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Forum: General September 28th 17, 04:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 9
Views: 2,734
Posted By Auric__
Cant access some of a Partition

anonymous wrote:

It appears that one of my hard drives is going to crap. It's my second
(slave) drive, which has 3 partitions on it. 120gb IDE drive. Formatted
to Fat32. This is a Win98se...
Forum: General August 15th 17, 05:26 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 3,817
Posted By Auric__
What is a OTF file?

Auric__ wrote:

(Full-quoting so Ralph gets to see Rudy's reply, despite plonking. Suck it,
bitch!)

Oh, and Ralph? Feel free to killfile me, too.

--
I learned today that you cannot change an...
Forum: General August 15th 17, 05:22 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 3,817
Posted By Auric__
What is a OTF file?

(Full-quoting so Ralph gets to see Rudy's reply, despite plonking. Suck it,
bitch!)

R.Wieser wrote:

Ralph,

I BET YOU GOT AT LEAST 30 SCRIPT ERRORS AND
20 MORE SECURITY ERRORS PER HOUR...
Forum: General August 12th 17, 08:51 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 3,817
Posted By Auric__
What is a OTF file?

ralph.lancaster wrote:

On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:49:19 +0200, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

Ralph,

My computer dont have any google on it.

Troll.
Forum: General February 2nd 17, 09:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 7,182
Posted By Auric__
issues with replacement 40 GB hard drive in Win Me

Auric__ wrote:

98 Guy wrote:

Why people get fixated on ancient, lame hardware is a mystery.

You say that in a group dedicated to an OS that's more than 18 years old.

As an aside,...
Forum: General February 2nd 17, 09:10 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 7,182
Posted By Auric__
issues with replacement 40 GB hard drive in Win Me

98 Guy wrote:

Why people get fixated on ancient, lame hardware is a mystery.

You say that in a group dedicated to an OS that's more than 18 years old.

--
Linus Torvalds jokes about world...
Forum: General October 7th 16, 04:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 16
Views: 6,194
Posted By Auric__
Formatting a FAT32 disk

gargoyle60 wrote:

I was told (yonks ago) that the /U option is an undocumented very
low-level format and can be slow.

It means "unconditional", and it's mean to zero out the drive, not just...
Forum: General October 6th 16, 05:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 16
Views: 6,194
Posted By Auric__
Formatting a FAT32 disk

gargoyle60 wrote:

I have an old desktop PC in which I have been swapping HDDs.

Previously one of the drives, a 4.1GB, was used with Linux, which now I
want to reload Windows 98. I have since...
Forum: General October 2nd 14, 07:51 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 5,074
Posted By Auric__
Bye, bye V4 WinUP site? (another stupid google-giggler posts reply to ancient thread)

98 Guy wrote:

wrote:

try the wayback machine on an administrator

How about you try to get a clue, you moronic google-giggler.

Is everyone in Nyack NY as...
Forum: General September 24th 14, 03:27 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 7
Views: 3,678
Posted By Auric__
MS emulator

Bill in Co wrote:

Bill Cunningham wrote:
What's the name of the OS emulator microsoft has? Something with 2007
in its' name. Not Oracle's VM ware but MS.

Virtual PC? (there were several...
Forum: General September 7th 14, 05:22 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 3,203
Posted By Auric__
Wordpad change tab-chars width in spaces

R.Wieser wrote:

I've loaded some flat text into wordpad (as in: displayed as fixed-width
chars), and noticed that the tab-character (ASCII 0x09) width there is just
6 spaces, instead of the...
Forum: General May 16th 14, 05:01 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 12
Views: 6,049
Posted By Auric__
Major new development in Windows 98 RAM memory capability patch has been discovered!

Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion Axel Berger
wrote:
98 Guy wrote:
Inside WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ you will find VMM32.VXD and you will copy...
Forum: General January 21st 14, 09:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 4,322
Posted By Auric__
Delete the Post Move on........!

98 Guy wrote:

Numb-Text wrote:

The devil whit it They would say
For To The KKK
The FBI is terrorist
But to FBI The KKK is failed
To destroy T' he human race
With / Moose's...
Forum: General January 19th 14, 07:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 4,322
Posted By Auric__
Delete the file Kernel32.dll

98 Guy wrote:

Isin't it enough that these arabs / moozlems terrorize us in the
physical world?

Now they have to come here and putz around, posting null-replies to
year-old usenet...
Forum: General January 14th 14, 05:20 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 35
Views: 7,671
Posted By Auric__
It's time to Quit using Win98

tangerine3 wrote:

One of my most used programs is a Dos based data base.
[snip]
The problem is that the data from this
program can not be transferred to any other database, aside from
...
Forum: General January 12th 14, 05:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 35
Views: 7,671
Posted By Auric__
It's time to Quit using Win98

tangerine3 wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:28:13 +0100, Axel Berger
wrote:

You have made a decision about popular OSs, why not do the same about
"popular" software? If...
Forum: Networking October 7th 13, 09:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.networking,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 9
Views: 8,331
Posted By Auric__
Program list in Task Manager - Win 2000

98 Guy wrote:

Winders 2000 wrote:

I know this (microsoft.public.win98.networking) is a 98 newsgroup
but can't find one for 2000. If not appropriate here, is there
another newsgroup...
Forum: General August 27th 13, 07:33 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 23
Views: 5,725
Posted By Auric__
This is why the Win-9x/ME forum on MSFN.org is a piece of ****

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , Auric__
writes:
Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:

On Wed, 21 Aug...
Forum: General August 25th 13, 05:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 23
Views: 5,725
Posted By Auric__
This is why the Win-9x/ME forum on MSFN.org is a piece of ****

Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:25:43 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:

In message op.w1051kl5o4et73@dell3100, Stanley Daniel de...
Forum: General April 11th 13, 10:22 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 1
Views: 2,248
Posted By Auric__
What version of DirectX for 98?

ralphdorman wrote:

A program on my XP computer was bitching about upgrading DirectX. I
went to the Microsoft site and found the newest was ver 9c. Actually I
thought there was a ver 10, but...
Forum: General March 24th 13, 02:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 4
Views: 2,094
Posted By Auric__
Thunderbird wont match data folder on dual boot

ralphdorman wrote:

I have Thunderbird for email, version 2.x. It's setup and has been used
for years in Win98. When I install it in Win2000, it creates it's own
data folders, rather than...
Forum: General March 24th 13, 02:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 19
Views: 3,682
Posted By Auric__
Last version of Adobe Shockwave for 98

ralphdorman wrote:

Oddly enough, Firefox refers to it as "Shockwave". And that is psrt of
the confusion, because besides Adobe Flash, I have something called
"Shockwave" installed, along with...
Forum: General February 23rd 13, 04:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 74
Views: 11,683
Posted By Auric__
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card

zarlox_670 wrote:

I keep running into dead ends here. I have a modern i7 machine with
Windows XP and Microsoft's GS Wavetable SW for MIDI which sounds
different than the one I remember in...
Forum: General February 22nd 13, 08:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
Replies: 80
Views: 12,542
Posted By Auric__
Found this:

98 Guy wrote:

If we're on the topic of "odd-ball" or uncommon browers, you might also
look at these:

GhostFox. Possibly a hybred between IE and Gecko engine of the Mozilla
browsers.

...
Forum: General January 25th 13, 05:51 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98,alt.comp.os.windows-98
Replies: 19
Views: 4,778
Posted By Auric__
Windows 8 fails to deliver expected boost as Christmas PC sales slump

homeowner wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:28:38 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
wrote:

Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:

New hardware won't have W98 drivers available....
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