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I'll have to CHEW it a bit

Don't get in a STEW, noone did.

Presuming you've got enough memory (8 MB, 16 would be better), you can install Win95 on it. This needs only ~200 MB harddisk. Main difference between W95 and W98 is the integrated IE and USB support, which you both don't need. Don't know if Firefox runs on W95, but Opera does. If you don't have enough memory, you could try Off By One. When you've got less than 8 MB, or when W95 is too heavy, you can use W3.11, eventually in combination with Calmira, which should run fine on 4 MB.

Some of the side effects can be repaired by giving explorer private dlls. Use an hexeditor to change all references to shell32.dll and comdlg32.dll in explorer.exe to shell95.dll and comdlg95.dll. Rename the dll's also. Now the '95 explorer will use the '95 dll's, and all other programs will use the '98 ones (which you'll have to put back).

Depends on where you live. In Iran, it's not illegal, AFAIK. In much countries it's illegal to disassemble the W98 kernel and change it. I think in most countries it is legal to write a whole new kernel from scratch, and use that in your (licensed) W98. But maybe you need some information to do that (interfacing with the rest of windows) which you can't get legally.

I BREWed this answer: 26^4 = 456976 words.

No. It's a licensing problem, not a technical. All W2000 versions have the same kernel, and MS have licensed the different versions for a different number of processors. When Intel came with it's P4 HT processor, MS stated that a multicore processor (an HT acts like a dualcore) is only 1 processor, and in one of the XP servicepacks this policy is added. So all XP versions can handle a quadcore, and XP pro can even handle two quadcores. I don't know if the latest servicepack of W2000 also adds this feature. I suppose W2003 can handle 8 quadcores. I think the maximum number of cores which can be handled by a 32 bit NT version is 32. Funtions like GetProcessAffinityMask suggest so.

I suppose you mean this one? In this article is stated: 'Note The information in this article applies to the Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Pan Chinese versions of Windows NT 4.0.' It looks to me it has somthing to do with Unicode filenames, which are not used in English Windows.

http://www.relisoft.com/win32/index.htm

In Control Panel->Internet options there's a tab 'Connections'. Make sure that 'Never dial-in' is choosen here. (The exact text can differ, I have no English windows here).

According to this site the Hiroshima bomb did about 10^14 Joule. 6 years and 9 months contain about 2*10^8 seconds. This means that a farting person would produce 5*10^5 Joule/second, which is 500 kW. Needless to say this can't be true. What about a snail?

That is relatively simple. Just startup your computer with some multiprocessor OS (Linux) and start a virtual machine with W98 twice.

AFAIK all NT versions (NT3.1 and newer) support multiprocessor. I've had NT4 on a dual PIII, years ago. So I'd expect NT4 to run without problems on a DualCore machine. Of course you will have problems to find drivers for a modern machine.

Wouldn't a common controls update be enough? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

According to this page the difference is the /CUSTOM switch, which just disables the 'undo' prompt. So you could put a scandisk.bat in \Windows\Command, which contains scandisk.exe /custom %1 %2 %3 %4 This will be executed rather than scandisk.exe.

According to Secunia, W98SE has 3 unpatched vulnerabilities out of 32 known, while XP home has 27 unpatched out of 170. Most critical unpatched vulnerability for W98SE 'Less critical', for XP Home 'Highly critical'.

Well, I don't know which scandisk WinME uses, but in the Win9x folder on the CD there's a textbased scandisk used by setup, which is different (about 100 kB bigger) from the W98SE version.

What about scandisk from WinME?

W98 doesn't run any services. When you don't install any LAN clients, not a single port is open. I wonder if a firewall is able to catch an exploit of a flaw in the TCP/IP stack.

W98 doesn't have a real 'kernelmode'. All programs have direct access to all hardware. So as far as I can see it's easier to port DX10 to W98 than to port it to XP.

Have a look here: http://www.multikulti.org.uk/help/zh/

All ports on the card are USB 2. The chip inside decides which IRQ/driver to use depending on the device connected to the port. I never saw this message on a W98 box. AFAIK this 'feature' is added in XP.

Did you switch of onboard USB in BIOS? Even though it's zapped, it could still get an IRQ. Did you try to just plug in your ADSL card? Some (most?) drivers doesn't bother about shared IRQ's.

For OE: Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\GUID\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0, add DWORD value 'NoSplash', set it to 1.

Have a look at Context Menu Editor.