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Get Rid of the Logon Screen
Whether or not you're on a local area network, odds are you don't really need the little logon (login) screen asking for your username and password that comes up when starting Windows 98. To remove this prompt, follow the following directions:
If you don't have multiple users configured:: 1. Open Control Panel, and double-click on the Network icon.; 2. From the list entitled Primary Network Logon:, choose Windows Logon, and press OK.; Note: If this doesn't work, make sure you didn't initially configure a password for yourself. If you did, Windows 98 will always require it. Double-click on the Passwords icon in Control Panel to choose nothing (leave it blank) for your password.
If you do have multiple users configured:: 1. Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).; 2. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Network\ Logon.; 3. Double-click on the Process Logon Script value, and change the data from 00 00 00 00 to 00 00 00 01

Set Defaults in Explorer
The single most commonly reported annoyance with Windows 95 was the inability to set defaults for new explorer windows (or file folders), such as size, position, sort order, and display type (large icons, details, etc.). In Explorer, unless the window had been opened and configured recently, the files are unsorted and displayed as large icons until you manually configure the window. A similar limitation that plagued DOS was fixed 13 years after DOS 1.0 was released - a sign of things to come? Windows 98 has what appears to be a solution to this problem, although I have yet to see it function correctly:: 1. Open a folder, and configure the sort order, icon size, column widths, etc. to your liking.; 2. Then, select Folder Options from Explorer's View menu, and choose the View tab.; 3. Click Like Current Folder and then click Ok.