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With windows 98 explain the following....
how the user environment/ interface is presented
how are the files/directory structures set-up..
the features available in the screen interface..
how Windows 98 allows back-up and file restoration facilities...
how the user environment/ interface is presented
how are the files/directory structures set-up..
the features available in the screen interface..
how Windows 98 allows back-up and file restoration facilities...
Ummmmm. On the 9th day God said let Gates create Win98, I'm tired. And it's been a mystery ever since.
Easy question...
First of all, don't forget it: Windows sucks. Always keep this in mind.
(01). User Environment/Interface: Well, you just see a background and you have some icons on your desktop. No more to say about that. At the bottom of your screen you see a "Start" button and some icons too. When you hang over "Start" the text "Press here to begin" appears. It'd better be called "Press here to (Edited by Computer101) everything up". Anyway, everything happens through the start menu. If you want to use multiple users, it should be possible for every user to have it's own desktop and stuff like that but it never work like it should. You'd better do for Windoze NT Doesn'tWorkstation 4.0. (Best solution is Linux of course).
(02). Files/Directories Stucture: Each drive has a drive letter. It's not like in Linux where you have your / and then your drives. Here it's the opposite. You have your drives and then your folders. So when you open up your browser, you see A: (Floppy), C: (Harddisc), etc... Windows creates by itself some directories like \Windows\ and \Programs Files\ for example...
(03). Features Available In The Screen Interface: Actually, too much to write all this down. Everywhere you right-click, you have options or commands...
(04). Backup And Restore: None. Well, it has some, but they are bad. I'd recommend you to go find yourself a program and to use that one. Microsoft Backup (or whatever it's called) is really bad...
Well... I still don't understand your question... What operating system have you been using for years ? Anyhow, you should have used a computer to post this question. If you're used to work in Linux, start you X Server and take a look in KDE... It's alike... Besides of the fact that KDE does work.
First of all, don't forget it: Windows sucks. Always keep this in mind.
(01). User Environment/Interface: Well, you just see a background and you have some icons on your desktop. No more to say about that. At the bottom of your screen you see a "Start" button and some icons too. When you hang over "Start" the text "Press here to begin" appears. It'd better be called "Press here to (Edited by Computer101) everything up". Anyway, everything happens through the start menu. If you want to use multiple users, it should be possible for every user to have it's own desktop and stuff like that but it never work like it should. You'd better do for Windoze NT Doesn'tWorkstation 4.0. (Best solution is Linux of course).
(02). Files/Directories Stucture: Each drive has a drive letter. It's not like in Linux where you have your / and then your drives. Here it's the opposite. You have your drives and then your folders. So when you open up your browser, you see A: (Floppy), C: (Harddisc), etc... Windows creates by itself some directories like \Windows\ and \Programs Files\ for example...
(03). Features Available In The Screen Interface: Actually, too much to write all this down. Everywhere you right-click, you have options or commands...
(04). Backup And Restore: None. Well, it has some, but they are bad. I'd recommend you to go find yourself a program and to use that one. Microsoft Backup (or whatever it's called) is really bad...
Well... I still don't understand your question... What operating system have you been using for years ? Anyhow, you should have used a computer to post this question. If you're used to work in Linux, start you X Server and take a look in KDE... It's alike... Besides of the fact that KDE does work.
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too against windows and microsoft in general to give a suitable answer instead the answer was full of unnessesary smart comments.
would like an answer that answers the questions in full detail...
would like an answer that answers the questions in full detail...
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oh yea... backup and restoration... windows 98's backup is really bad, the compression is horrible and it just overall a pain in the butt... it is best to use 3rd party utilities such as "Ghost"
it creates a compressed image of a HD and you can save it on a mass storage device (Tape backup, CD, Zip Disk)
i have several ghost images right now and would definatley reccomend using it for backups.
it creates a compressed image of a HD and you can save it on a mass storage device (Tape backup, CD, Zip Disk)
i have several ghost images right now and would definatley reccomend using it for backups.
Go buy yourself a book instead of asking stupid questions. If you're able to read of course.
Ok Zerquish, this is a help forum. You are supposed to help here...telling them to go read a book if you can read is...well, I think you can figure it out...
Windows 98 is actually an ok OS for a M$ product. The FAT filesystem took me forever but basicly it is:
-the FAT (a big "linked" list of clusters in use or not in use)
-Directory entries which list filename, filesize, attributes, and starting cluster of the file.
On boot it boots up DOS and then loads windows 98.
Explorer.exe handles the Desktop and start menu as well as the file interface. Hope that helped.
~Raven
Windows 98 is actually an ok OS for a M$ product. The FAT filesystem took me forever but basicly it is:
-the FAT (a big "linked" list of clusters in use or not in use)
-Directory entries which list filename, filesize, attributes, and starting cluster of the file.
On boot it boots up DOS and then loads windows 98.
Explorer.exe handles the Desktop and start menu as well as the file interface. Hope that helped.
~Raven