HOW DOES THIS WORK???? Windows Home Edition only upgrades from ME/1998 and ME only upgrades from 1998 so that means you cant reinstall them... therfore u cant reformat.
Windows 98 already got a reprieve. Microsoft was going to kill support for it a little over a year ago.
Just because official support is dead, doesn't mean Windows 98 is dead. Some people just don't need to upgrade. Just visit any private MD or DDS office, and I can guarantee you will find PC's with amber monitors... Some of their appointment/patient tracking apps just can't be "cheaply" ported to the latest OS. A good many of those apps are still running FoxPro on Windows 3.1 on XT machines printing on dot-matrix or daisy-wheel printers.
Windows 98 was a pirates dream. Microshaft mailed out LOADS of unlicensed final edition 98 CDs to anyone willing to pay some $ and get onboard with their beta testing. I'm not saying I ever installed it.... but I can tell you it was the last OS you could copy to the HD and run setup to install straight from the HD. Those were the days... no "install CD" messages ever since all the cab files were on the disk.Vilham wrote:
HOW DOES THIS WORK???? Windows Home Edition only upgrades from ME/1998 and ME only upgrades from 1998 so that means you cant reinstall them... therfore u cant reformat.
As for your "upgrade" troubles, sounds like you have an "upgrade" edition of XP HE. All you need is any old OEM 95/98/98se or ME disk. If you don't have one check your local goodwill for a week or 2 and you'll see one.
What????? Your dad one of those poor bum foreigners? Seeing as 10 years ago 95 had been on the scene a while and Win 3.0 was already 10 years old then. What reason could he have for not upgrading yet? Sheesh...couldn't his parents just buy him another PC?_j5689_ wrote:
It's a bunch of bums and poor foreigners that just want to use a comp for the basics and can't afford to upgrade to XP. I remember way back like ten years ago when my dad let me use a Windows 3.0 when I was around 4 years old.
10+4 so you're 14 now, not old enough to legally work in the U.S. You've got some nerve to belittle other folks when you're not even financially responsible for yourself, much less a family. When you work for a living, understand the value of a dollar (not to mention your time), priorities change.
I swear....kids these days.
I take it your refering to Windows <M>ultiple <E>rrors. lolTimelord_ wrote:
EUUUUUU!!! WIN95..... At least it aint ME!
Yeah i realise that but ive searched and i cant find a NONE upgrade version of XP apart from office.slo5oh wrote:
Windows 98 was a pirates dream. Microshaft mailed out LOADS of unlicensed final edition 98 CDs to anyone willing to pay some $ and get onboard with their beta testing. I'm not saying I ever installed it.... but I can tell you it was the last OS you could copy to the HD and run setup to install straight from the HD. Those were the days... no "install CD" messages ever since all the cab files were on the disk.Vilham wrote:
HOW DOES THIS WORK???? Windows Home Edition only upgrades from ME/1998 and ME only upgrades from 1998 so that means you cant reinstall them... therfore u cant reformat.
As for your "upgrade" troubles, sounds like you have an "upgrade" edition of XP HE. All you need is any old OEM 95/98/98se or ME disk. If you don't have one check your local goodwill for a week or 2 and you'll see one.
That's because you can't buy them at most big retail stores (fry's is the exception). You need an OEM version, so you have to buy it from an Original Equipment Manufacturer. You can buy them from newegg, monarch, and other big online retailers... if you're a student, teacher or work at a school you can get 1 copy of just about anything seriously discounted here: https://www.shoptrc.com/savings/ I think it was about $70 for XP pro and I got both std and 64bit edtion each with their own CD key. The CD I got said upgrade on it, but never asked for any sort of other CD. I've read that many college students have bought legit copys from their schools IT departement for $7 to $50, so YMMV.Vilham wrote:
Yeah i realise that but ive searched and i cant find a NONE upgrade version of XP apart from office.
Wow, a 7 dollar copy of XP!
My sister works at San Diego State University and can get Microsoft XP "cheap". But yeah, students can get Microsoft software rather cheaply. But pricing is different for each locale. License is suppose to expire once you are no longer a student, but well...Timelord_ wrote:
Wow, a 7 dollar copy of XP!
Expired licenses...Now I have heard it all!
Like I said, each school has differing policies. Some outright allow you to buy at significant discount. Or you can get it free, but with an option to purchase at a discount when you have left the school.Timelord_ wrote:
Expired licenses...Now I have heard it all!
