[Ham-Computers] windows stuff

[fkamp at comcast.net]

Last week I was fooling with Puppy Linux.  I had
some minor problems and got some help from some of
the group.  Now I have Puppy on a dedicated hard
drive and even got the swap partition to work with
it.

I got a lot of good suggestions from most of you. 
Some of the exchanges touched on speed of higher
end computer hardware running windows.  I was
dissapointed to find that Puppy was much faster
than XP even though XP was running on a much more
capable machine.

Since then I have uninstalled XP and installed
win98.  I now get much better performance on that
particular machine.

Then I did some research on windows in general. 
It never bothered me that win98 has IE integrated
into the operating system. Not that I would have
done it that way myself but I never considered it
might effect the speed of the overall system.  I
also was not aware that software was available to
correct this problem.  Using such software, I
nuked IE from one of my older win98 machines.  The
results were amazing.  At least I was amazed at
the speed increase.  I did not take any
measurements (before/after) but applications now
run noticably faster.

Then I discovered that win95 did not have IE
integrated into the operating system.  Right now I
am installing win95 on one of my spare hard disks
to see how it works with regard to speed.  Just
for an experiment. I have software that will not
run under win95.  Zone alarm for instance.

Anyway, I was wondering what the experiences of
the group were regarding windows stuff.  Various
versions versus speed, versus capability.

Regards,
Frank Kamp
K5DKZ