Win 98 Help

[Albert]

I have a Pentium III with Windows 98 installed in my system. My computer
just crashed and I was fortunate enought to get me computer started and
go to my Windows 98 desk top. The problem is that the folder where I
have my important information was in My Documents folder and now I
cannot find the My Documents folder. I tried searching for it through
the Find Files and Folders but that was no luck. Any suggestion as to
what I should try next? I was thinking of re-installing Windows 98 and
hopefully that it my bring up My Documents Folder.

Sincerely: Albert
e-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[wojo]

I have a Pentium III with Windows 98 installed in my system. My computer
just crashed and I was fortunate enought to get me computer started and go
to my Windows 98 desk top. The problem is that the folder where I have my
important information was in My Documents folder and now I cannot find the
My Documents folder. I tried searching for it through the Find Files and
Folders but that was no luck. Any suggestion as to what I should try next?
I was thinking of re-installing Windows 98 and hopefully that it my bring
up My Documents Folder.

Sincerely: Albert
e-mail: (e-mail address removed)

Try posting in microsoft.public.win98

 

[Ferris]

hhhmmm...P3 eh,.....maybe consider getting a new P4 processor and Win
XP.....

 

[wojo]

I think maybe you should invest in an abacus and shut your computer off for
a while.

 

[Plato]

hhhmmm...P3 eh,.....maybe consider getting a new P4 processor and Win
XP.....

AMD CPUs would work also.

 

[Plato]

I think maybe you should invest in an abacus and shut your computer off for
a while.

hehe, I've always liked to work with old stuff. eg in college in my
chemistry class ie it was one of those "verticle" classrooms with like a
full foot step up to each row of desks like an autopsy classroom.
Anyway, during tests I would use my dads's old slide rule he used in the
same college in the same classroom to multiply and divide just for the
novelty of it. Pretty much freaked everybody out but that was part of
the fun.

 

[wojo]

hehe, I've always liked to work with old stuff. eg in college in my
chemistry class ie it was one of those "verticle" classrooms with like a
full foot step up to each row of desks like an autopsy classroom.
Anyway, during tests I would use my dads's old slide rule he used in the
same college in the same classroom to multiply and divide just for the
novelty of it. Pretty much freaked everybody out but that was part of
the fun.

I have one of those. Never worked with it though to learn how to use it.

 

[wojo]

oops, by the way op I meant that for Ferris

I think maybe you should invest in an abacus and shut your computer off for
a while.

 

[David Candy]

Slide rules were taught in school. This is the time the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather of the itanium (4004) was released. A 4 bit processor and the manufacturer could program it (before calcs were designed in hardware - the 4004 allowed software (what we'd call BIOS or an embedded OS) to design the features). Soon people realised it could be used as a micro processor and micro computing was born.

I also used a circular slide rule that would calculate radation doses so we could work out who was savable (ie not get more than 150 rads total including during the evacuation) in case of nuclear war. 150 makes 50% of people sick (600 rads kill 50% of people) so guess we didn't want sick survivors chewing up resources.

 

[Stephan]

yes, try posting to the win98 group,
but don't reinstall anything.
you might be able to recover your information,
but try to avoid using that computer until you know what to do.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a Pentium III with Windows 98 installed in my system. My computer
just crashed and I was fortunate enought to get me computer started and
go to my Windows 98 desk top. The problem is that the folder where I
have my important information was in My Documents folder and now I
cannot find the My Documents folder. I tried searching for it through
the Find Files and Folders but that was no luck. Any suggestion as to
what I should try next? I was thinking of re-installing Windows 98 and
hopefully that it my bring up My Documents Folder.

Don't try that. Do a Find file and folders, looking for one of your own
file names. Make sure it is searching in all subfolders, and including
Hidden files (make sure that View - Folder Options is set to show
those). IIRC in Win98 My Documents is inside the Windows Folder

 

[Plato]

I have one of those. Never worked with it though to learn how to use it.

Faster than a calculator if the answers on a multiple choice test are
like:

1. 3.45 moles
2. 2.00 moles
3. 4 moles
4. 345.543 moles

 

[wojo]

Faster than a calculator if the answers on a multiple choice test are
like:

1. 3.45 moles
2. 2.00 moles
3. 4 moles
4. 345.543 moles

lol, good point.
But still interesting to learn how. Most of us have tried the Abacus, most
forgt how to use it, but most tried. I'm guessing a calculator's a bit
faster than an abacus too.