[celtish]

In view of Gape's prolonged absence from the forum I think we need to come to some determination about Gape's Unofficial Service Pack. There have been numerous enquiries about him but nobody seems to have an answer. My belief is that Gape has moved on to pastures new. I'm not in any way blaming him for this in any way. His contribution in introducing and developing the Win98SE service packs has been brilliant and magnificent and I wish him well with his future activities. But I move that now MGDx be asked to pick up on the service packs from where Gape left off (i.e. with SP2.1a) so that we don't lose the momentum.

[Hu$tle]

Have you located the missing hand problem if not i'll be patient until you do?

[MDGx]

Hu$tle, on Nov 22 2006, 11:29 AM, said:

Have you located the missing hand problem if not i'll be patient until you do?

Please refresh my memory, what do you mean by "missing hand"?

Thanks.

[Hu$tle]

MDGx, on Nov 23 2006, 03:58 AM, said:

Hu$tle, on Nov 22 2006, 11:29 AM, said:

Have you located the missing hand problem if not i'll be patient until you do?

Please refresh my memory, what do you mean by "missing hand"?

Thanks.

When sharing a folder on a network.

[MDGx]

Hu$tle, on Nov 23 2006, 11:04 AM, said:

MDGx, on Nov 23 2006, 03:58 AM, said:

Hu$tle, on Nov 22 2006, 11:29 AM, said:

Have you located the missing hand problem if not i'll be patient until you do?

Please refresh my memory, what do you mean by "missing hand"?

Thanks.

When sharing a folder on a network.

Unfortunately I don't have a network to connect to [I use only the internet], so I can't test this.

[Drugwash]

I don't think you need to be connected to a network to test the respective icon. Just right-click a folder, select Sharing > Shared as: , then click Apply and OK. If everything went fine, you should see a blue hand over the folder's icon, looking like it's offering the folder to someone (pretty suggestive, huh?). If the folder was correctly shared and the icon has not been changed, then the issue is valid and needs to be fixed.

This post has been edited by Drugwash: 26 November 2006 - 01:26 PM

[Max_04]

Max_04, on Nov 21 2006, 09:30 PM, said:

@MDGx:

Sound effects and music in pinball.exe there aren't.....
My sound card is Creative Sound Blaster Live Value CT4670 and I have no problem.

UP, I've discovered that the files sound*.wav e pinball*.mid aren't copied in pinball directory....
Also putting names of respective files and changing number of CAB....

Please update the first post of this topic with my link in signature, I've published 98SE2ME in italian language (in a board discussion about Unofficial Win98 SE/ME Service Pack).

This post has been edited by Max_04: 26 November 2006 - 05:00 PM

[MDGx]

Max_04, on Nov 26 2006, 03:58 PM, said:

Please update the first post of this topic with my link in signature, I've published 98SE2ME in italian language (in a board discussion about Unofficial Win98 SE/ME Service Pack).

Done.

Many thanks for your hard work.

Your link added here:
http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=46349

Best wishes.

_________________________________________

Drugwash, on Nov 26 2006, 01:25 PM, said:

I don't think you need to be connected to a network to test the respective icon. Just right-click a folder, select Sharing > Shared as: , then click Apply and OK. If everything went fine, you should see a blue hand over the folder's icon, looking like it's offering the folder to someone (pretty suggestive, huh?). If the folder was correctly shared and the icon has not been changed, then the issue is valid and needs to be fixed.

Thanks for your feedback.

Sharing folders this way requires the "File and Print Sharing..." option enabled from Control Panel -> Network.
I have never enabled this on any of my M$ OSes, because I don't need to, and most importantly, because it is a well-known security risk.

But I'll try it in the near future, and I'll fix the hand icon issue if necessary.

