Windows 98 FE & SE

Windows 98 FE & SE is a continuation of the Windows 95 product. The major change is an insanely heavy focus on web integration. The help system, many applications, and even the desktop are redesigned to make use of Internet Explorer. Windows 98 runs on top of the same “MS-DOS 7.1” with FAT32 support as Windows 95 OSR2, and it includes support for USB. Windows 98 had two major releases – a First Edition and a Second Edition. It was followed up by Windows ME.

Windows 98 First Edition and Windows 98 Second Edition are contained in one .zip folder. Again, product keys for these editions of Windows are numerous, so I’m certain you won’t have any trouble with that. If you do, please leave a comment and I’ll try to resolve it.

Installation Instructions:

Hardware requirements can be bypassed in the setup with the undocumented /nm setup switch. This will allow systems as old as the 80386 with 8MB of RAM to run Windows 98 (although this will be far from optimal)
Important: Only the OEM Full version is bootable. All others require an appropriate Windows 98 Boot Floppy.
Note: VMWare and VirtualBox can be problematic with Windows 9x. You may need to disable various acceleration features first or consider emulators like x86Box or PCem.
To speed up installation, and to avoid numerous problems, copy the win98 folder to a folder on the hard drive (such as c:\win98) and then run setup from there.
Wanted: Floppy version

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