Compatiblity probs between Win98 and DOS programs?

[Tom Baldwin]

I would have to agree with the last to replies. when beta testing Win98 our
instructions were to do a clean install of Win98 as unusual things could
happen with an upgrade. That was for the final release. I also agree that
DOS mode is more stable in Win98 than in Win95. At least that is what I
noticed with some of my old sound and midi drivers.


If you can do a clean install, do so. fdisk the drive. use fdisk /mbr. Then
just install your cdrom driver to load up win98.

Tom B.

----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Olivieri <frank at inch.com>
To: Robert Williams <will7370 at tao.sou.edu>
Cc: Synth-DIY <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: Compatiblity probs between Win98 and DOS programs?


>I have no problems running DOS programs under Win98. As a matter of fact,
it works great.
>Better than 95. You may have a virus, or your config.sys is not setup
properly.
>
>Frank
>
>Robert Williams wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I recently upgraded to Windows 98 about a month ago, and it has given me
nothing but
>> grief with my DOS programs.  Has anyone had compatibility problems
between DOS software
>> and Windows 98?  I've tried many different types of programs; music,
softsynths, even
>> non music related software like flight simulators and genealogy programs,
all have the
>> same problems.  Half the time it crashes the OS when I try to install
them, and if I do
>> manage to get them installed, they only run for about a week before they
lock up my
>> system when I start the program.  I wonder if some of the automatically
scheduled weekly
>> disk maintenance features of Win98 messes with some of my files?  I don't
think I can
>> tell it to avoid certain files or folders.
>>
>> Just wondering if anybody else had this problem and if there was a Win98
patch that
>> might correct it?  I'm almost tempted to go back to Win95.
>>
>> Robert
>