trackrat said:
I have made him see sense, so I wil soon be searching for XP drivers for his modem.
What a relief, and thanks for your spot on advice.
Good!!! This will be much easier for him. BTW, I used to have a quad boot system, so I think I can well chime in here. I used to quad boot between DR DOS 7.03, win98 (and yes I did put ME on there for awhile and it is the pits), winNT 4.0 (then win2k), and Linux. With winXP, I don't load win9x anymore...and haven't seen a reason to.
Of all the programs I own, there is only 1 that would require win9x. It's an old game (Direct X 1.0 variety) and one that the <bleep> programmers decided to code in mixed 16/32-bit code just like win95 was written. Because it's not a true 16-bit app, nor a true 32-bit app, winNT 4.0/2k could never run it, and I doubt winXP could either. It would not fit well in either the win16 or the win32 environmental subsystems...
Except if I needed to run such software, I would not load win9x today (and only did in the past as winNT 4.0 and even 2k wasn't up to task for running all the games out there...) And even then I'd probably load 98SE over ME...
As to ME, I only got it as I had a MSDN subscription at the time. It did suck and I'd avoid it like the plague (and yes I had experience with this). The MSDN subscribers in their own chat forum on Microsoft's servers were talking about how bad this was. Many MSDN subscribers were refusing to load it on their comps, despite the fact they got the CD for it "free" ever since it entered into release candidate status...