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Get the Most Out of Win98


Here's how to fix, locate, simplify and demystify what's broken, hard to find, difficult or confusing in Windows 98

By Scot Finnie and David W. Methvin
InformationWeek
September 1, 1998 12:00 AM

When you bang a figurative hammer on Windows 98, what shakes loose? What are the tricks to working with two monitors, running Maintenance Wizard, using USB devices and squeezing out every last drop of performance? We've lived with the shipping version of Win98 for weeks now to uncover the answers to those questions and many more. One thing we found won't surprise you: Win98 isn't perfect. In the following pages we reveal our pet peeves about the new OS, and present workarounds to many of its imperfections. We show you ways to clean up the clutter on your Desktop, and how to get around all of Win98's minor quirks so you can get right down to business. We also present the results of our performance tests with our enhanced WinTune 98 benchmarks on our 333MHz, Pentium II Quantex QP6/333 SM-4 reference system.

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September 1998, Page 142.

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