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1. WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR DRIVERS
2. WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR DRIVER
3. WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR UPGRADE
4. WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR SOFTWARE
5. WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR WINDOWS

Windows 98 supports digital playback of audio CDs, and the Second Edition improves WDM audio support by adding DirectSound hardware mixing and DirectSound 3D hardware abstraction, DirectMusic kernel support, KMixer sample-rate conversion (SRC) for capture streams and multichannel audio support.

WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR WINDOWS

A Microsoft GS Wavetable Synthesizer licensed from Roland shipped with Windows 98 for WDM audio drivers. The Windows 95 11-device limitation for MIDI devices is eliminated.

WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR SOFTWARE

WDM Audio allows for software emulation of legacy hardware to support MS-DOS games, DirectSound support and MIDI wavetable sythesis. Support for WDM audio enables digital mixing, routing and processing of simultaneous audio streams and kernel streaming with high quality sample rate conversion on Windows 98. NTKERN creates IRPs and sends them to WDM drivers.

WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR DRIVER

Device driver access in WDM is actually implemented through a VxD device driver, NTKERN.VXD which implements several Windows NT-specific kernel support functions.

WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR DRIVERS

Windows Driver Model was introduced largely so that developers would write source compatible drivers for all future versions of Windows. The WDM standard only achieved widespread adoption years later, mostly through Windows 2000 and Windows XP, as they are not compatible with the older VxD standard. This fact was not well publicized when Windows 98 was released, and most hardware producers continued to develop drivers for the older VxD driver standard, which Windows 98 also supported. Windows 98 was the first operating system to use the Windows Driver Model (WDM). Improvements to hardware support Windows Driver Model The Quick Res and Telephony Location Manager Windows 95 PowerToys are integrated. Windows Explorer includes support for compressed CAB files. Windows Explorer in Windows 98, like Windows 95, converts all uppercase filenames to Sentence case for readability purposes, however, it also provides an option Allow all uppercase names to display them in their original case. Windows 98 menus and tooltips support slide animation. Title bars of windows and dialog boxes support two-color gradients. Windows 98 had its own separately purchasable Plus! pack called Plus! 98. 3D Pinball is included on the CD-ROM but not installed by default. Windows 98 also integrates shell enhancements, themes and other features from Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 such as DriveSpace 3, Compression Agent, Dial-Up Networking Server, Dial-Up Scripting Tool and Task Scheduler. The Windows 98 shell includes all of the enhancements from Windows Desktop Update, an Internet Explorer 4 component, such as the Quick Launch toolbar, deskbands, Active Desktop, Channels, ability to minimize foreground windows by clicking their button on the taskbar, single click launching, Back and Forward navigation buttons, favorites, and address bar in Windows Explorer, image thumbnails, folder infotips and web view in folders, and folder customization through HTML-based templates. Besides Internet Explorer, many other Internet companion applications are included such as Outlook Express, Windows Address Book, FrontPage Express, Microsoft Chat, Personal Web Server and a Web Publishing Wizard, NetMeeting and NetShow Player (in the original release of Windows 98) which was replaced by Windows Media Player 6.2 in Windows 98 Second Edition. Windows 98 includes Internet Explorer 4.01. Second version/edition of Microsoft Windows Windows 98 Final Beta? (Windows Memphis Last BETA?/Windows 98 Office Release Candidate 5)Īlpha/Beta Versions of Windows 98 Plus!-Second Editions Windows 98 Zeroth Release Candidate (Windows Memphis Release Candidate 0/Windows 98 Release Candidate 0) Windows 98 Official Beta 2.1 (Windows 97)

WINDOWS 98 THEMES COLOR UPGRADE

The first build to be able to upgrade from Windows 3.1x. Many builds were released or leaked, starting with build 1351 on December 15, 1996, and ending with Windows 98 Second Edition.