You can always use drywall mud to fill in the grooves in the paneling and paint over the walls (make sure you primer them good before painting), or, do what I did in my mobile home and use drywall mud and cover the whole wall, not completely smooth, but not really textured, then sanded lightly to take off any 'peaks', then primered and painted it a warm yellow with a burnt umber glaze hand rubbed over it. The walls look great and you'd never know it's paneling underneath! Everyone tells me I should do it for a living now! ... View related article.
Actually, Windows 98 was the buggiest OS ever made. That's why anyone using it has system freeze-ups and crashes constantly. WinXP is the most stable OS yet and is based on a different platform than Win98. If you have an older computer running Win98 and you want WinXP, you're better off buying a new computer because your processor is more than likely completely outdated and you won't have enough RAM either. Newer OS's and new software programs are always going to use more hard drive space and will be SLOW going if you have a slow processor and little RAM. ... View related article.