Mike M wrote:
I did verify that I
can access msconfig but you haven't told me what to do there.

I explicitly stated the edit that is required to system.ini. Let me try
and remind you of what was in my earlier post:
quote
To limit vcache, open system.ini and add the lines
[VCache]
MaxFileCache=512000
/quote

Mike (and Mart):
I think I just have to give up this quest.
I think you fellows have diagnosed every problem and I've
complied with all your corrections and I'm still not there.

About the vcache and 512M, I mentioned that I couldn't get
the line in system.ini to look proper (in my eyes), and that was
the last improvement I installed at your request.

The question of clock speed has elicited the following very
strong comment from Gary Terhune, who is another of the MVPs
who have been trying to guide me in this quest:
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I give up!

YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY CANNOT RUN ANY KIND OF WINDOWS 95, 98, 98SE, ME or
NT (maybe even 2000) ON THAT MACHINE! I can almost guarantee you that.
You need drivers and there are no such things. They've never been written.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com
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Win98 does boot and work gracefully in Virtual PC on this
machine. There are limitations to overcome if I have no
alternative to running it that way, but maybe I'll be able to
work around those.

If you fellows want to breathe a sigh of relief and drop this
Don Quixote-type effort, I'm agreeable, and appreciative of all
your efforts over this past several days and nights. But before
we go, please tell me, if you can, if there is a clean link to
whatever I should install after I have Win98 installed from my
original 98 installation CD, in a Virtual PC.....and before I
install Windows ME from my upgrade CD.......and what upgrades
to Windows ME to install after that. I can't find then on the
Microsoft Download Site.