tysteel wrote in

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Hello everyone,

I have an old computer I'd like to upgrade from Windows 98.
Unfortunately, it seems that a lot of applications and
add-ons no longer support 98, so I'm interested in
upgrading the computer OS, rather than just throwing it
away.

I am just a home user, not a corporate slave, but I have yet to
find a useful application of which there is no 98-friendly
version or a 98-friendly equivalent to what the sheep use.

The best browser, Opera, runs on all 32 bit platforms, as any
good program should.

The computer is a Hewlett Packard Pavilion, and it has 46MB
ram. It was purchased back in 1998, but surprisingly it
still runs great.

It can probably take up to 256 or 384. There are online shops
where you can get RAM for your specific old machine, it's not
that expensive either. If not for a really cheap ADSL offer, I
would still be running (as I did from 1997 to last Sept) a
166MHz with 64 (upped it a bit but it didn't make THAT much
difference) and Win95B. The ONLY worthwhile thing it could not
do is convert music between formats - in less than 5 hours per
song that is. I do not consider web video sites worthwhile and I
am not interested in vieo editing. It did voice chats perfectly,
WITH a 33.6 modem, for the two weeks that I bothered.

What could I upgrade it to.....what OS package should I
seek out? I've read the requirements of XP, and it's
required that you need to at least have 64 MB ram minimum?

With a little research and thought, no one needs to go to XP
unless there is some application they MUST HAVE (and that does
not have a better and often free equivalent) that will not run
on anything else.

Is there any current OS system out there that should be
able to install with my computer's specifications?

thanks

My 166MHz 95B system was faster than any XP or Vista machine
around (except for the aforementioned music conversion).

Submitted for tour consideration.

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