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Hi.

Im going to install Windows 98 Second Edition with 2.0.Net Framework and Internet Explorer 6.0. Only that, NO more. Is my computer fast if i do what? Will it be slow after 3 years? I only going to use IE 6.0. Not install or anything. Just surfing on facebook and hotmail.
Will it be fast or slow on surfing on the net?

My computer is a 766mb RAM 1,53 GHz Athlon XP CPU. Kinda old, but works great.

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Short summary: running Windows 98 SE with only .NET Framework 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6 on a 1.53 GHz Athlon with ~766 MB RAM will boot and handle some very old, static pages, but it will be increasingly unusable and insecure for modern webmail and social sites. Windows 98 SE reached end-of-support on July 11, 2006; security fixes and platform updates stopped long ago. (learn.microsoft.com)

Why that matters: modern sites and services require up-to-date HTTPS/TLS and current browser engines. IE6 / the Win9x crypto stack does not support current TLS versions or modern cipher suites (it falls back to SSL2/SSL3 and weak ciphers), so many servers will refuse a connection or force degraded behavior. That is the main compatibility blocker for Facebook/Hotmail (Outlook.com) and similar sites. (ssllabs.com)

Practical choices and trade-offs: keep the Win98 machine for offline or legacy software only; use a modern device for Hotmail/Outlook and Facebook; or replace Windows 98 with a maintained, lightweight Linux distribution that still supports older hardware (examples: antiX, Puppy), which enables recent Firefox/Chromium builds and current TLS. Community browsers once available for Win9x (SeaMonkey, K-Meleon) exist in legacy builds, but they are unmaintained and still face TLS/cipher limits — not a secure long-term fix. Note that installing .NET 2.0 affects .NET applications only and will not make IE6 compatible with modern HTTPS. (antixlinux.com)

Context against earlier replies: was right to flag compatibility limits; correctly noted network speed matters for perceived responsiveness; and ’s point about modern JS/Flash being heavier than older pages is still valid — but the decisive limits today are TLS/browser engine support and the lack of security updates for Win98. For safety and usability, avoid entering passwords or banking info from an unsupported Win98/IE6 setup; prefer a modern, maintained OS/browser for anything sensitive.

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? will it be slow after 3 yrs

will it be still working after 3 yrs ,it should work ok,as far as being fast ,was it ever fast .if so then it should still be ok ,for sites that work with ie6

you will find a lot of internet related apps,and websites are not compatible with IE6

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futher to Caperjack most of what is done on the net is controlled by the speed of the connection. if you use either dial up or ADSL most computers under five years old will not notice any difference in speed of operation until they get the software on board the computer (and cease to be a terminal to the site.) Once that happens the speed is controlled by many factors and adding ram if you could find some would certainly help but it is never going to be a racer!
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Indeed. I used to have Windows 98 SE only about 8 years ago with 200MHz of CPU and it did pretty good on the internet. I know the internet has changed since meaning that the internet requires more CPU and ram to use these days. Eg. My netbook 400MHz is barely able to surf Wikipedia and you will find that new features on the web today such as Javascript, Java, Flash, CSS version 3 will slow down your processing time or will simply be too intense to enable. However judging by as you say a 1.53GHz processor (I shall assume single core as this is probably an old computer) then you should be able to execute Javascript and CSS however you may find some Java apps and Flash scripts may not load correctly. And as long as you keep on deleting files in C:\windows\temp\ which are older than 1 month you should be fine for over 3 years. Also if you were to sign up to a new ISP I would recommend one with at least 128kbps to get the maximum benefits of your processor.

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