Posted: Thu 27 Mar 2008, 07:40
@Yellowdog
Sounds similar to my experiences, I'm a long time w98 user, And had similar issues with my box on several occasions
I managed to rescue 2 or 3 crashes, but was accruing a vast stockpile of rescued partfiles as well as saved recovered files that were filed in a folder labelled 'safe', my little joke, as they were farthest from it, but I couldn't find out what was causing it
Eventually I was persuaded to 'graduate' to 2K, though I'd been exploring ShellextensionCity & had tried several shell mods including 1/2 98 & 1/2 ME as a system, still trouble
I was on a wifi link as well, to an AP which I had no control over
I'd tried several linuxes, including debian, red hat, fedora, then a ray of hope, I found Knoppix
It nearly worked, everything except wifi
then after about a year of struggle this little puppy came and made friends with me & I've never looked back
Never did I solve all the rootkit/virus/security update/ IE problems, [still have some old hard drives with winviruses on!!] though I'd ended up with Kaspersky AV which is very good, it just uses 1/2 your PC to keep the gremlins in a box
I'm retired now, so computing is my only way of staying [almost] in touch with technology, and I have loads of old PCs networked on wired broadband now, as I've just moved into a new playroom/house here in Chatham, UK, though I must change my profile.......
Aitch
PS: Do they still wear orange in Oregon?
Sounds similar to my experiences, I'm a long time w98 user, And had similar issues with my box on several occasions
I managed to rescue 2 or 3 crashes, but was accruing a vast stockpile of rescued partfiles as well as saved recovered files that were filed in a folder labelled 'safe', my little joke, as they were farthest from it, but I couldn't find out what was causing it
Eventually I was persuaded to 'graduate' to 2K, though I'd been exploring ShellextensionCity & had tried several shell mods including 1/2 98 & 1/2 ME as a system, still trouble
I was on a wifi link as well, to an AP which I had no control over
I'd tried several linuxes, including debian, red hat, fedora, then a ray of hope, I found Knoppix
It nearly worked, everything except wifi
then after about a year of struggle this little puppy came and made friends with me & I've never looked back
Never did I solve all the rootkit/virus/security update/ IE problems, [still have some old hard drives with winviruses on!!] though I'd ended up with Kaspersky AV which is very good, it just uses 1/2 your PC to keep the gremlins in a box
I'm retired now, so computing is my only way of staying [almost] in touch with technology, and I have loads of old PCs networked on wired broadband now, as I've just moved into a new playroom/house here in Chatham, UK, though I must change my profile.......
Aitch
PS: Do they still wear orange in Oregon?
