Hey

I was wondering how it is possible to search for themes that work with win 98. every time i download one it's only good for WinXP.

thx

you can't really do anything about it... watch out for themes that do not use alpha transparency.

and besides, the latest release of lsbox again features 9x support - so if you have a theme using lsbox (which did probably most of those you tried), change the according *netloadmodule line, and you'll be fine.

What you should do is identify modules that use transparencies and add some IF statements to make it compatible for example:

This is from Ghost:

If notransparencyfade = 0
If WinXP = 1 OR Win2000 = 1
EnableTrans "1"
Else
EnableTrans "0"
EndIf
Else
EnableTrans "0"
EndIf

This set the vars to either use transparencies or not

This is from Freedom

IF Win2000 OR WinXP = true
*NetLoadModule grdtransparent-1.1_beta_1
ENDIF

This is a bit simpler but does the same trick

If you figure out why they have issues with 98 you can fix it simply by useing these statements.

My suggestion would be to examine theme.rc files for IF WinXP or IF Win98 staements and make a text file to store them that way you can replace the offending with more polictically correct statements or just delete it.

try the hal9000 theme....
i am using it on a old win98 p166 machine....
and it works..

also some of the desktop icon modules dont jive well with win9X.