Fredledingue

New release: Support for windows XP. Not yet tested on Vista

I mean that it's the updates I deem useful to add on a w98 system. Other users may have slightly different view of it. For example I don't list IE5 updates because I use IE6. I also didn't list WMP because I don't use it. Then some updates may not be needed or wanted on every PC etc. But that's realy a personal decision rather than a technical one. I also underline the fact that it's a personal list and it has nothing official and that it hasn't any unofficial/semi-official aproval stamp on it. But by and large, this list is relatively complete because I based it on MDGx's new updates thread and these are all updates released after uSP3 was released. Many of these updates will never be included in uSP because of various reasons, dependant on the author's ethic. We don't expect an update of the uSP anytime soon because the author is not as active as before on this project. But the last time he surprised eveybody with his new release. In the meantime you can also use the Unofficial Windows 98 SE Cumulative Update (MDCU) 3.05 installs 130+ Updates + USB Drivers - direct download You can apply this patch on top of the uSP or in lieu of uSP. MDCU is more often updated than uSP, and contains more things than uSP. Still doesn't seem to contain all the stuffs found in my personal list. It alse seems to contains things I'v not seen on MDGx list and it's quiet difficult to make a list of what is not in MDCU because Maximus Decim uses another terminology. etc But his pack is one of the recommanded upgrade pack here. Either you use updates one by one from MDGx list (from which my list derives) or MDCU, you will have most of the recent updates installed save 2 or 3 which is not realy terrible.

I have two partitions on a single hard drive. Will it work? also does SCANDSKW.EXE 4.90.3000 still produce a "not enough memory error" while attempting to scan a partition larger than 128 Gb? (while dos ran SCANDISK.EXE works normaly) And Again: Thanks for keeping these updates available!

Minor, silent update: ifc_config12.hta mistakingly creates a reg key called: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProramFilesDir" (you can delete this key if you want) The reaL key is ProgramFilesDir of course! Homepage - more infos Direct download

I would set both CD and DVD drives as slave, but that shouldn't be an issue no matter what. 200 Watts is quiet small. Instead of installation DVD's try with data DVD or browse the DVD instead of running non w98 executables.

It looks like a bad VDV drive. I never had problem burning DVDs even at 4X. And it reads everything.

List of updates not included in uSP3.0 beta3 BHDD31.ZIP CNTROL98.EXE COPY2GB.EXE CRYPT9X.EXE DX90C.EXE DX9CPL.EXE DXM9X.EXE flash_player_active_x.exe GDI_PLUS.EXE GRPHFLTS.EXE HELPHLP.EXE HHUPD.EXE IE938464.EXE IE958215.EXE IOSYS98.EXE jre-6u7-windows-i586-p.exe MDDACU.EXE MDIE6CU.EXE MSXML4.MSI NUSB.EXE OE951066.EXE PNGFIX.EXE Q216204.EXE Q271277.EXE Q272991.EXE Q304708.EXE Q311561.exe Q923618.EXE Q932590.EXE Q955839.EXE RICHED9X.EXE rootsupd.exe rpclrtyp.zip SCANFRAG.EXE Scr579x.exe shell32.zip Shockwave_Installer_Full.exe TTFPAK.EXE USBFDD98.EXE VBVM60.EXE VS6SP6U.EXE WIA10.EXE WINFIL98.EXE + WMP updates (as far as I'm concerned ) You will find the links to these updates here.

What about this? GDI_PLUS: http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#GDI * Microsoft Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE/ME Graphics Device Interface+ (GDI+) 32-bit Graphics/Video Acceleration Runtime Library GDIPLUS.DLL 5.1.3102.1360 Redistributable: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533798.aspx Direct download [1 MB]: http://www.mdgx.com/files/GDI_PLUS.EXE

You are too much! I counted 18 new system updates since october 2008! And +- 45 since the release of uSP3-0-beta3, on october 2007!

Us T-copy instead. Awsome tool! http://www.ranvik.net/totalcopy/

Cache and virtual memory why not. As ram, I don't think it's possible because the PC looks at the ram before starting anything else.

Exactely! That's because they started their computerisation (on a popular basis) around 2002. Most of these poeple have never touched a w98 OS. And also because for a few years already, a new low-end PC is as cheap if not cheaper than used ones. Chinese (or whoever) can build a decent OEM PC at the same cost as that of buying, collecting, verifying, packaging and shipping a used PC.

