Editing Windows 98 (section)

===Web integration and shell enhancements===
The first release of Windows 98 included Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1. This was updated to 5.0 in the Second Edition. Besides Internet Explorer, many other Internet companion applications are included such as [[Outlook Express]],<ref name=gs21>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=21}}</ref> [[Windows Address Book]], [[FrontPage Express]],<ref name=gs13>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=13}}</ref> [[Microsoft Chat]], [[Microsoft Personal Web Server|Personal Web Server]] and a Web Publishing Wizard, and [[NetShow]].<ref name=gs17>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=17}}</ref> [[NetMeeting]] allows multiple users to hold conference calls and work with each other on a document.<ref name=gs20>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=20}}</ref>

The Windows 98 [[Windows shell|shell]] is web-integrated;<ref name=gs12>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=12}}</ref> it contains deskbands, [[Active Desktop]], [[Active Channel|Channels]],<ref name=SCv6i6p133>{{harvnb|Smart Computing, June|2000|p=133}}</ref> ability to minimize foreground windows by clicking their button on the taskbar,<ref name=gs9>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=9}}</ref> single-click launching, Back and Forward navigation buttons,<ref name=PCMAGp116/> favorites, and address bar in [[Windows Explorer]], image thumbnails,<ref name=gs55>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=55}}</ref> folder infotips and Web view in folders, and folder customization through [[HTML]]-based templates. The taskbar supports customizable toolbars designed to speed up access to the Web or the user's desktop; these toolbars include an Address Bar and [[Quick Launch]]. With the Address Bar, the user accesses the Web by typing in a URL, and Quick Launch contains shortcuts or buttons that perform system functions such as switching between windows and the desktop with the Show Desktop button.<ref name=gs14>{{harvnb|Getting Started: Microsoft Windows 98|1998|p=14}}</ref> Another feature of this new shell is that [[Dialog box|dialog boxes]]{{clarify|date=October 2019}} show up in the Alt-Tab sequence.

Windows 98 also integrates shell enhancements, themes and other features from [[Microsoft Plus!|Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95]] such as [[DriveSpace]] 3, Compression Agent, Dial-Up Networking Server, Dial-Up Scripting Tool and [[Task Scheduler]]. Windows 98 had its own separately purchasable Plus! pack, called [[Microsoft Plus! 98|Plus! 98]].<ref name=PCMAGp427>{{harvnb|PC Magazine, August|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=4c8Qbd14llIC&pg=PA427 427]}}</ref>

Title bars of windows and dialog boxes support two-color gradients, a feature ported from and refined from [[Microsoft Office 95]].<ref name=PCMAGp116>{{harvnb|PC Magazine, August|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=4c8Qbd14llIC&pg=PA116 116]}}</ref> Windows menus and tooltips support slide animation. Windows Explorer in Windows 98, as in Windows 95, converts all-uppercase filenames to [[sentence case]] for readability purposes;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.08.windowsconfidential.aspx|title=Windows 'Prettified' Filenames|publisher=Microsoft|work=microsoft.com|access-date=August 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827234228/https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.08.windowsconfidential.aspx|archive-date=August 27, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> however, it also provides an option ''Allow all uppercase names'' to display them in their original case. Windows Explorer includes support for compressed [[Cabinet (file format)|CAB]] files.<ref name=RK24>{{harvnb|Resource Kit|1998|p=24}}</ref> The ''Quick Res'' and ''Telephony Location Manager'' [[PowerToys#PowerToys for Windows 95|Windows 95 PowerToys]] are integrated into the core operating system.