[Ham-Computers] windows stuff

[Paul]

fkamp at comcast.net wrote:
> 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.
> 
Disappointed?

> Since then I have uninstalled XP and installed
> win98.  I now get much better performance on that
> particular machine.
> 
Each new Windows uses more resources, XP is more stable than 98

> 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.
> 
used to use Win98 and took IE off with 98Lite, think I used Opera as 
browser, this was a lot quicker. I recall that there seemed to be fewer 
BSODs (but that might just be my memory)

> 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.

If I was installing Windows now, I'd probably go for Win98 less IE, but 
with Mozilla Firefox (and Thunderbird instead of Outlook).

I've installed AVG antivirus on friends' computers & its found stuff 
that their Norton hasn't (and they've noticed a marked improvement in 
performance when I've stopped Norton) with, As you say, Zonealarm, plus 
Spybot, etc, etc.