-=> BOB BREED wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> Actually I've not had Win 98, not SE, lock up, fail, damage a file
 WC> or require reboot in months now and it's huge OEM installation.

 BB> I had a copy of W98 and it was a mess. Went to the W98SE and it worked
 BB> great, but Imust admit I also increased memory up to 256 megs for that
 BB> one. I suspect a lot of problems running W98 or W98SE comes from too
 BB> little memory?  They say it will run in 128 megs, but it sure doesn't
 BB> run well! Upping the memory seemed to solve a lot of problems and now
 BB> I've upped it to 384 megs so runs very well for me.   :)

Well the original Win 98 uses only a maximum of 64 Meg anyway
and with the ATI Mach Pro onboard video clone using motherboard RAM
up to a maximum of 32 meg of RAM the 96 Meg that came with the machine
was all it could actually use in that OS.
Don't know about 98SE.
I installed 256 Meg of RAM for the Knoppix installation.

 WC> Running Ad-Aware, Zone Alarm, AVP for protection and
 WC> Free Agent for newsgroups, Thunderbird for mail
 WC> and Firebird as primary browser.
 WC> Systems been so stable lately it's downright spooky.

 BB> I use the ad-aware weekly, but since I went to Mozilla Firebird haven't
 BB> had anything added to the bad guy list?     I use Free Agent and Eudora
 BB> Pro for email.

I've the same experience regarding Firebird instead of
IE. You can change many of the default security features in IE to make it
less vulnerable but I keep activeX a real potential security breach
on in IE so I can automatically run the local newspapers
multimedia stories. Most browsing done with Firebird
and mail with Thunderbird.
If I've only run Firebird my copy of Ad-Aware remains equally unsoiled :-)

 
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