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"Upgrade Pack 98" and the "1 minute freeze".
I'm not 100% convinced it was just a Registry entry that cured his
sleepy mouse. Anyhow, there must be trillions of Registry keys & combinations of keys in there! Similar symptoms for me seem always to be cured by turning off McAfee's auto-System scan. But it used to be worse than it is now. So, usually I let that stay on. The other 3 McAfee auto-scans I let be— Download, Internet Filter, & E-Mail. However, I'm fairly sure E-Mail scan isn't working. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "PA Bear" wrote in message ... | Forwarded to Win98 General via crosspost. | -- | ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) | MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) | | Sol wrote: | Hi there. | | Way back on the 20th of June I made a post to this NG... | | | | ...detailing a rather bizarre problem I was experiencing with IE6 | freezing my Win98SE box for about 1 minute every time I closed a | browser window. Shortly after I made my last post in that thread, I | formatted my hard drive, reinstalled Win98SE, and haven't experienced | the problem since. However, I recently was sent for by friends to help | them with some trouble they were having with their old Win98SE PC...and | lo and behold, the same stupid IE6 freezing problem that I had been | experiencing was their trouble! Now, to cut a long story short, their | OS disk had been physically destroyed, making an OS reinstall | impossible, so I looked around in desperation to see if anything had | turned up since I last checked. As it turns out, over on | microsoft.public.win98.performance (where I had cross-posted my OP from | this NG), I found this: | | http://groups.google.com/group/micro...755958bac9d19c | | In disbelief, I went to | | http://www.w98upg.net.tf | | and downloaded the English version of the so-called "Upgrade Pack 98" | and ran the full installation of it on my friends' PC (after taking a | disk clone/drive image, of course!). Now, I'll be honest: Upgrade | Pack 98 messed my friends' PC up in a big way. It broke the whole UI | and introduced a level of instability into their system that I have | neither heretofore or since seen in any but the most malware-ridden | PCs. So, I uninstalled Upgrade Pack 98... But, to my shock, the IE6 | freezing problem had gone away! I can verify, after repeated tests, | that the freezing problem was gone for good. I jumped for joy and left | my friends' PC to them, considering the matter closed. Later however, | they told me that unfortunately several things had broken since I had | worked on the PC (that's something you never want to hear...) and I was | called back to look at it. Apparently, Upgrade Pack 98 had trashed MS | Outlook's (not Outlook Express) ability to open IE6 when HTML web links | were clicked in emails. In fact, when they clicked links in their | emails, nothing at all happened--no errors, no hourglass mouse icons, | just nothing. So, disheartened, I restored their hard drive from the | clone I had taken (always backup!) and went back to the drawing board. | | Now, if you're still with me at this point and not bored from my | lengthy prose, I can assure you that here's where my story gets | interesting. | | Upgrade Pack 98 is a single file--a self-extracting exe--that was | created with WinRAR (I believe). The first time I installed it I | merely ran the exe which throws up a command prompt giving you the | installation options. However, on second examination, I found I could | extract the contents of the exe (I know, I know; it just didn't occur | to me before) and found, after some testing, that a registry patch file | called "installa.reg" stored in the exe was what was solely responsible | for curing the problem with IE6 freezing. Running this sole registry | patch doesn't appear to introduce any of the instability I mentioned | above into a Win98SE system; but it does add quite a few registry keys | and values, many of which don't appear to be responsible for fixing the | IE6 problem. While I'm extremely happy to have a fix for this annoying | problem, I'm not exactly thrilled that the fix involves introducing | more changes into the system than seem to be necessary. | | So, to come to the ultimate point of this message, can anyone tell me | which of the changes made by "installa.reg" fixed this problem? | I spent as much time as I could adding/changing the registry keys and | values on my friends' system exactly as listed in "installa.reg" one by | one to see which one would fix the IE6 problem. Unfortunately, I had | to quit before I could discover which specific key or value fixed IE6, | but I did make a list of all the items I found that did NOT fix the | problem. However, I don't know if the keys and values needed to be | changed simultaneous for the problem to be fixed, as, when I was | testing, I changed the keys and values one by one and not | simultaneously... And frankly, I looked at each and every line of the | blasted file, even printing out a copy on paper, and NONE of the lines | looked like they were relevant enough... Yet, one or more of them DID | ultimately fix the problem without any question (I tested that twice)! | In any event, below I've listed the original contents of "installa.reg" | as they are in the file I downloaded, and below that I have listed the | lines from "installa.reg" which in my testing did not fix the IE6 | problem. If anyone is interested or could shed some light on this | business, I'd be more than glad. I'll thank all you intrepid readers | who've made it this far now and beg everyone's pardon if I've gone on | and on a bit much and/or said anything really bizarre. I'm pretty | tired and weary right now as I post this, so I believe I'm entitled to | sounding a little weird. =) Thanks a million anyway, and cheers to | everybody. | | ***********The original contents of "installa.reg" from Upgrade Pack | 98:********************* ....snip |
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"Upgrade Pack 98" and the "1 minute freeze".
