Download Windows Millennium Edition Operating System

The Windows Millennium Edition operating system is the successor of Windows 98 SE with some selected features of Windows 2000. The system core consists of a few parts of source code from Windows 2000. MS-DOS is furthermore necessary for the system start, DOS driver software are not used under Windows any more. 

In comparison with the predecessor Windows 98, new features were added. Now it is possible to create compressed folders who moreover let themselves be encoded (screenshots 3-4). The search function from Windows 2000 was integrated into the Windows ME Explorer, the stability was improved. The Windows Registry was extended by one file for performance reasons. The Registry file Classes.dat is loaded only on demand, System.dat and User.dat are loaded statically. For any logged in user the respective User.dat is loaded from the profile directory. Benchmarks between Windows ME and Windows 2000 with current games have shown that Windows ME reaches slightly higher benchmark result with suitable hardware and driver software. The sales on market started on September 14th, 2000. 

Download Windows 98 Second Edition Operating System

Windows 98 Second Edition includes many improvements and enhancements not included in the original version of Windows 98. These include fixes for known issues in Windows 98, and new tools and capabilities to help you be more productive. It may be useful to install this version of Windows to update your system files, obtain access to the tools in Windows 98 Second Edition, obtain the fixes for known issues in Windows 98, and so on. This article describes the updates in Windows 98 Second Edition. Topics in this article include: 

Download Windows 98 Operating System

Microsoft announced with this new system software Version 4.10 the revised version of Windows 95. The operating system Windows 98 contains as innovation mainly detail improvements and bug fixes. The hardware component is enhanced with USB support improved and the operation of several monitors is possible now. Windows 98 is prepared for DVD movies, for the view of DVD Movies a separate software must be installed. 

The update to the newest Windows Release is supported if Windows 3. x or Windows 95 is already installed. 

As a file system for the installation of Windows 98 FAT32 is recommended. If the access to other file systems is needed are tools of third party manufacturers required which usually offer a free software with read access. Such tools are available for NTFS and the Linux file system ext2. For the professional file system NTFS exists a driver of Sysinternals which is integrated after the installation in the operating system. For the successful installation system files are needed by Windows NT. 

Download Windows 95 Operating System

The new Windows operating system with the internal version 4.0 is the successor of Windows 3.11 and brings a completely new design of the interface and of the kernel with it. 32-bit applications are supported fully, DOS applications can also virtually be used now in a DOS box, furthermore 16-bits of programs are supported. Windows 95 to ME still needs DOS for the loading up program and for the DOS box. New hardware is comfortably recognized by plug and play, the memory management was developed further considerably. 

Important part of Windows 95 is the Registry now, which is responsible for the system behaviour like file assoziation, program parameter, driver software, system configuration and others. The Registry consists of the files system.dat and user.dat, these are located in the Windows directory. The files system.ini and win.ini are less important but are necessary for the system start furthermore. For user profiles one user.dat is placed in each user directory and loaded upon login of the user for the individual user settings.