[Ham-Computers] Re: Question abt Win 98

[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Pre.S: John I am subscribed to the mailing list so you do not have to 
add me in as a recipient as well.

jandlmiller at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hylton's response to Brian's inquiry was interesting and full of experience.  Hylton seemed to be recommending a shut down of all the stuff that ScanDisk was never allowed by it's code to tolerate, to include but not be limited to screen savers, monitor shut-down settings, virus scans, firewalls and others in today's arena of confusion.
Thank you John. I finally get recognised!! Pity it doesn't seem to be 
helping in getting me employed.

May I suggest that you look at wrapping your email text. Have a look 
under the Outlook or Outlook Express help for something dealing with 
wrapping text.

> Hylton, Brian and you others please add your two-cents worth to this:  why not (in W98SE) do Start/Run/msconfig, and on the General tab select Load startup group items with a click in the box that now is likely gray.  Your click should deselect all the startup items and cause the box to become white without the check mark.  Then select Apply, followed by OK.  At this point you will see a confirmation screen and a Yes will commence the obligatory restart your computer to clear out the startup group items (but not delete them from your hard drive).  When the restart has finished, and you retrace these steps, briefly read the General tab information AND ALSO select the Startup tab.  You should see that all, or nearly all of the boxes are blank and you will see the clock and perhaps another icon in the systray.  All other startup items have been diabled (but not deleted) by the action taken in msconfig.
John this certainly sounds like a good idea but I personally cannot 
remember the Win95 MSCONFIG screen now and my copy of Win98se just will 
not play nicely with my top end machine supposedly supported by 98se.

Second to that, in this Windows world we have these days, people would 
far rather right click on an antivirus program and then left click on 
disabling it than having to go and do all that typing using your way. I 
know it is probably quicker but people are set in their ways.

> Then run ScanDisk followed by Disk Defragmenter, in that order.
np there.

> My question is this: with all the startup items disabled as above, does ScanDisk have less chance of being interrupted a number of times as it does it's thing in the Thorough mode with Automatically fix errors checked?
MOST definitely. That is why you get that 'error' message telling you 
that Scandisk has started 10 times.

> For any of you who have a Win95B machine around, or remember it, there was no easy way to do what is outlined above for Win98SE because there was no msconfig.  In Win95B when you typed Ctrl-Alt-Del you saw a Close Program window.  You had to do an End Task on all except Explorer and Systray
I personally never had to do this as provided the main culprits of the 
antivirus and screensaver were disabled Scandisk worked. As long as 
everything designed to help keep your computer safe was disabled 
Scandisk would work.

> Along the line, many theorized that the instability of Win95B, and to a lesser degree Win98SE, was caused by these OS being built on the MS/DOS platform.
Ooohh Goody
An operating system FLAME WAR.... FLAME WAR   .... :))
I personally believe that Microsoft did not nor currently does test its 
own software enough before it is released onto us unsuspecting public. 
That is why we have a weekly security and update patch from Microsoft. I 
personally know of a dialup networking error in versions of Windows post 
Win 3.11 and even incl. WinXP that works almost exactly the same as it 
did when I was really inconvenienced with it 10 years ago. So much for 
QA on Microsoft's side.

I am personally moving my entire PC usage to linux and asides from a 
single application at the moment, I am Microsoft bound. That and the 
fact that I train people part-time on how to use Microsoft products.

> Do any of you have and other-than-theory information that this was accurate?
There will never be any concrete statistics especially with a monopoly 
like Microsoft. Personally I think that its prime time has come and gone 
and that unless it changes its licencing model it will be belittled to a 
few Windows only applications that a few lost souls need. Anything you 
need software to do, linux can more than likely do for you. If not then 
you might have to use linux to access a Windows application but 
otherwise we will be free from M$.

Regards
Hylton
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Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1
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