Dump the first edition and see if you can still find a copy of 98SE! That had all the fixes in it by that time. Why do you think many are waiting for at least Vista's SP1 due out next month before trying out an edition. The seonnd one for 98 is the one surprisingly still in use by many. Ebay or Amazon.com most likely.
Sluggish? That was the first impression on 98SE here when first tried on an old AST 486 desktop model. I slapped 98 on to try it there with the 64mb max installed then. 98SE found it's way onto the next case(custom with 512mb of memory.
The thing to try that was seen in that older version as well as in Vista too is the msconfig utility to disable anything you don't need lautomatically loading along with Windows. When you type that in at the Run prompt look in the startup group for anything other then the basics you can manually start yourself.
98 was never a fast version to start with. 95 and older versions were less featured seeing less items loaded by default. XP was the fastest over all previous versions to load up to the desktop as the big MS claim seen when that came out.
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