... which worked great until win2k, when mickeysoft started storing things about the processor and motherboard on-disk and refusing to start if the platform was swapped out under the installed OS.
Even with a cablemodem connection the idea of downloading every little app I use is not appealing, partly for the hassle and partly because the latest versions are often the biggest, slowest and least feature rich.
If you have both, compare the windows media player that came with windows 98 with the heavily promoted wmp-7 (or 8 or 9). When decoding a heavily compressed movie the former displays a double digit number of frames per minute, the latter is lucky to show a single digit number of frames per clip. Missing entirely is the ability to mark start and end points and copy the enclosed clip segment reference to the clipboard.
That version can't play from a URL but v6.4 can, and does it more efficiently than v7.1.
Did you try the older machine's drive as a boot disk in the new one?
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Even with a cablemodem connection the idea of downloading every little app I use is not appealing, partly for the hassle and partly because the latest versions are often the biggest, slowest and least feature rich.
If you have both, compare the windows media player that came with windows 98 with the heavily promoted wmp-7 (or 8 or 9). When decoding a heavily compressed movie the former displays a double digit number of frames per minute, the latter is lucky to show a single digit number of frames per clip. Missing entirely is the ability to mark start and end points and copy the enclosed clip segment reference to the clipboard.
That version can't play from a URL but v6.4 can, and does it more efficiently than v7.1.
Did you try the older machine's drive as a boot disk in the new one?