The startup splash screen is embedded into IO.SYS. You can make your own startup screen (minus the scrolling bar at the bottom) by making a 320x400, 256 color bitmap image, naiming it LOGO.SYS, and placing it in C:\.
The purpose is to help start up your computer and the installtion
You must have an installation disc to upgrade Windows 98.
Windows 98 startup disk has some useful utilities and can be used to repair Windows 98 without any additional drives. A floppy which was created by format A s, just have loader, and couple system files to be able to boot MSDOS.
Windows 98 supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and ISO9660 (on CDs).
drwatson32.log was the name of the drwatson log file used by Windows 98. This was a popular debugging program.
add/remove programs
The name of the dr Watson log file used by windows 97 was Sherlock. Dr. Watson was a debugging program for Windows 98.
The Hard Drive with Windows Vista installed on it would not work in Windows 98 unless you reformatted it using the FAT32 File System, thus erasing all data. Windows Vista uses the NTFS file system, which is not supported by Windows 98.
In the Add/Remove Programs icon is a tab called Startup Disk, click the tab
win386.swp (it resides in the Windows directory)
An 8 GB file cannot be placed on any file system supported by Windows 98. You could put such a file on an NTFS partition and use third-party software to access it from Windows 98, but programs on Windows 98 may have trouble reading or modifying it above the 4 GB boundary.