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Shortcoming in Windows 98

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by dharam91

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The two most frequent shortcomings noticed in the operating system windows 98 are as follows.
1.While working on it the system hangs quite often thus forcing you to either end your current task thereby loosing time and work or to restart the computer.
2. The explorer very often displays the message that the program has performed an illegal operation and thereby closes the program .

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by kim2786

Me too, I had a lot of problem with 98 that now i am using win 2000 pro. win2000 is more stable than 98.

by thmiuatga

Hmm...
You should expect some snafu's with an operating system that's not created from scratch. Windows NT was built from the ground up. Windows ME is a revamped Win98 and both 98 and 95 are built on top of DOS. Are you comprehending all of this? There are some programs that don't run well with Windows. You have to consider
the configuration of your hardware and the conflicts that may exist. this naturally causes problems with windows. If you have the bare minimum of system memory installed you can't expect to run one program much less two, have any active applications and assume everything will zip along just fine. It doesn't work that way. Windows 2000 pro may be good and personally I don't give a flying
bitmap about it. Plenty of people chose to stay with Win98 instead of upgrading to Win-ME. There's barely any improvement in it,
I've read too many help bulletins for it on the Tech Tv help page to suggest that it's stable, Tech Tv's Leo Laporte has already suggested staying with 98 unless you've bought a new system and it has Win2k on it.
Just read some of the questions concerning Win2k problems on this site alone and that should give you an idea of what to expect.
The minimal improvement and five new add-ons doesn't warrant the price or the hassle in upgrading. If you're having serious problems
with Windows 98 I strongly suggest you check your system BIOS settings, the hardware settings, then go find the following book:
"Mastering Windows 98" by Robert Cowart.
This book will show you all you need to know about Windows 98 inside and out.

by computab

Windows 98 isn't that bad. You may have an error which could be tedious to diagnose, such as a corrupt explorer.exe. You could extract a new copy of this from the original CD. There are other tools which can help to solve the problem

by clearsmashdrop

For home use Windows 98 is fine. Its good for people that like to play games.

However, at work Id rather have everyone use NT or 2000. Both are more stable and have less problems operating as part of a domain.

If you were to buy a new OS right now I would recommend 2000 Pro. You get the stability of NT but you can play games on it too. :-)

by computab

I have been using Windows 98 since its first release and I find the same problems as you, but these can always be fixed by running SFC.EXE (system file checker) and Symantec WinDoctor, and let it fix all problems. Run antivirus checks (you think you don't have a virus, trojan or pest!) - and disable any suspicious item in startup. You might also need to reinstall Internet Explorer, possibly by removing it manually first (see elsewhere in Techrepublic for this).

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