HELLO! "95" You out there?????

[Murf]

What happen, everyone ditch "95" where are you all????

[2harts4ever]

Hi Murf,

"'2harts4ever' all present and accounted for."

Regards,

2harts4ever

[AnnMarie]

Win95b here Murf on one old lapper but it never gives me any problem.

[thelordglen]

Yeah windows 95b here too on me toshie 150mhz! still working like a champ

[flavallee]

My HP Pavilion 8160 came with Windows 95 OSR2. I finally upgraded it to Windows 98SE about 5 years ago. I've since given it away, but I'm still using Windows 98SE in my Compaq Presario 5030/5900T desktops. Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 are almost extinct.

[jerry4dos]

I'm here. I'm waiting for you to break something, so I can tell you how to fix it.

[Murf]

Hang in there, someone will "Break It" so you all can "Fix It", not i, as i deserted "95" a long time ago...sorry....but could not help myself....

[Rick Harvey]

Good Old 95C. I still dont have everything in the USB working yet, BUT, EVERY time, I get stuck helping a friend on XP, I scream. Everything I try to do in xp, is so much harder.

If I can get my 95C USB completely working, I will almost NEVER use the SLOWER 98 S.E.

[flavallee]

Rick:

I have to disagree. Windows 98SE is a much better operating system than Windows 95B/C, and it provides full USB support.

Windows 98SE runs better with more processing speed and more RAM than Windows 95B/C, but you can still get it to run decent on a "dinosaur" computer, as long as you keep the graphic load down and keep the startup load to a minimum.

[Rick Harvey]

I had 2 identical hard drives, (Maxtor 91080d5) Both had the same data and programs (copied). One had 95C and the other had 98SE.

The 95 booted in 60 seconds. The 98 booted in 105 seconds
That is SLOWER !!!
The screen refreshes on the 98 were slower. Everything seemed slower in 98.

This was a good test, with all things being equal. Unplug one drive, then plug in the other one, on the same computer, AMD K6iii-400 with 192 mb ram.

True, the USB does have better support in 98, but I prefer a faster O.S.

[ChiefE7]

Still have Windoze 95b on this comp, great for my old games, and many old things.

Laptop has XP and I find it not user friendly.

[A31Chris]

Hey, I'm still here! I still use 95.

The more I use XP, the more I can't stand it. I guess if you're a hardcore programmer its great but other than that I think its a steams like a fresh pile of dog poo on a cold morning.

[Rick Harvey]

That is a great sumation of XP. I also hate it. It seems everything I try to do (in friends computers), is harder to find the simple things. It REALLY SUCKS! I mean what idiot would just hide things. I guess that is what excites mr. micro&soft , huh? What will he come up with next?

[J A L]

I loved 95B/C. Worked great on old stuff. So many things ran great on it. Never really cared for 95A though. Fat 16 and a 2 gig drive was all you could squeeze out of it (natively).

When 98 came out I stayed with 95B with usb support. It was just too good to wanna switch. When 98SE came out I made the switch. I found 98SE to run a bit slower than 95 did but it did a lot more than 95 could. So the trade off was ok with me. I still run 98SE on a multimedia computer. Rock solid and never a problem at all.

ME was a disaster. Crash and lock up city whenever I stressed it to do anything. Gaming out of the question. Video encoding... no chance of that ever working. ME was a joke. Loved the new features but stable it is not.

2000 was great but really used a lot of hard drive space. Needed a lot of ram too at the time, to run efficently. 128 megs is kinda the minimum for me with 2000.

Now we come to XP. Hate the registering. What a joke that is. I am not sure you can even upgrade a motherboard at all without reloading the OS. There are more patches for XP than any other O/S that has ever exhisted. Try to get the service pack with dial up. Better off to send away for the service pack 2 on CD, then to try to download it on dial up. Now as for legacy hardware support.... Wish everything hardware wise, in the past would work with XP!! I do love win 98 compatibility mode though. It has save some headaches in the past. Other than that I have enjoyed XP tremendously. The one thing I never seem to understand.... Is why do people use the built in MS Drivers for hardware instead of getting the updated drivers for things like video cards from the manufacturer? With a site like VDR how can you go wrong. Help is a plenty here.

A little off topic.... I have installed Red Hat now several times on different machines. I have installed Mandrake now a few times. I have installed Suse a few times. I have the Suse linux you can run from CD without even loading it on your hard drive as well. Very Cool!! Installing drivers for Linux is still a pain though! Linux comes with a ton of software including office on many distro's. Support is a bit limmited but it is very nice to use and does just about everything cept cetain games that are windows only.

I think longhorn is going to be a system resource hogging slug. Your going to need really up to date hardware just to tolerate it. Expect the usual glitches and patches when it first comes out. It will be such a big OS I think it will be headaches galore. Vunerability city. We'll see I guess.

95B and 98SE will always be remembered fondly by me. I still install both of them from time to time. Many folks still love em. The thing with 95 trying to stay functional is going to be browser vulnerability. 95 can only run up to IE 5.5. Firefox wants 64 megs of ram minimum. Opera is not free. I am not sure of any other browsers out there worth mentioning is there? New patches for IE 5.5 has been stopped for 95 now. Every now and then one is available for ME, but Microsoft makes sure they will only install in ME. How sad is that? For now, critical updates are still being made available for 98 and better running IE 6. The only reason for running 95B now is old equiptment with limmited ram. Pentium anything with at least 32 megs of ram runs 98SE. Best to run it on (recommended by me) at least 48 or 64 megs though. I am disappointed with 95 vendor support especially in reguards to drivers! When 98 came out USB took off. Many vendors were just too lazy to write drivers so devices would work in 95! 98SE is so much more supported than any of the previous O/S's. I see ATI has now dropped a lot of their drivers for 98 this year as well. They are not even available for download anymore. Fortunately I have made driver disks for many old legacy devices/cards.

Anyways Murf; thats whats going on in the 95 world! Dos and 3.1 is totally dead. 95 is 99.9% dead even though I still play with it a bit.

[A31Chris]

No, that is incorrect. The IE 5.5 ME patches install on 95. I have installed both of them with no incidents.