Forum: General
March 1st 08, 08:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Forum: General
February 29th 08, 08:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Views: 2,662
Microsoft Slapped by EU With $1.35B Fine
Thanks for reminding me, ...I now remember buying an Amstrad 1512 ...(then
later a 1640 with VGA )!!!, several centuries ago it seems, in 198?, (with
2x51/4" floppy drives and no hard disk,...
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Forum: General
February 28th 08, 11:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
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Microsoft Slapped by EU With $1.35B Fine
mmm.... I don't quite follow your analogy but, regarding MS's court battle,
a while ago, to do with IE (web-browser) being "too" integrated into
Windows - which software writers of other...
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Forum: General
February 28th 08, 09:00 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,662
Microsoft Slapped by EU With $1.35B Fine
Bill Gates and colleagues ? apparantly bought the "micro" from IBM who
failed to spot the huge potential in the home market i.e. IBM were only
interested in the bigger stuff like mainframes, I...
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Forum: General
February 28th 08, 06:09 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,662
Microsoft Slapped by EU With $1.35B Fine
IDIOTS !
Ever stop to think what crap GUI's, if any, for IBM PC compatibles would be
available, were it not for MS backing up their GUI | OS's with the benefit
and power of Microsoft being a...
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Forum: General
February 24th 08, 02:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,170
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Forum: General
February 24th 08, 09:51 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,864
win98 updates still available???
Quite right too !
I can't find the post now but, someone recently asked about IOLO's ..or
something like that, "Registry Mechanic," so just for fun I gave it a
whirl, ...my rating = same as...
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Forum: General
February 11th 08, 09:27 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,670
scanreg.exe switch syntax ?
Thanks PCR but, there has to be an = sign in it :-)
...according to scanreg /?
scanreg /backup /comment="wonderfully descriptive text string"
....I haven't tried it without but, perhaps it works...
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Forum: General
February 10th 08, 10:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,670
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Forum: General
February 9th 08, 09:32 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,670
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Forum: General
February 9th 08, 09:32 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,670
scanreg.exe switch syntax ?
Thanks, ...as usual - me saying one thing and meaning another ! scandisk
instead of scanreg, or t'other way around. My excuse - tiredness.
After a very pleasant but, VERY slow "dig" around this...
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Forum: General
February 8th 08, 08:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,670
scanreg.exe switch syntax ?
Hello,
An old friend recently presented me with an "old" W98 based standalone PC !
:-) ...built 20th-May-2000 !
After a long fight, (Asus P5A? AMD K6/2-500), and it hanging on a black
screen,...
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Forum: General
May 17th 07, 11:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,035
PS2 wired kb won't work ...
Thanks to all who responded, ..yesterday I got to sit in front of the kb and
mouseless PC and it turned out to one of those heavenly rare PC's where the
user didn't have anything stored in it, that...
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Forum: General
May 15th 07, 11:06 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 5
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PS2 wired kb won't work ...
Heeeeelp ! ...for a friend please :-
Story related to me on the 'phone ! (...XP platform I think - possibly Home
ed. or Professional PC brand name Advent / from PC World )
According to him...
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Forum: General
May 1st 07, 09:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,260
M830LR
Thanks Franc
Just had a quick look at the web address you posted, it looks excellent, and
I'll be having a more thorough read very soon but, am now checking and
replying to my desperate pleas ! I...
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Forum: General
May 1st 07, 08:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,260
M830LR
Thanks Brian,
....I suspect it's just coincidence that there's a "Eagletech" PC Shop, and a
batch of PC Chips motherboards branded with the same name ? ...but, I may
look into it.
regards,...
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Forum: General
April 30th 07, 08:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,260
M830LR
I've just spent several hours, on and off, trying to get an old PC Chips
motherboard to recognise a Socket A XP2600 (Barton) cpu, ....at least I'm
sure it is a PC Chips - it has Eagletech A30LR on...
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Forum: General
February 14th 07, 01:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,488
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Forum: General
February 13th 07, 08:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,053
The future is on the way
I've already written to MS, and asked them to redo the WHOLE thing in
assembler, AND make sure that the whole thing is backwards compatible with
all the micro hardware I've bought across the past...
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Forum: General
February 9th 07, 11:30 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,055
Hard drive status
Bios hd geometry ? ...manually set for previous drive ! ? :-)
....or bios holding settings for previous drive ?
regards, Richard
"ms" wrote in message...
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Forum: General
February 5th 07, 12:47 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,682
Disk Boot Failure During DSL Set Up
Interesting view, ...considering that the latest *.box always seems to have
a graphics chipset that's always several generations behind the latest PC
graphics card - unless I've got that wrong as...
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Forum: General
February 3rd 07, 12:52 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,682
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Forum: General
February 2nd 07, 11:57 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,682
Disk Boot Failure During DSL Set Up
The REALLY annoying aspect to the rapid "progress" of micro hardware,
(seemingly driven by ever more resource hungry MS GUI's and app's), is that
I KEEP GETTING LEFT behind ! ...not that I've ever...
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Forum: General
January 22nd 07, 07:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 3
Views: 917
psshell Run-Time error '91'
Big thanks for your taking the time to respond. He telephoned me a short
while ago to tell me that a helpful young lady at Megger technical support,
led him through saving out the program "user...
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Forum: General
January 22nd 07, 04:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 3
Views: 917
psshell Run-Time error '91'
Seems like not enough superior minds have migrated to XP General ! ....
...can anyone help with...
psshell Run-Time error '91'
Object variable or With block variable not set.
as posted in XP...
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