{"id":87613759,"date":"2004-11-01T22:55:31","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T06:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613759"},"modified":"2004-11-01T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T06:58:09","slug":"win98se-wie55-under-winxpsp2-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613759","title":{"rendered":"Win98SE w\/IE55 *UNDER* WinXPSp2? &#8211; Sure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Virtual PC 2004, I created a little 1GB partition on my data drive (which looks like the &#8220;C:&#8221; drive to the virtual computer), and then installing Win98SE.  That <i>still<\/i> takes about 20 minutes to do, just like it always did back in the day.  So <i>then<\/i> I go looking for IE55 (not 55SP2, or 55SP1), and had a heck of a time finding that (I did, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filemirrors.com\" target=\"_blank\">FileMirrors.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The fun part was when I enabled the hyperthreading under XP, and then assigned the Win98SE VirtPC to the &#8220;2nd&#8221; cpu.<\/p>\n<p>Good times, good times.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see now whether or not I actually got 5.5 like I think I did, or if it&#8217;s actually something else.<\/p>\n<p>Still, kinda fun.  In a sick demented sorta way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Virtual PC 2004, I created a little 1GB partition on my data drive (which looks like the &#8220;C:&#8221; drive to the virtual computer), and then installing Win98SE. That still takes about 20 minutes to do, just like it always did back in the day. So then I go looking for IE55 (not 55SP2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}