A basic question if you can help. I have an old'ish PC with an Athlon 800 and running Windows 98. I subscribe to some football services (videos) which this season they've updated and it cannot be run without Windows 98 SE.

I don't want to load 98 SE if it screws up anything else on my PC as I wouldn't know where to start in changing settings etc. I have very limited PC knowledge and am wondering just to leave well alone and wait until I buy a better PC (so cheap at the moment).

What do you think ? :confused:

I think 98se was a bit more stable and to be honest it shouldn't be much of an upgrade but if your pc can take it (my athlon 800 did) upgrade to XP..... no crashes ...just start it up and use it.....but someone will be along in a moment to give you a lot more info and may be able to tell you much more

W98SE = W98 + all the patches anyway.

W98SE is probably the best 'old' OS MS does. ME sux (the OS, and so does the disease, but I digress).

Make sure that if you do go for W98SE, you patch it up with everything ever released.

I'm a little surprised it requires W98SE rather than just working with W98 as with the updates that MS released it basically turns into W98TE (Third edition, which does not exist) regardless of whether you start from W98 or W98SE.

There shouldn't be a problem upgrading it, as it's effectively the same.

A change from W98xx or ME to Windows 2000 (not recommended) or XP Home/Pro (much better choice IMHO) would be more likely to go wrong.

Should be in good step for W98 -> W98SE though

I think 98se was a bit more stable and to be honest it shouldn't be much of an upgrade but if your pc can take it (my athlon 800 did) upgrade to XP..... no crashes ...just start it up and use it.....but someone will be along in a moment to give you a lot more info and may be able to tell you much more

I upgraded my 98se to xp home no probs...just loaded on top and was ok.

I used the upgrade disc BTW.