From: "Robert Comer" 

Why not upgrade to W2KPro or WinXP -- it wouldn't be the speediest box in
the world, but it'd be more stable and run more of today's programming
stuff?

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:509347.ac8012{at}harborwebs.com...
> Urk.  If that's the case then the only thing I'd get with 98SE would be
the
> ability to run newer versions of stuff that don't run on 95 any more (like
the
> Norton security stuff).
>
> Anything resembling power management is already disabled.
>
> How do you shut down to the "orange-on-black idiot screen only"?
>
> What about Rnaapp?
>
> Maybe the original hard drive is starting to go bad... ?
>
> > From: "Frank Haber" 
> > Why do you think 98SE will help your shutdown problem?  Win 95 did a
pretty
> > good job shutting down early APM systems.  98SE had notorious problems
with
> > that, got two partially successful patches for it, has had whole
websites
> > written about its power problems.  There are still a bunch of machines
out
> > there that won't shut down properly.
> > Have you considered just disabling power management, shutting down to
the
> > orange-on-black idiot screen only, then leaning on the power switch for
five
> > seconds?

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