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Forum: General April 28th 16, 02:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 2
Views: 3,564
Posted By Etal
Blocking google adversizing, twitter, fecebook using hosts-fileentries

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Etal writes:

So I looked@sig, and saw:
[]
--
Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion.

I think...
Forum: General April 26th 16, 09:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 2
Views: 3,564
Posted By Etal
Blocking google adversizing, twitter, fecebook using hosts-fileentries

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

writes:

98 Guy menulis:


127.0.0.1 localhost

# ALWAYS make sure "127.0.0.1 localhost" is the first line
Forum: General July 23rd 12, 02:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 22
Views: 4,715
Posted By Etal
Booting up on a USB flash drive?

Czerno wrote:

Of course no piece of software will magically patch your BIOS
code, and Plop is no exception.
Your PC can't boot from thin air. ...

... thin air .. That's the same as "the...
Forum: General March 3rd 12, 04:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 3,151
Posted By Etal
Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....

98 Guy wrote:

Etal wrote:

"the FF forum" Which forum is that? I don't find your nick
in mozilla.support.firefox at the news.mozilla.org
news-server.

I've never gotten much of...
Forum: General March 3rd 12, 04:16 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 3,151
Posted By Etal
Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....

who where wrote:

Etal wrote:

pedro wrote:

As both the FF and Opera versions are "obsolete" they also
tend to attract nothing but sneers . I have a standing
query in the FF...
Forum: General March 2nd 12, 07:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 3,151
Posted By Etal
Transitioning FF - Opera - niggles ....

pedro wrote:

As both the FF and Opera versions are "obsolete"
they also tend to attract nothing but sneers . I have a
standing query in the FF forum about how to DELETE a parameter
which...
Forum: General October 22nd 11, 01:52 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 3,640
Posted By Etal
FF2 opens only a blank page when hyperlinks clicked in (say)mail client

Etal wrote:


Next step for me would be to start the Firefox Profile Manager


""[VolumeLetter]:\Path\to\Firefox.exe" -P"

Create a clean new Profile (TestProfile), Start Ff, exit,
...
Forum: General October 22nd 11, 01:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 3,640
Posted By Etal
FF2 opens only a blank page when hyperlinks clicked in (say)mail client

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

You mention closing the program (FF) after changing the
default status switch. That might be vital, and I forgot to
mention it. Many programs will not write changes to...
Forum: General October 21st 11, 08:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 3,640
Posted By Etal
FF2 opens only a blank page when hyperlinks clicked in (say)mail client

who where wrote:

Etal wrote:

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Another gambit is to install Internet Explorer v5.5, (or
v5.1), whichever version is supplied with W98's install
CD....
Forum: General October 21st 11, 12:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 3,640
Posted By Etal
FF2 opens only a blank page when hyperlinks clicked in (say)mail client

Lostgallifreyan wrote:


Another gambit is to install Internet Explorer v5.5, (or
v5.1), whichever version is supplied with W98's install CD.
You'll need to use FireFox to reset itself as...
Forum: General October 13th 11, 02:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,117
Posted By Etal
Avira AV weirdness

who where wrote:

Etal wrote:


Well, here's hoping the next update of their Rescue-CD,
downloads & burns to a boatable state for you.


Anyone have a boat?
Forum: General October 13th 11, 12:48 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,117
Posted By Etal
Avira AV weirdness

who where wrote:

Etal wrote:



The AntiVir "License Key file" is called [hbedv.key].
(Actually it appears to be the "H+BEDV Products License Key
File".) If such a file is present on...
Forum: General October 9th 11, 03:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,117
Posted By Etal
Avira AV weirdness

who where wrote:

"Esra Sdrawkcab" wrote:

who where wrote:

98 Guy wrote:

who where wrote:
Forum: General May 17th 11, 11:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 25
Views: 4,282
Posted By Etal
Antidote to knowing too much. :)

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Etal wrote:

In the left tree-view, if one select an item with a
plus-mark to the left one can use keyboard [+] or [-] to
open or close the subfolder. Maybe not...
Forum: General May 17th 11, 11:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 15
Views: 2,530
Posted By Etal
Windows 98 Resource Kit?

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Does anyone know of a downloadable self-contained copy of the
Windows 98 Resource Kit complete with any tools, etc, that
came as part of it? I think it might have been a...
Forum: General May 16th 11, 12:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 25
Views: 4,282
Posted By Etal
Antidote to knowing too much. :)

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Yw. If anyone knows other good bits, post them, I'm sure I
missed plenty.

More of a plea for a good bit..

In places with two panes and the left one is a tree-view....
Forum: General January 8th 11, 07:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 49
Views: 4,514
Posted By Etal
Can't use YouTube

98 Guy wrote:


Also, I came across the following:

-------------------
The above answers were correct when it comes to erasing the history.
However, the Mozilla Firefox 3 has a new...
Forum: General January 8th 11, 07:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 49
Views: 4,514
Posted By Etal
Can't use YouTube

wrote:

( Configuring Firefox )

Go to:
tools/options/privacy/
On the bottom, it says
"When using the location bar, suggest:"
Just change it to NOTHING.
Forum: General December 21st 10, 06:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 84
Views: 10,806
Posted By Etal
Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. help

FromTheRafters wrote:

That could very well be. It could also be that Microsoft
purposefully made the timestamps work the way that they do so
as to be consistent with filesystems that do indeed...
Forum: General December 20th 10, 07:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 84
Views: 10,806
Posted By Etal
Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. help

FromTheRafters wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

FromTheRafters writes:

Rather than spend computing time in transferring a large
files data to another location on the volume...
Forum: General December 17th 10, 04:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 84
Views: 10,806
Posted By Etal
Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. help: now file dates

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

OK, I forgot the "accessed" one. Not all app.s result in that
being modified anyway.

I think of the "accessed" one as an example of quantum physics.
You can't...
Forum: General December 17th 10, 04:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 84
Views: 10,806
Posted By Etal
Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. help: now file dates

FromTheRafters wrote:

Etal wrote:



And yes, i am aware that all timestamps can be manipulated,
so it's something one has to be weary about. I have a
utility, 'Properties Plus',...
Forum: General December 17th 10, 04:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 84
Views: 10,806
Posted By Etal
Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. help

FromTheRafters wrote:

Etal wrote:


Etal wrote:

The terminology used is actually insufficient. It
doesn't (allow to) differentiate between the
creation-date of a file and...
Forum: General December 12th 10, 06:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 84
Views: 10,806
Posted By Etal
Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. help

Bill in Co wrote:

Etal wrote:

Bill in Co wrote:


But I found another file (d3d8.dll) in system32 dated:
Creation date Aug 2004 Modified date April 2008. So,
whatever.
Forum: General December 12th 10, 05:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 84
Views: 10,806
Posted By Etal
Msvcrt.dll v6.0.9782.0. help

Bill in Co wrote:

Look at the majority of files in %WinDir%\System\, the ones
that have a modification-date of 1998-1999 of the original
Win98xE.

Good point - let's go with that...
...
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