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  1. Huguia, U98SESP3.EXE contains most, if not all the W98SE updates that we know of. Theoricaly you shouldn't download or install anything else, unless what is specificaly mentioned in the "change log": Please read carefuly: The u98sesp web page and Windows 98SE Updates & Unofficial Service Packs HTH
  2. You know, this was pretty shocking when I first read it, but looking at it again, it doesn't sound so strange anymore. You know, when a new OS is so different than everything you are used to, it's not the same product anymore. It wasn't only to bash W8 that I said that. It's also because W8 is not an improvement of W7. W8 doesn't belong to the desktop PC OS family which genealogic tree started with Windows 1.0 for DOS, and the NT branch which made W7 a direct descendant of Windows 2000, W98 and ME being remote cousins. W8 is what? ...Something wierd we have a hard time to understand the rationale behind it. It's a joke, a circus show... You can't take seriousely something like that. Better forget it once the preview testing will be done. LOL! =))
  3. Sure I'll adapt... and find a solution to avoid w8. Not because we don't like it, in fact there are good things in it, it's just very badly, horribly implemented. No, I'll avoid losing time with W8 because it will be dead in a few months. There is no point in learning to use something that won't exist save on small hand-held devices which work completely differently anyway. As the market is concerned Windows 8 will be DoA (Dead on Arrival). You can already see it whith Micrososft backpedalling fast as they try to improve the app screen to make it closer to a classic desktop and pretend to put a fake start menu at the same place of the real one. But it won't be enough to avoid a total fiasco. You know ColdFlo, the poeple are not stupid: They will see very quickely that the only goal of Metro is to put advertisements on your monitor screen. Just like you have adds on TV and on the radio, media companies find normal to bring adds to computer screens and Metro just serves this function. It will not work. Poeple will reject it massively. It's OK to have sponsor adds on websites, it's less OK to have adds everytime you turn on your PC. There is a red line here which MS is crossing dangerousely. Anyone who had used a PC before and who will be confronted with Metro will return their machine to the store and ask the vendor to remove this garbage. ___________________ This illustrates well why user choice is so important. Personally, I find the wordless taskbar icons harder to use, as they don't immediately convey as much information to me as the wide verbose taskbar buttons. ..... The bottom line, of course, is that Windows has been eminently customizable to suit the user's way of working/thinking, but with Windows 8 and Metro this aspect starts getting palpably curtailed. Yes, With W8 the MS team has lost touch with the userbase and its need of customization. Out of respect, we are not telling which taskbar configuration is the best. We give our opinions based on pesonal experience. JorgeA and me we prefer text labelled buttons, Coffee prefer large visaly, rich icons. Important Note: when a non-grouped taskbar is too cluttered, quickely drag it up and the buttons align on two rows instead of one. It makes them already much easier to read. Drag it one floor up and on 3 rows and you have almost the full text caption on all of them. Now drag it even higher, to 1/4 of screen height. Wow, it's like you have a cool new "task arranger" without installing any freeware! (You just had to know that you can do it) Then go even further and drag it to half of the screen. Wooah! ... Metrofied! :dazed: The uLtiMATE C*00*L! And that's why it was important to remind. Maybe someone will like the W8 Metro interface, why not. The point is to have the option. The option to enable or disable Metro.
