Windows 98 menus and tooltips support slide animation. Windows Explorer in Windows 98, like Windows 95 , converts all uppercase filenames to Sentence case for readability purposes, however, it also provides an option Allow all uppercase names to display them in their original case. Windows Explorer includes support for compressed CAB files.
This fact was not well publicized when Windows 98 was released, and most hardware producers continued to develop drivers for the older VxD driver standard, which Windows 98 also supported. Windows Driver Model was introduced largely so that developers would write source compatible drivers for all future versions of Windows.
Support for WDM audio enables digital mixing, routing and processing of simultaneous audio streams and kernel streaming with high quality sample rate conversion on Windows All audio is sampled by the Kernel Mixer to a fixed sampling rate which may result in some audio getting upsampled or downsampled and having a high latency, except when using Kernel Streaming or third party audio paths like ASIO which allow unmixed audio streams and lower latency.
Windows 98 also includes a WDM streaming class driver Stream. TV listings could be updated from the Internet and WaveTop Data Broadcasting allowed extra data about broadcasts to be received via regular television signals using an antenna or cable, by embedding data streams into the vertical blanking interval VBI portion of existing broadcast television signals.
Windows 98 had more robust USB support e. Windows 98 introduced ACPI 1. However, hibernation support was extremely limited, and vendor-specific. However, there are hibernation issues with the FAT32 file system, making hibernation problematic and unreliable. Windows 98, in general, provides improved—and a broader range of—support for IDE and SCSI drives and drive controllers, floppy drive controllers and all other classes of hardware than Windows Windows 98 shipped with DirectX 5.
Windows 98 Second Edition shipped with DirectX 6. The DHCP client has been enhanced to include address assignment conflict detection and longer timeout intervals. NDIS 5. Multilink channel aggregation enables users to combine all available dial-up lines to achieve higher transfer speeds. For networked computers that have user profiles enabled, Windows 98 introduces Microsoft Family Logon which lists all users that have been configured for that computer, enabling users to simply select their names from a list rather than having to type it in.
The same feature can be added to Windows 95 if Internet Explorer 4. Windows 98 supports IrDA 3. Infrared Recipient, a new application for transferring files through an infrared connection is included. However, the cache parameters needed manual tuning as it degraded performance by consuming too much memory and not releasing it quickly enough, forcing paging to occur far too early.
This results in more memory being available to run applications, and lesser usage of the swap file. Windows 98 registry handling is more robust than Windows 95 to avoid corruption and there are several enhancements to eliminate limitations and improve registry performance.
The Windows 95 registry key size limitation of 64 KB is gone. The registry uses lesser memory and has better caching. WinAlign Walign. WinAlign aligns binary sections along 4 KB boundaries, aligning the executable sections with the memory pages. This allows the Windows 98 MapCache feature to map directly to sections in cache Walign.
Disk Defragmenter has been improved to rearrange program files that are frequently used to a hard disk region optimized for program start. Windows 98 also supports a Fast Shutdown feature that initiates shutdown without uninitializing device drivers.
Windows 98 supports write-behind caching for removable disk drives. A number of improvements are made to various other system tools and accessories in Windows Disk Cleanup , a new tool, enables users to clear their disks of unnecessary files. Cleanup locations are extensible through Disk Cleanup handlers.
Disk Cleanup can be automated for regular silent cleanups. ScanRegW tests the registry's integrity and saves a backup copy each time Windows successfully boots. The maximum amount of copies could be customized by the user through "scanreg. System Configuration Utility also known as Msconfig is a new system utility used to disable programs and services that are not required to run the computer.
System File Checker checks installed versions of system files to ensure they were the same version as the one installed with Windows 98 or newer.
Corrupt or older versions are replaced by the correct versions. For computers without an operating system and that do not support booting from optical drives, the Startup disk can be used to boot into MS-DOS and automatically start Windows 98 setup from the CD. Windows 98 includes an improved version of the Dr. Watson utility that collects and lists comprehensive information such as running tasks, startup programs with their command line switches, system patches, kernel driver, user drivers, DOS drivers and bit modules.
With Dr. Watson loaded in the system tray, whenever a software fault occurs general protection fault, hang, etc. Watson will intercept it and indicate what software crashed and its cause.
Windows Report Tool takes a snapshot of system configuration and lets users submit a manual problem report along with system information to technicians. It has e-mail confirmation for submitted reports. The system could be updated using Windows Update.
A utility to automatically notify of critical updates was later released. Users can configure the font in Notepad. Windows CE Windows Embedded. Microsoft Surface. European Union Microsoft antitrust case United States v. Microsoft Shared source. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition. View source. History Talk 0. There are two editions of Office Gold and Standard.
System 7. Sufficient hard disk space, depending on installation method: 'Drag and drop' or 'Easy' 90 MB , 'Complete' min.
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