sdfox7

Opticork BlackWingCat made a modified Intel HD 4 series driver for Windows 2000 that you may try: http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1165914.html You may also try manually installing the XP driver through device manager to bypass an OS check during install. It is doubtful it would work as support for Windows 2000 ended many years ago. You have to remember Windows 2000 was only on the market for a year before XP was launched: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22642/Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-XP-exe-

Yes, Flash Player 18 is supported under XP. An XP Thinkpad is among the machines I use on a daily basis. In fact, Flash Player 19 Beta is already available (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html) and the system requirements have not changed: http://labsdownload.adobe.com/pub/labs/flashruntimes/shared/air19_flashplayer19_releasenotes.pdf

I have one of the first Gateway Solos ever produced, the Solo P3C. The world certainly has changed since then. It has a 120MHz Pentium with 40MB RAM and a 1GB 4000RPM hard disk drive. Manufactured in February 1996, it was a state-of-the-art system at the time. Likely irreplaceable at this point. I still use it nearly 20 years after its inception, and I can say I would not considering putting Windows 98 on it if you have multi-tasking in mind. I would say you should have between 64MB-160MB if you wish to multi-task. After booting Windows 95, initializing the wireless card and opening Internet Explorer, there is not much memory left over for multi-tasking. It runs fine if you are browsing with one browser window open and Office 97 open, but that's about it. That being said, this machine will remain a special collectible to me. A fantastic piece of quality workmanship and computing history. I hope you enjoy the pictures below that I have linked to.

The only explanation is that some websites are dependent on SHA 2 and others aren't. From a compatibility perspective it seems silly to require this, why wouldn't the site employ graceful degredation otherwise? Apparently my school's website isn't dependent on SHA 2 because it loads without issues under Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 5.0.

I wonder if you have another issue going on. I can load MSN and even my university's secure Banner Web with Internet Explorer 5 on Windows 95. Edit 11/22/2015 14:31: replace attached thumbnails that broke (ie5msn.jpg & ie5bannr.jpg)

Yes, I acknowledge that everyone will have different experiences using their operating system. There are many different configurations possible. I simply stated that if you use Windows 98 as intended, you can get by with 256MB without a problem. As a matter of fact, 64MB ought to be enough as some Win98 era mainboards can't even cache more than that. Gaming, in my opinion, is not casual use. I can run YouTube on Internet Explorer 6.0 SP3 in XP with Flash Player 18.0.0.209 and it only takes up ~100M RAM.

Microsoft has gotten progressively lazier with each NT release. Every NT operating system since 4.0 has had subsequently fewer service packs. NT 4.0 had 6, 2000 had 4, XP had 3, Vista had 2, and Windows 7 had one. Anyone who needs to install Windows 7 from Service Pack 1 to today (or in 2019) is going to have a boatload of updates to install.

Then reboot. Afterwards verify this site and/or this site identiefies your browser as IE9. Then let's see how google and yahoo! react to your browser (AFAIK, trying to spoof IE7 or IE8 is not useful anymore, nowadays). I am surprised that hack works at all. Internet Explorer 9 does not run on Windows NT 5.1, AKA Windows XP. But it may work if you put replace that with ' MSIE 8.0 ' as the value. Internet Explorer 8 is still a relatively recent browser and shipped with Windows 7.

RLoew I use this ThinkPad T40 for web browsing, Office documents, and email, so I guess I would consider myself a "light" or "average" user. With Office 97, Firefox 1.5, IE 5.5 and Opera 10 I can be quite productive (legacy system speaking), and all 4 programs are light on resources.

Internet Explorer 5 and 6 are really only usable without crashing if you open Internet Explorer, go to menu Tools > Internet Options > Security and then disable Active Scripting I am in fact posting this from Internet Explorer 5.5 under Windows 98.

RLoew, The performance with virtual memory disabled under Windows 98 is very good. In fact, there are sources that suggest disabling it if you have more than 64MB RAM. "Silence is golden." Did I say something I shouldn't have?

