Hi Bill,

As I had said earlier this year and the year before, that changing those
dll's did for the most part appear to solve that large quantity
file hang issue in some situations, however in the long run I discovered it
introduces other slight weird idiosyncrasies and so I think best not to swap
backwards those dll's anymore - which besides, you negate the newer security
changes made to those dll's which after the last cumulative which replaced
them once again - now this makes multiple security update changes one would
be missing besides the code disconnects it could present causing other
problems - so why bother..

I used the dll swap for a while and then went back to IE5.5SP2 because when
it came to that hang issue 5.5 was flawless, however that was a loosing
battle as far as staying security updated with 5.5 and so finally I just
decided to IE6SP1 my SE partition and trying to make peace or ignore this
current hang issue which certainly still is a problem. aamof just yesterday
it happened to me and I had to reboot to clear it but it doesn't happen
everyday because we don't do the things to precipitate it everyday, however
having said that it's also to note that besides the things you already
pointed out that causes the spaz, it can be activated even by deleting a few
files or renaming them off of a usb flash device, or deleting/renaming files
across partitions or network operations, and there are a few other ways that
it's gets activated as well ..certainly it's not perfect by no means, but in
perspective it's a small (but annoying) bug we'll have to live with; besides,
how long do you think we will hang around using W98SE anyway.. where more and
more each day I find myself working off of 2K or XP instead which will sooon
become the norm.. Although like most of you agree, W98SE will always be in
the class of the nostalgic best.

Rick


"Bill in Co." wrote in message

Well, I did try this out, and yes, indeed, lo and behold, it hangs up the
system (in windows explorer) a bit when you try to either copy or delete a
large number of files. (I tested it out on the Favorites folder
ecently - copy, and later delete that copy).

I've seen the fix proposed here, where those two IE 6 browse DLL files are
swapped out with the older ones from IE 5.5, and was wondering if anyone is
using that now.

From what I remember reading about this, you will lose the ability to
"repair" IE in Add/Remove, unless you put the original DLLs back, but other
than that, what's the verdict here?

So - is anyone in here using IE 6 SP1 (and Win98E) with the two browse DLL
files swapped out to the older IE 5.5 versions, and if so, how is it
working out for you? Any problems?