[Skivvywaver]

I'll not be outdone!! (well maybe I have since I only have 98 but)

I installed 98 SE and am dual booting. I didn't do this as an experiment, I wanted to play my old games without being banished to the basement.

Ya should see 98 run on a 3700+ and a gig of ram, machine slightly OC'd. This brings back memories. I am using it now. Cool.

[Stoner]

Dang ......sounds cool
Guess things happen a lot quicker on new machines _

[Skivvywaver]

I gave it 30 gigs. I really wanted to install my games. I have Redneck Rampage and RR Rides again on it so far. YeeHaw!!

I'll dig out some more tomorrow. It is funny. I didn't have to do squat to get this thing to recognize all the memory, and getting USB2 to work was as simple as installing the drivers off the mobo disk. Lan was the same way. Everything just worked. I am shocked actually.

I did have to set the tcpip higher. I was only getting 64 KB a second down, but since applying the fix I am up to 200, same as XP really. I am keeping this partition, this is fun.

[hewee]

My scan are like yours Stoner and I am alway clean.

But the browser test at PCFlank is not anything I think we have to worry about.

You have to give out info for your browser to show up right at web site.
Guess if you was behind some anonymous Internet surfing software then it may hide all that.

[Skivvywaver]

LOL, I tried to install spysweeper on 98. The machine freaked out. I had so many fatal erors it isn't even funny immediately after spysweeper install. I never even ran it.

I'd say it is not compatable for sure.

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by Skivvywaver

LOL, I tried to install spysweeper on 98. The machine freaked out. I had so many fatal erors it isn't even funny immediately after spysweeper install. I never even ran it.

I'd say it is not compatable for sure.

Thanks for the warning, Scott
It was hard to find the specs on Spy Sweeper but I finally found them here:
http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/

If you have 98se, it should have installed.

Minimum System Requirements

* Windows 98 SE, 2000, Me or XP
* 300 Mhz processor
* 25 MB hard drive space
* 128 MB RAM
* Supports Internet Explorer

Sounds like a conflict with other software, perhaps?
Some apps don't play nice together.
I tried Ewidow on my win2k box, but as long as it was installed, the Norton 2002 firewall was broken.
I posted that at TSG, but appearently no one else had that problem.....go figure

I was then so uncertain of the security, I flipped a recent drive image back on it



I've also run Stinger, but it is so limited in scope....I doubt I'll run it often.
I also have run f-prot, the DOS version, but I really don't know how effective it is and it doesn't seem to be updated often.

You might even try booting into a Bart PE live cd and run some tests for kicks
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Check out the 'BartPE Installer v2' under plugins. ...... It works.

[Skivvywaver]

I am running AVG free, zone alarm pro, adaware pro using adwatch, spybot immunized, and that is about it.

The only spyware I have found is the normal alexa stuff and a few tracking cookies. I won't be getting those anymore because of cookie management.

Lets just say I am having a blast. I had forgotten most of what I knew about 98. I had to even figure out how to install tweak ui all over again.

For my dos games I'll use 98 because I have to. I haven't tried any newer games but I'd say they might have some problems. I'll give them a go after I play with 98 for a few more days. I am beginning to think I should have maybe stuck with direct x 7 or 8 though. I have 9c on here right now. I just have to fiddle with it later.

I am going to have to go see if I can find the cuss packs for Redneck Rampage. More fun when the Rednecks cuss you out for shooting them.

LOL, Later Jack.

[Skivvywaver]

Still doing good here Jack. I am on XP at the moment but my 98 install has been surfing the net the same as the XP install has. No problems at all other than the interface is butt ugly.

There are things you can do with 98 you will never do with an NTFS system and vice versa. I have been up for two nights playing dos games. Fun man, this thread inspired me to move 98 from the basement and into my computer room. Redneck Rampage

[Skivvywaver]

A beautiful screeny.

[Stoner]

Mornin' Scott

I originally wrote this thread up just out of curiosity
win95 is definitely limited compared to win98se, which I started out learning on.
This box was originally intended for a cheap way to fool around with an installed distro of Linux. I have another hard drive with Mandrake 10 on it that I intend to reattach after I've run the 95 a bit longer.

98se is much more versatile/useful than 95. But 95 does all that I need as a surfing box.

One day 9x will probably disappear, as the newest hardware becomes unrecognized. But it's still useful today. I can see 95 being squeezed out of meaningful/current security apps soon. I had to scrounge and do a few work arounds ( ) to make some of them run. 98se would have been no problem....but I already knew that.

I'm not much of a gamer, so I don't keep up or even follow the 'cutting edge' of hardware.
For my online activities, I had recently been switching from a P3 500 98se box to a P3 800 win2k box, till this 'experiment' with 95 came up.


I saw where the Industry adviser, Gartner, advised businesses not to go to Vista till 2008.






Nice classic Windows wallpaper ..........

[Skivvywaver]

Yeah, the last time I used windows 95 was on an old machine at work years ago. That thing only had a Pentium, not Pentium II processor in it and if I remember correctly was 100 mhz and had 64 meg of ram in 2 banks of 32 meg.

It wasn't bad for what I needed it for as long as when I booted it up in the morning I had something else to do for a few minutes while I waited for it to load up. The company had Norton and McAfee on it which really caused it to be slow. Internet wise it was fine though.

I know 98 SE is leaps and bounds better than 95 and to be truthful I wish I had a 95 disk but I don't. I really only want 98 for the old gamer in me, XP kicks 98's butt in my newer games some of which just really hate 98 to the point they are all but unplayable.

I haven't even booted 98 yet today, but I will afterwhile. It is fun for me to learn all over again what made 9x tick. I upgraded to XP in 2001 so it has been a very long time since I had the enjoyment of playing with 98. My last 9x machine actually had ME on it. If you want a bad 9x experience, that is where you should be.

Take her easy Jack, and keep us informed of your experiment.

[Stoner]

Hidy ho Skivvy

I was surfing around and caught this link to making a win98 live CD.
I already have BartsPE, but this looks interesting.

http://www.winimize.com/
http://winimize.com/min98.html
and
http://winimize.com/bootcd.html

[Stoner]

Just found a link to making a win95 live cd:

http://www.geocities.com/freedatarecovery/

[Skivvywaver]

I'll give it a go if I can get a full version.

I think my sister has a win95 cd she isn't using. Maybe I can bum it for a few. I can't be left out of the win95 experience. I wanna play too.

[gyrgrls]

Originally Posted by Skivvywaver

I'll give it a go if I can get a full version.

I think my sister has a win95 cd she isn't using. Maybe I can bum it for a few. I can't be left out of the win95 experience. I wanna play too.

Go for the gusto! Get a copy of MS-Windows 3.11, or better yet, 1.0,
if you can find it.