Logo Correction
01.21.2007
A correction has been made for the "sulogo.sys not found" error, along with a new startup screen for Mindows. To download, go here. Once unzippped, copy the three files to the setup directory, overwriting ieshell.inf and shell.inf. Also a few files have been added to the setup process to enable desktop properties to be available. For the meantime, deskw95.cpl will have have to be manually renamed to desk.cpl after setup is complete.
Mindows Forum
01.01.2007
New website design
04.26.2006
Thanks to Martin Andersen, Winimize.com now has a new design.
The Mindows Forum
01.20.2006
Thanks to the generosity of bootland.net,,
a FORUM for
questions involving Mindows is now available.
To post questions, your own discoveries, or respond to other's
posts :
Go
to the Forum.
INF-based installer!
01.20.2006
An INF Based Installer now available ! No more file lists -
this is
a true
installer, just like the standard Win98 setup.exe, but providing an
installation
of roughly 18 Meg, including networking capability. The whole setup
takes about
10 minutes (!) once the setup directory has been formed.
Download the
installer.
CLSID registry entries available
01.20.2006
Long promised clsid registry file to enable writing to CD etc. may
be found
. This is a
shotgun fix, but should
enable many
functions
Download
clsid Patch
Roadmap
10.19.2005
I will work on two additional "flavors" of the installation, one smaller, heading toward the original 7 Meg Mindows, the other larger, with the full 98 shell. It'll be awhile however.
In the meantime, what good is all of this? Once you have setup a small installation of Mindows, it is an easy matter to create a boot CD which is capable of reading/writing to NTFS volumes, which can contain an anti-virus program (Fprot?), partition manager (Paragon?), etc. The advantages of this should be obvious. Moreover, the boot time is a matter of seconds, compared to the sluggish, albeit useful, Bart's boot CDs. Plus, it is fun to reduce Win98 to minimal and snappy OS. And one with which most of us are familiar, unlike some of the Linux based CDs.
Bugfixes
10.11.2005
Correction made in setup files to include notepad.exe it was missing. Also, only the root of the win98 directory need be copied from the Windows CD.
Later I will provide instructions for making a boot CD that allows Mindows to be run from a ramdisk.
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