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It's time to Quit using Win98
I've held on to Win98 for years, and always loved it. I've added
everything possible such as Kernal-Ex, to keep it going, and struggled to cope with incompatible software that requires newer versions of Windows, particularly browsers. The time has come to retire Win98, and allow Microsoft to win their efforts to obsolete the older versions of Windows. But Microsoft really is NOT going to win. In fact in my case, THEY LOSE. From the moment I first put my hands on XP, I hated their so called NT based OSs. I tried, really tried to adapt to XP, and always hated it no matter how hard I forced myself to use it. By that time they had created their worst failure, Vista, and were on their way to more bloated OSs, which I would not touch if they gave me a free computer. Just seeing a Windows 8 computer on the shelves at a store makes me nauseous. All I see on those screens are ugly boxes with links to commercial companies I would not even go near, such as Netflix. They cant even offer decent looking icons anymore. Years ago, I knew thart the time would come when I could no longer use Win98. It appears this time has come. Mainly due to the fact that there is no longer a browser that is made for W98 that is compatible with most present websites. I coped with occasional websites which would not properly load in past years, but it now seems that 4 out of 5 sites are no longer loading properly, using Firefox 3.6.x, and worse using other browsers that work on W98. Of course I place blame on Mozilla for not making their newer versions of Firefox compatible with W98. The PC computer was originally supposed to be *THE* hardware for any OS, but Microsoft took over and made the PC the Microsoft Computer. Their only competitor is Linux, and there is really no competition involved, since Linux has no actual support, and there are so many different variations of Linux that only a computer geek can begin to use it, and even then, it wont run popular software intended for Windows witout adding yet more software. The bottom line is this. Either kiss Microsoft's ass, or toss your PC in the nearest garbage can. Well, I have given this considerable thought, and decided that I will never give Microsoft another cent. Particularly when I hate every OS they have made since Win98. I can still continue to use WIN98 for my personal uses, but in order to go on the internet, I have decided to spend some money and buy a Macintosh computer. I never thought that I'd make that switch, and being elderly, I really hate having to relearn to use a completely different computer system, yet, there really is no other option. I say this with much sadness, because I really liked Win98, and still do. It's the only decent OS made by Microsoft, and they did their best to destroy it. I guess 2014 will be the year when all of my past 25+ years of PC computer learning and use goes down the ****ter, and I switch to Macintosh. In some ways, I wish I had begun my computer learning with the Mac, because I would not have to start all over now. But that's life, particularly when Misrosoft greed is involved, and they create one of the wealthiest monopolies on earth, while creating absolute ****. |
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Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:10:33 -0000, Bill in Co wrote: wrote: I've held on to Win98 for years, and always loved it. I've added everything possible such as Kernal-Ex, to keep it going, and struggled to cope with incompatible software that requires newer versions of Windows, particularly browsers. The time has come to retire Win98, and allow Microsoft to win their efforts to obsolete the older versions of Windows. But Microsoft really is NOT going to win. In fact in my case, THEY LOSE. From the moment I first put my hands on XP, I hated their so called NT based OSs. I tried, really tried to adapt to XP, and always hated it no matter how hard I forced myself to use it. But with just a little work, you can make the WinXP experience pretty similar to that of W98. I don't see the big deal here AFTER you have made some "adjustments" to XP and the XP interface. But I've stopped here at XP, and have no interest in Win 7, 8, or 9. :-) I agree with you that W98SE has faded into the twilight for some of the reasons you've mentioned. But at least I don't have to worry about having good USB and SATA capability, blue screens, and ever running out of resources. And still being able to find good software that runs on it. I tried loading w98 on an XP laptop yesterday - got blue screen during "initialising drivers", so somethings got broken (it maybe that w98 doesn't know about the widescreen, or USB mouse) I think I tried this once too, and got similar results. Then I asked myself why was I even doing it, since some of the software I now have requires XP, and XP has much better support for USB and SATA, etc. :-) |
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While unnecessarily full-quoting, Bill in Co wrote:
and XP has much better support for USB and SATA, etc. :-) No, XP does not have "much better" support for SATA. For USB - maybe. Give win-98 the Maximus Decim USB patch, and you bring it much closer to XP in terms of support for storage devices. But for SATA, no. Compatibility with SATA comes from the SATA controller driver, for which there is full support for Win-98 for at least the first generation SATA-I controllers. On this win-98 system that I'm using right now to type this reply, I have two SATA drives (750 gb and 1.5 TB) running in SATA (not IDE-emulated) mode. Both formatted as FAT32. Both drives formatted as a single volume. Win-98 is actually superior to XP when it comes to SATA compability. I can install win-98 from scratch on a SATA drive running in SATA mode - something you can't do with XP. With XP, SATA drives must be running in IDE-emulation mode. And once you've installed XP, good luck switching the drive to native SATA mode and getting XP to boot properly. So stop spreading lies about win-98 not being compatible with SATA drives. |
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Bill in Co wrote:
But with just a little work, you can make the WinXP experience pretty similar to that of W98. I've set up a few systems with XP-pro running on a FAT-32 formatted hard drive, so that I can dual-boot into either DOS 7.1 or XP. One of those systems is a HP mini-note netbook (where there wasn't enough driver support to install win-98 - I tried). I don't use the netbook that much, but I've set it up with the classic look to make it look and act as much as win-98 as possible. But at least I don't have to worry about having good USB and SATA capability, blue screens, and ever running out of resources. Yea - funny how running win-98 I don't worry about those things either. |
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While unnecessarily full-quoting, Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:
I tried loading w98 on an XP laptop yesterday - got blue screen during "initialising drivers", so somethings got broken (it maybe that w98 doesn't know about the widescreen, or USB mouse) You don't start installing win-98 on a given machine until or unless you have tracked down and obtained all available drivers for the various hardware components (video, motherboard / chipset, southbridge, audio, network, wifi, etc). The only laptops that you will be able to run win-98 with sufficient driver support are ones that were sold new no later than the fall of 2005 or spring of 2006. I think the best example of a laptop that had *almost* full driver support for win-98 was the Dell Inspiron 600m. It was released in mid-2003 but was still being sold new well into 2005. But there were no wifi drivers for win-98. That's going to be the main problem for pretty much any laptop you can find. |
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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 and when the time comes for me - up to now I don't tough a running system, but I may be forced - it will certainly be Linux. Is there a linux type that looks and works like Win98? Which one? Will it run older software made for 98? |
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The bottom line is this. Either kiss Microsoft's ass, or toss your PC in the nearest garbage can. Well, I have given this considerable thought, and decided that I will never give Microsoft another cent. Particularly when I hate every OS they have made since Win98. I can still continue to use WIN98 for my personal uses, but in order to go on the internet, I have decided to spend some money and buy a Macintosh computer. I never thought that I'd make that switch, and being elderly, I really hate having to relearn to use a completely different computer system, yet, there really is no other option. Actually, there is. My PC has WinXP; it looks and behaves just like it did when it had Win98. The main difference is that it never crashes. My laptop has Win8. It looks and behaves very similarly to my PC. It also has WinXP on it in a virtual drive. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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