Win95 or Win 98?

[Shadow926]

I currently have win95. Is it a good choice to upgrade to win98 or win Me performance-wise.

 

[Sugadaddy]

I'd get win98se mainly for compatibility, as for speed, I don't know if it would be faster, but maybe...
Look in the forums, you can get it for cheap...

 

[Super6]

I've found 98 to be faster and more stable than 95 plus I needed solid USB support. Actually I've been running 98Lite (micro install) for close to two years with few problems most of which I have caused.

Haven't seen or heard any compelling reason(s) to go with ME as it appears to be even more bloatware with a lot of driver issues. My $.02.

Super6

 

[BCYL]

Definitely upgrade to win98... but hold off on winME until at least the 1st service pack comes out and fixes some bugs...

 

[jaywallen]

Shadow926,

Relative performance of Win95 vs Win98 will depend upon your system. A 120 MHz Pentium is a reasonably good Win95 performer, but will be dead slow under Win98 or Win98SE. Win98 is bigger, probably more robust and stable for most people. But I've seen Win95 systems (OSR 2.x, NOT the original version) which had been tweaked to work as well as Win98. Win98 has some nice maintenance / tuning features like SFC and MSCONFIG that are sadly lacking in Win95. But you can get a lot of the startup items control functionality provided by MSCONFIG in an applet that will work under Win95. It's called Startup Control Panel, and is available here. If you decide to get that utility, you'll probably want to get the executable version rather than the Control Panel applet. The Control Panel applet has to have the "new" style Windows installer on the system.

Of course, if you need support for newer hardware (particularly for USB), then Win98 or Win98SE has it all over Win95, despite the USB support that was added later on.

Regards,
Jim

 

[jlyda]

ok heres my $.02 win 95 ver d. if your not using usb or have like mouse keyboard or slow processor, 98 if you need the usb and gaming driver support, me if you install on a clean drive and have memory and processor to spare. i have benn running "ME" since the launch and the only problem is a slow media player so i use winamp.