DM Smith wrote:
David J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
I was just about to put on Windows98SE on the machine, and grab the
updates before MicroSoft stops supporting Win98SE this year and
making a total backup of the computer so I'd have a "new" and up to
date copy of the operating system. I might just do this anyway. It
might be nice to have an updated Win98 so I could restore it to a
computer.
I have a 32M laptop with Win98SE and full updates. The performance was
more than good enough until I upgraded IE from 5 to 6. Then it was too
slow to use for anything. It is entirely unusable. It seems that IE
patches the OS and even when not used to access the internet, still
bogs down. I haven't done it yet, but I need to re-install back to the
original.
The advice about a custom kernel is especially good, but another route
you can go is to turn off services and modules from loading. Much of
the OS is now pluggable. Under Fedora Core, you turn off services as
root with /sbin/chkconfig httpd off (replace httpd with the name of
the service you don't want to run.) I'm not to familiar with modules
but I think it is something like rmmod moduleName. There is a way to
keep these from loading when the OS starts. It may be a different
command.
You don't have to reinstall linux to try these and the suggestion for
an alternate window manager. These can be done now.
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I would suggest looking at these articles before redoing your whole
system. You might be able to get your laptop back to a usable state
with much less work.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293907
http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html
Daniel Blake
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