windows 95 experience (just thought i'd share)
i just thought i would make a short little entry about going back to windows 95. :) i stayed at a friend's house in iowa this past week, and they had a vanilla installation of windows 95 loaded on a PII 266 box with a dialup connection. It had Internet Explorer version 4 on it. :-)
First, let me tell you... this thing loads fast! I had forgotten how much quicker win95 and 98 had booted over windows 2000 or XP. but, of course, there is a price you pay for this somewhere.
I was getting, "This program has caused an error and must be shut down" messages when i wasn't running any programs. I would close the dialup connection and get a message like that. It was just random.
One time the computer just locked up on me and stopped responding, and ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't even make it budge. So I had to do a hard reboot, and it ran through it's 10-minute long process of checking the disc for errors. It found some. :(
Viewing pages in IE 4.0 brought more than a few, "this page has some kinda scripting error... do you want to continue to display scripts on this page?" warnings. Pretty much every page I went to brought me at least one of those errors.
Also... I forgot that Win95 can't read USB memory keys, so... having one of those was pretty pointless.
All in all... it made for an interesting computer experience this past week. :) I'm glad to be back with a regular computer. :)
First, let me tell you... this thing loads fast! I had forgotten how much quicker win95 and 98 had booted over windows 2000 or XP. but, of course, there is a price you pay for this somewhere.
I was getting, "This program has caused an error and must be shut down" messages when i wasn't running any programs. I would close the dialup connection and get a message like that. It was just random.
One time the computer just locked up on me and stopped responding, and ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't even make it budge. So I had to do a hard reboot, and it ran through it's 10-minute long process of checking the disc for errors. It found some. :(
Viewing pages in IE 4.0 brought more than a few, "this page has some kinda scripting error... do you want to continue to display scripts on this page?" warnings. Pretty much every page I went to brought me at least one of those errors.
Also... I forgot that Win95 can't read USB memory keys, so... having one of those was pretty pointless.
All in all... it made for an interesting computer experience this past week. :) I'm glad to be back with a regular computer. :)
