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ouch, forgot one thing. Luckily no problems at all with viruses. And welcome, I would collect them. New viruses arent so compatible with my old system And yes, it is possible to have the system so -- new hardware, old OS, old programs, if you find it perfect and working perfectly. No problem at all to keep it so. And so I have it.

I would say it depends for what you use. If you have just one-for-all computer and wanting to do with all-and-nothing kind of things then its kind of tricky to still be sticked on WIN98SE even. Dont wait windows to be server system. None of the windows will fill this function as linux. I dont play games. I make music and I use win98se with all these unofficial patches with 3.4GHz CPU, SCSI harddisks and 10 channel soundcards and MIDI interfaces. And that w98se is just becouse I have that machine only for music and all other machines will handle all other things. But why just w98se? * that "you have to upgrade" is just FORCED, thats why I dont follow it. Its what THEY want, but not me. * 98SE is more customisable and has less hassle with unknown directories and stupidity like "my files" type directories. so it is more under my control. * USER INTERFACE reaction is much faster compared to XP and 2000. * thats the only thing and system which is under my own control. Simple, no such deep directories for user data, flatter directory structure. * thats the system which still has DOS on the bottom. It means much simpler backup methods. If anything goes wrong -- no problem to rewrite partition. * Its not practical to be modern all the time. And if the brainwash from mickeysoft is "you have to swap out the windows after every 3 years". Then whatever OS it is, its old anyway. So I will settle down to system which works. And why I have to customise and acomodate to the new if my old is still perfect?! Lack of hardware support and software support is just artificially generated problems. Its just question of money to someone and so, if someone pays there will be hardware support for win98se too. I will just buy WIN98SE compliant hardware. And surprisingly... that costs more than "requirement atleast XP". In the beginning there was hard to find CD writing and Mp3 playing software even for WIN3.x, but on the year 2003 it was available even for DOS! If it WORKS, and you dont have trouble, dont fix it! But after every hardware or software upgrade pain will start again about drivers, compatibility and programs which dont work. * persons who will say "they havent had crash under 2K and XP system" dont do so much usually with it. All windows systems have crashed until filesystem level. * about BSOD, well, thats the art of finding correct drivers, trying all hardware and not accepting less than best, but in the long run... I have still the same SYSTEM as a long time ago. And can use new features. * there is usually just 1..2 things which say that it does not work under 2K/ XP system, but its clear that I can ignore it. If I seek enough I will find alternative which is working under WIN98SE also. I dont upgrade software becouse just ONE program wants it. But I have another machine too, which is with Linux and thats one is for all other purposes. Thats the machine for websurfing and >200GB HDDs. So, no problem of keeping WIN98SE. Third machine is just DOS 7.1 only (486DX-4 100Mhz, 40GB HDD, 32MB RAM). Thats for old demoscene modules and games, mp3 playing and 2 soundcards. And all of the machines have internet access and also directory sharing.