Windows 98

Windows XP was the first Microsoft OS to embed Windows Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, a Windows firewall, and other Microsoft products into the OS.
win95=windows 95

Windows 98 came with support for USB built-in; Windows 95 needed an add-on released only for OEM versions.

Windows 98 supports FAT32 (and thus larger hard drives) out of the box; Windows 95, again, needed an add-on.

Windows 98 included DirectX 5.0; Windows 95 did not ship with any version of DirectX.

Windows 98 integrated Internet Explorer into the desktop shell; Windows 95 did not by default.

No, and neither would it be desirable. Windows 98 cannot boot off an NTFS partition, and if your system was using a FAT16 partition, it is probably not large enough to benefit from NTFS anyway.

A product key should be used ONLY for 1 computer. The product key should not be used more than once. However, if you have used a product key more than once, the product key can be changed without re-installing the operating system.

difference between window95 and window98?

Most will, but Windows 2000 did not focus as heavily on backwards-compatibility as Windows XP does, and a few games may work improperly or require Administrator privileges.

Depends on which operating system you are using and whether you want to copy more than one file.

In DOS/Windows command prompt "c:\copy xxxx /destination_folder/"

if more than one file you can use "c:\copy xxx.* /destination_folder/"

Xcopy has more options (verify, copy subdirectories ..) and is used "c:\xcopy xxx* /s /destination_folder/"

In Unix/Linux/OSX cp is the command for copying

as in "#darkstar$cp -R *.txt /destination_folder/"

cp has a lot more option than xcopy but you will need to type either "cp --help" or "man cp" to get the best of cp's actions.

Windows 98 uses FAT32 partitions. A FAT32 partition has a maximum theoretical size of 8 TB, but with 512-byte sectors found on most hard drives, you cannot have a FAT32 partition of more than 2 TB.

Also, Windows 98 does not support LBA48 addressing by default, though there is a patch available. Without both this patch and a BIOS capable of LBA48 addressing (all BIOS from 2002 and later can), you cannot access ANY part of the hard drive, be it partitioned or not, beyond 127 GB. So the largest practical partition size for any Windows 98-era computer is a 127 GB partition on a 127 GB hard drive. Anything larger than that is unusable.

You can take off applications that you want to keep but you must have a good means of storing that application like with a zip drive or flash USB storage device. Can I ask a question, what do you mean when you say "take everything off" in computer terms that means a "format" which means you will be formatting your hard drive which will remove EVERYTHING, I mean start you from the beginning. This means you will not have an operating system and will need to reinstall Windows to get back going, but be mindful, EVERYTHING you had on that computer will be erased.

LOTS Better Find yourself a "zero-fill" utility. There are plenty of free ones online; most of the major hard drive makers supply one with every drive they sell. The "zero-fill" utility should be on a bootable disk, be it a CD-ROM or a floppy, depending on your system. Run the "zero-fill" utility on your PC. Be patient! It takes time to write billions of zeroes! When the "zero-fill" utility is finished, your hard drive will be in the condition it enjoyed the day it left the factory.

To install Windows 98, you should have both an installation CD and a bootable floppy. If your system will boot from a CD (most will these days), you won't need the floppy. Insert the CD or floppy disk, turn the thing on, and you're off to the races.

Internal DOS commands are those provided internally by cmd.exe:

BREAK, CD/CHDIR, CHCP, CLS, COPY, CTTY, DATE, DEL/ERASE, DIR, EXIT, LOADHIGH, LOCK, MD/MKDIR, PATH, PROMPT, RD/RMDIR, SET, TIME, TRUENAME, TYPE, UNLOCK, VER, VOL, VERIFY.

External commands are those provided by separate executables.

The shell will only execute files that end in a file extension of .exe, .bat, or .com

If you have a mnagable one you can change setting such as packet filtering, firewall, protocol filtering and so. If you have a unmanagable on you cannot change its settings. Usually managable switches are much more expensive than unmanagaable ones because of its flexibility.

Not all but most DOS software can run on Windows 98..

On less powerful processors, such as the Pentium II, Windows 2000 offers a significant speed advantage. However, Windows XP has better support for multi-threading and multi-processing, which makes it faster than Windows 2000 on newer processors.

Fdisk.

Windows 98 cd's are not bootable (for the most part) so in order to partition a new hard disk in preparation of a windows 98 install, you will need to make a boot floppy (or boot CD, or USB) which will enable you to partition and format the disk for windows install.

