Re: Win 98 Continues to Get Better Every Year
I've never had a whole computer worth $700! <g>
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HTH,
Curt
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"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Good PCR --- you should consider doing what I do and have a computer that
is
| not net enabled like my good old 486 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It has
MS-DOS
| 5 and Windows 3.1 and I still use it and especially now since my dual-boot
| custom built and upgraded from a gaming PC is down for the count at least
for
| a while. <grin> I am enjoying playing old games like Zeliard again and
it
| is so nice with the Roland MT-32 music card that my now deceased
grandmother
| Nana bought me in the 1980's. The music card was over $700 but I feel it
was
| well worth it since it still brings me so much happiness today playing the
| old DOS and Windows 3.1 games that were mainly from Sierra in my game
| collection. The majority of the games are stored in the basement in boxes
| but it is great to pull them out and play them on a real PC that was
written
| for consumers and has a real maintenance operating system unlike NT (New
| Technology), 2000, XP Home/Professional, and Vista. My Linux and Apple
days
| are fast approaching due to the continued foolishness of Microsoft in
trying
| to save some money by not having the 9x consumer source code continued.
Now
| you know Gary S. Terhune will be upset with me because I broke my word
about
| not mentioning the greatness and desire for another 9x operating system.
In
| addition, think of the children who need to be educated with the older
| software that was written for DOS and Windows 3.1 that will not run on XP
or
| Vista. It would be nice if someone would listen to me for once. Painted
Sky
| Elementary removed the 98 Second Edition PC's this summer for only XP
| Professional PC's with remote access enabled while I was gone for 3 months
| and look what happened to them. My Windows ME PC there that had a
hardware
| glitch preventing it from shutting down properly was the only 9x PC left
in
| the place. <!>
|
| "PCR" wrote
|
| > Dan wrote:
| > | Well, I prefer os to let you know about what they are doing. Chris
| > | Quirke, MVP is consider having an underlying maintenance operating
| > | system of Linux to help support Vista. His blog on this is really
| > | interesting to me at least.
| > |
| > |
http://cquirke.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/hello-world/#comments
| >
| > I've misplaced my tinfoil hat & cannot click a Vista blog until I find
| > it. But you are right about stealth updates. I guess, in my case with
| > NetZero, I have no choice in any event but to trust them. Stealth
| > updates or otherwise, I must always have Exec.exe running in here when
| > connected to the NET. And it can do anything it pleases!
| >
| > | *Disclaimer: I ask all users to carefully research any above web
| > | links including my own before clicking them willy/nilly (laughs) to
| > | help prevent potential garbage (in the form of addware and/or spyware
| > | usually) from being installed on their computer. *
| > |
| > |
| > | "PCR" wrote:
| > |
| > |> smith wrote:
| > |> | c/o
http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070913
| > |> |
| > |> | about system files getting updated with automatic update turned
| > |> | off.
| > |>
| > |> That's scary, but it's part & parcel of regular
| > |> XP/Vista-irradiation-- & nothing else! It WON'T happen on our Win98
| > |> machines, except I do know my ISP (Internet Service Provider),
| > |> NetZero, will do it-- & not just to update phone numbers! I'm fairly
| > |> sure my Kerio Personal Firewall has complained once/twice about the
| > |> signature having changed on NetZero's main executable Exec.exe!
| > |> Also, it takes in new ad's & URLs for its mini-TV to show during the
| > |> logon process!
| > |>
| > |>
| > |> --
| > |> Thanks or Good Luck,
| > |> There may be humor in this post, and,
| > |> Naturally, you will not sue,
| > |> Should things get worse after this,
| > |> PCR
| > |>
pcrrcp@netzero.net
| >
| > --
| > Thanks or Good Luck,
| > There may be humor in this post, and,
| > Naturally, you will not sue,
| > Should things get worse after this,
| > PCR
| >
pcrrcp@netzero.net
| >
| >
| >