Re: Win 98 Continues to Get Better Every Year
Dan wrote:
| 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.
Yea. At present, I never run anything overly sensitive on this machine
while connected to the NET-- not that I'm admitting I have
overly-sensitive stuff with files that I only keep on floppy disks! It's
on my to-do list to dual boot to a second, hidden partition that will
have no NET access at all-- not that I need it, though! Don't get me in
trouble with the law, now!
| 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.
Didn't you promise him not to talk to much too? It's OK with me, but--
he wants some peace & quiet!
| 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
--
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