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Summary: Agree with others that Win98 is Less Stable than Win95
Review: If you have Win95 don't upgrade to Win98 - It is less stable and many of the programs for Win95 just plain do not work. Maybe WinME is better but it is still based on DOS - Microsoft is always announcing that their next version is going to be better -Well, we're are still waiting.
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Summary: windows 98 upgrade
Review: I tried to install the 98 upgrade second edition. My windows 95 system would not accept it reading "must have a 98 system." I need to get the complete 98 system, I guess.. Help! Help!Anybody
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Summary: Stick with Windows95 if you can
Review: Windoze98 upgrade from 95 made my computer much worse. I needed the 98 version because 95 has poor USB support. My experience is that many applications run a magnitude slower under 98. There are also frequent freeze-ups of the system, sometimes I can't power down the system through Windoze (I have to unplug it), and sometimes the system refuses to recognize peripherals (depending on what software was being ran). If you don't need USB support, my advice is to stay with Windows95. There are far less bugs.
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Summary: Good for home use but not for businesses.
Review: This Version of Windows 98 certainly gives me headaches when I hibernate with my computer. That is because sometimes it never comes back to it's original state. My computer always crashes, plus I get a lot of error messages. It's high speed, and has a lot of good features including some bug fixes. In other words, this is just for home use and not for business.
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Summary: Windows 95 bug patch
Review: Yum... yet another OS from Microsoft that is buggy, unreliable, and causes your system to crash randomly. I can't believe that I actually paid Microsoft for this product - they should be paying me if they want to do their beta testing on customers.Well, horrible architecture aside, the good things about Windows 98 is that it now has USB support, so not all of your dollars went to waste. Oh, and it includes another version of Internet Explorer - a very good product, by the way. Aside from that, if you have to use Windows to play your games, you were warned. I opted out, too frustrated from having to reboot constantly and now vow not to use another OS by this company ever again.
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Summary: A flawed product, difficult to install.
Review: I recently upgraded two of my computers from W95 to W98. For the most part my laptop upgrade went fine, although I did have to do some tinkering with it. Upgrading my desktop (a major name brand) was a major undertaking. I spent an entire day getting the upgrade to install properly. The machine would lock up or reboot itself in the middle of the install (not when it was supposed to reboot). Then I started to get "Windows protection errors." I went to the Microsoft website to find out more about these but their advice was not very helpful. The emergency startup disk that is created as part of the install is a joke. After loading from the diskette, there was not enough conventional memory to run my CD-ROM drive. It recommended that I add a line to the config.sys so that it loads EMM386. The problem: The EMM386 file is not on the startup diskette. For a while I was in a "catch 22." If I boot from the diskette I can't access the W98 install CD. But I need the CD to debug and complete the install. After many re-attempts and much debugging, I finally got it to install, but it wouldn't recognize that I had a modem (a name brand modem). It took me another hour to solve this problem. It seems to be working OK now - although I've got my fingers crossed. I've been in the computer business, working with PCs, for 15 years now and consider myself fairly competent technically. If I had been an average home user I would have been lost trying to install this. For the most part, the manual, help screens, and MS website all assume that you a computer geek - and provide their advice accordingly. My advice. If you're still running Windows 95 and are not having any problems, stay with it. Windows 98 itself does not have enough new features to make the upgrade, and the cost of the upgrade, worthwhile (especially if you have the problems that I did). If you're a home user, wait until the second release of Windows ME is available and go with that. If you are a business user and have tech support people available, consider Windows 2000.
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Summary: This Software Does NOT work
Review: My company purchased this upgrade. We installed it on 5 of our PCs. On 2 of the PCs it kept duplicating and creating Temporary Internet subfolders and the cookies inside the folders exponentially locking up the PCs. On the other 3 if you went into explorer and tried to move folders the contents of the folders vanished. They were not in the delete file. They were just gone. On all 5 PCs you may be working and out of the blue you would get a message that said "You have performed an illegal operation!" and then the whole PC would lock up and would not respond to the mouse or any of the keys. If your work was not "saved" when this happened it was "lost." I personally never purchased this upgrade for home use and I never will. It's nothing but trouble.
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Summary: The best of the best
Review: This is the best software ever, but you might need to download some upgrades like the media player, outlook express and the internet explorer but that's easy i recommend this better than the windows 2000 because is ... and the difference from the 98 version is only some upgrades that you can download at ...
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Summary: skip this
Review: I know you are busy so I'll get to the point: Windows 98 isn't very stable at all, I'd suggest you skip this second edition upgrade and just go for Windows 2000.
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Summary: Nice OS
Review: Being a MS-DOS, & Windows 3.1 user for years made Windows 98 Second Edition a whole new world to explore! I like the way Windows 98SE has USB capability and a nice Software Table Synth MIDI! The ability to use my computer for Video Editing, Watching TV, Recording my own CDS etc has impressed me by leaps and bounds! I'm a satisfied user of Windows 98SE (or Windows 4.1 if you want to get technical!)
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