Does anyone still use 98SE

[stncttr908]

Or am I the only one left? I'll be moving up to XP with my next rig, though, but I'm too lazy to reformat this one. :D

[Kruno]

EEEEEEWWWWWWWW 98 :@

No! I use XP :p :D

[saturnotaku]

You wanna talk 98SE? Talk to digitalwanderer - all his PC's use it.

Me, I wouldn't touch it again, especially since I can get all my old 95/98 games to run on XP. :D

[ragejg]

Some poor folk only have enough $ for system componentry, and not an OS... That's me.

I still use 98SE. Matter of fact, I used 98 FE till Jan. 2002. If you cut your teeth on DOS and "standard mode" Win 3.1, then the instabilities are deal-with-able...

I think it's a great gaming platform, but don't have much else to say about it in other respects. I have as many updates as possible installed on it; Office 2000 works fine; games run great; and I understand all it's errors.

I shyed away from XP last year cuz of driver support... now that that's all ironed out, I may be looking for XP Pro... but would still use 98SE with no problem if I had to... 3 of my friends locally still swear by it (at least on some of their machines...)

98 has some sort of 512mbRAM and above issue tho, and that scares me... Saturnotaku, might you explain? I'll post a thread about it...

[jnd3]

I was running 98SE until I got a cable modem. Before that it was a standalone system (just a modem connection), and it was all kinds of stable. But after I installed networking the thing would crash about every 15 minutes. I suppose I should have done a clean install with the new network topology. Oh, well. I've been quite happy with 2000 since then (even got about a 5% performance boost in most games just with the OS upgrade).

Cheers,
JND

[fishlung]

I have a Dell Dimension system that won't run anything except for the WIN98SE OS that it came with. I've tried and tried, but nothing else will work. I gave it to my girlfriend a long time ago. :)

[mr_oh_so_ice]

For my Athlon 750 MHz, 98/98SE were plenty fast for games, and even today, they still outpace Windows XP for me, yeah I got 512 MB RAM, I should set up that dual boot again..............

[zsynth]

I still use it cause I know it well, It may take me many hours of tweaking if I have to reinstall, but I paid for it twice, (once with a comp package, and once when I started building my own machines). I refuse to line billy's pockets anymore.
It's very stable when tweaked "properly".

AbitKR7A133-raid XP2100
Antec412 PSU Win98se
768megs PC2100(micron) (256meg ram drive)
(4) 40gig Maxtor's ATA 133
Leadtek TI4400
TB Santa Cruz
Hauppauge TV card
D-link NIC

[stncttr908]

Cool, I'm glad I'm not alone. I installed XP Pro my friend's system and my brother's, and I'll probably either go with that next or put it on with a 98SE dual boot. Its much easier on my system's resources than 98SE is.

[sbp]

"Does anyone still use 98SE"

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[saturnotaku]

My parents are still going to use it. But that's only because their machine is a POS K6-2 350 and wouldn't be able to run anything else. And of course Dad doesn't want to buy a new machine. And why would he? All my parents use the computer for is web surfing, e-mail and word processing/spreadsheet.

[Klaus-P]

I'm btw also still using win 3.11 and have no problems, old TV card, lan, etc,...etc.
But an old longshine lan card under win98SE cannot be recognized, no drivers, and the manufacturer also has no drivers available.

[mr_oh_so_ice]

Yes in dual boot scenario.

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by ragejg
98 has some sort of 512mbRAM and above issue tho, and that scares me... Saturnotaku, might you explain? I'll post a thread about it...

poor memory management.

i'm thinking long and hard about moving up to XP next time i reformat as well. FAT32 just doesn't cut it :mad: it goes painfully slow if your don't defrag often.

[bigC]

i just switched from 98SE to XP. still not sold on XP, but i'll give it a try for awhile

[ALobpreis]

Here, Win98 first edition, 21 months since installation and still running perfectly.... :cool: :)

[saturnotaku]

21 months? HAHA! Pittance compared to my parents' install of 98 first. It's going on about 38-39 months now. However, that will come to an end in a couple weeks when I completely format and install 98SE on it. :p :D

[ALobpreis]

Well, my system has 21 months, so I couldn't have the SO installed more time!
But in my older computer.... yeah! P233MMX 64Mb. It had 98 for nearly 3.5 years, until this past March I ran out of patience an reinstalled it. Much better now! It was running too slow...

[stncttr908]

My install runs perfectly fine after regular defrags and its been on there for 2 1/2 years. :D

[320mb]

Originally posted by zsynth
I still use it cause I know it well, It may take me many hours of tweaking if I have to reinstall, but I paid for it twice, (once with a comp package, and once when I started building my own machines). I refuse to line billy's pockets anymore.
It's very stable when tweaked "properly".


Yep, I have a script called IE.off, it deletes the web integration from the desktop, saves 12% of system resources, and the system is less buggy and NOT as crash prone. If one were to tweak and twang the Registry just right,98se will run without problems!! ;-) ps...I ran 3 98se boxes for 8 months 24/7 without a crash, I was crunching data for Seti@home. ran up 1700 units before I got bored with it. made regular back ups and defrags but no crashes....(shock/horror) One just has to know how to tweak the Registry.

[mr_oh_so_ice]

Pfft, I have a Pentium 166 MMX around here, its been running Windows 95 original release since I got in 1997. That is 4 years and still going. Though no one uses it as much anymore :)

[Kruno]

Tweaking it right still doesn't give you the performance of XP and believe me I know how to tweak.

Originally posted by 320mb
Yep, I have a script called IE.off, it deletes the web integration from the desktop, saves 12% of system resources, and the system is less buggy and NOT as crash prone. If one were to tweak and twang the Registry just right,98se will run without problems!! ;-) ps...I ran 3 98se boxes for 8 months 24/7 without a crash, I was crunching data for Seti@home. ran up 1700 units before I got bored with it. made regular back ups and defrags but no crashes....(shock/horror) One just has to know how to tweak the Registry.

[stncttr908]

Originally posted by 320mb
Yep, I have a script called IE.off, it deletes the web integration from the desktop, saves 12% of system resources, and the system is less buggy and NOT as crash prone. If one were to tweak and twang the Registry just right,98se will run without problems!! ;-) ps...I ran 3 98se boxes for 8 months 24/7 without a crash, I was crunching data for Seti@home. ran up 1700 units before I got bored with it. made regular back ups and defrags but no crashes....(shock/horror) One just has to know how to tweak the Registry.
What kind of changes does this make to the appearance of 98SE?

[ALobpreis]

Here (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-001) it is. :cool:

[Hunter32]

We run 98se on our computers at work. Me, personally I like Win Xp better.