On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:46:56 GMT, Donald G. Davis
wrote:

writes:

Anyhow, before trying these things, what is the name of the registry
files (I think there are two) in Win98se? I want to be able to put them
back (from Dos), if I f**k things up. I do have a full backup, but it's
easier to just replace the registry files....

The registry files are USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT in Win98.

I thank JT for those registry tweaks. I also had been annoyed for
years that clicking on an URL in my TeraTerm program always brought up
Internet Explorer though I had tried to make my default browser Firefox.
I merged JT's two .REG files into my registry, and they had the desired
result without any problems. (However, in the "Progid" file I had to
replace the line "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" with "REGEDIT4"
for the registry editor to accept it.)

--Donald Davis

I solved that IE opening issue years ago. I renamed the IE file to
*.E_E.

Then I copied calc.exe to that same folder and renamed it to the same as
the IE file. That way, when IE is supposed to open, the calculator opens
instead. However, over time, the calculator sort of quit opening. Almost
like K-meleon became the default. I used to really like K-meleon, but
now it constantly generates security error messages. Sometimes it gets
so bad there is not even time to close it. Thats when I have to use the
3 finger salute. FIrefox gets a few of them errors and script errors,
but it's still pretty usable on the 25% of sites that will load at all
these days.