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To: wily who wrote (3067)	4/21/1999 10:44:00 AM
From: RJL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

One quick note on that subject, when you set up Windows 98 and customize the things you want installed, you can deselect Online Services. However, when you finish the install, not only is it STILL on the drive, but the icons are placed on the desktop...even though you specifically told them not to install it. That cheezes me off. Gotta run, Rich

To: wily who wrote (3067)	4/22/1999
From: wily	Respond to of 110652

Crow-time: Turns out you CAN turn off the "view as web page" deal globally. Was just informed of this on another thread: Message 9060869 You don't need to set folder options for every folder. Goto "Tools->Folder Option", select "View" tab, there is a button called "Like current folder". You can set a folder view to your prefer then click this button. It will set all folders using your current folder view. This is an answer (with interesting asides) to my "why is 98 slow" question from a different guy on the same thread who has worked at Microsoft: Message 9063829 _________________ Why is Win98 slower than win95? I remember a MSFT win98 developer remarking something to the effect that, "we keep trying for performance gains but the added features always wipe those out, so as hardware increases in capability, the OS never gets any faster." That's certainly something I would agree with. To be honest, I think it would be different for every machine. Generally, I don't put win98 on older machines (they don't need it), but from the perspective of drivers it's nice to have win98 on brand new machines. Win98 loads the busmastering patch while under win95 it usually has to be loaded manually from the motherboard CD. I didn't think at the time that they should have shipped win98, but if you can take advantage of customers who don't really care one way or the other; well that has proven to work quite nicely for MSFT. I'm guessing this upcoming win99 upgrade won't have any compelling features or performance increases. It's kind of funny that I should see this question from you about performance. I was just re-applying to become a contractor at MSFT on the win99 performance testing team. They rejected me on the basis of my past record of leaving the company suddenly, without notice. At least the rumors of vandalism and theft never made it into my record (those were never true, by the way). <ng> I wonder if any of the management of the old "personal systems" team - since spread throughout the company - reads SI? I think that MSFT and its shareholders are in for a rude awakening when they realize how commoditized the OS and app code is about to become. FWIW Andy (legend in my own mind)