HTS-500

For everything, just like any PC... I'm still a Linux/BSD user, I'd just like to get a feel of what Windows has to offer on it's best configuration... I removed all those things because I don't need them, I don't have a network (it's the only PC around), no printers, hardware is fixed (I don't upgrade my PCs, I just wait until they're too old to be useful and buy a new one).... For multimedia and all those things, I'll just add 3rd party software (I find Microsoft's built-in software to be slow and under-featured (yet bloated with useless and redundant functions), it doesn't show the full potential of Windows) And yeah thanks for the advice, I'll try to be less extremist on the next nLite round (I just like streamlined things) nLite (if used correctly) is very effective at voiding the "Windows performance < Linux" statements, nice work nuhi

Solved.. I just started from scratch and this time I didn't disable a bunch of things that sounded like suspicious... size went up by about 120MB (but I also added the Omega ATi driver), performance is about the same (blazing fast!, the "loading windows" bar doesn't even touch the left side of the frame!) and everything works well.... Except the wireless drivers... But I guess that's another story

The scary thing about that image is that it's true I don't like the Wii, and I've never had real friends..... No, really, when I <12yo I was always the "ignored by all the kids"... >13yo = I ignore all the teens When I bought my XBOX 360 back in 2006 (got it the launch day, wich was Feb. 2 2006 in Mexico) I had online friends... Now, I don't even have online friends, it was boring, never had anything to talk about.... And I want a PS3 Furthermore, I don't want it to play games, I just want to mess around with Linux on a huge screen

Whoops, here's the relevant last_session.ini LAST_SESSION__205404.13_01.07.16_.INI

My nLited Win2k3 is giving me the totally epic error: "Not enough storage to complete this operation" But in a totally new situation: When trying to install.... anything. I think I might have removed something I should have left... Does any one know what missing service/component could be causing this? The only other cause I can think of is that it is on the drive D.... Other than that, I'm out of ideas Any hints? (By the way, there is more than enough space)

It also got 0x.... Nice

I think the problem is pretty self-explanatory.. I'm getting this error with a Windows 2000 Advanced Server OEM CD, nLite told me to report it What does it check for to determine what version of windows is it? Edit: By the way, it's nLite 1.4.5b2 Edit 2: OK, I thought it was Advanced Server... It isn't. It's just Server... I got CDROM_IS.5, CDROM_NT.5 and cdromsp4.tst

Man, where do you got that burner from? I want one like that :-(

OK I'll try, I was keeping an eye on nLite but I thought it was only for XP/2003 By the way, the drivers are no problem... I got 'em all. No, the manufacturer doesn't even support XP.... I had to hunt down for ALL the drivers to install XP, and the XP drivers I got are all compatible with 2k, so I think that's no problem.. Thanks for the help

No I'm not a n00b, I can't get Win2k Advanced Server to install. I've tried those so far: Boot Win2k Advanced Server OEM CD - Nope, not booteable. Copy all files to DOS formatted USB and try to start setup from there: setup.exe meant to run on Windoze, winnt.exe "Can't run the program" (no further description, it just can't run - that's almost literally what it reads, I don't remember the exact words) (What made me think this could work? Well, the fact that my BIOS has native USB drive support) Make a DOS bootable CD and install from there: CD doesn't boot. (Not a BIOS/drive problem, I can boot Linux CDs and WindozeXP just fine) Here are the circumstances: -No floppy drive (laptop) -No access to the HD from another computer (I don't have money to buy the 2.5 to 3.5" adapter... yes it's cheap, but I am a really poor underage Mexican man ) -No real need to use Win2k, I already have XP and Linux (I'm really a Linux user, not that much into Windoze, so I'd really appreciate detailed explanations of the procedures), but I want to see how an older/server Windows OS performs on a computer that was Vista Premium from factory (burning fast, I'd think).... The point here is: Don't try to persuade me to stop trying, I'll not give up ------ So, that said, any ideas on how to get the 2k on it? The only other solutions I've found on the web involve either a floppy (most people who have had this very exact problem ended up installing a floppy on the machine, but you can't do that on a '07 model laptop) or getting the HD to another computer (people with more cents than me) An idea I have is to format the FAT32 partition I made for W2k with DOS, create another FAT32 partition and put there all the W2k files, then boot into DOS from the FAT32 partition, and install from the second F32 partition... Or something like that That or, what could be causing the "Can't run this program" error? Maybe I need another version of DOS (?)

Sounds like me seconded

Windows Media Player 11 for video (i almost never watch videos on my pc.... i have a pretty big home theatre setup, why should i use a 15" monitor with only 2 speakers? ) Quintessential Player for audio its old and discontinued (though they recently reopened the work, but no new final version, just betas) but its still the very best (yes, better than winamp, better than itunes, way better than WMP.. well, for music) just see it for yourself: www.quinnware.com

lol its funny how pessimist your post looks with these smilies 1. you should never have installed windows ME 2. the latest ENHANCED (not the standard) version supports windows 98 try to be more possitive in your next post windows 98 still rockin'

