Big agreement with you on the defragmenting comments... Both excellent applications... Essential, really. The boot-time function in Diskeeper is especially valuable for controlling the damn spreading paging files !
And your alluding to the fact that there is almost no negative trade-off in using NTFS instead of FAT32 is spot on !
Also your words on the fact that many of the negative posts are unfounded... These negative feelings are understandable because the frustration can be so great when an application seems to be 'buggy' and , "My OS has been fine for years, until now...," pops up as a defense... Or, "My old machine cannot be at fault with this latest software !"

Windoze 98 and 98se (even just alone and without 'incorrect drivers' or third-party DirectX disasters) cause enormous problems with nearly every p2p client out there.

However, the real problem in dealing with the whole issue of Windoze 98 is simple...
It is still a very dominant OS out there in the real world and... AND you can play DOS games on it with zero probs or 'special' abilities ! THAT is one of the biggest problems in regards to many of those who also wish to participate in popular p2p networks.

It has not been pushed hard enough to the public that, just as DOS had to 'give way' to 'Windows', Windows has to give way to NT and the derivatives of NT... The effort to maintain 'backward compatibility' is a nightmare for developers.

p.s. Sure does seem that M$ is slowly changing tack and moving back on course with rational developements of 2000 and away from XP.

btw... I normally run 2000 Pro but, for a couple of months now I have been using a borrowed machine with 98se, PentiumII 366mHz and 5.7GB HDD...
My sympathy levels for all of these people have increased ENORMOUSLY !!!
Be assured, all of you LimeWire folks out there, that BearShare and Windoze 98 give the same crap shutdowns and lockups !
And that's without any Java 'goodies' !

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