Re: Format Hard Drive to remove Windows 2000 NT

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Steven Burn (somewhere_at_in-time.invalid)
Date: 02/13/05


Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:16:30 -0000


"Wouter" <wouter@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:eAf$p4gEFHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I never bothered installing Windows 98 untill some years ago,
> allways dealed with NT and W2K.
> Wow...my first W98 experience was a shock.
> Such a slow installation process and so much nagging nonsense
> got default installed (all that MSN stuff, the AOL and other
> nonsense stuff); and you first need to install A MODEM to get
> your Internet Explorer setup done...even if you don't have or
> use a modem but just want to go over the network.
> The network setup struggle (with more reboots than needed in
> W2K).
> Finally, that W98 BOD "application" that starts allways in the
> middle of writing your most critical report ;-)
> W2K installation is an almost automated process for the pretty
> good default installation.

I never had a problem installing 9x (pretty much straight forward IMHO), it
was always when trying to get things config'd correctly that it would always
go t*t's up (esp where networking was involved).

--
Regards
Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk
Keeping it FREE!


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