re: Lights, Action, No Desktop.
Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bruce King
(5 messages posted)
Hi, Keith, Your reply is so generous in its depth and expansiveness that I'll have
to reread it a time or two, taking notes, to distill its contents and render them
in terms I can comprehend. Trust that I will and soon.
My goal is to put something together will handle all my writing's aspects with a
large, expandable memory ready to keep up with new OS's, peripherals, memory-eating
software, and be reasonably expected to handle the above for several years, minimum.
I'm a media buff: movies, music, books, visual images, Photoshop, personally generated
image library, etc., with a sophisticated writing package.
I am worried that even 10 year old computers will soon be inable to keep up with
the newly muscular upgrades, etc., that require high speed processing and mammother
memore capacity.
I'll check the link you mention.
Thanks. Maybe I'll see you there.
On Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 6:31 am, Keith Stanier wrote:
>Bruce King wrote:
>
>|She said that if the unit was up and running when I
>|picked it up (which it was), then it already has a driver
>|and software installed and the desk he gave me,
>|marked "software & driver' should just be a backup in
>|case of meltdown.
>|So, according to savvy Rose, there's no reason for it
>|to not startup smooth and easy.
>
>Yes she is correct on that issue. If it was working perfectly before then it should
>after being re-assembled.
>
>|But you think I should acquire this different OS and its
>|included software? Is there likely to be something
>|inherently defective with ANY Win95?
>
>Well there are different versions of Win95, A, B and C. A lot of accessories today
>use USB devices which can be support with Win95 but it can be a lot of hazzle to
>get working.
>
>Win95 is 13 years old, Win98SE is 9 or 10 years old and for what they cost on eBay
>its not worth sticking with the old OS. I bought a genuine WinME last year of eBay
>for only £15.
>
>|I'm interpreting that you're saying the dead monitor is
>|about its installed software. Do I have that correct?
>
>I never mensioned anything about a monitor Bruce. If you haven't changed the monitor
>then it should work as it did before. If you be change the monitor then you will
>find that Windows will startup but you will only have 16 colours until you update
>you new monitor drivers.
>
>|But installing a different OS doesn't sound all that simple.
>
>Installing Win95/98/ME is a very simple operation. For Win95 you will need a bootable
>floppy disk which you can get from Bootdisk.
>You maybe better getting a WinME bootdisk. The only problem you have here is you
>need a computer up and running to make a boot disk, you must have a friend with
one
>of those, and you need a floppy drive.
>
>As for correct drivers then it should install everything as default. If you can't
>supply any drivers it asks for while installing then just click the cancel buton
>and continue. Once the OS is installed you would need to check the Device Manager
>(right-click on MY Computer and select Properties and Device manager tab). Any item
>that has a problem will show with a yellow exclamation mark next to it. If its very
>bad a red mark. Each section is marked showing what it covers, Display adapters,
>Monitor, Sound video and game controlers etc. You would have to see what drivers
>are on the "software & drivers" CD, if not you do a web search for drivers.
>
>|I hope I'm not being a bore. I really appreciate your help. Thanks, Bruce
>
>No you aren't boring Bruce that what forums are for. One forum for Windows problems
>that I would recommend is
>
>Bleeping Computer
>
>it has a lot better format that this forum.
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