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W98SE was the last windows that actually felt polished to me. Also I had the feeling that while using it (a fresh install) my computer was faster than with any
by cies 1y ago
W98SE was the last windows that actually felt polished to me. Also I had the feeling that while using it (a fresh install) my computer was faster than with any other windows versions from around that time.
Later windows came with different looks, UI toolkits, ribbons, and what nots. It became a messy UI. And what the NT-stack was probably better in all kinds of ways, it always felt like it was slowing things down...
- trinix912 1y agoUI-wise, perhaps, but the underlying foundation was far from solid. A single poorly written program would bring the entire system to its knees. Same for drivers. System startup files would occasionally randomly break, requiring booting with a startup floppy and manually restoring them. Plus a ~512MB RAM limit. Windows NT (even 4.0 at the time) was light years ahead of that. Oh, and I think we're forgetting the Ad Panel on the desktop, absolutely huge (at least on 800x600) toolbar buttons in Explorer, and other "bloat" IE integration brought us in W98 ;)
- anthk 1y agoThis. Active X was a bit of a turd; by disabling IE preloading W98SE was almost snapppy... until a heavy threaded working environment crawled it down; was very subpar compared to w2k/XP, even under a Pentium 4 and 512 MB of RAM.
- keepamovin 1y agoIf you want to install NT 4.0 on DosBox-X I found this guide helpful: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/discussions/4907#discussioncomment-12506812 https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/discussions/4907#...