I often hear people say that Windows 98 had to be reinstalled every couple of months to yearly because of how unstable it got. I’m still using my Celeron Windows 98 First edition PC, no modifications of any sort and I’ve never had an issue with instability or the need to reinstall, and I use it almost daily still. What kind of instability are people referring to? Is there something I should avoid doing that causes it? I’ve never seemed to have any issues and BSOD is pretty rare as well.

Revisiting Unreal (1998) on Microsoft Windows—still stunning with its atmosphere, soundtrack, and groundbreaking visuals. A true PC gaming classic that helped define an era.

#unreal #retrogaming #gaming #pc #pcgaming

I created Windows Image Viewer that brings modern image-viewing comfort to classic Windows in a tiny, native Win32 program — no runtime, no bloat. View, browse, edit, convert and print your pictures the way Windows always should have.

View

• Opens 14 image formats: BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF (with animation), TIFF (multi-page), PCX, DCX, Targa, Photoshop PSD, PNM, Amiga IFF, Windows Metafile and Kodak Photo CD
• Smooth zoom — Best Fit, Shrink to Fit, Actual Size, 25–400 % and custom scale; Ctrl + mouse-wheel zoom
• Animated GIF playback and multi-page TIFF navigation
• Full-screen viewing and slide shows (delay, loop, random, reverse)
• Automatic JPEG rotation from the camera's EXIF orientation

Edit

• Rotate, flip, resize (keep aspect ratio), crop
• Adjust brightness, contrast and gamma; convert to grayscale
• One-click Undo — your original is never touched
• Save or convert to PNG, JPEG, BMP or PCX; set any picture as wallpaper

Browse

• ACDSee-style folder browser with thumbnails, folder tree and address bar
• Thumbnail / Large / Small / List / Details views, sortable by name, size, type or date
• File operations: cut, copy, paste, rename, delete, new folder, move/copy to folder
• Batch tools: rotate, convert or resize many images at once
• "Open With" / "Edit With", file listing export, thumbnail disk cache

Print

• Print one image per page, 2 / 4 / 9 per page, or a contact sheet of thumbnails
• Live preview, orientation, quality, margins, grayscale and file-name labels

Set up

• File-type associations for all supported formats
• Options for the toolbar, status bar, folder tree, slide show and more

Also available in Turkish and French.

System requirements: Windows 95 or later · a few hundred KB of disk space · runs even on a 386.

Download Link

Image Viewer

Image Explorer

Image Explorer with folder tree and address bar

File associations selection during setup

Like a native Windows 95 software

Handmade icons

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A couple of years ago I made defrag98.com, a browser version of the Win98 disk defragmenter, purely to recreate that hypnotic feeling of watching the blocks rearrange. It did better than I ever expected, but a few things always bugged me about it, so I rebuilt the whole thing.

The big one: the original didn't march through clusters in order. It read, wrote, and shuffled them around in this messy, almost-thinking way. My first version was too tidy. The new sim actually models that, so the blocks jump around before settling, like you remember.

I also brought back the legend dialog explaining each block color, switched the grid to a white background (mine was wrongly black), made the progress bar fill block by block with the "% Complete" caption, and added the real "Disk Defragmenter" completion box with the chime. It runs fully offline now too.

There's also a hidden easter egg in there for anyone who grew up on this OS. I won't say what it is.

It's free, no ads, no tracking. Would love to hear from people who remember the original whether it feels right: defrag98.com

Full write-up if you're curious about the rebuild: morello.dev/blog/defrag98-rebuild

I literally haven’t found a single subreddit covering Windows 1.0 - 3.1 so I was wondering if yall would like to join it would really mean alot to me :)

The subreddit is r/windows_3 btw

I recently set up Browservice on a Pi 5, but even while connected via Ethernet it didn't work on IE 5. The server is working completely fine btw, I fixed any errors I had on the part of the server, so I'm thinking the issue is related to maybe the configuration of my 98 machine. Any pointers?