For Techs and Win 98SE users/installers - Unofficial Service Pack Available

[Zepper]

In case you were unaware, there is an UNOFFICIAL Windows98 Second Edition Service Pack available for download. With that updater disk that M$ issued early in 2004 and this new compilation - us throwbacks still using/installing Win98SE will have much easier lives.

Enjoy!

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

^^^ bump for the evening shift
.bh.

 

[mechBgon]

Thanks Zepper!

 

[networkman]

Agreed - thank you very much for posting this!

 

[redbeard1]

I've used version 1.62 numerous times. Though it has a habit of goofing up the windows update feature. I figured out ways around this issue. The biggest benefit to me was that it added USB memory stick support. I'd specifically install the updates to 98SE systems that I needed to get files onto or files off of via a USB memory stick.

In his forums he said he has removed that feature.

See his forum for features added and removed

He also says that another program works better. His link leads to some weird download service that makes you wait and look at ads for 30 seconds if you use the free download choice. I haven't tried the new USB driver yet, but I thought I'd let people know that it exists.

His forum again

The link is here, just remember that the free download takes a while to start.

Rapidshare.de

 

[VirtualLarry]

That's kind of neat, but I have a question for anyone that has used that unofficial service-pack compilation - have you sucessfully used it with USB floppy drives? The reason that I ask is, there were a couple of "official" win98se hotfixes, that actually BROKE USB floppy support. The solution was to back-rev a few of the files by extracting them from the original OS installation CD.

It had something to do with DirectX and firewire capture devices, but it broke proper "SBP2" support, whatever that is, for supporting USB mass-storage devices like floppies.

Interestingly enough, also, the W2K .INF files for USB floppy support, include Win98se installation sections. Yet those same .INFs aren't bundled with Win98se out-of-the-box. So if you copy those, and a couple of associated USB .SYS files, from a W2K box to a Win98se, and have NOT installed that DX update, USB floppy support works. Otherwise, it doesn't, in my experience.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Zepper
In case you were unaware, there is an UNOFFICIAL Windows98 Second Edition Service Pack available for download. With that updater disk that M$ issued early in 2004 and this new compilation - us throwbacks still using/installing Win98SE will have much easier lives.

I used it setting up a PC for my grandson, and rather promptly screwed up the setup, so I already had to run the Win98se install again, and I do know that the DirectX-9 was wiped out along the way. Neither of the two included that, by the way.

Anyway, I just noticed the first phrase in that last sentence. The two sets of files are complimentary, not duplications of a lot? I've been looking all over for that MS Security Updates CD that I had, without luck. And MS stopped offering them. When it's something of that nature, is there any web site that archives that sort of thing? It's gotta be a copyright- allowable download!