Windows 98 build 1998.6

Windows 98 build 1998.6 is an unconfirmed build of Windows 98, which was supposedly uploaded to the Chinese website BetaWorld on 18 January 2020. It is described to be the Release Candidate 6 build, upon which the RTM build is allegedly based on. . A Chinese warez CD containing this build was shared to the Internet Archive on 20 August, 2022.

Speculate RC6 process
Except the main CAB package (WIN98_*.CAB), the content of the installation file is basically the same as that of the RTM version. The time stamp of the files in the main CAB package is the same as that of the RTM version, but the file content is different.

The difference to note in this version of the PRECOPY content is that the  version identifier is displayed closer to RTM (101). The difference files between this version and the RC5 version are as follows: The difference files between this version and the RTM version are as follows: The difference files between RC5 and RTM version are as follows: Among them,  and   record the country area name information, while other files are driver-related repairs. Comparing this version with the two dlls of RC5, RTM and several previous beta versions, it is found that only the country name of this version has the following changes:
 * apmbatt.sys
 * machine.cat
 * mwcnamed.dll
 * mwcnamew.dll
 * nettrans.cat
 * vtcp.386
 * mwcnamed.dll
 * mwcnamew.dll
 * apmbatt.sys
 * machine.cat
 * nettrans.cat
 * vtcp.386

This version's country area is Hong Kong SAR, PRC, Taiwan Region, Pepole's Repubilc of China.

Other version's country area is Hong Kong, Taiwan, Republic of China, China (Peoples Republic of).

It is speculated that the above files were temporarily modified for political reasons in this version, but in the final official version, they returned to the previous version, which is between Internal and RTM, that is, RC6. It is worth noting that the Simplified Chinese version of Windows 98 is still used in the official version of the country name.