dirtyoldm

Well, my failure of v4.5 b2 to install is fixed. I had deleted \Windows\KernelEx with the files from 4.0RC2, where it keeps KERNEL32.BAK. Replaced \Windows\System\KERNEL32.DLL with the stock version and now it installs just fine. OK, I am an id***... [it won't let me call myself an i d i o t! How kind.] but found nothing saying NOT to do that! There's only a slight hint that you can install the new ver over the old one without uninstalling first. I don't know if the patched bytes are in the same locations for every version. Perhaps the installer can simply omit the check for a stock KERNEL32.DLL. Or each version could recognize a previously patched KERNEL32.DLL and restore any bytes NOT to be patched. That would also save 400K+ of disk space.

M()zart: Tried it again (new day, new boot) - micross.ttf (Microsoft Sans Serif) disappears from the Properties dropdowns when you go back to them again. Yet it DOES take effect, the menus are now micross.ttf. Sadly the menus still have black rectangles at the end of many items.

See #556 below -------------------------------------------------------- Also on the subject of the font problem in Seamonkey 2.0 menus: Changing the font for everything in Properties\Appearance works if you use "Times New Roman (Western)". It's ugly. But we found no way to change the system font to micross.ttf from XP. The font installed, but refused to 'take' in Properties\Appearance.

Your work is much appreciated. However, we have a problem in 98SE installing 4.5 Beta 2, downloaded from SourceForge 3/22/10. Uninstalled 4.0 RC2, told it delete settings, made sure its Registry key and \Windows\Kernelex were gone. Rebooted. The 4.5b2 Installer gave an Illegal Operation box, and "returned: -1". It erased the extracted setup file and added nothing to the Registry. We can't find anything about returned codes - can someone help ? Our 98SE is much hacked, but the old v4.0 Final2 re-installed OK.