Hi Lance,
At 09:11 PM 9/22/98 +0900, you wrote:
>On 22 Sep 98, at 13:00, Shyamal Gupta wrote:
>There really _isn't_ much in the way of other advantages to FAT32. It's
>not the least bit more robust. It's usually slightly slower than FAT16 --
>although you'd need benchmarking tools to notice it in the vast majority
>of cases. The only other advantage, of course, is that it supports much
>larger partitions than FAT16. But after those two advantages, there
>aren't any more that I'm aware of.
That's right. Like you, I'm also suspicious on the speed matter -- Win98
*may* be slightly slower. But without actual tests one can't be sure.
I like your "downgraded to Win98" ! Great one !!
>You'll have to clarify what you mean by "uninstall" Windows95.
I have Win95 on my laptop and Win98 on my desktop. The laptop has a tiny
500MB hard disk and is a 486DX4/75. I don't want to try out Win98 on it.
Also, FAT32 conversion which needs a minimum hdd size of 512MB is no good
for my laptop.
(I'm not a computer professional -- just a HR consultant and teacher of
Organisation Behaviour in business schools).
I install and uninstall a lot of programs. With Win95 and Win98, this means
the Registry and the Windows/System directory keep getting fatter and
fatter, and the system slower and slower over a period of time. Also,
Windows error messages appear with greater and greater frequency. Incidence
of the system hanging also increases over a period of time.
The uninstall routine of many software actually can't handle full
uninstalls effectively -- they don't clear the Registry fully, and leave
some (for instance .dll) files behind.
There are some other programs which do a bit of cleaning, but not to my
satisfaction. The fact is that system keeps slowing down after some time.
In my case, by about 12-16 weeks' time, I've had enough. Some programmer
friends do such uninstalling routinely as well, but I don't know at what
periodicity.
[By the way, there is one small little freeware by Kevin Solway which I've
found pretty good for cleaning up un-needed .dll files -- "Clean System
Directory" : available at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/sware.html].
Therefore, I "routinely" uninstall Win95 every 3/4 months. Then I wipe out
Win3.11, and clean up the root directory of my boot drive in which Win95
leaves all kinds of deposits which aren't removed by Win95 uninstall. After
that, I re-install Win 3.11 and subsequently, Win95.
With Win98, I've had occasion to do this only once (in another couple of
weeks or so, I should be doing this for the second time). I have to Fdisk
and format the boot hard drive, of course.
On my desktop, I have two hard disk drives : so I remove all my data to the
D: drive. Data on my laptop is kept on the hard drive. As a double
precaution, I also copy the data to Iomega Zip disks.
But I have to install all applications again with both Win95 and Win98.
Over the last year and a half, I've found this routine is much more
satisfactory. Even though it involves several hours of labour each time.
Since I *have* to live with all manners of wondrous gifts from Bill Gates,
I might as well take this trouble. But, hopefully, not for too long. As
soon as I can afford a Mac (they're substantially more expensive than IBM
PC's here in India)...... But Billy is there in Mac world too ! :)
>
>No. Wait. I take that back. I recently downgraded from Windows95 to
>Windows98, :)) and it was about the same, except that 98 runs much
>slower due to Bill Gate's perverse desire to try and confuse everyone
>about where their desktops end and the Internet begins.
Fortunately for me, IE4 and I are enjoying a fairly peaceful co-existence
-- I ignore it's existence, and IE4 hasn't bothered me so far. Am being a
bit stoic about the speed, though. :)
Cheers.
Shyamal
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