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Windows 98 Tips

Windows 98 might be old, but it is far from dead.  A few of the tweals we have found useful are listed below.  Check out the registry sections of the tips for some more Windows 98 tips and tweaks.

If your system becomes unstable after following one of these tips, don't even think about emailing me - I wasn't there to watch how you screwed it up, I can not help you now.

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How to get XP to talk to Win98 computers on a peer-to-peer network. 1) Enable the XP machine guest account and uncheck the use of simple file sharing
a. In Windows Explorer, right click on Network Connections and select "Properties"
b. Right-click on "Local Area Connection" and click on "Properties"
c. Click on the "Authentication" tab
d. Uncheck "Enable network access control using IEEE 802.1X"
e. Click "OK"
f. Windows Explorer Tools Folder Options View uncheck simple file sharing

3) Install NetBeui on XP machine. XP will not work peer-to-peer with windows 98 or earlier without NetBeui.

4) Slow network browsing to Win 98 machines can be fixed by a registry hack

a. H_L_M \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ RemoteComputer \ NameSpace

b. Delete the two keys under this (a bunch of long numbers/letters), which are the "Printers" and "Scheduled Tasks" keys.

Install NetBEUI on Windows XP
The files necessary for installing the NetBEUI protocol on Windows XP are Netnbf.inf and Nbf.sys. Complete the following steps to install NetBEUI:

1. Insert your Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive and browse to the Valueadd\MSFT\Net\NetBEUI folder.
2. Copy Nbf.sys to the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers directory.
3. Copy Netnbf.inf to the %SYSTEMROOT%\Inf hidden directory.

NOTE: To make a hidden folder viewable, perform the following steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type Explorer, and then press ENTER.
2. Click Tools, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.
3. Under Advanced Settings, click Show hidden files and folders under the Hidden files and folders Folder.
4. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Network Connections.
5. Right-click the adapter you want to add NetBEUI to, and then click Properties.
6. On the General tab, click Install.
7. Click Protocol, and then click Add.
8. Click to select NetBEUI Protocol from the list and then click OK.
9. Restart your computer if you receive a prompt to complete the installation.
The NetBEUI protocol should now be installed and working.

NOTE: %SYSTEMROOT% is a Windows environment variable that identifies the directory where Windows XP is installed (for example, C:\Windows). To view the value associated with %SYSTEMROOT%, as well as other environment variables, at a command prompt, type set, and then press ENTER.

NOTE: After following the steps above you should be able to use NetBEUI on Lan connections, however you will not be able to use NetBEUI on a Remote Access Service (RAS) connection. RAS connections cannot use NetBeui.
   

 

 

 

 
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