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Differance between windows 95 and 98
Name: Josh Date: November 19, 2000 at 15:48:19 Pacific
Comment:
Is there any other differances between the two windows versions other then:
-more drivers -patches (FAT 32 was avaiable on 95B) -intagration of IE -better USB support over 95B and C -slower performance on slower computers then 95
I need to know if I should upgrade or not. Any idea appreitiated.
Name: Chad Loosner Date: November 19, 2000 at 15:52:20 Pacific
Reply:
Get w98se & join the fun/pain.
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Response Number 2
Name: Josh Date: November 19, 2000 at 16:01:28 Pacific
Reply:
That doesn't answer the question.
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Response Number 3
Name: Anil Tiwari Date: November 19, 2000 at 16:16:29 Pacific
Reply:
Windows 98 fixes 3,000 bugs from Windows 95.Windows 98 also has some optimization tweaks to make it run faster. Overall it runs faster, it's more reliable, and it supports more hardware, including USB, FireWire, and DVD. Appearance-wise, there's very little difference. However, Windows 98 has a bunch of new programs , including a system information utility that is very good. It helps you troubleshoot and does a number of things to prevent problems in the background.
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Response Number 4
Name: techtony Date: November 19, 2000 at 16:20:47 Pacific
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And from a technician's standpoint, WIN98 does a better job of building vmm32.vxd (the virtual machine manager) making blue screens rare.
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Response Number 5
Name: chris K Date: November 19, 2000 at 16:29:07 Pacific
Reply:
Im using a P133 processor and im thinking of going back to Win 95 because it seems 10x faster than 98 on my machine. the only thing i'd miss is the Task Scheduler - Or maybe even that will run on 95, anyone know
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Response Number 6
Name: Anil Tiwari Date: November 19, 2000 at 16:37:51 Pacific
Reply:
hey Chris try Win Me ........its faster ....
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Response Number 7
Name: Peer Date: November 19, 2000 at 16:39:35 Pacific
Reply:
task sheduler comes with 95+ or you can get a free task program called Just in Time from: http://polyakoff.isCool.net
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Response Number 8
Name: Date: November 19, 2000 at 16:48:37 Pacific
Reply:
Anil is back despencing horid advice!(post 6) He is sugesting someone run ME on an old computer. A computer older then 2 weeks and likely to contain non compatible hardware possibly some ISA hardware that people forgot about.! Why don't you ask him to throw his computer in a swamp?
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Response Number 9
Name: Ghost Date: November 20, 2000 at 12:07:59 Pacific
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