Rings a bell but I cant remember what I did.
Did you install the chipset drivers and enable DMA? I think version 3.20.1008 was the latest.

I also dont install any hotfixes, Just IE6

Should be shell32.dll buggy if I remember correctly.
Upgrade it!

chinny22 wrote:

Rings a bell but I cant remember what I did.
Did you install the chipset drivers and enable DMA? I think version 3.20.1008 was the latest.

I also dont install any hotfixes, Just IE6

Ding! No I didnt even know there are chipset drivers for 440BX *facepalm*

Is this necessary for 430 and 440LX chipsets as well? Never had an issue with them in 98SE possibly due to mature drivers beşng bundled with the OS I suppose.

appiah4 wrote:

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Yes, many times, due to the ie6 bug when it comes move/delete large/many files. Nowdays on win9x systems I never go beyond ie55sp2 to avoid it and ie6 is not really needed for me anymore - webpages that doesn't work with ie55 will not really work with ie6 either.

dottoss wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Yes, many times, due to the ie6 bug when it comes move/delete large/many files. Nowdays on win9x systems I never go beyond ie55sp2 to avoid it and ie6 is not really needed for me anymore - Webpages that doesn't work with ie55 will not really work with ie6 either.

Interesting how this does not happen with my 430TX K6-2 system, though.

appiah4 wrote:

Interesting how this does not happen with my 430TX K6-2 system, though.

Perhaps, but the bug was never really disclosed by Microsoft, nor fixed. Who knows how it really works. I can tell you though, sooner or later, it always happens for me. Not all file operations triggers it, but most of them do. I do image archiving on all my cd-roms on my Win9x box, and the files is usually between 500-700mb and it usually happens with ie6 installed 9 out 10 times when i move/copy/delete the image file to my various NAS solutions and when deleting the file on the local storage on the win9x. If i delete a gamefolder, with somewhat many files in it, it usually also triggers it.

Perhaps this resource can satisfy your curiosity - https://msfn.org/board/topic/84451-98-fe-98-s … shell32dll-fix/

dottoss wrote:

Perhaps this resource can satisfy your curiosity - https://msfn.org/board/topic/84451-98-fe-98-s … shell32dll-fix/

Many thanks, downloaded and will install this patch tonight.

I will also install the Intel Chipset Drivers and this patch on my 430TX system as well. 😎

30 years after the fact, I have found out about and the solution, to possibly the most annoying bug in Win98SE. I probably did not suffer this because I moved to Win2K by the time IE6 was around (and I probably never bothered installing that, as I was a Netscape guy..)

All links are dead, does anyone have one for windows me: SHELLME.EXE

alexclaudiu2003 wrote on 2022-10-29, 18:01:

All links are dead, does anyone have one for windows me: SHELLME.EXE

https://web.archive.org/web/20210506072831/ht … les/SHELLME.EXE

Thank you darry! you are the best

large or numerous files bug can be patched with autopatcher 2007 but i think theres a side effect like shortcut arrows cannot be hidden i think