Privacy Policy Terms of Service. Jump to Navigation. Search form Search. Infopackets Reader 'Tom' asks: " Somewhere, someone told me about a website that allowed users to download a windows 98 Second Edition full CD that included all the critical updates. Filed under:. 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 Approximate total download size of all the listed updates is 58MB. Microsoft Libraries Update 2. Latest Forum Posts '; document.
Log-In Register. Comment On This Article. Comments are no longer available due to abuse. Please use the Community Forums to get in touch. Recent Support Posts. HeyJeff ,. Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. MS is still offering them for Win98, if they are Critical. Welshjim ,.
It had a few other tweaks that the author provided. I doubt Microsoft does anything to truely optimize 98 anymore and I think this guy really has an interest in making it better if only by bits and pieces.
I can vouch for that Windows 98 2nd ed SP1. I used to manually install every update one by one that I had previously downloaded and saved to a cd. What order and which ones was always guess work, and waiting for Windows Update, which no longer includes alot of non-critical but helpful updates was torture. Then it's a simple matter of going to Windows Update for the few recent ones that are left.
I do return a few settings back to the defaults, however. For one, he sets whether you registered Windows yet to 1. Nice, but I like to register myself and do not install the firewall and connect until after installing the updates.
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