Forum: General
April 17th 09, 12:27 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,519
Adobe pdf reader that works?
VerfPDF claims to offer a free reader that works on win98. To be more
precise, their not-free PDF creator will work in a read-only mode, if a
license in not...
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Forum: General
April 17th 09, 12:27 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,519
Adobe pdf reader that works?
VerfPDF claims to offer a free reader that works on win98. To be more
precise, their not-free PDF creator will work in a read-only mode, if a
license in not...
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Forum: General
April 15th 09, 01:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,583
Moving Hard Drive to new PC (Windows 98SE)
If the hard drive is still good, it should be fairly easy to move it to a
new PC and run win98.
But, realize that less and less modern hardware supports win98. It is
possible to have too new a...
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Forum: General
April 15th 09, 01:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 62
Views: 5,583
Moving Hard Drive to new PC (Windows 98SE)
If the hard drive is still good, it should be fairly easy to move it to a
new PC and run win98.
But, realize that less and less modern hardware supports win98. It is
possible to have too new a...
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Forum: General
April 11th 09, 02:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,508
Updating Windows98 to XP
While it may be possible to install XP on your hardware, given the cost of
an XP license, the fact you will likely need to add hardware, and that you
will still have an old PC, I believe that the...
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Forum: General
April 11th 09, 02:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,508
Updating Windows98 to XP
While it may be possible to install XP on your hardware, given the cost of
an XP license, the fact you will likely need to add hardware, and that you
will still have an old PC, I believe that the...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 09, 10:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,945
How do I get quikview?
Quickview is now quickview plus, and sold by Avanstar:
http://www.avantstar.com/index.htm
However, the latest version is for Windows 2000 and above. But, they may be
willing to sell you an older...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 09, 10:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,945
How do I get quikview?
Quickview is now quickview plus, and sold by Avanstar:
http://www.avantstar.com/index.htm
However, the latest version is for Windows 2000 and above. But, they may be
willing to sell you an older...
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Forum: General
March 17th 09, 11:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 44
Views: 3,395
Slow PC. XP Home.
First, run the XP task manager to find out what is running. Click on the
process tab, then click the CPU tab once or twice to get things sorted based
on CPU usage. Is anything, other than "system...
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Forum: General
March 17th 09, 11:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 44
Views: 3,395
Slow PC. XP Home.
First, run the XP task manager to find out what is running. Click on the
process tab, then click the CPU tab once or twice to get things sorted based
on CPU usage. Is anything, other than "system...
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Forum: General
March 13th 09, 11:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,311
upgrading from windows 98
While XP claims to run in 64 Meg, it really requires more like 128 Meg to
run itself well, without any applications. If you want to run something in
addiiton to XP, you need 256 Meg, and even that...
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Forum: General
March 13th 09, 11:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,311
upgrading from windows 98
While XP claims to run in 64 Meg, it really requires more like 128 Meg to
run itself well, without any applications. If you want to run something in
addiiton to XP, you need 256 Meg, and even that...
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Forum: General
August 15th 08, 12:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,360
Backup, Image, Clone, Ghost????
You probably want to make a "disk image" or perhaps a "partition image". If
you have one big C: drive, then the two types of images are almost the same.
However, the disk image will also contain...
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Forum: General
July 28th 08, 11:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,046
Windows 98 Backup Errors
I tend to agree with Gary, the native windows 98 (or NT, XP, etc) backup
tools are not really all that good. Consider, how would you do a restore,
if you could not boot into windows? I once faced...
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Forum: General
July 26th 08, 10:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,820
Unable move file: Error copying files
First, what is the format of the USB flash drive? I would guess FAT32.
FAT32 is limited to files no larger than 4 Gig, so 2.46 Gig should fit.
But, FAT16 has a limit of only 2 Gig per file (or...
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Forum: General
June 30th 08, 09:35 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,097
Need help converting Win98 to Vista!!!
If you have win98SE (second edition), then the odds are good that there is a
driver for the USB drive, available from the maker of the USB drive. If
plain 98, the odds are much poorer.
Other ways...
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Forum: General
June 1st 08, 02:35 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,285
Problem trying to defrag Sys Drive (C:)
A couple of thoughts:
1. Using something like EZ BIOS can make the hard drive unreadable on all
machines, except your current machine or a clone thereof. Thus, if the
motherboard ever fails, you...
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Forum: General
May 18th 08, 05:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.sys_file_check
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,484
Repair W98
In short, no, at least not like the repair function that is available in XP.
You could format the partition containing 98 and re-install 98 from scratch.
Of course, you would lose all other data,...
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Forum: Disk Drives
May 18th 08, 05:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.sys_file_check
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,788
Repair W98
In short, no, at least not like the repair function that is available in XP.
You could format the partition containing 98 and re-install 98 from scratch.
Of course, you would lose all other data,...
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Forum: General
April 29th 08, 02:20 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,008
Continous problem w/Adobe Reader...........
A free alternative to Acrobat is Foxit. It is much faster for reading
large/complex PDFs.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm (download the
installer/exe verion, not the...
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Forum: General
April 24th 08, 03:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,304
CD PLAYER PROBLEM
Try an alternative player. There are several free ones available.
One called media player classic is pretty good, and supports win98.
One of many possible download sites:...
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Forum: General
April 22nd 08, 11:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,583
DeskJet 932C won't install
For any others running win98, and shocked by HPs lack of support for win98,
take a look at Epson printers. A quick search of their support site showed
many drivers for win98 and even for...
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Forum: General
April 22nd 08, 11:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,583
DeskJet 932C won't install
I am disappointed in HP, but you are correct, their website is very clear
that they no longer provide drivers for win98, even on older hardware.
Funny, what would it cost HP to leave a few Meg of...
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Forum: General
April 21st 08, 09:32 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,256
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Forum: General
April 18th 08, 01:43 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,137
Antivirus Software
As an alternative, there are antivirus that can be run from a bootable CD.
Check-out the "universal boot CD", free at http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/
Download and burn to CD via a program that...
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