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[alexgaratelli]

I've never seen a more stable Windows environment. Once I got everything situated on a first shot basis, the system ran fine. It took about six tries, and I learned something new with each try. Finally, success

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[lyceria]

It's funny, my old Win 98 SE had no problems whatsoever until I went on the internet with it. Then it obtained large amounts of viruses due to my college download habit, at that time I knew very little about the importance of antivirus software. These days, I know better. Compatibility mode blows. I can't run ANY of my kings quest games, which I refuse to get rid of, on it, and every DOS emulator I've tried is a piece of crap. I've given up, but still hold on to the collection, dreaming of the day I can rig a box to play JUST those old goodies.

[alexgaratelli]

I know of a way to dual boot my system, but that would require partitioning... which isn't easy with Win9x. It would require using some external petitioning program to tell the hard drive to divide itself. Then, install the older OS on one of the HD parts first, followed by the newer one.

When it boots, you'll have the option to chose which OS you want to go into.

Each OS in a multiboot system is treated like its own independent animal. So, while you have Whirled of Hurcrap on your XP half, you can install Kings of Epic Win on the older half.

Just doing it is complex and iffy for me. Windows XP, 2000, Vista, and Seven all have drive managers that enable you to do that internally without any strange software. Works great if XP was the first OS, and you're going to Vista or Seven. Forget it if you want to go back to 9x because then you're installing backwards. >.> [headdesk]