I'm reposting the following to a few newsgroups where I know some people still run win-98 as part of dual-boot setup, or have recently moved away from win-98, or for general knowledge. For at least the past 4 years, some windows-98 users have been able to use up to 4 gb of ram by using these patches. Memory constraints has long been seen as one of the major differences between win-9x/me and the NT line of OS's. But clearly, as this patch indicates, it has been an artificially-imposed constraint by Macro$haft.
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It appears that some combination of a Windows-98 hot-fix and some hacking at least 4 years ago, possibly by some Germans, has resulted in a very simple set of 2 files that can allow Windows 98 to use up to 4 gb of ram. As time goes on we'll learn more about how this patch originated, but it seems to have been circulating in German-language windows forums up until now. Thanks to Dencorso and his obtuse and irrational censorship as he lords over the Windows-98 Forums at MSFN.org, he indicated that such a German patch existed, and he labeled it as 'warez'. I then began a discussion on 'FoolsDesign.org' and the location of the patch files was posted thanks to a user there. That thread can be found here: Once Dencorso found out about that thread, he removed his own MSFN post where he described his censorship of the topic.
He's so anal he even censored himself! Why on earth those moderators at MSFN think that Microsoft is in any way concerned about Windows 9x today defies explanation. They are their own worst enemies when it comes to helping advance and grow the Windows 9x/me enthusiast community.
Their censorship efforts do nothing but instill a culture of fear and intimidation and diminish the community at MSFN. Hopefully more enthusiasts and win-98 users will discover the free and uncensored windows 98 usenet groups and also the software forum at. Are you reading this Dencorso? Will you and your other moderators change your ways and allow more free and open discussion about how to advance Windows 9x/me - Microsoft be damned? Here is a link to the new VMM32.vxd and VMM.vxd files that allow Windows 98 to use all available ram on any motherboard you have, up to 4 gb: Scroll down to the last item, which is: 4 GB Hauptspeicher fr WIN 98SE ( mit vmm98sed.zip )hot!
But don't click on it. Instead, click on the small little 'Download' button right beside the 'Details' button. What you will download is Vmm98sed.zip (about 1mb in size).
When you unpack it, you will find a reproduction of the Windows directory tree that helps tell you where to put these files. Inside WINDOWS SYSTEM you will find VMM32.VXD and you will copy that file to your own WINDOWS SYSTEM directory, over-writing the existing file which you should first rename to VMM32.vxd.old. You will also see a subdirectory called VMM32 which contains VMM.VXD (which you should copy to your WINDOWS SYSTEM VMM32 directory, and there will be no pre-existing file with that name. There is some indicatation that a file called ENABLE.VXD should also be placed in the WINDOWS SYSTEM VMM32 directory. That file is not normally found on win-9x systems, but it is on the win-98 CD.
Here is a link to that file: The two files VMM32.VXD and VMM.VXD seem to have been in circulation since January 2010 because they were submitted to on that date for malware analysis. That was the first and only time they have been seen by Virustotal until I submitted them yesterday. The scan 4 years ago was negative, and so was my scan, so they are clean as far as 53 Anti-virus programs are concerned.
I have varified that they work, as I have 2 gb ram on my system now and Windows System Properties shows 2046 mb available memory. Any questions?
No censorship here! Rod Pemberton 15/5/2014, 14:29 น. Rod Pemberton wrote: Once Dencorso found out about that thread, he removed his own MSFN post where he described his censorship of the topic. He's so anal he even censored himself!
Um, I'm not so sure about all that stuff. I really haven't been following what they've been doing on MSFN since I installed Linux. The short explanation is that the MSFN moderators consider byte-level modifications of original Microsoft files to be 'warez' and they will not allow links to such modified files to be posted and (I think) not even discussed. They.seem. to allow auto-patchers to be linked to and discussed (an auto-patcher is a program that will programatically modify your existing original Microsoft file to generate the 'hacked' file).
