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I realy don't care if my patition is FAT32 or NTFS: There is no noticeable difference, AFAIMC. My FAT32 system with w98 is secure, fast, and I never had a drive which failed yet. And I don't know what these "and so on" could be... Of course the NTFS system with XP is also safe and fast and I wouldn't see any reason to switch from NTFS to FAT32or vice versa (except to play the geek and gloat on the forums about my exotic partitions maybe).

If MyCondition = XYZ Then wscipt.Quit MsgBox "Action canceled" End If I don't know what else you would need...

One more successful install of rc3! On a 400Mhz - 32 Mb ram laptop this time! (1st install of uSP ever on this laptop) B) (just to avoid having a forum with only bad bews! )

What are you talking about? Wallpapers doesn't need to be redrawn...or maybe on XP... I used Webshot and I liked it, but it was a too big program for what it is. When I'll have time I'll write a cool little vbScript to do the same. (except downloading pics from the net) About 64bits processors, I also thing that it might be possible to use it with W98 or if not it will not be because of FAT32 (that's just data storage not data processing). But I'm curious if a benevolent geek will one day write something like that. Double processor support should be possible too. My only chance to switch to XP one day will be such hardware upgrade consideration. But then I will tweak my XP to behave as much as W98 as possible

Ithink we should move to the "best browser" forum... I'm a fan of maxthon, it loads as fast or almost as fast as IE. but has such a kick-a** interface! Back to the topic: My W98 is not gray: I have plenty of colorful apparence shemes. W98 loads slightly faster (not very noticeably) but it shut down much much faster: almost like swithig off a TV set, while XP takes ages to save some file settings or I don't know what. There is always a progress bar that seems to never end. Of course Un4given never switch off his CC (Corporate Computer) cuz he'z managing the network "server-side" from home 24/7...

Parpathml Compare it to ford focus, opel corsa, ford fiesta... OSes are not cars. The differences of capabilities between W98 and XP are not enermous. My W98SE is driving me fatser then the old guy driving slowly his Ferrari, on one hand for all to see his red sport cabriolet, and on the other hand to save gazoline. But also because he's too old to drive fast. (except for the rarified network manager like un4Given hwo get lots of useful perks for theyr professional needs with XP...)

Parapthml, what yousay is exact 2000 is slower/heavier than W98 and XP is slower/heavier than 2000. But a fast computer doesn't justify XP. A staunch pro-XP computer vendor once told me that XP became to be interresting, in the sens that you don't notice too much the slow down with XP, from 2 Ghz systems and above... It sounded like a confession from him. But, myself, I would put the limit from which XP start to work almost as fast as w98 at 3 Ghz. Deleting a file on my P4 1.8 Ghz - 512DDR - W98SE is taking 1/1000 of a second. I don't know if I need it faster. Of course I don't use Windows Explorer (that crap) for such operation but rather Xplorer2 or the likes... Unforgiven So you are upset of these little "SE"? Well W98SE is to W98a what XP is to W2000. But, it's even worse: now you will have to read more and more ofthen not only W98SE but W98SP2.0!

I'v tried a few more htlm editor (all free and under 8 Mb) Only 3 were normal WYSYWIG editors: (another one was template-based, Coffee-free had "this option is only available in the registrated version" anytime I tried to clic on something, others had only preview non directly editable...) At first glance: Page Breeze The best IMO. I like the file browser on the left. :love: :love: :love: Nvu Very good, especialy if you are a fan of "tab-based" softwares. But I don't like the thick ugly buttons. In fact between PageBreeze and Nvu I can't say yet which one is the best. :love: :love: :love: 1St Site Lite Good, free but commercialware. :love:

Maxthon too!

Gape Nor do I. I'm FFMC now, but I have installed rc3 on another PC without any kind of problem. I will be able to return to the PC with the problem in only 2 or 3 weeks, if you want, I will test it.

Sonu, Yep and he got a new computer included with his XP cd-rom package? Right? (Poeple often buy XP hoping that it will sove all the problem with theyr 6 years old W98 machine, then at the store they are told to buy a new computer if they want to use XP.) Unforgiven Ok with XP you waste 1.5 Gb (2Gb - 0.5Gb = 1.5Gb) that means 1.2 % of my 120Gb hard drive, before I had only a 40 GB HD, that meant 3.6 %... Why pay more if you lose 1.2% of storage space? Of course it's not a lot but it's still visible especaly when in fact there is much less than 120 real Gb on a 120Gb drive (in fact 120 billions Bytes). Tim Horton (whose thread has been blocked) To answer the question, honestly, I would say that W98 is much easier to use than XP and I'm too lazy at the moment to go the "learning curve". But the trigger was an hardware uncompatbility with XP and my then new computer graphic card 2 years ago. Now this problem was solved but I stuck with XP. I also made a test that showed clearly that on this PC XP was slower than W98. It was not a question of price because I had the OS included in the price of the PC.

You'r right! All my softwares are freeware except the OSes.

