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This may be an incredibly boring subject to many people but... For anyone who's familiar with the hide drives registry policy I've recently discovered that it can also be stored as a "Binary" value. I've dabbled with this many years ago but I remember it was stored as a much simpler Decimal...

Ver just returns the version of Windows. Even if you exit to DOS an try. But Windows 98 SE comes with DOS, I think it's 7.0 as far as I can remember.

Hi. I found an old Compaq Armada laptop I had from back in the day and decided to try an restore it somewhat. Unfortunately the old HDD was dead so I bought a 40GB replacement (one of the lowest capacity 40 pin IDE's I could find at the time) with the plan of just partitioning it up. However...

So at the moment I'm thinking about upgrading since my laptop is pretty old; it's currently just an i3 with 8GB (upgraded) ram but I did also upgrade the painfully outdated mechanical HDD to 1TB SSD a while back - best upgrade I ever done. Anyway I have around a thousand bullets to spend. I'd...

Hi there. I sometimes have a problem after my laptop starts up and I log in it takes at least 5 minutes to be able to use the internet. It's actually connected to the router but sits there 'No Internet, Secure' for at least 5 minutes. In which case it's actually quicker to do a 20 second...

I've been looking into paying for a VPN but I'm finding them misleading. I looked at Nord and ExpressVPN. They advertise very clearly "$x.xx per month" in large font in various places but it's only when you scroll down you see that they ask for the whole amount up front. Putting "Billed $xx.xx...

Hi there. I'm an amateur photographer and all my images are shot in RAW format which can be quite large files. Unfortunately this has recently become a slow process browsing through them. I often take hundreds of shots - a lot of the same thing with different settings/angles so I like to be...

Well I had the idea of firing Win98 up on VMWare thinking it may appear in that but amazingly when I plugged it in again it just worked this time, I must have tried it 20 times yesterday in different orders an everything.

Hi there. When I connect an old 2.5" laptop HDD to my Windows 10 laptop literally nothing happens. The HDD is a Seagate 1.5GB IDE drive with Windows 98 installed on it (Works fine in the laptop), I'm trying to transfer some files from it before I reinstall. At first I thought it may have...

Hiya. The days of simply adding a shortcut to task manager in the startup folder and it simply displaying CPU usage in the system tray are over. I'd like to find another app to do this. You could even find cool 'Widgets' in Windows 7 that displayed this (and more) on your desktop, but since...

If i recall, last time i installed Windows 95 on it i copied the setup files from the cd directly onto the hard drive. But i also have a PCMCIA network card that works with it too, and i have windows 98 running on a VM i could use for the network. Id like to source a CDROM drive for it as it...

Hello there. I recently picked up my first laptop I ever owned from my mothers house, it's a Compaq Armada 1510. It works fine, but it doesn't have a HDD, or an optical drive and the battery is long dead. I thought I'd try to source some parts for it but I'm finding it difficult. Most of...

Only experience I've had was slipstreaming SATA drivers onto XP once, and I also used nLite.

Nevermind, check it out, lol:

No, switching users allows you (or another person) to log into multiple accounts at the same time, so effectively the account just becomes locked and any software (yes including P2P) would continue to run in the background. But to be honest I haven't seen this much since XP/Vista so I'm unsure...