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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5346)	1/19/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Dave, waste of time if you ask me. I took 98 off all but one box and went back to SR2. Almost everything interesting you can download from MS. Sean

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5346)	1/19/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>Upgrade to Win98 The only eaven quarter-rational reason I have heard is that bug fixes, etc. will only come on Win 98. Given my opinion of MS's bug fixes, this is a pretty strong reason to stay on Win 95 IMO. Heck, I'm still on the retail version. I boot it maybe 5 times a year <G>. Flashing the bios, etc. And last year &^%&^ turbo-tax wouldn't run on NT! Intuit ASHLES. Spots

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5346)	1/20/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Paul K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

A couple of features that are new to Win98: You can use a TV tuner card to view programming on both Win 95/98 (and grab closed captioning text), but Win98 includes an Online Program Guide to give you up-to-date TV listings as part of the 'Broadcast Architecture' enhancement, they are specific to your zip code and cable-co or antenna usage. You can word/topic-search the program guide, and have it remind you of a scheduled program. Another is 'Compressed Folders': It's a New Folder type (a zipper on the icon) that compresses any files you save or drag/drop into it. You can view/open contents like regular folders -- a great place to put graphic/doc files. (probably not wise for streaming data file storage though). I'm just paranoid about converting an entire drive on my limited notebook HD into a fully compressed drive... (and full-drive compression probably uses extra cpu time for all file i/o). Of course converting a HD from FAT16 to 32 is a first step in making efficient use of HD space, but Compressed Folders takes storage a step further.