(Vanity)Tech question for Win98(Vanity)

01/01/2006 | me

[hoosierham]

Good grief !

What the lady may be worried about is someone recovering and using credit card or banking info.

Here in Indiana ,someone gave a computer to Goodwill ,which sold it,and a jerk found credit card info .Ran up a $66K total;Goodwill now trashes the cpu units in that district and sell only the peripherals.

Not every would be computer user needs the latest ,greatest machine anymore than everyone needs a Lamborghini!Some do little more than family email.I wish those who are superior would stop jumping on someone trying to do a good deed.

[Petronski]

There's always the Double Secret Probation 450 pass method, which continues up until 300 random passes and 150 sequential passes have been made, or until the drive melts into a gob of goo.

[Cyber Liberty]

I wish those who are superior would stop jumping on someone trying to do a good deed.

Normally, that alone makes a lot of sense. In the context of your post, it leaves me a bit confused....

Is somebody here doing a superior dance?

[MikefromOhio]

reformat the drive

[Vision]

There is no way Windows ME is more stable than Win98.

WinME is the worst version Microsoft has produced a dozen years.

That's not my experience. I think Win98 is garbage and my version of ME was almost as stable as XP

[Petronski]

You might have gotten the good one, but anecdotal evidence aside, the broad consensus is that ME was unstable as hell.

[hoosierham]

I refer to those with superior knowledge and experience who have posted comments derogatory of the lady who wants to give away the computer,and telling the would-be tech to buy expensive programs.

Sorry for being unclear.

[Vision]

I never saw a Win98 installed for over a year that could accomplish more than a few tasks before it froze and crashed.

[Cyber Liberty]

Oh. Sorry. There were several good and free solutions offered, and I love to grab the snippets that show up in these threads. I got a nice LINUX distro while lurking once, and a nice free disk-wiper here.

[Petronski]

Google the two. Do some research. 98SE and Win2k are the best of the two architectures. ME is a laughingstock.

[Scoutmaster]

There's always the Double Secret Probation 450 pass method, which continues up until 300 random passes and 150 sequential passes have been made, or until the drive melts into a gob of goo.

**laughing**

I understand and agree. I've never set CyberScrub on the Gutmann "seven zillion pass" method; DoD-level three-pass scrubbing is enough for me.