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Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95, released on June 25, 1998. It is a hybird 16-bit/32-bit monolithic product with an MS-DOS based boot stage (like Windows 95) and contained several security updates, and also had Internet Explorer 4.01 automatically installed onto it. It was succeeded by Windows ME.

Features

Windows 98 includes Internet Explorer 4.01. Besides Internet Explorer, many other Internet companion applications are included such as Outlook Express, Windows Address Book, FrontPage Express, Microsoft Chat, Personal Web Server and a Web Publishing Wizard, NetMeeting and NetShow Player (in the original release of Windows 98) which was replaced by Windows Media Player 6.2 in Windows 98 Second Edition.

The Windows 98 shell includes all of the enhancements from Windows Desktop Update, an Internet Explorer 4 component, such as the Quick Launch toolbar, deskbands, Active Desktop, Channels, ability to minimize foreground windows by clicking their button on the taskbar, single click launching, Back and Forward navigation buttons, favorites, and address bar in Windows Explorer, image thumbnails, folder infotips and web view in folders, and folder customization through HTML-based templates. Dialog boxes now show up in the Alt-Tab sequence.

Windows 98 also integrates shell enhancements, themes and other features from Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 such as DriveSpace 3, Compression Agent, Dial-Up Networking Server, Dial-Up Scripting Tool and Task Scheduler. 3D Pinball is included on the CD-ROM but not installed by default. Windows 98 had its own separately purchasable Plus! pack called Plus! 98.


Title bars of windows and dialog boxes support two-color gradients. Windows 98 menus and tooltips support slide animation. Windows Explorer in Windows 98, like Windows 95, converts all uppercase filenames to Sentence case for readability purposes; however, it also provides an option Allow all uppercase names to display them in their original case. Windows Explorer includes support for compressed CAB files. The Quick Res and Telephony Location Manager Windows 95 PowerToys are integrated.

Windows 98 Second Edition

Windows 98 Second Edition (often shortened to SE) is an updated release of Windows 98, released on May 5, 1999. It includes fixes for many minor issues, improved WDM audio and modem support, improved USB support, the replacement of Internet Explorer 4.0 with Internet Explorer 5.0, Web Folders (WebDAV namespace extension for Windows Explorer), and related shell updates. Also included is basic OHCI-compliant FireWire (IEEE 1394a) DV camcorder support (MSDV class driver) and SBP-2 support for mass storage class devices, Wake-On-LAN support (if ACPI compatible NDIS drivers are present) and Internet Connection Sharing, which allows multiple computers on a LAN to share a single Internet connection through Network Address Translation. Other features in the update include DirectX 6.1 which introduced major improvements to DirectSound and the introduction of DirectMusic, improvements to Asynchronous Transfer Mode support (IP/ATM, PPP/ATM and WinSock 2/ATM support), Windows Media Player 6.2 replacing the older Media Player, Microsoft NetMeeting 3.0, MDAC 2.1 and WMI. A memory overflow issue was resolved which in the older version of Windows 98 would crash most systems if left running for 49.7 days (equal to 2³² milliseconds). Windows 98 SE could be obtained as retail upgrade and full version packages, as well as OEM and a Second Edition Updates Disc for existing Windows 98 users. Windows 98 Second Edition did not ship with the WinG API or RealPlayer 4.0 unlike the original release of Windows 98, both of these being superseded by DirectX and Windows Media Player.

Downloads

Windows 98 (English)
Windows 98 Second Edition Full (English)
Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade (English)

After that you can just put the files on a Floppy disk or a CD-ROM and install Windows 95 on a computer, or you can use Virtualbox to emulate it.

Windows 98 and its variants require a CD key to operate fully. Because no Windows 98 versions or variants are available for purchase by Microsoft whatsoever, and none of Windows 98 versions or variants are supported, it is officially considered abandonware, Therefor we can legally provide serial keys for the software that you can use. We do ask that you please buy Windows 98 to support Microsoft, however!

Serial Keys

Windows 98: VP9VV-VJW7Q-MHY6W-JK47R-M2KGJ
Windows 98 SECOND EDITION: CXTVG-6B2V9-B2M7R-XDW76-HXFPJ


Info

Developed by: Microsoft Corporation
Release date: June 25, 1998
Latest version: 4.10 (Released in May 5, 1999)
Source model: Closed source
License: Commercial software
Preceded by: Windows 95 (in 1995)
Succeeded by: Windows ME (in 2000)
Support status: Unsupported as of July 11, 2006
System requirements:
486DX Processor
16 MB of RAM
170-400 MB Hard Drive with at least 120-355 MB of free hard disk space (depends on what you install.)
VGA or higher resolution (Still possible to install an EGA driver from Windows 3.1 on Windows 98).


Recommended Downloadable programs
Windows 98 can download programs. You can click on the links below and simply put the files on your floppy disk or CD-Rom.

• Internet Explorer 6
• Windows Media Player 7
• DirectX 9.0c
• MSN Messenger 7.0
• Skype 3.6
• Audacity 1.3.14
• Firefox 2.0.0.20

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