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Hello! I've been trying to install Windows Me on my 10 year old, slow Thinkpad R60. I figured since the laptop wasn't too good for basic web taks, it might make a great Windows 98 machine Specs: 1gb of Ram Intel Core Solo (Yonah) 1.66 GHz CPU Duo 2 T7200 Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 40gb Hard Drive Laptop has a floppy disk drive (Although I don't have any floppy disks) CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo drive Progress -Installation went well -945GM video driver found -Chipset driver is established -Ethernet driver found Issues -Must figure out how to use custom HDA driver for Windows 3.1 on ME -Motherboard resources gives me a code 15 -Wireless card driver not working

My Dell Latitude e4310 used to boot and resume Windows fine, but I had to reinstall Windows 7 and ended up turning it on/off many times because the boot options weren't working with my XP disc (Tried to format and install xp only for it to crash). I turned it on/off with the button a stupid number of times and now it boots a lot slower and whenever Windows hiberinates, sometimes I have to turn it off because it takes too long to resume but usually the system fails to resume. Oddly though, Windows is still just as fast as before. TL;DR I ended up turning my laptop on and off countless times and now its so slow when booting and fails to resume if hibernated.

Thank you so much for the advice guys!~ <3 I never knew such an efficient OSes existed!

I have a few old laptops from my grandparent's attic and began testing another. This one simpily won't turn on, but the laptop will show if its charging. I've discovered the battery was bad when I plugged the charger inside. After removing the battery, it still refuses to turn on. The laptop still has its original hard drive and so. Do you think it will be possible for me to fix this? I need to know which factors could cause a laptop not to turn on, it was pretty dirty when I found then cleaned it. The laptop is from the year 1999 I believe.

A while ago I found an old laptop with an intel pentium 1 @ 133ghz and some software which was meant for Windows 3.1 and 95 inside my Grandparents' attic. I have a question before I reinstall a 9x os since the laptop has a virus (I happened to find a Windows 95B & plus, Windows 98SE disc) Has anyone here ever used one of these OSes on 32mb of ram or a similar amount? I'm wondering if Windows 98 "Degrades preformance" since hardware requirements are a bit higher. Anything else important would be appreciated, thank you

If you don't want Windows xp, then 2000 is your only other choice if not Linux http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=K8V-VM&os=17 (Offical Driver page for ASUS K8V drivers) I don't really understand why you would choose 2000 though. The only reasons I could really think of why you would choose W2k is less ram usage or software that doesn't work with xp. In my own personal experience setting up W2k's drivers were extremely difficult and time consuming and it lacks Zero Network Configuration, I couldn't even get the wireless internet working on the laptop. When I installed xp on the EXACT same laptop, it was a breeze to get everything working since lots of software didn't need to be installed (ex: Windows Installer, Codec's, etc). To top it all off, Windows xp still works with most modern software and you don't need to worry about web pages rendering incorrectly. W2k is still very usable I'm aware, if you do choose W2k I would recommend installing the unofficial service pack 5 and unofficial updates to get latest software working.

Windows 2000 is probably the best choice for your laptop, but why not consider Windows xp since you have plenty of ram? Windows NT 4.0 doesn't support too many programs, especially in terms of games but I've never tried it. The only reason I could think of choosing 9x over W2K is the real time DOS, but drivers are likely to become an issue if you install a 9x operating system. I don't think your chipset even supports Windows 98 and without patches you can only use 1gb of ram, 512mb in Win95. Sadly Win9x lacks NTFS format, so you cannot have files over 4gb. TL; DR short summary of why Windows 2000 is a better choice -Drivers are avaliable (At least for your graphics card, not sure about the rest) -Can see all 4gb of ram -Two cores can be seen -More stable/reliable than 9x (Or at least that's what they say) -NTFS format which allows files to be more than 4gb -There are no drivers avaliable for Windows 95 -Windows NT 4.0 doesn't have many programs and is limited for games (At least I've read somewhere) Note: If you're going to attempt wireless internet connection (LAN) you're gonna be in for a nasty surprise. Windows 2000 lacks zero network configuration. Some computers/laptops will require a few more installations/updates for W2k in order for some drivers like Audio to work (Personal experience)