Bruninho

I used every Windows OS version right after the launch - My dad was the culprit for getting them quickly because he liked the OS. Basically, right when XP was released, we switched to XP - a move I still regret to this day, but not as much as I did for the move to Windows Vista. But from 2010 onwards, we switched to OS X/MacOS thanks to me, we both got two 13-inch MBPs, and the rest of it is history. We're still on macOS so far. He has a Windows 2008 Server for our home cinema movies and I have a few classic Windows virtual machines for nostalgia only, the most used being the Windows 2000 Professional. To this day, my favorite Windows versions are Windows 3.1, Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

Yeah. I need to sleep a bit more Although I think that I tried to say it literally how it is spelled in brazilian portuguese - "é quase exatamente a mesma...." ("it's almost exactly the same...").

Hi, I'd like to say thank you all for the help. Certainly the name "Use personalized menus" for this option doesn't make sense at all but it worked. It's great to see the Windows 2000 still working so well, even with @blackwingcat's amazing kernel extender, I'm using the latest SeaMonkey (2.49.5) to post this here. Although this is not Windows 98 (Which I loved much more) it is almost the exact same thing, so I have a similar experience like I had when I was a kid. Just FYI, The screenshot I posted shows two Netscapes, but they aren't real Netscape; It's just SeaMonkey and Pale Moon 28.x skinned to look like old (v4 and v9, respectively) Netscape, which was my browser of choice back in late 90's. Thank you all!

I would like to know how do I turn this thing off, it’s annoying. Windows 2000 marks with a bevel around the apps I (supposedly) did not use yet or are “new”. I want it to behave like it was in 98 - nothing around them. See screenshot:

These were my number one search engines before Google. I’m switching to Bing now.

I’m sick of Google trying to dictate how the web should look like. Someone must step in and take the fight against them, because MS has already given up with their new Edge Chromium. Our only hope is Mozilla now.

Hey, me too. What happened to these flags?

Thanks for this useful info! Saves me a lot of time. I can now sleep in peace, knowing that Windows 98 is dead for me (lol). And that I have to stick with Windows 2000 Pro on vmware...

To my surprise, VMware does not offer Direct3D support on Windows 98, only XP and above (although Windows 2000 does get it working). I heard that PCem does have support, so I found a macOS port to try it out. Unfortunately it lacks support for macOS Catalina and it's v14, while v15 was released recently and has no macOS port. Therefore I'll have to wait for someone to compile a v15 port for macOS Catalina.

Win 2k is the best OS so far. Too bad it can't run DirectX 11 for newer games.

Thanks. On saturday I will look into this and try again. So far I've been busy with work and other projects... along with a recent light illness from the start of the week, but I'm fine now.

I killed the VM, but I can make another one next weekend if I can have time to try out again. The last VM had Win 98SE, Unofficial Service Pack 3.64, DirectX 9.0c (dec 2006) and KernelEx 4.5.2 (and later the following unofficial update here). I don't know what is USP10 and where to find psapi and MSI, never knew why.

I am happy with new Edge Chromium after some good time using both (macOS and Win version). Unfortunately, neither Trident engine nor EdgeHTML had power to fight for market share against Chrome/Firefox, everyone at my work uses both (except me, I use Safari on macOS and in some cases I test on new Edge since it's basically same engine as in the browser most of our clients use, Chrome). IE/Old Edge was poorly programmed, and had a very poor respect of web standards. Although I recognize the dangers of having less options of engines to use (giving Google so much power on the direction of the future of web), for a web designer like me, I welcome that with much pleasure. Microsoft finally admitted defeat and jumped off that sinking ship that is IE/Old Edge. Google probably will fall on the same trap MS fell when they dominated the market in early IE days - they stopped improving it after Netscape's downfall, and when Chrome/Firefox came in, it was too late for them to catch up. One day a new browser will come, and Google will have to step up its game. It will not be the new Edge, for sure. I just don't get why Apple does not try to get Safari on Windows again - some iCloud users would benefit from that, for example. But that "new browser" will not be Safari, for sure. I can put my bets in a new evolution, new breed of the engine used by Firefox, actually. Someone will do what Mozilla should have done, instead of "chromeifying" their Firefox browser in the last years. Edge Chromium for macOS works flawlessly for me, and as a developer, it's a great advantage to have it sharing the same engine as Chrome - means I don't need to have a spare Windows 10 VM, BootCamp or computer to test. Thank you, Microsoft.

@siria: I tried several versions of Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey and nothing worked as expected. I'm on KernelEx 4.5.2016 (I hope I've mentioned it correctly, @jumper) and although some versions loaded, some of them crashed on me, some others just didn't render pages well, or are well broken. jumper has mentioned before in another thread that there were some regressions in his builds so I might give a go with the official KernelEx 4.5.2. On Windows 98 SE virtual machine, I'm currently using Fx 3.6.28 and RetroZilla 2.2, and I'm not satisfied with it yet. Actually I am more inclined to stay on my Windows 2000 (+ BWC) virtual machine, since I am running the latest New Moon (28.9.0a1, from RoyTam1) and SeaMonkey 2.49.5. Both browsers render well almost ALL of the pages I visit routinely (no banking sites, ofc). @DosFreak: I haven't tried newer versions yet, but I can try, I just need to be arsed to do a snapshot to save it before trying. In my opinion, after some lost good nights of sleep, I can only see KM74G (Goanna 2.2) and Fx 3.6.28 as good candidates for Windows 98, but they need some work to be useable and stable. Edit: Opera 12.02 still crashes on me severely. Specifically, when I try to load certain sites.

Have you heard of http://invidio.us ? They mirror the YT videos...

Well, that's a good thing, no? Pretty sure YT will kill the old layout this year soon, so we're left with the worst scenario - Pv1...

I will definitely stick to Windows 2000 since it's the closest thing to Windows 98 with 2 browsers that work very well. If I knew how to, I would customize the looks (bootscreen, start menu banner, logon/logoff banners) to something like a customized Windows 98 version so I could get half of what I wanted. *rolleyes*

I'm using latest New Moon on Windows 2000 Professional + BWC from here: http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com I am not seeing the banner. The banner isn't present even with SeaMonkey 2.49.5, there is a new version but I am not keen to try it out.

Back on topic. There's no Home Button in this browser? Actually, if it's similar to SeaMonkey, it shouldn't have the custom toolbar feature? Edit: Actually, is there any extension that lets me use a custom user CSS script for each site?

Have you tried higher than Firefox 63 ?

windib helps to run launch.bat (previously it was closing on me), but when I get to the desktop the mouse is completely uncontrollable. I simply cannot control it (it moves, but goes to wrong places and very fast). Edit: Fixed it by adding the flags -usbdevice tablet to Launch.bat.

I'm trying to run the guide, when I boot into TCL desktop (part 3 of the guide) I have no mouse cursor.

How about shared folders for the file passthrough? My Windows 98 instance is a VMware VM, and setting up a shared folder on TCL could let Win98 access the file downloads there, if QEMU supports it. Just a theory.

I'd rather use DuckDuckGo or Bing. Yahoo is the same as Bing, just using the same "search engine" from Bing. Oh, how low Yahoo has come... I remember before Google that Yahoo was my 1st ever search engine. Now they don't even look like the same thing as before. When I'm on MS Edge I use Bing. I also have a plan to avoid Google services at all costs in the future. The only thing we can't avoid is YouTube...

VERY interesting. I might try it later this weekend. So it uses QEMU to basically launch any modern browser Tiny Core supports? How it deals with downloads and local files? If yes, then modern SeaMonkey + Netscape theme = win