whats the disadvantage and advantage of win95 to win98 and win me?

[Battousai^]

What are the advantages if your using windows 95? and the disadvantage of it? will win 95 give me more speed in pc games?

[Scorpio69]

Well, there are three (or four?) versions of Win95, two versions of Win98, and ME. All are a little different.

My opinion is that Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) is the best all around of the Win9x's. I bought ME directly from MS when it first came out. I liked it for a while, and then got tired of the problems. I have since reverted to 98SE.

Supposedly the last Win95 (OSR2.5 or Win95C) was faster than 98 and better for gaming, but I like 98SE because it supports hardware so much better (newer drivers, etc.)

You also may want to consider Win 2000 Pro. Others can tell you about it, I haven't actually used it.

[samwichse]

I'm using the last version of win 95, OSR2 right now. I like how it cuts down on all the MS tripe, like having to view your folders like web pages and whatnot. Fully booted with no programs except cacheman it shows that it's using about 28MB of my 256, which doesn't seem too bad. Also, my version came with IE 3.0, and that's what it still has :). Cause Opera all the way baby.

But really, I don't know that there's any real difference between the two for games. The drivers for win95 and win 98 are often the same ones though, so that's not really an issue.

EDIT: Also, from store that RobRich knows about (I lost the name) you can get win95 legally for 15$

[Nighthawk]

Did 95OSR2 fix the 40mb limit on RAM it'll utilize? I know that I had a system running 95, opened a DOS-box, and the program recognized exactly 40,000kb RAM.

I'd go with 98, since it did USB much better, as well as knowing what AGP was better.

And you can turn off some of the viewing folder as web page stuff if you don't like it.

I run Win2000 right now, and I think it's OK for games. I get decent scores and frames.

[Psyclone]

The best solution I have found for the win 9x OSes and games is 98 lite. It has all the hardware support of win98 se, but has better memory management than win 98 and doesn't use the active desktop. Plus, you can also COMPLETELY remove IE!

I've been using it for 6 weeks now and it hasn't crashed once.

http://www.98lite.net/

[Axel]

Regarding your question - I'd stay away from win95 at this point and start with a minimum of win98SE IF you can find it anywhere - it isn't on the shelf anymore except in upgrade form

Two rules of thumb regarding Microsoft Operating systems

1) never install it when it first comes out - let 6million other users test it for microsoft before you consider putting it on your machine - I typically wait for the 2nd service pack edition of anything of theirs..... gives their support vendors time to find all of the bugs and work out fixes for everything - much less grief

2) never install an "upgrade" - start clean and install the full version of whatever you intend to go with - otherwise all you are really doing is throwing a pile of band-aides at an existing OS.

One point about equipment driver files - the equipment manufacturer is going to typically be a LOT faster at finding and fixing driver conflicts their equipment has with an MS OS than Microsoft will..... So - if you hit a snag with a device driver, start by looking up the manufacturer on the web before looking at the microsoft download areas for device drivers.

[Scorpio69]

BTW Samwichse, OSR2 was not the last release of Win95. There was an OSR2.1 and an OSR2.5. I have used all of them, but I can't remember all of the differences.

Like Axel said, Win98SE is probably your best bet. You can do a clean install with an upgrade disc, if I'm not mistaken. You just need to insert a '95 disc when prompted. Please someone correct me if I am wrong.

[Battousai^]

is there a program that let you see how much your motherboard cache?

[Battousai^]

is there a program that lets you see how your mobo cache?

and wlso what will happen if I have 2 memory RAM sticks, 1 64MB and 1 32MB? is there any possibility that when I able to cache up all my physical memory will there be nore speed on gaming?