[Drugwash]

No problems for me. I installed in this order:
1. Flash
2. Roots Cert
3. KB838751
4. EXPLOR98

As a general rule, always backup the files that are going to be upgraded, before the upgrade, so in case of failure you can restore them (in DOS mode).

[Pari_IT]

Latest Explorer98 installs OK but Control Panel is slow to render then freezes or is extremely slow after a few clicks, have had to revert back to -1700 version of Explorer.exe
Using 982ME option 2
What are the differences between -1700 and -1710 versions?

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

Petr, on Nov 16 2006, 10:13 AM, said:

There is a bug that can be seen in the service packs for 98 (Gold) and Me - the Windows version diplayed on desktop is

Windows 98H4.10.1998

instead of

Windows 98 4.10.1998

I'm not sure where is the root of this problem, maybe in some unofficial fix?
It should be corrected in the next (beta) release of these service packs.
Petr
It looks really terrible.

I hate to keep posting the same replies but it continues to get ignored
so i gotta keep posting sorry for the annoyance

the bug is in 98KRNLUP.EXE
rename the txt extension to exe
MDGx will have to revise the installer

This post has been edited by PROBLEMCHYLD: 23 July 2007 - 02:47 PM

[MDGx]

UPDATED · 7-18-2007

Updated:
- NV8269 [late update]
- KB838751
- 98KRNLUP
- VBVM60
- 98SE2ME
- 98DDK.

HTH

_____________________________

BTW:
EXPLOR98.EXE was updated to install a newer version of EXPLORER.EXE 4.72.3612.1710 [discovered by erpdude8] from MS IE 4.01 SP2 [contained inside IE4SHL95.CAB].
Complete details:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/explor9x.php
This Explorer.exe has been modded [same as older 4.72.3612.1700 build] to include the "Windows 98 Second Edition" Start banner and Dr. Hoiby's 256 colors icons fix:
http://www.dr-hoiby....IconIn256Color/

Only Microsoft knows what has been updated/corrected in this version, please ask them.

I have been testing this EXPLORER.EXE 4.72.3612.1710 for more than 1 week, and works OK on my Win98 SE computer [with 98SE2ME option 2 and all other official + unofficial updates], never noticed any delays/slowdowns/bugs.

Therefore I have removed older Win98 SE EXPLORER.EXE 4.72.3612.1700 from 98SE2ME [options 1, 2 + 6].
98SE2ME now installs only WinME EXPLORER.EXE 5.50.4134.100 , and only as part of option 3.
98SE2ME has now only 5 options total.

______________________________________

Analada, on Jul 14 2007, 01:11 PM, said:

Had very bad experience with this.

Installed: Explor98.exe and rebooted. Then installed Kb838751.exe and rebooted.

Got msvcrt.dll (IIRC) not found and windows needs reinstalling. Tried to boot into Safe Mode and got similar message.

Ended up restoring from Ghost 2003 a July 4th backup. (Lost all config changes done since then.)

Sorry about your trouble.
Fixed KB838751 INF, please try again:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/KB838751.EXE

The problem was that the INF install routine could not rename/backup and then rename/copy MSVCRT.DLL by using just plain INF directives. I had to find a workaround [similar to installing ATL.DLL] for this to work.
Also, had to remove the backup feature.

FYI:
If this happens, no need to restore your entire OS, just copy over [in this case] any version of MSVCRT.DLL to %windir%\SYSTEM [%windir% = usually C:\WINDOWS] from native MS-DOS [example]:

1. Exit to native/true/real/pure MS-DOS mode:
Start button -> Shut Down... -> Restart in MS-DOS mode -> OK button.
2. Run these commands or save them using Notepad as DOS style BATch file and then run it [change C:\CABS to whatever other valid path if different on your computer]:
IF EXIST %winbootdir%\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.* ATTRIB +A -H -R -S %winbootdir%\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.*
IF EXIST C:\CABS\MSVCRT.DLL COPY/Y/Z C:\CABS\MSVCRT.DLL %winbootdir%\SYSTEM
Batch file created in Notepad [in Windows] or EDIT.COM [in MS-DOS] from these lines [example]:

Quote

@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST %winbootdir%\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.* ATTRIB +A -H -R -S %winbootdir%\SYSTEM\MSVCRT.*
IF EXIST C:\CABS\MSVCRT.DLL COPY/Y/Z C:\CABS\MSVCRT.DLL %winbootdir%\SYSTEM

3. Type WIN and press Enter to (re)load Windows.

This can be done for any system file(s) "missing in action" from %windir% or from %windir%\SYSTEM [for example].

