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| Thread ID: 29224 | 2003-01-13 22:46:00 | WinXP "to act like" Win98 ? | Steve_L (763) | Press F1 |
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| 113605 | 2003-01-14 00:37:00 | how about right clicking taskbar or desktop and going to the themes and choose windows 98 or classic whatever it is. so now you don't have all that gay xp style in which is gay | Beef (1415) | ||
| 113606 | 2003-01-14 00:45:00 | Beef, You would still be running Windows XP but using the Windows 2000 style instead. Babe |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 113607 | 2003-01-14 00:47:00 | Righto, well if you're saying that, you might as well be saying it about Red Hat 7.x and later, Mac OS X, Lycoris, and all the other OSes that have nice 3D icons, are much more colour-rich, and add a whole new meaning to the words Graphical User Interface. | agent (30) | ||
| 113608 | 2003-01-14 01:10:00 | Others have told you how to use compatability mode, here's an example of when to use it. We have a collection of kids edutainment software including some of the Reader Rabbit series. Much of this software was designed to run in Win95 640 x 480, 256 colours and we always had trouble with Win98, ME & 2K. For example you would have to change the screen resolution each time a particular program was run, then back again afterwards. A bit tricky for a 5 or 6 year old. With compatability mode we can set it to run as Win95 640 x 480, 256 colours and we have no trubles at all. Software that hasn't been used for ages now gets a new lease of life. Thanks Bill. |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 113609 | 2003-01-14 01:41:00 | > Software that hasn't been used for > ages now gets a new lease of life. Thanks Bill. See! I knew there was some good in the man! *Chilling_Silence goes off, seeking to expose bill's plot to rule the world through the use of compatibilty mode!* |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 113610 | 2003-01-14 02:00:00 | Well I suppose if old Bill opened his brain a little, he might build in a compatibility feature so you can run Linux and Mac programs... | agent (30) | ||
| 113611 | 2003-01-14 02:07:00 | Forgot to say, if Bill did that, then he would have the potential to satisfy many more people. After all, it's already been done on both Macs and Linux. Imagine being able to run Linux or Mac on Windows through a MS program called something like "Microsoft Virtual OS". |
agent (30) | ||
| 113612 | 2003-01-14 02:30:00 | >Well I suppose if old Bill opened his brain a little, he might build in a compatibility feature so you can run Linux and Mac programs... Already been done. I run Win98 and Linux in windows on WindowsXP. Dunno about Mac though, no point in runng a niche machine like that. |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 113613 | 2003-01-14 18:27:00 | G'day 'Chilling', et. al., Thanks for the replies - I found the Compatibility feature and it works OK. The rest of the thread here is (as so often found here on F1) ...amusing. Cheers - Steve |
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