QUOTE (oscardog @ Jun 14 2007, 09:13 AM)

What are you /edit: you=oscardog/ trying to accomplish? Want to start (yet another) stupid 9x vs NT flame here? Good luck, fanboi...
No not at all, I was musing after reading the thread if you were being humerous via satirical deviousness, but has you have seen win9x still has its uses, despite preconceived negativitey.
In my option both os`s have their uses, end of story
Well, you read and quoted only part of discussions.
My personal opinion (and preference) is still the same:
If I can avoid windows at all (i.e. user is at least "linux literate") - I think its obvious what I'd install?

If I *have to* install windoze (user can't operate any other OS) - I try to fit full or customized to the machine W2K.
If machine is too outdated to run W2K - I'll try NT4 if possible; and unless it really has some <48MB of RAM, or user have some other requirements not possible on NT4 - I will go with Win9x.
Its not that "I like" or "I don't like" any of them.
For example 1 person use computer just for chatting & mail with her friends, but also some sensitive things like banking or browsing, so obviously I had to go with linux on her machine (and for a fact - since she never had any prior "windows experience" - she learned how to use it much faster than some hundred-years-long windoze user... )
OS is a tool, it must fit the user's skills of using it, and the job it is needed for.
Obviously I'm not going to install any linux or vista on this very old machine for playing old DOS/Win9x games.
Of course WIndows 95 has its uses.
If I were 100% sure this machine would never ever connect to internet, I would say same as Benoit-Ren: "perfect" and wouldn't ask any more stupid questions here

QUOTE (BenoitRen @ Jun 14 2007, 03:00 AM)

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AFAIR as soon as any ethernet card will be installed there, Win95 will automatically enable netbios over tcpip, right?
Yes, that's true, sadly. It will also add Netware. When you add the network card at installation, you can immediately remove all that from Network Setup, but if a network card is detected at Windows boot, you don't have control. If you don't insert the CD, though, it won't get fully installed, hehe.
Yes I just did it yesterday.
True, TCP is not installed by default as poster above said, but Netware is (not big problem since it is easily disabled in remove in networking).
However after adding TCPIP i found "enable netbios over tcpip protocol" checkmarked (enabled) and greyed out in the same time (supposedly can't disable) - is that normal?