Gato_Solo said:
And what's wrong with Windows 98?
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It's not so much that something's wrong with Win98, it's just that Win2k is better.
I realize that's a pretty big blanket of a statement. Some things Win98 may be better for than Win2k. I can't think of what they are off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are some things.
I use Win98 every day at work and it's totally inappropriate for use in a network situation. It just wasn't meant to be a workstation OS. That current personal frustration is a big part of my lash-out against it. One example is there's no way (unless I don't know about it) to lock or secure the workstation on demand. Well, it can be done, if you set the screensaver to require a password, then, when you leave the computer, you pull up the screensaver properties and make it preview. The alternative is to log off, but that closes all the programs I have running. I seem to recall in Win2k there was a "lock computer" function that could be done through the Task Manager.
And I keep mentioning Win2k, but WinXP would be just as fine, too. I didn't want to believe it at first, but I've finally come to realize that WinXP isn't quite as stable as Win2k, although I think both are much better, particularly in terms of long-term stability (having the computer up and running for days at a time without rebooting) than anything before Win2k.