Windows 98 SE Platform

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To be clear, Here's what I'm asking. Assume that:

I am at a Web Site and I want to make it available offline so, I do the following in sequence. I choose:

Favorites, >Add to Favorites, > Make available offline, > Customize, > Next, > Select Yes, > then 2 (for linked pages), > Next, > Next again, > Select "NO" for password, > Hit "Finish".

It takes some time to download, (depending on the number of links you included.) but it's now available offline.

So my question is:

What folder or folders does windows 98 SE use to store all this data and can these folders
be saved to CD for use on another computer that has the same Operating System, but is not connected to the Internet?

The Data would have to be several Megabytes in size, so a CD would have to be used. Floppies would be useless.

Thank you for taking the time.

Lyle

― Lyle Empson, Monday, 27 February 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I would think the question is not re the OS but what browser you using to do that? IE of some flavour, presumably.

For the love of god, upgrade!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Yes, yes, upgrade! XP will feel like the difference between a 30-year-old Ford and a Mercedes with a driver.

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

But all that aside, you most certainly can view any webpages saved offline on any OS really. They'd only be HTML files with jpgs and gifs - these work in all browsers, though some remote things like style sheets, CGI, ActiveX controls etc may not save with this method (I can't be sure; I've not tried to do it since the basic HTML days).

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

No idea where IE on 98SE stores it though - havent used that OS in some years now. MS don't even support it anymore, you should consider an upgrade unless you're still running on a very old PC (eg a P1 or P2 with low RAM)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

I remember 98SE being much more sturdy and reliable than XP. Although 2000 beats both.

If you try running XP on a 98-specced PC, that ford/merc analogy will be reversed.

I can't remember where these files get put either, but searching your hard drive for *.htm* will probably find it.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Thats true Jim - 98 is great on older machines (I never had issues with it) and XP would be slow as shit on one.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Whether 98 would be considerably faster depends on how old the computer is. The stability of XP is a lot better than 98, though. It's a lot less likely a crashing application will take down the OS on anything newer. I'd say 2000 still works fine (especially since I have it on my work PC) but I've actually recently wanted for some of the XP features. Not to mention 2000 doesn't do bluetooth or wireless networking that well at all.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Yes, yes, upgrade! XP will feel like the difference between a 30-year-old Ford and a Mercedes with a driver.

Yea, XP will suck because it is bloated like TRAYCE

― xngnznevqnznplbetbarnpphzhyngbe (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Dude, I didnt say what you quoted.

Are you going to pull the "trayce is a fat slut" thing again? Boring.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

I remember 98SE being much more sturdy and reliable than XP. Although 2000 beats both.

Blah blah blah...

98 SE was passable when it was released, how anybody could be using it 8 years later is beyond me. XP isn't great, but it's miles ahead of 2000.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Sorry like, but my milage varies. Used 2000 on three different machines for four years and it never let me down. Finally moved to XP two months ago and have had constant battles with it since. Sure, my evidence is only anecdotal, but whose isn't?

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Whereas I had great problems with 98 and 2k, on several machines, and XP has been very reliable on my 3 current machines. I guess its the machines not thw SW.

Alll hardware sucks. All software sucks. etc.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:19 (twenty years ago)

And none of this answers the OPs question anyway!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but he originally asked the question on I Love Cooking, so he deserves to wait. Maybe he's over there trying to grok the answer out of a recipe for Thousand Year Eggs.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

As far as I can tell, IE just tosses them in the cache. It's not like it makes a nice folder for them or anything.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

He wants something like this: Website Extractor

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

doesn't it make you select where you download the files to? it'll then create a file with the name you give it (name.html) and a directory called something like "name_Files" containing all the images and stylesheets and whatnot. it should be ok to copy this file and directory anywhere and it'll still work as a webpage (although what was said upthread about dynamic pages applies)

(um, actually, the above is for Firefox, Explorer will probably be different)

(the trouble with upgrading from win98 is a) the cost and b) the possibility that some of your hardware isn't supported by XP meaning more of a. i still use a win98 box at home, 433 celeron, 64M, is fine for browsing and email but probably wouldn't run XP)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

ok, just tried that here with Internet Explorer and Jaq speaks the truth - there's no easy way of getting the saved files onto a cd for use elsewhere.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

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