HTH

This post has been edited by MDGx: 27 November 2006 - 11:19 AM

[MDGx]

Hu$tle:

Please install new 98SE2ME:
http://www.mdgx.com/4
The open hand icon overlay for shared files/folders/drives is now fixed.
This was the BUG:
The desktop icons overlay registry fix [which has been fixed by deleting the SHELL32.DLL value]:

Quote

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{63B51F81-C868-11D0-999C-00C04FD655E1}\InProcServer32]
@=""

;

But now it is restored to original [added back the SHELL32.DLL value]:

Quote

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{63B51F81-C868-11D0-999C-00C04FD655E1}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL"

;

Replace C:\\WINDOWS with your actual Windows 98 SE path if different.

HTH

This post has been edited by MDGx: 03 January 2007 - 01:39 PM

[Max_04]

MDGx, on Nov 28 2006, 01:37 PM, said:

98SE2ME · UPDATED · 11-28-2006

Please see the top of this topic for most recent 98SE2ME update.

________________________________


Updates:
Removed Desktop Icons Overlay registry fix.

________________________________

Hu$tle:

Please install new 98SE2ME:
http://www.mdgx.com/4
The open hand icon overlay for shared files/folders/drives is now fixed.
This was the BUG:
The desktop icons overlay registry fix [which has been fixed by deleting the SHELL32.DLL value]:

Quote

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{63B51F81-C868-11D0-999C-00C04FD655E1}\InProcServer32]
@=""

;

But now it is restored to original [added back the SHELL32.DLL value]:

Quote

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{63B51F81-C868-11D0-999C-00C04FD655E1}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL"

;

Replace C:\\WINDOWS with your actual Windows 98 SE path if different.

HTH

Do you have modified some INFs file in particular?
Ps: compliments for assignment, msfn mod!

[Drugwash]

@ MDGx: thank you for the fix and congratulations for the recent Mod assignment.

[MDGx]

Drugwash, on Nov 29 2006, 10:53 AM, said:

@ MDGx: thank you for the fix and congratulations for the recent Mod assignment.

You're welcome. I'm glad you like it. Enjoy.

Many thanks for the congrats.
I only hope I can be up to this.

Best wishes.

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

Quote

"To safely hack the Registry to permanently remove those funky little shortcut arrows, without adversely affecting your program shortcuts in any way, start Regedit and go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Lnkfile

and to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Piffile

In each of these folders the right hand pane has the "IsShortcut" String Value. Right-click on it, select Rename, and change it to read "IsNotShortcut" (no quotes).
Close Regedit and reboot.
The arrows are gone now, but Windows still sees all the affected icons as shortcuts and treats them accordingly. "

Will this approach work better.

[NativeTexan]

PROBLEMCHYLD, on Nov 30 2006, 02:06 AM, said:

Quote

"To safely hack the Registry to permanently remove those funky little shortcut arrows, without adversely affecting your program shortcuts in any way, start Regedit and go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Lnkfile

and to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Piffile

In each of these folders the right hand pane has the "IsShortcut" String Value. Right-click on it, select Rename, and change it to read "IsNotShortcut" (no quotes).
Close Regedit and reboot.
The arrows are gone now, but Windows still sees all the affected icons as shortcuts and treats them accordingly. "

Will this approach work better.

If I may? This is not an advertisement, but; http://www.xteq.com/misc/members/ has the BLACKBELT of tweaking software and it runs on Win98 up through 2003 and that is one of the features you may adjust to your satisfaciton. They have over 1700 points you may tweak away.

Thank you for reading my post,

[NativeTexan]

MDGx,

I have just finished the install of 98SE2ME and find it very easy to install and feel the back-up is not really required, at least for my system. I spent about 2 days reading your file READMEFirst.txt and attempted to follow it as best as possible, there is so much information there that it is a little over-whelming. I might suggest you may need to tag/tab/seperate the different areas for the different possible selections for those that either do not need or don't care about some of those features so they can be identified easily and we could Copy/Paste what we need for our systems into seperate files for study purposes. That would HELP in making our decision on what to install and what is not needed.

