What can I use windows 98 se for?

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a Plustek A3I scanner that has no windows XP driver. I
configured my system for a dual boot arrangement, one partition windows 98se
and one partition windows xp. Unfortunately the scanner is malfunctioning. Is
there anything practical I can do with this old OS to justify keeping it? It
was a lot of work to get this far.

 

[Mike Hall, MS-MVP]

Can't think of anything at all..

 

[You Know Who ~]

There are a few older programs which run better in win98, but unless you are
using them, and unless you need the old OS for some other reason, dump it

 

[Donald A. Herman]

I agree with rest, I keep 98 for older games.
Though I found "Front Ends" to run them in XP I still like playing them the
original way.

I myself also use older OS's for testing purposes. So unless your
Programming or Gaming ?
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[DreamRyder]

I have exactly the same setup--A Dual OS Booting System with Win98 & XP
Pro.

Well, I use XP 99% of the time, but like others I use 98 for older
programs that wont work correctly or just cant work in XP. Im sure glad
I did set up this way. I recently was malware infected on XP & it became
unbootable either normally or via safe mode! Thank my lucky stars for my
Win98! I was still able to boot to it, & from there I cleaned the
infection & re-did what was necessary to get my XP to boot again!!!
*Would have been impossiable without the WIN98!!!*
I WILL NEVER EVER EVEN CONSIDER DROPPING IT
FOR ANY REASON!!!

If all i had was XP I would have been like a cork bobbin' in the
ocean with no land in sight!!!!!

I suggest, unless you cant afford the space on your HD, do not remove
it...Its harmless, but being there can save your bunns someday like it
did mine!!!!

BoBBy

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

A valid point of view, but you can have the same "insurance" by making
and keeping a CD-bootable Windows environment (e.g. BartPE - see
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) without wasting any space on your hard
disk, and without taking the risk that a viral attack or whatever
might clobber your alternate boot files as well.

I have exactly the same setup--A Dual OS Booting System with Win98 & XP
Pro.

Well, I use XP 99% of the time, but like others I use 98 for older
programs that wont work correctly or just cant work in XP. Im sure glad
I did set up this way. I recently was malware infected on XP & it became
unbootable either normally or via safe mode! Thank my lucky stars for my
Win98! I was still able to boot to it, & from there I cleaned the
infection & re-did what was necessary to get my XP to boot again!!!
*Would have been impossiable without the WIN98!!!*
I WILL NEVER EVER EVEN CONSIDER DROPPING IT
FOR ANY REASON!!!

If all i had was XP I would have been like a cork bobbin' in the
ocean with no land in sight!!!!!

I suggest, unless you cant afford the space on your HD, do not remove
it...Its harmless, but being there can save your bunns someday like it
did mine!!!!

BoBBy

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

I did set up this way. I recently was malware infected on XP & it became

unbootable either normally or via safe mode! Thank my lucky stars for my
Win98! I was still able to boot to it, & from there I cleaned the
infection & re-did what was necessary to get my XP to boot again!!!
*Would have been impossiable without the WIN98!!!*
I WILL NEVER EVER EVEN CONSIDER DROPPING IT
FOR ANY REASON!!!

That's what the Repair/Recovery Console is for.

Exactly what did you end up doing in 98 to "clean the infection"?

If you managed to access your XP file system from within 98, then you're
running XP on FAT32...something I'd never do in a million years.

 

[Guest]

I use it for teaching my grandson...