On 27 Aug 2005 at 12:17, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I just got 256k DSL day before yesterday.  I have Win98SE.
> I can't see much, if any, difference in speed for surfing
> with it over dialup.  Pictures upload and download faster,
> but pages don't seem to open any faster.  I still wait as
> they 'paint' the screen.

  Speed of painting the screen is governed mostly by your CPU and video
card, not your network connection.

> Do you just unplug the DSL from the port to do Scan Disk and
> Defrag?  (I don't want to disable Zone Alarm and Avast while
> I'm connected and Scan Disk won't run with them running in
> the background.)

  That should be fine.

> I don't have an ethernet port, so it's connected via USB
> port in the front of the box.  Could this cause problems
> with Win98SE.....make it more unstable?  (It's already very
> unstable anyway.)

  Not instability per se, but the actual speed you see could be limited if
this is a USB 1.x port versus 2.0.

> I'm also getting a window every time I boot that asks for my
> user name and password for networking.  Can I disable that?

  There's a setting in the Network control panel applet for what kind of
network login to use.  I think this indicates that it's set to "Client for
Mircosoft Networks"; if you change it to "Windows Family Login" the box
*should* go away.
  If it doesn't, you can use TweakUI to login for you.  If you still see the
box appear for a few seconds, that would confirm that your CPU and video
card are painting the screen very slowly.  [I have recently worked with two
98SE machines using this:  on the 1.3GHz P3 with an AGP 2x video card, the
box isn't visible to the naked eye; on the 200 MHz Pentium with an old PCI
video card, it's visible on the screen for 10 seconds or so.]

David Gillett

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