BenoitRen

No way, not XP. It's very insecure, uses more RAM than it needs, is more annoying, and you will have to activate it, which makes you dependent on M$. It would probably cost a good chunk of money, too.

Actually, you can slipstream Win9x. I've done it, but limited. You just replace the older files by the newer ones, and modify their size in layout.inf. That's how I did it with Win95 OSR 2.5. However, don't slipstream newer files that need different registry entries.

New projects that deserve a sticky get sticked for a couple months. The rest gets on the master list that is also stickied. That way they all get some 'sticky' time and recognition, and we won't have too many stickies.

I bought mine at a computer convention.

Thanks glocK_94, that's exactly what I wanted.

The text doesn't have to be specific to the version. The background is enough. Can I have a user bar that says "STILL USING WIN9X", but with a Win95/Win98 scheme in the background please? Oh yeah, in English, please.

Nice idea. However, could we have user bars specific to each major version? I mean, I don't like the WinME style background on the current one. :/

I figured out long ago that ERPMan's page was yours, erpdude. By the way, the link you posted leads to a page with no cache of the FAQ, and the Wayback Machine doesn't have it either.

Yes, Puppy Linux is great. I ended up installing it on our Linux box instead of continuing to toy with the Debian base install, which is Debian Sarge, more than 2 years old. Maybe I might try again when Etch is finally out. In the meantime, Puppy Linux works great on the Pentium II 350 Mhz with 128 MB RAM PC. It even seems to boot faster than my Win95 machine. o_O

Only IE4+'s WININET.DLL makes those directories.

It's also a good trick for Win95 users (haven't really needed it yet). Rename the IE4 SHELL32.DLL to SHELL98.DLL, and use a hex editor on the executable that needs it to look for that file instead of the regular SHELL32.DLL.

Why would you want to remove them? They are very much needed.

NotepadEx doesn't really support Unicode, it seems. I'm using Unired now when I need Unicode support. But it's quite slow, so I looked at a couple other Notepad replacements. Notepad2 - Requires IE4+ SHLWAPI.DLL because of an unresolved dependency. Metapad - Requires RICHED20.DLL. I downloaded the recommended one, and then it ran. But no real Unicode support. The reason I need Unicode is because I'm converting a site that uses Japanese characters for the Japanese titles of games. If only SeaMonkey's Composer used a good DOCTYPE and didn't destroy the mark-up you feed it.

Why the IEXPLORE suggestions? The thread starter said "default browser".

Having good drivers for everything. It was bad drivers from back in the day that often triggered a blue screen, since they run at the same level as the kernel.

You seem to have missed the part where I talked about securing the browser door. This implies using a secure web browser. Obviously IE isn't one of them.

Don't forget that Win9x is not only Win98. I, for one, think that Win95 OSR 2.x is the best M$ OS ever made.

Just because something is old doesn't mean you have to upgrade it. If it works, it works. You don't have to press Ctrl+Alt. Just Alt is enough. The menu is called View.

What do I have to hold to your throat just to let you take a look at your registry and post the results?!

You know, you'd go a long way in reducing that security threat if you made them use another web browser.

NTFS doesn't do automatic defragmentation. File systems for Linux, like EXT3, do.

Disable Active Desktop, and you don't need that update. Use a secure web browser. No point in updating that if you don't use it. They should be removed from your computer. Just update to the latest. Optional. If you're going to use .NET applications, the 2.0 package is the latest that will work.

WMP 6.0 It will show up as WMP 5.2 under Software, but it really is 6.0, as evidenced by the program's about screen.

Thanks for the replies. However, since I wrote Win9x, I also mean Win95. What about its networking components? Or does the Dial-up Networking 1.4 upgrade have everything to bring it up to par with Win98's?

2.90 definitely runs smoother than 3.x or 5.x. Maybe it's actually a 32 MB stick? I don't agree. At least for me, VLC is slower, and doesn't use the codecs I installed for WMP, so no Windows Media file playback. WMP 6.1 is the last version to not require IE. You can use version 6.4 if IE's presence doesn't bother you. I managed to find WMP 6.0 months ago. Tell me if you want it.