jaclaz

Well, with time you will be able to feel the continuous flow of the ever-changing[1] nature of the OS, there is no place in space of time that is not swept by the currents of telemetry and nothing is ever the same as it was before as the updates keep everything in this flux of uncertainty, everywhere is nowhere and nowhere is everywhere ... jaclaz [1] yet perennially crappy

Yep, good to know, translated: means: as there is no "between". jaclaz

Don't worry , I was just kidding, it simply could have been better worded . @Dybia Is your post in English? I cannot make head or tails of it. Maybe you could try to be more verbose and try to explain what you wanted to say. And now, something actually on topic: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/ Quote of the day: jaclaz

Yes, but at least we tried. Probably (has to be checked) good ol' Registry Viewer (which is also an editor) of the General Paul Lee Project may be able to insert the values offline: http://paullee.ru/regstry.html (use Google translate from Russian) but if that the specific app isn't able to read/change the REG_SZ key, it's over. jaclaz

I see , I read USB drive and understood USB Hard Disk drive instead of USB stick. So, you buy 3 x 500 Gb Toshiba Canvio Basics (these ARE USB Hard Disk drives) for around 50-60 bucks each. Then you copy ALL your files to the first one, which you mark as #1 and keep it connected to your PC. Then you backup the #1 to #2 first week of even months. Then you backup the #1 to #3 first week of odd months. Then after one year you shift the labels, #1 becomes #2, #2 becomes #3 and #3 becomes #1, and you have the "new" #1 connected to your PC. Or, you buy an used server, etc., etc. jaclaz

Yep, now it is clear, it is the program that attempts to change the type of the field. I will show you what I meant (checking now the Registrar Lite is not suitable, but maybe some other tool exists).

52 GB? +20*5Gb = 100 Gb so between 150 Gb and (if DVD's are 9 Gb each) 250 Gb? Are you sure? 6 USB disks with an average of less than 10 GB each? (they can't be 52 TB unless you have 10 TB USB disks) jaclaz

We are somehow not communicating. I have no win9x handy, but on NT based systems the "default" IS a REG_SZ, AND it can have either a "string" or a "hex string" as value, still remaining REG_SZ. It is about a SINGLE type (REG_SZ), NOT about different data types, but of course unless you check and report we are running circles. Can you please try using Registrar Lite (provided that it shows data type on both Windows 95 and 98) and post the two screenshots showing the data type? Of course if the program changes the data type on Windows 98, that is the reason why it won't work on Windows 95. jaclaz

Yes, it is a bit better , still you were right in NOT choosing advertising as a profession (at least as much as I was right in NOT attempting the diplomatic career) , you do know how this sounds, don't you? jaclaz

Interesting stance for a professional , do you also refuse to work on pink laptops and on those that have a NRA sticker on it? You understand how your - let's say peculiar - attitude may lead the customer to buy a new machine, thus making EXACTLY what the manufacturers want? jaclaz

Ah well, then - maybe - NetGear is "only" and not necessarily "best" - within "latest" - that provides XP drivers. We are slowly moving from "apodictic on NetGear" to "apodictic on all the rest of the world", still within the realms of "vague and gratuitous". jaclaz

Well, you are describing more or less a NAS (Network Attached Storage) with either RAID 10 or (safer/better) RAID 5/6 + full offline replication (i.e. two identical RAID 5/6 NAS's synchronized periodically). It ain't normally gonna be cheap , but maybe you have some spare old (but not too old) PC's that you can use, or you can get for peanuts some Mini-ITX from e-bay or similar and add to it a basic (you won't need high performance) RAID card and a bunch of disks, but there are also lots of decommissioned (but perfectly fine) servers on sale. Which size of data are we talking about? A simple basic intro to RAID: https://www.adaptec.com/nr/rdonlyres/874d145e-f64f-4804-9e27-037bc5a9dce0/0/3994_raid_whichone_v112.pdf jaclaz

Well anecdotally I have a Linksys one WUSB54GC that I use for the rare cases I need to connect wirelessly that seems just fine on XP (SP2), of course I miss the multi-year testing and benchmarking experience on all wireless adapters on the market that allows you to state apodictically that "Net gear is best for xp .". Or maybe, just maybe, you wanted to state something more like "I happen to have a NetGear one, and it works fine with XP on my machine". jaclaz

But only for XP SP2 or SP3, maybe? jaclaz

@ABCDEFG Thanks , though it doesn't seem to be meaningful for or connected to the issue at hand. jaclaz

But the "Standard" or "Default" is normally a REG_SZ, also on NT/2K/XP etc. BUT a REG_SZ file can contain both a "string" and a "hex string" AFAIK, while remaining "REG_SZ". So either the Windows 98 is not REG_SZ (and the windows 95 is REG_SZ) or the issue is something else. With Registrar Lite (that should show the field type) are the "standard" different types in 95 when compared to 98? Mind you it is well possible that Windows 95 simply cannot "understand" those values, but the REG_SZ type should have had no changes from 95 to 98. jaclaz

No. If it was UEFI only, you would have not been able to boot XP on it, maybe it is one of those (stupid) UEFI that has a CSM that is automatically enabled when MBR devices are found. jaclaz

Maybe it is a limitation of the windows 9x Regedit program, another tool should be able to do that. try with an old version of Registrar Lite: https://web.archive.org/web/20050706043434/http://www.resplendence.com/downloads jaclaz

In your view/tool there is no indication if it is a REG_SZ, REG_SZ when you right click on the key should provide both "change value" and "change binary value" (have not a Win9x handy to check). jaclaz

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6083.windows-xp-folders-and-locations-vs-windows-7-and-vista.aspx jaclaz

On other news: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/onedrive-has-stopped-working-on-non-ntfs-drives/ jaclaz

The issue may be with the "data type". The Registry is a database (actually more similar to a filesystem than anything else) and eache "entry" (or field) can be of one among many data types, you can as well imagine that it is a fileststem where files have a (meaningful) extension AND (like Windows is now by default) you look at it in Explorer without showing extension, 9x has a subset of these: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773476(v=vs.85).aspx If the data type doesn't match, the value will be "gibberish" or not found by the program/whatever. jaclaz

No. When the new (Windows 95 or if you prefer NT 4.00) User Interface came out, it was VERY, VERY different from the previous Windows 3.1 or previous NT 3.1/3.5, with LOTS of changes. Almost everyone was HAPPY of the changes. With windows 8/8.1 and with 10 they made a lot of changes for the worse. Heck, we don't even anymore know easily which OS version is running, "Creators Update" sounds like "Director's Cut" added to a movie title for a new release. jaclaz

Nothing really new, it dates back at the very least to ancient Greeks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra when computer experts (or self proclaimed ones) discuss about Trojan Horses often do not realize how the original one was a known known and not an unknown unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns jaclaz

Sure. I was making a quick joke on the "You can't run" read as if it was addressing specifically user 98SE instead of the "impersonal you" jaclaz