  4. TO GO DEEPER INTO STUPIDITY... The Microsoft team is coming up with a redesigned app screen for Windows 8 as they Discusses Windows 8 Tweaks After User Feedback. The app screen looks furiousely like a desktop full of icons. So what's the point???! They are redesigning for the sake of redesigneing. It's a total waste of time since they will inevitably get closer to classical desktop as they improve the crippled app list. And they also come up with a Windows 8 Start Menu that they "keep improving"... to the point it will finaly look like the one on w7. I don't see the point in installing a completely different product, to find the same things at the end of the day, just diffrently arranged. _____________ About Start Screen (Metro) and the Start Menu: link She took a great pain explaining that the classic Start Menu is more difficult to use and configure than Metro. Except that she forgot that Metro is a "desktop", a Start Screen not a Start Menu. but even then, I'm not convince that arranging items on Metro is easier than on the Start Menu and definetly not if you use Explorer. She claims that using Explorer is for advanced users. I wonder what is her definition of "advanced user" since every user is able to drag and drop files in Explorer. That's even the most basic task on Windows. The only thing you need is to know where Start Menu folders are, which is not difficult. If poeple don't take time to arrange their Start Menu what make them think they will do it on Metro? _____________ Unless Microsoft reverses course, I already consider Windows developement as discontinued. Windows is already abandonware to me. W7 being the last and final version and unless Microsoft changes its policy, we'll still use W7 or earlier in 20 years. W8 cannot succeed W7 if it's a completely different thing. _____________ Grouping was made worse in W7 because it grouped them under the program's Quick Launch icon if there is one. So you don't even know if a instance of that program is already open because there is no taskbar button. Taskbar preview can help for graphic apps, but is not very helpfull fo text apps where all windows look the same anyway. Depending on the user, you may want or not want to enable taskbar preview. That shows the important of user option. The worse in W8 is the radical opposition to make things optional.
  5. Website update: http://www.htasoft.com/w98se.htm
  6. Yes, it's incredible that some MS poeple can talk like this. "Metro is increasing productivity" The most hypocrite statement so far about w8, and contrary to EVERY comments by poeple who have tested it. Taskbar, start menu, caption and resizable windows do increase productivity. Their absence reduces productivity. These are things we need! "It was always felt that the desktop was a clumsy way to bring content to the user" Here again, from all who tested W8, Metro apps disapoint by their poverty of displayed content, empty areas, redundant frames... MS doesn't seem to understand that desktop computers and normal size laptop computers are not touch-screen devices. And they don't seem to understand neither that one can't have the same interface on both. "Most of poeple rarely use more than two documents at the same time" I'd like to see the datas backing that up! Everybody I observed at their computer were using at least 4 apps at the same time. One person I know has always 20 windows on the taskbar. When I asked her, "how can you work like this, close all that you don't need!" She replied that it was her way to work and that they were all useful. That's precisely why Vista and w7 group all instances of a same app under a single taskbar icon. Because poeple open multiple windows all the time, and the taskbar is always full. But that invention was already counter productive because you don't see which windows are open nor how many. It takes more time to look for them because you can't seen their caption on the taskbar. I hate taskbar groups for that reason. But Metro is just a gigantic taskbar group where everything is under a monstruous screen-sized icon. Resizing windows is also one of the most important feature for productivity that was kissed goodbye in Metro. Want to do a copy-paste, compare two photos, use a calculator next to a text editor, drag and drop files... How can we imagine a surface area where these won't be possible? Why do MS thinks we will like all this regression? :wot: :devil: :?:
  7. After a short interruption, the website is still accessible. Probably nobody noticed the change and it's good. Problemchyld, look you PM.
  8. As I (positively) understood, the white list is only about allowing certain features. I imagine that normal flash use with unintrusive games and videos will still work on every websites. That only unsafe features will be disabled, save for websites on the white list. It would be a suicide to totaly disable flash on every website save a few ones. ...But wait... Isn't MS commiting suicide already by covering the desktop with Metro? :dazed:
  9. Bear in mind that Windows Server is 5 to 10 times as expensive as "normal" Windows. And its features are useless if you are not a high tech person. Or if you don't need to connect more than two computers and/or network devices.
