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Hi, Thanks for your program.

I run '98SE and thought i'd have a play with TCPOptimiser.
I started by backing up my current settings with the inbuilt backup feature (paranoid), but I seemed to fumble this (stoopid) as I'd already been playing, though i didn't realise it at the time.......

Anyway I just wanted to tweak the Priority settings in the Advanced section only, and did this per the recommended settings 5,6,7,8 and seemed to work ok so i surfed awhile. Later I thought things didn't seem much better or that different or possibly even a mite slower so i decided to put things back. That's when i found out my backup was no good and decided to resort to the Default Windows Settings.

Well surprised I was when my internet was now BROKEN.
No DNS no Whois no Time synchro no browsing, the only thing that still worked was pings to myself and the other machine on the internal network.

Now I started to worry that I would have to do a TCP/IP reinstall, or worse a full system restore from my last backup (lucky I have one, most people don't!).
Then I noticed that tcpo had kindly made a "First Backup" so I used that to put things right, or it seemed to.....

Everything was fine, surfing fine Time synched All Good so I thought i might try a bit more tweaking.
But now in the advanced section I see that my priority settings in Advanced ARE ALL ZEROS !!!!

Whoah I thought what did i do this time ??? Better do it again....
So back to restore from First Backup, I look in the final Confirm list and there they are: old values 0,0,0,0 new values 243,244,208,209 OK restore and reboot.....

Check settings THEY ARE ALL ZEROS !!! It said specifically it was going to change them but IT DIDN'T. The only way I could get them back was to do a Custom Settings Apply and set them manually.

So....in light of this I am wondering:
firstly, is this normal behaviour for TCPOptimiser ?
secondly, can I be sure that my other original settings were restored properly ?

Thanks for your time.
Col

Sorry about the problems you were having with the TCP Optimizer. I'll look into the "restore to default" under Windows 98SE.

Restoring to backup does work properly.

Windows 98 does have the "scanreg /restore" utility which also gives you a complete registry restore from whatever date you select in the utility. Just to give you another option.

Hi Philip thanks for answering :)

Here's another interesting thing:

As per my message above, I've manually tweaked the Advanced/Priority settings, and I decide to reload my First Backup file again. I look at the list in the final confirm window and it says "old values: 273,244,208,209" "New Values: 273,244,208,209". So I hit Apply and reboot.

Be damned they are all set to zeros again !!!

I'll confess that my computer is not 'normal', it's old and quirky and always has been. When I bought the m'board in 1999 or 2000 it claimed to do ULTRA-ATA but it has never worked, applying the m'board drivers to enable this totally breaks windows '95 and '98SE. XP refuses to install on this machine. I have 3 * 128mb memory sticks pc133 sdram and I'm pretty sure at least one of them is faulty.

I say this because if you have tested TCPO thoroughly on a win 98SE machine and all is fine then it's probably just me !

FYI system info is: AMD Duron 800Mhz, Win 98 Second Edition 4.10.2222 A

Next time I use TCPO i will do a registry snapshot so I can see what's going on.

Thanks again for your time.

p.s. Thank You too Stonecat, I don't drink any more but when I did I used to drink Stones Green Ginger Wine - For Beauty !
:P