[WEB4LIB] Win98: compatibility problems?

[Rick Levine]

The most "serious" driver issue I've seen is in the Realtek NIC driver used
in many generic network cards. If you use these cards, just download an
updated driver. Other than that, I've heard of issues with the new WDM
drivers and older sound cards; if you run into problems, you can "update"
the driver to the original ones. Just be sure to disable Active Desktop and
you should be OK.

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Rick Levine, Technical Specialist
Central Massachusetts Regional Library System
8 Flagg Rd., Shrewsbury, MA 01545
voice: 508 757-4110 x308   fax: 508 757-4370
rlevine at cwmars.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Francesco Giacanelli
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 8:36 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Win98: compatibility problems?
>
>
> Dear Web4libbers,
>
> our small library would like to migrate form Win95 to Win98 (we
> have a LAN with a NT4 Server and 5 pc with win95) for a better
> stability of the system and YK2 compliant.
>
> Our technical assistance stresses that win98 has a lot of driver
> compatibility problems and it does not advice to do such a migration.
>
> As I am responsible for this migration, I would like to have from
> you some advices and to know if is it true of this "serious"
> compatibility problems (...but win98 was not a better choice than win95?).
>
> Thanks in advance to the list
> Best regards
> Francesco Giacanelli
>
> P.S.: Sometimes the technical assistance seems to create problems
> than to solve them for a not computer expert librarian!
>
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