WTB Windows 98 2nd edition or ME or......

Can anyone help

My gas powered PC only runs WIN98

Just bought a MP3 player for my daughters Xmas present.

But the lowest it runs is WIN98 2nd edition and above

Does anyone have a copy of this or ME,2000 going spare at all???

Mail me or PM me if can find a copy for a worthwhile charity

 

Wait till I get home... I'll pm ya if i can help.

 

:smt023


Will pay postage...........

 

I'd help you out, but I lost my key. For some reason I thought it was a good idea to separate the manual and the disc.

 

How many times do we hide / store something safe just in case only never to see it/them again :-(

 

I might have an ME Upgrade floating around in return for a beer :drinkers:

 

have you tried your local Sunday computer market if you have one?
I bought sealed box one for A$9.50 last year when I needed Win98SE...

 

Can be arranged

:smt1062

 

NOOO!!! not ME.
Worse OS ever!! get Windows 2000 Pro, fast and reliably for old computers.

 

I have one original ME.
Please, let me know your complete name and address and I'll send it to you.

 

Gas powered PC?

Good god ME is awful...you should try to check out 2k if it's possible it would work on that pc, since it's more up to date. I bet you could find it (or 98 SE) somewhere..........................................................

 

Win 2k

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=66480

Win 98 2nd Ed

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=56617

 

Definitively go on Win2k..its worth it, and its quite fast even if your pc is being keeped in activity by mices

 

I have a Japanese version on Win98SE if you need a copy but the prpblem is that it's in Japanese. You can patch the outlook express and IE to English however to English.

Yakumo

 

Heh, You think I use it???


Virtual Alan: I'll have a hunt around for it...

 

Many thanks to everyone for your kind offers/suggestions/links etc etc

Good old Mum has come up trumps!!!!!

She bought her PC not long after mine so has WIN98 2nd Edition

 

Not that it matters much...

While Win2k is great for older machines, and while it may be appropriate in this situation, there have been a few times where an NT based windows simply wouldn't work. For instance, a lot of dev software only works on Win9x. This is because the operating system does little to keep the hardware from being accessed by the software.

So to lead off of that, while Windows ME blew at the time of release, I can't really blame it on the operating system. I recently set up a custom built Pentium 3 @ 800 mhz machine, with 512MB of ram, so I could do some development. It has 3 operating systems on it... Windows 95 OSR 2.5, Windows 98 SE, and Windows ME.

Comparing them all, Windows 95 is frickin light speed. It may look plain compared to todays offerings, but man, it flies.... right into a blue screen about every hour or so.

Windows 98 SE is what we all have come to love and expect.

Now I never REALLY used Windows ME outside of some minor administration and testing, until recently. It REALLY is faster than Windows 98. No. Really. I click the start menu, and it immediately brings up the start menu. Windows 98 has a noticable 1/2 second delay. Opening up my computer on ME is instantanious, where on Win98, it generally lags a few seconds, especially if there is a cd in the drive. I noticed these things with about 2 seconds of observation (and still ongoing). These are only a few examples.

I've been trying to come up with a reason that ME seemed to suck so bad back when it was released. Looking at two of the machines that came prepackaged with WinME, I think the OEMs that pushed this OS have a lot of the blame. It tends to be sub-par hardware with questionable configurations.

Anyway, thats was a nice little break. Now back to work

 

Crap dude, I totally forgot about this when I got home lol. Its a copy of a legit copy, not a warez copy.

 

Now I have the following problem

I need to know how to uninitall WIN 98 and install WIN98 2nd Edition???

 

I think you just install it on the top of Win98