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As a Windows 9x-enthusiast, I still find a bunch of hardware unavailable in the driverpacks listed here. After three years of fighting to get my laptop to run Windows 9x, I hope to contribute to making driver installation less difficult. I am currently focusing on network drivers for the 9x systems and hope to do the following for now: Update Network Driverpack Currently adding major brands; finished with Realtek for now Make a pack for printer and fax drivers Modem driverpack Update the existing driverpacks Add newer chipset drivers such as 845 and newer Add PROBLEMCHYLD's custom Dell Wireless 1450 driver to network Add drivers from Vogons.org Hopeful future plans: Turn the program into something similar to driverpack solution Make a driverpack devoted to Windows 95 Download Links Chipset (Coming Soon!) Video (Coming Soon!) Audio (Coming Soon!) Networking (Change Log) Modem (Coming Soon!) Printer and Fax (Coming Soon!) Instructions: Extract Go to Menu>Control Panel>System>Device Manager Click desired hardware which requires a driver Direct to folder location If a message pops up about driver file not available, go to the folder with the exact name required (exception being RTL8019 and ge2000iii cards which had to be renamed to avoid conflict!) To contribute to this project, please list the brand, hardware (ID too is preferred), and send a link to the driver Feel free to inform me of any mistakes! I'm a newbie at drivers!

If there are any problems, they would be most likely to occur with the DBCS languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The English KERNEL32.DLL did not work with Chinese Localized Resources, while the reverse worked fine.

Try looking here as a reference: https://translate.google.pl/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbust.narod.ru%2Fwin98.html&edit-text= It lists some drivers that are available. As I've said in the other topic, here are the absolute latest Atheros WiFi drivers for 98SE: ftp://ftp.eutronix.be/4pos/POS700/POS700_V1.0/Common/Wireless_LAN/802.11abg/UNEX_CM10/Win98_ME/DV4.1.2.71/Driver/98Me/

anyway someone did report that to upstream: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20352

https://www.amazon.com/Unauthorized-Windows-Developers-Exploring-Foundations/dp/1568841698 https://www.amazon.ca/Windows-95-System-Programming-Secrets/dp/1568843186 https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Undocumented-Formats-Working-Inside/dp/0879304375 https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Basic-Windows-Insider-Hard/dp/0471064831 https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Windows-VxDs-Device-Drivers/dp/0879304383 https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Bible-Richard-C-Leinecker/dp/0764532286 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565921702.do

Well, I'm going to, not so much "eat my hat" but at least have a little nibble at its edges. I just came across a situation in which in the space of a few days I tried installing and using two new programs and Win7 SP1 told me that the drivers the programs were trying to install weren't digitally signed -- so Win7 wasn't going to let the programs install them. I went off and did some research and found out that the drivers the programs were trying to install were signed but using SHA-256 signatures. And, it seems, Win7 x86/x64 at SP1 level, and with no other updates installed, can't read the signatures. Cutting a long story short the solution was install the following updates (and in the following order): KB3035131 (download can be accessed via here) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2015/ms15-025 KB3033929 (download can be accessed via here): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityAdvisories/2015/3033929 So, Taos, or anyone else that is reading/following this thread and trying not to update their Win7 SP1 system unless really necessary, it would seem that these two updates are moving into the necessary stage as more and more software developers will move towards digital signing using SHA-256. So, going by my experience, I'd recommend installing those two. Now I'm thinking that it would be a useful addition to this "Windows 7" section of the forum if there was a kind of 'sticky' thread where people using Win7 SP1 that are trying to avoid updating it, if possible, could post information on updates that, over time, they've found are necessary but that avoid Microsoft spyware and other suspect stuff. Of course, don't just say, "Install KBxxxxxxx," say why it's pretty well essential to do so too. Hope this helps. Important Edit: erpdude8 has posted a correction to this post (see erpdude8's post below). Do not install KB3035131 -- it is obsolete. Instead install KB3071756 -- again see erpdude8's comments below with a link to the update.

for first steps, i recommend get and run oldest MS Quick series compilers - Basic/C&Asm/Pascal. these things give VERY good base knowledge for programming (and also learn to technical english ). it is DOS only tools, but it enough for understanding base structures, control flow, calling... or, if u want FAST to program w/o understanding low level internals, just learn Delpfi/VisualBasic/Net...