Win95 Lifecycle Draws to a Close

Mr_Perl writes "As many Everquest players discovered recently directx 8.1 is not being made for Windows 95, sending stores everywhere into a frenzy to slap little stickers over the words "Windows 95" on game box system requirements sections. Microsoft has picked November 30th, 2001 as the date that Win95 moves into the unsupported phase of it's career, making it even more useless to those who still keep it around for playing the latest games. Looks like Win98 is slated for execution June 30, 2003."

Comments

Re:If they do that...

[cgleba]

http://www.98lite.com 98lite basically strips the crap out of 98 and makes it nice and simple like 95

Re:Bill Gates should make a good product, not sque

[zoward]

I've got an annoying registry corruption on my Win98SE box. Apparently somehwere in the registry is recorded that I have a certain Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime DLL that is either corrupted or gone. The error message won't tell me which one (there are several versions; newer versions of MSVC++ come with new sets of runtime libraries, which get distributed with applications written in MSVC++). This has broken a half dozen major applications on my box. Reinstalling one or more of the apps won't help; the system thinks the DLL is there, so it won't reload it when reinstalling an app that needs it. Anyone know where in the reigstry one would look to correct this? Sort of that, I'll need to reload the partition.