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creaky
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_ 		6. November 2009 @ 23:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Years ago I used 98/98SE heavily, and went back to 98SE on a few machines as Win2K, while an excellent OS, broke badly for me a few times. Any BSOD's i had were fatal, requiring reinstalls (hence why i stopped using Win2K). Those same machines ran 98/98SE without issue from then on, and XP after those. In my long experience with those early OSes, 98/98SE were excellent, fairly frequent BSOD's yes, but no fatal OS meltdowns (requiring rebuild) like Win2K would do.

Anyways, back in the day i spent inordinate amounts of time creating boot menu's in 95/98/98SE and myself and a few friends had it down to a fine art. I do still have some of those boot floppies somewhere but it's been quite some years since i used them so i can't remember the different combinations of HIMEM.SYS etc etc. I can't even remember the max memory i ever used under 98SE, i guess it was 384MB, it may have been 512MB.
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EricCarr
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_ 		7. November 2009 @ 00:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There are a few options here to make 98SE work on this laptop.

1. Buy a 512MB or lower stick of ram for it. Then use 98SE for an OS.
2. Install XP. Then install Virtual PC from Mircosoft. Use Virtural PC to install Windows 98SE. select it to use about 512MB of ram when ask.

I have a PC with XP and a virtual 98SE on it for my little girl's PC for her to play her dos based games and it works perfect for her.
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creaky
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_ 		7. November 2009 @ 00:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I didn't even think of trying a virtual solution. Haven't used Virtual PC but another suggestion would be Sun's VirtualBox, which i've used, but not with 98SE. Might give it a go sometime though.
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_ 		7. November 2009 @ 00:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
EricCarr, edit your sig to conform to forum specs ASAP. yours is 7 lines of text.
1. Text-only signatures should have at most 5 lines of text.
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