They let Rudolph Loew post about his commercial patches on MSFN, Yes, they (the moderators, at least Dencorso) loves Rlowe, and put no limits on how he mentions his software on the MSFN site. including his 4GB patch. Maybe Dencorso suspected it was R. Loew's patch or based on it and therefore mistakenly labeled it 'warez'? The patch is a byte-level modification of the default VMM32.VXD on the windows cd. Within the last 24 hours, a coder at has made an autopatcher to perform the mod: They also have that 'hidden' project for Windows 98/SE which they almost never mention or discuss in the main thread, like they're trying to keep it a secret, which is.only. available to those who join MSFN and develop.
It's not available to anonymous users of MSFN. It's called: Kstub. It's not a secret.
Kext: DIY KernelEx extensions A collection of tools for extending KernelEx Your impression that KernelX has been dormant or not pursued has, to some extent (I believe large extent) been replaced by using these stubs and tools (like import-patcher). Bill Buckels 16/5/2014, 8:43 น. Rod Pemberton wrote: Thanks for the info. Thanks from me too Guy. I appreciate your efforts in both making this available and in your excellent and detailed hilarious but sad stories of what is happening in other forums.
As ever, moderated groups don't work and haven't worked since the BBS days. But since they too have lots of info coming-in that is useful to the rest of us, if those of us who share info freely are made aware of info like yours it will not get lost. Mission accomplished so far:) Guy wrote: Once Dencorso found out about that thread, he removed his own MSFN post where he described his censorship of the topic. He's so anal he even censored himself! Guy, you're an excellent communicator!
There wasn't a single thing that we didn't understand. Everyone has bad days:) I laughed when I read that, it so reminded me of me. At least the guy isn't wasting his time sitting in the bar drinking. Rod is right about the young guys. I hope they stay in their own sandboxes and don't try to change usenet the way governments around the planet are trying to dominate the internet.
The Windows 95,98,ME days were great fun and well worthy of retro-improvement. Like the rest of the so-called old timers I have many computers of various vintages all live and afew Windows 98 machines in good working order. It's good to know that if I am ever sick of developing for the the Apple II or Commodore 64 or CP/M 80 or Windows XP or Windows 7 or whatever strikes my fancy that I can bugger-around with neat new stuff for Windows 98. My linux has been neglected in recent years but that doesn't mean I don't miss-it. Not to mention MS-DOS which I was abolsutely passionate about when I was much younger and slid between C and assembly with enthusiasm. There's many lurkers like me who sometimes troll a little for fun and to tease the other trolls. But the so-called serious minded like Mr.
Pemberton always apprecaite the news too evn when stretched a little off-topic as long as it serves some on-topic purpose. Thank you and give 'em hell over there in kindergarden or wherever it is these guys think they are. I have an MS-DOS website that has been pretty much parked while I mess with older retro websites that I have. When and if I get to that before I leave the planet, I'll be sure to talk about getting more RAM in Windows 98. Bill Rod Pemberton 16/5/2014, 14:42 น.
On Thu, 15 May 2014 21:02:56 -0400, 98 Guy com wrote: Rod Pemberton wrote: Um, I'm not so sure about all that stuff. I really haven't been following what they've been doing on MSFN since I installed Linux. The short explanation is that the MSFN moderators consider byte-level modifications of original Microsoft files to be 'warez' and they will not allow links to such modified files to be posted and (I think) not even discussed. They.seem. to allow auto-patchers to be linked to and discussed (an auto-patcher is a program that will programatically modify your existing original Microsoft file to generate the 'hacked' file).
Didn't KernelEx 4.5.2 (or maybe 4.5.1.) add an in-memory auto-patcher? I thought that I read that it did. The patch is a byte-level modification of the default VMM32.VXD on the windows cd. Within the last 24 hours, a coder at has made an autopatcher to perform the mod: Did they only patch the original VMM.VXD and VMM32.VXD? What about the updates and hotfixes to those?
MDGX has some archived VMM.VXD updates: Let's look at VMM32.VXD, VMM.VXD, ENABLE.VXD: a) VMM32.VXD 475,084 bytes 4/23/1999 WIN9854.CAB Supposedly, it's a compressed archive of drivers. So, it grows in size when drivers are added to the system, e.g., on my system: VMM32.VXD 928,319 bytes 6/14/2008 b) VMM.VXD (default is internal to VMM32.VXD) Since VMM32.VXD is internal to VMM32.VXD, supposedly, I have to wonder where they got their version to patch. Did they cut VMM.VXD out of the original VMM32.VXD? There are hotfixes which update VMM.VXD, creating an external file.
