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Old Oct 25, 2007, 05:59 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Is Anyone Still Using Windows 9x?
If so, which specific version?

I'm just curious.
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Old Oct 25, 2007, 02:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Got a 98SE box I keep threatening to revive if I can find space.

Actually, 98SE is kind of the breakpoint, the newest version with really good "old" compatibility (most "95" stuff should run), and still just about in the support range of newer programs, though slowly slipping away.

Thing is, Windows ME is no more forward compatible, and significantly worse in backward.
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Old Oct 25, 2007, 02:56 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Nope.

I've got a vmware image of 98se that I can boot up for compatibility purposes, but I use it very rarely anymore.

I'd never use 9x as a main OS on any PC.
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Old Oct 25, 2007, 03:09 PM   #4 (permalink)
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i haven't run win9x in such a long time, i've even forgotten the commands for it! and the only thing i use cmd for in winXP is for ipconfig settings, lol.
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Old Oct 25, 2007, 04:14 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Don't use it myself, but I have clients that do. None on new hardware, btw (almost impossible to run 98SE on new Intel hardware... dunno about AMD though). In fact, I just got through repairing one. Stupid client tried installing a USB device that f'd everything to hell.

I tell you... compare 98SE to anything that has come after it, and you just have to sit back and wonder where Microsoft f'd up. 98SE loads fast, runs fast, launches apps fast, and shuts down fast on minimal hardware. Vista can't even do this on a system 3 - 4 generations newer than this computer I just got through working on unless you run on a machine that's setup for RAID 0 on 10-15k drives, has 4GB of stupidly fast DDR2, and is running a quad core or better CPU.
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Don't use it myself, but I have clients that do. None on new hardware, btw (almost impossible to run 98SE on new Intel hardware... dunno about AMD though). In fact, I just got through repairing one. Stupid client tried installing a USB device that f'd everything to hell.

I tell you... compare 98SE to anything that has come after it, and you just have to sit back and wonder where Microsoft f'd up. 98SE loads fast, runs fast, launches apps fast, and shuts down fast on minimal hardware. Vista can't even do this on a system 3 - 4 generations newer than this computer I just got through working on unless you run on a machine that's setup for RAID 0 on 10-15k drives, has 4GB of stupidly fast DDR2, and is running a quad core or better CPU.
now, imagine win98se on such a machine
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not sure...

but on the vista machines i've been setting up..

i hit the power button (for it to auto shutdown)..... and walk away.. before i make it usually to the door, it's already off...
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I tell you... compare 98SE to anything that has come after it, and you just have to sit back and wonder where Microsoft f'd up. 98SE loads fast, runs fast, launches apps fast, and shuts down fast on minimal hardware.
Yeah, but only on a fresh boot, and a fresh install.

Personally, any marginal hardware isn't going to be gaming anyway, so it's getting some variation of linux, I can't stand dealing with 9x.
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I do not use 9x, but two of my "clients" do. Win98SE on one machine and Win95 on the another. I did a reinstall of the 95 machine a few days ago because of a HDD problem - I have never seen so much dust before...
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I would like to install windows 98se but I can't since I have Windows XP and trialware of Vistal already installed.
VirtualPC can help but not for applications that require more than 4MBs of poor graphics card.
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actually the other day, someone brought me in a computer with windows 3.11

and nearly a year ago... i was brought in a computer with basically a beautified verison of DOS
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actually the other day, someone brought me in a computer with windows 3.11

and nearly a year ago... i was brought in a computer with basically a beautified verison of DOS
isn't that what windows 3.11 is? a glorified DOS
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not sure.. but windows 98 initiall had active desktop that would litterly kill the system emediately....
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Oh man, I remember after installing windows and you would get the active desktop and with the greek version you would get some greek sites but none of them would work. Great move...
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Old Nov 21, 2007, 12:28 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I use win98 but in vmware. Not anymore as a main OS
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