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Dropbox is still working for me on XP x64. c

I'm not surprised. Yet another reason to not use Windows 10.... c

Agreed. Let's keep talking about Windows! c

Separate post for clarity.... Windows 10 seems to be defying logic. It keeps getting worse with every update it seems! Well, I'm sticking with XP/7/Vista (yes, Vista)/7/8.1 for as long as I can, and when I no longer can, I'll look into switching to Linux (I'm split 50/50 between Mac and Windows, and I might go 100% Mac, except I'm not terribly enthralled by the direction they're going either (much better than Microsoft's, though). c

I agree 10,000%! I'd like to share one anecdote: yesterday, an acquaintance said that we're all being manipulated by the media, and D.T. is actually a good guy who has been lied about and misrepresented. Really? However, I believe that talking of these things is against forum rules, is it not? c

I think I'm going to crawl into a cave with my old Windows 95 laptop now.... c

I have a box full of consecutively-numbered Win95 OSR2 CDs c

I found that with Standard PC, you lose ACPI power management (you also need to manually power off the computer when you shut down Windows). Have you tried "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface PC"? That may accomplish the same goal, and preserve your power management abilities. c

Well, with me, I guess that would be 2 billion and one Except I'm using XP x64, which is an oddball (it seems to generally get lumped together with Server 2003, though; I wonder what the market share is for that?) c

Well, I guess it keeps getting selected by W10 because it's been proven to be the "best" driver-away of any potential users This is yet another reason why I am avoiding W10 like the plague. Even 8.1 is looking very good by comparison! It's still not quite on par with 7 or older (I miss the classic theme), but it's a whole lot better than 10 will ever be it seems. c

Are your graphics drivers configured correctly? You might go and check your acceleration settings under the Performance tab in the System control panel (click the "Graphics..." button, I think bottom center). The slider should be fully to the right, for full hardware acceleration. If that doesn't work, perhaps some settings in the graphics drivers are messed up/not optimal? You might also try cehcking out your BIOS settings, in particular anything related to the AGP port and/or graphics. Maybe there's a setting in there that 98 isn't agreeing with 100%? I hope this helps... c

My Latitide D630 has been getting a bit cranky too lately. No BSoDs so far, but I'll be going along, and suddenly, I'll get a hard freeze where EVERYTHING goes unresponsive, and I can't shut it down or get to Task Manager (I can get to the dialog-thing that has buttons for Task Manager, Shutting Down, and locking the screen, but I cannot do any of those things because it's frozen). It seemed to start when I installed Dell System Detect, so I suspect that might have something to do with it. I'll try uninstalling it to see what happens. c

Is there a list like this for Windows 95? I'd like to know, because information on that version seems a bit scattered relative to 98/98SE/ME (I'm running it on an old Dell Latitude CPi). c

Not much has happened here over the last few months it seems. Is Retrozilla still alive? c

Thanks! I did use the unofficial 82.69 drivers, but I still can't get wifi working. I'll investigate installing a card that 98 supports. WPA2 would be nice, but it isn't mandatory. I also installed the unofficial chipset drivers, though I'm having a weird problem where there's exclamation marks by two of the five "System board extension for ACPI BIOS" entries in Device Manager. Apparently, there's resource conflicts with one of the other System board..." entries, with the PCI Bus and one of the hard disk controllers. Any ideas? When I try to change them manually, I get a "Not Allowed" message. c

Gosh, now I've seen it all... Even XP is affected but MS' shenanigans. Sheesh! And all this time I thought XP would surely be immune, since it's been EOS since April 2014. Guess not! I'll have to apply this fix. I find it ironic that the Malicious Removal Tool is itself (potentially) malicious. I guess it should remove itself then! c EDIT: I've been thinking, and Win2k is starting to look pretty good now, since it has *absolutely* no possibility of becoming infected by the virus that is "New" MS (maybe?)....

Well, it looks like the D620 is more compatible! Installation was flawless, there were very few crashes (which are seemingly related to the graphics acceleration), and I even have full support for the NVIDIA GPU! Now I need to find/hack drivers for everything else.... At the very least, I'd like to figure out how to get the audio, ethernet and wifi working. But for now, I can consider this a successful experiment c

Would this driver work with the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M, as found on the Dell Latitude D620? Only way to know is to try, I s'pose.... c

Windows will throw that error because of a bug that prevents it from booting properly on computers whose CPUs are faster than 1.7 GHz (I think). Also, I think there's another bug that manifests itself on CPUs faster than 2.1 GHz (there's a fix for that). c

How much RAM do you have? Without rloew's RAM patch, Windows 9x/ME won't run properly with more than 512 MB installed. Also try booting into safe mode and see what happens. I'm attempting to install 98SE on my D630, and I found that it reliably boots to safe mode, but I cannot get it working in normal mode very often, if at all, despite applying the RAM patch, reducing RAM to 256 MB (more than enough for what I'm doing), and changing all sorts of BIOS settings. Hopefully I'll have better luck on my D620.... c

I thought the d830 and d630 were virtually identical from a hardware perspective? Now I have to go get one and find out for myself! Anyway, I've decided not to try getting it on the d630 for now, opting instead to try putting it on my d620, whose somewhat older hardware, I would think, should allow me to run 98 more successfully. I will try installing without acpi support, but as I'm using a Dell installer disk, it doesn't seem to be giving me the opportunity to run setup with that switch. I may have to reinstall, which isn't so bad, since the installer disk puts everything in C:\Windows\Options\Cabs, which makes rerunning "normal" setup very simple (and the SSD ought to make it really fast, too!) I'll fill everyone in on how it goes. c

OK. I just tried that, and it didn't seem to change anything. However, I was able to get it to boot once by removing the graphics drivers. But now it won't boot at all. I installed the RAM patch, hoping it would change something, but it didn't :/ c

Would installing the USP 3.whatever work? I can try that in safe mode and see what happens.... ....after I catch up on some school work.... c

Hi, I've looked around here, here, and here, and I've installed these, but I'm still having issues with the thing. With the "proper" amount of RAM (less than 512 MB), it installs fine. But when I try to boot in normal mode, it hangs at a black display. I got it to boot up once in normal mode and it detected a bunch of hardware (of course, there were no drivers for them), and then another hard freeze at "Finalizing Windows Settings" (or words to that effect), and any reboot into normal results in the black display again. I've changed a bunch of BIOS settings (turning things on, turning them off), to no avail. Thanks, c

You mean, they've kept alive the knowledge and urge to sink winner products? c