The reason Internet Explorer fails in many cases is due to the fact that pre-Windows XP SP3, Internet Explorer 6 is not SHA 2 (SHA256) compatible. Many websites today rely on SHA 2 especially after the POODLE vulnerability discovered last year. Windows XP Service Pack 3 includes an updated CRYPT32.DLL to fix this, so IE 6 under XP SP3 does not have this issue. This will be the same situation with Internet Explorer 6 under Windows 98 and Windows 2000. Surprisingly, https://www.google.com loads without issue under Internet Explorer 5.5 even though it too does not support SHA 2. The solution under these legacy operating systems is to use a SHA 2 compatible browser such as Firefox 1.x or newer, or Opera 6.0 or later. Browsers: SHA-256 Compatibility: https://support.globalsign.com/customer/portal/articles/1499561-sha-256-compatibility

Here's the legacy FTP page for Inspiron 8600, good luck: http://ftp.dell.com/Browse_For_Drivers/Laptops/Inspiron/Inspiron%208600/ Try the Network link http://ftp.dell.com/Browse_For_Drivers/Laptops/Inspiron/Inspiron%208600/Network/Driver/

I highly recommend the IBM ThinkPad T series. Very well built and durable machines. I have a T40 with 32MB video memory and the first with USB 2.0. This machines uses DDR RAM. It is very light at around 4 pounds. Includes the Intel 2100 internal wireless card. http://sdfox7.com/win98/files/win98t40.jpg There are multiple models that IBM officially made with Windows 98 drivers/support. You can go with the T42, T41, T40, T30, T23, T22, T21, T20 (Pentium 3 or Pentium 4 M based with PC100 RAM and USB 1.0). All depends how fast you want to go. There is also the legendary ThinkPad 600 series (some of the older 600's come with Pentium II processors). Note that the T30 is the last with a serial port. The T42 is the last model that "Officially" supports Windows 98, but some have gotten it running "unofficially" with the T43: Windows 98SE on Thinkpad T43: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=33287) I would recommend 256MB RAM. I don't want to start a flame war but in my opinion, once you get to 512MB-1GB, Windows 98 doesn't really benefit from that much memory unless you are using Photoshop. I also love the ThinkLight! http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_History

By the way, if you get a message about updating Windows Installer, you can use the one that is Intel has included in the package. (I don't know why the software doesn't just install it unattended). Once you extract the package the file is called INSTMSIA.EXE. It will be in C:\DRIVERS\WIN\WLLANINT\APPS\PROSET\WN98SEME

I wonder if this link would work for you, the 2100 instead of the 2200. http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad/downloads/DS001832 The 2100 works like a charm on my ThinkPad T40: http://sdfox7.com/win98/files/int2200bg.jpg

I noticed this on a recent XP RTM build. Many web pages won't load at all on Internet Explorer 6. Not even the Google homepage will load. Oddly enough, no web pages are blocked from my Windows 95 installations with IE 5.5. Maybe IE 5.5 is so old developers haven't bothered to block it.

This is an excellent place to get old versions of Netscape: http://sillydog.org/narchive/ Netscape 6 and 7 are here: http://sillydog.org/narchive/full67.php

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms03-010 Scroll down to the "Frequently Asked Questions" Question 1) If Windows NT 4.0 is listed as an affected product, why is Microsoft not issuing a patch for it? Answer 1) The Windows NT 4.0 architecture is much less robust than the more recent Windows 2000 architecture, Due to these fundamental differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and its successors, it is infeasible to rebuild the software for Windows NT 4.0 to eliminate the vulnerability. To do so would require rearchitecting a very significant amount of the Windows NT 4.0 operating system, and not just the RPC component affected. The product of such a rearchitecture effort would be sufficiently incompatible with Windows NT 4.0 that there would be no assurance that applications designed to run on Windows NT 4.0 would continue to operate on the patched system.

