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An annoying proble

  • 13-04-2002 4:19pm
    #1
    BKtje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭


    Whenever i delete about a gig my explorer crashes and i gotta hit end task and hope it restarts itself.

    any one have an idea how to fix this?
    am using win98se and im not too sure what the harddrive is :(

    any one got ne ideas ? thx


Comments

  • #2
    alb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    get win2k or XP.... seriously


  • #3
    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    It seems to be a problem with win98 and 95 - I've encountered it many many times. The easiest way to get round it is to delete the files from an MS-DOS box, rather than in windows explorer. The files seem to be deleted quicker, and explorer doesn't stall.

    NB: Explorer doesn't crash out totally - if you leave it for a few minutes, it'll normally recover.


    Best fix is still to install an NT-based version of windows though ;)


  • #4
    BKtje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭BKtje


    right
    ive heard bad things about w2k tho

    ive got a copy of it here.
    Considering i use this pc just for gaming and music ppl told me to sick with 98se. Should i install w2k then? or try to get my hands on a copy of XP?


  • #5
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    Oh god yes, ditch 98 as soon as possible. Use 2000 - it's the only microsoft product I've ever been able to say a good thing about. :)


  • #6
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    Win2k is Ms' best OS methinks.
    Fine for gaming, more stable for just about everything. And music? Do you mean composition or playback? Playback is identical to Win9x/Xp, and for composition it's actually better (once you sort any driver/application compatibily issues, which are vendor related in any case) - providing better memory management, process prioritising and those nice efficient WDM drivers.
    I use mine for games/music pretty extensively and installing Win2k is possibly the single best upgrade I made to the machine in the last year.


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  • #7
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    Any driver problems with win2k are well worth working through, because the end result is a stable machine, which can handle multitasking and doesn't crash. For gaming, new games will run faster on win2k. 99% of old games are fine on it also.


  • #8
    JustHalf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭JustHalf


    Another thing to mention on this: Microsoft have application compatability software that gets some things that don't work in 2000 (but did in 95/98/ME) working fine. I got 3DMark99 working, for example, by ticking a checkbox and selecting a setting. That's it.


  • #9
    BKtje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭BKtje


    right cheers folks, ill upgrade it soon so :D


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