3 Days to Activate?

[BillW50]

I changed my hardware and had to reactivate XP once again. All day
Saturday Microsoft activation severs seemed to be down. Worse, I thought
you had 30 days to activate with XP? But Windows was telling me that I
only had 3 days.

So today I was going to do the phone activation method. But I tried one
last time over the Internet this morning and it worked just fine.

 

[98 Guy]

I changed my hardware and had to reactivate XP once again.
All day Saturday Microsoft activation severs seemed to be down.

Still think XP is superior to 98?

It's nice not worrying about Windoze Genuine disAdvantage.

Worse, I thought you had 30 days to activate with XP? But Windows
was telling me that I only had 3 days.

I'm pretty sure you have 30 days to activate a new installation, but 3
days if a current installation fails hardware hash.

And once you re-validate, you'd better not change too much hardware
because you can't re-validate again for 120 days.

 

[98 Guy]

If you need to run a lot of programs from the last decade, yes.

Opera 12, Flash 11.6, Java JRE 1.6.0_45, VLC 2.0.8.

Foxit PDF reader 2.3 (although Acrobat 6 can still open 99% of the PDF
files I come across today).

programs from the last decade

Show me something that Office 2010 can do that Office 2000 can't do.

But it's also nice not worrying about any USB compatibility

We've been through this. As you well know, NUSB allows complete
compatibility with external mass storage devices. HID devices (like USB
keyboards and mice) are no problem for win-98. I myself switched to a
USB "vertical mouse" a few years ago on my win-98 systems (a vertical
mouse allows your hand to be rotated to a more natural position while
mousing). Other devices (like printers and composite devices) have
always required their own drivers be obtained and installed - even for
NT-based OS's.

or resource limitation issues, too.

And you keep intentionally spreading misinformation about the resource
heap sizes in Win-98.

And by the way, I'm running win-98 with 2 gb of ram, with all of it
available to the OS for program use.

Also, if you're working with large video files, or even disk
imaging programs, it's nice not having to worry about the 2 or 4
GB max file limit inherent with FAT32.

It's 4 gb, and that's a FAT32 limitation - not really something to blame
Win-98 for.

But otherwise, I agree it might be a close call.

You abandoned Win-98 without really trying all the hacks and mods that
have been available for the past 5 years (like Kex and NUSB) and you
probably never ran it on a system with a P4 CPU or with more than 256 mb
of ram.

An amazing amount of the Win32 API is shared and compatible between
win-9x/me and the NT-based OS's.

 

[BillW50]

In 98 Guy" <"98 typed:

Opera 12, Flash 11.6, Java JRE 1.6.0_45, VLC 2.0.8.

Foxit PDF reader 2.3 (although Acrobat 6 can still open 99% of the PDF
files I come across today).


Show me something that Office 2010 can do that Office 2000 can't do.

Actually Office 2000 has features that 2010 doesn't have like text with
layout and WordArt. MS Office 2000 is still my most favorite Office
version.

We've been through this. As you well know, NUSB allows complete
compatibility with external mass storage devices. HID devices (like
USB keyboards and mice) are no problem for win-98. I myself switched
to a USB "vertical mouse" a few years ago on my win-98 systems (a
vertical mouse allows your hand to be rotated to a more natural
position while mousing). Other devices (like printers and composite
devices) have always required their own drivers be obtained and
installed - even for NT-based OS's.


And you keep intentionally spreading misinformation about the resource
heap sizes in Win-98.

And by the way, I'm running win-98 with 2 gb of ram, with all of it
available to the OS for program use.


It's 4 gb, and that's a FAT32 limitation - not really something to
blame Win-98 for.


You abandoned Win-98 without really trying all the hacks and mods that
have been available for the past 5 years (like Kex and NUSB) and you
probably never ran it on a system with a P4 CPU or with more than 256
mb of ram.

An amazing amount of the Win32 API is shared and compatible between
win-9x/me and the NT-based OS's.

The biggest problem I have with Windows 98SE is the System Resource
limitations. I was always running out of them and then Windows gets slow
and unstable. NT Windows has no such limitations so problem solved. I
suppose all of those hacks and mods does nothing about this?

 

[Todd]

as for the later "ribbon" versions - thanks, but no thanks.

Hi Bill,

I am glad someone else find they annoying. It is not
intuitive to look for a picture the somewhat resembles
what you want to do, them try to find the little down arrow
to find it it has what you actually want to do. Obnoxious!

