What would it take for you to switch to VISTA?

[Nothinman]

Key system files and other things are cached.

If those key system files are really in use that much they'll be cached with or without SuperFetch.

 

[Bateluer]

As with almost everyone else, I'll be upgrading to Vista eventually. For me, it will be 1 year after its release or SP1, which ever comes second. Probably Jan/Feb 08 time frame.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Better driver support. period. Maybe next year.

 

[Parasitic]

Creative writing a working and decent driver for the Audigy.

 

[ultra laser]

I would make the switch if my games performed 20% faster.

 

[rchiu]

Originally posted by: StopSign

Originally posted by: rchiu
So let's see, you are telling me that Vista improving that 2 minutes and not the 5 hours I actually run my program should be a big deal to me?

Heh. I knew you were going to come back and say that. How fast your programs run after starting up is mostly dependent on hardware, and usually the hard drive speed. It's not something you can drastically improve with a new OS.

You're making it sound like Superfetch is a negative aspect of Vista. It doesn't work miracles, but it does improve something. Agree?

Agree, I never said Superfetch is negative, but for people to make it sound like a huge deal and basing an OS upgrade, probably more memory investment, just so you can load program faster, I just don't think it makes too much sense. Of course, that's just my opinion, I would personally not upgrade my OS, risk hardware/software incompatibility, just so I can load stuff faster when my program load time is already in the seconds.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Creative writing a working and decent driver for the Audigy.

Add JMicron to that list... when Solitaire causes your system to studder and stall then theres a really bad driver somewheres....

 

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by: VladMM
Come again? You use Win98SE for WHAT?

Yup, you read it.

Win98 is great for troubleshooting purposes when fixing machine, and broken down systems, etc, etc.

Win98 is the perfect stepping stone to rescue Desktops and Laptops because they can not install XP, Vista or whatever directly due some hardware problems, etc, etc...

Then once in 98 you diagnose the problem, and prepare the drives, and drivers, then you can install XP or Vista and the machine is good to go.

There are more than meets the eyes when there are odd hardware issues.

and not every machine can just boot off the CD / DVD / USB as most of you think.

There are those legacy machines and laptops that are perfectly capable of Vista / XP with the correct drivers installed, which most time are not included.

 

[Nothinman]

Win98 is great for troubleshooting purposes when fixing machine, and broken down systems, etc, etc.

Win98 is the perfect stepping stone to rescue Desktops and Laptops because they can not install XP, Vista or whatever directly due some hardware problems, etc, etc...

Wow that's the most backwards thing I've ever seen. I personally would use a Linux LiveCD but even a BartPE disc would be many magnitudes better than Win9X.

and not every machine can just boot off the CD / DVD / USB as most of you think.

There are those legacy machines and laptops that are perfectly capable of Vista / XP with the correct drivers installed, which most time are not included.

El torito has been around for 12 years now so that means you're talking about Pentium 1 era machines so if the machine can't boot from CD then it should be replaced.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: AllGamer


and not every machine can just boot off the CD / DVD / USB as most of you think.

Mmm...the other day I used Damn Small Linux to salvage a machine that had been reformated with Win98 (no less) and it was near damn useless because only some of the stock Windows drivers were useful and the machine couldn't even connect to the net.

Damn Small Linux picked up each and every piece of hardware in there, including modem, sound and 16-bit color. This took less than a minute by the way.

This is a 9 year old laptop with a PII@233 MHz processor and 48MB of RAM. And it boots from CD just fine.

And even my old Pentium 1 could boot from CD, 11 years ago. I cannot fathom a machine that couldn't and if such ancient paperweights are still around they are not worth the trouble of troubleshooting in the first place.

 

[AllGamer]

yeah there are those cheap people trying to fix their machine with broken CD-DVD-RW, no floppy, old PC, no USB booting option, etc etc...

in those sort of cases i rip out the HDD and copy the setup files over via usb adapter to HDD, and the benefit of having 98 rather than Linux, is that you can install XP or Vista on right right from Win98, copy those monster size files from USB in DOS it just takes too long, it is way faster via RJ-45, then you can prep a partition with all the drivers and mirror images with all the files for either Vista or XP or 2000 depending on their machine original license.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, I had to use Win98se to get a new C2D laptop to accept XP. It would BSOD when booting with the XP CD, but it worked, when running the XP setup from within Win98se. Go figure. It took longer, of course, than directly installing XP, but the bottom line is that it worked, when the more direct approach would not. There's still use for Win98se still. 😛

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: masteraleph
Already did move. Superfetch, searching, more stability and 4GB. Next?

I dont care about superfetch, my searching already goes quite well, my copy of XP that incuded SP2 is more than stable enough, I only have 2GB and thats more than I need anyway. In fact, my older system with 512 megs is running great, the only thing it wont do well is video encoding AND something else at the same time.