BenoitRen

Yes. No. It still stores our files fine. They have no place at all on a home computer. They belong on business computers where there is an administration/support team, and users.

You mean you were using the official WMV codecs, and that didn't run smoothly? If so, I definitely need to check out ffdshow.

I'm not complaining, I'm just sharing what I heard which helped Andrew's point. FAT is not proprietary and fully documented. No. We already went over this. Which crusade? This is the Win9x forum! And you're not forced to read our posts, so stop complaining.

All the latest (non-development) versions of Firefox, SeaMonkey and K-Meleon work on Win98 SE.

I think he meant this: It would be better if it wasn't proprietary. I don't trust M$ to store my files how it wants. It isn't. Check security vulnerabilities for Win9x. Then look at NT. Big difference. Not having open ports alone helps a lot. The browser is the main point of entry.

As said, NT 4.0 is very similar to Windows 95, so it's good in my book. It has lacking DirectX support, I hear, though. NT 4.0 uses NTFS4, while 2000 and XP use NTFS5.

Using the installer from version 7.0 you can get version 7.1 to install, which will work fine. Details I never got it to work either, and I tried many versions. Most of the versions don't even show an error, they silently quit.

I really don't think CPUs should be judged by overclocking potential. They're not meant to be overclocked.

Internet browsing makes use of the HDD for the cache and history. Last vacation I took care of my uncle's PC. It was really slow browsing the Internet. He still has dial-up, but I don't remember it being this slow. After I had defragmented his HDD (file parts all over the place!), Internet browsing suddenly became MUCH faster. So I'm not making stuff up.

Version 2.90 user here, so I don't care either. It all started going downhill after 2.xx.

Doubtful. My 9-year-old PC doesn't even boot from USB with the latest version of its BIOS (which only adds some small things I don't care about, so I never updated mine).

Not the same software, they have to use the same protocol. Miranda supports the MSN protocol.

As I said, MSN Messenger 5.0. Try it.

MSN Messenger 5.0 should still work.

It's possible that your HDD was really fragmented.

Andrew, it doesn't seem to be available from the Internet. Can you upload it somewhere, please?

Oh boy, here we go again. Can't you closed-minded people leave us alone? I tried Linux. I like Puppy Linux, to an extent, but Linux just isn't as accessible as Win9x. Not to mention other problems that just don't exist in Win9x. It's much slower than the real thing, and not as compatible. Again, much slower and less compatible than the real thing.

If it's disabled by default, what's the problem? It will be up to the user to decide if (s)he wants to enable it and thus let Google know what they visit.

It is true that Win9x was built on top of Win 3.x. It is also true that there's 16 bits code in Win9x. But to claim that it only uses 16 bits? Nonsense. In fact, the article contradicts itself on that point. The rest sounds like some things I heard in the past, of which parts may be true.

What the hell? Absolutely not. But not everything is M$' fault, you know. As I said, this is a relic of '98 which resulted because of webmaster stupidity and ignorance. Web standards weren't widely known back then, so people designed for one of the two dominating web browsers, and that was that. Some people today still don't get it and look at their website like an application they have to provide support for on different platforms, hence the "requires at least IE5.x" and "requires Windows XP" lines. IE 5.x is a web developer's nightmare. Wrong box model, no support for things like margin: auto; to center blocks, float bugs, etc. You may like your browser, but remember its web standards support is horrible.

YouTube movies likely wouldn't run well on this PC, unfortunately. But I like to view Flash content from sites like NewGrounds. I use the stand-alone Flash Player 7 for that purpose, which I discovered a couple months ago.

Microsoft never enforced or encouraged this. It's a relic of the late nineties when sites would only work properly in one of the two dominating browsers... because they designed for one of the two.

I went to a flea market today that was taking place in a neighboring village. There's always interesting stuff to be found there. Today was an especially fruitful day, though. Aside from a DVD that looked interesting, I bought -Zoomcam USB (model 1595) -Genius EasyPen The Zoomcam USB is a video camera (nowadays called 'webcams') for Windows 95/98. Of course, for Windows 95, you need at least the B version. It comes with some software: Jasc Paint Shop Pro, NetMeeting, and (yuck) Internet Explorer. I haven't tried it yet. It cost me 1 euro. The Genius EasyPen is a tablet that connects to a COM port. The seller said it worked on XP, but he wasn't sure about Vista (like I care ). He mentioned that it also works on 98. I asked if it worked on 95. He didn't know. There was no instruction manual to look at. I could look on the Internet for drivers, as there was no install disk. Eh, if it wouldn't work on 95, I always have my 98SE PC. So I bought it. It was advertised as costing 11 euros, but the man offered it to me for 10 euros instead. I guess he thought "oh, what difference is one euro going to make?". There was a driver for Windows 95 on the site. So I tried to install it tonight after watching TV. I connected it, and upon reboot Windows 95 detected a PnP Tablet. Cool. It didn't find any drivers, though. I installed the drivers I got from the website. Strange wizard. After confirming my choice of tablet model, it says "The device must be connected!", and you can choose Yes or No. Choosing Yes closes the wizard. Choosing No lets you continue. After rebooting, before showing the desktop, Windows complains about a damaged gtablet.vxd file. Weird. Booting completes, Windows detects my tablet and finds the driver. It won't work yet, though. I rebooted again, same error. Tablet still wouldn't work. I uninstalled the driver and tried again. No go. I tried extracting the cabs myself. Invalid cab files. Thinking that maybe I got a bad download, I cleared my cache and redownloaded the drivers. Still invalid cab files. I searched my HD for the VXD, and it was where it should be, but the file name was in all caps. I renamed it to lower case, rebooted, and still nothing. I remembered that the site offered generic drivers for the tablet, so I downloaded those. I looked at the setup program, but since the vxd and such were all extracted, I instead pointed the Windows hardware wizard to it. My tablet still didn't work, so I tried rebooting. Now my tablet's light remained active, and it worked! Woohoo! This sure is a neat device. And it works on my primary machine! So, uh, share my joy? Anyone else picked up cheap hardware for their 'orphaned' OS?

Same reason there are more Win98SE packs than Win95 packs: there are more Win98SE-using members.

You can always try. And it is definitely possible. Firefox certainly is doing a good job of persuading people to recognise web standards. The key word here is "possible". Again, you can't know if it's untested. Roman, the WinSock 2 update is what I'm using. The update shipped with DUN 1.4 is more recent, though.