what are the advantages and disadvantages of windows 98?

Answer 1

Compared to NT,2000,XP (mainly XP pro)
Disadvantages are:
-poor group policy - domain policy settings support

-not meant to be multi-user, therefore lacking folder permissions and a multi-user security model, meaning in 98 anyone can get to anyone's files, and anyone can install anything, there is no concept of user privileges, such as admin and limited accounts

-poor implementation of TCP/IP, you cannot change anything in the network stack without rebooting, such as a static IP addresses

Advantages:
-will run on hardware that 2000 and XP may be sluggish on

To sum it up, 98 is meant to be a single user independent PC, while the NT line is meant to be (or at lease better suited to be) part of a network environment

Answer 2

Lots of disadvantages, networking, security (nonexistant), and most new apps wont run on 98. Windows 98 is ancient compared to a modern operating system. The only advantage of it would be it's size. Its only a few hundred MB if I remember right. If you want my netrual opinion, you might think about giving Linux a shot, since I am assuming this is old hardware anyway. There is LOTs of online help/forums etc, with Linux also.
Good Luck, Zach

Answer 3

Advantages
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01. The first thing is the driver stability.
02. Second easy recovery of OS.
03. Stable Operating System
04. Lite
05. Lesser installation time
06. Security [***********]

Disadvantages
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01. Less internet supportability
02. No more updates available
03. No compatible drivers available for latest technologies.
04. Doesn't work on new Motherboards [915 and later]

Answer 4

there is no advantages with windows 98, it's a dinosaur at 9 years old, you need to up grade if you want to keep up.