Building a Better Windows 98 PC

[cybertron]

Some people might still want to build a PC running Windows 98. For software that
doesn't work with modern computers, retro gaming, or just pure nostalgia.

A video with useful tips for building a retro PC:

 

[Azuki Mirai]

Loads of patches for the Windows 9x family (95, 98, 98 SE, and ME): http://lonecrusader.x10host.com/rloew/rloew.html

These patches solve old but never fixed 9x issues with newer systems, such as the well-known RAM limitation and the 137GB size limit. There's also a patch that'll allow TRIM (garbage collection) to be used on SSDs which support it.

 

[MylarBalloon123]

Windows 3.1 is better than Windows 98.

 

[【ＶＯＩＤ】]

Windows 3.1 is better than Windows 98.

Yeah but you fuck balloons.

 

[MylarBalloon123]

Yeah but you fuck balloons.

whatever troll.

 

[yeah]

From memory, delete the "Fiolog.vxd" in the system folder - should free up resources (File I/O Log virtual drive, uneeded other than for M$ metrics).

 

[AVMC]

From memory, delete the "Fiolog.vxd" in the system folder - should free up resources (File I/O Log virtual drive, uneeded other than for M$ metrics).

Can we trust this advice? I mean, is this like the "delete system32" trick which cripples the whole system?

 

[yeah]

No - but it's windows 98, so plenty of documentation out there on that file. And if it's in a VM, won't take long to "fix".

 

[yeah]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/archive/v02n03 Near the bottom of that spamwall (search on fiolog.vxd) and you'll see that it's not an essential service, just a drain on system resource. Sorry for not editing previous post - i'm a noob.