Is there a site on the Web where I can see the complete Win 95 documentation; as complete as exists in Bill Gate’s database?
No, probably not as some of this “complete” information you seek would contain code they feel is proprietary. There are numerous Win 95 books and web sites available all the way from “Idiots Guide to Win 95” level to programmer guides and user message boards. Please be more specific about what info re Win 95 you are after and someone might be able to help you.
As long as people are looking things up, I’d like to know exactly how hot the fire should be to which we hold Bill Gates’ feet to get him to tell us how to uninstall Win98. Is a 450 degree oven high enough, in which case we would simply shove them under the broiler, or should we go with a pottery kiln’s 1300 degrees, where I think he’d have to be tied to an office chair with his feet out on a plank or something, and we’d roll him in?
Put away the schnapps. What are you talking about? Win 98 is the OS. Un-install it back to what… Win95/Win3.1/DOS 6.0/a partition for Linux?
Win 98 may be problematic but it is the OS of choice for Windows apps unless you have an older machine that doesn’t have the horsepower to run it efficiently. Windows update installs generally give the option to create a large rollback file to go back to the previous version if the install is unstable or just doesn’t operate the way you want it to.
It’s actually easy to un-install Win98
Format c: /s usually gets the job done nicely. ;}
Wrong!
Win98 is the OS of choice if you have a low-power (by today’s standards) machine or want to run DOS apps or games.
For modern systems and Windows apps, Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0.
In my limited experience and having used both Windows 2000 and Win98/98SE I will stick by my statement (with a slight modification) and state that it is the OS of choice for most people. NT 4.0/2000 has some unique features and is a more stable OS (big surprise) than 98 but it is not nearly as friendly or easy to use the same wide range of audio, video, controller, printers etc etc peripherals as 98 is. Some of these are driver issues and some are fundamental to the way the NT/2000 OS interfaces with hardware.
2000 is great for lots of things but Joe average user is (IMO) probably going to be happier at this stage in the game with 98/98SE especially insofar as most people do like to run games occcasionally and hang lots of different peripherals on their systems.
Re horsepower needed to run 2000. I believe than MS specifies a more robust hardware platform for 2000 than the baseline for 98 but in my practical experience with both, the real world needs of 98 and 2000 to run office suite apps (say MS Office 2000) efficiently are almost identical. ie minimum 233-300 mhz - pentium CPU (or equivalent) CPU and 64 megs RAM and reasonably fast hard disk. You experience may be different.
IMHO Windows 2000 and NT 4 have no difficulties with relatively recent hardware or software. And Windows 2000 is much better than 98 at telling you what’s going on and allowing you to control it. But … whatever floats your boat.
Windows 2000 and NT 4 are for business types, office use, etc. Windows 95,98, and now ME are for home use (word processing, games, internet, etc).
Eh, Astro, thanks for the advice, but you’re talking to somebody who thinks C++ means some kind of gonzo grade point average. I’m not drinking schnapps, it’s Pepsi, I’m typing on an antique 486 Acer computer from 1996, and I’m talking about uninstalling Win98 to get back to Win95.
All I can tell you is, the Better Half rushed right out and bought the Win98 upgrade in 1998, installed it, and then we discovered that a lot of our Win95 games wouldn’t play on it. Okay, so we’ll uninstall it. It would NOT uninstall. “Add/Remove Programs” was completely ineffective. It just hung around, refusing to leave. We ended up having to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Win95.
Then, last year, when I inherited the computer from the burned-out BH, I tried installing the Win98 upgrade myself (“well, he must have done something wrong…”). Again, some of our favorite old games wouldn’t run. Win98 was billed as being able to talk to the Win95 games and make them run, but no go.
So I tried uninstalling Win98 (“Add/Remove Programs”, right?) and it would not uninstall. And I ended up having to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Win95. And I swear, towards the end of the reformatting process, from deep within the computer I heard a baritone voice singing, “Dai-sseee, Dai-sseee…”
So what am I missing here? We’ve got a practically mint-condition Win98 CD here if anybody wants it.
Re your compatibility problems games are among the most tedious programs to get cross platform version (ie 95 to 98) stability out of in that some utilize low level, non-MS approved methods to speed up performance that do not translate well through OS upgrades. I have not run into too many 95 programs (games included) that cannot be tweaked to run on 98, however, the tweak process can be pretty involved though, even for geekzillas, so if the 95 games are “must have” you’re better off sticking with 95.
“I’ll give you a daisy a day”