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Settin my comp up w/ Win2k
Pearl Jammzz - Feb 18, 2003

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  Pearl Jammzz Feb 18, 2003
Alright, I wanna get rid of Win98SE for obvious reasons. I am moving to Win2k. I want to get rid of all that extra shit they put in windows that I dont need (like IE). How would I go about that? I will prob be networking so i'll need all that stuff... basically I wanna get the best performance out of my machine(it's not that good) but keeping what I need on it. I know this might seem like an elementry question to most but I know jack shit about this stuff so any help would be appreciated......

Another Q, once I get rid of IE, what browser should I use? I kinda like Opera BUT pix take FOREVER to load w/ that for sum reason.....and every time I have used netscape it's been shitty as hell to me.

Thanks all, appreciate it A LOT!

 Taelon Feb 18, 2003
Win98SE is actually a wonderful OS if you install it with 98lite (www.litepc.com...), but I can understand why you'd want to set up Win2K. The LitePC website however also has an .inf script called IEradicator (you can guess what its purpose is) that might work for Windows 2000 installations too.

Oh, and don't use Netscape. Use Mozilla.

 Pearl Jammzz Feb 18, 2003
What is mozilla based of off? The reason I wanna get rid of 98se is cuz support for it is being dropped....

 Taelon Feb 18, 2003
It is? Hmm, I can't say that I feel abandoned in the slightest just yet.

Mozilla is a complete rewrite of the old Netscape Communicator (4.x) code, and is an open-source project releasing its own binaries (at www.mozilla.org...). The newer Netscape 6.x and 7.x is actually just a repackaged Mozilla, with AOL and other crapola added on.

Mozilla itself makes a wonderful browser (+ mail/news client) though, is fast, stable and has great support for most anything while being STANDARDS-COMPLIANT (listen up, IE).

 antime Feb 19, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Taelon@Feb 19, 2003 @ 06:20 AM



Mozilla itself makes a wonderful browser (+ mail/news client) though, is fast, stable


You must use a different Mozilla than me, then. Anyhoo, there are also various Mozilla-based projects that get rid of the extra crap to make it more lightweight. If you just want a browser I suggest looking into one of them.

 Pearl Jammzz Feb 19, 2003
hmmm will have to check that out.......Now I have another Q. I have an HP computer so it came w/ one of those disks that have a bunch of shit on em and load a bunch of useless stuff. Well anyways, I need to get the sound card, cdrw, and dvd drivers off of there cuz I dunno if I can still find them on the net. The sound card is an old 8 mb....A3D or sumthin like that.

 googlefest1 Feb 19, 2003
an Aureal vortex ? you can still find drivers for those

 Taelon Feb 19, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by antime+Feb 19, 2003 @ 01:27 AM-->
QUOTE(antime @ Feb 19, 2003 @ 01:27 AM)