Did you try limiting the VCache entry in the win.ini ?

I've read alot of Users were able to utilize 640MB, 768MB, or even 1GB of RAM that way.

Hm, for Gaming and latest Drivers, XP might be indeed an Option for the future.

But it comes with a hefty price :

- most insecure OS ever seen on face of earth
- massively Spyware/Malware infested

I've sworn to my live, that Win2000 was the last MicroSoft OS I've ever installed (which is without massive manual intervention as well as security catastrophy, and SP4 integrates lots of the Malware found in XP as well)

*g*

And I'm at 60% Unix and Linux, increasing tendency

lol thanks for the tips guys. I do network support for about 550 pc's all running either 2000 (desktops) or xp (on the laptops) so I know the ups and down's of both. No, Falcon, I haven't tried that yet. Haven't really worked with 98 that much since 2000 came out (been gaming on that for the most part since it came out). I was how ever under the impression that 98 will only utilize roughly 256 megs of ram, but if Falcon or Patience's ideas works, then I'll just do that. XP is a pretty good OS, but you have to tweek the hell out of it to get it fast and stable (not to mention running Win updates every other day). Cutting off half of the services, disabling half of the graphical stuff XP comes default with (shadows on mouse cursor for instance). After cutting off that, cutting off the windows sound scheme and changing some other things, it boots up in about 30 seconds and havent' had any problems with it yet. I'd like to be able to do this with the 98 box, but I'm going to try Falcon's idea first since I won't have to reload everything then.

wierd, have to change some bios settings then, cuz it's booting on on 2800+ machine, should be booting faster then.