Only on dual core. Because dual core processor are not built in a way that allows w98 to use both cores as if it was just only one with double power. But on 3Ghz single core processor w98 will beat Vista and XP just as on older hardware. At this point we may just ask "why using XP 32 bits on new, 64 bit hardware?" Nobody pretends to run w98 using one core on dual core machine as fast as XP or even Vista (if tweaked appropriately) on this same dual core. But everybody here knows how ineficient XP and Vista are.

W98 ROCKS! All your Xp/Vista users are 3d world country poeple who didn't have a computer 5 years ago! You understand Vista and XP users: YOU ARE POOR THIRD WORLD POEPLE RUNNING CRAP made-in-China HARDWARE!!! You use Vista/XP cuz it came pre-installed on your $249 box. (I paid mine $1300 6 years ago and it still works 2x faster than your low end XP or barely-Vista-capable junk. ) HAHAHAHA! w98 on new hardware gets you to top of hardware power and top safety on the internet! The only reason for not using w98 is either lack of crucial driver or dual core or 64 bit core (or both). But if you want to buy a dual core and/or 64 bit, you better wait for a better windows release because Vista is not fit for proper computer use and XP is not distributed anymore.

That must be digged in somewhere in the MDGx's thread: "95 + 98 + ME updates..."

M$ did it for Vista. I seriousely doubts their results reflect boot time "until no HDD activity" and fully available OS. IMO it must shows when the desktop is there and the mouse ready to move. Anf they probably don't coun't the time that a user takes to click his user logon logo. Still Vista boots faster than XP which takes an eternity to boot up. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/

It's good start but it's far from what we need. Half of the things we have no idea what they are talking about or we won't dare touch while many settings are not found there. And no on/off settings are certainly not there, such as passwords, color pickers and so on. The window, actualy a dialog, is way too small. We are not working on 640x480 monitors anymore. With so many settings better take profit from the whole screen. The tree structure is not the much user friendly. We need a real control console. Not a popup dialog. As Mr Cobra said, it's only on/off options, it doesn't remove anything and we have no garantee that what we turned off won't be turned off by a third app or by windows itself as soon as we close the dialog or that the service is 100% iddle.

No, we thought it was an IE or Vista "tweak" but it was our antivirus. Problem solved. Thanks for your reply DrSnurb

Maxthon seems to have discontinued their w9x friendly version (refered to as the ANSI version). All their installers contain the Unicode version which popup the silly message "This application takes benefits from unicode and cannot work under w95 amd w3.1" Their website doesn't tell crap about that. Actualy their installer is supposed to download and install the ANSI version but fails to do so and you are left with an install without exe file.

IE7 on Vista will refuse to download a zip archive containing an hta script. (Direct download with adress ending in .zip - It works on other, non Vista non IE7 computers.) Does anybody knows how to fix that? Thanks.

Ok, I'm rectifying the shot about "Modular Windows": The installation disc can include everything M$ sees fit for an OS, but they should let users customize their installation. Then, when windows is installed, offer an EASY way to add/remove component _and_ Customize/configurate every setting that it's possible to configurate.

Suggestion: Download and install Maxthon Open Maxthon and after the welcome pop up, got to "Tools" "Maxthon Setting Center" (It may open itself the first time you use maxthon) . Under "General", select "disable script" and "disable activeX". then go to zednet in Maxthon. Your page should appear instantly.

Yeah, Vista's Explorer realy sucks. I can't stand it more than 20 seconds. That's maybe the worse part of Vista. But Explorer in older versions of windows were not much better. When you install an alternative and far better file manager (as well as other apps such as another web browser, another calculator, another Notepad etc), you realize that an OS is not just Windows Explorer. Something that too many poeple mix up. They complain about stuffs in Explorer while they just ought to change it. That's why I'm the advocate of Modular Windows, where exprimented users (those who have already used a computer) can instal just what they want, benefiting from the new technologies (the invisible ones) and install the external apps of they are familiar with, partialy avoiding the eternal learning curve. The choice of alternative application, unlike OSes, is larger everyday.

Crahak, I don't think M$ rewrites these thousands of drivers. Except for the native windows drivers, I'm sure that they are all collected from the manufacturers. I even doubt that they looked for updated ones when they compiled the Vista's driver collection.

No answer anyone?