>Gah! I've got W98 left on only 2 boxes, ones' the kids computer, so I won't be upgrading that one, and the other is my wife's, which I will be upgrading soon to W2K. IMHO, W98 is a bigger piece of crap than W95 ever was! On the kids machine, it may just be the games they play on it that causes it to crash so often, but on my wife's machine, there's just no excuse! It crashes way more frequently than my W95 box ever did, and she doesn't use it all that hard. I've even upgraded it from W98 to SE, but it still crashes way too often.
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>I now use W2K on my development box (Athlon 800). BTW, my server as W95 used to crash about 2-3 times a week, but it hasn't crashed once since I upgraded it to W2KS. Exact same hardware, so it must be the OS that's gotten better!

Funny, my experience is the opposite. The errors that I've gotten are usually cuaused by some poorly written software, not the OS. I recently had an experience trying to get my swappable drive set up as a Win95B box. Took forever. Not an experience I'd like to repeat. 98 and the Win2K beta that I had didn't have the problem.