[OU] Opera 9.50 and Win98SE

[Benjamin Cohen]

Many thanks for your explanations and efforts.

Ben

At 10:36 PM 6/13/08, you wrote:
>On 13 Jun 2008 at 13:50, Benjamin wrote:
>
> > At the end of installation I got the following message:
> >
> >  The system library MSING32DLL is missing or too old,
> >  so certain transparency effects will be slow and
> >  possibly not drawn correctly.  Obtaining the library from
> >  a Windows ME installation and placing it in your Windows
> >  system directory will fix this.
> >
> > There are no Windows ME installations available to me and I suspect
> > that Microsoft would not smile upon my taking a copyright program
> > from somebody elses's computer and instilling it on mine.
> >
> > Ben Cohen
>
>I also dislike having to use something from ME or any other version
>of Windows for which I don't have a license. However, there have been
>multiple sites offering downloads of many DLLs for years and Microsoft
>has not forced them to close.
>
>Anyhow, I went through the exercise of finding the right version of
>msimg32.dll last week to get images working right in one of the snapshot
>builds. First I searched until I found the discussion at my.opera.com
>which identified the version needed: 5.0.2218.1
>
>That discussion also identified one place to get it, as part of one of
>the unofficial ongoing upgrade sets for Win98SE from http://www.mdgx.com/
>but that turned out to be unreasonably large for my dial-up connection.
>Then I checked quite a few of those DLL collection sites, but didn't
>find one with the correct version. Finally, I had success from a thread
>at http://forum.chip.de/ which offered the right version at
><URL: http://www.ef-el.gmxhome.de/chip/MSIMG32.DLL >
>--
>                                                 Joe
>
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