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Yes you can, using some 3rth party freeware, 'Ranish Partition Manager' and 'Partition Resizer'. First use PR to shrink your partition as far as is possible with the data it's containing. Then use RPM to create a logical partition. Move as much data as will fit on the logical partition. Use PR to shrink the primary partion further, and to grow the logical partition. Repeat this until the primary partition is empty, and use RPM to delete the primary partiton, after which you can grow the logical partition to max. When the drive is almost full, this is not a very practical way, of course, and I can imagine there's software out there which can do this in one step.

AFAIR W95 will not even install TCP/IP automatically, only NetBEUI. You'll have to add it yourself.

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In my browser it's Arial. Western, Greek and Cyrillic. In another browser it can be something different.

Strange sound issues are sometimes solved by lowering the hardware acceleration for sound with dxdiag.

That's right. W9x runs fine on a multiprocessor (multicore,hyperthreading) system. But it will only detect and use 1 processor.

What does the event logger say?

I once fooled a collegue by putting some annoying things in autoexec.bat. To make it more difficult to find the problem, I renamed autoexec.bat to somename.bat, and edited io.sys to meet this name. Somename.bat called autoexec.bat, so it was hard to find this. I don't know if WinME dos can be fooled the same way, but it's worth a try. Open io.sys in a hex editor, find all autoexec strings, and replace them with some other name. (Take an 8 character name for alignment). Then rename autoexec.bat to this name. When windows for some reason wipes your autoexec.bat, I suppose it will not scan io.sys for the name to use. Of course you should save a copy of io.sys first, and make sure you can boot from floppy to replace io.sys.

Windows 98 detects APM while installing. Windows 2000 just assumes the BIOS does ACPI. In case of an APM machine you have to install it yourself.

Maybe it's an old computer supporting APM? In that case you can try this fix.

While it seems to be the same limitation, the 137GB LBA limit has nothing to do with the Scandisk/Defrag limit. The LBA limit is caused by the use of a 28 bit sectoraddress, while the Scandisk/Defrag limit is caused by memory limitations of these (16 bit) tools, in combintation with bad design. Link. The WinME tools are don't have this problem. Well written 3th party software should not have this problem as well.

I don't know of any options in W2000 to achieve this, but if the PC is not too new, you can simply attach an USB keyboard to it. On older systems the keyboard will not work until Windows has booted, so it's impossible to safe start bij hitting F8.

I'm not sure, but I suppose that you will have the same problem when you use the compatibility mode, in which case the drive behaves as a normal IDE drive, and so the ESDI_506 driver will be used. As soon as you use special SATA (chipset) drivers the problem should be gone.

Can't you just give the internal route a higher metric?

Regmon can tell you. Start regmon, start WinExit, and see which keys are denied.

You can try the directions here to strip the version check.

What happens when you try to use it on W2000?

PsExec maybe?

Have a look at AutoRuns which gives a complete list of all automagically starting programs.

C1 and D are both right. C2, well, I don't know if it's better. It just works.

1) W95 runs on 4 MB (not very well, but 8 MB is sufficient for the OS) 2) W98 has USB support. 3) W9x does plug&play and has a device manager. 4) W9x have real dos, which is necessary for many old games. 5) NT4 was not yet available when W95 arrived. 6) NT4 is more picky on legacy software. 7) The computerstore in the street didn't sell NT4 (Still doesn't) 8) Drivers

Those statements are not true. The problems with scandisk and defrag are on partition level, not on hardware level, and have nothing to do with LBA48. Both are crippled by a maximum memory usage, which limits them to a partition of max about 127 GiB. support.microsoft.com. While this looks as the same limit as the LBA28 limit, it has a different cause. You are safe as long as your partitions are smaller than 127GiB. BTW: defrag and scandiskw from WinME don't have this problem, and you can exchange your W95/98 version with these ones. 2nd advantage: defrag from WinME is much faster.

According to www.48bitlba.com you can.

:: Check IP1 PING -n 1 IP1 ¦ FIND "TTL=" >NUL :: Is not available IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto Next1 net use ... goto End :Next1 PING -n 1 IP2 ¦ FIND "TTL=" >NUL IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto Next2 net use ... goto End :Next2 :End

1) You can use FileMon to find out which program creates the tempfile. 2) It's due to a security fix of MS: http://www.helpscribble.com/chmnetwork.html