1. Win 98 and misfortune
Hello,
I recently upgraded to Windows 98.
Someone was wondering about whether it required 95 to install;
it only requires at least 3.1. Win 98 does seem to lock up a
lot on my computer though.
Also (on another subject) my dad accidentally deleted my dosboot
directory and my DEV (drivers) directory and who knows what else. I was
thinking that it was win 98 that was causing the problem (wouldn't boot
from C:) but apparently my dad was using the network and had 2 drive
letters that pointed to my hard drive and so he decided to get rid of
one...
SOOO he clicked on it and hit delete!
This is what I assume he did (and thought):
"hmm, two of Lewis's hard drives, I don't need two of them."
[click]
[delete]
"huh? a window? Oh it probably just wants me to
confirm the disconnect"
[OK]
"hmmm, It's still there. Musta not worked"
[delete]
"hmmm.."
[OK]
"hmmm.."
[delete]
[OK]
[delete][OK]
[delete][OK]
[delete][OK]
[delete][OK]
"Dern! Itsa not workin'. Whatsa wrong withit!?"
"Wait, what's this here button do?"
"Wow, just like magic!"
"Once more Genius-man beats all odds to save the day."
Only I busted his little bubble when I told him that two of my most
important directories were gone.
I called a friend (a real genius) who told me that my only chance other
than a complete hard disk restore (which formats) would be to reinstall
Windows 98 and see if it would at least replace the files with something
else that would work. and get into windows and see if the missing files
are in my recycle bin.
any help would be appreciated emensly,
Lewis Townsend
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2. Re: Win 98 and misfortune
At 04:07 PM 7/21/98 CDT, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I recently upgraded to Windows 98.
>Someone was wondering about whether it required 95 to install;
>it only requires at least 3.1. Win 98 does seem to lock up a
>lot on my computer though.
>
>Also (on another subject) my dad accidentally deleted my dosboot
>directory and my DEV (drivers) directory and who knows what else. I was
>thinking that it was win 98 that was causing the problem (wouldn't boot
>from C:) but apparently my dad was using the network and had 2 drive
>letters that pointed to my hard drive and so he decided to get rid of
>one...
>SOOO he clicked on it and hit delete!
>
Congratulations!
You may be the first person to actually have
Win 98 crash for a good reason.
Everyone else seems to have crashes for no reason at all.
Irv
3. Re: Win 98 and misfortune
>Congratulations!
>You may be the first person to actually have
>Win 98 crash for a good reason.
>Everyone else seems to have crashes for no reason at all.
Here it seem to work fine...
Like a final IE4 + Win95 + Powertools path.
Its nothing new, its just the old stuff all combined and with the latest
patches.
Its actually faster, and more stable here, but I had a really messed up
win95. Just installed and partly removed too many programs.. even cleansweep
couldnt do much..
No, we should be worried with windows '00 .. in the year 2000 
Its gonna be a whole new OS.. so I the first release at the end of 2002
(they never finish something on time) will prolly be crap. But win98 can be
considered a improvement compared to Win95. Dynamic registry cleaner instead
of the stone-age-way of handeling the registery in win95, its the reason for
about half of all performance slow-down and bugs: a messed up registry.
Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
4. Re: Win 98 and misfortune
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:
> No, we should be worried with windows '00 .. in the year 2000
> Its gonna be a whole new OS.. so I the first release at the end of 2002
> (they never finish something on time) will prolly be crap. But win98 can be
> considered a improvement compared to Win95. Dynamic registry cleaner instead
> of the stone-age-way of handeling the registery in win95, its the reason for
> about half of all performance slow-down and bugs: a messed up registry.
<offtopic><rant>
Win 20xx?! *I* don't think so; (I saw the smiley:)
In around 3 years time, Micro$oft (who I'm not overly fond of, despite
hypocritically using NT4) will ditch the '95 family in favour of NT5.
There'll be no other versions of Windows, and support will be as limited
for '95 and '98 as it is for Win3.1 now.
NT4 handles the registry (itself and through the user interfaces) like a
monkey with a spanner (i.e. exactly like '9x), and NT5 will be no great
improvement on that. They'll retain backwards compatilbility with NT4 (or
as much as possible. Just compare NT3x with NT4 and extrapolate.).
The trouble with Win32 operating systems is this:
When they work fine,
they're very very good,
And when the registry corrupts,
they're horrid.
Simply using a Win32 operating system gives a 80% chance, each time you
use it, of corrupting the registry.
I love Win32.
Not.
</rant></offtopic>
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