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cahult:
I agree on the last set of replies from Psyjax totally. I have long wondered about the fact that if you miss installing some drivers in windows that peripheral cannot function correctly. I can give you an example of this:

My mother bought a USB scanner for her computer (win 98) and plugged it in. The system recognized that new hardware were being added to the whole entity and subsequently asked for the right set of drivers. I put the CD in and it searched, but the damn thing couldn

Calum:
you could refresh the folder whenever you wanted to see the size of the file, instead of reopening it. it's easy if you have your explorer windows set up with that little "Go" button, but no, it doesn't autorefresh the size continuously.

Win98 has that problem, you need to know exactly which directory the CORRECT driver is in for it to install. this is awkward for the following reason, the right driver for you might be in "D:/Software/Drivers/Win98/English/" but if you accidentally specify, say "D:/Software/Drivers/Win2k/English/" you will still install A driver but your peripheral will probably not work, as it will be the wrong driver for THAT version of windows.
WinME is actually BETTER than 98 in this respect. It allows you to search the entire CD for drivers all in one hit, rather than folder at a time like 98 does. The problem with ME is that once it finds A driver it stops looking. So if the generic drivers are at the start of the CD, and the (better) specialist ones are near the end, windows sees the generic ones first and goes "aha! windows has found a suitable driver for this device". Unless you know that there is a better driver on there, you will probably beleive what it says!
Also, winME has the advantage of being 2 years more recent, so it installs some hardware no bother, while win98 just shrugs its shoulders and looks blank.

psyjax:
Some Windoze borg allways seem to imply how the manual instalation of drivers is no big deal, and only a minor anoyance when compared to the briliance, power, and ease of use that is windowz.... sound's like a right pain in the ass to me!

I rememember back on my old P100 (or was it 150, whatever, it was an old clunker    running 98. For reasons unbeknownst to me (actualy a prety severe crash, corupted some of my files) the driver on my CR-ROM disapered and I had to re-install it. Had to jump thrugh several hoops as listed above before I finaly got it to work again. One major problem was that Windows 98, with all it's drivers, was on CD!!!!

It was great every time I booted up and the Hardware Wizard would detect a new CD-Rom and then pester me for the Windows 98 CD so it could get the driver, of course the damn OS didn't know how to read the CD so it would never move from that screen!!!

How fucking stupid is that!!!!

erg.... anyway, never had a similar problem runing the MacOS ever in my life.

psyjax:
Err X11 Id curb my toung if I were you. Calum is by no means a Windows loving idiot, and he's quite good at flaming peoples asses off. I'll leve that job to him.

Be more carefull next time.

Master of Reality:
i think i will go back to win 3.* (and linux of course)

is there actually any version of windows before version 3.00?? (if there is, maybe its even better, lol)

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