HTH

[soporific]

MDGX:

regarding your VS6SP6U.EXE ...

This seems to be a combination of 2 things:
- Visual Basic 6 runtimes installation package
- Visual Basic 6.0 Common Controls Update

i haven't come across it before. It would be good to clarify if we need any of the other packs i'm currently offering in AP. The following files are in the official hotfix but not in yours:

asycfilt.dll (2.40.4275.1)
comcat.dll (4.71.1460.1)
oleaut32.dll (2.40.4275.1)
olepro32.dll (5.0.4275.1)
stdole2.tlb

and this file is in my version of the "Visual Basic 6.0 Common Controls Update (kb896559)" but isn't in your pack:
comct232.ocx (6.0.80.22)

Having said all the above, your pack has many more files in it than i have. So i'd ideally prefer to use yours but i don't want to leave out any of the files mentioned above. Can you or anybody shed some light on this situation?


and regarding your note about KB838751:

Quote

FYI:
If using in Service Packs, Auto-Patcher, PowerPack or similar packages: must use MV6.DLL [MSVCRT.DLL renamed] with KB838751.INF directives. Extract MV6.DLL + KB838751.INF from KB838751.EXE.
Same goes for ATL.DLL = installed by VS6SP6U.EXE.

Could you possibly expand on this?

Cheers for all the recent updates!!

EDIT: While i'm asking questions, pardon my ignorance, but any info on what the following update fixes?

Unofficial Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE KRNL386.EXE 4.10.1999 Fix

- oh, is it "This Fix may correct Kernel errors after installing Cursor + Icon Handling Fix" ... is that all it does?

EDIT2: --- regarding your announcement of the Flash 9.0.74 32-bit Web Player release .... did you mean 9.0.47? --- that's what looks like is installed

This post has been edited by soporific: 20 July 2007 - 09:38 AM

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

Hello peoples
i just installed office 2007 on my Windows XP machine and quite a few
files were updated

HLP95EN.DLL
MSONSEXT.DLL
MSOWS409.DLL
MsWrd832.CNV
RICHED20.DLL
USP10.DLL
write32.wpc

and a bunch of nice looking fonts
i was wondering if guys/gals can test the files for me due to my power supply going out
on my windows98 machine
heres the link to the files
http://rapidshare.co.../Fonts.zip.html

[Drugwash]

There are so many free hosting services. RapidShare is the most stupid of all. I can NEVER download anything from there - I only get an .htm file instead, telling me my IP is already downloading that file, which is NOT true. My download manager (FlashGet) is disabled, links are only handled by the browser (SlimBrowser). :-(

Sorry, but I can't test those fonts if I can't get them. Oh and over 40MB of a file... it does need a download manager, at least for some people.

[MDGx]

soporific, on Jul 20 2007, 06:13 AM, said:

MDGX:

regarding your VS6SP6U.EXE ...

This seems to be a combination of 2 things:
- Visual Basic 6 runtimes installation package
- Visual Basic 6.0 Common Controls Update

i haven't come across it before. It would be good to clarify if we need any of the other packs i'm currently offering in AP. The following files are in the official hotfix but not in yours:

asycfilt.dll (2.40.4275.1)
comcat.dll (4.71.1460.1)
oleaut32.dll (2.40.4275.1)
olepro32.dll (5.0.4275.1)
stdole2.tlb

and this file is in my version of the "Visual Basic 6.0 Common Controls Update (kb896559)" but isn't in your pack:
comct232.ocx (6.0.80.22)

Having said all the above, your pack has many more files in it than i have. So i'd ideally prefer to use yours but i don't want to leave out any of the files mentioned above. Can you or anybody shed some light on this situation?

and regarding your note about KB838751:

Quote

FYI:
If using in Service Packs, Auto-Patcher, PowerPack or similar packages: must use MV6.DLL [MSVCRT.DLL renamed] with KB838751.INF directives. Extract MV6.DLL + KB838751.INF from KB838751.EXE.
Same goes for ATL.DLL = installed by VS6SP6U.EXE.