Follow the link below for some disk images, utilities, and workarounds for the windows 98 bootdisk dilemma.

clean install formats your hard drive eliminating the virus and doesn't in an upgrade

If you have the hardware to support Windows 98 you can use Microsoft Virtual PC to install multiple Operating Systems that run on your current OS.

Microsoft Virtual PC software is free; it is just a shell however that allows you install Operating Systems just as you would on a new hard drive, provided you have a valid OS on disk like Windows 98. You can download Virtual PC at Microsoft's official website.

You may be asking how to install a dual boot system with Windows 98 and Windows 2000. If this is what you're trying to accomplish then you will need to know that you must install Windows 98 on its own Primary partition. Each operating system must be installed on its own partition. If you have a hard disk that has only a single partition, you have several options available.

1. You could reformat your current hard drive after backing up all your important files and re-install your operating systems and partition your hard drive into 2 Primary partitions.

Windows will only allow a Primary partition to be made bootable; Windows will not allow Logical partitions of an Extended partition to be made bootable so you cannot install Windows on a Logical partition. An operating system like Linux will allow Logical partitions to be made bootable. -- Meaning you must create at least 2 Primary partitions to install a dual boot system with Windows.

Also you can only create up to 4 Primary partitions on a single hard drive. Or you can create up to 3 Primary partitions and 1 Extended partition.

Also you must know that the native files systems for Windows 98 and 2000 are not the same. Windows 98's native file system is FAT32 and Windows 2000 is NTFS. FAT32 cannot see an NTFS partition; however NTFS can read a FAT32 partition. The boot sector must be able to be read by both OS's. Which means the boot sector must be on a common file system between both OS's; FAT32 in this case. Installing Windows 98 first will install a FAT32 boot sector and will be able to be read by Windows 2000 after it is installed. This way the system will dual boot correctly.

On another note DO NOT INSTALL Windows98 after Windows 2000 has already been installed. Your system will not dual boot correctly; you will overwrite the boot sector. Remember Windows 98 cannot see an NTFS partition, by default Windows 2000 creates an NTFS boot sector, since Windows 98 cannot see an NTFS partition it will overwrite the boot sector and your system will not dual boot correctly.

Not all Windows versions can dual boot together. To see the supported dual boot configurations and more info on dual booting see related links.

2. Your other option; which is perhaps the best choice for what you are trying to accomplish is simply hook up another hard drive inside your PC case and you will be able to configure a dual boot system much easier and won't have to reformat your current hard drive. On a side note, you cannot use an external hard drive to boot to an Windows NT operating system, such as a Windows OS later than Windows 98. You will receive an error and the system will not boot! However, you can install an open source operating system such as Linux or Unix and have it boot to an external hard drive. Also Linux/Unix operating systems will even boot to a USB stick.

There are a few differences between Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1, the most noticeable being:

- The texting application is now displayed in a more modern, conversation-like form
- There are performance and efficiency improvements, some of which you might not ever see
- The OS is preloaded with new music
- In many devices, there will be an interface change on the home screen. With HTC touch screen devices, it might come with an optional grid-like plugin for the Today Screen (home screen), allowing you to more efficiently manage information. On non-touchscreen devices, a modern new interface called "Titanium" is implemented on the Today Screen (home screen), allowing for sleek content organization.
- On some phones, functionality is improved. An example is the AT&T Tilt, receiving the once absent feature of PTT or Push To Talk
- An over all improve on menu/inbox performance


There are many more changes between the two OS's. If you have any questions, email me at gustavoser@hotmail.com, as I myself upgraded my AT&T Tilt from 6.0 to 6.1.


-Gus

This is quite a complicated question! In many ways, Vista is an improvement - DVDs are handled much better (XP doesn't really understand writing DVDs), navigation in explorer is better, finding applications is easier, multiple screen handling is better, wireless networking is better, finding applications is much quicker - press start and type the name and the application you want will pop-up instantly. With all these (and other) improvements, there is little that compels one to use Vista over XP; this is quite common with newer operating systems. When XP was released, it was a year or two before "killer" applications were released that were XP only (Photoshop CS was one such). Against Vista is the hardware requirements; 1 Gigabyte is too small to use comfortably. This is generally the case, XPs hardware requirement is much greater than Windows 98.

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