E.g., on my system, it's: VMM.VXD 472,564 bytes 3/05/2001 4.10.2226 Obviously, it's not dated 4.10.1998. C) ENABLE.VXD 4.10.1998 43,202 bytes 4/23/1999 WIN9854.CAB 'ENABLE Virtual Device (Version 4.0)' I'm not sure what this is for. It's not installed on my system. They also have that 'hidden' project for Windows 98/SE which they almost never mention or discuss in the main thread, like they're trying to keep it a secret, which is.only. available to those who join MSFN and develop. It's not available to anonymous users of MSFN. It's called: Kstub.
Kex Stubs. It's not a secret. It's still not available outside of MSFN. Rod Pemberton 98 Guy 16/5/2014, 19:25 น.
Rod Pemberton wrote: Didn't KernelEx 4.5.2 (or maybe 4.5.1.) add an in-memory auto-patcher? I thought that I read that it did. KernelEx v4.5.2 released By Xeno, November 14, 2011 22:59 Whats new:. Added KernelEx Virtual Device (VKrnlEx.vxd) project which makes modification of kernel32.dll file on disk unnecessary by patching the image directly in memory from kernel space before the shell starts (and other stuff.) Did they only patch the original VMM.VXD and VMM32.VXD? What about the updates and hotfixes to those? MDGX has some archived VMM.VXD updates: That exact question was asked today: - Do you think its possible to patch VMM.VXD 4.10.2226 thats included in SP3.
This was an update/hotfix M$ release in the past? - I believe the answer will be - yes.
Monitor this thread for details: Let's look at VMM32.VXD, VMM.VXD, ENABLE.VXD: c) ENABLE.VXD 4.10.1998 43,202 bytes 4/23/1999 WIN9854.CAB 'ENABLE Virtual Device (Version 4.0)' I'm not sure what this is for. It's not installed on my system. Default VMM32.VXD file on the win-98se CD is 464 kb in size, but my actual VMM32.VXD in c: windows system was 907 kb before I renamed it and replaced it with the modified file, which is 903 kb in size.
Windows starts with default file during OS installation, and by the time it's done it will grow as needed depending on your system and what install options you chose. I believe the author took his VMM32.VXD and patched it, and his system did not include the options that would have led to enable.vxd being rolled into his VMM32.vxd file, but apparently most (or some) systems would have done so. So by using this patched file, your system won't have the enable.vxd component. But the fix is easy - just find and place the actual enable.vxd into system vmm32 directory. This was translated from German: - The source was a Vmm32 'German installation without Accessibility' This is missing in this vmm32.vxd the 'enable.vxd' which is responsible for Accessibility (input help = eyesight and hearing impaired). If one has in his Windows installation in the setup so with ticked appears after overwrite the old vmm32.vxd at every boot the following message: (image).
If this error occurs, you should uninstall the input help and he's gone. If you get some sort of error (in German) after placing the new vmm32.vxd and vmm.vxd files on your system, it's because you need to add enable.vxd to your system vmm32 directory. See the first post in this thread about where to download that file (it can be extracted from the original win-98 CD cab files as well). I will soon post (via file-locker ) an english-language version of VMM32.vxd that has been patched the same way this german one was. But at the moment, I'm using this german patch for the past 2 days and don't notice anything regarding the language difference. They also have that 'hidden' project for Windows 98/SE which they almost never mention or discuss in the main thread, like they're trying to keep it a secret, which is.only.
available to those who join MSFN and develop. It's not available to anonymous users of MSFN. It's called: Kstub. Kex Stubs. It's not a secret. It's still not available outside of MSFN.
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Well, let's see if we can do something about that: Select 'free' or 'slow' download option, wait for count-down, solve captcha, and download that file. Close any advertising windows or pop-ups or pop-unders that appear during this process. It will ask for password, which is the first letter of the alphabet (lower case).
