HPs ftp site will have the drivers for your system. Let me confess: I didn't believe you. After all HP says they've removed support content from their website for products more than ten years old, and their FTP site is an impenetrable fog. But after finding this thread and combing around a while, I …

No luck on reviving the old drive (my hopes aren't high that anything would work)...but I rejigged the jumpers, reinstalled Windows 2000 onto the hitherto-secondary drive, and can boot up the computer again! I don't think I want to leave it in this configuration forever, though. Windows 2000 has a …

I own a Pentium III-based Compaq Deskpro EN system from 2000. This is no retro build: I've had this computer for more than 15 years, and when it came into my hands in 2003 it was merely an off-lease used machine...that so happened to come with legacy ports, ISA slots, and Windows 95 drivers! My eye …

Well, thanks for the responses...I guess 44cm is as wide as off-the-shelf ATX desktop cases ever got. I can't help but wonder if this is because the ATX standard stipulated that the power supply fan should blow on the motherboard CPU, and anything much wider would pull those elements out of …

For more time than I cared to admit, I've toyed with the idea of building a computer with "new-ish" (post-2000) components and housing it in a desktop case. New ATX desktop cases are as scarce as hens' teeth these days: The only sources I'm aware of are an American industrial PC supplier and a …

I've done some testing with RetroZilla on Win95...and while it does display the pestilent TLS 1.2-only HTTPS-only websites that are slowly destroying the open web, it's less stable than the last "proper" Win9x-compatible Firefox and SeaMonkey releases. For this reason, I don't use it as my primary …

Chatzilla from within SeaMonkey 1.1? Haven't used it in a while, but it was always my go-to client on Win9x. It's also possible to add the plugin to Firefox 1.x/2.x.

oeuvre wrote: Are you still using it daily? Actually, yes!

My best memory of Windows 3.1 was the reaction I had the very first time I used it, twenty-odd years ago: "Wow, it LOOKS like a Macintosh! Except...it's in COLOUR!" Up to that point, every Mac I had seen had been a black & white machine and every PC had been a boring text-mode device. My best …

Was there ever a piece of software that worked on Windows ME and didn't work on Windows 98?

I used to own a Gateway 2000 system from that era that didn't have a physical turbo button, but did have a "CPU Speed" option in CMOS setup that could be set to either "Fast" or "Slow," accomplishing the same effect. So it should be possible to toggle the "Turbo" mode on these machines, even though …

Windows 9x had very good compatibility with 16-bit applications. Most of the few exceptions fall into these categories... * Games that make creative use of the minimized icon. * Games that make use of the entire screen space, where the overlapping taskbar serves as a distraction. * Games that make …

An obsession I have is that I want to be able to turn a computer off myself . If I shut down Windows, I don't want the system unit to power off automatically...I want it to leave me at a "safe to turn off" screen where I have the freedom and satisfaction of physically pushing the power button (or …

000-45234 is the part number for the OSR2 release, which is a prerequisite for FAT32. I briefly ran Windows 95 on a computer of identical specifications (486DX2-66/16MB RAM) back in the day, and thought the performance was acceptable. Avoiding the installation of IE (and avoiding most post-1995 …