if you would only have read my previous posts. *cough*

you are waaaaaaaaaaay wrong im running it on a 180mhz machine with 47mb of ram and no video card (just an adapter), adn it runs at about the same speed and also, 385mb is a f*ckin' lot of ram, in this machine im running xp pro on 256mb ram with 1.7ghz processor unless you use it for hard work such as programming or 3d rendering, but if thats the case, you should not have even modified 3d-bit icons, you need to have an installation as light as its possible

but be careful, there are some programs that are part of windows and you never installed them, and obiously you must make this in safe mode

whats the deal with this thread? its just spam, he just stealed others work and joint it in a single exe (im guessing).. and these screenshots look really ugly, and its a pretty incomplete pack (exept for the "xp home edition" start menu bar, it looks good, however, i have it disabled, and also, a "xp professional edition" would read better)

www.windowblinds.net go to downloads, scroll down to the "For Registered Users of Enhanced version" section FYI, that's a little messed up, i dont understand exactly if that means that latest enhanced version supports w98 or registered users get access to a w98 compatible version or what (they also menction something about a "WindowBlinds Classic"), so i recommend you to search for windowblinds 4 on a p2p program *cough* PS. it just masks the original windows 98 shell, as far as i understand, theres *NO* way to replace the original shell, cause its based on just colors, not on images like the xp shell... unless someone make an explorer.exe from scratch of course *coughagain*

1. i use Windows98 cause my ol' good computer doesnt support XP, and is *NOT* upgradeable hardware (cause its an ATX-Mini mobo) 2. windows 98 rocks, it runs at the same speed than my xp, but on a 10yo computer (no kidding) 3. if you dont like the w9x look, use WindowBlinds. Simple. (i have the Systemdo skin w/WindowBlinds, and it looks way better than my xp)

ouch @ the price i have some non-easy to do ideas of how to do it, but i would need to know what kind of program it is... also (i dont know if this is possible) you could try skinning with windowblinds and making a skin with no close button

i disabled systray.exe, when i said "all disabled exept wbload.exe" i really meant "ALL disabled but wbload.exe" (exept shell32.dll, i guess explorer.exe need it)... i will try restoring the original w98 dll's following charle's link and lmao @ miko

Hey, im stuck with a kinda strange thing, every time i start windows, it shows up an error that batmeter.dll is linked to a nonexistant part of **.dll (dont remember exactly), but EVERYTHING works ok (it shows up after the desktop loads), then i tried to rename the batmeter.dll to see what happened, now it asks for batmeter.dll but i just click OK and EVERYTHING works ok, then i just checked all the autorun programs and dll's with autoruns, the only program at startup is wbload, but i tried unloading windowblinds and reloading it running directly wbload.exe, and the error doesnt show up so thats not the problem, then tried disabling most of the dll's at startup (basically all the internet/networking related ones, as that pc doesnt even have a modem) but the error stills showing up... then i took a look at batmeter.dll, and as you may guess its the dll that measures the battery on the laptops, but im on a desktop, i have no idea of what use could batmeter.dll have on a desk nor what program is calling it, the msgbox just says "Error Starting Program", but there's no way to know what program (the task manager only shows wbload and explorer.exe.... i havent tried with process explorer, but anyway, there are no more programs in the startup) that error appeared recently after a restart i made with no changes, i have installed UnSP2.1a, RPLite v4, 98SE2ME and Kernel Update 0.2.5, again after i installed all these the error doesnt showed up, it showed up after a normal restart with no just-installed programs or anything like that any ideas?

im actually using a borrowed W98SE cd (and by borrowed i mean literally borrowed from a cousin ) so thats not the problem, and "nasties into the chips"? lol the chips are read-only, they cant get nasty, now if you mess up the bios just press F5 (may vary) and the default settings are reset.... and yeah i finally formatted and reinstalled, definately fixed alot of errors but that one stills there

sorry for my ignorance, but whats a "socket 7"?... and wtf, i just took a first look at the inside part of my old computer, and the processor as well as the ram are soldered to the mobo :S as for the DX installation problem, i just found that the CPUID instruction returns cant be changed or emulated, so i will try another methods of installing DX manually (there's also no way to bypass the minimum requirements check in the installer)

is the offer valid for mexico? lol and yeah i kinda understand that, but what im trying to say is that in theory the cyrix have the instructions that DX8 and 9 need (ok, maybe 9 not), but it will not install cause of the CPUID problem, and not cause of the instruction set itself.. now, maybe you are right, cyrix menctioned something about unsupported functions that the pentium-type processors have, and thats why they deactivated the CPUID instruction by default, but theres some probability that its still have enough instructions to run DX8, and thats what im trying to test as for the CPUID enabler, it worked but DX8 its still not installing.. now ill search for a CPUID emulator or something like that, there must be something UPDATE: see what i found: "Intel's algorithm detected the Cyrix 6x86 as an 80486-class processor, even though it has all of the performance and instructions of a Pentium-class processor. In real mode, my algorithm used the processor-shutdown technique to correctly detect the 6x86 as a non-Intel, Pentium class processor. Outside of real mode, my algorithm also detected the 6x86 as an 80486-class processor. Intel's algorithm detected the Nexgen Nx586 as an 80386-class processor. My algorithm detected the Nx586 using CPUID, and correctly reported it as a non-Intel, Pentium-class processor." i guess that means i was right, again