Windows 98 was vastly less stable and secure than its successors. When it crashed you may also get a screwed file system since there was no journaling. It was e

Windows 98 was vastly less stable and secure than its successors. When it crashed you may also get a screwed file system since there was no journaling. It was effectively single user and passwords were kept in a substantially rot13 user readable file. I have not used windows in fifteen years or so, but already XP was miles ahead of 98.