Could you possibly expand on this?

EDIT: While i'm asking questions, pardon my ignorance, but any info on what the following update fixes?

Unofficial Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE KRNL386.EXE 4.10.1999 Fix

- oh, is it "This Fix may correct Kernel errors after installing Cursor + Icon Handling Fix" ... is that all it does?

EDIT2: --- regarding your announcement of the Flash 9.0.74 32-bit Web Player release .... did you mean 9.0.47? --- that's what looks like is installed

1. I've just updated VS6SP6U.EXE :
- new method of install for MSVCRT.DLL ["borrowed" from KB838751.EXE = http://www.mdgx.com/files/KB838751.EXE ] = renamed twice, otherwise does not install properly.
- added COMCT232.OCX 6.0.80.22 = this is a very old file, not part of VS6 SP6, but part of ol' VS4, I guess [?].
Please try it [2.11 MB]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/VS6SP6U.EXE

2. All these files [actually newer versions]:
asycfilt.dll
comcat.dll
oleaut32.dll
olepro32.dll
stdole2.tlb
are installed by OLEUP.EXE [512 KB]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/OLEUP.EXE
except for comcat.dll, which is installed by 98SE2ME, because the newest version is on the WinME setup CD-ROM.
But I have not tested this comcat.dll with Win95 or NT4.

3. Extract VS6SP6U.INF from VS6SP6U.EXE, and open the INF in Notepad.
MV6.DLL [MSVCRT.DLL renamed] + ATL32S.DLL [ATL.DLL renamed] must be listed as such in the SED code, and in the INF sections that rename/copy them, which are necesary for proper install.
If you would try to install those files the usual way, just by running an iexpress installer or running an INF to copy them to %windir%\system , you would get errors, and Windows would lock up after reboot, because those files canNOT be replaced the "normal" way.
That's why I came up with this workaround, which was actually suggested by erpdude8 a while back, he "dissected" an INF from an old installer, I guess.

4. KRNL386.EXE 4.10.1999 = the anonymous author who sent this fix a while back, said that this patched file may fix some kernel issues, and that it is mostly useful if also installing the .ANI Cursor + Icon fixes.

HTH

[MDGx]

PROBLEMCHYLD, on Jul 20 2007, 05:15 PM, said:

i just installed office 2007 on my Windows XP machine and quite a few
files were updated

HLP95EN.DLL
MSONSEXT.DLL
MSOWS409.DLL
MsWrd832.CNV
RICHED20.DLL
USP10.DLL
write32.wpc

...

Actually most of those files are older versions, except for:
RICHED20.DLL
USP10.DLL
which are newer.
I have not properly tested them yet.
I'll let you know if/when I do.

I don't see the usefulness of HLP95EN.DLL , unless using MS Office, this file doesn't do anything in Windows, any release.

Most of those fonts are also older, as far as I can tell.
And some of those fonts cannot even be used with 9x OSes, they are Unicode [NTx OS] specific.

HTH

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

MDGx, on Jul 25 2007, 06:23 AM, said:

Most of those fonts are also older, as far as I can tell.
And some of those fonts cannot even be used with 9x OSes, they are Unicode [NTx OS] specific.

Thanks for your response
when you have time can you let us know the fonts that do work even though
they have a older dates.There are fonts like chiller.ttf with 1999 date stamp
that was installed by office 2007 that is not installed by Win98/SE/ME Office 2000 etc....

and MSONSEXT.DLL
is newer

This post has been edited by PROBLEMCHYLD: 25 July 2007 - 12:22 PM

[Hu$tle]

MSONSEXT.DLL
MSOWS409.DLL
RICHED20.DLL
USP10.DLL

are all newer versions than any other.

