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I don't like XP because I don't agree with the instrusive activation system. And 98 SE is starting to feel too old, even though I use a lot of upgrades from ME and XP. And there aren't a lot of games for Linux. Ignoring XP, which OS is best for gaming? 2K Advanced Server? 2K professional edition? Something else? Also, which upgrades are crucial? I'm thinking of using 2K SP 4 and AutoPatcher 2000 which gives update roll up v2, DX9.0c, and IE6SP1, among other things. Thanks!

"Are there any advantages upgrading from Win98SE to WinME?" I don't know. But if you have an ME disc then you might try installing the 98SE2ME upgrade (see www.mdgx.com). It reputedly gives you all of the good parts from ME and none of the bad. In my experience it's very stable and safe.

This sounds really nice jimmsta, I am glad you are using USP2.02 instead of reinventing the wheel! > The download is too huge! Nonsense, please make it multi-gigabytes if possible. Please include other patches that Alper thought USP2.02 shouldn't have because they are too big + old. MS JavaVM update might be one of these. Also other MS downloads like MS Agent? Will you please include IE6 SP 1 with full patches? Also BROWSEUI.DLL and BROWSELC.DLL fixes to prevent known IE 6 SP1 bug of hanging + resource leaks while deleting files in Explorer? (I can explain more info if you need it). What about all of the MSXML / MDAC / Jet stuff? Maximus Decimus has a nice patch for this. Maybe it would be a good starting point? What about DirectX 9.0c Oct 2005? Please include MDGx's 98SE2ME if possible. It's super stable and a must-have IMHO. Please make the Revolutions Pack optional. I haven't used it since about 3.5, but I gave up on it a while ago due to major stability problems (resource leaks? or just too much resource usage?). Also, please make USB stuff optional since I think it conflicts with my digital camera's TWAIN drivers. I just install device drivers manually for USB devices now.

It's not so much 9X is bad, but it is pointless to run it on high end hardware for running today's. Not really. I have a decent PC (3+ GHz, 1 GB RAM, 256 MB video card) and don't like squandering the performance on a bloated OS like XP. 98 SE has extremely low memory usage and I can do things like have a fixed FAT16 swap partition and mount a compressed volume onto a RAM drive from the command-line. Also 98 SE supports all the hardware I have like USB and Firewire devices, MP3 players, digital cameras, and SATA drives. Overall I find XP to be slow, bloated, insecure (think Blaster) and limited and can't justify the cost and submitting myself to the communist activation schemes. Don't get me started on 64-bit XP. I'm not sure what Link21's problem is, but I'm guessing one of the following 1. He must be very bored and frustrated, based on his going to a forum to troll and bash something he doesn't actually use. Or maybe its just an infantile ego? 2. He's associated with MS somehow and wants to bash older products hoping someone will actually be tricked into upgrading to Vista. 3. He is hoping to become an MSFN moderator like another guy with this sort of behavior in this forum became.

>I will never buy Vista. Me neither, I think XP and Vista will probably be quality OS's, although you still need tools to cut down all of the bloat and security holes. The real problem, though, is the user-hateful and intrusive DRM and activation. That's why I still use 98 SE. >I will keep 98se for all my uses No need to stick with one OS; there are a lot of other choices like Win2K and Linux. I use 64-bit Linux a lot.

DirectX 10 will only be on Windows Vista. Vista won't be out until 2006. Vista-only games will be years away. So DX10 support on 98 SE won't matter until around 2010. This is all assuming DirectX 10 actually works, and isn't screwed up and ditched along with other Vista technologies like WinFS and Gonad.

Erm, what do you mean you can't by XP x64 edition?... It's just not released to the retail market So where did you buy it exactly? How much did it cost?

It is quite obvious to me that an OS should be installed on appropriate hardware, meaning to me P-II and below always get 9x, P-III is a tossup and P-4 and up gets XP. What OS should I buy for my Athlon 64 system? XP 64-bit? Oops, I forgot, you can't buy that yet... guess I'll stick with this free Linux stuff that's had 64-bit support for more than a year. And it comes with office tools and a C++ compiler; imagine that. It also doesn't require fubared partition tables. Or I'll keep using 98 SE which eats up very little of my 1 GB, seems to work just fine with Dx 9.0c games, has better backward compatability, and doesn't force me to phone Bill up to use MY computer. It's also cool being able to mount a compressed volume from the command line; will Gonad be able to do that?

Perhaps you don't have the right drivers installed on your PC. For example, if you have a VIA motherboard then I highly recommend installing the VIA IDE Miniport drivers. FWIW, 98 SE and 64-bit Linux seem to copy at about the same rate.

Windows XP has been pretty bad, but no computer is completely safe. Having it not connected to a network and in a locked vault can help, but it can still be hacked. My Windows 98 SE box has been good for years though. Only picked up some Spyware one time, but now there are so many free protection tools that I have no problems whatsoever. Try using tools like these: AVG Free Edition (anti-virus), Kerio Personal Firewall or Outpost Firewall, CrapCleaner, and Spybot Search & Destroy. 64-bit Linux has been safe for me so far.

