 is the newest version that I'm able to set up.

I was trying to re-install FP 11_6_602_171 or FP 11_6_602_168 but failed. I remembered that I was able to install FP 11_6_602_171 even with the error message:
A required .DLL file, WINHTTP.DLL, was not found.

All suggestion and advice are appreciated.

OC

[schwups]

oc_dt, on 17 March 2013 - 12:11 AM, said:

I got a problem with the new FP 11_6_602_180.  That's my scenario:

It was working fine with KernelEx v4.5.2 + FF 3.6.28 + FP 11_6_602_171.  On 17 Mar 2013, the system refused to start due to the notification of FP 11_6_602_180.  
Then I installed the FP 11_6_602_180 msi and renamed NPSWF32_11_6_602_180.dll to NPSWF32.dll.  FP 11_6_602_180 failed to function.
Then I tried ways to uninstall, including the standalone FP uninstaller.  The uninstaller failed with R6025 pure virtual function call.
Luckily, I was able to uninstall by right clicking uninstall on the msi, and then able to install FP 11_1r102_63.  
Now, FP 11_1r102_63 is the newest version that I'm able to set up.  

I was trying to re-install FP 11_6_602_171 or FP 11_6_602_168 but failed.  I remembered that I was able to install FP 11_6_602_171 even with the error message:
A required .DLL file, WINHTTP.DLL, was not found.

All suggestion and advice are appreciated.

OC

The latest Flash Player works with FF 3.6.28 for me.

Try this: Don't change the name "NPSWF32_11_6_602_180.dll" in the macromedia folder. Paste a copy of the file renamed to NPSWF32.dll in the plugin folder of Firefox or set the Firefox.exe from default mode to Win2000.


If this doesn't work look in the registry and delete the keys FlashPlayerPlugin, FlashPlayerUpdate (with path and version) HKLM\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\FlashPlayerPlugin, HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerUpdate and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerUpdate.


The message "A required .DLL file, WINHTTP.DLL, was not found." goes away if you paste the Winhttp.dll (XP version) in your system folder. You can download it on DllDump.com.

This post has been edited by schwups: 17 March 2013 - 06:06 AM

[oc_dt]

schwups, on 17 March 2013 - 05:38 AM, said:

Try this: Don't change the name "NPSWF32_11_6_602_180.dll" in the macromedia folder. Paste a copy of the file renamed to NPSWF32.dll in the plugin folder of Firefox or set the Firefox.exe from default mode to Win2000.

It worked, thanks! I'll just ignore the WINHTTP.DLL error as it has no effect.

[Nomen]

I have flash version 11.6.602.171 (most current version right now is 11.6.602.180). Adobe's flash player test page says my flash is working (the ball is moving back and forth). I can visit other sites (youtube) and flash seems to work just fine.

I have disabled my hosts file, and tried this on FF2, Netscape 9, and Opera 12.02. I get the same results with all three. I have changed my browser User-Agent string on FF2 to a more recent version of FF - and it doesn't matter. On a win-XP computer, it works fine.

What I'm trying to do is run the flash-based speed test located here:

[media]http://206.47.199.107/speedtest.swf[/media]

When I go to that page, I enter some numbers for a phone number (9 or 10 digits, the numbers don't matter) and then select "begin test". It then displays my IP and something that looks like a tachometer and a cute diagram of a computer and server separated by a data pipe. After a few seconds I get a message saying "Unable to connect to the test server - A firewall or VPN might be blocking the connection to our speed test server. Please check and try again".

I'm using neither a VPN, proxy, nor a firewall.

For some reason, this flash app doesn't work for win-98se with Kex, but it does work for me when I try it from a win-XP computer.

Does that speed test URL work for anyone else running win-98?

[loblo]

Well, it seems not everything works with Flash. For instance, the MySpace audio player doesn't work, it keeps on "connecting" to the stream but nothing ever happens. And it works with no version of Flash I tried, down to version 10. Version 9 which is compatible with vanilla 9x is unable to load the player itself.

[Nomen]

Here's another flash issue that I have. Once in a while (perhaps once out of every 10 or 20 times that I boot up this win-98 PC) I get this error message during boot-up:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program c:\windows\system\macromed\flash\flashutil32_11_6_602_171 plugin.exe
R6025
- pure virtual function call
(ok)

With that error message still on-screen, I run CCTask and sure enough, the above-mentioned flash EXE file is one of the processes running on the computer. I open msconfig look at the startup list - and see no evidence that flash had somehow inserted itself into the list. I run regedit, and search the registry for all occurances of "flashutil32" and again I don't see how or why that program would have been running as part of the boot-up sequence.

I dismiss the error and I get one final error about flashutil32_11_6_602_171.exe causing an illegal function call in module FPB.TMP. I do a search and find 6 copies of that file, each in it's own serialized subdirectory in windows\temp. Feb 22, March 13, 21, 28, April 4, 11.

The files are all 468 kb in size, and appear to be .exe files. File info says:

Description: Adobe flash Player Helper 11.6.r602
File version: 11.6.602.171

Any explanation?

This post has been edited by Nomen: 11 April 2013 - 06:12 PM