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5 reasons to use Windows 98 instead of upgrading to Vista

This is NO joke! ;)

  1. New viruses are incompatible. True. Vista doesn’t run on Win98. XD

  2. Very little bloat (200 MB on disc with no crap)
  3. Office 2000 runs flawlessly. We still use “.doc,” right?
  4. Firefox 2 still runs well if you delete two files.
  5. Do I need to say more?

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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.

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