Also, you get real friggin DOS !

Great for back-door windoze fixes/tweaks. Much better for image-based backups. Older (and better) games run nicer, too.

W98 is itself a DOS app. But any 2K/XP system can be easily setup to dual-boot W98’s DOS 7.1.

Reasons to drop that silly idea -

Windows 98 Explorer crashes - due to bad memory management - any time a large number of files are renamed and then the machine is not rebooted

Speaking of reboots - generally needed at least once every couple of days, if not MUCH more frequently

The ability to only use 512 MB of memory - although the apps took less memory, the differences are not commensurate - it is still better to have bloated apps on XP with 2 GB memory

The problem with drives over 128 GB - they can’t be used with Windows 98 without special software, either shaky amateur stuff or something from a drive manufacturer, which is easily attacked by virus - the kind that do work on Win9x - so that all information on the drive is toast

Need I say more….

Just because you don’t like Vista (totally understandable) the choices of Windows 2000 or XP are both better than Win 98

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A good article, Windows 98 would run smoother than Windows Vista.