[MDGx]

Hu$tle, on Jul 25 2007, 07:50 PM, said:

MSONSEXT.DLL
MSOWS409.DLL

These 2 have no function in Windows, they are used only by MS Office/Word, as far as I'm aware.
I have deleted them from day 1, way back when I first installed Win98 FE, and never needed them, but that's me, I don't use any MS Office components.

To my knowledge, both Win98 SE + ME install older ["generic", compared to Office which installs the "branded", more advanced] versions of these 2 files, so users without Office/Word can use Wordpad or/and Word Viewer to read DOC files.

BTW, Wordpad can actually create primitive DOC + RTF files.

These 2 take active part in reading from/writing to RTF files:
RICHED20.DLL
USP10.DLL
and should be installed on all Windows computers.
I'll test them to see if they work ok.

HTH

[erpdude8]

where art thou now, MDGx? haven't heard from you for at least two weeks now. new security patches have been released including new WMP security patches for WMP 7.1, 9.0, 10 & 11 and an OLE Automation oleaut32.dll security fix. can you try using oleaut32.dll v2.40.4531.0 on your 98se machine to see if it works correctly?

[Tihiy]

Quote

can you try using oleaut32.dll v2.40.4531.0 on your 98se machine to see if it works correctly?

And why not you? I've tried oa2k.dll from VB6-KB924053-x86-ENU.exe (update for 2000) and it seems to work.

[erpdude8]

Tihiy, on Aug 14 2007, 11:30 PM, said:

Quote

can you try using oleaut32.dll v2.40.4531.0 on your 98se machine to see if it works correctly?

And why not you? I've tried oa2k.dll from VB6-KB924053-x86-ENU.exe (update for 2000) and it seems to work.

I'm no longer using any Win9x OSes on any of my home PCs, Tihiy. they all have WinXP.
and my cousin's PC now has Win2k instead of Win98se [he wanted W2K in the first place anyway]. soon I'll be upgrading my aunt's Dell PC from Win98 SE to Win2000 SP4.

try surfing the net with IE6 with oa2k.dll on your computer Tihiy and check if things work all right.

[Bleeder]

erpdude8, on Aug 14 2007, 08:19 PM, said:

where art thou now, MDGx? haven't heard from you for at least two weeks now. new security patches have been released including new WMP security patches for WMP 7.1, 9.0, 10 & 11 and an OLE Automation oleaut32.dll security fix. ...

Let's not forget Windows Script 5.7:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

[erpdude8]

erpdude8, on Aug 15 2007, 11:16 AM, said:

Tihiy, on Aug 14 2007, 11:30 PM, said:

Quote

can you try using oleaut32.dll v2.40.4531.0 on your 98se machine to see if it works correctly?

And why not you? I've tried oa2k.dll from VB6-KB924053-x86-ENU.exe (update for 2000) and it seems to work.

I'm no longer using any Win9x OSes on any of my home PCs, Tihiy. they all have WinXP.
and my cousin's PC now has Win2k instead of Win98se [he wanted W2K in the first place anyway]. soon I'll be upgrading my aunt's Dell PC from Win98 SE to Win2000 SP4.

try surfing the net with IE6 with oa2k.dll on your computer Tihiy and check if things work all right.

OK. I'm fully recovered from a bad cold I caught last week and I did test the newer oleaut32.dll files on my next door neighbor's Win98se machine. oleaut32.dll v2.40.4519 from VS6 KB924053 update is good. a little different story with oleaut32.dll v2.40.4531 as I DO get some scripting errors when loading certain HTML pages in IE. Once I switched the OS from Win98 SE to WinME I re-tested builds 4519 and 4531 with WinME Help & Support Center. Help and Support will load as expected using oleaut32.dll 4519 in WinME. After I replaced the file with build 4531 and reloaded WinME and rerun Help and Support Center I get a "cannot display error" message and ME Help and Support Center will not continue on. I switched back to build 4519 and the WinME Help and Support problems went away for good.

