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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

When installing Windows 98, the part of the setup process where you enter things like product details looks... different. The scrollbars, buttons, title bar and such look more like they belong in W...

This phases finishes by copying a minimal version of Windows 3.1 to the target installation drive, in a temporary directory (normally WININST0.400), containing DOSX.EXE, USER.EXE, GDI.EXE, KRNL386.EXE, LZEXPAND.DLL etc. You can interrupt setup at any point, or inspect the image during installation in an emulator, to see what’s present on the disk and thus determine the runtime environment. Lets be serious, it was already a great step toward a more user friendly and consistent experience than previous setup versions.

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