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To answer your questions. I collected these updates back in 2007-2008 after 98SE went EOL. I am not a fluent Spanish speaker. I understand just enough Spanish to get myself into and hopefully out of trouble. Back in 2007 and 2008 Windows 98 CD's could be had for next to nothing so I collected a few. Tracked down updates to go with them. I have a few updates in Spanish for Windows 95b but that's about it. Nothing for ME or NT 4.0. I don't even have the post SP6a updates for NT 4.0 in English. If I ever felt the need to install NT 4.0 I would install SP6a and not worry about the rest. But then wouldn't Windows 2000 be a better choice? 95b_upd_Spa.rar

If you have Windows 98 Second Edition these Spanish language updates may be of use to you. I collected them over 10 years ago. Even if you have the first edition of Windows 98, some of the installers contain the files for both 98 and 98SE and will install the files appropriate for your OS. 98SEupdSpa.rar Included in the archive: IE5.5 SP2 in Spanish (I don't have IE6 in Spanish) Most of the standard Win 98SE updates in Spanish. Those updates that are in English are in English because they were never released in Spanish or any other language, so I assume they are language neutral. Various versions of Windows Media Player, including MP6.4, WMP7, WMP7.1 and WMP9 in Spanish. Good luck.

Odd thing. I also have the Linux version of Firefox 52.9.0 ESR installed on a Linux box and haven't seen the nag yet on that one.

At around 18:00 hours on September 6 Eastern Australian time I got a message from Firefox stating Firefox 52.9.0 ESR was outdated and can no longer be updated. We all knew this was coming.

Not necessarily. I don't see the yellow shield until I manually install at least one update I downloaded from Microsoft Update Catalog. Only then does the yellow shield appear with the rest of that month's updates.

@jbclem Did you try right-clicking on the .inf files and selecting "install"? It's been a few years. After reading about your experience I don't think clicking on setup50.exe installed OE. I believe I had to right-click the .inf files, msoe50.inf and wab50.inf.

You don't have to install IE6 to install Outlook Express. All you need is 2 or 3 CAB files from IE6. I recommend getting them from IE6 SP1. The two main CAB files are MAILNEWS.CAB and WAB.CAB. I installed Outlook Express on POSReady 2009 a few years back until the POSReady 2009 registry hack for XP made customizing POSReady 2009 unnecessary. There is a third CAB file OEEXCEP.CAB which I did not use and I am not sure what it does. If you know, please enlighten me. I extracted the contents of MAILNEWS.CAB and WAB.CAB into separate folders. Quite a number of the files had been updated since IE6 SP1 was released so I copied and extracted the updated files from an XP Pro SP3 installation CD and replaced the outdated files. At this point I am a little uncertain about what I did next. The MAILNEWS and WAB folders each contain a file named setup50.exe. I think I ran setup50.exe in each of the folders in an attempt to install Outlook Express and Windows Address Book. If running setup50.exe doesn't work then I right-clicked on msoe50.inf and clicked "Install" (and wab50.inf for Windows Address Book). It was either running setup50.exe or right-clicking the inf files. Beyond that, there were four post-SP3 updates released for Outlook Express the earliest one being made obsolete leaving three. KB978542, KB2423089, KB2544893-v2. These will install in the normal manor.

I extracted the files from the installers and none of the files in KB4019276 are found in the IE8 updaters. So cumulative IE8 updates don't update KB4019276. Not a recent February update, it has been available from the Microsoft Update Catalog since at least early November 2017. I compared KB4230450 and KB4316682 and all the files in both installers had the same version number, 8.0.6001.24078. The thing that is different about KB4316682 is that it is described as a "Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer 8" KB4230450 and the vast majority of previous updates for IE8 are described as a "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8" If we can take Microsoft at it's word, KB4316682 doesn't have any security updates built into it beyond those in KB4230450, so maybe it's about TLS 1.2 I had KB4316682 installed and KB4230450 wasn't among the updates offered by automatic updates this month. The only thing I haven't tried is to compare KB4316682 to KB4230450 file by file using a hex editor to see if there are any differences.

In order to sell something you first need a buyer. I don't know the situation in Russia is but I don't know of anybody who would buy an XP license at this point. Get on to YouTube and search for "trash picked computers". Most of the computers you see will have an XP license sticker on them. Why would anybody pay for something they can have for free. Microsoft has already been paid for their XP licenses. None of the money someone is likely to pay will find it's way back to Microsoft. I have got half a dozen found computer cases in my shed with XP licenses on them. I would sooner give a license sticker away to someone who wanted it than to ask money for it.

