soldier1st Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 windows 98 boots up fast anyway but more speed is always good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 These help?Boot Log Analyser http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/bootloganalyzer123.htmlBoot Log Examiner http://www.systemsbysteve.com/software/ble.zipGood idea to use BLA or BLE to time Win9x bootup routine.FYI:BLE v1.3 [file above is older v1.1] is posted at author's web site:http://www.blueorbsoft.com/ble/Direct download [314 KB, freeware]:http://www.blueorbsoft.com/ble/BLE_Setup.exeHow to use them:http://www.mdgx.com/newtip14.htm#SUYGBLA + BLE linked here:http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#BOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 windows 98 boots up fast anyway but more speed is always goodBut sometimes more speed may come at the price of lost stability, soldier1st.Stability [less to no Windows crashes] is my very first priority on the PCs Iuse, then speed. If a 'speed boost' cause more problems for Windows, I don'tuse it.If you really want to improve performance of Windows, buy some memorychips & install them onto your computers. At least RAM chips are affordableand you can run software that requires big chunks of memory. Be sure tomatch the kind of memory chips your computers use before buying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 i have 512 pc3200 ddr 400(being used to it's full capacity)there are no problems or stabilty problems so i go for more speed,if problems arise i revert what i previously did,the comps i make now come with with w2k or xp,not 98 sei plan to upgrade to 1 GB someday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azagahl Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 I use 1 GB DDR 400 in Win 98 SE with 2.0b2 SP and it is very stable. I also use top 2 GB of my disk for swap partition.I recommend not using Creative products though, my Destructive Labs SB Live! Value needs to install in low 4 MB of memory which causes a lot of problems with Win 98 SE. I have to use EMMExclude=A000-FFFF and also I can't install huge ram disk or smartdrv cache without causing SB Live driver problems.BTW, I believe Win98 SE supports only up to 1.5 GB of physical RAM. However, you may be able to create a ram disk which uses up any physical memory you have beyond that, and then use the ram disk as your swap drive. I'm curious if anyone has tried this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 i have a creative soundblaster live 5.1 soundcard in another comp that runs xp/2000 n it works good,it did work good in 98 se Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Try downloading the very LATEST drivers of the SoundBlaster Live 5.1sounc card at their web site:http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/Sorry, azagahl. You can only create a RAM disk up to 32 megabytes.The ram disk driver (ramdrive.sys) allows creating ram drives no greaterthan 32 Mb.You can also try removing the SoundBlaster Live Sound card and place itinto another PCI expansion slot, which will use different system resourcesand may work better.By the way, soldier1st how big is your hard drive on your PCs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acheron Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Here some cool stuff:http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/cmd-reactos/index.htmlcmd.exe for use with Windows 98. Has far more functionality than the command.com included with Windows 98.Free of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 To erpdude8:Sorry, azagahl. You can only create a RAM disk up to 32 megabytes.The ram disk driver (ramdrive.sys) allows creating ram drives no greaterthan 32 Mb.That is only if using Microsoft RAMDRIVE.SYS, which is an obsoleted tool.But there is a better one, called XMSDSK [Extended Memory Disk],which can create a RAM disk up to 2 GB [limited of course, by your installed RAM amount ]:XMS/EMS RAMdisk v1.9i 16-bit DOS TSR improved Microsoft RAMDRIVE.SYSreplacement for MS-DOS 5/6/7/8 + Windows 3.1x/9x/ME [74 KB, freeware]:http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/xmsdsk.zipXMS/EMS RAMdisk v1.9i with installer/uninstaller for Windows 9x/ME [114 KB,freeware]:ftp://planetbrown.einados.com/pub/ADMIN/ramdrive.exeLoads and resizes the RAM drive (up to 2 GB) from AUTOEXEC.BAT or nativeMS-DOS prompt. Does NOT shift drive letters. Includes two separate drivers:XMSDSK.EXE (loads in extended RAM: requires an upper/extended memory managerin CONFIG.SYS) and EMSDSK.EXE (loads in expanded RAM: requires EMM386.EXEwith the "RAM" switch or any other 3rd party expanded memory manager inCONFIG.SYS).Uses 688 Bytes of upper DOS RAM if loaded with LOADHIGH in AUTOEXEC.BAT (uppermemory manager required in CONFIG.SYS).See "BROWSER CACHE IN MEMORY" for more info:http://www.mdgx.com/newtip12.htm#CACHRAMHope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 erpdude8my 2nd comp has a 40 gig with 2 partitions on it(the sound blaster 5.1 is in it,xppro+sp1,xppro+sp2)my main comp has a 120gb on it with 3 partitions(xppro+sp1,xppro+sp2,Windows 98 SE)my storage comp has a 60 gb on with 1 partition(xppro+sp1)my other comp has an older 1.96 gb with 1 partition on it(it is very old like 8 yrs old or is my 2nd comp i ever had,Windows 98 SE)my laptop has a 4 gb with 1 partition on it(Windows 98 SE)hope this answers your question budhp38guseris that cmd.exe better than the windows one?what is the difference between that one and the windows one?is there a screnshot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 quote MDGX: There used to be more info at http://www.walbeehm.com/ [http://home.tampabay.rr.com/walbeehm/], but Ben Jos's site is gone. I have Ben Jos's FixReg files [54 KB] for further reading:http://www.mdgx.com/files/FIXREG.ZIP archived main sitehis win95 direct linkand win98 direct link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 he didn't become a great qb.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 a great quick battle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 uuhhh, battle's a bad word up your way these days, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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