A blast from the past.

The Essential Win 98 tutorial

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Found this book on Windows 98 circa 1998.

Just a list of the different chapters.

Chapter 1: What's new in 98

Chapter 2: Understanding the desktop and programs

Chapter 3: Nah

Chapter 4: Using Explorer to manage stuff.

Chapter 5: Changing what's on the desktop...he he.

Chapter 6: Nah

Chapter 7: Customizing the start menu...the task bar...Ok.

Chapter 8: Nah

The rest are just blah blah blah but  Chapter 10....Getting creative with paint (ugh)...caught my eye. Hard to believe it was the first one I played with. Not counting 3.1 or Windows for workgroups. I didn't read any of them.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have an actual Windows 98 CD in the original CD case with code an everything here too. Wonder if our items have become collectors pieces yet Ross?   :P

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm hoping the book is. Somethings you just can't pass up.

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

.. Or win3.11 that is nearly as old as myself.
.Getting creative with paint

Were they serious ? Paintbrush from 3.11 was even better and there was a good alternative : PaintShopPro 3.12 .

Don`t laugh PSP 3.12 is a program i use today sometimes too ( but gimp has nearly all the features it had and even more) .

And win 98 yeah it was on 95% of all computers i found but never used it -/ win 2000/2003 was better , ME was garbage and 98 SE a good OS but too late.

used win3.11  for a while too  its better than 98.

GEM, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGEM if you want to read was more adavanced than any windows 3.11-/98.

But unfortunately nobody remembers it nowadays. It would have been great if it got popular. 

Quoting LightStar, reply 1

I have an actual Windows 98 CD in the original CD case with code an everything here too. Wonder if our items have become collectors pieces yet Ross?
End of LightStar's quote
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And i have a win95 cd.

Here my and also my parents favorite text editor ( yes we are in 2015 but...)

and i also have an old version of pcglobe somewhere (yes it shopws the german ddr) or leprint a wonderful application before tex text processing.

regards bluedxca93

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

We are dating ourselves guys. I have the Dos 6 disks on floppy and yes I still have a floppy drive. Also have Win 3.5, 95, and I still have a working 98 computer for running the old Dos based games. Then again I'm a packrat and never get rid of old computer stuff. Things sure have changed.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Maybe starting an old fogie Windows thread here. Not.....old fogie members lol