Where can I get a good INI Editor?? - Page 3

bobing · 08-30-2005, 04:45 AM

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XP notepad has all the features of 98 wordpad without any of the drawbacks.

Really?

strange, because mine acts just like the 98 version, except it can load bigger files.

Death3464 · 08-30-2005, 09:35 AM

lol. windows xp users should think about either getting a downgrade to 98, or go with a diff OS. xp sucks.

bobing · 08-30-2005, 11:16 AM

XP does seem to crash a lot less than 98.

only reason why i use XP is because my laptop had it on when i got it. then i installed it on my desktop because i got a new hard drive, and it was easier with the SP2 disk a friend did for me. all the software i use seems to like it.

Whiteboy · 08-30-2005, 01:38 PM

I have to agree, I have had my home-made PC for 2 years now with XP Pro, and I think it only froze up on me ONCE (and that was a hardware issue). Very sturdy. The worst thing for me would ahve to be incompatibility with old games, sure there are ways around that but it's annoying nevertheless.

bobing · 08-30-2005, 03:01 PM

well, everything except my dos based stuff anyway. that either doesn't work, or it runs slow and uses 100% processing power.

Death3464 · 08-30-2005, 06:34 PM

lol....my 98 only freezes up because I had conflicting programs, as i was told. it was 2 diff spyware/adware scanners and they deleted half my stuff.

Whiteboy · 08-31-2005, 12:30 AM

Yeah, I remember once, I had a dodgy version of Norton Antivirus. I did a full scan and went out to work, and when I came back, it decided that about half of my hard drive should be quarantined... I now look back on that day and laugh, but it was a different story when I got home from work that day...

Hey bobing, you ever tried DOSBox? It's a DOS emulator that can run DOS games. I use it to play Lemmings sometimes. It works perfectly and can theoretically play games like Quake and C&C TD... but that would require a very high-end machine. I wouldn't know for sure - I only tried it with Lemmings on my old machine, and that thing was only an Intel 500MHz with a crappy video card. *tries to play C&C*

bobing · 08-31-2005, 05:13 AM

its not so much about games, but my development soeftware. XP doesn't allow direct accesses to your data bus. i can't even direct access my parallel port, and most emulators give you fake hardware anyway, so that'd be no good because i still can't access the external world.

there is a routine for visual C that allows you to directly access the parallel port, but it doesn't work for my interface card.