At least I got to test oleaut32.dll file builds 4519 and 4531 more thoroughly and more broadly, unlike what Tihiy did.

so oleaut32.dll file v2.40.4519 to me is the winner - I'll scrap build 4531

[erpdude8]

dencorso, on Jul 12 2007, 02:22 PM, said:

erpdude8, on Jul 11 2007, 12:12 PM, said:

dencorso, on Jul 8 2007, 10:25 PM, said:

MSVCRT.DLL 6.1.9847.0 from KB838751 works flawlessly with Win 98SE [...]. It is described in <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838751> and is available from MDGx's site at <http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q838751.EXE>. It has to be installed manually, since this hotfix is intended for Win 2k. [...]

msvcrt.dll v6.1.9847.0 works on BOTH Win98 SE AND WinME, dencorso. I know this because that file works fine under WinME and even under Win95. I've used that file on other 9x versions of Windows and found no problems with that file.

Thanks for the feedback, erpdude8!

I've now gotten a NEWER msvcrt.dll file. it's version 6.1.9848.0!!!
you guys won't believe where I got this newer msvcrt.dll file (take a wild guess)
this one fixes a daylight saving bug as mentioned in ms kb article 932590

Quote

Perhaps there's something about my method of installing Windows 95 that causes SFC to report the DCOM files corrupt, or causes problems for the installation of DCOM. I'll download the OSR2 Update Rollup again in case my first download was incomplete in some way.

Please download my OSR2 Update Rollup pack again, bristols. It's now beta 6 and you can get it here:
http://www.usaupload.net/d/9axq0j28l15

This post has been edited by erpdude8: 23 August 2007 - 02:38 PM

[bristols]

Quote

Quote

Perhaps there's something about my method of installing Windows 95 that causes SFC to report the DCOM files corrupt, or causes problems for the installation of DCOM. I'll download the OSR2 Update Rollup again in case my first download was incomplete in some way.

Please download my OSR2 Update Rollup pack again, bristols. It's now beta 6 and you can get it here:
http://www.usaupload.net/d/9axq0j28l15

Thanks erpdude8 - I downloaded and ran the beta 6 Pack. SFC didn't report the DCOM files as corrupt this time.

The Pack updated the following system files:

- ASYCFILT.DLL 2.40.4528 > 2.40.4530
- OLEPRO32.DLL 5.0.4528 > 5.0.4530
- OLEAUT32.DLL 2.40.4522 > 2.40.4519
- VIDX16.DLL
- MCIQTZ.DRV 4.00.96.072 > 4.00.96.072

DCOM95 files:

- RPCLTCCM.DLL 4.71.3328 > 4.71.3328

Thanks for testing those newer OLE files. But could you tell me why OLEAUT32.DLL was downgraded?

[My OSR2x is fully-patched as far as I am aware.]

[the_guy]

erpdude8, on Aug 23 2007, 05:33 PM, said:

dencorso, on Jul 12 2007, 02:22 PM, said:

erpdude8, on Jul 11 2007, 12:12 PM, said:

dencorso, on Jul 8 2007, 10:25 PM, said:

MSVCRT.DLL 6.1.9847.0 from KB838751 works flawlessly with Win 98SE [...]. It is described in <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838751> and is available from MDGx's site at <http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q838751.EXE>. It has to be installed manually, since this hotfix is intended for Win 2k. [...]

msvcrt.dll v6.1.9847.0 works on BOTH Win98 SE AND WinME, dencorso. I know this because that file works fine under WinME and even under Win95. I've used that file on other 9x versions of Windows and found no problems with that file.

Thanks for the feedback, erpdude8!

I've now gotten a NEWER msvcrt.dll file. it's version 6.1.9848.0!!!
you guys won't believe where I got this newer msvcrt.dll file (take a wild guess)
this one fixes a daylight saving bug as mentioned in ms kb article 932590

Quote

Perhaps there's something about my method of installing Windows 95 that causes SFC to report the DCOM files corrupt, or causes problems for the installation of DCOM. I'll download the OSR2 Update Rollup again in case my first download was incomplete in some way.

Please download my OSR2 Update Rollup pack again, bristols. It's now beta 6 and you can get it here:
http://www.usaupload.net/d/9axq0j28l15

Could you e-mail me the hotfix that you got msvcrt.dll 6.1.9848.0 from?

the_guy