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Just stopped in to say thank you very much for keeping these browser forks updated and working well. A number of web sites are starting to turn their nose up at 27.9, but with the other two, I can still get to where I must on Windows XP. Although I hate how Mozilla messed up the title bar/menus in 52/Basillisk. Noticed that this moved to a new thread on the forum - you guys really need an entire subforum dedicated to this. :) Thanks!

Wow. That is a major loss right there. Never did get around to trying his patches, despite all the 9x stuff I do.

Just stopping in to say thanks for keeping Windows 95 (and 98/NT) alive! Awesome work!

I'm using SeaMonkey 1.1 and Firefox 2 with the modified flash 7 that identifies as Flash 8. Off hand, changing the user agent doesn't seem to do anything.

The modified flash 7 discussed here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143394-youtube-no-longer-works-with-flash-7win95-solved/ seems to have stopped working since a couple of days ago. It was working awesomely just last week. It starts like it is going to play but then seems to wait forever. Any ideas? Also posting on this forum in Seamonkey 1.1 doesn't work any more.

Never underestimate the power of legacy software or hardware. You would be unpleasantly surprised at the amount of stuff, especially in the corporate world, that MUST be run under some older version of Windows, or even DOS, and can not be virtualized. More often than not, there is no newer version of the software or hardware to upgrade to, as the company that made it is long out of business, or it was an in-house project. If there is a newer version, it costs several hojillion dollars - so either shoehorn Windows 9x on a newer computer or head off to eBay.

A script timeout can occur if you are using it on a machine with a very slow CPU. It also sounds like you have somehow accumulated a huge list of domains in the popup blocker. I would suggest just clearing them all out. And make sure the blocker option is checked, this should globally block all popups. Then just allow any popups you might happen to need on an as needed basis as you come across them. It is odd that you would have "blocked" entries in there since it supposed to work the other way around. But internally I think it was intended to permit individual blocking when the blocker is otherwise disabled. I believe since the time of Firefox 2 some sites have found hacks to get around the popup blocker. You should not trust sites that do scummy stuff like that. Also if you don't already have it you will probably want Adblock 0.5 or Adblock Plus 1.0.2 and its block list file. (There is a copy here )

Why not just use the Windows 98 defrag? The XP defragmenter program doesn't defragment folders and skips some files for varying reasons. This is because it was designed for a true multi-tasking system that they presumed would usually run NTFS. Win98 defrag also includes a feature that will profile applications and make their startup files sequential on the disk, potentially making startup times faster. If you get an "out of memory" error on 98's defrag then you may need to drop in the defrag.exe and dskmaint.dll files from windows ME. But that usually only happens on much larger partitions. Running the 9x Speed Disk from Norton Utilities 2001/2002 under 9x usually does a good job too. This also gives you the ability to wipe free space, sort filenames, and put certain files first or last.

What exactly did you do after you attached it to the other computer? Just copying some files in would never mess anything up. You didn't try and reformat it did you? It should be FDISKed and formatted on the original computer with the Win9x utilities. Once in a while sometimes newer partition utilities can do things Windows 9x doesn't like. Also, it must be formatted FAT or FAT32, not NTFS or EXT. If your computer's bios setup isn't seeing the drive at all, then double check your cable and jumper setting. If we are talking about a normal desktop PC then that also opens up the possibility of attaching other standard IDE drives to get the files in there. Such as attaching a second hard drive, or a CD drive borrowed from another machine. You can even use SATA to IDE converters like the Vantec CB-SP200 (just avoid the Kingwin garbage) to attach SATA drives.

Forgetting about the built in CD drive, your best bet is to install Windows 98 from a folder on the hard drive. The trick is getting it there. Here are some possible ways to do that: Pull out the hard drive, attach it to another computer, and copy the 98 setup folder directly on to it (this would be the fastest way). Use a DOS based split/combine program (there are lots of them) to break up a regular Win98 setup folder in to 1.44 meg segments and transfer them a disk at a time. Use a program like LapLink (there was one included with DOS 6) to transfer files over a nullmodem or laplink cable. If the computer has a network card with a DOS NDIS 2 driver you could make a LanManager boot disk and transfer over a network (very, very complicated though) Use an external parallel port "Backpack" CD drive, or ZIP drive. If it has a compatible USB port, there is DOS USB driver that might be able to read some flash drives. Not sure how well that actually works though. I assume this is a laptop where you can't just attach any random IDE device you want.

I've used the Windows 95 "ac97" drivers from here: http://support.advantech.com.tw/support/DownloadSRDetail.aspx?SR_ID=1-AQHM0&Doc_Source=Download on Windows 95 under Virtualbox before. Don't know about Parallels.

Just want to thank everyone who is archiving this stuff. The problem is you never know what crazy download you are going to need until you need it. And with the way the internet works these days once a file is removed sometimes that means it is gone for good.