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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

Neat! I like all those movies from I through IIX (one through eight). Especially the music. c

I agree 10,000%! Macs are still relatively PC-like in terms of what they can do (but then again, the Mac UI has traditionally been somewhat more "dumbed down" than Windows, but things seem to have changed recently, in my opinion). What I don't like, is how it's now impossible to upgrade RAM on most Apple models, and that they seem to have become increasingly allergic to ports, but whatever. If I want a PC that does relatively PC-like things AND is relatively new AND money is no object, I like Macs. However, if I want a real PC that does PC-like things perfectly, and age is irrelevant and I'm on a tight budget, I'll stick with my D630 and Windows XP c

Is that scene from First Contact? If so, I just saw that last night on Laserdisc! c

Would it be completely unreasonable to believe that some of the work being put into getting XP somewhat up to par with 7 could be used, with relatively minor changes, on Vista? It seems reasonable to me, given how ignorant I am regarding how it gets done c

Hi, I didn't know I could donate (silly me!), so I went ahead and did so, and now I'm offered the opportunity to create a machine-specific key, presumably to disable the watermark (which is what the OP wanted). Thing is, whatever I type into the "Machine ID" field doesn't seem to take, and it won't generate a key. Why? c

Interesting that XP is holding relatively steady around 9-10%. It won't die! (Compared to 2000 -- at ~0.01%, it's essentially dead, which is a pity as it was a fairly good OS in its own right). Also interesting is that the increase in market share for 7 is almost exactly equal to the combined decreases of Windows 10 and 8.1 share. Coincidence? c

I can confirm that the option is greyed out in VMware Fusion 8.5 with OS X 10.9.5 host and PC-BSD guest. It does work with Windows with the same setup, though, so it should work regardless of host, at least for Windows guests. c

Indeed?! I'll have to give that a try. Such arbitrary crippling of programs is wrong. I'm not surprised, though. Apple has been doing this sort of thing, in one for or another, for DECADES now, so the precedence is set. c

Well, I'm certainly not upgrading my OS arbitrarily, especially when everything else works fine (including, I might add, my antivirus (Avast)). If/when the time comes, I'm sure someone will recompile Firefox and distribute a fork for XP (I'm hoping someone does this for OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, as that is probably my favorite modern OS X version, and is sort of like Apple's equivalent of XP). Given that there's still about ~8%-10% market share, it only makes sense. Fun Fact: My local community college's counseling office still uses XP on their check in computer I'm not seeing plain XP in the wild nearly as much as I used to, but it's still fairly common. c

Well, I don't know much about this, but I can say that the "iaStor.sys is corrupted" is likely due to the fact that said driver may be designed specifically for XP* (2k and XP are largely the same, but there are a few architectural differences). Beyond that, hopefully someone else who knows more than I about such things will chime in. *This isn't necessarily true always. I tried installing 2k on a newish laptop, using a driver that was clearly designed for 2k, and I still got that message. c

Well, Apple has been releasing new OS versions once a year for awhile now? They, at least, haven't gone out of their way to arbitrarily break random things like MS seems to be doing with W10 (they do have this nasty habit of arbitrarily dropping hardware support every few years, but that's a whole other can of worms). I think this rapid release nonsense is the new Order Of Things, unfortunately. c