I can't tell you how many times I have given up at a customer
site and just pressed <ctrl><P> if I wanted to print.

I can't help but notice that Libre Office is avoiding ribbons.

-T

 

[Todd]

There is at least one saving grace option for the newer Office versions: you
can install an applet that removes or hides the ribbon (e.g: Office Classic
Menu or UbitMenu), and more or less restore the old Office look. But I'm
not doing anything that needs the newer Office versions. And you can even
get a FileFormatConverter (Microsoft Office File Format Converter Pack) that
allows you to open the newer .docx files.

Incidentally, as a freebie Office replacement, I've found Kingston Office to
be one of the best (and it has great reviews). It looks similar to Office
2000 or 2003. You might try it and compare it to the more bloated Libre
Office and Open Office, although the latter might have some added features
(e.g: the latter have a database module and Kingston Office doesn't, but I
rarely use the Office Access database program, anyways)

Thank you!

 

[casey.o]

Still think XP is superior to 98?

As much as I hate to say this on an XP newsgroup, I have always felt
Win98 is far superior to XP as far as an operating system. But it's not
been updated to keep up with current web browsers, newer hardware, and
other so called "improvements". I still use Win98 about 80% of the
time, and another 5% of the time is using Win2000, and yet another 5%
for linux. That leaves 10% for XP. I keep trying to "like" XP, but I
only TOLERATE IT! I'll continue using Win98 as long as I can, and will
continue to do my best to learn more about Linux, because there is no
way in hell that I'll ever use Windows 8, and I'll only "TRY" Windows 7
if I can get it free. (I did not mention Vista, because it's garbage).

 

[BillW50]

In (e-mail address removed) typed:

As much as I hate to say this on an XP newsgroup, I have always felt
Win98 is far superior to XP as far as an operating system. But it's
not been updated to keep up with current web browsers, newer
hardware, and other so called "improvements". I still use Win98
about 80% of the time, and another 5% of the time is using Win2000,
and yet another 5% for linux. That leaves 10% for XP. I keep trying
to "like" XP, but I only TOLERATE IT! I'll continue using Win98 as
long as I can, and will continue to do my best to learn more about
Linux, because there is no way in hell that I'll ever use Windows 8,
and I'll only "TRY" Windows 7 if I can get it free. (I did not
mention Vista, because it's garbage).

Everything you hate about XP, Windows 7 compounds the aggravation. For
example, if you want to edit your hosts file, XP says no problem. Try
that with Windows 7 and it says the administrator doesn't have
permission to modify this file. :-(

 

[Tester]

As much as I hate to say this on an XP newsgroup, I have always felt
Win98 is far superior to XP as far as an operating system.

Is it because you don't do any serious computing?

 

[BillW50]

In Jeff Banks typed:

Where did you get this crap from?

Microsoft, MVPS.org, rackspace, tomshardware, etc.

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[BillW50]

In Bill in Co typed:

Then who does?

The administrator can, but must play a game first. You must move it out
of that folder, change the read only attrib, modify the file, and then
move it back.

Is Windows 7 that much more restrictive? Egads.

Yes PIA. "Documents and Settings" folder for example looks like a ghost
town. Most of it is filled with fake folders. The real stuff now lives
in the Users folder. Which many parts have restrictions for the user to
overcome.

 

[Zaky Waky]

Subject: Re: 3 Days to Activate?
From: Jeff Banks <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general




Where did you get this crap from?

What do you expect from a guy that claims to have 50 PCs in his house?

 

[BillW50]

What do you expect from a guy that claims to have 50 PCs in his house?

I don't have 50 PCs in the house. Paul has a lot of machines too (mostly
VM machines) and Philo has more than I do. Many people actually do. And
people who has lots of PC experience is generally more experienced than
people who doesn't. Although that makes sense when you view any hobby
and profession. I bet Jay Leno knows more about automobiles than you or
I do.

 

[Paul]

I don't have 50 PCs in the house. Paul has a lot of machines too (mostly
VM machines) and Philo has more than I do. Many people actually do. And
people who has lots of PC experience is generally more experienced than
people who doesn't. Although that makes sense when you view any hobby
and profession. I bet Jay Leno knows more about automobiles than you or
I do.

I capped my PC expansion, by allowing no more computer cases
into the house. If I want a new PC, I have to "gut" an old
computer case, and put the new parts in it. So I've placed
a "volumetric limit" on my PCs No more cases, no more
PC glut

Paul