C
Conor
No it isn't if you install a rogue app. At least with XP you can "roll
back" to a previous state.
No it isn't if you install a rogue app. At least with XP you can "roll
back" to a previous state.
P
Plato
Conor said:
like scanreg /restore in 9X?
R
R. L.
oh, another thing that pushed me to xp is the 9x registry max
out. At some point, my reg got too big and scanreg/ fix
doesn't run properly anymore (hang at 94 %). A not-widely-
known fix for that is to download something called
"regoptfix". I don't know where to get it anymore but I
remember getting it at a forum call VirtualDoc or
VirturalDoctor or something like that. Anyhow, that became
part of the reason for me to do a clean install XP after I got
a free version from my company.
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Stephen Harris
Jim Scott said:
I fix computers and it it much easier to use win xp pro
especially for more drivers supported and networking.
My impression is that you are home user without a
network with a software focus rather than hardware
peripherals connecting with USB. Win98se USB
support sucks in comparison to win xp pro.
How many USB devices do you have connected
to your computer? If the answer is one or none
then win98se will suffice.
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Ron Martell
Plato said:
Even better - System Restore. And the XP version is very much
improved over what was in WindowsMe.
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Ron Martell
Jim Scott said:
Windows 98SE is pretty much unsupported these days, especially with
regards to new hardware development.
It will not be too much longer before software and/or accessories that
will not install or run on Windows 98 becomes quite common, just as it
is today with regard to Windows 95 and very often with regard to
Windows 98 Original as well.
Microsoft Office 2003 is one of the first of what will soon be a long
line of software products that will require Windows XP, or at least
Windows 2000.
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Boomer
H-Man said:
What I'm getting at is... where is your "here"?
I understand the message being at 24H but not at ACF.
R
R. L.
What I'm getting at is... where is your "here"?
I understand the message being at 24H but not at ACF.
Lucky that good old Xnews warned me; so my posts in this
thread were only posted here <hehe>
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JoeA
I am dual booting 98SE and Win2K. 99% of the time I use 98SE, in fact
the kids can't even boot to 2K. This is handy to keep private stuff,
programs that wont run on 98SE and backups separate. When 98 crashes I
can boot to 2K and fix 98. With a medium to large hard drive you will
never miss the space. Oh, about XP....if I had it, I would turn off
the eye candy, turn off system restore(if it slowed down my old PIII),
switch to the old style search, and end up with something looking alot
like Win2K, except for the product registration thing.
the kids can't even boot to 2K. This is handy to keep private stuff,
programs that wont run on 98SE and backups separate. When 98 crashes I
can boot to 2K and fix 98. With a medium to large hard drive you will
never miss the space. Oh, about XP....if I had it, I would turn off
the eye candy, turn off system restore(if it slowed down my old PIII),
switch to the old style search, and end up with something looking alot
like Win2K, except for the product registration thing.
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Jim Scott
Can I come back as the original poster?What I'm getting at is... where is your "here"?
I understand the message being at 24H but not at ACF.
The reason the question went to a.c.f as well as 24H, is that I lurk and
post at a.c.f a bit and know who to trust and otherwise
)AND as I think I said, I use as much freeware as I can (as opposed to
parting with money for something similar)
BTW A few hours on from the original post, there seems to be no
consensus except that as hardware is replaced it will become ,more
difficult to find W98 compatible stuff, otherwise use what you like
best.
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jo
R. L. said:
I got bored with the 24H crowd a while back and now never see anything
x-posted there.
L
Lester Horwinkle
Plato said:
No, like restore everything back to a prior state, not just the registry.
B
Boomer
Jim Scott said:Can I come back as the original poster?
The reason the question went to a.c.f as well as 24H, is that I
lurk and post at a.c.f a bit and know who to trust and otherwise
opposed to parting with money for something similar)
BTW A few hours on from the original post, there seems to be no
consensus except that as hardware is replaced it will become
,more difficult to find W98 compatible stuff, otherwise use what
you like best.
Your question was about 98 and XP, not freeware.
And you didn't have follow-ups set.
Was just curious.
I don't go to acf any more due to all the OT
HAND
C
Conor
All that does is restore registry entries. It doesn't overwrite
corrupted system files.
B
bassbag
Lots of 98 computers bought from tiny /time etc (uk) came bundled with
powerquest secondchance which in my opinion is better than MEs and XPs
system restore
me
B
bassbag
As someone who has helped me in the distant past ,thats a shame because mostJim Scott said:Can I come back as the original poster?[snip]
We've had this discussion before here,
Here? 24hoursupport.helpdesk and/or alt.comp.freeware?
Yeah, I think it was here. I think the thread started out as
a freeware compatability thing. Anyway, I'm just saying that
I agree with the whole XP is better than 9x thing. I do tend
to ramble on at ......
What I'm getting at is... where is your "here"?
I understand the message being at 24H but not at ACF.
The reason the question went to a.c.f as well as 24H, is that I
lurk and post at a.c.f a bit and know who to trust and otherwise
opposed to parting with money for something similar)
BTW A few hours on from the original post, there seems to be no
consensus except that as hardware is replaced it will become
,more difficult to find W98 compatible stuff, otherwise use what
you like best.
Your question was about 98 and XP, not freeware.
And you didn't have follow-ups set.
Was just curious.
I don't go to acf any more due to all the OT
HAND
OTs are ONTs as they are related to freeware or are a welcome relief to
repeated links......plus i think you used to post links to the smallest
freeware imagineable
me
M
ms
I'm certainly not as experienced as some of the people that post in ACF, but I hadH-Man said:
to respond to "how awful 98 is". I installed W98SE in 1997 and have been running
fine ever since. It's only in the past year that I stopped installing much, so for
years I installed and uninstalled, yet no crashes. Only in the past year or so do
I get a BSOD maybe once in 2 months. Something that helps is I cold boot every
morning.
So I'm quite happy with 98, no plans to go to XP. In my Task Manager, there are
now 9 processes running, in several friends XP machines, I see 30-40 processes
running.
Mike Sa
H
HJB
For me, moving from 98se to XP immediately eliminated all of the BLUE SCREENJim Scott said:
OF DEATH computer crashes. Now, my computer NEVER freezes or locks up.
But, I have been having a few other problems as of recent.
So far, I'm 100% for XP.
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Ron Martell
That is a really neat trick, especially since Win98SE did not even get
into Beta testing until late in 1998 and was not publicly released
until 1999.
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
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Ron Martell
JoeA said:
For Windows 2000 users, Windows XP is pretty much "Windows 2000 Second
Edition".
However many of the "under the hood" additions and enhancements are
pretty important, especially the improved support for hardware,
multimedia apps, and games.
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."