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PC Quest: Enhance Your Computing

Microsoft   Plus! 98

This add-on to Win 98 has many desktop themes, games, and utilities

Microsoft Plus! 98

An add-on to Win 98. 

Features: Games, desktop themes, and utilities like anti-virus, disk cleanup.

Pros: Some good desktop themes.

Cons: You don’t really miss anything if you don’t have Plus!

plus98.jpg (8956 bytes)Plus! 98 has three games—Spider Solitaire, Lose your marbles (limited edition), and Golf 1998 Lite (limited edition). To play Golf 98, you need to have the Plus! CD.

Disk Cleanup scans your hard drive for seldom-used files, lost clusters, zero-byte files, and even screensavers and help files that are not being used.

The enhanced version of the Maintenance Wizard cleans your Start menu by removing non-working menu items and empty folders, runs regular virus scans, disk defragmentation, and more

You also have a new version of Microsoft Picture It! 98. Unlike the version that came with Plus! 95, this one has a different user interface. Tools for converting and manipulating images from scanners, digital cameras, and the Net are available as icons

There are eighteen new desktop themes ranging from architecture to fashion, horror to rock-n-roll, and science fiction to Garfield. The new theme engine lets you rotate your desktop themes every month. You can even customize the existing themes or create new ones

Plus! 98 includes a Deluxe CD player. If you are connected to the Internet while playing an audio-CD, then it can retrieve information like the name of the album, the singer, etc, from the Net

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