  10. My comments on PCWorld's article: Windows 8 Release Preview Impressions I apreciate the following improvements: Smaller memory footprint, More-efficient performance and Reduced disk-space requirement. It's just sad that MS made these improvements only because the OS was designed to work on devices less powerful than PCs, not for a clever PC resource use. When quiet a lot of poeple demanded that they brought these improvements when developing w7, it fell on deaf ears. They barely fixed the most blatant bugs from Vista. Steven Sinofsky even called the disk space requierement "mundain" [sic] at that time. Also note that disk space requierement for the release preview is 20 Gb, 4 Gb more than Vista, 18 Gb more than XP. HyperV integration: I don't think that serious poeple working professionaly will want to have an OS which launches Metro at every boot-up. They will never use w8. Period.W8 is not a usable platform for advanced users who would make use of such things. But the technological improvement still has the merit of being there. Let's hope it can come in the shape of a w7 update. Built-in SkyDrive integration: Cloud storage Cool feature. Cool on the surface. Yet' date=' there are thousands of reasons not to use it. Poeple should be warned that they may even not know that all their files are copied to a remote server not under their control, because free Cloud storage will become part of Windows. Use it only if you assume that anybody in the world can look at every file present on your computer. I doubt there is a single computer in the world that doesn't contain private enough material or business sensitive material that shouldn't be shared with commercial entities. You can choose not to back up these files but that's precisely the files that need to be backed most often! [b']Improved multimonitor support: Hope so. According to some testers, it realy realy sucked a big deal last time they tried it. Call it bug fix, please. App Improvements Now that becomes funny. "App Improvements" LOL! They sort of forgot that existing apps for Windows PC are far more advanced and more various and offer far more choice than what comes with Metro. Why offering new apps which still lack functionality [sic] while you already have the choice among thousands existing sotfwares, fruit of decades of developement? The e-mail app: OE, a 14 years old program and Windows Mail already offer access to multiple accounts and far more advanced options such as a spam filter which you can build yourself, if at least you take the pain to use POP and not a commercial online account. If you are not using GMail, I don't see the point. If you use GMail, then, yes, it's a cool interface for GMail and compatible mail services. It address a need since more and more poeple make use of such services. Unfotunately it's not as advanced as POP. Music and Video: They wrote it: It's a X-Box for PC. Why having a PC if all you get is an X-Box at the end of the day? It also helps you part with your money more easily, since it directs you to commercial music stores. Some testors already said that it's a royal pain to find your music saved on your hard drive, that you constantly stumble on a purchase area. Again: useless if you have no Zune Pass or similar. The News, Finance, and Sports. It's interresting that MS attempts to replace internet browsing, where you usualy find these informations, by a single pane where you get everything at a glance. They forgot that everybody wants to choose their own source of information. Not everybody is interrested in sport and finance. Poeple like to choose the websites from which they recieve their informations from, according to their political affinities. MS market analysts have no idea of the complexity of the PC user. Photos Here it's interresting that they mixed social media content and your local hard disc content. Sounds cool, but like the e-mail app, it's a great idea to gather all online contents in one pane but I'd not want to mix it with my local drive content. For me -and for most poeple- these are two distinct things. Like with the Cloud, the PC is slowly becoming a space which is not supposed to be private anymore. It's a view which will not shared by most PC users I'm afraid. Contacts Same as the mail app, it's a great idea to merge several social medias into one. It's great if it remains one way, from the social media to you, it's less appealing if you know that it can go the other way. What are the garantees that you can't inadvertantly, in one click flush all you private and business contacts to a social media you have no control about whatsoever? The idea IS great but here again, I wouldn't want to mix hard disc content and on-line rubbish. Windows 8 Start Screen Improvements (he means Metro but ok, let's call "Start Screen" if that makes them happier) ________________________ Excellent article... and very well written. It's so funny, MS is going to cover themselves with ridicule.
  11. LOL. I asked the question about "all" devices two months ago and I see that we are still talking about it today. I also find wierd that one should remove all USB devices eventhought they have nothing to do with storage. As a result you have to browse through all the system device classification tree just in case a USB thing would be there, where you least expected. As RLoew said, you may find out that your mouse and keyboard are also USB devices. How do you proceed once they are disabled, I don't know. Finaly you will have to reinstall half a dozen NON-storage devices for they came with a USB connection. But if these are the instruction...
