The one thing that Microsoft almost got right in XP, in my opinion, was the theming. Why on earth they picked the one they used and locked theming down will forever be beyond me. If you patch UXTheme you can use others, one of my favorite is Royale Remixed: m Which is based of of Microsoft's never o...

Here you go, "!":





I installed VBEMP 9x

http://www.bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbe9x.htm

Changed the wallpaper and was running a few programs. I've made several changes to the OS and rebooted several times. Preliminary guess is that UIDE is good with the /B switch and NOIDE in the registry.

I was going to put this off to the weekend because I thought I'd have to reinstall to test, however I had another idea. I added uide.sys back in to the config.sys and mscdex back in the autoexec.bat. I booted in to Safe Mode, removed the SATA controllers and added NOIDE to the registry, when I reboo...

Nothing wrong with ancient operating system porn! I think I am going to mess about with getting 98 SE to work with the UIDE driver, I haven't seen anyone else having done it. And if it could be done I suspect 95/98/98 SE and ME could be brought to much newer machines. If anyone else reading this wan...

Exactly, "!". The were voting between going independent or going with Russia. There was no "stay with Ukraine" option. The fact that *that* option wasn't even on the ballot should tell you something. There was no protesting in the streets to get such an option on the ballot and f...

While the thought's still fresh in my mind, I figured I post. I can't help but wonder if the issues I experience with uide could be resolved with either SmartDrive or changing a Value in the registry: CacheWriteDelay Kinda just wild guesses, but thought I'd throw them out there if anyone else wanted...

Well, it turns out that I have SATA drivers that are compatible with my machine that work in Windows 98: cp.jpg For the record, no matter what I did with UIDE.sys, UDVD.sys and UHDD.sys. I always ended up with some flaky behavior. I'm not saying that it's necessarily and issue with UIDE, it may be s...

Sometimes you run across interesting things when searching for something else:

https://code.google.com/p/xtideuniversalbios/

I don't plan on using it, but nonetheless I like the idea.

I can see where the case doesn't have all of the excitement, dare I say "sexiness" of other events going on. Looking at the comments on any news story you read about this, it strikes me how ignorant the masses can be. It's as though you use the word hacker and it's mass hysteria. No one wa...

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The installer works too!