Re: Win98 (was Back Online)

September 20, 1998

We have all kinds of machines here. Not only do I collect old computers,

MSDOS and non-MSDOS, but also gets all kinds of parts and such and is

always putting together something! We put Win98 on two of our machines in

mid-July. Here's what happened: On both of our 'main' computers we

upgraded. J from the old original version of Win95 (not even with SR1 on

it) and I from Win95 OSR2 (. 's computer, after a couple weeks of

flakiness, crashed good... he lost a partition on his hard drive and thus

some data HE DIDN'T BACK UP. He cleaned up the drives, f'disk and reformat,

and put Win98 on from scratch. His system works like a CHAMP (233MMX cpu,

same as mine). My system ran OK up until about a month ago, then it started

displaying varying amounts of flakiness. Sometimes it slows to a crawl (64

MB RAM in both systems), sometimes the cd rom drives don't work right, and

so on. All drivers are up to date and also all the programs. Today it

REALLY is acting up and I figure that when I get back from Boston, after I

recover from the trip, I'm going to clean this system up and do a full

install of Win98. I did NOT convert to FAT32 on my system, did on his.

I didn't convert because his was acting so flaky and I didn't want that to

happen to mine. Everything I have read and heard has suggested that it's

really best to do a clean install of Win98. The other night on ZDTV they

were talking about it and they said that although there aren't always

problems with an upgrade, doing a full clean install is best.

The other machines that are running and used often are running Win95, Win

3.11, and Linux. Also a DOS box is up that is used occasionally. Of them

all I still like Win98 the best (I don't know LINUX though, as per my

earlier message), although I find that I miss some of the simple DOS

programs I loved and that are still on the DOS box downstairs, especially

Professional Write.

Hope I'm not offending anyone by getting off topic on this!

CUL,

Ruthie

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Ruthie Cunliffe K2ZQ

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Oh, no! Not ANOTHER learning experience!

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