"Glenn Booth" wrote in message


95 to 98 isn't such a big deal, as they are both kind of DOS based.

Agreed. One of my goals has been to get to the point where I can take all or
most of the liberties with XP, that I took with Win98.

Win2k and XP can be more problematic, especially since MS seem to
change to version of NTFS at every opportunity.

The more serious problem is that these OS's require that enough drivers to
get the hard drive rolling *must* be built-into the OS kernel, generic
drivers mostly not allowed. This differs greatly from NT4 and Win95/98, for
example.

Booting a new machine
to be faced with a blue screen announcing a 'kernel error' followed
by a bunch of codes that the Microsoft knowledge base claims to know
nothing about can be seriously frustrating.

The KBase has had articles about the codes that I've seen under these
conditions. However, the quick translation of the article often nets out to:
You're screwed!

I've been there too many times.

Me too, but I've got some tricks that can be used to move on.