Back in the days, got Visual Studio for a steal. Until work payed for it of course.
no its, Rest In Pieces!Drexor wrote:
May it rest in peace
I talk to plenty of customers at work who have win 95 lol.....man it sucksniekjejeje wrote:
lol i know someone whit windows 95 LOL
Wonder if in 10 years we will all be proclaiming XP as the worst OS ever made....
I've already done that...Timelord_ wrote:
Wonder if in 10 years we will all be proclaiming XP as the worst OS ever made....
LOL!!! I guess I walked into that one!
Win 95 came out in 97.InnerMonkey wrote:
What????? Your dad one of those poor bum foreigners? Seeing as 10 years ago 95 had been on the scene a while and Win 3.0 was already 10 years old then. What reason could he have for not upgrading yet? Sheesh...couldn't his parents just buy him another PC?_j5689_ wrote:
It's a bunch of bums and poor foreigners that just want to use a comp for the basics and can't afford to upgrade to XP. I remember way back like ten years ago when my dad let me use a Windows 3.0 when I was around 4 years old.
10+4 so you're 14 now, not old enough to legally work in the U.S. You've got some nerve to belittle other folks when you're not even financially responsible for yourself, much less a family. When you work for a living, understand the value of a dollar (not to mention your time), priorities change.
I swear....kids these days.
No it didn't, we bought our first pc in 1995 (pentium 100 MHz, 8 whoppping megs of RAM and a 650 meg hdd) and its OS was win 95 (came on floppy disks).Cold Fussion wrote:
Win 95 came out in 97.InnerMonkey wrote:
What????? Your dad one of those poor bum foreigners? Seeing as 10 years ago 95 had been on the scene a while and Win 3.0 was already 10 years old then. What reason could he have for not upgrading yet? Sheesh...couldn't his parents just buy him another PC?_j5689_ wrote:
It's a bunch of bums and poor foreigners that just want to use a comp for the basics and can't afford to upgrade to XP. I remember way back like ten years ago when my dad let me use a Windows 3.0 when I was around 4 years old.
10+4 so you're 14 now, not old enough to legally work in the U.S. You've got some nerve to belittle other folks when you're not even financially responsible for yourself, much less a family. When you work for a living, understand the value of a dollar (not to mention your time), priorities change.
I swear....kids these days.
I'm looking around to get my hands on win 98 actually. I'm going to reassemble my previous pc (pentium II 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 7.6 GB HDD, 4 MB graphics card + 3Dfx Voodoo 2) for my father, he just needs it to type in Word so there's no need to buy anything new (except for a floppy drive which I threw away when I disassembled it). But when I bought it it had win 98 illegally installed on it so I have no win 98 cd. And all the people I know that have a win 98 cd, conveniently disposed of the code required to install the damn thing. The only thing I can get my hands on so far is win 2000, but I don't know yet which win 2000 it is, since the machine only meets the win 2000 prof's system requirements.
Also, is 2000 very different from 98? Because I haven't worked with 2000 yet.
i don't know all the diff's between them just that 2000 supports ntfs. but from my expeirence using both 2000 was way more stable of an os than 98Rosse_modest wrote:
Also, is 2000 very different from 98? Because I haven't worked with 2000 yet.
2000 is very different, its like xp just without a fancy interface. basically win2k is a lot better (than 98), it was even better than xp until sp2 came out. problem is its an NT based os so needs a lot more power, you'll find 98 runs a lot better on that machine. the other problem you'll find is drivers, they might be hard to find for old components.
The performance issue is why I'm still looking around for win 98.BellusEndus wrote:
2000 is very different, its like xp just without a fancy interface. basically win2k is a lot better (than 98), it was even better than xp until sp2 came out. problem is its an NT based os so needs a lot more power, you'll find 98 runs a lot better on that machine. the other problem you'll find is drivers, they might be hard to find for old components.
And the drivers, are drivers for win 98 compatible with win 2000?
i don't think so . most driver's i've seen for 2000 are for 2000 and xpRosse_modest wrote:
The performance issue is why I'm still looking around for win 98.BellusEndus wrote:
2000 is very different, its like xp just without a fancy interface. basically win2k is a lot better (than 98), it was even better than xp until sp2 came out. problem is its an NT based os so needs a lot more power, you'll find 98 runs a lot better on that machine. the other problem you'll find is drivers, they might be hard to find for old components.
And the drivers, are drivers for win 98 compatible with win 2000?
nah, 98 drivers for the most part wont work on 2000
My third computer runs WIN95... First and second WINXP.