Pirating Windows because you cant afford it is just silly. Anyone can order dozens of Ubuntu CD's and get them mailed to them for free. Comes with tons of apps including office apps and compilers. There is also a 64-bit version. I'm still waiting for a non-beta 64-bit compiler from Microsoft...

Are you sure your memory is ok? Try downloading and running Prime95. Use Password 9876 and select Options, Advanced and set the Priority to 9; then select torture test and leave it for an hour or so.

You don't have to use NTFS. Linux should work just as well.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/05/2233207...tid=172&tid=218 http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2005/08/05/408720.aspx

"Windows Shorthorn" would be the most appropriate name.

Microsoft is over a year behind on the 64-bit front compared to Linux. What do MS users get instead? Fancy UI widgets promised for 2006? 3D minesweeper? Tabbed browsing? I refuse to buy a $300 coaster and the right to phone MS up 10 times. I'm going to continue using and developing with FREE 64-bit linux OS, office suites, and development software. Asta la vista, Microsoft.

Will u add SQLXML 3.0 SP 3?

You said 130 GB. Could you give a more precise value? That number is very suspicious. It is awfully close to 128 GiB, i.e. 137 GB. This is a well known limit on many older BIOS's that support 28-bit LBA but not 48-bit LBA. Such BIOS's simply can't access areas above this limit, or they will attempt to do so and cause data corruption by wrapping back to the beginning of the drive. 137 GB is also a limit for the Windows 98 SE default hard disk controller drivers (ESDI_506.PDR). They can easily result in data corruption if you use too large a drive. 137 GB may also be a fake size enforced by a DDO (I think this means "dynamic disk overlay" program) - a hack made my hard drive manufacturers to work around the afformentioned limitations by making your drive appear as multiple hard disks, each of which is less than the 137 GB barrier. Do you have a DDO program installed on your hard disk? See here for more details: http://www.48bitlba.com/ Hope this helps.

If u like Flashget and dont want all the spyware and otehr crap that comes with it then Free Download Manager is the choice one to get That used to be true in Free Download Manager 1.5. In 1.7 they added an annoying banner and in 1.8 it now sends out unauthorized TCP packets. I'm still looking for a good alternative

Pentium produce waaaaaaaaaaay more heat, so athlon! Muhahaha... my AMD64 is 32 C right now. The CPU fan is running at below 20% power. At my job, 3 out of 4 Intel P4 servers burnt out and started failing randomly. They'd start rebooting more and more frequently (e.g. they'd last like 5 seconds in Prime95) until eventually they wouldn't turn on at all. Dell replaced them but it happened again for a total of like 7 machines.

Windows 64-bit edition Try it if you want but I've heard bad things about driver support for it, and I think you have to contact Microsoft and exchange a non-OEM only Windows XP copy for it or some rubbish. Blech... I find I am way more productive on slamd64 and I am so glad I installed it. I don't feel like paying $300 for the right to call up Microsoft and notify them of hardware changes on my PC. I use AMD64 and I leave Cool'N'Quiet on. My CPU temp can drop down to around 38 (depending on ambient temperature), which I think is good. On my Athlon64 3400+ (2400 MHz) I use the cpu_freq_scaling governer called "ondemand" and my CPU frequency will drop as low as 1000 MHz. When this happens, the CPU voltage drops from 1.5 to 1.0 V and the temperature drops up to 8 celsius degrees! It's about 32 C right now. Then fancontrol kicks in and cuts down on the CPU fan RPM. (Linux fancontrol is similar to SmartFan software in Windows). So it's definitely cool & quiet. I'm not sure how much the Cool'N'Quiet feature is helping here?

I have a 63 GiB partition on a 100 GB drive. This partiton has about 40 GB of files on it. This partition is much smaller than the claimed Scandskw (Windows ScanDisk) limit of 127 GiB. Scandskw fails with an out of memory error when trying to scan this partition. I have 1 GB of RAM, so this error is bogus. It's Windows ME Scandisk too, since I installed 98SE2ME. In DOS mode, SCANDISK.EXE works much better.

If you have an ME disc, then I highly recommend installing the 98SE2ME upgrade, which gives you all the good parts of ME (and none of the bad).

I'm voting for the phat memory. But it's hard to judge just based on one spec. If the processor cache is large enough, memory speed is less important. If the hard drive is slow, fast memory may not help much. Also, what is the transfer rate in bytes/s between the CPU and memory? You gave frequencies but is that cycles/s or bytes/s? BTW which stats are for which console?

OK, I'm confused. Apparently MSXML 3.0 SP5 was released today (6/23/2005): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en Yet, I thought I already had MSMXL 3.0 SP5 already installed on 98 SE months ago. And you claim SP7 is already out: MDAC 2.8sp1 (include MSXML 3.0SP7) What's going on here??