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Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 19, 2003, 05:32:09 pm: My comp just crashed, had to go and format it. Lost practically all of my modeling programs, so I have the fun job of redownloading them. Now, off to find the motherboard driver CD.....
Title: Re: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Ryx on March 19, 2003, 06:05:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Windows 98SE is Evil

(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/smiley/obvious.gif) ;) :D
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Liberator on March 19, 2003, 06:22:00 pm: 98 is better than all save 2000 Pro.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Warlock on March 19, 2003, 06:27:19 pm: I don't think I've heard of an OS yet that didn't have some issues. I mean if it crashed so hard you have to reformat,.. it was something more than 98 crashing on you bud. Like if you have any "unoffical" demos shall we say,.. good chance you got tagged with a virus. Could really be anything.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Ulundel on March 19, 2003, 06:37:51 pm: Pfff, 98 is nothing compared to ME. Me just decides to take a walk every now and then. I was forced to reformat about...3 times. Every time ME surprised me with some dumbass bug which made my comp unusuable. And that was before I got internet...
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Warlock on March 19, 2003, 06:45:50 pm: Damn I guess I'm lucky then :) All the dodgey things I've had on this computer ...and only once did i have to reformat,.. and that was because the Harddrive itself locked up (the mechanical type lockup).
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: HeX on March 19, 2003, 06:46:07 pm: *looks at 98SE*

Working fine for me for the last year or so.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: SKYNET-011 on March 19, 2003, 07:06:43 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ulundel
Pfff, 98 is nothing compared to ME. Me just decides to take a walk every now and then. I was forced to reformat about...3 times. Every time ME surprised me with some dumbass bug which made my comp unusuable. And that was before I got internet...

Oh jesus don't get me started on ME.

Fine. ME sucks major ass. Of all the **** microsoft has made, ME is definitly 100% the worst. :no:

It crashes practically every SECOND on my comp. And it has no DOS? ARGH!!! :mad:
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Midnight Mercenary on March 19, 2003, 07:09:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by HeX
*looks at 98SE*

Working fine for me for the last year or so.

been working fine the last five years...
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Thorn on March 19, 2003, 08:29:26 pm: Havent had any problems with XP yet, and Ive been using it since it came out..
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Stunaep on March 20, 2003, 02:27:45 am: Same here. Hell, I haven't even had a crash that requires start-up with XP.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Ulundel on March 20, 2003, 02:51:50 am: Quote
Originally posted by SKYNET-011
And it has no DOS? ARGH!!! :mad:

:wtf: Are you sure what you're talkin' about?
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Stunaep on March 20, 2003, 02:58:11 am: yes. WinME has no DOS. only the command-prompt
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Ulundel on March 20, 2003, 03:00:49 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
yes. WinME has no DOS. only the command-prompt

Wrong. Start the comp with CD support and you've got the whole thing.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Fetty on March 20, 2003, 04:59:26 am: win98 doesnt have dos too
the last real dos was dos 6.22!!!
btw
2 partitions rocks 3 even better 3 on disk 1 , 1 on disk 2
supreme :D
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Ulundel on March 20, 2003, 06:13:51 am: Quote
Originally posted by Fetty
win98 doesnt have dos too
the last real dos was dos 6.22!!!

True, true... ;)
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Windrunner on March 20, 2003, 08:53:24 am: I personally hate win98SE, i use win 2000 pro. and in my opinion its the most stable of all OS
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: HeX on March 20, 2003, 09:20:59 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
yes. WinME has no DOS. only the command-prompt

*blink blink*
*looks at Start Menu, Shutdown, Restart in MS-DOS Mode*

You must have a different 98SE then me cause I've got DOS right here. :p
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: CP5670 on March 20, 2003, 10:30:53 am: uh, he is talking about ME there. :p

ME works okay for me, with only the occassional (once a week) crashes and good speed otherwise. The main problem I have with it is what was already mentioned, the lack of a true DOS mode. What's even worse is that it will not read the config.sys file properly and just automatically deletes anything in there whenever it starts up, so I cannot use emm386 and such things in windows either. :(
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Ulundel on March 20, 2003, 10:59:28 am: Try edit it under dos mode. Might work.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: CP5670 on March 20, 2003, 02:35:56 pm: yeah, I did that; every time it starts up, ME seems to make a copy of the config.sys file called config.bak, after which it erases the contents of the original config.sys file (but not delete the file itself). :wtf:
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Ulundel on March 20, 2003, 02:58:32 pm: So typical for microcrap... :doubt:
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: kasperl on March 20, 2003, 03:01:51 pm: 98SE worksw for me for 2,5 years now, excpet for one driver issue, wich caused me to format, and now an virusscan issue, but that ain't 98, that's mcaffee. IMO, 98SE is one of the better OS's maid by M$, however, ME has it's own advantages.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Stealth on March 20, 2003, 03:02:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by HeX

*blink blink*
*looks at Start Menu, Shutdown, Restart in MS-DOS Mode*

You must have a different 98SE then me cause I've got DOS right here. :p

He said WinME, not Win98

you guys realize that just because your computer crashes doesn't necesarily mean it's your OS, right? heh :) ;)

I personally like 2kpro best, and then XP and 98se
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Razor on March 21, 2003, 12:15:43 am: I am using XP home and I am happy with it. :)
Anyway, if you wanna have dos in your ME or XP or such, you can make a Win 98 startup disc, turn off your PC, set in the disc and turn it on again. Sorry if this has been said before. I didn't have time to read all the posts.
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Fetty on March 21, 2003, 04:10:38 am: Quote
Originally posted by HeX

*blink blink*
*looks at Start Menu, Shutdown, Restart in MS-DOS Mode*

You must have a different 98SE then me cause I've got DOS right here. :p

restart in dos mode and type
ver
then press enter
and look what it says :rolleyes:
Title: Windows 98SE is Evil
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 21, 2003, 06:31:06 pm: I'm fairly sure it was a corrupted file somewhere in the OS (for some reason my comp shut down wrong about 50% of the time in W98SE). Oh well, switched OSes to XP Home, let's see how long before I hate this one.