Sorry but I an trying to stop myself from laughing. What you say may be the strictest interpretation of MS's license agreement but NOBODY does what you just said which attests to the ridiculousness of the LA itself. Who is to say whether a motherboard has been changed or not especially if you replace a faulty mobo with one that is a different model but a similar age. This rule regarding stickers on the case was basically targeted at smaller OEMs which produce whitebox computers. Nowadays with the big OEMs there are no stickers present as the license keys are embedded in the UEFI BIOS. And I don't see the point of debating US law vs Russian law. Microsoft isn't in charge of the United Federation of Planets. Even if it were, Klingon law would presumably be different to Vulcan law. The mere fact that N and K editions of Windows exist demonstrates Microsoft doesn't get it's way all the time. Laws vary from country to country and even from state to state in the USA. look at the recent laws governing the use of marijuana, still illegal in most places. Laws including laws governing license agreements are agreed to based how much of a bribe local politicians demand. In the USA and other democracies these bribes are called "campaign contributions". Last I heard both giving bribes and receiving them are illegal so the laws written to govern computer home users are based on what are arguably crimes in the first place. Several years ago a business that deals in ex-corporate computers was selling Dell installation discs for $5 each no license included and they had hundreds of them. They are the type of CD's and DVD's that would install on any computer and all that was needed to activate was your own license key. I bought one of each including XP Pro with SP3, Vista Business with SP1, Win 7 Pro 32-bit, and Win 7 Pro 64-bit all for $20. Was it illegal to buy these discs? Was it illegal to sell them this way? Either way I am not worried. A couple of months ago I acquired a Dell laptop that had originally shipped with Windows Vista Home Premium. As Vista is now EOL I installed Win 7 Pro 32-bit using the DVD mentioned above. To activate I used an OEM Win 7 Pro key I found stuck to the side of a computer which someone had put out for the trash. I activated over the phone and Microsoft accepted the numbers generated by the key and gave me the activation code. If MS accepted the key was what I did illegal? After all, that Dell installation DVD and the license key didn't come together with the laptop. I would call it resourcefulness. And here is what may be my most important observation. The Win 7 key I found would have obviously been used at some point since it was a custom built unbranded box, yet I was able to activate Win 7 Pro on the Dell laptop. It appears that once enough time has passed from it's initial use a license key can be used again to activate Windows.

We have heard this song from Microsoft before:

Nomes no Brasil also working with XPSP3 using Opera 12.18, and no Java installed. There doesn't appear to be any logic to it. When I try to read a Microsoft support page using this computer all I get is white space, though MS catalog displays and functions normally using the same computer....go figure.

I don't recall there ever being separate installers of MSE for XP and Vista. They had separate 32-bit and 64-bit installers. Version 4.5 was released just in time for XP going EOL and installed itself on XP computers that were running MSE. They dropped XP from the list of supported OS's and added the nag box. That was the only "improvement". I doubt there were many improvements in version 4.5 for Vista and Win 7 users. The mistake I made earlier was that I tried installing versions 4.7 and 4.8 as an upgrade on top of version 4.6. When I uninstalled MSE 4.6 first both 4.7 and 4.8 installed but like version 4.6 they did not work. Even 4.9 might have installed but I got a warning about potential system instability if I went ahead so I cancelled the installation. I don't think 4.9 would have miraculously worked when the previous four versions did not. I installed version 4.4. It updated itself, the icon in the taskbar is green, there is no nag box, and on the surface at least everything appears to be working. 4.4 is the version to have installed. Downloading a fresh copy of 4.5 is not likely to help. As reported, 4.5 does not work any longer. It appears there was a time bomb for XP in MSE versions 4.5 and higher. Thanks heinoganda. I didn't need it this time but I will keep your updater handy. It will be stored in a rar file without a lengthy password.

I am having exactly the same problem you are on two XP computers. I only manually updated the virus definition files on one of them but both are having the same problem, MSE does not turn on. When there was trouble with MSE earlier this year I did not avail myself of the fixes posted in this thread. All I did was upgrade MSE to version 4.6 and install the updated virus definition files manually. In a day or two everything was working again. All was good until September 1. About a week ago MSE v.4.6 became 2 years old, a coincidence? Who knows! I have not been able to upgrade to MSE v. 4.7 the way I upgraded to 4.6, replacing setup.exe with the one from v 4.4. The upgrade commences but then cancels itself, restores v. 4.6 and downloads the latest virus definition files and installs them. How to fix this requires more knowledge than I have but I want you to know you are not alone. This may be the end for MSE on XP for me unless someone has a fix. There are still plenty of free virus scanners that run on XP and I might install one of those unless there is a fix for this problem.