Win95: two questions

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Depends, If its a Pentium II or K6 there will be no issues. If its a Pentium I or K5 than yes. However if he does upgrade to 98SE use 98lite. He can get the free version which is good at giving him the win95 interface.[No Web Integration.] Which will make 98SE run as fast as his 95.

I wouldn't exactly call this machine "fast" (yes, I am using it to make this post.) It's a 166 MHz Pentium I with 32 MB of RAM. I'm surprised there's still a modern browser that runs on this thing (I'm using Opera at the moment.) It has some major "usability issues" on the Web; pages usually take forever to load (despite the fact it has a 10/100 Ethernet card connected to cable internet...) and Flash won't run on it.

For all its faults, though, I really like this computer.

Just Use K-Meleon, Its will be a very fast browser on a system like that especially with the way i tweaked it. I also have 4 16MB EDO sticks if you want you computer to have 64 or 80Mb Memory.

Hey, my first PC was also from 1997 and it also was 166mhz and had 32 mb of RAM. Mine was a Packard Bell which no longer exists since the company went out of business in 2000, I believe. I can see why they went out of business, because mine had quite a few problems with it and the most common was the sound card would die on me.

Yeah, I would say if you upgrade your ram you might be able to handle flash and get pages to load quicker. 32 mb is not much by today's standards, and I believe for a browser like Firefox you actually need like 64mb as an absolute minimum. So you should see if you can upgrade to 64mb or more.

My first computer was a VIC 20. Then it was a 286 with 1mb RAM.. then we got a 386 dx 40 with 4 mb RAM (this later became Dad's learning box for Novell), a 486 sx 33 with 8mb RAM, a Cyrix 100 with 32mb RAM, a Pentium 166 with 32mb RAM, an AMD K6-2 500 with 64mb ram (initially, later upgraded to 192mb RAM), a Celeron 1GHz with 256mb RAM, Celeron 1.7 with 512mb RAM, an AMD Athlon 2500+ with 512mb RAM and now a Celeron M 360 w/ 768mb RAM. And that is my entire computer ownership history :S

My last pc was packard bell with windows 98 I believe, and every few seconds the screen went purple!

My friend's first computer was a Packard Bell... it was a pile of crap. Good riddance to them.

I tried to revive an old 486 Packard Bell w/ 16MB Memory w/ Windows 98. Nearly blew out the power in the house setting that pile of crap up.[It has a 40 Watt power supply.] I ended up threwing it away and just getting an Old IBM PS/2 for my DOS Apps.

Well, aside from some types of Linux, another OS you can use to put on really old hardware is FreeDos which is exactly what the name implies.

Yes, FreeDOS runs on my craptop as well -- and it's really quick and seems to use the conventional memory more carefully. I don't have it for speed but because all my favorite games don't run on it -- that way I can use it to take notes in class.