About Windows 98
Windows 98 (called "Memphis" during development and previously called "Windows 97" based on an earlier schedule) is a widely-installed product in Microsoft's evolution of the Windows operating system for personal computers. Windows 98 expresses Microsoft's belief that users want and should have a global view of their potential resources and that Web technology should be an important part of the user interface. Although building Microsoft's own Web browser into the user desktop has been an issue in the U.S. Justice Department's suit, Windows 98 was released as planned with its tightly integrated browser.
In Windows 98, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is an integral part of the operating system. Using the Active Desktop of Windows 98, you can view and access desktop objects that reside on the World Wide Web as well as local files and applications. The Windows 98 desktop is, in fact, a Web page with HTML links and features that exploit Microsoft's ActiveX control.
With Windows 98 (or with Internet Explorer 4.0 in Windows 95), you can set up news and other content to be pushed to you from specified Web sites.
- Windows 98 also provides a 32-bit file allocation table (FAT) that allows you to have a single-partition disk drive larger than 2 Gbytes.
Other features in Windows 98 include:
- Support for Universal Serial Bus (USB), which makes it easy to plug in new devices.
- Support for Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)
- Support for a new industry-standard form of power management called Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
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I opened my Vaio laptop in MS.DOS by mistake and now I can't boot Windows 98. Help!
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just type the command 'WIN' into dos
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Please. Help me go back windows 98.Thanks
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plz give me help
for win98
WIN98SE BootDisc w/PCMCIA &Adaptec SCSI 1460 to Ultraplex CD drv
Hello, please advice and guidance !
After changing to a bigger HDD I tried readjusting the partitions and
made something wrong ;-¦
Now I have NO access and need to do a complete RE-install from Recovery CD's !
Unfortunately the IBM X31 does not have a CD Drive nor a floppy,
well USB floppy is present and working ;-)
All my current experiences to get my SCSI CD Drive connected via PCMCIA & a Adaptec SlimSCSi 1460 failed due insufficient drivers and entries on the boot disc !!!
Can U / one of you help me to get the installation w/5 CD's running ???
TIA for your prompt assistance to finish the XMas present ;-)
Albert
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I've just received my new computer but it only has 98 first ed. I want to upgrade it too windows xp. is their any chance that someone could explain how to do this? please...
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theres one Way....
go to www.torrent-finder.com
to Get Windows XP !
make sure to have a Torrent Program and hope the torrent has the product key!
if it works email me at larochen1@hotmail.com for any help!
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but thats illeagel
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geez, course it is! ("geez, who is this guy? they probably think planes will never fly!" - 'Building a computer for dummies ')
but every1 dus't
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Bit Torrent is illegal and not many people know about it in the first place. Please refrain from promoting crime.
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Bit Torrent is not illegal. If you have a right to use the file you download, like a backup, there's no problem. Where people get into trouble is downloading copyrighted material they didn't pay for or otherwise acquire a license or right to use.
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Using BitTorrent is legal; downloading pirated/copyrighted files is not. Please be careful about what you download.
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actually, downloading pirated/copyrighted files is legal. serving them up is what is banned.
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The problem is with your RAM.
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Hello
my problem is the following:
I´d like to format my hard drive and re-install win98se on it, but before i do that, i enter DOS to check if i could run the win98 CD from it, and i couldn´t. It doesn´t recognise the CDROM drive. How can i do to make it work? do i need to load any drivers?
I would thank if anyone could help me.
Nicolás
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You're right, MSDOS has no built-in software for CD drives, although a close look at drive A: after using a boot cd will give you a big clue as to how it's done.
If you have Win98SE on an original CD (or identical backup of same) it will probably self-install if you set the computer BIOS to 'boot from cdrom' and WIN98SE setup just loads itself.
If you have a drive to 'clean', use Windows to copy over the CD's WIN98 directory into, say, C:\WIN98. That's enough to completely reinstall using C:\WIN98\SETUP.EXE, so anything else related to Windows can be deleted using DOS. Best of luck (I do this all the time) Rik.
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good
windows 98 in virtual box
i am going to use windows 98 through virtual box in linux ubuntu8.4 so i can use paltalk any tips? email me edfish@live.co.uk
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I Tried Typing "WIN" In DOS With WIN98SE CD And It Cant Boot Into Fucking Win98SE Setup In VMware
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s.o.s. my computer is crashing!! I cannot defrag. cannot get into any office works to retrieve files. system tells me system is locked by msue (i believe) don't know what this is or how it got locked, nor how to unlock the &$^%*^ thing! Even while playing games off line as well as browsing on line i will get fatal error system will close! and poof the dam thing shuts down. I would like to re-install microsoft office works , be able to defrag. system, and improve anything that i can. I am a novice so please reply back in laymans terms for me. I thank any and every one who is able to help me. (p.s. don't know if this matters or not but my computer is ooold. from the 80's i believe. can't afford a new one.)
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windows 98 is the worst. it won't detect my mp3 player. the windows media player isn't very good. it won't read my disc for people pc, so i can't get on the internet. it's slow. i want to update it but don't know how or how much it would cost.
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Isn't that obvious?<\strong> They didn't have mp3 players then, little own iPods.
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i have a compaq armada laptop but it is not working.. when i try to install win 98 by cd it shows 606 boot record error can u teell what is the problem.. n i don't know to istall it by floppy pls help..........
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Which operating system did your compaq armada laptop come with?
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windows 98 bootable cd
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i was looking at a freinds laptop and after turn there was prolem saying these files are either missing or coruped please help me should i re install or try and look for these files
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Reinstall.If you have Win 98 and it won't boot,Get a boot disk and put it on a floppy disk then on command prompt type "win".If it does'nt boot type cd windows then type win.
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Hello.
I have an older Acer Travelmate 4000 laptop that came with XP installed.
I installed a new HD and want to set up a dual boot with '98 and XP, I have to install Win98 first.
Installing '98 went smoothly until the first reboot, a screen came up for a few seconds saying "running win98 for the first time". Then it crashed and rebooted again and a screen came up with a number of boot options. None of those options is getting me anywhere, won't boot in the safe mode either. Tried it a few times, got the same result every time.
Could one of your boot disks here help me out ??
Thx
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Hi,
Just wondering if I can in fact install win 98 with a particular command.I had an idea that these do not provide the means for a clean install of windows 98, but I had some hopeful denial of sorts, thinking that the bootable floppy just might allow me to install windows 98. I made the floppy and got my computer to boot from it. I come to A: prompt and have used many different commands. I've reformatted my drive to FAT32. I've erased WinXP to get rid of NFTS (have reinstall disc). Just wondering where to go next--install win 98 that is--if it's possible.
Thank you,
Dan
dplynch@uvm.edu
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Hi, I've used a win 98 bootable disk from this website to run formatc: /s. So my harddrive is formatted in FAT 32 and ready for windows 98. When I reboot with no disc in the A drive, I just get the command propmt screen C:\ I'm not sure what this mean, I guess there is no operating system on there? How do I get windows 98 to actually load? Is it on the bootable floppy I downloaded, do I type some commpnad at C:\? I've sort of assumed all along that the boot disk doesn't actually allow a fresh install of win98, but was just hoping otherwise. Thank you
dplynch@uvm.edu
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