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The real thing to be aware of is how randomly windows throws data around the hard drive, in windows 98 days, you could watch the actual blocks on the hard drive surface being defragged, took hours, you can't see that on the new nt defragers, but it's the same. If you restrict the space that the...

"Because seek time is the performance killer on hard disks and when you create partitions you make the heads seek between those partitions if you use both of them." That's exactly the reason why you should partition your drive. If your main os partition is close the beginning of the drive...

Comments are correct, I hadn't read the SUSE release carefully, SUSE 9.3 is not officially released yet. 9.2 and 9.1 are available through ftp install, for free, but it's not a very user friendly experience, but it does work. I've found SUSE with KDE to be much slower than any debian based...

I'll give it a shot: Mepis 3.3 - mepis is about as close to windows as you'll get unless you use xandros, it's very easy to setup, uses a slightly modified debian kernel, very very fast distro. Downside is the modified debian kernel. Other than the kernel you can use the debian apt...

Missed this one: "Can somebody explain to me why tabbed browsing is the best thing since sliced bread? I've been using FF for quite awhile now but have never really gotten the point of tabbed browsing. If I want another website open, I open another FF window. Why the need for tabs? How are they...

In the real world, since nobody is going to give me money to switch, nothing would motivate me to switch, why? Some new proprietary feature like active x that will be hacked into by some clever kid, giving them full control over the os? Not really my reason for switching to...

that's an answer. Bad ram, cheap ram, mismatched bad ram, mismatched speeds. XP doesn't like bad ram. Try it with a stick of known good ram, name brand, crucial, samsung, kingston, corsair - take out the current ram first of course.

Web developer, have to test stuff on different stuff: Main box: Windows 98 I Windows 2000 SP 4 Windows 2000 vanilla Windows XP SP 2 A non working install of kanotix Second box: Yoper Kanotix [that's what I really use, other stuff is just for testing] Beatrix Laptop: Beatrix...

I have a 100 megahertz laptop with 8 mB of ram, windows 95 with Office 97 runs fine on it, office is a little slow. Windows 95 was spec'ed to run on 4 mB of ram. You can run a simple browser like Opera 5, maybe 6 too, those will I think run sort of. IE 4 would also run ok, but definitely not IE...

You may need to dowload the old quantum fireball disk utility, the one you install on a floppy, then you can run the full disk overwrite on it, takes forever, but the disk will be like new. While you're at it, you can check the disk for errors too. Check for errors first, if there's a bunch I'd...

Try Mepis. Not sure if they do 64 bit yet. Ubuntu does 64 bit now, supposed to be amazing.

Not enough ram to run most stuff, damn small linux might work. Windows 95 will work very well. Windows 98 version 1, the one with IE 4, will run. Not much else will though. If you could get more ram on it you could run beatrix fairly well. But more ram would cost more than a used laptop is my guess.

Nightus tried posting his update to this issue here, but couldn't register. You can read the rest of his solution here: http://techpatterns.com/forums/about277.html

I've always just booted, and the odd thing is, I read person after person talking about having to reinstall their os, their os bogging down, etc, and mine just keeps chugging along, I could easily see still using this W2K box in 2010 barring any hardware failure. I think windows likes rebooting...

That's funny, windows 98 and 2000 had the same problems, I gave up on standby and hibernation years ago, too buggy. That MS report is very typical, I've read so many of those, they all claim that the problem is 'fixed' by the latest service pack, the one I've usually installed 6 months before...