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 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: $109.00
Buy New: $43.50
You Save: $65.50 (60%)
New (7) Used (9) from $24.99
Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 2216
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 98
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows 3x and below
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 1.9
MPN: 730-00848
Model: 730-00848
UPC: 659556102791
EAN: 0659556102791
ASIN: B00002JV50
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 A flawed product, difficult to install. November 13, 2000
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
I recently upgraded two of my computers from W95 to W98. For the most part my laptop upgrade went fine, although I did have to do some tinkering with it. Upgrading my desktop (a major name brand) was a major undertaking. I spent an entire day getting the upgrade to install properly. The machine would lock up or reboot itself in the middle of the install (not when it was supposed to reboot). Then I started to get "Windows protection errors." I went to the Microsoft website to find out more about these but their advice was not very helpful. The emergency startup disk that is created as part of the install is a joke. After loading from the diskette, there was not enough conventional memory to run my CD-ROM drive. It recommended that I add a line to the config.sys so that it loads EMM386. The problem: The EMM386 file is not on the startup diskette. For a while I was in a "catch 22." If I boot from the diskette I can't access the W98 install CD. But I need the CD to debug and complete the install.After many re-attempts and much debugging, I finally got it to install, but it wouldn't recognize that I had a modem (a name brand modem). It took me another hour to solve this problem. It seems to be working OK now - although I've got my fingers crossed. I've been in the computer business, working with PCs, for 15 years now and consider myself fairly competent technically. If I had been an average home user I would have been lost trying to install this. For the most part, the manual, help screens, and MS website all assume that you a computer geek - and provide their advice accordingly. My advice. If you're still running Windows 95 and are not having any problems, stay with it. Windows 98 itself does not have enough new features to make the upgrade, and the cost of the upgrade, worthwhile (especially if you have the problems that I did). If you're a home user, wait until the second release of Windows ME is available and go with that. If you are a business user and have tech support people available, consider Windows 2000.
 This Software Does NOT work October 25, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
My company purchased this upgrade. We installed it on 5 of our PCs. On 2 of the PCs it kept duplicating and creating Temporary Internet subfolders and the cookies inside the folders exponentially locking up the PCs. On the other 3 if you went into explorer and tried to move folders the contents of the folders vanished. They were not in the delete file. They were just gone. On all 5 PCs you may be working and out of the blue you would get a message that said "You have performed an illegal operation!" and then the whole PC would lock up and would not respond to the mouse or any of the keys. If your work was not "saved" when this happened it was "lost." I personally never purchased this upgrade for home use and I never will. It's nothing but trouble.
 Nice OS September 20, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Being a MS-DOS, & Windows 3.1 user for years made Windows 98 Second Edition a whole new world to explore! I like the way Windows 98SE has USB capability and a nice Software Table Synth MIDI! The ability to use my computer for Video Editing, Watching TV, Recording my own CDS etc has impressed me by leaps and bounds! I'm a satisfied user of Windows 98SE (or Windows 4.1 if you want to get technical!)
 Freeze up 98; Second edition. September 1, 2000
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This product is great; if you want your computer to freeze up every 5 seconds.
Very stable and very easy install. August 21, 2000
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
I read through the presious reviews and found they fall into two groups. The first group is Microsoft hate mail. The second group consists of honest reviews. If you remove the hate mail from the overall star ranking you'll find that Win98SE gets about 4.5 stars. I installed this as an upgrade to Win95. The install went perfectly. The computer almost never crashes. In fact, about the only time I reboot if is when I shut it down because of a lightning storm. I find this OS faster than WIn95 and more stable. It also has a lot of nice features such as baing able to reorder and move start menu items with out openning explorer to do it. My system is modest by todays standards (AMD K6-2/350 and 96 MB ram). I highly recommend Win98SE. I think that anyone that gives it an honest review will say the same. Ignore that hate mail. Give your PC a boost.
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