Windows 98 features list

Why not link the updates directly? The last one has invalid digital signature but there is other source with correct digital signature:. Thanks a lot for your work! It really helps us keep an updated Win98!!! One year ago I have prepared a list of files in sesp2.?

List of files. List of fixes. But I don't know if I'll be able to finish this project, it is very time consuming. Added to Obsolete list : q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, q, kb, q For the wanted list, I've searched the net but didn't find any link.

If you just want them, tell me. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. MSFN is made available via donations, subscriptions and advertising revenue. The use of ad-blocking software hurts the site. Please disable ad-blocking software or set an exception for MSFN. Share More sharing options Followers 2. Recommended Posts. More coordinating with the present soft and hard wares: Windows98 provides internal support for more than present hardware devices, and has passed the test of compatibility with more than popular softwares.

The internal support includes the 32 bit device driver program. That means the hardware being supported will run faster and more effectively under Windows98 environment. Plug and paly function: when you are using the "plug and play" device on the computer Windows98 will set it automatically.

Improved UI: the desktop of Windows98 makes you concentrate more on your own task. There are only a few graphic objests on the desktop, and that is simpler than before. The " start " button leads you to start the daily work with the computer.

If you want to quickly start a frequently-used program or document, you can just pull it to the "start" button. It will be listed with other functions like set-up procedure, open a document, get help, change system settings, and find files together in the "start" menu.

You can choose to shift delete or get back to use. Windows98 is a tightly integrated system. It enters into the GUI directly instead of command line. Support long file name: in Windows98, the longest file name can be characters. That makes finding files very easy. The function of mouse stands out: in Windows98, point to any object with the mouse pointer and click the right button, you will see a pop-up menu that lists out all the orders related to the object.

With this menu, you can copy, delete, rename, create shortcut, and view the file and folder's attributes. Play CD automatically: if you put a CD that supports automatically playing, Windows98 will paly the CD automatically instead of tedious operation procedure to choose play tool.

Added and improved the tools of accessories: Windows98 provides a group of tools that adapts to the new interface. It replaces the " Write " and " Notebook " of Windows3. As " Picture " is the OLE software, its images can be connected or inset to other documents. Keep in mind that running Windows 98 or 98SE with less than 32MB of RAM will cause a lot of disk swapping, and the more applications you want to run at one time, the more memory you'll need.

Installation can take as little as MB of disk space or up to MB, depending on your system and the options you choose to install. Although Windows 98 and 98SE are versatile operating systems, both were designed to run on Intel xbased processors. They also do not support multiple processors; although both will run properly on multiprocessor computers, they will access only one of the processors. However, hibernation support was extremely limited, and vendor-specific. However, there are hibernation issues with the FAT32 file system, making hibernation problematic and unreliable.

Windows 98, in general, provides improved—and a broader range of—support for IDE and SCSI drives and drive controllers, floppy drive controllers and all other classes of hardware than Windows Windows 98 shipped with DirectX 5. Windows 98 Second Edition shipped with DirectX 6. The DHCP client has been enhanced to include address assignment conflict detection and longer timeout intervals.

NDIS 5. Multilink channel aggregation enables users to combine all available dial-up lines to achieve higher transfer speeds. For networked computers that have user profiles enabled, Windows 98 introduces Microsoft Family Logon which lists all users that have been configured for that computer, enabling users to simply select their names from a list rather than having to type it in.

The same feature can be added to Windows 95 if Internet Explorer 4. Windows 98 supports IrDA 3. Infrared Recipient, a new application for transferring files through an infrared connection is included. However, the cache parameters needed manual tuning as it degraded performance by consuming too much memory and not releasing it quickly enough, forcing paging to occur far too early.

This results in more memory being available to run applications, and lesser usage of the swap file. Windows 98 registry handling is more robust than Windows 95 to avoid corruption and there are several enhancements to eliminate limitations and improve registry performance. The Windows 95 registry key size limitation of 64 KB is gone. The registry uses lesser memory and has better caching.

WinAlign Walign. WinAlign aligns binary sections along 4 KB boundaries, aligning the executable sections with the memory pages. This allows the Windows 98 MapCache feature to map directly to sections in cache Walign. Disk Defragmenter has been improved to rearrange program files that are frequently used to a hard disk region optimized for program start. Windows 98 also supports a Fast Shutdown feature that initiates shutdown without uninitializing device drivers.

Windows 98 supports write-behind caching for removable disk drives. A number of improvements are made to various other system tools and accessories in Windows Disk Cleanup , a new tool, enables users to clear their disks of unnecessary files. Cleanup locations are extensible through Disk Cleanup handlers. Disk Cleanup can be automated for regular silent cleanups.