Compatiblity probs between Win98 and DOS programs?

[Frank Olivieri]

I have no problems running DOS programs under Win98. As a matter of fact, it works great.
Better than 95. You may have a virus, or your config.sys is not setup properly.

Frank

Robert Williams wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I recently upgraded to Windows 98 about a month ago, and it has given me nothing but
> grief with my DOS programs.  Has anyone had compatibility problems between DOS software
> and Windows 98?  I've tried many different types of programs; music, softsynths, even
> non music related software like flight simulators and genealogy programs, all have the
> same problems.  Half the time it crashes the OS when I try to install them, and if I do
> manage to get them installed, they only run for about a week before they lock up my
> system when I start the program.  I wonder if some of the automatically scheduled weekly
> disk maintenance features of Win98 messes with some of my files?  I don't think I can
> tell it to avoid certain files or folders.
>
> Just wondering if anybody else had this problem and if there was a Win98 patch that
> might correct it?  I'm almost tempted to go back to Win95.
>
> Robert