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Personally I find the Radeon 9600 is more than capable of handling everything you can throw at it and probably will be for some time to come. The regular 9600, not the Pro or XT, is fairly cheap now, and I prefer ATi's cards to anything nVidia has to offer. The 9800 is certainly the best you can buy right now, but I usually avoid buying the top of the line because the price isn't really justified. I don't know anything about the 9200 actually but if it supports DX9 I would just stick with it until the new generation of cards are released and the current card prices comes down. I was still using a Radeon 8500 up until a few weeks ago and it still ran the latest games just fine. I gave it to a relative though and got a new 9600 for $80 on eBay.

You can download a free evaluation copy from Microsoft here.

For a standalone installation of MS-DOS 7.1 on a formatted hard drive (FAT16 or FAT32): (1) Start the computer from your Windows 98 startup disk and at the prompt run the command "SYS C:" to make the hard disk bootable. (2) Create a new directory named C:\DOS and copy to it the DOS commands from your Windows 98 command folder (C:\Windows\Command). If you do not currently have a Windows 98 installation most of the files will also be on your startup disk and on the RAM drive it should create. (3) Locate the OLDMSDOS directory on your Windows 98 CD-ROM and copy the contents of it to the C:\DOS folder as well. If you want the MS-DOS shell you can get it from the MS-DOS 6.22 supplemental which is free from Microsoft. (4) In the root directory of C:\ create your autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Add C:\DOS to your path statement. If you have a CD-ROM drive you can find the file oakcdrom.sys on the Windows 98 startup disk. This should work with most ATAPI CD-ROM drives. MSCDEX.exe should be in your new DOS folder at this point. You can download a mouse driver from Microsoft or find a third party driver. (5) Finally add your own DOS applications just as you would with a normal retail install of MS-DOS. If you are using FAT32 be careful about using older DOS utilities since they can ruin your file system. If you want a more complete DOS and still be kind of up to date you might want to look into IBM PC-DOS 2000 or DR-DOS 7.02 I think that's about it, unless I've forgotten anything. If you need help with anything such as installing a DOS CD-ROM driver just post back again.

VMware emulates an S3 Trio video card, so that is what you must install drivers for. The guest OS cannot see your real hardware, only what is emulated in the virtual machine.

Here is another I found, still doesn't look like the right one though: iTunes 2.0 by CRO-XP

Here is one I used to have up there; it's not the one in your screenshot (or as nice) but if you want you can get it here: iTunesXP Edit: Copy and paste the link or it won't work.

With DOS 7 it was easy, but with the Me version Microsoft went out of their way to hide it and cripple it's functions. You can create a Windows Me Emergency Boot Disk and delete everything on it except io.sys and command.com. Then copy what files you can fit on it from the Windows/Command folder. You can use this disk to boot into real mode DOS. You'll only be able to boot from this disk though as you can no longer use it to make the hard disk bootable: I suppose you could install Windows Me, install the real mode DOS patch, and then delete everything on the hard drive except the startup files and commands. Seems like that would be a lot of work for little benefit though. Any particular reason you want a standalone 8.0 version? I don't really know of any advantages it has over the 7.x version from Windows 98. By the way, if I misunderstood your post and all you want to do is add real mode DOS support back into Windows Me you can do so with this patch: http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/

Service packs are always cumulative, so it will contain all of the updates from SP1.

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Be sure you change the product key to the correct one, and check to see if the drivers and any other software in your $OEM$ folder is compatible with Server 2003. Personally I prefer to run my winnt.sif file from a floppy rather than burning it to the CD. That way I can make changes to it later if I need to. Windows will search the floppy disk for this file when setup begins and use it if found. If you are planning to run 2k3 as a workstation you'll probably want to read through the entire guide on this site. There are quite a few things that need to be done to make it work properly. If you have an ATi Radeon series card be sure to switch your memory usage from system cache to programs, otherwise disk corruption may occur (ATi may have fixed this by now but you should change this setting anyway). Good luck

You can use the same winnt.sif file but you cannot use the same uxtheme.dll. You can download the patched uxtheme.dll file for Server 2003 here: http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/uxtheme.htm Here is a guide for the winnt.sif file: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm

Wouldn't it be better to copy the image to a CD-R or DVD-R? That way if the hard drive were to die the data would all be safe, plus this way there shouldn't be any problems trying to access it when restoring.

In case you need more help with the above advice: How to remove Windows 98 from a dual boot system How to edit the boot.ini file

I think you may need to wait for the final. The betas of SP2 are much larger because they have debug symbols and other junk included. It shouldn't matter whether you slipstream over a SP1 copy or a retail copy. I slipstreamed SP4 into my SP3 copy of Windows 2000 with no problem. One possibility: Just in case you overlooked this, make sure you are not including the downloaded service pack file when you create the ISO. I believe it's around 200MB isn't it, so that would certainly explain the unusually large size of the ISO.

There are programs and plugins that attempt to do this, but they usually do not work very well. It really depends on how the song is recorded, such as whether the vocals are on their own track or on both. I have posted a link to one of these programs below. You can give it a try but don't expect too much from it: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/vremover.htm

Glad to help. Welcome to the forum by the way.

I just tried it out on my XP system and the lines under [OEM Specific] do not appear on mine either. I did some searching on Google and found this: Looks like those lines aren't supposed to show up. As for the processor information, I don't think there is any way to change that.

Check this page to make sure you have everything correct: http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBF/TIP2600/rh2672.htm

My guess would be 16 and 64

I found some pages that may help. They are for IE 4 but they might apply to 5 as well: Internet Explorer setup switches Internet Explorer Setup Log The log file might tell you what setup is trying to download. It's strange that even your CD version is trying to connect though; maybe there are some files missing from your installation of Windows 95. Finally have you tried doing a custom install and unchecking some of the items you don't need, such as Media Player and Shockwave? I'm out of ideas so I hope something here helps. Good luck with it.

A normal file can usually be retrieved using a recovery utility as long as the space on the disk where the file was located has not been overwritten by new files. However with Outlook Express it is probably more difficult. It stores all of your individual emails inside special files; the deleted emails would have been in the file deleted.dbx, but when that folder was emptied the dbx file is replaced. That means the old copy or part of it was probably overwritten. I'm not positive of course but I'm skeptical about being able to get them back.

I'd probably go with Windows NT 4.0 myself.

See this page: http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBG/TIP3300/rh3343.htm

If you run "IE5SETUP.EXE /?" it might tell the command line parameters. I'd check but I don't have a copy at the moment.

I was going to vote for Avast but it isn't on the poll, so I figured I'd say AVG instead. Oh wait, it's not on there either! That's it, I'm not voting!