PCR wrote: I'm not 100% convinced it was just a Registry entry that cured his sleepy mouse. Believe me, it was "installa.reg" and nothing else that fixed it. This freezing problem was really weird and specific; I've got no solid explanation for why it was happening or why this fixed it, but it definetly did fix it--without a reboot or anything else, the problem was just solved immediately after applying the patch. I verified that the patch fixed the problem several times by restoring the hard drive from the disk image/clone I had taken as a backup before first running Upgrade Pack 98. Anyhow, there must be trillions of Registry keys & combinations of keys in there! True enough. I did look up many of the items using MS's knowledge base and googling in general, but I couldn't find any single line that looked like it conclusively could fix ANYTHING let alone my specific issue. I was pretty tired the other night, but I now realize I'm probably asking the impossible. Sigh. Oh well. Similar symptoms for me seem always to be cured by turning off McAfee's auto-System scan. I can assure you the problem wasn't caused by any antimalware/antivirus apps running in the background, or any other apps for that matter. The problem just started happening one day without any warning or indication of trouble and remained until I ran the registry patch, "installa.reg". At the very least if anyone else reading this is experiencing the problem I expounded upon in my OP from June 20 of this year, then maybe this will help them too. Cheers everybody! |
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"Upgrade Pack 98" and the "1 minute freeze".
"Sol" wrote in message
ups.com... | | PCR wrote: | I'm not 100% convinced it was just a Registry entry that cured his | sleepy mouse. | | Believe me, it was "installa.reg" and nothing else that fixed it. This | freezing problem was really weird and specific; I've got no solid | explanation for why it was happening or why this fixed it, but it | definetly did fix it--without a reboot or anything else, the problem | was just solved immediately after applying the patch. I verified that | the patch fixed the problem several times by restoring the hard drive | from the disk image/clone I had taken as a backup before first running | Upgrade Pack 98. Well, now you say the whole patch again. I thought you isolated it to just that incredibly massive "installa.reg"? Of course, running just the ..reg without updating files might lead to problems, if there's a new file or location in the full patch. Anyhow, I'm convinced enough now. Sorry to have doubted you, Sol. Sounds like you are onto something, BUT it may take a lifetime to isolate just what. And PA Bear is too close to a hibernation! | Anyhow, there must be trillions of Registry keys & | combinations of keys in there! | | True enough. I did look up many of the items using MS's knowledge base | and googling in general, but I couldn't find any single line that | looked like it conclusively could fix ANYTHING let alone my specific | issue. I was pretty tired the other night, but I now realize I'm | probably asking the impossible. Sigh. Oh well. I'm afraid I must agree. All I can think is... If you can find PA's Antarctic cave, perhaps play a 3-month long subliminal message to the contrary! | Similar symptoms for me seem always to be | cured by turning off McAfee's auto-System scan. | | I can assure you the problem wasn't caused by any antimalware/antivirus | apps running in the background, or any other apps for that matter. The | problem just started happening one day without any warning or | indication of trouble and remained until I ran the registry patch, | "installa.reg". At the very least if anyone else reading this is | experiencing the problem I expounded upon in my OP from June 20 of this | year, then maybe this will help them too. You'd have to keep a very close watch on the system & see exactly what changes on the day it begins. | Cheers everybody! | |
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