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I have a piece of crap Win98. I recenlty tried to install a CD-RW drive, wouldn't work, the computer kept freezing whenever it tried to acces the drive. But the drive was listed correctly in the system devices.

So eventually I gave up and reinstalled the old CD-ROM. It works, but whenever I try to type something in the address bar, my computer freezes. Ditto for simliar things, like going Start>Find>Files or Folders.

Please help!

buy a new computer. or reformat. hardware errors DO freeze up the computer, plug everything in snug. load in safe mode, disable your cd-rom driver from the msconfig, and restart the comp without it, make sure everything works and that the cd-rom is the only problem

Reformat/reinstall. Once Windows gets to be that screwed up, nothing seems to be able to fix it for some reason. I've tried and tried when it gets that bad, and it just gets to the point where you say screw it, it's not worth it anymore. So I just wipe it out and reinstall it.

Win98 is crappy.

Better than Win XP. If there's a problem, you can't find it.

What's your drive configuration? (Which are your primary and secondary master and slave drives?)

Quote:Better than Win XP. If there's a problem, you can't find it.

That's not true:

- In Win XP, you press Ctrl+Alt+Supr, kill a process, and it is killed. In windows 98, there are big chances that your computer freezes, the process becomes immortal and take over the world.

- In Win XP, crappy dialers and internet garbage only affect the session which is running. In Win 98, that concept doesn't exist, so if you have a brother who seems to have a magnetic attraction to dialers and crap like that, your computer is doomed under Win98.

- In WinXP, when a program ends the memory is freed. In Win98 it depends on your computer's speed and some other things (immortal processes). I had to use "Ram Boost" to free up my memory from time to time when I had Windows 98.

- In WinXP, when the system gets bloated you just open the task manager, kill the processes that may not respond, wait a minute and everything is just like when you booted. In Win98, if the system is bloated you have to reboot.

- In WinXP, your nasty QB proggie in combination with some assembly routine will never be able to crash your computer. In Win98, it is completely capable (and will do it most likely).

- In WinXP you have instant USB support. In Win98 you have to install a zillion of drivers that make your system directory look like the phone listing.

- In WinXP you can install devices and/or programs and not having to reboot. In Win98 even changing your IP needs a reboot.

- In WinXP your computer boots in 20 seconds. In Win98 it can take up to 10 minutes.

- In WinXP you can use 2 or 3 gigs or RAM. More than 512 Kb in Win98 wil make the system crash completely.

- In WinXP installing Apache is a piece of cake. In Win98 you have to do system updates and nasty stuff with your configuration files.

- In WinXP, the graphic interface is taken appart from the kernel. In Win98, for speed reasons, they are mixed in part. Under Win98, a graphical crash can cause a kernel crash, something as simple as starting a windows DirectX game using capabilities your card doesn't offer will make your computer hang.

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I could go on all night long

Quote:Better than Win XP. If there's a problem, you can't find it.

Are you some kinda nut? M$ sux. Linux is best

i just downloaded redhat linux 8.0 the thing is it's all *.iso files and no install. what am i to do. sry about stelling the post

No offense, but if you can't figure out what to do with the isos you probably shouldn't be attempting to use Linux...

iso are cd images, right. and i just want ot play around with the linux, i dont expect to get much out of it.