AOL 7.0 was released on October 17, 2001. AOL 7.0 was released during AOL's peak (~30 million subscribers) and updates many system components/files related to Internet Explorer. Dial-Up Networking 1.3 Internet Explorer 5.5 (upgrades all previous versions to IE 5.5 (5.5.4134.0600) which was released July 2000) Here is more information specific to the changes to the AOL software: http://www.mozillaquest.com/News01/AOL-701_Release_Story-01.html You can get more information on AOL simply by doing a web search. For original articles from its 2001 release, you may want to do a search for "aol 7.0 2001". Hope you find this information interesting or helpful.

Just my experience with Windows 95 and 98, simply installing the OS and staying away from individual updates works the best. I am more a fan of service packs than individual updates. I think Kernel Ex is a fabulous program. That being said, there are some fundamentals you should keep in mind when installing unofficial updates. Every time you install an update or hack at the operating system level, you change the original design of the operating system and that could lead to issues. For every update you install, the operating system moves farther from its original performance and design and you run the risk of breaking compatibility with other programs. Simply put, one fix can break another function, call, or thunk. This is the precise reason there was no Service Pack 7 for NT 4.0. Microsoft "could not guarantee that programs designed for NT 4.0 would continue to function on NT 4.0". When I install Windows 95, I install IE 5.5 and Office 97 with Service Pack 1, 2, and 3. That's it. Many updates are already made to Windows 95 when you install IE 5.5. COMCTL32.DLL, MFC42.DDL, etc. While there is a Service Pack 1 for original Windows 95, I do not use original Windows 95 due to the many improvements and wireless support made in the 1996 version of Windows 95 B (OSR 2 and later). References: Availability of Microsoft Windows 95 Service Pack 1: http://web.archive.org/web/20050221051537/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142794 Windows 95 Service Pack 1 (12/31/95): http://web.archive.org/web/19990417050831/http://www.microsoft.com/Windows95/Downloads/Contents/wurecommended/S_WUServicePacks/W95SvcPack1/default.asp

WPA. I use the Orinoco Gold card on my Windows 95 Gateway Solo. No issues whatsoever. Windows 9x was no longer considered mainstream at the time WPA became a standard, the world had moved on to NT-based Windows. I have used a multitude of WEP based wireless cards with Windows 95. No issues there. I highly recommend the Orinoco Gold series for laptops or Cisco 350 series for laptops and desktops, but I also used a Netgear MA401 at one point (very difficult to find these days, even on eBay; that's why I would stick with the other two series.) If you pick up these cards on eBay you can get the drivers off my FTP here if you can't find them elsewhere: http://sdfox7.com/cisco350/ http://sdfox7.com/orinoco/

Andrew T For what it's worth, I use Foxit 1.3 on Windows 95 to open modern PDF files. I don't know if you enjoy Adobe Reader specifically, but Foxit is very light. I use the 1.3 version from 2006: http://sdfox7.com/win95/FOXIT13.EXE

Tomasz86, very useful info. WayBack Machine Archive also works for the Post-Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a Security Rollup Package (SRP), Q299444: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20010730040527/http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsp/Patch/q299444/NT4/EN-US/Q299444i.exe

SubMix8c The published requirements for AOL 7.0 are Windows 95, Pentium class processor, 32MB RAM, 130MB HDD space (230MB if IE 5.5 is not already installed). I'm running 7.0 on my Win95 laptop right now, see here: http://sdfox7.com/win95/files/aol70_95.jpg EDIT: SubMix8c I believe you were referring to the fact that my SETUP9X.EXE file links to AOL 6.0, not 7.0. That was a goof on my part some time ago. I have since renamed that file to AOL60.EXE and made the AOL 7.0 file SETUP9X.EXE. I want to keep the SETUP9X.EXE naming to avoid breaking that link if I've given it out online. The intention is that SETUP9X.EXE should simply link to the latest version of the software available for Windows 95. So http://sdfox7.com/win95/SETUP9X.EXE will now link to AOL 7.0.