Well digitalwanderer, a found farewell...for now

Redstone · Jul 16, 2003, 09:48 PM

I am finally officially lying to rest Win98
I hate to admit it but I finally succumbed to the upgrade vice and did a clean install of WinXP Home last weekend (Already wish it was Pro).
I had good old Win98 fine tuned to run like clockwork, but needed a new challenge.

So far, XP is stable, but it's quickly getting obvious there will soon be a need to cut the excess fat running in the background. Getting it to be streamlined like I had 98 will be the fun part.

However, the door has been left open. I am not going as far as a dual boot system yet… but there is an empty 15gig hard disk sitting on my bookshelf, that making me feel guilty every time I walk by.

Anyway, see you all over in the XP forum, if the bug gets you too.

digitalwanderer · Jul 16, 2003, 11:29 PM

They ALWAYS come back...I give ya a week at best before you break down and put a dual-boot on that puppy!

G'luck with it either way.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 16, 2003, 11:37 PM

I dont know about a week hehe.....but good luck!

Esaz666 · Sep 7, 2003, 05:23 PM

I think ats allways best to run duel boot systems if you use your comp for games and other stuff.
I normally use a tweaked 98lite cutdown os for gaming and use XP for music making and web/Burning etc.
98 is the darkside, there is no escape.

dipstick · Sep 7, 2003, 05:37 PM

Took you long enough

But really, I think that was one of the best moves, I really hate Win98. But you can go through http://www.tweakxp.com/ and turn WinXP into an even better OS. Good luck

Jul 16, 2003, 09:48 PM	#1
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Jul 16, 2003, 11:29 PM	#2
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,620 Rep Power: 0	You'll be back. They ALWAYS come back...I give ya a week at best before you break down and put a dual-boot on that puppy! G'luck with it either way. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Jul 16, 2003, 11:37 PM	#3
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	I dont know about a week hehe.....but good luck!

Sep 7, 2003, 05:23 PM	#4
Esaz666 BeardHeaven Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Uk,Earth,Universe,3rd dimention Posts: 298 Rep Power: 58	I think ats allways best to run duel boot systems if you use your comp for games and other stuff. I normally use a tweaked 98lite cutdown os for gaming and use XP for music making and web/Burning etc. 98 is the darkside, there is no escape.

Sep 7, 2003, 05:37 PM	#5
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 70 System Specs	Took you long enough But really, I think that was one of the best moves, I really hate Win98. But you can go through http://www.tweakxp.com/ and turn WinXP into an even better OS. Good luck