  12. You know what? I'm going to buy quickely a w7 installation disc while it's still available. (so far I have it only pre-installed on a laptop) Because once w8 is out MS will do everything to prevent the sale of w7. I won't be surprised if they asked their reseller to ship back w7 discs. W7 may be the last Windows OS as we know it. We may have no more new version of Windows after w7. W8 is not a version of Windows for me. It doesn't deserve that name. It's like Microsoft is dead. So MS pretends that they want to turn my desktop into this: They must be kidding. Yeah.. KMA! ______________ CNet's Mary Jo Foley
  13. Here is my selection from the article: ____________________________
  14. submix8c don't laugh about poeple who like puppies and other animated paper clips. If they like it... it should be there and be in the options. Poeple like fun sometimes. You can also argue that REAL gEEks leave their PC case open permanently for all to see the new cool gears inside, like they are experimenting new stuffs every day LOL. (in fact it's just neglect) FAKE gEEks however are those who simply put a nice wallpaper and a color theme nobody is used to see. That's just shallow.
  15. Paul Thurrott explained: __________________ Yes' date=' As I said above I don't think it's possible to remove all codes which could re-enable one way or another a Start Menu or stuff. One of the easiest way, if MS [u']realy went extreme about disabling it, is to write a simple program which mimics the start menu and place a shortcut to it in Quicklaunch, preferably the first on the left. (Ok, Not technicaly a start menu, but the effect will be there.) Of course I believe coders will be able to create real start menus no matter how hard MS tries to prevent them to do so. More difficult may be to totaly remove Metro start. Andrea, you are the first person I know who realy like the animated characters that bad, LOL, and I respect that. It's true it's fun. And it was silly to remove them. If I remember corectly it's very easy to disable moving characters, through the search engine settings, no need to edit the registry. I suggest you to write to the Agent ransack developers and ask for moving characters. They might be surprised of such request, but you may be even more surprised that they do it. It shouldn't be difficult.
  16. I don't think Microsoft's programmers are able to safely remove codes for a function as old and as basic as the start menu without risking to disable other functionalities. The code of Windows is such a mess that maybe nobody knows exactly which code part to remove and which code part not to remove. It's easy to delete entire functions, but then you may render impossible other tasks. It's much more difficult to delete a few lines and rewrite the function so that everything else works. It's unlikely that they take this risk. But at this point, one shouldn't speak about "risk" as MS is concerned but about "deliberate sabotage". LOL. However MS could add code to prevent classic start menu and other indispensable items to work. At this point, it's like the national debt: Bloat cannot be reduced it can only be made bigger.
  17. The U98SESP3 Home page at htasoft.com may go offline at an unforeseable moment, between today and the five next working days as we move to another server. Please use this link for download if the website is not accessible. You can still visit the website as long as the transfer to the new server is still pending. I cannot tell when it will happen exactely. Sorry for the inconveniance. PROBLEMCHYLD: Please don't upload anything for the moment. Check your PM.
  18. Jaclaz Yes: Leap motion is what I was reading about: Article in french about a new hand and finger gesture detection device
  19. Does that mean, only functionality of a tablet will be available? LOL ___________________________
  20. To All and to PROBLEMCHYLD in particular: The Website htasoft.com hosting 98SESP3.1 may be off line a few days or a few hours in the near future as I'm changing server. I don't know exactly when yet. I'll post infos here as I get them.
  21. ____________________ _____________________ It shouldn't cause problems, forcibly, automaticaly. I mean normaly it shouldn't but everything depends on which update have been made in the latest version. If by the unlikely event, it's especialy an update which cause problem when reinstalled, then yes, you have bad luck, but we didn't say it never happens. That's why we recommand cautiousness when proceeding (back up, back up and back up again). It's also known that problems are much less likely to happen on a fresh W98SE install. HTH
  22. Ballmer is climbing so high that it will make the fall even more funny to watch.
  23. Jacklass wrote about Bob: Everybody was making jokes about Bob until today. Mind you, I was reading a website recently explaining what Bob was exactely and the concept was indeed a very good one. Just look how many internet games are based on a room, on an interior, where kids have to feed puppies, dress a model, tidy up things, cook a cake... If you have kids you know what I mean. Bob just created that 15 years before anyone else. Mixing games with the desktop is a nice way to bring fun to your home computer. The comercialization was terrible but that's another story. Now with Metro, it's the same ludicrous mentality, without the fun, sadly ... well, austerity is hitting even OSes nowadays...
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