One question, for keeping this system updated and protected to the MAX is the UnOfficialWin98SE_SP still good for this system and will there be a SP4ME as well?

Thank you for reading my post,

[Hu$tle]

MDGx, on Nov 28 2006, 06:37 AM, said:

Hu$tle:

Please install new 98SE2ME:
http://www.mdgx.com/4
The open hand icon overlay for shared files/folders/drives is now fixed.
This was the BUG:
The desktop icons overlay registry fix [which has been fixed by deleting the SHELL32.DLL value]:[quote

Thanks for giving me a hand lol
but i guess i can't have my cake and eat it too because i like
the fix that removes the arrows.Thanks again for all your help.

[Eck]

NativeTexan,

There isn't a need for copy/paste. All information regarding the available updates for all Windows systems are right on the mdgx.com website.

In addition, you may download text versions of MDGx's entire site (or most of it) in his zipped up packs for the various 9x versions.

Granted, there is a lot of information available. However, you can shorted your reading time by simply concentrating on the information regarding the available service packs you may be interested in installing. No need (unless you are interested) to peruse all the specific information about each individual update unless you will be installing them manually, without the service packs.

I replied to another question of yours (twice) by suggesting you read the 98SE2ME readme, and was surprised to see that you have studied it for 2 hours. It answers many of the questions you still are requesting answers to.

After using 98SE2ME you DO NOT have a Windows Me system. You have a Windows 98SE system with some updated files that are installed from the Windows Me cd by 98SE2ME. Any service packs or updates that are for Windows Me DO NOT pertain to your system.

YOU HAVE WINDOWS 98SE, even though you have installed 98SE2ME.

You still need to install all updates, patches, fixes for 98SE, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Direct X. However, many of these are installed by the Unofficial 98SE Service Pack, and almost all the rest by the new Autopatcher program.

You simply jumped the gun by installing 98SE2ME first. You may still be able to recover by installing the Unofficial 98SE Service Pack, the Autopatcher, then rerunning the 98SE2ME with the shortcut provided on your start menu. Just put back the Windows Me cd when rerunning the 98SE2ME program.

[gulias]

Hi, i tested the "transplant" in my system and works fine ! But there is a way to use in a diferent languange than english?
I speak portuguese and my OS is in Portuguese Brazilian.

Thanks guys!

[Max_04]

gulias, on Dec 4 2006, 03:21 PM, said:

Hi, i tested the "transplant" in my system and works fine ! But there is a way to use in a diferent languange than english?
I speak portuguese and my OS is in Portuguese Brazilian.

Thanks guys!

You must localize in your language, it's very long to obtain, my friend...

[MDGx]

PROBLEMCHYLD, on Nov 30 2006, 01:06 AM, said:

Quote

"To safely hack the Registry to permanently remove those funky little shortcut arrows, without adversely affecting your program shortcuts in any way, start Regedit and go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Lnkfile

and to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Piffile

In each of these folders the right hand pane has the "IsShortcut" String Value. Right-click on it, select Rename, and change it to read "IsNotShortcut" (no quotes).
Close Regedit and reboot.
The arrows are gone now, but Windows still sees all the affected icons as shortcuts and treats them accordingly."

Will this approach work better.

This works, but not better.
Please see this topic for details:
http://www.mdgx.com/...p11.htm#NOARROW

This is also detailed here [SHELL32.DLL patch fixed for Desktop icons without overlay]:
http://www.mdgx.com/98-5.htm#PSBF
with Pros + Cons.

HTH

______________________________________



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I urge both of you to take this outside MSFN.
Do this [if you have to] in another forum [if allowed], or through email, or messaging [IM] etc.

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I'm sure both of you are already aware of MSFN forums rules of conduct:
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And this doesn't mean only as computer geeks, but also as civilized human beings.
Please act accordingly.

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Both of you:
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Any more posts in the forums regarding this issue will be deleted.
Please act in a curtious manner without using any inappropriate language.
Thanks.