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Ahh... good ol' VxDs. Brings back memories. The only advantage I can see of installing Windows 98 on this uber old computer is if the underpinnings of the OS will somehow bring out an advantage(s) to the hardware. Then, if speed is an issue (which it probably will be, 98 is enormously fat compared to 95), use 98lite or similar to slim down the overhead, remove IE if you want, and do a shell swap. Technically speaking you can run Windows 98 on a 486/66 with 16MB of RAM but it would be pretty much unusable. What's your specs dude? EDIT: Buggered up BB code

I think Clam AV works for 98, and since it's not resident, it could be a good one to consider The programs I run on my 98 are hit and miss tho, since I use the Win95 shell, so in some ways I am actually limited to software that is designed for 95. Not that it bothers me

You need to take ownership of the parent folder in question in order to be able to copy files. In any system area, Windows Vista has very aggressive file permissions that can often result in headaches and cursing loudly at the computer, or at least it did for me while I was still getting to grips with it. UAC is supposed to allow these tightly set permissions to be effective without intruding on usability, but it hasn't quite worked out as well as we'd hoped.

I'm a bit late replying to this one, but as Fred himself has already mentioned, it's up to you what to do if you want to 'truly murder IE'. This is why his guide states after step 11 (I think) you are entering advanced territory. In all honesty, his fileset by default pretty much totally murders IE, or at least, it does in my opinion. The steps after are only for those who want to get really technical, and have the skills to do it. I, and many others don't - and the default fileset is an excellent balance between the vast majority of IE and its s***e being off the system, while not seriously crippling anything - and it satisfies me. As with most hacks like these... your mileage will vary. I know mine did, I have seen some small things in my system that others don't seem to have. Some don't even seem to have much success at all, and others just don't try hard enough.

I wouldn't worry too much about this; it's never been any secret that OneCare is a substandard product, and Microsoft are soon going to be chucking it anyway in favour of a 'new' antivirus product they plan to roll out. In mid 2009 they plan to replace it with 'Morro'.

I have pretty much VIA everything in my computer and have surprisingly had hardly any issues. question: I'm still on FDV fileset 8j. how far behind am I? In fileset 8j, apparently Windows File Protection could not access the DLL cache so it was disabled. (I read about an SFC bug in 'readme' of 8j) Apart from that there is really nothing that I can fault, the rest is personal preference. Fred: In case you don't know, it's Callum here. EDIT: I should also mention that I find it a bit odd that 'power options' are greyed out and unavailable. A side effect or something more to it...? Personally I can't stand it when my computers go into standby, and since I have a laptop, it does just that. There's a weird issue with my video driver that makes video/games/youtube very slow after standby, and I just don't like it anyway - I like my computers burning up as much power as they can So I edited my power scheme to 'minimal power management' or 'always on' (can't remember, they both pretty much do the same thing) via the registry after a moment or two of using the 'find' function and searching for 'power' and that did it, but, what gives with the greyed out power options?!

Steve Gibson apparently has an app which can allow on-the-fly use of Internet Zones in IE.

Queue: You forgot to mention that an antivirus scanner running in realtime can in itself cause a whole clusterf*** of security issues. Just look at it logically: Any extra service running on the system with elevated privelages (as most AV products do) is bound to give opportunity for exploitation. One of the key rules of computer security is to keep applications in the user area as much as possible without them straying into the privelaged areas of the system - this is one rule that antivirus applications ritually break. Even a user running as a limited profile isn't protected against this because an attacker just needs to target the AV program and use its privelages to breach the security. This literally makes any antivirus application that is running in realtime, a potential backdoor. This is one of the main reasons I don't use any AV software at all, the other of course is the performance hit. My netbook with Vista would probably be killed even just by running NOD32, supposedly one of the most efficient AVs. Strong browser settings and a hardened network configuration are a major step in preventing security issues, rather than just patching them when they occur.