Couldn't happen to a nicer company, with a nicer product, from a bunch of nicer criminals. Windoze 8 is a flop, and Sinofsky's head is the first to roll. Microsoft: If it works, it's not complicated enough. Long live Windows 98! ============================================

I recently inherited an almost new Win7 (64 bit) computer so I replaced the ten year old machine that my wife an I share. (We each have our own private machines.) To my disappointment , my favorite game...a very old 16 bit version of Tetris did not run...not even using win95 compatibility. I...

It appears that Asrock is reviving the production of this 5-year-old motherboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=775i65G%20R3.0&cat=Specifications This is a micro-atx form-factor board, with Intel socket-775 CPU support. It has the Intel 865/ICHR-5 chipset, AGP slot for video,...

I just bought an used Dell Latitude D620. It has Windows XP in it. I would like to use Windows 98SE with it instead. Accessing the Dell support site (US), there are drivers for Windows 2000, Vista and XP, there is no Windows 98. In fact, after browsing many older latop models (Latitude,...

"Betty" 'all wrote in message ... FromTheRafters wrote: Betty explained : Virus Guy wrote: Betty wrote: I was on my old desktop this afternoon and saw your replies to me. Help!!

My '98 machine's wireless adaptor seems to be working - three different networks it connects to (ones I legitimately have access to): its connected lights come on at good signal strength (in two of the cases the router is only yards away), and its utility on screen says it is connected. But I...

At work I use a '95 system to test some hardware, and transfer the logs of the test to an XP system via floppy. The '95 has a built-in floppy drive, the XP a USB one. What I am puzzled about is why a bad floppy sucks away so much in the way of system resources. Yes, obviously it isn't...

In a recent post I mistakenly asked how to remove Taskmonitor from starting. I should have said I wanted to keep Taskscheduler from starting and appearing in the sys. tray. My sincere apologies but will some one please help with my new and correct concern? Henry

How do I get Taskmonitor to not start when I boot-up? It comes up in the Sys. Tray and I right click and tell it to stop using, but the next boot it's there again. I don't use it and want it to not load. Thanks Henry

On Sunday, April 16, 2000 3:00:00 PM UTC+8, Henry Hui wrote: Dear Sirs, I have just upgraded my harddisk from 1.7 gb to 4 gb and when I after installed WIN98, I can only access up to 2.1 gb. Please teach me some ways to maximise the harddisk capacity. Thank you. Henry Hui

I assume that in order to be able to boot up on a USB flash drive (in DOS), the BIOS in the computer must allow for that option to be selected. And if the computer is too old (like 2002), it likely won't. Case in point: My old Dell Win98 computer here doesn't seem to have this option when I...

Good. This illegal monopoly, this psychopathic corporation is going down the toilet. The cancer that they've created in Windows XP and beyond is going to be their doom. Windows 8 is going to be an epic fail.

Seems MY W98 system is rapidly approaching the 10MB registry limit (currently 9928834). I have no idea why it keeps growing over the years. Anybody know of SAFE entries to delete to remove some B-L-O-A-T? There must be programs 'logging' unnecessary entries. For example, in XP I use ERU-NT to...

On Monday, July 9, Rafi Syed wrote in microsoft.public.win98.shell: Hi Team, how to start a add-in for windows explorer like outlook 2007. ex: in visual studio 2010 i choose a template and start the add-in. when i run the application outlook will open and development as fallows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv4goxIR1Q Any idea what films these clips are from? Yeah, I know - "what's it got to do with '98?" - eff all, but I knew one of you old farts would know what movies some of these clips come from. Grandies are into tap, would love them to see these flicks. And...

Just curious. A couple years ago I read an article that said they were developing a new operating system that would be a replacement for Windows, and would operate software made for all versions of windows and most other OS's. I'm just wondering if any of this has occurred? No, it's NOT linux. ...

I booted into DOS and ran scandisk on the 700 gb drive. It found no problems - except that the free space was being reported incorrectly. I told it to fix it. After the fix, chkdsk says there were 3 free clusters on the drive (96 kb). So that's why win-98 kept telling me the disk was full -...

I just installed the latest Kernal-Ex version. It says in the text notes that it will run Firefox 8. Has anyone tried this? Will it run FF 4 or 5? I'd like to go beyond FF 3.x, which always had bugs, but dont really need to go to version 8. Also will it run the newest version of Flash...

Can anyone suggest an RSS feed reader that has the following features: lean displays messages in plain text organises each feed as a separate database file can save selected messages to user defined database files searchable databases filterable databases can launch selected message in...

I have about 20 gb free on my 700 gb D: drive, and I'm running up against the 3% free-space limit where Windows-98 apparently seems to generate a "disk-full" message and wants to invoke the Disk Cleanup tool. I've already looked at...