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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message news:znr1118712585k@trad... In article nNore.12570$gL4.12061@trnddc07 writes: related to a temporary directory that can't be found. But the lack of error messages makes troubleshooting difficult. Is this your Win98SE box ?? Nope, on the Win2000 day-to-day computer. I fixed the temporary directory path problem today by changing the environment setting to something else, then changing it back to what it should be. I'm guessing that this got changed in the registry. I wonder what else got changed, and how long it will take me to find it. In my 98SE systems, I use the System File Checker constantly. I had some issues with the Microsoft security patches from March... Security Update for Windows 98 (KB888113) and Security Update for Windows 98 (KB891711) seemed to cause scripting errors when surfing the web. Turns out that something happened to both my IE preferences and to the manner in which Zone Alarm looked at web sites. I can't be real specific, most of this is a wee bit over my head. Anyway, Zone Alarm expired at the end of March, and the stupid web site refused to accept the passwords I had set up for upgrading over the web, so I just went out and bought the newest version. This new version has become bloated and invasive, something that I used to praise ZA of *not* being. Even though I was upset that it was writing things into boot reminders (DOS), I decided to go ahead with the available on-line upgrade. It doubled those entries and added even more BS that is totally unecessary... anti-virus monitoring ?!?!? Holy smoke... now Zone Alarm is trying to tell me how to run my PC. The actions that some of the settings used to take had totally changed, and using my old settings, Zone Alarm was blocking even the most simple little animated .gifs from fully loading. Finally, after much wasted time, I managed to get stable surfing back in place. Well... along come two more Microsoft updates in May.... Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB890923), and *another* copy of Security Update for Windows 98 (KB891711). The latter of which installed itself in two different locations and if you disable it in startup, or uninstall one copy (which is all that shows up in add/remove), then the other copy, written into the boot, kicks in. On the first re-boot after this, the blue screen of death greeted me with great anger. Before it was over, windows was refusing to boot in any manner other than 'safe' mode. I have no idea what the cause of this was, but it's a symptom that apparently hundreds of people have shared. I don't even know what I did to finally restore my system, and it was a couple of hours in a solid state of shock and panic before I was seeing signs of the system coming back to life and it would boot without going in safe mode. Disabling Zone Alarm allowed me to start resetting things like my screen resolution and other items that were affected. Restarting with ZA let me reset it's security configurations slowly but surely until everything seemed to return to what appreared to be normal. My best assumption, is that the last few security updates were more than meets the eye. Both Microsoft and Zone Alarm had some odd interpretations of security implementation, and they were in *serious* conflict with one another. As the days have passed, problems have again begun to rear their heads with me changing nothing. Once again, ZA is not allowing simple .gifs and a great deal of scripting to load from web pages. I've checked my setting over and over again, and nothing is different from what I've done for the past three years *except* these recent so-called security patches and the new version of Zone Alarm. Once I have everything backed up and can go to storage for my mother- board drivers and a couple of pieces of software, I'm reloading Windows for the first time in over 4 years... and I am going back to Version 3 of Zone Alarm, and I do not plan on installing any updates from Microsoft that were released after December of 2004. Call me paranoid or delusional, but these patches seem to me to be compromising security rather than fixing it. Zone Alarm no longer reports to me when my IP address changes, and a few other little anomalies that don't make any sense. Lo and behold, today there are two more security patches for Win98... I just have the oddest feeling that these are opening doors rather than closing them. I hope the same upgrade & patch path is available and the individual patches haven't been written into something cumulative. I'd really like my computer to work again with the settings for security that I have chosen in the past, without my web browser being more or less compromised by these "fixes". DM |
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