In a way, they have more in common with each other than any other Windows operating system. Both are arguably Microsoft's biggest successes, not necessarily in sales volume but in achieving what they were intended to do as operating systems.
Windows 98 finally delivered on the promise of Windows 3. It was equally useful as a home and small business operating system and after it's 'Second Edition' release, became hugely popular because of this as well as rampant software piracy. With its modest system requirements, Windows 98 is quite possibly still the most widely used Microsoft operating system. Windows XP is the best all-around operating system that Microsoft has yet produced.
It built on Windows 's idea of integrating Microsoft's stable NT operating system with some of the user-friendly features of the Windows 9x operating systems. The resulting product is an extremely stable and mostly user-friendly hybrid combining ease of use with advanced features for businesses. Its only major drawback is its steep system requirements.
Today's computers really don't get the best out of Windows If you have a newer computer with Windows 98 installed, it's high time you considered updating your operating system to Windows XP. We will cover your upgrading options, what you will need to do in order to prepare for the upgrade, changes you can make to ensure the upgrade goes smoothly and how to troubleshoot any problems that might occur.
Upgrading your older version of Windows to Windows XP is actually more complicated than installing a fresh version of the operating system. You should make note of any software or hardware issues that are found during this step. Get updated Setup files If you're connected to the Internet, Setup will next ask you whether it can update itself over the Internet using the new Dynamic Updates technology.
I strongly recommend you do this, as Microsoft will be updating XP Setup with new critical updates and driver additions over time, and this will ensure that your copy of XP is as up-to-date as possible when first installed. Setup will then automatically reboot the computer. Preparing Setup In this phase of Setup, more files are copied to your computer in preparation for installation. Then, it will reboot again.
The Start Menu items are installed, and then components are registered. Finalizing installation In the final phase of Setup, program and system settings are upgraded, settings are saved, and, finally, temporary files are removed. Then the system reboots again. When this is complete, you are presented with your XP desktop. Post-upgrade tasks Once Windows XP is installed, it's time to perform a few post-installation tasks: 1. Test installed software.
Check to see that your software programs all work as before. If any do not, attempt to reinstall them using the original setup disks, or check the Web sites for the specific applications to see whether there are any updates. If any are still not working, open up Help and Support and navigate to the Fixing a problem link under Pick a Help Topic.
There, you will find help about solving application and software problems. Test installed hardware. Make sure all of your hardware works.
Open up Device Manager Open the Start menu, right-click My Computer, choose Properties, then go to the Hardware Tab and click Device Manager and make sure all of your hardware was detected and has working drivers. If any do not--as evidenced by a yellow bang next to the hardware device's name, right-click and choose Update Driver.
This will launch the Hardware Update Wizard. If this doesn't work, visit the hardware maker's site and see if there is an updated XP-compatible driver. There, you will find further help about solving hardware and system device problems. Run Windows Update to make sure your system is up-to-date.
Starting October 25, , there will be many, many updates for Windows XP on this site, so you should visit Windows Update right away. You may need to reboot after certain updates, and some updates will require you to install them individually. Keep installing and rebooting until you've got them all.
Defrag your system drive. During an upgrade, your system drive is going to become heavily fragmented. To defragment this drive, open My Computer, right-click the drive typically C: and choose Properties. Navigate to the Tools tab and select Defragment Now. Customize the system further. At this point, you might want to configure the wallpaper, screensaver, and other features, especially if these features weren't carried over from your previous Windows version for some reason.
Windows XP configuration occurs in a number of places, but some hot-spots include: Display Properties - Right-click an empty area of the background and choose Properties. I would backup all of my data and wipe the Drive. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter Telegraphman Start date Jul 15, Greetings all. Still plugging away at my old Dell Inspiron never going on internet. With my limited knowledge, this is Catch 22 for me. Does anyone have a solution please. Telegraphman said:. Click to expand Current system XP doesn't recognize these disks, unable boot from them. For USB sticks, you will need a driver.
That used to come with the stick as a small CD, but is probably a download today if available at all. There also was an unofficial service pack for Win98SE which added many very important features possibly including USB drivers, I'm not quite sure. If the CD drive you have will not read anything, you are stuck if you can't acquire another. Test it with a video CD or something. If it works at all, you will need to configure it as a bootable drive in the bios. Obviously, I can't double-guess why you need the real Win98 to run bit programmes, but there are a couple of alternatives worth mentioning.
First off, the fact is, Windows 7 professional has XP mode, which is more capable of running older applications than XP ever was, but usually not bit games accessing the hardware direct. Here is some amended info. You understand correctly about the setup here. I tried to boot the laptop from a USB floppy but have found that the bios does not support booting from external USB devices.
Ref your point 2: The problem remains I'm sure that one can't change periphals without turning the computer off first so what ever progress made with the floppy is lost. Is this not so? And on the subject of the Win 98 installation disk, I think you must be correct about it being faulty. When the disk is put in the drive a flashing disk icon appears next to the cursor, "properties" show a full disk graphic with no used space and no free space, zero bytes all round.
So it looks as though I need to find a good copy of the installation disk to carry on. The installation disk I am trying to use is a copy so I guess it must be suspect. For gbhall: Thanks for the info. If the applications you mention can do this would you please give me a pointer to where they are available so that I can check them out. In my previous attempts to make progress the bios has been configured correctly to boot from floppy or CD RoM as required.
I'm not very savvy with computers but I'm learning fast! As I understand you, the floppy drive will boot, alternatively you can plug in a CD which will read fine, but the setup CD will not boot. You suspect the CD may be faulty. This is very likely. When someone merely copies that CD for you, unless the copy is made with correct 'clone' options, you won't get the bootable capability. There will be a setup. I know this might be confusing for you, but in effect an expert could use the disk you have, boot from the floppy giving you a DOS install and could then run the setup.
I'm repeating steps in cliffordcooley's post actually So just as before, you will need a proper install CD whichever way you go. Reactions: cliffordcooley. Thanks for all the useful info - a bit more added to my steep learning curve. It appears that the simplest solution for me is to buy a genuine Win 98 SE installation disk and this is the path I will follow.
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