What runs on WinXP but not on Win98?

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Originally posted by MidgetsBro
The problem's not with XP. XP has all the drivers to run *choke* smoothly. It doesn't crash because of drivers. I want to run windows 2000 on it. That is where my driver problem comes in. I just want to get their damn XP Home off this machine and put 2000 on it. I've run into so many problems with XP. I can't connect to my network, even with the right drivers because there is no way to view the entire network. I can't search my hard drive because I go to Find Files and try to search, but it tells me that the webpage is unavailable, since I can't get on my network and get on the Internet... why does it need to go to a website to search my local drive? That makes me wonder. Why did Microshaft decide to make XP so dependedant on the internet?????????????

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Internet Explorer and windoz explorer are so intertwined that you may as well say they are one in the same. If you were using active desktop with show web content checked you may get goofy errors just trying to brows your PC. I ran the network connection wizard every way but sideways and I still got a network not available error. I click try again and I was on. I would be fine until the next bootup and it would loose the network again. I got tiered of freezes followed by ctrl-alt-delete, followed by scandisk the next boot.:(

i tried dual-booting xp and 2k, but it didnt work! what order did you install yours in?

Generally the way it goes is oldest to newest 9X OS and then oldest to newest NT OS. When I had a triple boot I installed 98SE first on c:, Win 2k next on D:, it installs it own boot-loader (on C: ) so you get a menu asking if you want 98 or 2k. I installed XP last on E:, it replaced the 2k boot-loader with it's own and added itself to the list. If you use a boot manager like partition magic I don't think it matters what order. The disadvantage of my above method is the you end up with only one active partition C:, D: and E: are logical dos drives in an extended dos partition. If you mess up the win 98 partition, you could wipe out them all. Anyway in answer to your question, if you install XP first it won't let you install 2k. If you install 2k first you will get an option to upgrade to XP or install to another drive or partition so you can dual boot.;)

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Originally posted by alphanumeric
I ran the network connection wizard every way but sideways and I still got a network not available error. I click try again and I was on. I would be fine until the next bootup and it would loose the network again.

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Try right clicking on the network connection the in System Tray and choosing repair.

Well, though I started this thread I didn't post anything in between. It's been a long time since the thread was started and by this time I already bought a laptop computer with WinXP Home factory loaded.

Now let me share my experiences :-(

1. WinXP assumes the user is an idiot (unlike Win98SE & Win2k)
2. Trivial tasks are burried elsewhere :-(
3. My previous CD writer program refused to work under XP. Though its latest version works under XP but I need cough out quite a few bucks for the new version :-(
4. One of my old CAD program crashed under XP :-(
5. Most of my previous VB programs, especially where I used Windows common controls like image list, progress bar - HAD TO BE REDRAWN MANUALLY. In other forums, I found that same problem has been reported by many other people.

This is just 1 month experience with XP. Let's see how much more I face. The trouble is that nowadays computer manufactures bundle XP in such a way with all their pre-installed software and drivers, that it is really a pain to uninstall XP and load an OS of my choice.

Previously I used Win98SE in my home desktop. It's a great great OS.

In work I use Win2k Professional. It's also great great OS. Though it is somewhat slow (blame hardware :-) but quite stable.

But XP sucks!

Some people advised me to upgrade to XP Professional edition. But that again requires paying &^%* M$ more $.

:-0

well i recommend AGAINST it. There isnt much difference in them. Just a bunch of add-ins that help you manage a network or run a website, and thats ALL the difference. You might really have your work cut out for you with a laptop, if you plan on changing the os. With a laptop, its entirely possible that the drivers for the touchpad, etc. were only released for windows xp (i had this exact problem with the modem in mine). Fortunately it was based on a via chipset and VIA offered a driver for it.

hey guys. i figured out my problem with the program; the people i sent it to didnt have the common dialog ocx file. :p

well you can prevent this from happening in the future. There is
readily available code in this forum and others that uses api calls
to use the common dialog dll, instead of the huge ocx.
i suggest you go that route.

Or just use C ;)

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Originally posted by Lord Orwell
With a laptop, its entirely possible that the drivers for the touchpad, etc. were only released for windows xp (i had this exact problem with the modem in mine). Fortunately it was based on a via chipset and VIA offered a driver for it.

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The problem I have. They (Sony) removed the old drivers from their site, so I can't use my network card in an OS except XP, which really blows because I hate XP and 2000 doesn't work with the network card. Mine is the Intel chipset, and Intel doesn't have squat either that I am aware of. I found one driver for win2k for my network card, but it was 6 megs, and how the hell am I supposed to get 6 megs from my computer with internet access to the laptop? It just doesn't make sense. :(

thats what floppies are for. Split it into 4 zip files or a multi-span .rar