"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
First, Alan, I'm curious as to why you chose to post your question to
this group:
microsoft.public.win98.internet.windows_update
I ask because that newsgroup has had no traffic for many months, if not
years.
I notice that you are posting via giganews. Does giganews not carry the
much more active (and probably the defacto win-98 newsgroup) -
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
???
I am cross-posting your message to that group, where it will be seen
(for better or worse) by what appears to be the last remaining rag-tag
collection of people that still pay some attention or interest to
Windows 98.
Alan Justice wrote:
I have Win98, IE 6.0, 256 MB RAM, and 500 MHz Dell. All I use
it for is internet access but many sites don't support my system.
Alan, I could post pages of technical and perhaps not-so-easy-to-follow
instructions informing you how to "beef up" your installation of windows
98 to make it more compatible with several different aspects of web
technology. I could start down that path, but more than likely you will
not follow it (for one reason or another).
In fact, I really don't expect to ever see you reply back here in this
thread that you've started (most one-time posters don't come back). I'm
not trying to scare you off - I hope you do come back. The odds are
that you will read this, but you won't follow through and show that
you're really interested.
So I'll just say that there is a lot you can do with a win-98 system to
make it compatible with the web, and you won't see any such nag screens
telling you that your system is not compatible.
You just have to come back here and say that you're really interested
and committed to trying.
I can't even access the Win update site!
Microsoft made some changes about 6 months ago that made the
windows-update server incompatible with windows 98. But if you visited
that site at any time from mid-2006 up until mid 2011 then your system
will have everything it needs. Microsoft has not added anything new for
win-98 systems on that site since July 2006.
Is there any hope with this system, or do I need a new
computer?
It's up to you. Technically, windows 98 and your system is capable of
being enhanced to achieve what you are looking for.
The last post to this group was 2 years, so I am amazed that I got a
response right away. You must have some way of automatically checking
groups for activity. I tried to access some other windows update groups but
they would not load. The last time I checked the Windows Update site it
gave no recommendations for me.
It's not that I'm married to Win98. What's the latest OS I can update to on
this machine? And how much will it help?
I only have dial-up. DSL has just been introduced to my area, but I can't
get it through Earthlink, only the phone company (Frontier, which bought
Verizon). I need to keep Earthlink because of my business web site.
I do have a more recent computer (XP, 2.8 GHz, 2 GB SD RAM) that I use for
image processing, but since I finally got a digital camera, I may want to
update that and replace my internet computer with it.
--
Alan Justice
http://home.earthlink.net/~wildlifepaparazzi/