There is a 1024 character limitation on message box but not on Pop up messages. Use the popup method. Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Popup YourVeryLongText,, Title, 4 + 48 You can also split the message if it exceed a certain lenght and display it on several boxes: If Len(Msg) > 1000 then etc

I never used a firewall neither, while I agree that with an Adslconnection that may become necessary since it's not possible to follow visualy the transfer of datas. I watch all the time the two little computers on the taskbar. It happened one or twice that I switched off because of suspected behavior (and indeed I had Gain being installed behind my back). The second reason to have firewal is when your PC is connected to the internet while you are not behind the screen. (I always switch off the connection when I'm FFMC even if it's just to go to the toilet). But I do use some anti-spyware and run once in a while updated AntiVir.

That's why XP became the #1 pirated software. Not only many poeple use a pirate version, but by doing so they also feel XP sucks because it comes without SP or any update at all. But I'v also heard of corporates using cracks to avoid the call-activation crap eventhought they pay money for the licenses. BillGate wanted to protect his revenues, he achieved exactely the opposite.

Unforgiven It's true that by using W98 I'm not pushing my PC to its limits, while using XP would do it from time to time.I don't know what you are talking about with"lack of use" or "advanced tools" I use comps everyday and do 1000 of miscaelenious tasks on them, albeit for non professional use. But I'm not using only one PC: I'm familiar to one old P200 with 512Mb (W98SE-SP2.0), an old Fujitsu Laptop 400Mhz with 32Mb (W98SE), a more recent PC with a P4 1.8 Ghz and 512 MB (W98SE-SP2.0), a Compaq Evo Laptop 1.8 Ghz with 512 Mb (XP-Pro, special laptop version I think) and a new PC AMD Barton 2400 with 1Gb (XP-Pro SP2). LOL Thanks. But I think I will visit the XP forums to ask advices on how to tweak-XP cuz alone I don't know what to do. The only time I wanted to disable services that sounded like I didn't need them, I couldn't connect to the internet anymore. Well XP is perfect for the n00bs who don't want to configurate (except themes and wallpaper) and even doesn't know it's possible to configurate a PC. But for me (who consider myself as a geek) who knows it's possible to configurate XP but can't find out how to do it, you know how I feel...

15 Mb is still ok for a dial-up connection. It takes between 1 and 2 hours, and you need to do it only once in a while. The point is if you have a pay-per minute plan or an unlimited access. But for the SP it's not a good idea because it increases the risk of bugs and compilation errors. How could Gape makes sure that the SP and Update gives exactely the same effect? It's twice more work. But what about splitting SP into different ones: One for system performance, another one for cosmetic tweaks and maybe a third one for another specialised tasks such as network management that not everybody use...

Un4given I fully agree with you. We, W98 home-users (if we can be called so) don't give a **** about the heap of features that we will never use in XP. We even care less about an OS that we can't use on an older machine (No way XP works with the P200 I'm using now, but it rocks with W98SE-SP2rc3) Slower, taking more HD space, taking more memory, more complicated, unreliable activation sheme... How can you call XP a better OS, Idon't know, unless you realy need these network administrator tools that you find in XP. XP is not as good as W98 (supposing it's SE with unoficial Service Pack by Gape), but of course XP works also very well and can also be used to type texts, play games, edit videos, make graphic design, using heavy software almost as well as on w98. With slightly less performance, that's why XP users brag so much about the possibility of using 4Gb of memory. But there are as many media components on XP as on w98 and still the possibility to install the DivX codecs as easily as on w98. So XP is not that retarded bastard some are trying to depict here. For a large company (yourself mention "corporation") XP might be usefull in some cases. It even has a DOS emulator and support for old softwares. And if you have enough knowledge in the XP technology (Of course if you want to upgrade to a new and better OS you need to make some effort of learning the new system) you can even configurate it! How cool! B)

Just tested it on an old P200: Works great! Great job! Gape, did you fix the IDE drivers problem I had with rc2?

I think I will use w98 another 10 years if no more. It will depend basicaly on the hardware i'lml buy in the future.

Everytime I tried uninstalling SP2.0 (rc1 or rc2) via the "add/remove software", the computer couldn't restart, even in safe mode. It reads "Windows failed to launch. You must reinstall Windows." Then the comp shut down. Bye Bye. It doesn't even let the time to read the message. At some point, I could read "HYMEM not found" or something of that effect. The only way to come back to normal is inserting a bootable floppy...

Tihy, the goal for us is to keep on using w98, not turning w98 into an XP platform. if you replace all the things we like in w98 by things we don't like in xp, what's the point?

One more advantage of w98se over XP: I wanted to replace Notepad.exe by a better notepad replacement. I worked fine on w98, but XP immediately replaced my new notepad by the old one. That means that you don't control your system, even for stupid things as notepad. Worse, that means that a certain number of files (all system files?) are being continuousely checked, generating a waste of resource use. Now, when M$ will drop XP support and upgrade in a few years (as it plan to do so w98 soon), I wonder how we will install Unofficial Service Packs then...

There is no reason why a new hardware woudn't support w98se. Some OS may not use all the advantgaes of special new hardwares, but that a hardware doesn't support an OS, that, I have never seen. So far the only things I know that is not supported by w98se are: -64 bit processor (still rare on the market) -double processor (not common) -more than 1 Gb of memory with SP2.0 , 512 Mb without.

It's hanging only when you use M$ Explorer. For that reason, you must use an alternative file manager and the problem is solved. (I use Explorer2 Lite)