Rod Pemberton 17/5/2014, 13:10 น. On Fri, 16 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400, 98 Guy com wrote: Rod Pemberton wrote: Windows starts with default file during OS installation, and by the time it's done it will grow as needed depending on your system and what install options you chose. I believe the author took his VMM32.VXD and patched it,. That concerns me. His could be all German, missing some file which are in mine, have additional files not needed in mine, who knows what else, etc.
Rod Pemberton Rod Pemberton 17/5/2014, 13:34 น. On Fri, 16 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400, 98 Guy com wrote: Rod Pemberton wrote: 98 Guy Kex Stubs. It's not a secret. It's still not available outside of MSFN.
Well, let's see if we can do something about that: That downloaded a 13.3MB.rar file! That was via 'Low Speed Download' on right hand side, middle of the main page with Captcha entry. In fact, it says '13.3MB' size under 'kstub.rar'. 'Low Speed' 'SIMPLE DOWNLOAD' on bottom pop-up redirects to some video file. Dude, I'm not even opening this.
That's.WAY. too big. Kstub is only 5KB or 20KB maximum with the other files: It appears an off-MSFN link is on this page now. The link seems dead though: Internet Wayback archive archived that page, but doesn't have kstub zip either. Rod Pemberton 98 Guy 17/5/2014, 15:03 น. Rod Pemberton wrote: It's still not available outside of MSFN. Well, let's see if we can do something about that: That downloaded a 13.3MB.rar file!
That was via 'Low Speed Download' on right hand sidemiddle of the main page with Captcha entry. In fact, it says '13.3MB' size under 'kstub.rar'. 'Low Speed' 'SIMPLE DOWNLOAD' on bottom pop-up redirects to some video file. Jesus christ.
Dude - what's wrong with you? Don't be so anal. I.tried. to create a complete package. If you go and look at the first post here: You'll see this: - Other recommended updates: Msvcrt.dll. Rod Pemberton wrote: I believe the author took his VMM32.VXD and patched it,. That concerns me.
His could be all German, missing some file which are in minehave additional files not needed in mine, who knows what elseetc. The more I think about it, the more it seems that VMM32.vxd contains only Microsoft files and only contains vxd's based on the components that you selected during original OS installation and possibly after that if you changed any of the installation options. It may very well be that most of these files are not language specific or contain any dialog boxes or menus. I certainly haven't seen any indication that my system now speaks German in any of the dialog menus anywhere.
[email protected] 6/12/2015, 19:40 น. CENSORED Scroll down to the last item, which is: CENSORED But don't click on it. Instead, click on the small little 'Download' button right beside the 'Details' button. What you will download is CENSORED (about 1mb in size). When you unpack it, you will find a reproduction of the Windows directory tree that helps tell you where to put these files.
Inside WINDOWS SYSTEM you will find VMM32.VXD and you will copy that file to your own WINDOWS SYSTEM directory, over-writing the existing file which you should first rename to VMM32.vxd.old. You will also see a subdirectory called VMM32 which contains VMM.VXD (which you should copy to your WINDOWS SYSTEM VMM32 directory, and there will be no pre-existing file with that name. There is some indicatation that a file called ENABLE.VXD should also be placed in the WINDOWS SYSTEM VMM32 directory. That file is not normally found on win-9x systems, but it is on the win-98 CD. Here is a link to that file: The two files VMM32.VXD and VMM.VXD seem to have been in circulation since January 2010 because they were submitted to on that date for malware analysis.
That was the first and only time they have been seen by Virustotal until I submitted them yesterday. The scan 4 years ago was negative, and so was my scan, so they are clean as far as 53 Anti-virus programs are concerned.
I have varified that they work, as I have 2 gb ram on my system now and Windows System Properties shows 2046 mb available memory. Any questions? Post them! No censorship here! I am the designer of that Patch.
The latest version is available at. The operators of that German site illegally hacked an early version of my Patch. 98 Guy is an Internet Troll that has been promoting this Warez version for years.
Dencorso knew that it was Warez and banned 98 Guy. The Fool's Design link showed that he initiated the Thread and that the links to the German site have been purged. The Thread has apparently been removed. Robert Spitz 29/4/2017, 9:27 น.
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