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Forum: General July 13th 12, 10:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 2,699
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Completely OT

98 Guy wrote in :

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...
Forum: General July 13th 12, 10:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 2,671
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Is there anything beyond Windows and Linux

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
:

Some (all?) of the actual from-DOS such utilities are read-only (and
often don't do long...
Forum: General July 12th 12, 10:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 2,671
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Is there anything beyond Windows and Linux

"Bill in Co" wrote in
:

I'm not sure if this was finally fixed in WinME

Nor me but I'd like to know. WME files...
Forum: General July 12th 12, 09:27 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 2,671
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Is there anything beyond Windows and Linux

wrote in
:

I have no idea if Linux can run off a FAT32 drive, but I'd do the same
in that situation too.

I think...
Forum: General July 12th 12, 09:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 2,671
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Is there anything beyond Windows and Linux

"Bill in Co" wrote in news:hb2dnTqjI-
:

I think the reason
for this "anomaly" was attibrituted to incorrect use of signed...
Forum: General July 12th 12, 04:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 10
Views: 2,767
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

wrote in
:

I wonder if newer versions of Windows has this same "free space"
problem?

I should mention this "Free...
Forum: General July 12th 12, 03:57 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 2,671
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Is there anything beyond Windows and Linux

98 Guy wrote in :

You lose the ability to have file larger than 4 gb on a FAT32 drive

And it's worth retricting to 2GB even there. I have a couple that...
Forum: General July 12th 12, 03:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 2,671
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Is there anything beyond Windows and Linux

98 Guy wrote in :

I have no idea if Linux can run off a FAT32 drive, but I'd do the same
in that situation too.


Possibly not but it can certainly...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 04:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 10
Views: 2,767
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

98 Guy wrote in :

If I ever get a mainboard with SATA on it, I'd use that.

Lots of choices when it comes to SATA controllers on PCI cards.

...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:48 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 96
Views: 13,822
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
RSS feed reader

Franc Zabkar wrote in
:

I hear you. That's why I use RSS, OffByOne, and Google's text-only
cache.


Now that's just...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:44 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 10
Views: 2,767
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
:

spane

???
spend...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:42 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 10
Views: 2,767
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

98 Guy wrote in :

If you mean "uncontrolled" or non-gracefull shut-downs - yea, there have
been plenty over the past 2 or so years that the drive was...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 10
Views: 2,767
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

98 Guy wrote in :

If your BIOS is set so that the SATA controller is operating in native
mode (not IDE-emulation mode) then when you have the
...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 10
Views: 2,767
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

98 Guy wrote in :

There is no reason to use Loew's version because you shouldn't (at this
point, or any point in the past 4 years) have an IDE drive in...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 6
Views: 2,669
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Using Firefox 8 and latest Flash player in win98

"Bill in Co" wrote in
:

For the purpose of avoiding bloat, I'd prefer to NOT go to version 8. I
hate...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 45
Views: 6,427
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

"none" wrote in :

No Idea where the number came from. I pulled it out of a registry on a
laptop with W98. On another system (desktop) it...
Forum: General July 11th 12, 02:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 45
Views: 6,427
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

98 Guy wrote in :

none wrote:

"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
"DisableLowDiskSpaceBroadcast"=dword:00000210

Yea, I had...
Forum: General July 10th 12, 05:22 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 0
Views: 2,440
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Some views not mine, about Google.

Whatb interests me is that other people, independently are thinking as I do
about this, to the point where the BBC sees fit to make national news of it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18777671
Forum: General July 10th 12, 04:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 10
Views: 2,767
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

98 Guy wrote in :

So that's why win-98 kept telling me the disk was full - when it
*appeared* to have 22 gb free.


It's interesting that the low...
Forum: General July 10th 12, 04:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 45
Views: 6,427
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

"none" wrote in :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
...
Forum: General July 10th 12, 12:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 96
Views: 13,822
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
RSS feed reader

"Bill in Co" wrote in
:

Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in...
Forum: General July 10th 12, 12:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 96
Views: 13,822
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
RSS feed reader

"Bill in Co" wrote in
:

how long are you waiting?

A little too much longer than the proverbial piece of...
Forum: General July 10th 12, 12:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 96
Views: 13,822
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
RSS feed reader

"Bill in Co" wrote in
:

HR? What does that stand for?


Harmonic regeneration. It's like Aphex' Aural Exiter...
Forum: General July 9th 12, 11:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 6
Views: 2,669
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
Using Firefox 8 and latest Flash player in win98

wrote in
:

I just installed the latest Kernal-Ex version. It says in the text
notes that it will run Firefox 8. Has...
Forum: General July 9th 12, 11:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 96
Views: 13,822
Posted By Lostgallifreyan
RSS feed reader

"Bill in Co" wrote in news:AZ-dnV3B-
:

I haven't been using any (of the types I think you're thinking of), so I
don't know...
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